Annoying TV ads

[Tigadee]

Don't watch TV...

35% of a TV hour is filled with ads - garbage that tries to part you with your hard-earned money for rapid and ever-changing material goods, distort views and expectations of the opposite sex, and encourage the consumption of mass-produced nutritionally-deficient food.

If I want to watch a good TV show, I get the DVD set. Time is already a premium, why waste it like that sitting for an hour to only actually watch 42 minutes?

[BuzzardNZ]

I found the new stihl chainsaw sheep ( lamb actually ) ad annoying.

[release_the_bees]

That bloody crap gigasomething rap advert that is on at the moment does my head in. Instant channel change or mute every time that crap comes on which seems to be every 10 minutes. It's like time slows down when that ad comes on - it seems to go on forever.

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[Stylo]

That bloody crap gigasomething rap advert that is on at the moment does my head in. Instant channel change or mute every time that crap comes on which seems to be every 10 minutes. It's like time slows down when that ad comes on - it seems to go on forever.

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Don't know it , never will.

Commercial radio is just as bad but easier to press another button when the ads arrive when you're in the car.

Most advertisers are spending all that money to broadcast/shout their intrusive, inane message at me and don't realise that they've pissed me off so much that I won't shop there.

I'll go somewhere else and spend my money. Easy as that

[oldrider]

Why do they do it? ... Because it works and they cannot afford to stop it now ... even if they wanted to ... the only bad advertisment ... is no advertisment!

[400sm]

Whether it's a "word" or not matters not a jot. It still doesn't get an apostrophe.

It should do. It is an abbreviation of 'advertisements', hence the first syllable, ad, and the last letter ,s, can in fact be separated by the apostrophe, denoting the missing letters. . . .as in eg, don't. for, do not.
The word "ad", in the 1996 oxford dic. is described as an informal word ie slang. This word may by now be formal. If it is then "ads" will be correct.

[Akzle]

i never knew hitcher had a son

It should do. It is an abbreviation of 'advertisements', hence the first syllable, ad, and the last letter ,s, can in fact be separated by the apostrophe, denoting the missing letters. . . .as in eg, don't. for, do not.
The word "ad", in the 1996 oxford dic. is described as an informal word ie slang. This word may by now be formal. If it is then "ads" will be correct.

[Robbo]

That bloody crap gigasomething rap advert that is on at the moment does my head in. Instant channel change or mute every time that crap comes on which seems to be every 10 minutes. It's like time slows down when that ad comes on - it seems to go on forever.

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Yep, that is a new add from Telecom and it's one of the worst and most bloody annoying adds that has darkened our TV screens for a long time and to make matters worse i was out in the car this morning and it was on the radio as well.
Can't believe just how crap most of the TV adds are nowdays when once upon a time there were some great adds, such as the Toyota adds and the Tui beer adds and don't get me started on the volume levels of the audio that runs in most of them. There must be a lot of deaf cunts in the TV industry.