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

Well I think some metals do have antibacterial properties, such as copper. I´m not sure about silver, or even if it would have an effect in such small amounts. Also colloidal silver when ingested can turn your skin grey.

Like Paul Karason?

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Silver was used in anti-bacterial treatments during the First World War, before the advent of anti-biotics. So, yes, it does have anti-bacterial properties, and I suppose some people may turn to silver ion treatment in preference to the over-use of anti-biotics. How much use silver ions are in clothing is another matter.

Having said all that, I have some socks from M&S that use 'silver technology' (as if it's something new ). I bought the socks because I like them, not for the silver, though.

Anything that kills any other living thing _is_ an anti-biotic. So silver will end up with drug resistance too if used enough.

(In fact resistance damage from heavy metals such as silver is already rife in MRSA strains).

you need 48 hour deodarant for weekend benders

friday nightsunday morning

Ah, it's ages since I saw a nice long story told through smilies. Mind you, a smiley would have fitted right in there.


Geggs

Drive along the A55 some time and you'll be sick and tired of .
Who dreamt up that advert, " you never need touch a germ ridden hand pump again"? So are they saying that their antibacterial gloop doesn't
work?

Not so much advertising stupidity as product-naming stupidity. JML's latest product is a set of combs that women with longish hair can put on to increase the apparent volume of their hair. Because the product 'bumps up' the volume of your hair, it's called Bumpits. Yes, that's right. No punctuation. I'm sure I'm not the only person who looks at that name and things Bum Pits - whatever they are!

Oh yes, I went there too. And ed

Bum Pits

What advertising genius came up with that one.
Watching the Wright Stuff this morning and it looks like
product placement is going to be allowed in TV programmes.
The idea is for a ringed P on a yellow background to be shown
in the bottom right of the screen when there's a placement.
Irritating.
Every time I spot a placement in films (movies)I make a mental
note not to buy that.

It's been allowed to prevent commercial terrestrial TV going bankrupt. Internet advertising is killing them.

Of course that depends upon whether you care about that or not but it has been done for a reason.

>Every time I spot a placement in films (movies)I make a mental
note not to buy that.<

When I watched one of the Bond movies at the cinema (Casino Royale I think) he was using the mobile phone I had had for about 18 months.

Old hat stuff this product placement sometimes

I find it amusing, product placement does more to date films than almost anything else, and is usually pretty naff too.

Not that I mind it too much in films where a character has to use a mobile, well, use a mobile, dont invent one, that's fine (unless it sci fi! NEVER try to pass off a consumer item as sci fi!) but dont damage the director's integrity by having multiple lingering shots of the badge/logo/name...

Cripes that same Bond film panned the camera slowly past one Richard Branson at one point.

Integrity?

If a symbol appeared every time there was product placement, some programmes would have it permanently, and people would think it was some new channel!
However, I did love catching part of an episode of Hollyoaks "sponsored by Nikon" in which a different brand of camera was being used.

There's an Eighties sci-fi film which has product placements for things like Pan-Am and Commodore. I think it was Total Recall (but I may be toally recalling this incorrectly).

RF

As with all the most 80s-looking movies, Total Recall was made in the early 1990s. 1991 to be precise, I believe.

There's a skin cream being advertised at the moment that says it uses the 'science of genes'... as there is not even an attempted explaination of how this works I'm assuming it genetically alters your skin somehow using nanobots.

I had a giggle at one last night offering to unlock the youth code.

I did ask my housemate if he agreed with me that the company involved were advocating grooming minors...?