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Posted by anne on May 10, 2009, 8:30 am
The other day I was watching the SCIFI channel when I lost the picture and
sound. Almost immediately, QVC (a shopping channel) came on with tornado
warnings for nearby counties scrawling across the top of the screen. While the
storm information was scrolling, I wasn't able to change the channel.
BTW -- I've got Comcast. The set I was watching is hooked to a box which allows
more access than just plugging the cable wire into the set.
BTW 2 -- The QVC sales woman was so *&^%$ perky and annoying that I vowed never
to voluntarily watch that channel.
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Posted by on May 10, 2009, 8:40 am
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>The other day I was watching the SCIFI channel when I lost the picture and
>sound. Almost immediately, QVC (a shopping channel) came on with tornado
>warnings for nearby counties scrawling across the top of the screen. While the
>storm information was scrolling, I wasn't able to change the channel.
>BTW -- I've got Comcast. The set I was watching is hooked to a box which allows
>more access than just plugging the cable wire into the set.
>BTW 2 -- The QVC sales woman was so *&^%$ perky and annoying that I vowed never
>to voluntarily watch that channel.
I have noticed 'perky' female voices seem to be the option hirers
choose. Are they attractive to males ? I can only think that is the
reason, personally I find them irritating.
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Posted by lucille on May 10, 2009, 8:59 am
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>>The other day I was watching the SCIFI channel when I lost the picture and
>>sound. Almost immediately, QVC (a shopping channel) came on with tornado
>>warnings for nearby counties scrawling across the top of the screen. While
>>the
>>storm information was scrolling, I wasn't able to change the channel.
>>BTW -- I've got Comcast. The set I was watching is hooked to a box which
>>allows
>>more access than just plugging the cable wire into the set.
>>BTW 2 -- The QVC sales woman was so *&^%$ perky and annoying that I vowed
>>never
>>to voluntarily watch that channel.
> I have noticed 'perky' female voices seem to be the option hirers
> choose. Are they attractive to males ? I can only think that is the
> reason, personally I find them irritating.
Besides the fact that the "perky" voices are so irritating is the fact that
they describe something and then repeat the descriiption and repeat and
repeat and repeat``````````````````````````````````````````````
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Posted by on May 10, 2009, 9:41 am
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>>>BTW 2 -- The QVC sales woman was so *&^%$ perky and annoying that I vowed
>>>never
>>>to voluntarily watch that channel.
>> I have noticed 'perky' female voices seem to be the option hirers
>> choose. Are they attractive to males ? I can only think that is the
>> reason, personally I find them irritating.
>Besides the fact that the "perky" voices are so irritating is the fact that
>they describe something and then repeat the descriiption and repeat and
>repeat and repeat``````````````````````````````````````````````
I seem to run across them mostly in restaurants, places like East Side
Marios or Boston Pizza. Some marketing person must have told their
people in charge it would be good for business - well this person now
avoids those establishments.
I was inclined to that anyway after I discovered to my horror (via a
programme called Marketplace) that the calamari appetiser that I
usually had for lunch at ESM's, which is very small actually figured
out at 1600 calories - ouch !
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Posted by Cheryl Isaak on May 11, 2009, 7:11 am
On 5/10/09 9:41 AM, in article e3md0553hah26hqj3krpa285fpe3ha3pbd@4ax.com,
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> wrote:
>
>>>> BTW 2 -- The QVC sales woman was so *&^%$ perky and annoying that I vowed
>>>> never
>>>> to voluntarily watch that channel.
>>>
>>> I have noticed 'perky' female voices seem to be the option hirers
>>> choose. Are they attractive to males ? I can only think that is the
>>> reason, personally I find them irritating.
>>
>> Besides the fact that the "perky" voices are so irritating is the fact that
>> they describe something and then repeat the descriiption and repeat and
>> repeat and repeat``````````````````````````````````````````````
>
> I seem to run across them mostly in restaurants, places like East Side
> Marios or Boston Pizza. Some marketing person must have told their
> people in charge it would be good for business - well this person now
> avoids those establishments.
Blame it all on Katie Couric. Can't stand her voice, never could. But it
must appeal to some demographic..
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> I was inclined to that anyway after I discovered to my horror (via a
> programme called Marketplace) that the calamari appetiser that I
> usually had for lunch at ESM's, which is very small actually figured
> out at 1600 calories - ouch !
>
Don't talk to me about calorie counters. DS and DH have become slaves to the
calories allowed per day and are driving me nuts. With out exercise, all the
calorie counting is a moot point. And after dinner, don't snack. I'm
watching what I eat, but I'm also watching when I eat. More at lunch and
breakfast when I'm going to use the calories, less at dinner when I'm not.
And at restaurants, they spend ages pouring over the online calorie and
sodium counts. Drives me nuts. Skip the starch, eat your salad.
But lots of places could do much better on the amount of added salt.
C
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>sound. Almost immediately, QVC (a shopping channel) came on with tornado
>warnings for nearby counties scrawling across the top of the screen. While the
>storm information was scrolling, I wasn't able to change the channel.
>BTW -- I've got Comcast. The set I was watching is hooked to a box which allows
>more access than just plugging the cable wire into the set.
>BTW 2 -- The QVC sales woman was so *&^%$ perky and annoying that I vowed never
>to voluntarily watch that channel.