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    Quote Originally Posted by trash View Post
    Oh I've been seeing a lot of shit on TV lately.
    This one appeared in an ad tonight.

    "Resonant technology" to clean water. Riiiiight.

    Then there is the carny folk tv ads.

    The TAC glasses .... Ah fvck no. They're on TV now! $5 Polarised glasess ...for $50

    And the "chill chest" ... $70 for a styrofoam esky. Fark... how do they sell this shit ?

    and the "colour doctor" ... $80 for a wrist blood pressure unit that sells for $5 landed.
    Best part is the idiots that buy it will misuse them and think they're about to have a heart attack.
    Noooo. they just played that ad too before I even finished typing this post.
    you missed the bamboo bra with the totally FAKE thermal image.
    and the land care advert with the magical hoe that suddenly makes things grow.
    gotta love that TAC glasses advert with the computer monitor with the polarized film removed.
    and the chill chest gotta ring them up and ask if it comes with dry ice.



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    Bamboo Bra ... The first though entering my mind is: Think of the professor on Gilligan's Island giving the girls some new fashion.

    Yeah, the TAC glasses ad, I'm trying to work out if their audience is more cooked than a Dynamo magic show or they really are idiots that have no concept of polarised glasses.

    Dynamo the Magician - This guy is so crap with is piss poor camera tricks and cooked audience he makes Barbra Eden look like a real genie. Fark, he makes Larry Hagman look like a real genie!
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    What gets me is how you blokes find the time to watch these ads. Who's the bigger sucker?
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    Quote Originally Posted by trash View Post
    ........................................ or they really are idiots that have no concept of polarised glasses.

    ......................
    They're Americans....and probably voters.....



    Quote Originally Posted by lsemmens View Post
    What gets me is how you blokes find the time to watch these ads. Who's the bigger sucker?
    There is a certain degree of truth in this statement.....
    The fact that there's a highway to hell and a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic flow.

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    & we have new candidate for the bullshit alarm award.


    credit to wotnot for the video find.
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    At least that one is relatively cheap. Check out this Audiophile power cable..... for a cool AU$6,323.00


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    Well, at least the power cord looks cool, though I have seen similar for $400.

    I like this bit:
    [QUOTE]The Air Phoenix will allow you to hear the rosin on a violin bow as it slides across the strings/QUOTE]

    It is the rosin on the violin bow that makes you hear anything at all as it slides across the strings, LOL.
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    Yeah I discount their description of the sonic qualities of the power cabel, and prefer to refer back to the technical details... (I can't believe I just said that LOL)

    The Air Phoenix is hand-built with #8 AWG pure silver Ohno single crystal continuous-cast conductors. Each strand within the lay of the conductors is individually insulated with velocity-matched Teflon dielectrics.
    The Air Phoenix is terminated with the VooDoo PowerPhase ™ Rhodium over platinum-plated Tellurium Copper IEC connector and AC plug with machined aerospace aluminum shell. All of the wire and connectors used to build the Air Phoenix have been treated in our proprietarycold fusion deep-immersion cryogenic process to structurally align and fuse the molecular bond of the conductive alloy crystals for significantly improved linearity, less resistance for lower noise and optimal sonic performance.

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    I wonder where they got their VooDoo from?
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    Quote Originally Posted by lsemmens View Post
    I wonder where they got their VooDoo from?
    I believe they just use quasi tech, that audiophiles want to hear... scuse the pun.

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    Saw the below ad yesterday & instantly my bullshit alarm went off.



    It's a fake endorsement of a bitcoin trading app that scammers are using to swindle people out of their money.

    Did a quick search & poor old Dick Smith has been trying to get Google Ads to stop accepting ads & therefore making money from scammers for over a year now, yet the adds still appear.

    Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith has lashed out at Google, accusing the tech company of failing to stop his identity being stolen.
    Scammers have used Mr Smith’s name and image to place Google Ads on websites and social media platforms, making claims about investment advice.
    He told Jim Wilson he’s been asking Google to take action for three months.
    “Google are making money out of criminal organisations and it’s just not on,” Mr Smith claimed.
    “Anyone who’s listening, if you see anything about Dick Smith and bitcoin, it’s a lie. I don’t even understand bitcoin.


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