Room 101 - what single aspect of modern life should be consigned to oblivion?

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  • teamsaint
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 25205

    computer viruses.
    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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    • scottycelt

      That excruciatingly silly and patronising Santander advert on SKY which features Rory McIlroy, Jenson Button and the otherwise delightful Jessica Ennis.

      I'm already sorely tempted to move my account ... but to where ... ?

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      • gamba
        Late member
        • Dec 2010
        • 575

        Pop music

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          Originally posted by scottycelt View Post
          That excruciatingly silly and patronising Santander advert on SKY which features Rory McIlroy, Jenson Button and the otherwise delightful Jessica Ennis.

          I'm already sorely tempted to move my account ... but to where ... ?
          Also now showing on proper TV, scotty: there's no escape!
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37648

            The new news gathering room at Broadcasting House. It resembles the floor of the Stock Exchange - must be a horrible place to work in.

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            • scottycelt

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              Also now showing on proper TV, scotty: there's no escape!

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26527

                Originally posted by scottycelt View Post
                I'm already sorely tempted to move my account ... but to where ... ?
                Here, scotty http://www.if.com/

                They've been great for me for 15 years after I ditched the NatWest gang. Fully online but the most delightful Scottish ladies available morning, noon and night in the event of needing to discuss one's affairs...

                Seriously, I'm a fan.
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • Beef Oven

                  Originally posted by scottycelt View Post
                  That excruciatingly silly and patronising Santander advert on SKY which features Rory McIlroy, Jenson Button and the otherwise delightful Jessica Ennis.

                  I'm already sorely tempted to move my account ... but to where ... ?
                  Try The Bank Of Cyprus - they have special rates for depositors (you keep 100% of what you put in now)

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26527

                    Originally posted by Beef Oven View Post
                    Try The Bank Of Cyprus - they have special rates for depositors (you keep 100% of what you put in now)


                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • teamsaint
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 25205

                      I don't really like bigging up any bank, but customer service at First Direct is excellent.

                      Though they are exploitive capitalist scum like all the rest.
                      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                      • ahinton
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 16122

                        Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                        I don't really like bigging up any bank, but customer service at First Direct is excellent.

                        Though they are exploitive capitalist scum like all the rest.
                        All the rest of what or whom? Just banks? Or all other businesses?

                        Customer service at Coutts & Co. is consistently excellent, in my experience. I've been with them for 24 years now and I've still not yet been able to work out why they want to retain me as a customer, but I ain't complainin'. Yes, they're expensive but at least they work for the charges that they impose.

                        Anyway, to answer the question posed by the thread topic, for me it has to be advertising of almost all kinds, though some far more than others.

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                        • scottycelt

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Here, scotty http://www.if.com/

                          They've been great for me for 15 years after I ditched the NatWest gang. Fully online but the most delightful Scottish ladies available morning, noon and night in the event of needing to discuss one's affairs...

                          Seriously, I'm a fan.

                          Most delightful Scottish ladies?

                          I'll take your word for it Caliban but on second thoughts I think I'll just stick with the senoritas ...

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                          • antongould
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8782

                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                            I don't really like bigging up any bank, but customer service at First Direct is excellent.

                            Though they are exploitive capitalist scum like all the rest.
                            I withdrew my Student Grant from Barclays in 1968 as a protest re their support for Rhodesia - they have never invited me back.......

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                            • Old Grumpy
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 3605

                              Football, perhaps

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                              • ahinton
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 16122

                                Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                                Football, perhaps
                                Why "perhaps"?...

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