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

Well, that was weird, it didn't flag up as offensive this time

Well you can always try cycling through the Father Ted aphorisms...

The new advert for the Peugeot 208...

If I was doing a bungee jump and grabbed someone not wearing restraints and took them with me on the way down...


Now that would be murder wouldn't it?

only if you let them go

You think you could hold on at the bottom? You have a grip like iron

So, we have a new Go Compare advert. Was anyone else disappointed that Sue Barker failed in taking him out?

I dunno, I think a nice backfire taking her out would have been preferable

some sort of boggof deal?

What astonishes me is the billboards they have around the place, which appear to be based on the idea that people are EAGERLY ANTICIPATING a new GoCompare advert.
Personally, I am all in favour of the graffiti that's being scrawled over them... Ah, that turns out to be a stunt: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/903953-insurance-company-go-compare-vandalises-its-own-billboard-posters

How many wars have been started as a "publicity stunt" - to make the incumbent "power lord" seem more popular?

I suspected it was a stunt when I saw the first 'defaced' poster, but was totally convinced when I saw a second one 'defaced' in exactly the same way. Real people just aren't that consistent.


Geggs

Some companies have the wrong kind of name. I got a letter a while ago from a company called Collectum. I rather panicked, wondering who had sent me to a collection agency. Then I opened the letter and found out it's a company that does the pension plan for my employer. Stupid name.

Ah yes. Dog Latin... I'm sure most Britons will remember the short-lived rebranding of Royal Mail to Consignia...

Aren't they still officially called that? I think it's been reduced to just their corporate name though and isn't really used much.


And back on topic.


I really really hope Victoria Pendleton is getting as much ribbing as she deserves for that horendously cheesy Pantene advert.
And lets face it, it shines out as cheesy from a genre that is positively Double Gloucester.
("Because I want to win as an athlete, and Shine as a Woman )

As much ribbing in her personal life that is. The paycheck must not be the only 'reward' for that advert.

Nah, it entirely changed back to Royal Mail.

As for Olympic adverts the one that bothers me right now is for tampons... as if the whole 'Mother Nature visiting with her gift' theme wasn't massively condescending anyway now we're being expected to believe that when said 'gift' arrives using this particular product would completely negate everything to do with it and the womenfolks will all want to do SPORTS, with CONFIDENCE.

Fair enough, having just googled it a bit, they did retain the name like I said for a while but it has been entirely changed back now.

Yeah, it was a bit of an embarrassment really, so as soon as they were able they ditched it entirely... when I was working at RM we used Consignia letterhead as our scrap paper!

This may be the subject for another thread, but I sometimes wonder about give-away competitions. You know, "Win a trip to Such-and-suchland with this bottle!"
The things is, I almost never check whether I've won before throwing the container (or scratch-card insert, or whatever) away, and I'm willing to bet that a lot of other people also don't. It wouldn't surprise me if I've 'won' a prize or two and never claimed them. Perhaps even a big prize.
So what do they do if their big prize, at the end of the promotion, goes unclaimed? And how on earth do you budget for this kind of thing?

the old spice advert...

seriously who would want an aftershave that turned them into that guy?