Random musings and general banter.

Here's yet another 'exotoc' health claim, this time by Joanne. She's shilling, would you believe, Pillows with 100% Polyester Filling and with a 80% Polyester Cover (just 20% Corton) that can supposedly keep you cool but, forget all that. She then got into them being great for Kids and said : -

'You know children until they're about SIX they CAN'T regulate their own temperature'

Wow! Rarely do they seem to lie about the products like Bid did (possibly only because they know them back to front, so few on air products are there for them to 'research') but endless phony price promotions and offering this type of 'expertise' seems de rigeur.

Will it ever end? Yes, I think it will :down:

Wirral70 said:

Here's yet another 'exotoc' health claim, this time by Joanne. She's shilling, would you believe, Pillows with 100% Polyester Filling and with a 80% Polyester Cover (just 20% Corton) that can supposedly keep you cool but, forget all that. She then got into them being great for Kids and said : -

'You know children until they're about SIX they CAN'T regulate their own temperature'

Wow! Rarely do they seem to lie about the products like Bid did (possibly only because they know them back to front, so few on air products are there for them to 'research') but endless phony price promotions and offering this type of 'expertise' seems de rigeur.

Will it ever end? Yes, I think it will :down:

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That should read 'exotic' and 'cotton'.

I make as many 'mistakes' as Dirty Peter :mysmilie_59:

I can`t stand Joanne myself...absolute full of it. The amount of times she mentions her daughter or her mum...i think she`s being getting tips from shauny :talking:
As for her claim...she should be hauled over the coles for it but she will just get a pat on the back for getting a sale from a petrified parent :cash:

Lovell Park said:

I can`t stand Joanne myself...absolute full of it. The amount of times she mentions her daughter or her mum...i think she`s being getting tips from shauny :talking:
As for her claim...she should be hauled over the coles for it but she will just get a pat on the back for getting a sale from a petrified parent :cash:

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Nanty was on earlier, in shorts.

I deliberately didn't post a picture, what a ghastly sight :mysmilie_59:

Nanty's now on doing a mobility scooter hour. I have the vodka, paracetamol and razor blades standing by for when he starts on his family sob stories.

"My poor old dad was reduced to just a head in a freak masticating accident in 1958. If only he'd had a Luggie scooter, he would have had a better life than just being stuck at the back of the immersion heater cupboard for forty-odd years"

:mysmilie_11:

Enigma said:

Nanty's now on doing a mobility scooter hour. I have the vodka, paracetamol and razor blades standing by for when he starts on his family sob stories.

"My poor old dad was reduced to just a head in a freak masticating accident in 1958. If only he'd had a Luggie scooter, he would have had a better life than just being stuck at the back of the immersion heater cupboard for forty-odd years"

:mysmilie_11:

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It's a repeat, they always use it.

Is it another sign of their cost cutting? And if you think you're bad having chosen Vodka, Paracetamol and Razor Blades I've just been visited by ........... :mysmilie_59:



Here's what the creep is actually saying : -

'I often during this show think of my Dad and some of the regulars will know I've mentioned him several times during some of the shows' (I should coco).

'My Dad had Emphysema, he smoked for many years and although he'd given up, he gave up smoking about 10 years before he passed away, the last few years of his life I think he hid his illness quite a bit actually, we knew he had it but he just stopped doing things, he said I'll just stay in today and watch telly or if we did go out to the shops he'd sit in the car'

'As he got older and he got ill he became a kind of a small man, a man that didn't go out, didn't socialise'

Then he added 'I didn't take my Dad on a Cruise'

I wish he'd took his Dad on a Cruise to Dubai. And his Dad could have left Nanty there, for 10 years. Maybe Dad would have said 'Happy days, who needs an 'effin scooter?' :mysmilie_59:

Ideal has taught me a new word: "comfortability".

I be all edumacated now.

Enigma said:

Ideal has taught me a new word: "comfortability".

I be all edumacated now.

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Just like wot I is, I fink.

Peter Vol au vent's busy showing off a Hoover by vacuuming up talc and Nanty's ever so excited by it.

Maybe it's not talc, but Pervy Pete's stash instead.

The phone lines are ever so busy right now.

Just want to add a little something to their price comparisons.............a cheaper deal with free delivery

http://www.hughes.co.uk/household-appliances/vacuum-cleaners/hoo-tp71tp02001/product

Mommabear said:

Just want to add a little something to their price comparisons.............a cheaper deal with free delivery

http://www.hughes.co.uk/household-appliances/vacuum-cleaners/hoo-tp71tp02001/product

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Obviously (like many shopping channels) they don't sell that many branded products which has always made it quite difficult to do widespread price comparison.

Over time vacuum cleaners, as tedious as they are being endlessly on air, have generally been sold at market beating prices. There's now been a few that are available for less elsewhere.

They're even throwing in some uber cheap cloths with this one, desperate? :mysmilie_59:

Enigma said:

Peter Vol au vent's busy showing off a Hoover by vacuuming up talc and Nanty's ever so excited by it.

Maybe it's not talc, but Pervy Pete's stash instead.

The phone lines are ever so busy right now.

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May I ask you a question Enigma?

Who do you think does the hoovering in their house, Nanty or Honky Tonks Jase?

Or Mam? :mysmilie_59:

Wirral70 said:

Obviously (like many shopping channels) they don't sell that many branded products which has always made it quite difficult to do widespread price comparison.

Over time vacuum cleaners, as tedious as they are being endlessly on air, have generally been sold at market beating prices. There's now been a few that are available for less elsewhere.

They're even throwing in some uber cheap cloths with this one, desperate? :mysmilie_59:

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They seem to have as many of those cloths as they do the necklaces in the fashion hours!

Never ending supply

Mommabear said:

They seem to have as many of those cloths as they do the necklaces in the fashion hours!

Never ending supply

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Indeed Momma.

Now, apparently Nanty has been putting the 'Magic Hose' to the test.

Lucky him :mysmilie_59:



I wonder why they canned the X Hose for a no name alternative? You can get a 100ft X Hose in Argos for the same price and cheaper, same day delivery too!

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1065714.htm

Mommabear said:

They seem to have as many of those cloths as they do the necklaces in the fashion hours!

Never ending supply

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I think they're returned drape dresses :mysmilie_11:

Wirral70 said:

Indeed Momma.

Now, apparently Nanty has been putting the 'Magic Hose' to the test.

Lucky him :mysmilie_59:

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I wonder why they canned the X Hose for a no name alternative? You can get a 100ft X Hose in Argos for the same price and cheaper, same day delivery too!

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1065714.htm

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And I guarantee it will pass with flying colours :mysmilie_59:

Wirral70 said:

May I ask you a question Enigma?

Who do you think does the hoovering in their house, Nanty or Honky Tonks Jase?

Or Mam? :mysmilie_59:

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Mam, or she doesn't get allowed out of the cabin on Nanty's next 6 month cruise up the Leeds-Liverpool canal

Mommabear said:

And I guarantee it will pass with flying colours :mysmilie_59:

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Quite.

Do they think people are that dumb to fall for them replacing a well known brand like X Hose for a never heard of no name alternative (that surprise, surprise isn't available elsewhere) for the same price?

Get lost Ideal World. Get the real deal if you're in the market for such a product, like they have been urging us to with the X Hose for ages :mysmilie_59:

Good evening everyone

just been musing to myself about shopping tv during the vacuum hour.

I wondered how many of them they have to actually sell to make the whole thing worthwhile.... is 'busy' selling two of them at a time?

mr tom said:

Good evening everyone

just been musing to myself about shopping tv during the vacuum hour.

I wondered how many of them they have to actually sell to make the whole thing worthwhile.... is 'busy' selling two of them at a time?

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It was once explained to us by an ex employee of a shopping channel (I actually think it might of been of Ideal World but it was a few years ago) that brands like Bissell and Vax do deals with shopping channels whereby they effectively pay a consideration for their products to be aired so they are technically advertising them on TV but very cost effectively.

They apparently know that lots of people who see the presentations will still buy the product from more recognised retailers. The shopping channel supposedly really only makes any decent money from the apparent 'consideration'.

Dunno how factual that is but it kind of made sense and explained how come they are always (or I should say usually) quite a fair bit cheaper than retail as the manufacturer knows that in real terms they won't really sell that many at the low price anyway, not compared to their bread and butter retailers like Currys and Argos.

But if it is true they seem to have been following this practice for a long time now. But if they're cheaper they're cheaper so it's best to buy from them! :mysmilie_59: