More faux OCD...

[Lady Madonna]

Alexis was wearing three very fine trace gold bracelets(I switched over in an ad break of another show). No idea why you insist in watching Alexis all the time, she seems to bring out your outrage every single time. Besides only last year you insisted everyone should not waste their money on L'Occitane and where fools if we didn't follow your suggestions what to use. Yet here you are watching the shows.

And passing IMO nasty comments about, mainly, the lady presenters.

 

[Julius]

Julius, if you can find the instruction book for your TV, you will find out how you can change to a different channel from QVC. You may even find out how to turn it off altogether.

This seems a lot less effort than writing all the spiel about why you don't like watching QVC.

Thanks Strato, bud, I'd not realised there was an "off" button. Actually I jest, I use the "off" button frequently - when I find it particularly annoying / when Ann Dawson / Alison Young appear - but it has to cross a certain level of annoyance before I will do that - otherwise I'll just watch it for its entertainment value.

 

[Julius]

And passing IMO nasty comments about, mainly, the lady presenters.

Heya Donna, you always seem at pains in your struggles to point out some sort of disingenuity on my part. Unfortunately you end up getting the wrong end of the stick. I cannot insist on what people buy. It is their decision - not mine. I'm not a fan of Lulu and her silly time bomb, it's true. I think her brand particularly is more hype over substance. Unfortunately there are also many other people out there who cannot see the wood for the trees, and buy her products blissfully ignorant of the fact that Lulu's looks owe more to the surgeon's knife than her overpriced pots of gloop. This is a forum to discuss QVC and that includes alternatives to some of the products. It's fun to look at the foibles of the on-screen personae we've all come to know and love - or not as the case may be - over the years. I don't think I have ever dismissed l'Occitane out of hand - I'd be a hypocrite if I did as I do occasionally use their shea soap - I usually buy one bar a year before I go on holiday. I'm just not a fan of ice queen Alexis, and there are good alternatives to some of the products out there.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

I like Jan Springer she has got a nice calm voice. I am also pleased to see that she bought herself a comb and got her hair under control, at one time she looked like she had been dragged through the hedge backwards...lol

A few years ago, just before Jan left our screens due to the high price of gold jewellery, they had one of their dressy up jewellery programmes and Jan had her hair up, was well made up and in a posh frock and boy did she look fab. If someone did a makeover on me like that I would never go back to my usual look. Unfortunately she did.

 

[Lady Madonna]

Heya Donna, you always seem at pains in your struggles to point out some sort of disingenuity on my part. Unfortunately you end up getting the wrong end of the stick. I cannot insist on what people buy. It is their decision - not mine. I'm not a fan of Lulu and her silly time bomb, it's true. I think her brand particularly is more hype over substance. Unfortunately there are also many other people out there who cannot see the wood for the trees, and buy her products blissfully ignorant of the fact that Lulu's looks owe more to the surgeon's knife than her overpriced pots of gloop. This is a forum to discuss QVC and that includes alternatives to some of the products. It's fun to look at the foibles of the on-screen personae we've all come to know and love - or not as the case may be - over the years. I don't think I have ever dismissed l'Occitane out of hand - I'd be a hypocrite if I did as I do occasionally use their shea soap - I usually buy one bar a year before I go on holiday. I'm just not a fan of ice queen Alexis, and there are good alternatives to some of the products out there.

Er no this is the first time I have made a response in the way I have.

 

[caretodiffer]

I like Jan Springer she has got a nice calm voice. I am also pleased to see that she bought herself a comb and got her hair under control, at one time she looked like she had been dragged through the hedge backwards...lol

I like her as well Kathy, she is not pretentious and I saw her (on a Gold Special day or something) she was spruced up and looked really good. We don't see her much and that is a shame.

 

[historymystery]

Even better, I'd love to hear any presenter on Q say "got it from the 99p shop, actually" or "Poundland". Can you just imagine it? The fire alarm would go off, hysterical screams would be heard, Debs would rush to her Back To Front (or whatever) Group on the Net for consolation, the studio set would be hit by a thunderbolt, Marv's eyes would roll like billiard balls and Q would go off-air.

Oh God, now someone's tweeted in asking what lipstick she was wearing and she's wearing ..... guess what? Bare Minerals lip gloss and Tarte lipstick - both from QVC. I want to hear that! I want her to say : "actually it's Rimmel and the lip gloss is from Primark!"

 

[historymystery]

I'd like to know exactly what qualifications they do have.....precious few/none, I suspect. They often denigrate sales assistants at beauty counters in the dreaded High Street (oh no!), but they probably have more knowledge and training in their little finger than some Q "beauty experts" have in their whole head.

It's this same as Alison Young, your resident "beauty expert" I think she got that qualification in her lunch break, just sat down an thought she'd become qualified, well you can become anything you want in QVC land. Isn't it funny how when asked advice (ha ha ha) the answer to the persons problem is always sold on QVC........how lucky is that?! :mysmilie_15:

 

[shopperholic]

I'd like to know exactly what qualifications they do have.....precious few/none, I suspect. They often denigrate sales assistants at beauty counters in the dreaded High Street (oh no!), but they probably have more knowledge and training in their little finger than some Q "beauty experts" have in their whole head.

AY is no more beauty expert H than I am Brain Surgeon, mind you in QVC land you can be whatever you want to be, I mean look at diddy Me Hall, he chose to be a fashion "expert" in his lunch break. :mysmilie_17:

 

[Scout]

. . . . It's fun to look at the foibles of the on-screen personae we've all come to know and love - or not as the case may be - over the years . . . .

You may think it's fun to publicly mock people for their slight speech impediment or because their body is showing signs of aging, neither of which can they prevent, but I don't. I find your posts bitchy and mean-spirited, and I would have thought that someone who claims to be a professional writer could have been creative enough to write entertaining posts without them all being written at someone else's expense.

 

[scrangiefan]

Well said.... It's very tiresome

 

[Lady Madonna]

You may think it's fun to publicly mock people for their slight speech impediment or because their body is showing signs of aging, neither of which can they prevent, but I don't. I find your posts bitchy and mean-spirited, and I would have thought that someone who claims to be a professional writer could have been creative enough to write entertaining posts without them all being written at someone else's expense.

Hear hear Scout .

 

[lilith]

Julius certainly appears to have a very well developed 'inner bitch'
which he unleashes and unbridles daily on this forum ...

 

[Julius]

Hear hear Scout .

Why can't we write things at someone's expense? There is much fun to be had from doing so...well that's what I believe anyway, as do many others..you don't have to read them...you can go polish your halo with a spray can of Pledge and a yellow duster! I don't claim to be anything marvellous or to take myself too seriously - I'm just a cheap hack that likes redtops with pics of tits in! I believe society has much to learn from looking at the little foibles of others, particularly politicians, royalty and those in the public eye. I don't recall having found any of your posts entertaining, in fact quite the contrary - they seem decidedly whingey. Please feel free to put your money where your mouth is and write something entertaining for us all. I shan't wait with baited breath, though. Maybe you identify more closely with the QVC demographic and the issues they face, and therefore feel in some way that my comments are some sort of slight on you? This forum would be very dry if we all presented dry facts. It's about opinions, too. Sorry if I've offended anybody's holier-than-thou, worthy and patronising middle-class sensibilities. Actually I lie, I'm not sorry. I don't give a jot for all that.

 

[Scout]

Why can't we write things at someone's expense? There is much fun to be had from doing so...well that's what I believe anyway, as do many others..you don't have to read them...you can go polish your halo with a spray can of Pledge and a yellow duster! I don't claim to be anything marvellous or to take myself too seriously - I'm just a cheap hack that likes redtops with pics of tits in! I believe society has much to learn from looking at the little foibles of others, particularly politicians, royalty and those in the public eye. I don't recall having found any of your posts entertaining, in fact quite the contrary - they seem decidedly whingey. Please feel free to put your money where your mouth is and write something entertaining for us all. I shan't wait with baited breath, though. Maybe you identify more closely with the QVC demographic and the issues they face, and therefore feel in some way that my comments are some sort of slight on you? This forum would be very dry if we all presented dry facts. It's about opinions, too. Sorry if I've offended anybody's holier-than-thou, worthy and patronising middle-class sensibilities. Actually I lie, I'm not sorry. I don't give a jot for all that.

You can kid yourself, Julius, but your posts do not look "at the little foibles of others". Your posts are invariably very nasty diatribes attacking and mocking people for physical characteristics or impediments over which they have no control. That isn't entertaining and it's not fun or funny, it's cruel, cheap and unjustifiable. To find such posts unpleasant is certainly not holier than thou, it's just common decency not to mock someone for something they can't help and which may, indeed, be something that causes them some distress. It's to do with empathising with a fellow human being, nothing to do with the QVC demographic or the class system. That you don't understand that says much.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

I think there are people on here who need to read ALL of their own posts once in a while. Very much a case of "if I think it then it must be right and if I say anything bad I am totally justified"

BTW Julius - is that stick you use so often a 99p one or an Eek encrusted one?

 

[Julius]

I think there are people on here who need to read ALL of their own posts once in a while. Very much a case of "if I think it then it must be right and if I say anything bad I am totally justified"

BTW Julius - is that stick you use so often a 99p one or an Eek encrusted one?

Unfortunately we are living in an era where the politically correct and the killjoys stamp there feet and make a lot of noise when something is said or written in a way that does not meet their agenda. The presenters and management at QVC are not dumb animals that need protection from evil vivisectionists and furriers, they are real people with real foibles, often out to dupe the public. I don't like seeing Alison Keenan touting and extolling the virtues of Decleor and Gatineau, banging on about how she uses the products etc. If she does use them, maybe she should send them back, 'cos they ain't working! I think she's a very eloquent lady who's been through a lot, but her tambourine-taut visage looks decidedly at odds with the tortoise-like neck immediately below it. She HAS had control over this. She's chosen to bask in the sun and make her skin look like a leathery lizard. She has chosen to have work done on her face. And then there's Tova, another eloquent lady who has also been through a lot. She too has the clingfilm-over-a-bowl face that no septagenarian would naturally possess. Are we really to believe that she owes this to her magic cactus juice?!!! She certainly has control over hr hairstyles, the latest effort looks like a striped cottage loaf! Worst of all there's Lulu who in my view has almost no redeeming features whatsoever. Her appearance can only be the result of extensive elective surgery and treatments. Do any of these people mention this? NO THEY DON'T! They are flogging jars of hope, they are touting an image, a lifestyle they want you to buy into. Then there's Diane Gilman with her stretchy jeans. She look's like Diana Ross's grandmother! QVC should be renamed "Facelift Central."

And what of Julia Roberts mentioning that she a size 12 / small etc! That's just a blatant lie! I know she too has her health concerns, but why she persists in lying about something we can all see not to be true I will never know.

Of course there will be those accusing me of hating women, as all the above is about women. I don't hate women and I don't hate older women. Look at Jan Springer, she doesn't seen to go in for the extreme vanity. She is as she is, and she speaks calmly and knowledgeably about the products. Why can't the Q crowd be more like her? They are all hanging on by their fingernails to their moribund youth. The QVC men on the other hand don't seem to have had that much done. Charlie Brook has a few flecks of grey, Dale Franklin has gone white-haired. The men, apart from the ubiquitous Tipp-Ex white gnashers, seem to have aged more naturally.

 

[shopperholic]

I think there are people on here who need to read ALL of their own posts once in a while. Very much a case of "if I think it then it must be right and if I say anything bad I am totally justified"

BTW Julius - is that stick you use so often a 99p one or an Eek encrusted one?

I agree, for a certain few it's a case of do as I say, not as I do sort of thing. Some people are way too sensitive for a forum like this.........oops! there, I've said it. :mysmilie_17:

 

[Julius]

Maybe my sense of humour is just a bit warped, but I do find so many things about QVC hilarious / amusing / annoying. I think there's a gap in the market for a soap opera set in a tv shopping channel. I'd called it "Pitches."

 

[historymystery]

Reminds me of the saying from the old TV show for lookalike singers: ..."And tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be......" Or in Q's case, Beauty expert/Fashion expert/Nutritionist/Personal fitness trainer/Chef/IT expert.....(delete as applicable)

AY is no more beauty expert H than I am Brain Surgeon, mind you in QVC land you can be whatever you want to be, I mean look at diddy Me Hall, he chose to be a fashion "expert" in his lunch break. :mysmilie_17: