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

Going totally against the spirit of the thread, I saw an ad yesterday for Jumbones - beautiful white bedroom, white bedding, very muddy dog climbs onto the bed and shakes. "This Christmas, if you forget...he'll remember". Made me laugh out loud and want to buy one for my dog!

Deb

Anne Diamond was once mighty?

I must have missed that bit of her career

I saw that Jumbone advert & I wondered how many dog owners looked at their animals & actually said out loud words to the effect of "don't even consider it" adding profanity where appropriate.

It also made me wonder how many of them said privately to themselves in their heads a thinly veiled death threat as well.

Well she was a mighty big pain. Does that count?

Yup

I was at the cinema a few weeks ago, and this lovely "trailer" (or so i thought) came on featuring a bunch of scruffy kids walking along a beautiful beach in grotty weather. They are so peeved with the weather they throw stones at the clouds, and sun starts shining through the holes they have made. It is beautifully shot, and the plot is lovely. Then it ends up ruddy advertising the ruddy channel its being transmitted on!! After all the effort, I expected it to advertise a childrens charity, or at least something more profound than a TV station. Bah!

One from BBCworld I absolutely love. Two gentlemen from, very obviously, somewhere in Africa in a hotel, looking out of the window and suddenly having a colgate smile.

They run through the hotel corridors like bats out of hell. Come to a smoking heels stop and walk past the reception desk in a very sedate manner, only to go turbo speed again and have a fight outside.

Catchline - "Do something for the first time in your life"

Advertizer, only shown for a blink of the eye - Sony.

Why don´t other TV channels insist on ads being as good?

" was at the cinema a few weeks ago, and this lovely "trailer" (or so i thought) came on featuring a bunch of scruffy kids walking along a beautiful beach in grotty weather."

Oh yes ... isn't that advert just a complete piece of tosh ... absolute rubbish and thoroughly disappointing.

Religion has invaded my tube more than ever. There is an ad on the telly that goes through all the feelings a person may happen to feel. (Shot tastefully and to give the veiwer a pleasant perspective on life) it ges on to say how great life is and all that, and the picture reveals in nice big shiny letters...
Scientology.

It took me all of two seconds to shut off the T.V. and find something more rewarding to do, such as fume about my house trying to unsee the last 60 seconds.

One of my current pet peeves on Swedish TV right now is the ads for Kellogg's Special K, now in two new flavours, and how very *healthy* they are - in fact, so healthy that if you eat them in the morning as well as the perfect evening snack, you'll switch to a healthier lifestyle.

Yeah, right. Let's take a look at the list of ingredients.
Red Berries: Rice 52% closely followed by sugar.
Dark Chocolate & Strawberry: Rice 48%, yet again followed by sugar as the second major ingredient.

Pah!

Having tried it, I can confirm that eating two bowls of Special K a day will help you to lose weight, but I suspect that it's because there's more nutritional value in a jar of baby food than Special K

Fortunately, Scientology is illegal here, and it's not officially recognised as a religion...

Mal, problem I have about you, mentioned in another thread - you´re in Europe, too?

Problem? What problem?

Locating you. If I ever find the money to be a again, I´ll come visiting.

Is that a threat?

Find space for a sleeping bag and find a bottle of something. You´ll find out.

Ok, I'll go ask Mu Beta for that dodgy bottle of fish sauce

. Have another . With friends like you, who needs enemies?

The key thing with Scientology is to nip it in the bud before it becomes established, because the first thing it will do is try to gain the power that will prevent it being shut down (funnily enough).

It's not illegal here, but boy, I wish it was. Thankfully no adverts though (but that could just be because I don't watch TV).