I have just seen that Donovan/Nolan Iceland advert.
God help us all. If I weren't off sick I might have escaped ever witnessing it.

Will Iceland soon be paying us to take their food? I can't see it getting any cheaper without slipping into minus figures. I like nice food more than I like quality clothing, so I'm more likely to be found in Primark than Iceland, but they do have some 'mazing deals.
What is the future of bargain shops????
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:46, 39 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Eeeeeep
That advert hurts me in ways that cannot be explained :(
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:52, Reply)

Ghastly proles
eating ghastly food, all to the strains of a ghastly Broadway-style 'song'.

Monty's review: 'GHASTLY'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:58, Reply)

Good word... Mine would be...
Horrendous
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:59, Reply)

Anything THAT cheap has a hidden, other cost.
I know a designer for Primark and can tell you that to sell clothes that cheap there is only one way - sweatshops. Much the same was as cheap meat comes at an animal welfare cost.

If I'm being brutally honest neither Chinese children making trainers nor battery chickens keep me awake at night - because I live many miles away in London and cannot hear their sobs and mutant clucking.

If I had a point, it's gone now, I fear. Sorry.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:55, Reply)

I think eventually
stores like Primark will do away with clothes entirely. You'll just be able to by fabric and a little child with nimble fingers to make the clothes for you.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:56, Reply)

PEADO

( thealternativefact, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:57, Reply)

happy candle thing

(PsychoChomp, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:58, Reply)

Thank you!
I'd forgotten about it - I am very old.
( thealternativefact, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:59, Reply)

Oh yes
Happy B3ta Day!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 10 Dec 2009, 12:01, Reply)

:)
Shame I won't be here to enjoy it much.
( thealternativefact, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 12:27, Reply)

Happy b3tadaay you tart
*honk honk*
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:59, Reply)

Thank you, Roots!

( thealternativefact, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 12:26, Reply)

You're just upset because you didn't think of it first!! :D
I'll be the one swanning around in 99p shitty shoes from Primark after they buy my idea!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 10 Dec 2009, 12:00, Reply)

How wonderful!!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:59, Reply)

99p shops
closely followed by 98p shops

etc
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:56, Reply)

There used to be a shop in March called
Itz a POUND! What an amazing place that was...
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:57, Reply)

Did it close in April?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 12:00, Reply)

Hehehe
The name of the town was March... don't go there... it's like Royston Vasey, you'll never leave!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 10 Dec 2009, 12:01, Reply)

There is a bizarre pound shop up here
that has all these weird 'edge of shelf' stickers with strange statement on, like

"Look mum, it's only a pound"

"Don't worry, everything really is just a pound"

"Spend a pound, save a fortune"

Proper freaked me out
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 12:01, Reply)

That is quite scary
Does everyone walk around in silence because their thoughts are already on the walls on stickers?
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 10 Dec 2009, 12:02, Reply)

Hahhahh
That made me proper chuckle
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 12:04, Reply)

Here we go then


Well worth a pound

To you pal it is a pound



Yes mum it is a pound

Don't aske the price it is a pound

I was *this* close to picking something up and asking the guy how much it was, maybe tomorrow, to many proles in there today.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 13:41, Reply)

Pal!!!
Oh my....
That is ace.
Where is this?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 13:48, Reply)

Cancer and stabbing capital of Europe, Glasgow!
As pound shops go, this one is quite bizarre.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 13:52, Reply)

I'm bringing 'pal' back.
It's in danger of dying.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 13:55, Reply)

"Here pal"
Is still a very common way of attracting the attention of someone who's name you don't know in Glasgow.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 14:02, Reply)

Hehe that's what I was thinking
I guess its not used as often anymore daaaaaaahnn saaaaaf.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 10 Dec 2009, 14:03, Reply)

Hehehehe
I especially like the...

'To you pal, its a pound'... well no, its a pound to everyone isn't it... its a pound store, those are the rules, there's no 'special' treatment here!!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 10 Dec 2009, 13:49, Reply)

Our local shopkeeper does that
"To you, Roota, threepoundstwenty only!"
I go along with it and say "Ooh, how reasonable!"
and he says "Yes, this isn't that bloody Tescohahahaha"
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 13:55, Reply)

Hehehehe
Bless, he sounds nice, and a little bit loco! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 10 Dec 2009, 14:00, Reply)

I love him
Big cuddly forrin man.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 14:07, Reply)

About 25 years before there was txt spk
there was a shop in Renfrew called

Y Pay More

and you know what, its still fucking there, i saw last week. Bloody trailblazers.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 12:04, Reply)

Y indeed?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 12:07, Reply)

You pay per letter on signs.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 12:21, Reply)

The only edible looking food in those adverts is the turkey
and I bet they didn't buy that in Iceland.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:58, Reply)

I refuse to shop in Iceland
Because if you can make food that cheaply it just has to be shit.
( Peej, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 13:12, Reply)

You will live a longer, happier life if you never forget that rule

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 14:04, Reply)

Good God Almighty
I actually _can't_ watch it. I have to turn it over. Ever since I saw the previous campaign with a slightly different (yet still just as irritating) song and went to work with it stuck in my head.

I fucking HATE Coleen Nolan. And Jason Donovan. And Iceland. Just be glad that you have only just seen it. I've been avoiding it for about two weeks now.
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 14:37, Reply)

I'm sure there was nothing that shit in the 80s

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 14:46, Reply)