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and buy this fcuking watch!

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Personally I perfer Oris

 



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This has been around a while. Someone's Watching You...

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i like the ad he did for the Milk Board in the '8O's. Geldof is out jogging and then is stopped by a guy on a milk float, offering a pint of milk, as he finishes his run.

I'm a lifelong jogger/runner so was amused at Geldof's painful efforts to run a few yards down the street in the ad.Better milk than posh watches.smile



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His dog had a part in the milk ad, I liked that.

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Two milk ads, here's the one featuring the cute Growler

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Growler featured in the running one too:

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Wilkinson's Sword ad from 2012:

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I actually remembered the milk ones better, despite being older.

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He has quite a repertoire of ads to his name. The Kleenex ad didn't seem to be around for very long and he only featured in it for for a few seconds, having a giggling fit:

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Yeah he is keeping in time Just like clockwork

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Jules wrote:

Wilkinson's Sword ad from 2012:

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I actually remembered the milk ones better, despite being older.


 That Wilkinson sword ad is from the mid  or late eighties. I used to shave with them and the razor seems a bit primitive to modern eyes.

Some good ads there- selling mllk and razor blades is relatively harmless compared to the watch ads which are all about perceived social status and dubious sophistication. Pretentious also in using the french word horlage instead of watch.



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Growler featured in the running one too:

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 Growler Geldof. Maybe Gerry Cott thought him some tricks?smile



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This is from an Australian telecoms ad....

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Growler featured in the running one too:

youtu.be/zblGk69is64


 Growler Geldof. Maybe Gerry Cott thought him some tricks?

 

the watch one is wrong on many levels  Stick with the every day stuff please.  Pretentious, unaffordable and unnecessary    

 



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the watch one is wrong on many levels  Stick with the every day stuff please.  Pretentious, unaffordable and unnecessary    

 


I wouldn't say they are unaffordable.  They typically range from £500 - £4000.  Which is what you might pay for a special gift.  However, they just aren't worth it.  Anyone who pays £500-£1000 for a quartz watch needs their head examined.  

Far better watches available for less, and of course more!  To put the price into perspective Rolexes generally start at £4,000 and can cost as much as £50,000.  



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Depends who you are, I couldn't afford a watch which costs £500!!!

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You could if the Rats and BG didn't keep tempting you to far flung towns but whether you would choose to buy is another matter entirely.....



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I'm hooked to the mainstream - only ever bought Casios and Seikos for less than £100. Oftentimes now, I don't bother as my phone tells me the time.



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Yeah he is keeping in time Just like clockwork


 He Watches It All



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You could if the Rats and BG didn't keep tempting you to far flung towns but whether you would choose to buy is another matter entirely.....


 This is true. Far flung such as Cork and Dublin.

 

No I wouldn't. My watch cost me £15 biggrinbiggrin.



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Watch out (of reach) for the Normal People?



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Watch out (of reach) for the Normal People?


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A precious time (piece).

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A precious time (piece).

oops did that twice and can't delete my own post. It's not THAT funny. Sorry. hmm



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... whether you would choose to buy is another matter entirely.....


Exactly.  I don't really have a car, unless you count an old un-taxed/un-insured Fiat Panda with a flat battery on the drive that I am keeping until my son is 17. But I do have a couple of nice watches; one was a present, the other 50% off in sale.  One needs repairing, and that will cost over £100.

I dread to think how many thousands of pounds I spent on CDs and DVDs (many unlistened and unwatched), would have been better off buying another nice watch with that ca$h.

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I have to drive for work, so have a shared car with Mr Jules. I bought the first CD last week for a very long time, the last one would have been the Rats CD/DVD. It was the Radiators from Space .

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You could if the Rats and BG didn't keep tempting you to far flung towns ...


I guess that if I added up all the associated costs of records, gigs, books, travel, T shirts, programmes etc.  I have probably spent well over a couple of grand down the years on the Rats/Geldof.  And I am a lightweight in comparison to others...



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... whether you would choose to buy is another matter entirely.....


Exactly.  I don't really have a car, unless you count an old un-taxed/un-insured Fiat Panda with a flat battery on the drive that I am keeping until my son is 17. But I do have a couple of nice watches; one was a present, the other 50% off in sale.  One needs repairing, and that will cost over £100.

I dread to think how many thousands of pounds I spent on CDs and DVDs (many unlistened and unwatched), would have been better off buying another nice watch with that ca$h.

Just a matter of priorities.  


The Fiat Panda is a rather good car, especially the 4 x 4. My first car was a Fiat 131 (Supermirafiori) bought in 1984 for £700 and sold 10 months later in 1985 for £750. Given that Skodas and Fiats were the universal butt of jokes at the time, it is ironic that was the only car I, or anyone else I've ever known, ever made money on and I'm still not sure how I did it!

I also think the same of the CDs I've bought over the years, together with cassette tapes and vhs tapes. I imagine myself one day photographing them and listing them on eBay or whatever and supplementing my old age from it all, but I probably will struggle to get it out of the loft when the time comes and it will just keep gathering dust.

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I have seen that watch advert here in Denmark,god knows how much that watch cost.

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I have seen that watch advert here in Denmark,god knows how much that watch cost.


 A million copies of some rare Rats piece for you, probably wink. Talking of priorities smilesmilesmile



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... whether you would choose to buy is another matter entirely.....


Exactly.  I don't really have a car, unless you count an old un-taxed/un-insured Fiat Panda with a flat battery on the drive that I am keeping until my son is 17. But I do have a couple of nice watches; one was a present, the other 50% off in sale.  One needs repairing, and that will cost over £100.

I dread to think how many thousands of pounds I spent on CDs and DVDs (many unlistened and unwatched), would have been better off buying another nice watch with that ca$h.

Just a matter of priorities.  


The Fiat Panda is a rather good car, especially the 4 x 4. My first car was a Fiat 131 (Supermirafiori) bought in 1984 for £700 and sold 10 months later in 1985 for £750. Given that Skodas and Fiats were the universal butt of jokes at the time, it is ironic that was the only car I, or anyone else I've ever known, ever made money on and I'm still not sure how I did it!

I also think the same of the CDs I've bought over the years, together with cassette tapes and vhs tapes. I imagine myself one day photographing them and listing them on eBay or whatever and supplementing my old age from it all, but I probably will struggle to get it out of the loft when the time comes and it will just keep gathering dust.

My Rats CDs never gather dust though.


The Panda is the best car we ever had.  Park it anywhere, it's just my son is now 6' 4" and as Mrs. ArrGee and myself are quite tall, we don't fit into it, so Mrs. ArrGee got a bigger car.  I drive it from time to time, but truth be told I don't need a car as I get public transport to work.  

Waste of time selling CDs.  You'd spend more on postage than they are worth.  My plan is to bring them to Oxfam once I rip them all and get a gift aid tax credit.  My Rats CDs have been ripped and now are on just 2 MP3 CDs which are in the car.  I play the LPs every now and again, but don't bother with the CDs.  Beside Rats CDs haven't been around that long.  Before 2005 there were hardly any.  I think my first CD was Deep in the Heart of Nowhere in 1986.  Only reason I played it was I hardly had any back then...



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eBay is taking bigger and bigger cuts from sales. Hardly worth selling anything on there now.

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eBay is taking bigger and bigger cuts from sales. Hardly worth selling anything on there now.


It's great for buying things though. I got the Rats first LP for £1 including postage not so long ago. Get lots of bits and bobs like light bulbs, window insulating tape etc. for the postage cost.  Would cost me a lot more to pay for the fare to the shops.

Tempted by this, but must resist...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LP-ALBUM-THE-BOOMTOWN-RATS-S-T-THE-BOOMTOWN-RATS-JAPAN-OBI-/291596265489?hash=item43e47de811:g:TMsAAOSw9mFWKPX6



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I did bid, but instantly outbid, better leave it...

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I'm still buying from eBay. Some good stuff on there. Bidding can be mad, some people get carried away and pay more than you'd get it from the high street. No point!!

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I did bid, but instantly outbid, better leave it...


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You could if the Rats and BG didn't keep tempting you to far flung towns ...


I guess that if I added up all the associated costs of records, gigs, books, travel, T shirts, programmes etc.  I have probably spent well over a couple of grand down the years on the Rats/Geldof.  And I am a lightweight in comparison to others...


 Think what we've spent on football down the years - that'll soften the blow. And at least with Rats you get a good performance every time.

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You could if the Rats and BG didn't keep tempting you to far flung towns ...


I guess that if I added up all the associated costs of records, gigs, books, travel, T shirts, programmes etc.  I have probably spent well over a couple of grand down the years on the Rats/Geldof.  And I am a lightweight in comparison to others...


 Think what we've spent on football down the years - that'll soften the blow. And at least with Rats you get a good performance every time.

Dread to think what both add up to.....


Football 1978 - present;  must be in the £20K ballpark on tickets alone.  And probably another £10k on sky, shirts, books, videos etc.  I won't count the beer money as I would spend that regardless

The Rats were pretty cheap from 1986-2004.  Four Geldof CDs and a few singles didn't cost that much.



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Don't forget the 1994 burst of activity with Loudmouth and the rerelease of Mondays. That must have cost me all of £20.



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Don't forget the 1994 burst of activity with Loudmouth and the rerelease of Mondays. That must have cost me all of £20.


Oh yeah, forgot them, though the double CD + white vinyl single did for me.   I didn't buy Loudmouth,Happy Club nor SAD until they hit the bargain bins.    Even including the singles, doubt I spent more than £50 in that period.  



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Don't forget the 1994 burst of activity with Loudmouth and the rerelease of Mondays. That must have cost me all of £20.


Oh yeah, forgot them, though the double CD + white vinyl single did for me.   I didn't buy Loudmouth,Happy Club nor SAD until they hit the bargain bins.    Even including the singles, doubt I spent more than £50 in that period.  


 How long did Loudmouth take to hit the bargain bins? Given the insanity of dumping Trapped in 1985,  I couldn't wait to get a greatest hits CD from the Rats and nor could many others judging by the Top Ten position it held for a number of weeks.

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If I added up all I spent on BG/Rats, I'd have to include all the money I spent glint Rome for nowt. Forget that!!

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How long did Loudmouth take to hit the bargain bins? Given the insanity of dumping Trapped in 1985,  I couldn't wait to get a greatest hits CD from the Rats and nor could many others judging by the Top Ten position it held for a number of weeks.

You must have the patience of a saint.


I don't know how long, but a while.  Given Rat Trap, Someone's Looking, Mary, #1, Banana Republic and She's So Modern were on the CD singles along with Mondays twice, that was 7 tracks instantly got.   And in the case of #1 it hadn't been on CD previously. Crazy was released as a single and I had the three Geldof albums on CD.

So there were only four other Rats songs and it didn't seem worthwhile paying for them, especially as I had them on CD and LP on US/UK Tonic (CD 1989/1992), US Surfacing (1986), US Mondo (1990), UK V Deep (1986).  

I had forgotten I must have bought those between 1986 and 1994.

So probably that ups my Rats spend to about £100 between 1986 and 2004...  (probably some more things I haven't accounted for)

Also, I tend not to buy hits albums unless it is an artist I don't have any other albums of.   I got Snap! by The  Jam  because by and large they didn't put their singles on albums, but that is a bit of an exception.    A Rats compilation has little appeal to me for the simple reason I have all the songs, but somehow I do have them all via bargain bins and cheap sales on Amazon/eBay.  Even So Modern as previously discussed...



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The physical product,  with its artwork, information booklet and the 'all the main hits in one place' factor,  meant this was a must have purchase that I was not content to leave until the attraction of the lower prices of the bargain bin. A week in Gran Canaria beckoned and with no I pods / phones / mp3 's  in 1994,  the personal cd player would have felt very isolated without a Loudmouth travelling companion. 



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... the personal cd player ...


As CD Player fine, but should you actually decide to move. I did try using the CD player in the car with the cassette with wires, but that didn't work very well.

I ended up with mine plugged into my WEM amp to play along with on the guitar to annoy the neighbours   

Pretty sure I still used tapes around then, cos I remember losing a prized Dr. Feelgood tape on the way to San Francisco and listening to a Suede tape in the hire car.   The Panda we got in 2004 had a tape player rather than a CD player.  I did replace it after a few years with a CD/DAB unit which is probably worth more than the car now!

 

 



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... the personal cd player ...


As CD Player fine, but should you actually decide to move. I did try using the CD player in the car with the cassette with wires, but that didn't work very well.

I ended up with mine plugged into my WEM amp to play along with on the guitar to annoy the neighbours   

Pretty sure I still used tapes around then, cos I remember losing a prized Dr. Feelgood tape on the way to San Francisco and listening to a Suede tape in the hire car.   The Panda we got in 2004 had a tape player rather than a CD player.  I did replace it after a few years with a CD/DAB unit which is probably worth more than the car now!

 

 


 That was the issue despite all the 'anti-shock' spin (forgive the pun). I bought one off Amazon recently for £32 and it's a big improvement. Made by AEG, it received four and a half stars over a fair number of reviews which seems a sensible yardstick to me to try to judge anything off there. I have a similar approach on Tripadvisor with their green bullet point system.

 



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I bought one off Amazon recently for £32 and it's a big improvement. 

They still make them?   I would have thought they'd be obsolete.

But then again, Argos still sell cassette walkmans...

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3465381.htm

... in my perverse retro way, I am tempted to get one, but then I'd have to find my tapes.



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I bought one off Amazon recently for £32 and it's a big improvement. 

They still make them?   I would have thought they'd be obsolete.

But then again, Argos still sell cassette walkmans...

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3465381.htm

... in my perverse retro way, I am tempted to get one, but then I'd have to find my tapes.


 

You can't go wrong for the price? Good for flights, train trips, holidays etc

See my other post, I have liberated hundreds of tapes for conversion to CD.



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