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kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
OK people it is time to protest against the 2 big TV stations 7 & 9 are evil bastards, turn them off for a week - especially anyone with rating boxes...
Are you ready to sit through even MORE ads? Commercial TV stations want an extra SEVEN minutes per hour
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-extra-SEVEN-minutes-hour.html#ixzz3BMxF9LeF
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So, please take this quote to any forums, social media etc you have going/participate in.
What they want is unbearable, advertising should be minimised not extended the fools - charge more and make it more interesting and limit it, you will get more viewers.
As it is - adds are so long I often forget what I was watching, and very often wind up wandering away or switching to something else.
Do our TV station minows here understand they are simply feeding and promoting the boxset mindset and market.
Fuck you 9 & 7 & I wish I had a ratings thingy.
Are you ready to sit through even MORE ads? Commercial TV stations want an extra SEVEN minutes per hour
- The code of practice only allows for 13 minutes of 'non-program matter' each hour
- Seven and Nine are arguing for the maximum to be relaxed to 20 minutes
- Channel 10 has so far opposed the regulation change
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-extra-SEVEN-minutes-hour.html#ixzz3BMxF9LeF
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So, please take this quote to any forums, social media etc you have going/participate in.
What they want is unbearable, advertising should be minimised not extended the fools - charge more and make it more interesting and limit it, you will get more viewers.
As it is - adds are so long I often forget what I was watching, and very often wind up wandering away or switching to something else.
Do our TV station minows here understand they are simply feeding and promoting the boxset mindset and market.
Fuck you 9 & 7 & I wish I had a ratings thingy.
Inigo Montoya
The New Dread Pirate Roberts.
The reason I think that they want more ads is because overall ratings are down compared to before we had mulitchannels. Ten can't afford to piss people off because they are coming either 3rd or 4th, so to seem like they are on the viewers side they are opposed to theses changes, but if they do happen you can be sure that Ten along with 7 &9 and will take full advantage.
I honestly don't mind ad breaks, I get up make some tea, do the dishes or go to the bathroom ( while I've paused the show so I can FF thur the ads once I get back in front of the telly).
I honestly don't mind ad breaks, I get up make some tea, do the dishes or go to the bathroom ( while I've paused the show so I can FF thur the ads once I get back in front of the telly).
Connoisseur
Well-Known Member
You still watch TV IM?
I only sit down in front of the telly for the footy (not thugbies
) and dvds and that's pretty much it. Ads drive me insane, especially nowadays with so many pumped into prime time slots. 
It's shooting themselves in the foot. It will just turn more people off Free to Air TV.
Now reasons for them doing it could be that they are aware of some insane anti-piracy regulation big brother in Canberra want to introduce. So people won't have much of a choice. Or it is part of a strategy of moving FTA onto a subscription model. They make FTA tv so unbearable they start selling access to streaming apps with less or no ads.
Now reasons for them doing it could be that they are aware of some insane anti-piracy regulation big brother in Canberra want to introduce. So people won't have much of a choice. Or it is part of a strategy of moving FTA onto a subscription model. They make FTA tv so unbearable they start selling access to streaming apps with less or no ads.
It's not a big issue for me. I watch most shows on catch up online apps/ sites anyway.
Inigo Montoya
The New Dread Pirate Roberts.
Right now I'm only watching The Amazing Race and some episodes of the block, everything else I watch is on the internet. Like I said I don't mind ads, I can't sit down in front of the TV and watch an entire episodes without feeling the need to get up and do something else for a little bit.You still watch TV IM?
I only sit down in front of the telly for the footy (not thugbies
Yeah I understand their need to be more profitable. If companies are willing to pay the for ads which I skip or just avoid altogether by watching online with ad blockers then let them go for it.
Advertising helps their budget to produce television.
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
Considering The Block and shows of that type, are simply ONE LONG ADD, they have a damn cheek.
Commercial TV drove people to boxsets, they have only themselves to blame; and they keep doing the same idiot things.
They should take a look at the ABC and learn a few things about how to treat viewers and loyal fans - see Doctor Who, simulcast live at 4.50 am to satisfy fans who used to be the biggest dirty downloaders on the net, before Game of Thrones.
We complained, they acted, we don't wait anymore for the series or the 1st episode.
ABC, changed to suit the fans, and we the fans applaud them. I am about to buy a card to thank them for what good custodians they are of a legend.
They gave us fabulous lead ins for weeks, lots of 50th celebratory repeats, timed the episode repeats perfectly, and to top it off, they even planned the RAGE lead into the simulcast to play - silly doctor song from the 70s.
Cudos ABC.
Commercial TV drove people to boxsets, they have only themselves to blame; and they keep doing the same idiot things.
They should take a look at the ABC and learn a few things about how to treat viewers and loyal fans - see Doctor Who, simulcast live at 4.50 am to satisfy fans who used to be the biggest dirty downloaders on the net, before Game of Thrones.
We complained, they acted, we don't wait anymore for the series or the 1st episode.
ABC, changed to suit the fans, and we the fans applaud them. I am about to buy a card to thank them for what good custodians they are of a legend.
They gave us fabulous lead ins for weeks, lots of 50th celebratory repeats, timed the episode repeats perfectly, and to top it off, they even planned the RAGE lead into the simulcast to play - silly doctor song from the 70s.
Cudos ABC.
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
All hail the ABC, they announced they will SIMULCAST THE ENTIRE SEASON OF DOCTOR WHO!!!.
This is how you treat fans and your viewers in general, serve them, don't be thinking they serve you.
Every Sunday morning around 5am, how amazing. And cool, here comes Spring and my sundays will never be the same
This is how you treat fans and your viewers in general, serve them, don't be thinking they serve you.
Every Sunday morning around 5am, how amazing. And cool, here comes Spring and my sundays will never be the same
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
Victoria may pass medical weed laws by Christmas, hell this is moving faster than the 5 years I predicted for full freedom - I expected the medical would take at least 1-2 years.
But they went out hard campaigning.
I have to get in touch with my farming cousins and introduce them to some horticulturists I know
But they went out hard campaigning.
I have to get in touch with my farming cousins and introduce them to some horticulturists I know
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Inigo Montoya
The New Dread Pirate Roberts.
I wonder what condition you have to have to get medical weed. In the US something like bad period pain qualifies as a condition that you can get weed for.
Straight Edge Society
Straight Edge Saviour
At this point I think any excuse will get you your card in LA. Sometimes you don't even need one. I was listening to a podcast where a guy said he told his doctor he just wanted to get high and the doc gave him the script. And that was back in 07.
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
OMG did you ever see that episode of Larry David's show Curb Your Enthusiasm, when Larry tries to help his uncle/cousin somebody score weed?
Uncle guy has chronic asthma, Larry hears weed is good for that, let's score.
Who do you score from? Street pros of course; so he picks up a hoochy mumma and can't get rid of her, it's awesome.
Uncle guy has chronic asthma, Larry hears weed is good for that, let's score.
Who do you score from? Street pros of course; so he picks up a hoochy mumma and can't get rid of her, it's awesome.
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
Yes, well 7 & 9 don't own anything worth broadcasting live - except sport and they already go live with all that, why not other stuff.
Foxtel has been handed the mantle of most stolen/downloaded show, before GOT it was Doctor Who
Back in the bad old days when ABC would screen the series months later - ABC got their shit together and now offer the DW premiere every which way you can view it - including in cinemas.
Cinemas sold out, and 148,000 people watched the simulcast, pretty good figures for 4am
from the news.com.au website
Aldi bans Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes won’t be found at Aldi’s Australian stores anymore. Source: Supplied
USE of the word “slut” in a classic Roald Dahl story has seen the book removed from a supermarkets shelves.
Aldi has reportedly removed Revolting Rhymes from sale after customers complained about the use of the word.
The book only went on sale this week but customer reaction was swift, Fairfax reported.
A spokeswoman for Aldi said a small number of complaints were received by customers worried about language in the book, which led to its removal.
Other books by the famous British author will still be stocked.
Revolting Rhymes is a collection of classic poems originally published in 1982 that takes well known fairy tales a funny revamp.
“Who’s this dirty slut?”, is used in a modern take of Cinderella
The Merriam Webster defines slut as a promiscuous woman or a slovenly woman.
Customers have reacted furiously — and hilariously — on Aldi’s Facebook page with their opinions of the censorship.
Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes has caused controversy for some Aldi Store customers. Source: Supplied
After a post about a mystery product that was deliberately blurred several people asked whether it was a “Road Dahl book”.
“Let’s burn it, just in case it’s a Roald Dahl book. We don’t want children to read the same stuff we grew up with. Look how we turned out!,” one customer wrote.
Another said: “Dear Aldi, you practised censorship yesterday, bowing to the opinions of a small number of people who unfortunately did not appreciate Roald Dahl’s humour in his classic ‘Revolting Rhymes’. You have also contravened the worldwide policy of ‘Freedom To Read’. Now, that’s truly revolting! Reinstate the book in all your stores, please!”
One of the books also on sale was about dinosaurs, leading one customer to say: “They have not yet censored the Dinosaur book so luckily they are not creationists
Aldi bans Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes won’t be found at Aldi’s Australian stores anymore. Source: Supplied
USE of the word “slut” in a classic Roald Dahl story has seen the book removed from a supermarkets shelves.
Aldi has reportedly removed Revolting Rhymes from sale after customers complained about the use of the word.
The book only went on sale this week but customer reaction was swift, Fairfax reported.
A spokeswoman for Aldi said a small number of complaints were received by customers worried about language in the book, which led to its removal.
Other books by the famous British author will still be stocked.
Revolting Rhymes is a collection of classic poems originally published in 1982 that takes well known fairy tales a funny revamp.
“Who’s this dirty slut?”, is used in a modern take of Cinderella
The Merriam Webster defines slut as a promiscuous woman or a slovenly woman.
Customers have reacted furiously — and hilariously — on Aldi’s Facebook page with their opinions of the censorship.
Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes has caused controversy for some Aldi Store customers. Source: Supplied
After a post about a mystery product that was deliberately blurred several people asked whether it was a “Road Dahl book”.
“Let’s burn it, just in case it’s a Roald Dahl book. We don’t want children to read the same stuff we grew up with. Look how we turned out!,” one customer wrote.
Another said: “Dear Aldi, you practised censorship yesterday, bowing to the opinions of a small number of people who unfortunately did not appreciate Roald Dahl’s humour in his classic ‘Revolting Rhymes’. You have also contravened the worldwide policy of ‘Freedom To Read’. Now, that’s truly revolting! Reinstate the book in all your stores, please!”
One of the books also on sale was about dinosaurs, leading one customer to say: “They have not yet censored the Dinosaur book so luckily they are not creationists
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
And when he mistakenly believes he was born gentile and must discover his roots. Genius nuts man, and you can so see Larry is George - would have been cool if he had appeared in the Seinfeld finale meeting George.
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