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    Default stupid STUPID SMS ads!!!

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    I am getting SOOOOOOOOO sick of the freakin SMS ads on the tele lately.... love match, baby names, IDIOTIC screen savers and bloody low battery things, to name but a few.... the latest idiotic and mind numbing brain dead things on the TV is that LULU mobile crap!! Besides paying 5 bux just to subscribe, then paying $10 per week for the useless crap... who is stupid enough to subscribe to this garbage!!! they had that stupid LuLu thing on the tele a little while ago... i almost threw a chair at it!!
    I'm basically getting sick of it all!!!
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    im the same, probably why i havn't watched tv in 8months...exceptions for footy night of course but other than that im over all the bullshit ads they play on tv and foxtel...except at least with tv your not watching the same episode of a show 3 times a day
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    dont watch tv have better things to do with my time ....... well unless it's that playboy mansion show on at about 11-11:30 ...... thats always a good watch hahaha
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    Quote Originally Posted by eurekamad94 View Post
    dont watch tv have better things to do with my time ....... well unless it's that playboy mansion show on at about 11-11:30 ...... thats always a good watch hahaha
    Bit past your bedtime isn't it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tas_HSV View Post
    change the channel?
    they play the freakin things on nearly all of them..... especially on Pay TV
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tas_HSV View Post
    change the channel?
    They are on practically every channel, and Pay TV is littered with the crap. They are worse than the dam crazy frog.
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    one of my mates subscribed another to heap of these, takes $40 off his cap each month and costs him $5 every time his tried to make it stop, by texting "Stop" to that number, its funny for us, shit house for him

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grennan View Post
    They are on practically every channel, and Pay TV is littered with the crap. They are worse than the dam crazy frog.
    have a quicky with the mrs then?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tas_HSV View Post
    have a quicky with the mrs then?
    good idea!!!

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    Now ive got ideas too......now wheres she gone?.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hunter SS View Post
    [rant]
    I am getting SOOOOOOOOO sick of the freakin SMS ads on the tele lately.... love match, baby names, IDIOTIC screen savers and bloody low battery things, to name but a few.... the latest idiotic and mind numbing brain dead things on the TV is that LULU mobile crap!! Besides paying 5 bux just to subscribe, then paying $10 per week for the useless crap... who is stupid enough to subscribe to this garbage!!! they had that stupid LuLu thing on the tele a little while ago... i almost threw a chair at it!!
    I'm basically getting sick of it all!!!
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    Right on, brother. I feel exactly the same way about the stupid things, and wonder what sort of dopes would be taken in by them. Mostly kids, I guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calaber View Post
    and wonder what sort of dopes would be taken in by them. Mostly kids, I guess.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cracker View Post
    one of my mates subscribed another to heap of these, takes $40 off his cap each month and costs him $5 every time his tried to make it stop, by texting "Stop" to that number, its funny for us, shit house for him

    that's a **** of an act

    funny though LOL

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    If people keep subscribing to them, they'll keep showing the ads.


    I hate the alcohol ad's more, why should i have to watch someone throw up in the toilet while i'm eating, i don't even drink.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grennan View Post
    They are on practically every channel, and Pay TV is littered with the crap. They are worse than the dam crazy frog.
    yeah i would't throught they have have less of that but no

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    They make a fortune because people pay the exorbitant prices believing they's justified, or are tricked into subscribing by thinking they're in for a one off ringtone or application; I think I've read that it's a $500 million industry... no wonder.

    Even the Crazy Frog started off without credit to the person who made the effect.

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    first of all.. I HATE them with a passion, secondly, I seriously doubt that anyone would be stupid enough to msg them... some of them in the fine print say that each text costs $5 with a minimum 2 texts per week.. thats at least $40 a month!!

    oh, and even though i hate them ALL the only that really 'grinds my gears' (for all you family guy fans WOO ) is the one where they say 'whats your IQ'... Im studying to be a psychologist.. So I know, as would the general population, that an IQ score cant be derived in 5 questions... ALSO the average IQ is NOT 120.. its 100. The end.

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    the video ring tone ones are the worst!! What's that one with the idiot bear playing the guitar while some bimbo stands there grinning like an idiot at it?? THAT one makes me throw things!!
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    i saw the most stupid one last night on foxtel. havent seen it before.
    you text your name, your parters name, and you get a message back telling you what sex baby you will have and what you're gunna name it.

    WTF!

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    Quote Originally Posted by VNexecutive View Post
    i saw the most stupid one last night on foxtel. havent seen it before.
    you text your name, your parters name, and you get a message back telling you what sex baby you will have and what you're gunna name it.

    WTF!
    *sigh* as i read your post, that very ad was just on VH1 on Austar
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    Back when I was working in a telstra shop we used to have poeple come in all the time very angry because they were being charged x amount per month on their bill or losing all their pre paid credit as soon as they put it on and didn't know why.
    Half of them would blow up in store and demand refunds from telstra....etc.
    Alot of times it was parents who's teenagers borrowed the phone to download a one off ringtone and got them subscribed.

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    they're a total scam, most of them are pretty shady like the ones you 'subscribe' to by sms-ing a competition then they charge you for the weekly sms's, it's obvious and you'd have to be pretty slow in the head to enter, but it doesn't make it less of a scam.

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