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

Ah, the best cure for TV adverts - don't watch them!

I rarely do.

The advert break is for going and getting food

Xan, you never told us about the Interflora ad......

Because I'm not all that sure it really is gone because of complaints. Could be it just died a natural death. I don't remember where I had the banned thing from.

so what happened in the ad??????

Okay, this is from memory.

Elephant walking towards the camera
"Can be had with a rifle"
Shark swimming towards camera
"Can be had with a harpoon"
Beautiful woman in bikini walking towards camera
"Can be had with a bouquet"
And then the Interflora slogan and logo.

I thought it was funny.

> Erm... 'something that is a weak spot with men'...

> Since when is reading considered something men aren't good at?

> Or am I missing something?


Sorry! No, I didn't mean reading, I meant getting the shopping right.

Aha, I was missing something

Now *that's* offensive.

Regarding post 3...

Well, my wife could use just about all of those courses, and I don't think she'd be the only woman there. As for topic 3, I usually sit down to pee

I think incognita has got us sussed.

Yes, if you're tactically slow and crap at ironing then...

It's pretty silly.

Back when it was quite unique to see men made fun of in adverts it was quite clever and refreshing. Now that P*li*ical C*rr*ctness has made it de-facto it's stale, boring and predictable.

I don't find it offensive so much as stupid. Since when have men not known what "a tin of prunes" or "a box of eggs" is?!

I dunno... most men I know seem fully capable of coming home with diet soda or low fat cheese even though nobody, themselves included, want anything of the sort.

"And yes as the female of the household I do the shopping because my other half has realised that being useless at something has it's advantages."

My wife works shifts and so is home many times while I'm at work and vise versa. Since I'm 9 to 5 she is stuck with bills and shopping.

It took a few minutes to show her how to burn a music compilation CD, but she refuses to learn how to do what she doesn't want to, eg setting the alarm on the clock/radio.

Huh!I'm the one who knows how to burn CD's,programme the VCR,the washing machine,microwave,use a PC,mobile phone and yes the alarm clock PLUS go out to work from 8.30 to 2.30 and take my better half all the way to work and back(10 miles)AND go shopping wisely.HAH!
I then get GBH of the ear because I show no interest in the garden,home decorating and ironing.

Incog.

What is GBH?

Incog, did you just get snappy at the opposite of your own post except with out the word useless being used?

GBH - Grevious Bodily Harm

Alternatively a very good British series starring Robert Lyndsay and Michael Palin back in the 90s.

Hmmm.. Not sure about the Interflora ad. Its "joke" rests on the several meanings of the word "had"

had - caught, captured, trapped like a wild animal
had - known intimately, had sex with
had - fooled, cheated

Much as i love getting flowers, I wouldn't want them if the giver thought he was trying to fool me into having sex with him, and nothing more.

Incog, are you my doppelganger? What similar lives we lead.

And I buy my own flowers.

Oh darn, used a non-English word there, will my posting get modorated?

It was an attempt to translate from Danish. But I think the word they used was meant as something fairly sexual, and she wore a bikini after all. But still just a good joke.

I grow my own flowers.
And he wouldn't notice a new dress/hairstyle/pair of shoes if it jumped up and bit him.

BUT he shops, cooks, washes up, washes clothes, makes packed lunches and rewires/replumbs the house. (And in his spare time he builds floors, ceilings and conservatories for me )

Who needs bought flowers and compliments?

On the orher hand he's still not completely housetrained. Using that printer sounds like a wonderful idea. Perhaps then he'd come home a little more often with the brands the kids would actually eat.