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

Jab, there's a difference between 'weaker' coffee and coffee with less caffeine. To me weak coffee (i.e., a drink made using less coffee) tastes foul. I might as well be drinking water. I usually use about 2 rounded teaspoons of coffee and anything much less is . So the theory of the product is that I could use the same amount of coffee and get the same flavour but less caffeine.

I don't see the point of decaffeinated coffee, myself. People drink coffee for the caffeine and recearch over recent years has proved that the 1980s scare reports of "Coffee is bad for you" were wrong. In fact, the technique used to take caffeine out of coffee in many cases concentrates some potentially harmful chemicals that remain. So you're better off drinking the ordinary stuff anyway.

Love the Mazda advert where the car pees back on the dog, but it could be too good. I had to look carefully to see which company to post this message. No idea what model and not at all interested.

Cheerful Dragon, remember the Subject title, it's a bad advert IMO, as they are trying to sell the idea, less caffine at no loss of taste. This assumes taste is there in the first place. The *theory* (which I got) is simple, the truth very subjective as to what people will put-up with as having 'taste'.



I wonder if they will bring out another product line, with the caffine removed from one injected into another?(!) C~A~F~F~I~N~E B~O~O~O~O~S~T~E~D.



Would you buy it (either)?

Well, there is a product called "Percol rocket fuel" which does something similar to what you're describing, Jab.

RF

Oh and that *Red Bull* stuff. - It gives you wings - yes sorry but I think of another thing thats advertised beyond reason that which has has wings and is not a drink possibly the word red is involved as there are many conversations on the use of a blue liquid to demonstrate the product maybe Ive been listerning to Jo Brand too much or drinking far too much caffie the slight lack of punctuation in this text and that you should read it really really fast may be a clue!

Reddyfreddy:

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/drinks/percol-rocket-fuel

Tea bags also available. Guess you can't drink Jolt Cola forever.

One advert I think is bad is the one for the Land Rover Freelander. A truck carrying a tiger from a local zoo (or circus? Can't remember which) and the tiger has got out. A man drives up in a Freelander and is 'tricked' into going down to where the tiger is. The caption is: "Freelander. It's a lot to live up to." Personally I think the ad is about what should be done to everybody who drives an off-road vehicle but doesn't need the off-road capability.

The BBC are advertising a Victoria Wood programme "celebrating the comedy genius of Victoria Wood". I enjoy Victoria Wood very much but I wouldn't go so far as calling her a comedy genius. The BBC do seem to get a bit carried away sometimes - especially when advertising their output.

Deborah342 (post 319): That British Gas advert, your not wrong it's a mess. Gamble with prices? Like it's ever going to be free? The gamble being between what and what then?

Lets hope Mike Leigh makes a film for Brenda Blethin soon that'll keep her off the ads for a bit.
DM

I'd like to nominate the Kelloggs Fruit and Fibre advert - the one with the come-mister-tally-man song in it. For some reason it has people bursting into song and losing control of their bodies which jerk around to the song. This is a direct steal from the film Beetlejuice where people get possessed by ghosts that make them sing the song and dance about. It makes *no sense whatsoever* in the context of the advert and I'm not sure what message they are trying to get across.

A good ad for a change: The NHS jobs one where the guy falls down a concrete staircase. That is one hell of a well executed stunt - an incredible fall!

That NHS one is amazing... If you look carefully when he's rolling you can see that he's using his hands to stablise himself, but it's the initial drop when he lands on his shin that's really clever.

Insurance adverts that are on during the day that are supposed to appeal to 'normal' people. So what do they do?....find the ugliest actors they can to represent us, the great unwashed in all our glory.

I'm constanly baffled and sometimes befuddled by an add that comes on for, I think double glazing. It has some 2nd rate Bill Bailey lookalike saying "you buy one you get one free". It looks to me like he must be some kind of local celeb in middle England, thats the only reason I can come up with for him being on T.V. As I'm in Scotland I don't think I have much chance of recognising a local celeb who's not local to me. He might also be a failed radio 'personality' or something. suffice to say, he is a swirling ball of rubbish-ness who should go far away and think about everything that he has done wrong.

Didn't he use to be an annoying git in Coronation Street?

That double-glazing bloke frightens me...

there's an even more scary girly doing it now...

The Tesco trolley ads are really annoying - are they trying to tell us that from now on Tesco will only sell financial services?

First of all how many more magazines does the del Prado publishing company have to bring out? With things to build?

OK, so actually I don't mind those.

Their new ad, however, is driving me (and by extension my ) mental.

They now have a magazine about the Battle of Waterloo. You can make a scale model complete with cannon and soldiers etc. Not a problem. Two guys are getting all excited about their Napoleonic battle. No problem.

The music is the 1812 Overture. Will somebody please tell the ad maker that this refers to a battle in Borodino, thousands of miles away and three years before Waterloo.

Well at least the music concerns Napoleon - what's it gotta do with peanut butter though??

Hmm. On the subject of music, there's one of those ads for ladies' skin product that promise to remove all wrinkles and restore your skin to that of a baby's bottom, or similar.

Who thought that "Tainted Love" would be a good song to go with that concept?

RF

What I find funny about this advert is that it's being marketed as an introduction to historical wargaming... £7 for three figures? P!ss off... Old Glory do 30 for a tenner.