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  • 14-07-2010 3:53pm
    #1
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭


    So this has been troubling my mind for quite some time...especially when i go to a cinema...

    So as far as i can remember free stuff = ads

    paid = no ads

    so when i go to cinema i get to spend 15 mins of my movie watching ads...same goes for tv why do i have to pay the tv licence if i still gotta watch most tv ads ( god bless sky plus)

    its just bothering my mind :)

    can some one educate me why am i paying to watch ads :)
    Tagged:


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  • #2
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Does it subtract from you experience? Multiply it by the many forms and it becomes a divisive issue.




    Edit: Boo for editing of OP's.


  • #3
    gnolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭gnolan


    Ads


  • #4
    Naos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭Naos


    Since when has paid stuff = no advertisements (ads)?

    Ever think that without the ads the cinema ticket may cost more?


  • #5
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Just cover your eyes stick your fingers in your ears and scream I'm not listening while jumping up and down. That'll show em.


    Or just pirate everything.


  • #6
    Anthony Walsh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭Anthony Walsh


    Well the TV one is pretty obvious, the channel you are watching whatever show puts ads on so they can pay the owner of the TV show to play the TV show.

    Cinema ads i'm guessing are to pay for the movie to be played, because the money you pay to go is also used to pay wages of staff and probably to fix the general wear and tear of the cinema itself


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  • #7
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    It's the same with DVDs. I can remember some guy had a pirated movie once and there were no adverts on it at all, with a regular DVD you have all that piracy crap that you can't forward or skip through.

    No reward for honest people at all.


  • #8
    shebango
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭shebango


    gnolan wrote: »
    Ads

    Indeed. Even reading the OP was getting on my tits.


  • #9
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    well that too :) i remember seeing in funny pics cat a good pic

    Pirated Movie = Press Play -> Watch

    Purchased DVD = Press Play -> spend 30 mins watching warnings and movie adds and ****...

    well how much the ticket would cost?


  • #10
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Most typo's I let go but I see "adds" so many times that I'm actually beginning to wonder do these people think the full word is "addvertisement"? :confused:


  • #11
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    shebango wrote: »
    Indeed. Even reading the OP was getting on my tits.

    Fixed :) happy? :P


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  • #12
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,585 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Paid Prostitutes > AIDS

    Some free young one in a nightclub > AIDS


  • #13
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I'll let you know the answer after this short message from our sponsors... stay tuned!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8CTscW3dpI


  • #14
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    I hope you don't include the trailers in your rant, they're the best part!!!

    Anyway here it is explained very simply.

    More ads = more money.

    It is a capitalist society we live in after all. You're not a commie are ya?


  • #15
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Hooray, A new thread!

    Yarr


  • #16
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    TheZohan wrote: »
    It's the same with DVDs. I can remember some guy had a pirated movie once and there were no adverts on it at all, with a regular DVD you have all that piracy crap that you can't forward or skip through.

    No reward for honest people at all.

    MUST BE YA TRACKIN', MATE!


  • #17
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    TheZohan wrote: »
    It's the same with DVDs. I can remember some guy had a pirated movie once and there were no adverts on it at all, with a regular DVD you have all that piracy crap that you can't forward or skip through.

    No reward for honest people at all.

    Pirate-DVD-vs.-Legal-DVD.jpg


    EDIT: WindSock beat me to it :(


  • #18
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    evolutionqy7 wrote: »
    So as far as i can remember free stuff = ads

    paid = no ads

    Ah youngsters... they think the internet concept of freeware/adware/payware applies to real life.
    evolutionqy7 wrote: »
    so when i go to cinema i get to spend 15 mins of my movie watching ads...

    Arrive at the cinema 15 minutes after the show is supposed to start.


  • #19
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    TheZohan wrote: »
    It's the same with DVDs. I can remember some guy had a pirated movie once and there were no adverts on it at all, with a regular DVD you have all that piracy crap that you can't forward or skip through.

    No reward for honest people at all.


    This annoys the piss out of me!


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Wait a second.. If you subscribe to boards, can you still see my posts?


  • #21
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    Arrive at the cinema 15 minutes after the show is supposed to start.
    i would do that except every time i do it, they don't show long ads, and the film starts quick enough (2/3 mins after the time it's supposed to), but i do go early, the ads are always longer, about 15mins :mad:

    fúck you, cinemas! you can never get it right :mad:


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  • #22
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,585 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    For what its worth, I dont see ANY ad's on boards! :D

    Im also sat here wearing an eyepatch


  • #23
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    Ah youngsters... they think the internet concept of freeware/adware/payware applies to real life.



    Arrive at the cinema 15 minutes after the show is supposed to start.

    and then all the good seats will be gone by then
    Sinfonia wrote: »
    Pirate-DVD-vs.-Legal-DVD.jpg


    EDIT: WindSock beat me to it :(

    thats the one i was on about :)
    Insurgent wrote: »
    This annoys the piss out of me!

    it does the same to me :)


  • #24
    Naos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭Naos


    As for the piracy thing's mentioned on legit Dvd's, that is very annoying.

    It's akin to when you turn up for training and someone says "People are slacking by not coming to training and that's not on". Feel like telling them to f*ck off - I'm here, don't be telling me.


  • #25
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    Ah youngsters... they think the internet concept of freeware/adware/payware applies to real life.



    Arrive at the cinema 15 minutes after the show is supposed to start.
    That will probably be the day the manager decides not to run any ads. :mad:


  • #26
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    ScumLord wrote: »
    That will probably be the day the manager decides not to run any ads. :mad:

    //wishes_for_the_day


  • #27
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    OP, the TV programs are there to encourage you to watch the ads. Not the other way around.


  • #28
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Wait a second.. If you subscribe to boards, can you still see my posts?

    You don't need to subscribe to boards to avoid the ads, just use the Firefox plugin "Adblock Plus" :pac::pac::pac:


  • #29
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    You don't need to subscribe to boards to avoid the ads, just use the Firefox plugin "Adblock Plus" :pac::pac::pac:

    I remember Overheal posted something similar in feedback and Cult banned him :pac:


  • #30
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    I wish more people would watch this BBC docu, it might change how they view things and help them wake up from consumerism

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUYFr-uDQgg&feature=related



    It explains how modern PR + advertising came about


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  • #31
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    kumate_champ07 wrote: »
    I wish more people would watch this BBC docu, it might change how they view things and help them wake up from consumerism

    Interesting, it's part 1 of 6, just in case people stop after the first part.


  • #32
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    I thought the thread title said "Aids?!?!?!?"


  • #33
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    Interesting, it's part 1 of 6, just in case people stop after the first part.

    each episode is split into 6 parts on youtube, 4 episodes in total. If you have an interest in that kind of thing its extremely fascinating and slightly depressing, otherwise it might be hard to watch, i dont know..



    Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the human mind and its workings. His influence on the twentieth century is generally considered profound. The series describes the ways public relations and politicians have utilized Freud's theories during the last 100 years for the "engineering of consent"....

    ...Paul Mazer, a Wall Street banker working for Lehman Brothers in the 1930s: "We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. [...] Man's desires must overshadow his needs."


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self


  • #34
    bertie4evr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭bertie4evr


    For all the people complaining about the trailers and warnings on DVDs press:

    STOP>STOP>PLAY

    It skips through it all.Works on 95% of the DVDs I've tried.


  • #35
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    AlcoholicA wrote: »
    I thought the thread title said "Aids?!?!?!?"
    oh dear troll detected


  • #36
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    AlcoholicA wrote: »
    I thought the thread title said "Aids?!?!?!?"
    were you disappointed when you saw it was about ads? :P


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  • #37
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    You don't need to subscribe to boards to avoid the ads, just use the Firefox plugin "Adblock Plus" :pac::pac::pac:

    But it doesn't work.I still saw this ^^ ad.


  • #38
    Cianos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    Why are people surprised about the maximisation of profits when it's the driving force behind pretty much every factor of modern day living?


  • #39
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    Cianos wrote: »
    Why are people surprised about the maximisation of profits when it's the driving force behind pretty much every factor of modern day living?

    im not surprised im just annoyed as that i pay to watch a movie and i have to watch bloody adds before it...i pay for my dvd i still have to watch adds...i pay sky tv free + tv licence and i still have to watch bloody adds (most of the time)


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