Internet - you robbing b******d or what the web has stolen from you. - The Bear and Badger

davyK

poprock wrote:

Fucking everything gets reviewed now. That’s an Internet thing. I’m buying a bloody pencil, I don’t need to know whether Richard from Basingstoke liked the one he bought last month.

I do my bit and review quite a few purchases on Amazon. Will answer questions occasionally too.

davyK

nick_md wrote:

The Daddy wrote:

Fun (?) story. When we first got cable (NTL) I was 16. Obviously the Freeview was very important to me at that time, but only a rare watch. One lucky evening they announced the whole night on Playboy would be free. Woo! So, armed with a fresh vhs I stayed up late to “watch a film”. Following the Freeview though they asked for a PIN. They did reiterate it was free. But they wanted the PIN. Shit. Fuck it, I entered the PIN, recorded a night of PBTV, job done. Was pretty disappointing really. Then a month went by and all of a sudden, my full name was called out by my mum in THAT VOICE. You know the one. Fuck. ...yeah? What’s this Playboy Pay Per View on the cable bill? Fuck! “....erm...” Then, Dad comes in:”What?! How much did that cost?” Mum:”Er, it says it didn’t cost anything.” Dad: “Oh, well that’s fine then...” What a guy.

Legendary dad.

That's proper "puts hand on the radiator when he gets in to see if the heat is on" Dad action.

mk64

Epic dad

"close the door, you weren't born in a barn"

handsofblue

davyK wrote:

poprock wrote:

Fucking everything gets reviewed now. That’s an Internet thing. I’m buying a bloody pencil, I don’t need to know whether Richard from Basingstoke liked the one he bought last month.

I do my bit and review quite a few purchases on Amazon. Will answer questions occasionally too.

I love it when people take the time to answer Amazon questions with "I don't know".

kestla

handsofblue wrote:

davyK wrote:

poprock wrote:

Fucking everything gets reviewed now. That’s an Internet thing. I’m buying a bloody pencil, I don’t need to know whether Richard from Basingstoke liked the one he bought last month.

I do my bit and review quite a few purchases on Amazon. Will answer questions occasionally too.

I love it when people take the time to answer Amazon questions with "I don't know".

Lol. Or the classic "I don't have this item so I'm not sure, sorry"

Moot_Geeza

I don't mind a snippy 'it tells you in the item description' either.

Moot_Geeza

handsofblue wrote:

poprock wrote:

Internet shopping is not good at replicating that browsing experience. Flicking through vinyl in a record shop. Looking inside magazines before you pick which one to buy. It’s pretty clear we all recognise that. What’s hit home for me during lockdown is that it’s hard to get a sense of build quality or materials online. When you buy a piece of furniture you still want to see it in person. Touch it, see what the texture feels like, whether it feels solid, all that sort of thing. Same for a TV – cheap plastic looks the same as nice solid stuff in a photo on a web shop.

I know someone who bought a sofa online recently. Never sat on it or anything, just found a style and colour they liked on DFS. Stunned me - I wouldn't buy one without sitting on it first!

Bought a TV during lockdown... there was a lot of back and forth with returns & replacements, but at least with tech you can normally access youtube reviews and get a good sense of the quality from that. Do sofas get reviewed?

We've done this racently. It didn't have any reviews either, YOLO. I'll let you know if it feels like a slab of concrete at some point in the next eight weeks (nine weeks delivery estimate with a £70 delivery fee, ouch).

davyK

mk64 wrote:

Epic dad "close the door, you weren't born in a barn"

My Dad used to say "Put the wood in the hole" in place of that one.

handsofblue

Moot_Geeza wrote:

handsofblue wrote:

poprock wrote:

Internet shopping is not good at replicating that browsing experience. Flicking through vinyl in a record shop. Looking inside magazines before you pick which one to buy. It’s pretty clear we all recognise that. What’s hit home for me during lockdown is that it’s hard to get a sense of build quality or materials online. When you buy a piece of furniture you still want to see it in person. Touch it, see what the texture feels like, whether it feels solid, all that sort of thing. Same for a TV – cheap plastic looks the same as nice solid stuff in a photo on a web shop.

I know someone who bought a sofa online recently. Never sat on it or anything, just found a style and colour they liked on DFS. Stunned me - I wouldn't buy one without sitting on it first! Bought a TV during lockdown... there was a lot of back and forth with returns & replacements, but at least with tech you can normally access youtube reviews and get a good sense of the quality from that. Do sofas get reviewed?

We've done this racently. It didn't have any reviews either, YOLO. I'll let you know if it feels like a slab of concrete at some point in the next eight weeks (nine weeks delivery estimate with a £70 delivery fee, ouch).

Brave. By the time you realise that the sofa isn't butt-grooving it'll be too late!

Kow

handsofblue wrote:

davyK wrote:

poprock wrote:

Fucking everything gets reviewed now. That’s an Internet thing. I’m buying a bloody pencil, I don’t need to know whether Richard from Basingstoke liked the one he bought last month.

I do my bit and review quite a few purchases on Amazon. Will answer questions occasionally too.

I love it when people take the time to answer Amazon questions with "I don't know".

To be fair, the first time you get one of those emails it seems as if it's directed at you personally so you politely answer saying sorry, I don't know.

poprock

davyK wrote:

mk64 wrote:

Epic dad "close the door, you weren't born in a barn"

My Dad used to say "Put the wood in the hole" in place of that one.

Both solid Yorkshireisms.

There’s the request: “Put wood in’t ’ole!”

And the admonishment: “Were ye born in a barn?”

regmcfly

I was 8 when the Internet came about so I lost being 0-7

RedDave2

nick_md wrote:

Eurotrash

There's a sad lack of decent eurotrash clips on youtube.Maybe I'm not searching right but I'd love a few of the voice over clips and basically anything with Antoine De Caunes is worth a look. Fantastic comic timing.

davyK

poprock wrote:

Epic dad "close the door, you weren't born in a barn"

My Dad used to say "Put the wood in the hole" in place of that one.

Both solid Yorkshireisms. There’s the request: “Put wood in’t ’ole!” And the admonishment: “Were ye born in a barn?”

Wondering where a Belfast railway and shipyard worker got that from then. Odd. He lived for a brief time in Wolverhampton but he wasn't there for long and that's more midlands. He's the only person I ever heard saying it. He must have heard it once or twice and decided he liked it. I noticed he collected sayings from all sorts of places.

b0r1s

Mom used to say born in a barn all the time and we were about 10 miles south of Wolverhampton.

RedDave2

b0r1s wrote:

Mom used to say born in a barn all the time and we were about 10 miles south of Wolverhampton.

Can confirm enquiries into where I was born coming from my parents in Dublin from an early age. Odd, they really should know the location of where i was born.

g.man

Always been were you born in a park? round my way.

Kow

I always got the barn question. I suppose the correct response would have been "Well if you don't know...". Bit late now though.

nick_md

RedDave2 wrote:

nick_md wrote:

Eurotrash

There's a sad lack of decent eurotrash clips on youtube.Maybe I'm not searching right but I'd love a few of the voice over clips and basically anything with Antoine De Caunes is worth a look. Fantastic comic timing.

Yeah it's an odd omission. I spent some time last year searching for it thinking someone must've uploaded loads to YouTube, but it's sadly lacking. I don't even know if you can buy it, I'd pay £50 or so for a full collection, it's great post pub fodder.

Escape

handsofblue wrote:

davyK wrote:

poprock wrote:

Fucking everything gets reviewed now. That’s an Internet thing. I’m buying a bloody pencil, I don’t need to know whether Richard from Basingstoke liked the one he bought last month.

I do my bit and review quite a few purchases on Amazon. Will answer questions occasionally too.

I love it when people take the time to answer Amazon questions with "I don't know".

“How long does this toploader take to eject a video?”

handsofblue wrote:

By the time you realise that the sofa isn't butt-grooving it'll be too late!

Even DFS can't ship another consignment by then! (Skerret joke.)

I bought an untested £200 sofa from Tesco that turned out really comfy, only for it to groove within a month of sitting on either side; rill lumpy. Backs and cushions were okay, though, so I bought some £40 foam off eBay and I've still got it 11 years later.

DFS have long delays because they don't make anything, they just take your money and add your name to their next wholesale order.

LivDiv

I bought a chair from Made in their clearance sale a few years back.
Two weeks later they emailed to say there had been a delay in making it and it will be a few months.

Told them to fuck off and got a refund.

How can it be in clearance if it doesn't exist.

LivDiv

Back to the OP.

A sense of discovery is missing now with having the internet. I watched so many random films late night on TV back in the day. Films that I had never heard of and likely had no way of even getting a synopsis for let alone a review.
Just put it on because any film being available was a bonus, see how it pans out, form your opinion and go to bed.

Off the top of my head a few that I first saw like this...
Stigmata
Devils Advocate
Reindeer Games
Rounders

Escape

LivDiv wrote:

I bought a chair from Made in their clearance sale a few years back. Two weeks later they emailed to say there had been a delay in making it and it will be a few months. Told them to fuck off and got a refund. How can it be in clearance if it doesn't exist.

I wonder where UK law is on importing a bunch of the same sofas and selling them with a much lower markup, using social media to spread word and steal sales. I'd suspect brown-enveloping against it at some level. Min order of 10, usually, and obviously the unit price falls as that goes up.

It's not like DFS could claim ownership because they don't have exclusive contracts on everything, nor presumably complain that your site described your sofas as identical to theirs. They'd just be rebranded in your name or left with their Chinese labels.

LivDiv

I dont think there would be any law beyond contract law, unless you were trying to pass yourself off as DFS.

Could do the whole parody store thing like Nathan For You did.

Escape

If I win the EuroMillions I'll get in touch with the factories and order a crate of the suckers, and then see how long it takes me to shift 'em for £50 profit on eBay. Purely out of interest.

Brooks

The Internet was better when it wasn't The Only Fucking Thing culturally.

Brooks

Except the connection speeds, of course. Those sucked a lot.

Escape

Late-'90s culture also sucked, remember. Because I said so.

davyK

g.man wrote:

Always been were you born in a park? round my way.

Have heard "field" used quite a bit.

LivDiv

Brooks wrote:

Except the connection speeds, of course. Those sucked a lot.

Probably what stopped it being Everything though.
You had to really want to go on the Internet.

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