Glwuh?

[avevale_intelligencer]

I have seen one episode of frodding Glee. One. Cute, but I didn't take to it.

So why, when I woke up this morning, was I leading a sort of marching chorus of students through the corridors of some dingy factory-office place, regaling baffled and alarmed workers with a medley of Madonna hits?

Clearly I am an incredibly strange person, and the sooner I stop living and become a mixed-up zombie the better for everyone.

Also: does anyone (in the set of my friends who own televisions and see advertisements on them) find those WKD commercials funny? I mean really. Does that offensive stereotype need any more positive reinforcement? I think not.

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[bardling.livejournal.com]

So why, when I woke up this morning, was I leading a sort of marching chorus of students through the corridors of some dingy factory-office place, regaling baffled and alarmed workers with a medley of Madonna hits?
I don't know, but it beats sitting at a desk. ;)

[howeird]

I'm with you on Glee. It's just too forced. A pity IMHO because the videography and audio engineering are awesome.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I actually had to look up what WKD was. I suspect that this means that I haven't seen the commercials. But reading up about them I see that they have run foul of the ASA before, if you find the commercials offensive then please do register a complaint -- there is no guarantee that they will uphold it, but there is a chance (which there isn't if no one bothers to complain), and they do actually get back to those who complain and explain their ruling whichever way it goes. Note that they don't just go by numbers, some things will be upheld with only a few complaints and others with thousands which they don't consider valid will be rejected, they do actually consider the points for and against (and hence can take several months to consider it).

[eoforyth.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Glee at all, but I now have that image in my head o.O

Generally, no, I don't think WKD ads are funny. Then again, I hardly think I'm the target market.

However, I'd like to qualify that with the one where a man gets into a lift and his mates put a fake wall over the door so that he thinks he is stuck between floors for a few seconds before he discovers the truth, which does make me smile.

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

With Glee I'm 100% on Charlie Brooker's page, it disgusts me SOOO much - and all I've ever seen of it is what Charlie Brooker forced me to see anyway. :o))) (Oh, yeah, and Chris tricked me into a few seconds of it, too...)

The really interesting question for next weekend though is: do you think you can stay away from Doctor Who if everyone else in your house is going to watch it. >:oD

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

I, for one, am happy to noblyknees refrain, and grab it via the interwotsits later. Because friendship sometimes requires sacrifices, and I'm all out of goats. =;o}

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I too will be happy to grab DW off torrent later (I did it this week because I was out on Saturday evening).

A bigger question is whether people will be willing to watch the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday (it's best watched in company, and I don't know anyone who sees any point in downloading it after the results are known).

(Of Glee I have only seen trailers and a few bits of episodes. However, I've seen and heard enough to avoid it, it sounds as though it has the worst (from my point of view) parts of school-based series and soap operas. Note "from my point of view", they are probably aspects which many other people love but which wind me up. I know that the reverse is the case with some programmes I like such as NCIS.)

[aunty_marion]

Gwen showed me the first episode of Glee a while back. I didn't take to it either.

However, marching choruses in factories sounds OK to me, though I'm not too certain about the Madonna medley.

Don't see much with ads, so I don't think I've seen the WKD ones. However, their press ones have been a bit headscratch-WTF.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Clearly I am an incredibly strange person

Certainly, if it's taken you till now to realize that you are.

After a few moments I decided that the marching-chorus bit was a dream, rather than physical actuality. But it was more amusing the other way.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

I'm with you, both on Glee, which I didn't take to and on the WKD commercials, which annoy me in a very annoying way.

I suppose that means they've made their point - though I am not the target market, given that I can't drink alcohol and wouldn't drink theirs if I could.

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

I like Glee, but, it has to be said, for what they do to the music. As a soap it's somewhere between bad and dire, but that's what I think of most soaps. And Glee does have a marvellously evil villain in Sue Sylvester.

I loved your description of your dream - definitely Glee-inspired.

And yes, I'm one of those who actually watches the Eurovision Song Contest if at all possible, in the vain hope that the various entries might actually be sung in the language of the country competing and not in very simple English. France usually obliges - what an admission!

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

I remember one year when I was at home I was very impressed with what I could understand of the lyrics of the French entry in the preliminary whatnots, and when it came to the actual contest they had been replaced with a load of utter piffle in English, which was then repeatedly played on the radio as "the French entry" for some weeks afterwards. I think it was at that precise point that I lost interest in Eurovision.