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Death's Too Good For Them

May 13, 2009 22:29

A little while ago I posted about an advert for Oven Pride which had got under my skin so much that I actually bothered to officially complain about it. I may as well not have bothered - I got the response from the Advertising Standards Authority today. Apparently this didn't break any guidelines. The 648 people who complained were just ( Read more... )

scum-sucking advertisers, sexism

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bminstrel May 13 2009, 22:23:00 UTC

Aren't the ASA the ones responsible for allowing averts for "Unlimited" Internet access on mobile phones, where "unlimited" in fact meant ""?

One of the mobile phone companies -- I think it was Orange -- was blatantly talking shit on this a while back, giving you "unlimited" access of 10MB/mth, but for an extra £20 you could have a higher "unlimited" access of 100MB/mth. But this was all OK because the small print explained that "unlimited" actually meant "unlimited as long as you don't exceed the limits".