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glaring error (October 2004)

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SD
sda|
The advert states the following TV threesomes -

VIRGIL - PARKER - BRAINS :- correct

then

REG - OLIVE - BLAKEY :- Reg Varney was in On The Buses, but his character was called Stan. Surprised no-one noticed this!
HC
Hatton Cross
No words - just...
Laughing
CS
Cerulean Sunrise
And Olive didn't even drive a bus! Arthur did. Olive just ate a lot of pickled onions.

Let's turn this thread into a generic On The Buses one, just for fun Wink
FR
freddy
Cerulean Sunrise posted:
And Olive didn't even drive a bus! Arthur did. Olive just ate a lot of pickled onions.


Errr...... Arthur worked as a British Rail ticket clerk. Stan drove a bus.
CS
Cerulean Sunrise
in one of the movies he gets a job as a bus driver...don't he?
MB
Mark Boulton
This makes the THIRD set of O2 advertising to contain glaring cock-ups...

1) The one advertising a phone with a "13 centimetre squared" screen
(Only the v/o is correct which says "13 square centimetres")
2) The one illustrating "0207" and "0208" as two separate codes
(London, of course, only has ONE area code - "020"
unless of course Manchester numbers beginning with 5
are in a new area code of "01615" etc.)
3) The one mentioned above

That is why I would never get a phone, contract or otherwise from O2.
SP
Spencer
Mark Boulton posted:
This makes the THIRD set of O2 advertising to contain glaring cock-ups...

1) The one advertising a phone with a "13 centimetre squared" screen
(Only the v/o is correct which says "13 square centimetres")
2) The one illustrating "0207" and "0208" as two separate codes
(London, of course, only has ONE area code - "020"
unless of course Manchester numbers beginning with 5
are in a new area code of "01615" etc.)
3) The one mentioned above

That is why I would never get a phone, contract or otherwise from O2.


I imagine their advertising agency is probably more to blame than O2.

Having said that I switched to them earlier in the year and they're a bit pants. I can't believe you can't get delivery reports on texts!
:-(
A former member
Mark Boulton posted:
1) The one advertising a phone with a "13 centimetre squared" screen
(Only the v/o is correct which says "13 square centimetres")


Your error, not O2's (not that you're ever going to believe anyone else.)

Basic maths - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/shape/arearev3.shtml
NW
nwtv2003
Spencer For Hire posted:
Mark Boulton posted:
This makes the THIRD set of O2 advertising to contain glaring cock-ups...

1) The one advertising a phone with a "13 centimetre squared" screen
(Only the v/o is correct which says "13 square centimetres")
2) The one illustrating "0207" and "0208" as two separate codes
(London, of course, only has ONE area code - "020"
unless of course Manchester numbers beginning with 5
are in a new area code of "01615" etc.)
3) The one mentioned above

That is why I would never get a phone, contract or otherwise from O2.


I imagine their advertising agency is probably more to blame than O2.

Having said that I switched to them earlier in the year and they're a bit pants. I can't believe you can't get delivery reports on texts!


Hence why you do what I do and have your mobile phone on Orange. I phoned up the customer services for my sister a few weeks ago as we couldn't find some stupid PIN code to change her contract and phone, so I spent ages looking through loads of O2 crap, find a premium rate number, I ring it, and I get told to ring another number that reopens tomorrow morning, brilliant eh?

If any of you are on contract on O2 and you ring up the Customer Services you get through to the Preston Brook Centre which is very close to Runcorn and Warrington.
TV
tvarksouthwest
sda| posted:
REG - OLIVE - BLAKEY :- Reg Varney was in On The Buses, but his character was called Stan. Surprised no-one noticed this!

I did, first time I saw it!
NE
newsmonkey
Andrew Wood posted:
Mark Boulton posted:
1) The one advertising a phone with a "13 centimetre squared" screen
(Only the v/o is correct which says "13 square centimetres")


Your error, not O2's (not that you're ever going to believe anyone else.)

Basic maths - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/shape/arearev3.shtml


Thankfully someone else noticed this too!!!!

13 cm^2 is how it is written and spoken, however it is acceptable to *say* it as square centimetres.

James
AN
Angusmast
For a delivery report on O2, start your message with *0#

Also, I think you have to switch the delivery reports option on your phone OFF!

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