Sunday, January 21, 2007

What’s inside a woman’s handbag!









Women have been carrying around purses for hundreds of years, but as it turns out, men are still clueless as to what they might find in a handbag even today.
The question so puzzled a pay-to-play quiz channel ITV Play, that it invited Quizmania viewers to call in and take a guess at just what a man might find inside a tote.
However, ITV Play had viewers, and Ofcom, the UK's telecoms watchdog – baffled and irked when it suggested that a woman’s bag might also contain balaclavas, false teeth, plastic screw holders, and rawl plugs.
Ofcom was not pleased with the list the channel had drawn up for viewers, who paid 75p a call to contact the network.
"Rawl plugs and balaclava were not reasonable answers to what appeared to be a straightforward question identifying 'things you find in a woman's handbag'," the Scotsman quoted Ofcom, as reprimanding the channel.
ITV, on its part, admitted to "an error of editorial judgment", and acknowledged that "both rawl plugs and balaclava could be perceived as too obscure".
Quiz shows have burgeoned on UK’s TV channels, but they also have regulators worried that they are becoming a good way to exploit people, who are unaware that whether or not they can contact the TV network, they are still charged for the call.
Ofcom is not the only regulator that is looking into the issue of how some TV quiz shows are run, for also the premium-rate phone watchdog Icstis and the Gambling Commission are also investigating the trade.


Source:Hindustanis.org

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