h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hear Hear. Frightened the life out of me, that did.

B

I fact, I hate all advertisng. My literary Hero, Orwell, once wrote that 'advertising is the rattle of a stick in a swill bucket'. Too right.

Ah, but he never saw the Honda advert...

B

No doubt the swill bucket's sound would have triggered the windscreen wipers which would have then shuffled across the piles of ordure and caused the spare wheel to roll through the pig sty...need I go on?

No - fair comment.

B

You must hate the 'do ron ron' macdonalds advert with the dancing kids. It should be illegal to like it!
It's too contrived - too many sweetsie kids and a talking cat contrived to raise a laugh.

I must say I like the croc ad where the bungee jumper nearly gets his head ripped of by a croc. I wonder if it's real though? It's getting harder to tell what's real these days and what's not.

I have seen neither of those, but I'm sure I'd hate them if I did.

I get so annoyed by adverts for cosmetic products. I hate the inane slogans and the daft claims of what the product will do. Most of all, I hate the fake science in all these adverts. Why is making up a scientific sounding name going to help sales? Active Hydroxy particles. Who knows what that means? Who cares?

I hate cosmetic adverts so much that I rant and rave at the telly. My flat mates now mute the sound for each ad break so that I don't get a chance to rant.

QB

Yes. And do you notice how virtually all of the cosmetics ads in the uk are voice with an American accent?

Oh! That makes me really annoyed too!


Give the old blood pressure a bit of a stir!

QB

And it's always some 18-year-old girl saying "It's smoothed away *my* wrinkles"
You look 12 anyway! What wrinkles?

'I think it's supposed to say that Skoda's are more suitable for people who are likely to be able to help out in a tie/checkout emergency.'

Or perhaps only Skoda drivers have the wit to carry scissors around with them.

i think its ment to say the customer service guy is being distracted by the skoda


and i hate most the adverts for loans! constantly going on and on "do you have a bad credit history? well we at insane loans will lend to you anyway at a rate of only 400%" im not old enough to have a credit history! they show these things on childrens channels! someone save us all! *runs and hides quivering behind sofa*

Adverts for gas and electricity really get my goat - I mean why? I'm not going to switch an extra light n or burn a bit more gas just because I've seen an advert! And as for the one where they are fixing Mrs Jones boiler - they don;'t show them taking a week to do it and cahrging a couple of hundred quid do they?