to wonder who on earth buys the shite on QVC?

[mamaz0n]

it has invaded my tv because i am too lazy to reach the remote and switch over

Who in their right mind wastes their money on this utter shite?

I can actuall visualise the sort of person. It is not a flattering image.

My mum does. All of it. And all the shit on Price Drop. And Bid tv.

She has cupboards, nay sheds full of this shit. No matter that this shit is the shittiest shite in the whole of Shitty Shite Land. No matter that she pays an extortionate delivery charge to have this shit delivered that her cupboards can overflow with even more shit.

And my birthdays, Christmasses and anniversarys are now shit. Because I get lots of this shit. And when she shuffles off this mortal coil twill be left to me to distribute this shit amongst the rest of the family.

my fil does, all the time. but then ive just twice bought tat off of Kleeneze? [buconfused]

which is worse?

Shakey1500

I fear I may have continence issues after reading your post. Does your mum have anything in her shed that she could recommend?

shakey1500 I think we must be related - are you my SIL?! MIL is very much the same. Everytime FIL leaves the room the television gets turned over to one of those channels, then she orders and then it arrives for Christmas, birthdays etc.

Anyone want a 'portable' (5' long) multi-casino DH had for a birthday? Or some unpleasant trunk style boxes (actually I think they may have gone to the charity shop) or a really uncomfortable feather mattress topper?

I sound really ungrateful don't I? - sorry! It's just we don't need these things!

Tons of it WCIATM. I could literally blindfold myself, stick my hand in at random and pull out THE most useless bit of shit there ever was.

She gets SO excited at it all though. Even yesterday she nigh on dragged me into the bedroom where I had to shield my eyes against the most hideous matching bed set (including valance AND curtains) with her begging me to "guess how much I paid for this!!!!!!!?" (number of exclamation marks purely to illustrate her excitement). My response of "Ermmm a tenner?" didn't go down to well as it was actually £20 plus p+p.

I try, I really do to share this delight but fail miserably. And I know she gets equal pleasure at seeing her name on the ticker tape at the bottom of the screen.

I used to watch the German version while living in Frankfurt, mainly because it was handily repetitive for my bad grasp of the language - 'oooh sehr schoen!' bleats one perioxide bimbo, 'ja ja, schoen' purrs the other as she fingers a shiny nylon quilted bedjacket or some other tat. It was hilarious. I also liked how the clothing models were aged 50+ and chubby to reassure viewers that they could look just as 'good' if they parted with ?200.

But they sell OPI and I love OPI.

LookingAtHerOPINailsTiggaxx

I'm a bit of a QVC addict too - less than I was, but it's still great. It's very soothing. I agree with whoever mentioned the Pompoos stuff - caught that the other day, and \link{http://www.qvcuk.com/ukqic/qvcapp.aspx/app.html/params.file.%7Cframes%7CClasFrameU618,html/walk.yah.UKFA-U618\the designer} was hilarious - I read somewhere that he may be the person that Sacha Baron Cohen based his Bruno character on.

Poor Shakey, I've just had a look at the Bid TV channel. I feel your pain. I can visualise the shed.

Are those presenters normally so knobby enthusiastic? £1.53 for the phone call? The P&P is also expensive. Does the music/heartbeat have subliminal properties? These channels should be on pay per view so innocent channel flickers do not get sucked in.

Just watching QVC now for the Kipling bag hour. The awful Kipling rep is grinning for no reason at all. The person who designed the Royal Wedding Monkeys should be sent to the Tower for Treason. I can't believe they've sold out.. I will be keyring spotting for the forseeable future. I already Fleecewatch. My friend and I have competitions to surreptitiously photograph spot the naffest ones.

Keep smiling Shakey, have some , it will numb the pain!

that was me, JackieNo

Thanks for putting link up, I fear people may not have understood just how painted on his face is. You have to watch him live though, Im sure it must be a piss take. The presenters do deserve a medal for keeping a straight face! I could imagine Bruno is based on him!

nullius you are so right about the "actually" tic

I once tried to cheer up my baby brother in the wee small hours after he'd been dumped by trying a QVC drinking game. You had to take a sip every time someone said "actually."

We had to stop after about 7 minutes, when we realised that there probably wasn't enough booze in England.

ought to point out that "baby" brother is early 30s

i am now ( or will be when the post arrives) the proud owner of the royal wedding kipling monkey's as show on qvc last night.

My mum stayed up late last night to buy them just for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Surely over the years someone has mentioned to her that not only is this a severe overuse of the word actually, but that she says it in the wrong context all the time?

Does anybody know what happened to Molton Brown? It was one of their biggest sellers and then pooft, gone!

My MIL and SIL buys loads from there, partly because they live in a small town with rubbish shops.

It makes Xmas interesting, it's a like a lucky dip, a load of slightly ropey stuff, then some Liz Earle and Molton Brown thrown in. I make very encouraging noises when we get them

OOOhhhhh, look, I do believe the actual Mrs Alison Actually will be on soon, Im going to try this drinking game of yours Willyou

I wonder how many actual actually's we can have on this actual night....

the other tic is the way they say 'your' and 'yourself' all the time - 'this is your 89 foot screen for yourself', 'this is your moisturiser for yourself' wtf?

I bought the tsv today 3 easy payments!

How flaming spooky is this....

Friends over tonight and just as they were leaving we were having a laugh and a giggle and she says "and he won't let me have my Kipling bag off QVC". He says, I should bloody well think not, what a load of shite"

I said she could do a lot better than Kipling. She said she was attracted to the little monkey that was attached... sheesh, give me strength

I did wonder at that point if she was a mner

my mum

You might think QVC is for the likes who cant get out or live in the Hebrides but I like to watch the beauty demos as I feel intimidated by cosmetic salespersons don't have time to sclep round shops. Its not an impulse buy as I will watch slavishly intently then decide.I agree there is some tat and the models deserve EVERY PENNY they earn for appearing in some of those get ups.I just think they should give free P&P to valued customers like me

My mum and my aunt love it too. They put QVC on, get on the phone to each other and have a ball! They can waste an entire day on it.

When they're not doing that they're busy reading the Daily Mail and believing it.

Oh god we got given a double (yes double) Tiffanyesque cat lamp set from my DH's grandmother, now we know where she finds such shite!