reverancepavane: (simpsons)
Ian Borchardt ([personal profile] reverancepavane) wrote2010-03-28 08:02 pm

unlimited power could be yours...

Do advertisers even under understand English any more? Does anyone else sense the inconsistency with: "Unlimited calls to [CENSORED] mobiles! Up to a total of a whopping 3,000 minutes per recharge."

Makes me remember why I don't watch much commercial television any more.

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[personal profile] maelorin 2010-03-28 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
even if advertisers *did*, most of their audience doesn't (and doesn't care either way).

[identity profile] angharad-gam.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I had an unsolicited phone call once offering me free gym membership. All I had to do was pay the $80 registration fee....

[identity profile] angharad-gam.livejournal.com 2010-04-01 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Also, of course, there was the advertising for the new series of V on a certain commercial channel which shall not be named: "...you've never seen anything like this on TV before...". So long as one is less than twenty years old it is to be presumed....