"Smitty Two" wrote in message
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Do we have any electronics experts out here who can develop a Billy
Mays TV filter? What's needed is a filter which will automatically
mute the sound whenever a yelling Billy Mays commercial comes on.

If you're not familiar with Billy Mays, he's the dark bearded fat man
who can not speak in a normal tone, only yells and screams. He does
commercials for Oxy Clean, Hercules Hook, and all sorts of other
useless junk. The ideal solution would be to hang him from a hercules
hook, and while giving him an oxy clean enema, remove his vocal
chords. But that's not likely to happen.

I'm getting really tired of manually hitting the mute button on my
remote everytime his abrasive and most irritating yelling voice
invades my serenity. There's got to be a way to automatically detect
his obnoxious voice and instantly mute the sound for the duration of
the commercial.

If anyone can develop one of these, they could become wealthy. Please
post the schematic if you know a way to block him.

One final comment. If you hate this guy as much as most of us do,
NEVER, EVER buy anything he advertises. Besides most if not all the
products he promotes are junk, (recently proven by consumer groups).
You do not want to support his products. If sales drop, his
commercials will also be dropped, and he'll fade out of out
televisions and never be heard from again.

Until then, we need a Mays Filter !!!!

Dan

You're watching too much TV, Dan, and the wrong kind of TV. Stick to a
moderate amount of exposure, and only programming aimed at people with
an IQ above 75, and you'll only see him once every six months. When he
comes on, the correct button is not the MUTE, it's the OFF. If you can't
find a single thing to do outdoors, then go build a model ship or
something on the kitchen table.



Yes, there is something not quite right about someone saying "I watch
adverts and they annoy me". It's like an addiction, where there is not a
simgle logical reason why you should carry on doing what you are doing, yet
you still do it, usually to your great detriment.

I've been muting adverts for about a year now. Occasionally I forget and
hear one, and am just astounded at how crass and manipulative they are, and
how I so do not want to hear another one ever again and be drawn into that
stupid commercial world that says "you need this product". The mute button
is your friend, the off button, as the above poster says, may well be your
(and my) saviour and introduction to the real world.



Gareth.