Am I being intolerant?
I am thinking of killing the jocular tenor in the "Go compare" advert by choking him with the merkat from the "compare the market" advert. It would be a public service.

I refuse to say it would be simples. I fucking hate adds that bore into your brain and leave a huge cancerous turd behind.

How can I learn to ignore this audio pollution?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:35, 27 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Mute button is your friend.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:35, Reply)

Its on the radio at work, and I don't have control

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:40, Reply)

I could never, ever listen to commercial radio at work.
Murder would be the only way.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:41, Reply)

That's what I'm on about
I wanted radio 4, but have been out voted.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:43, Reply)

Commercial radio sucks monkey balls.
Six records played in constant rotation, "Ker-azy" DJ's, and adverts every ten minutes.

It makes my lower intestine want to leap straight up through my neck and throttle my brain.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:43, Reply)

We very rarely leave the ads on
and certainly mute them if we do.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:41, Reply)

Why don't you....
just switch off the television set and go do something less boring instead.....

only people of a certain age will get this..........
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:38, Reply)

This is how I learned what 'paradox' meant as a kid.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:40, Reply)

Its a sort of bubble bath
Unless I am mistaken.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:42, Reply)

Memememe!
I'm of a certain age and I get it.
( girlinthehole, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:41, Reply)

"Go! Go! Go!"
*solo*
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:44, Reply)

earplugs
simples....
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:43, Reply)

I can't use the phone then
Not so simples
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:47, Reply)

You could always argue that you can't use the phone
with the corpulent, false-moustachioed fuckwit belting "Go Compare!" out of the radio...
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:56, Reply)

Its on a level which has your ears searching for it
low enough for normal conversation over the top.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:59, Reply)

Find out how many others are annoyed by it
And then storm whoever controls the radio station.

At least go for BBC which only advertises their own stuff.
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Where the only risk is catching a soundbite of Nicholas Parsons
Or worse: Gyles Fucking Brandreth.

Or that pillock who presents that fucking smug book quiz on Wednesday nights. Is it just me or is it a not-actually-all-that-subtle attempt to reintroduce Quote-Fucking-Unquote under a different name?

Sorry about that: I do actually like Radio 4 on the whole. There are just elements of it that have me reaching for the 'Off' Button/power cable/hammer. Don't get me started on Thought For The Fucking Day
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:54, Reply)

Or morbidly obese Christopher Moyles!
And modern sounds of today.
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:55, Reply)

Oh god...
When you said "BBC" I had mistakenly assumed you just meant Radio 4.

Radio 1 has a lot to answer for. Why have they continued to employ Chris Moyles, let alone allowed him to go this long without being separated from his larynx?

I've a bit of a chip on my shoulder from early mornings spent travelling up to Bedford in my supervisor's car with that insufferable case of chronic verbal diarrhoea on the radio and now I want to mutilate him with a trowel.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:59, Reply)

Oh Noes!
Not quote un-quote.

The most smug thing on radio. I hate it.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:58, Reply)

Have you heard it?
It doesn't call itself Quote-Unquote, and it has a different (but equally smug) presenter. I think it's called the Book Quiz, or something like that, and it really is the same format: a load of smug literary arseholes using the thin veil of a "panel game" to show off how many works of great literature they've read.

"Well, I think it was Dostoevsky that said *SMUG AND PSEUDO-MEANINGFUL QUOTE FROM DOSTOEVSKY'S LETTER TO THE GAS BOARD*"
THE AUDIENCE LAUGHS FOR FEAR OF LOOKING IGNORANT. OR BECAUSE SOME OF THEM REALLY ARE SUFFICIENTLY UP THEMSELVES TO FIND THAT FUNNY.
"Ah, yes, much as Hardy said *OOH LOOK AT ME, I'VE SPENT SO LONG LICKING THE RINGPIECE OF OUR LOCAL LIBRARIAN THAT HE SHOWED ME THE POEMS HARDY WROTE WHEN HE WAS A 16-YEAR OLD EMO WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO BUT CRY, WANK AND COUNT HIS SPOTS ALL DAY*
THE AUDIENCE BURSTS INTO PAROXYSMS OF LAUGHTER AT THE WITTICISM OF THIS QUOTE. NORMAL PEOPLE WOULD FIND IT SUFFICIENT TO LAUGH AT THE WORD "HARDY." WHY IS THIS SMUG PILE OF HORSE-SHIT ALLOWED TO CONTINUE?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 11:06, Reply)

That sounds like Quote Unquote to me
In fact a real transcript.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 11:11, Reply)

*grabs pitchfork/lights torch*

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:54, Reply)

My work mates love the comercal stations.
I am outvoted 5 to 1
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:56, Reply)

change jobs

(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 11:28, Reply)

Every time these ads come on,
Jump up from your desk and start wanking, whilst crying and screaming the Lord's Prayer.

Very soon your colleagues will notice the connection between the ads and your behaviour and I guarantee you will be surprised just how quickly they find a solution to the problem.

This should go in 'top tips', I reckon.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 13:03, Reply)

So long as I don't have to "finish" wanking
Otherwise the old knees will go and I'll end up on the floor a quivering wreck.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 14:30, Reply)