Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that most if not all of these 
> are American. Occasionally you see American adverts on UK TV, and you 
> can always spot them very easily. The appalling narration is usually the 
> first clue. The curiously poor picture quality is the second. And the 
> utter ineptitude of the people shown is the third. And yet somehow, by 
> brandishing some product which /clearly/ doesn't work and is nothing but 
> wildly overpriced junk, the task in question suddenly becomes trivial.

  When they show these American infomercials in Finland, they usually
re-edit them to remove the most egregious parts (one concrete example
given by the Finnish editors is if the infomercial shows an audience
being completely excited and handing out money to the presentators in
order to "buy" the product right away). They are still often quite
ridiculous, though.

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                                                          - Warp

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