Random musings and general banter.

[Muttley]

It would still be good for a view from the channel on whether is it an acceptable and above all a moral sales technique to use the death of a partner as a reason to consider buying a weighted blanket from the company? My view is that it is completely unacceptable - regardless of whether enveloping yourself in one can allegedly bring some comfort and security to the bereaved buyer. A little like them saying buying a fan heater will bring back some more warmth into your life after the death of your wife as a reason to buy…

It's a disgusting sales technique. They know it and clearly don't care as management would stop it.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

It is that. I still hope Alex Knowles is at least prepared to comment on the issue. He participates constructively here on a regular basis and I don’t feel it is an unreasonable question to ask his views on. I genuinely don’t think he would use that direct tactic. Yes - skirt around the issue of grief by perhaps saying this type of product can provide some level of comfort and some reassurance even, to those feeling low and COLD..But to mention loss of a partner specifically..PLEASE…don’t do it. Unless you’ve lost one, you really wouldn’t be telling them a weighted blanket can ease the devastating emotional pain of the experience. I have tried to move on with my life, met a new person I have been with now for three and a half years and traveled extensively with. But the pain and the flashbacks of the loss never completely goes away. You push it to the background, but it is there and hits you at certain times and on a regular basis. Believe me…a weighted blanket would not help with that.

 

[EmmaP]

Management, you get a feeling 2 Presenters have a lot of say in what goes on within the company, and possibly a 3rd If she can work 2 weeks in a row

 

[EmmaP]

Alex tends to explain how a weighted blanket, helps his Autistic teenager daughter. Which is real, rather than Pedro causing upset.

Pedro causes upset even on here, as he either gives me a mention or makes up claims

Pedro even gets discussed when he’s not on shift

 

[Duke of Cheese]

A decent human being and shopping television presenter would generally speaking not use death as a selling tactic - unless they are selling coffins or final expenses insurance. And by the way…A decent human being and shopping television presenter should not be an oxymoron.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

I can’t see there being any posts about this morning’s show.

 

[cheeky chappie]

We mustn't give IW ideas or they will be selling Adult Items, not branded stuff of course but cheap knock off versions. I wonder if our regulars would be rushing to buy. I don't want to think about who would sell them, let's hope they don't wheel out Peter VanDeValk as an expert

Peter S selling a pair of tie on (.) (.) with Peter V as co-presenter, caressing and squeezing them as only Peter V can. Peter S saying ...

You MUST insure these!!!

Peter V saying ...

And in the nipple area there are small HEPA filters!!!

 

[Battiola73]

Just tuned in to IW and Blackwall tunnel gob on. I’m sure her eyebrows have got higher.
Is she related to Torchy? She has the same penetrating eyes.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

One eye looking east and one eye looking west in his case. She should’ve been the lookout on the Titanic. It might have missed the iceberg if she had been.

 

[historymystery]

Bored with IW so switched over to Winter Watch(love it)..and just as I started watching they’ve gone to the Cotswolds!

Owls,foxes,badgers,deer and..there’s Trevor counting his watches! Keep an eye out for those pesky predators Trev!

Trev will be OK - his insurance man follows him around 24/7: after all, he'd need to, considering the huge value of all those watches, wouldn't he? (the insurance bloke also carries a Kalashnikov rifle, hand grenades and missiles to repel incoming attacks, should they be needed - you can't be too careful when you own a collection IW watches, can you?)

 

[EmmaP]

Sally has kissed shoes

 

[Samki]

Sally has kissed shoes

She is a vacuous individual

 

[Duke of Cheese]

I wouldn’t grant her that much depth..

 

[Stockton]

Pete VonHepa, just sell it for what it is. A cheap corded vac that does an ok job for a quick clean…and use your bigger better vac for a deeper clean

He is pathetic presenter gives me the creeps

 

[Duke of Cheese]

If he was a biro there still would be no point to him.

 

[Samki]

£30 for a plastic bag - taking the piss really . They need one like mine

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Oh dear….A fixed withering stare from Jacks. The twerps in the Gallery have lost a particular piece of tat’s description. Jokers.. On a more positive note- I have found our communal picnic table cloth from 1973. Though, why Loudspeaker for a Gob has got it on, I don’t know.

 

[Scraping the barrel]

She is a vacuous individual

Another great word..oh Master!!

So when Peter VonHepa demonstrates Vacuums I can call him a Perfidious Vacuous Wan*er?

 

[Scraping the barrel]

£30 for a plastic bag - taking the piss really . They need one like mineView attachment 31398

To be honest with you I’ve seen that bag a few times now on here. Any chance you can change the picture to another bag? Example below

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Mason has just said he’s got the Falcon Bags. It’s odd because he didn’t look right when he was making love to himself to his Wild Cherry bass line. Maybe the Doctor’s Formula will help him rid himself of them? Engaging in pathetical and theatrical price posturing on a toy car, now. What is it? A Lotus? The only bloody Lotus they’ll ever have on that channel. Just get on with it, you ridiculous buffoons.

Clearly doesn’t like Alex Knowles. He’s been disparaging about him too many times now. The corporal is actually a better presenter than him. It must irritate him accordingly.