Give It a Good Sheen, Mister!

Advantages: multi-surface, good degreaser, inexpensive, gives a good shine, easily available
Disadvantages: manufacture is in the far east ,parent company tests on animals

...Mr Sheen is a world-wide brand of wax free furniture polishes, which first appeared in Australia in the 1950's. Indeed, it was the first aerosol polish in Australia, Pledge not having yet expanded to that country (Pledge was the world's first, followed closely by Mr Sheen and others). As familiar a face as Mr Sheen may be to Australians, Jamaicans, South Africans, the British, et al. it is not a brand I was familiar with as a Yank. I admit I had a sense of trepidation when my grocery delivery arrived and one of the substitutions was for my Pledge and I found in its place Mr Sheen. I accepted it, figuring as it is a market leader here, it couldn't be that bad. A quick glance on the tin told me it is manufactured by Reckitt Benckiser who I am familiar with, as they make Lysol cleaner (a disinfectant strong enough it can kill the Ebola...

Shroud 01.08.2007 · Read review
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Mr Sheen got my wood nice and clean

Advantages: Cheap. effective. smells nice
Disadvantages: Not too good for the environment

...the lounge so everything gets dirty. I usually use a duster and some Pledge Multi Surface Cleaner but when I was shopping in Poundland I noticed a pack of Mr Sheen Wood Polish Wipes with Beeswax and as it was quite a big pack (50% extra free) I thought I couldn?t go wrong for a pound! The Packaging The wipes come in a fairly flat plastic packet with a hole in the front sealed with a peel off piece of clear plastic. It contains either 72 regular or 36 large wipes depending on whether you split each of the 36 wipes into two down the centre perforations. The packet is mainly red with a honeycomb pattern across the middle and the names and colours of the various woods that it ?cleans, conditions and protects?. It also has the words ?with beeswax ? long lasting protection?. The writing on the reverse gives instructions for use as well...

SusanLesley 06.11.2009 · Read review
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FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Michael Jackson is Invincible

Advantages: The King,, Slash, Great album
Disadvantages: None

...**Introduction** Michael Jackson has become a lot like Marmite with many people around the world over the last few years. Some either Hate him or Like me Love him. (Or rather his Musical legacy). With all the bad press I thought we should focus on something positive and With his huge upcoming stand at London's 02 Arena coming up I thought it was time to review the album that is freshest in the memory of Michael Jackson fans and that album is of course his 2001 album Invincible. **Invincible** It's been eight years since Michael Jackson released this album and that makes his previous gaps between albums seem like an artist who releases an album every year or year and a half where it has always been around four years apart from 1997's Blood on The Dancefloor after 1995's History. Invincible was released by Epic Records and features...

jcneil 21.06.2009 · Read review
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Monty Python's Life of Michael

Advantages: Candid, revealing insight into the reality of 'the nice one'
Disadvantages: Sometimes hard to keep track of who's who; strangely short on humour

...And now for something completely different?Never meet your heroes,? goes the old adage. ?Never read their diaries? might be equally sage advice. That?s probably why I didn?t tackle Michael Palin?s collected daily journals until now. Along with the rest of the Monty Python team, he was without doubt a hero of my teenage years. Today, when so much television is disposable pap, such admissions stretch credulity. But I derived more enjoyment, education and social acceptance from Monty Python?s Flying Circus than any other influence on my nerdish adolescent self. Even now, 30 or more years later, I was wary of anything which might demolish the façade of those shows, which could reveal that my telly gods had feet of clay. So I opened this hefty, 600-page distillation of the Python years (1969-1979) with trepidation. I came here...

Silverback 21.11.2009 (25.11.2009) · Read review
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Mr Sheen - Leaves Your Surfaces Fresh And Clean!

Advantages: Smells Nice And Cleans Most Surfaces Well
Disadvantages: Highly Inflammable

...Hot on the heels of my last review on Windolene it seems that that I am still in that spring-cleaning mood, and now that my windows are so clean the sun seems to shine through a little brighter than normal and makes the dust on my TV screen more prominent, which brings me onto my second review of today, Mr Sheen Original Furniture Polish. I have always used Mr Sheen Original Furniture Polish because I like the smell and know that it does a good job. It is available in other fragrances such as vanilla and summer fruits, I have seen these in the supermarket but I have always stuck to the original fragrance so I can't comment on what these are like. Mr Sheen comes in a shiny red 300ml aerosol can with the name Mr Sheen emblazoned across it in silver-white lettering. It is also available in the form of wipes which again I haven...

micksheff 19.07.2005 · Read review
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Mr Sheen for a lovely shine

Advantages: leaves surfaces dust free and clean
Disadvantages: none

...Furniture polish like everything else has really come a long way in the last few years. At one time you could only get one sort of polish that smelt ok if not rather woody and strong. It did the job and that was that. But now you have a range of high tech polishes that positively banish dust from your surfaces. Mr Sheen has been around since the 1960?s and is one of the most well known brands of furniture polish around. It comes in a 300ml-aerosol can and is available in original fragrance, vanilla (yucky puke), summer fruits and spring fresh. Spring fresh is my favourite as it smells flowery, but the smell is not overpowering and adds a lovely subtle smell to your home. The fragrance doesn?t disappear in a few hours either, but lasts a couple of days - giving your home a feeling of being spring cleaned!! It is quite...

aflynn_01 09.07.2002 · Read review
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Sheeny shiny Mr Sheen

Advantages: It works and smells nice
Disadvantages: not applicable!

...Drum roll, round of applause, Mexican wave...whatever takes your fancy...the loft conversion is finally completed and I can clean. Pure joy!! Poor Santa is going to choke on the dust when he comes down our chimney. Bring in the mighty Mr. Sheen. Over the years, I have tried a number of furniture polishes, the good, the bad and the downright ugly, but this is my all time favourite, and apart from the yellow rag I call a duster, nothing can come between me and this little marvel. I am not, I hasten to add, addicted to cleaning, and I don't think one furniture polish does a "better" job than another, I just like the smell!! WHAT IT PROMISES It promises to clean and shine multi surfaces and states that it has a long lasting fragrance. It aslo states that it has unique dustguard and Stainguard properties, and whilst these terms mean...

danielalong 22.12.2005 · Read review
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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

bobbacon985 12.02.2009 · Read review
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Michael Jackson's Thriller

Advantages: Great songs, talent, highly skilled voice, excellent sound quality
Disadvantages: You might not like Michael Jackson

...There is no other album like Michael Jackson's Thriller even after 25 years it still remains a class above the rest in my opinion. Michael Jackson's Thriller sold in excess of 27 million copies in the USA and Michael Jackson received a ground breaking eight Grammys and 12 nominations in 1984. The album is highly polished and has an excellent sound quality. The album produces a style that is unique to Michael Jackson which has a great dance atmosphere and has a good blend of percussion and keyboards. Tracks like "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" are part of this influential album. I love the way Michael Jackson's Thriller captures you into a world of make believe as the music slows down and picks up throughout the album. No two songs are the same. The beat in each song is fantastic giving a good blend of variation throughout the album...

Mickie26 29.07.2008 · Read review
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