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I just moved to Canada from the UK.

In the UK our best channels do not have adds, all BBC channels which have pretty much all the best shows, DONT HAVE ADDS. Best documentaries in the world, best wildlife shows, loads of movies. No adds.

Just moved to Canada and the adds are killing me, tried watching movies and shows and just get so so pissed off with them breaking immersion every few minutes. How do you ppl stand it?

All I can watch now is some sports and NetFlix

You mean ads?

I don't, I watch public television and play video games.

It's easy. You just skip to the music channels while the ads are playing 

I record, then watch everything later on, forwarding the ads. But ads aren't that bad. In India, about 1/3rd ads are of skin whitening creams which feature sexy women, so yeah.

Try recordable television. On my Sky subscription, I can sk,ip advertisements whenever I fel like it, so long as I watch the programme sometime later.

Even freeview (or Canadian equivalent) can be recordable with a freeview box that has a Hard Disk Drive. My John Lewis Technical Support work has dealt with several in the past.

 

Note: "people", "ads" or "adverts", "don't", not "dont".

Note: "skip", "feel".

How the heck do they make a profit without ads? Also, who the heck watches TV? Just find a good series/movie and watch it online like everyone else

It wouldn't be as good if you had a laptop, the screen is smaller so it wouldn't be the same, and also if it were a documentary that your family altogether wanted to watch, it would be hard to all crowd around the same screen.

Public TV often has all the documentaries you could ever need, and then some, without commercials.

The BBC is nationally funded and isn't for profit. Everyone who buys a TV pays a set fee for getting in TV to the house which translates to around $250 per household. For this fee you get all of the BBC channels and a few others for free. Some people hate the fee and the system but for me its much, much, better than ads on the TV. I just don't like my shows and movies interrupted constantly.

There are ways to hook up your laptop screen to your TV.

HDMI cable

The internet is a powerful tool where you can get the latest news from around the world instantly. Watch any movie you can think of right away with no ads. Tell your friends about the movie you just saw without ads for free, instantly. Of course, it's all free as long as you don't mind paying for electricity and connection service. Which isn't too much...

Especially when you're using electricity from Internet cafes and coffee shops.

Funny how you can watch a whole movie online with no ads, but not a five minute youtube video 

Oh, that, I don't. I haven't watched TV in over a year. You can find everything online, I feel no desire to deal with ads when I have a laptop that gets me whatever show I want instantly :p

Get adblock, and you won't even have to deal with the ads for streaming.

lol I think I stopped watching TV(minus actual movies, netflix, ect..) when I was about 10 or so. I've been getting everything I needed from the internet. It doesn't help that TV is filled with utter lies along with it's constant ad-attacks.

Yeah! Bloody weather man told me it wasn't going to rain today 

Ha! Please, it always rains in england.

Best thing was when they told us "Hahaha we heard a rumour that there will be a tornado, OF COURSE there wont be one!"

Then there was a tornado :)

NNNOOOO I just realized I have betrayed Briar and moved to Canada reducing the Brit team :(

Honestly I don't find ads that bad. When they aren't excessive, they serve as a good time to take a break.

Unless you're watching HBO or a movie channel.  In that case...:L

I don't understand why, but I find it a bit amusing that Tanstaafl and PcGenie are basically competing to become the grammar masters of this site.  Despite the competition, I believe that these two will help improve our writing skills though.

They won't, I promise you.

(Why'd you post this here? Lol)

Nah, as I noted before: this isn't a competition at all. I just think that if someone's going to be a stickler on grammar then she/he should be judged harshly on his/her own grammar. Just my mark of justice, that's all ^_^

In that case I present myself as a possible Grammar Master since I don't think I've ever been bothered about my own grammar. :D

You've been rarely bothered for anything and everything, honestly...

...I kinda pity you tho :<

Mineth fireth hath nay needeth f'r thy pity. F'r all ging'rs art gift'd with a pow'r beyond thy feeble mind.

Now banish thy self from mineth sight ''re i releaseth the pow'r of shakespeare grammar upon thou!

Nay, Shakespearean language is more of a consistent use of metaphors than it is a "Thee, thy, thou," sort of deal.

Of all the things I could correct though to be a Shakespeare grammar nazi, though, you used "Thou" wrong. You should have said "Thee".

What to imply that I are bad at writing and gramer.

Of course not Killa, your just... special. That's all. xD

Killa is the worst at grammar skills. Absolutely, wholly and in full totality.

Really the only thing PCGenie has succeeded in since he started posting regularly is being an annoying pretentious attention whore who fails at even being a "Grammar Nazi."

HEY LOOK GUYS I CHANGED THE THREAD TITLE, POINT OUT SPELLING ERRORS EVERY OTHER POST AND REFER TO MYSELF IN THIRD PERSON LIKE A DOUCHEBAG! ASK ME ABOUT MEDIEVAL COMBAT LOLOLOLOL!

Seriously the guy sucks as bad as TSR.

Tan on the other hand is on a righteous crusade for GREAT JUSTICE!

EDIT: Had to be said.

*Really, the only thing PCGenie has succeeded in (since he started posting regularly) is being an annoying, pretentious attention-whore who fails at even being a "Grammar Nazi."

"HEY LOOK GUYS I CHANGED THE THREAD TITLE, POINT OUT SPELLING ERRORS EVERY OTHER POST AND REFER TO MYSELF IN THIRD PERSON LIKE A DOUCHEBAG! ASK ME ABOUT MEDIEVAL COMBAT LOLOLOLOL!"

Seriously, the guy sucks as bad as TSR.

Tan, on the hand, is on a righteous crusade for GREAT JUSTICE!

[[I just had to.]]

Lol. You're taking Tan's job.

At least this site's economy can afford to keep both of us :<

That's just rude Swift, all of my hard work ruined! If this was a medieval battlefield I'd show you a thing or two about real combat!

End Master says that both of you have valid points! End Master says you and Swift shall duel at dawn! 

But no weapons that have a blood groove because it's a myth! A myth End Master tells you!

Damn you for not explaining what the flying actual fuck is a blood groove!  DAMN YOU!

I am totally getting a Blood Groove installed on my laptop BITCHES!!!

It's supposed to be ON YOUR FUCKING MODEM NUB!!!

Because why the hell not?

FUCK REALISM!

...

You know, there was a guy who revived a porn thread on a teen game's site using the exact same words...

Well, on the first line anyways :P

And a Samurai would totally fuck up a fully armored knight. You know why? Samurai swords have Blood Grooves and are folded 5000 times so that the Blood Groove not only sucks out the blood, but also the very soul after hacking effortlessly through the knight's shield.

I read it on the internet with my modem, so it must be true.

You can use them to cut through reinforced steel hulls on a mech too.

My katana is, like, 1000 years old with 49 home-made blood grooves. It would totally decapitate a fucking dragon with one fell swoop. It's so god-damned badass that it castrates alligators, kills nazi-demons, and cuts through bamboo like a bitch.

I read this on Wikipedia, it had 24 citations to the same site.

Hahahaa!

Priceless.

You know what's even cooler than a blood groove?

A blood rill.

I challenge you to a duel of Toggle!

And then there will be evidence of a brutal murder splayed everywhere all over the park.

You know me, I was just glad to spell douchebag correctly.

Well, that's the real gist of the post anyway 

*Tan, on the other hand, is on a righteous crusade for GREAT JUSTICE!

[[Fuck, I hate it when I go thru all that editing to find THAT]]

DAMMIT

iKR

*Ik,r.*

:D

**Ik,r?**

:P

*IK, R?

Ask Tan to train you.  >:<

**Ik,r?*

Ask Tan, to train you. >-<*

There's no comma between "Tan" and "to", and it's supposed to be ":<" with a frowny face.

So you admit defeat by your own grammar mistakes?

HAVE MERCEDES ON ME!  MERCEDES I TELL YOU!

What does a butterfly genus (or a car company) have to do with any of this?

OH LORDE, HAVE MERCEDES ON ME.

Hey! On Endmaster's original post it was correct XD

Ouch, no need to be like that. You can let me know of any agrovation, rather than venting it.

YEA! Jews and justice and shit :P 

Just realized that this was probably the first time in a long time I've actually roleplayed as my own online identity...

*Just realized, that this was (probably) the first time, in a long time, I've actually role-played as my own online identity...*

You only need one asterisk.

Tan did it too. lol

>.>

Yeah, and I'm never wrong.

<.<

He sees you as easier prey?

You're not hard to catch.

*He senses you are a more worthy foe?*

You're paraphrasing.  You're not correcting his grammer.  D:

*grammar

There's an difference!

*a

**a 

(Hint: copy and paste the above LINE)

***A.

I'm expanding my forces so that it will be easier to crush you Swift.

*forces,

*you,

**I have just realized that this was (probably) the first time, in a long time, that I've actually role-played as my own online identity...**

***I have just realized, that this was (probably) the first time, in a long time, that I've actually role-played as my own fake, and virtual identity...***

You've gone from being grammar nazis to participating in a proverbial pissing contest. I can see this site has a bright future ahead of it!

Not as long as you're here, Naru.

You just made my day Tanstaafl. :P

Aww, thank you for complimenting me on my skills regarding ruining the futures of websites! You're probably going to be the cause of it too, you friendly guy, you!

^u^

^w^

^v^''

SUMMON THE DANCING KIRBY EMOTES!

<(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)><(^.^<) (> ^.^)>

YES!

(>'-')> <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) (>'-')> <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^(>'-')> <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) (>'-')> <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^(>'-')> <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) (>'-')> <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^ <('-'<) <('-'<) ^(' - ')^

A bit much perhaps?

NO! KEEP THE RAVE GOING!

*unch unch unch unch...

... Screw Kirby! Dancing penguin! <(^v^<) ^(^v^)^ (>^v^)> v(^v^)v <(^v^<) ^(^v^)^ (>^v^)> <(^v^)>

AH YEAH!!!

^/\/\^

Actually, according to alexia CYS just moved up in global popularity by a lot. It even passed ChoiceofGames.

KEEP UP THE BLOOD GROOVES AND FULL SPEED AHEAD GUYS! 

NO! DON'T RUN OVER THE INNOCENT CHICKENS!

*No! Don't run over the innocent(by their stupidity of trying to cross a busy road) chickens!*

Do you not understand my desperation, you insolent brat? Do you not understand my need to YELL?

xD 

I'll stop then virtualide. But if Tan and Swift keep going I might not be able to stay out of it forever. lol

Nah, I just wanted an excuse for calling you an insolent brat.

Bo and Tan are the ones driving the effort.  I only did it to troll (and failed miserably) back then.

CMON GUYS, WE CAN MAKE THE LEGENDARY VACUUM WITH THESE BLOOD GROOVES.  LETS DO THIS.

And no, I doubt we're going to beat CHYOO.

I thought we agreed never to mention that site again or something similar? lol

Not that I recalled, and if there was, it was probably in a thread with Jihelu, Sentinel, you, and Drakilian.

I think sentinel said he was scarred for life after reading some of the stories.

He read a bunch I guess just to make sure.

I think he said he was just 'curious' about the fetish section... :-P

I wanted to know.... I wanted to know WHY.... But... But... GYAAHH.... These are only understandable to certain degrees! They've taken anything that could have been beautiful out of it all... And they've.... They've.... 

You've stuck your finger in an open wound guys, WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME!? I JUST GOT THOSE FUCKING IMAGES OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!!

The incest section seems to be a lot...less forced, surprisingly.

It was long before Jihelu ever appeared on this site.

Not long before, I think.

Urmergurd, orl yo modufajeeng grarmur_nertiz.

*OMG, all of you [censored] grammar_guardians.*

Cause why not?

*OMG, all of you [censored] grammar-guardians.*

Shame on you.

************I just realized that this was (probably) the first time in a long time that I've actually role-played as my own online identity...***********

I don't know about what those fancy Canadians do, but here in 'Murica, we use the commercials (the ads) for our bathroom and snack breaks.

Just be careful not to watch an infomercial and wait 10 minutes for it to end wondering "when will the show start". >_<

By then, it'll be too late.

How long does it take you to use the bathroom, wash your hands, and get a snack?

Less than 10 minutes usually.

That's fine if you're watching infomercials. I was referring to the times when I'm going through channels and I hit a channel that looks like it's on commercial. Then 10 minutes later, I'm wondering "Why is this commercial so long?!"

Almost as bad as getting to the point where you start remembering how they go, almost like seeing a movie you've already seen ten times!

Ah well, there's always the BBC.

Eh, I changed my mind. PCGenie doesn't suck as badly as TSR. He generally took the thread like a champ.

He's still got some personality quirks that are kind of grating, but considering my own personality is fairly dickish at times (as evidenced in this hilarious thread) he's gotta be himself right?

And at least he isn't making a bunch of cat porn stories or believes that the sun revolves around a flat earth. (At least I hope he doesn't)

One good thing that came out of this previously dull thread is it turned into "one for the CYS archives" and generally lightened up the mood.

Reapersboy still sucks though.

I sometimes wonder how you tolerate me Endmaster.

Heh.

That's not cool Endmaster

Shut up Reapersboy, nobody likes you. Lol.

Endmaster had his coffee today.

Edgy level is off the charts.

HES MAKIN THE CHILDREN CRY.
WHILE THE FREEDOM DIES

 

Someone make a song out of that. -trying already-

Come on EndMaster, people like me.

Vho?

I have no idea my french smurf.

I only like and love my dear sweet Tarquin. If only I could somehow make it back to him.

I understand your love for him. He was delicious stewed with chicken.

Don't mock me purple lion. I can have you killed several times over if I wanted.

Go away fangirl, we don't need your doting here. :P

Silence fool! I am the future-bride of Tarquin the Great and I will not stand this kind of treatment.

And what are you going to do about it? Tarquin is a failure. lol

WHAT?! You are an enemy spy then! I command you to leave this thread. I will not stand in the same room as your lies...

Then sit down?

Bah! You are all idiotic fools who I will ensure the deaths of once I am married.

*Exit stage right.*

Heh, alright then. Does this mean I win? :D

*Exit stage left.*

The End.

Thank you all for watching Episode One of 'A Day in the Miserable Life of a Tarquin Fangirl.'

Episode Two will be up soon.

Indeeed, Firrrreplay, be veary of this gerrl. She eez mess you up!

*She vill mess jou up!

**Don't correct the foreign smurf.

DO NOT MAKE FUN AHV MAH ACKCENT!

...

Oh vait, eez Naru. 'E haz eesshues anyvay :P

Va'artularde argrees, murst 'ornorable Ardmural.

Whut the fook ess "Va'rrtulayrd?"

Yes, I have issues... regulating the sheer badass within my body so that North America and the surrounding seas don't turn into a smoldering crater.

Your flatulence reely eez zat bad? 

Apparently you have trouble reading, but I said I have an ungodly amount of badass in me.

"Bad" "Ass" = Bad stoff in your ass. = Farts = Flatulence = You have an ungodly amounts of flatulence beelt up eenside you. Eez a lot of methane :3

Eez just chemistry and mathematics (eendirect proofz) ^_^

Bad ass is farts, badass is awesomeness and all other cool things that end with 'ness'.

No. Eez not science.

I don't need science to be badass.

NEIN! You do. :P

So... Creating a fart so quickly the words would not have any space between them would make you a awesome person?

Nein. Seriously, what is the problem with reading ability here...

Nothing actually, I'm taking your words as if they were facts and showing the insanity within.

Insanity is the first step towards enlightenment. Or was it cannibalism? Meh.

Maybe you could. Unlikely

But could you outsmart einstein?

I love that posting a hastily written rant on here turned into such a varied and hilarious thread through massive derailment.

ps. just for the grammar Nazis, yes, I can't be assed writing my own stuff on here correctly but which of these sentences is correct?

Lets eat Grampa

Lets eat, Grampa

and

Steve walks into a bar. He eats, shoots and leaves

Steve walks into a bar. He eats shoots and leaves

(See grammar prevents unnecessary murder...)

All ur is kurect

The first sentence that involves Steve is missing a comma between "shoots" and "and".

So the actual answer in "none of the above." Here's your cookie Danaos.

Actually they are all correct, just depends if you want to eat dinner with your grampa or actually eat him for dinner in a nice cannibalistic way :)

Yes, but with Steve it was incorrect either way.

Hmm? No, Steve is perfectly correct, at least using modern 'Mercian grammar rules.

shoots is a food, and there should be no comma between shoots And and

Meh, bloody human grammar.

Cannibalism is frown upon where I'm from. So I'll just take this cookie and nibble to my heart's content. :)

*frowned

HAHA NAZI-ED

Let's eat Grampa.

Let's eat, Grampa.

Steve walks into a bar.  He eats, shoots, and leaves.

Steve walks into a bar.  He eats shoots and leaves.

Steve walks into a bar.  He eats shoots, and leaves.

^You didn't show all the possibilities my pretty~! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ah, swift, you made me smile. :P Damn it. Now I have to share a cookie with you. *hands you a cookie*

I'm confused.

Is Steve entering a bar and eating shoots? Does he enter, eat his food and then shoot pool or a gun? Also, if he is eating shoots, what kind of shoots is he eating?

What's TV?

Timeless Vampires. We watch them suck blood while wearing advertisements.

^^ This man speaks the truth!

I bring the wisdom of the gods to the ears of mortals. 

...

Seals are nice to eat if you're a polar bear. 

You grow up with it and you're used to it. I personally take it as an opportunity to get off my butt and do something productive. I don't normally have much time to just flat veg out and I'm almost -never- doing one thing at a time.

If I'm watching tv, I'm usually also on my computer, my phone, my 3DS, or doing paperwork... the only times I ever just watch is when my fiance is with me and we're both on the couch. Even then, I'm usually not paying all my attention to the television... if you catch my drift.

Why all the multitasking? I'm always busy and I have ADD. Weird as it sounds, doing more than one thing at once helps me focus. It keeps me from getting bored so my mind doesn't wander as much.

You either A.) Stream shows of the internet or B.) use the commercials as a sort of intermission so you can get a snack or pee or do something like that.

That's what I do, at least.

HIGH FIVE! I sometimes use that time to bathe, but I always miss a little of the next segment

You should visit Indonesia. The ads sometimes skip parts of the shows. Urgh, so annoying...