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Old 17-08-18, 07:10 AM   #6201
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  • Two nights of sleeping badly, feeling almost hungover from lack of sleep.
  • Looking after a friends dog, Sooty, who has been something of a nightmare this time. Keeps crapping in the house, about 6 -7 times since Tuesday. Final straw came last night when she crapped again on the landing and I stepped in it with bare feet in the dark on my way to the toilet.
  • Skimbleshanks, our cat, has absconded because we have Sooty in the house and we're all missing him.
  • My friend has messaged to say that her car has broken down and she can't get back till Tuesday instead of tomorrow. I have to find some way of having Sooty looked after somewhere else as I can't cope with her in the house any more.
  • And I've gone from having almost no work over the last few weeks to having more than I know what to do with this week (of all weeks)
How does that expression go, "it never rains unless it pours". It sounds like the dog is distressed and missing its owner, not that it's any consolation to you.

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Old 17-08-18, 02:40 PM   #6202
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wow, mine seems trivial after GNE's one above..after reading the "stepped in it" I could almost feel the poop squishing between my toes.

Anyway...first world problem..."Ad blocker" blocker. MCN is one of an increasing number of sites that won't let you read without turning off your ad blocker. I just "un bookmark them" and don't bother going back.
Tricky one isn't. The sites need ads to survive but they go too far and batter us with nonsense so we install an blocker. There has to a sensible middle ground but meantime we walkaway.

I wish i could install a trailer blocker on the TV, especially the BBC.

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Old 17-08-18, 03:00 PM   #6203
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do adverts even work these days due to being bombarded with adverts everywhere we look.

i know that i personally dont recognise them or if i do i forget them instantly afterwords. i do however remember the old ones with catchy slogans/tunes.

"all because the lady loves milk tray"
"fry's turkish delight"
"thank crunchy its friday"

however did these adverts actually make me buy the products... no. i have never bought a product due to seeing an advert for it. have i ever impulse bought a product due to it "sticking out" at point of sale like shelves on supermarkets or shop counters. yes

advertising is big money but its the advertisers that are conning the companies into using it.
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Old 17-08-18, 06:40 PM   #6204
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do adverts even work these days due to being bombarded with adverts everywhere we look.

i know that i personally dont recognise them or if i do i forget them instantly afterwords. i do however remember the old ones with catchy slogans/tunes.

"all because the lady loves milk tray"
"fry's turkish delight"
"thank crunchy its friday"

however did these adverts actually make me buy the products... no. i have never bought a product due to seeing an advert for it. have i ever impulse bought a product due to it "sticking out" at point of sale like shelves on supermarkets or shop counters. yes

advertising is big money but its the advertisers that are conning the companies into using it.
Same here, in fact more likely to boycott a product.

My pet hate with adverts is the songs, especially acoustic covers with a husky voiced maiden.

Iplayer & catch up Tv are the solution, no adverts or fast forward through them
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Old 17-08-18, 06:46 PM   #6205
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I record everything i really want to watch on a PVR. I can then fast forward through the crap.

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Old 17-08-18, 06:47 PM   #6206
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Same here, in fact more likely to boycott a product.

My pet hate with adverts is the songs, especially acoustic covers with a husky voiced maiden.

Iplayer & catch up Tv are the solution, no adverts or fast forward through them
If I am watching live TV and can't fast forward I just mute the sound - IMHO many of the adverts used to be better and cleverer than some of the programs, but not any more - the politically correct restrictions on what they can and cannot say have just made ads so boring now....
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If I am watching live TV and can't fast forward I just mute the sound - IMHO many of the adverts used to be better and cleverer than some of the programs, but not any more - the politically correct restrictions on what they can and cannot say have just made ads so boring now....
Yep. The mute button gets used a lot here if I'm watching live TV.

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Our lovely silver tabby tom, Skimbleshanks, is still missing.
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