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

That frightful ad about wasting electricity or something - electricity is the lifeblood of your compabny - and then you see blood seeping out of the light-sockets and I have to run away til it's gone. Makes me heave. It's like the Shining. Ugh.

Regarding feminine products ads; there's one at the moment with outside loos and a woman dashing out screaming because there's a moth in the cubical (*very* girlie) so she switches the light off. Their product is so easy to use it can be done in the dark, not needing to being able to see what your doing. If she can't put it in without watching by her age, there's no hope for anyone else.

Possibly too much information but anyway...
I don't know about anyone else but I'm not bendy enough to *see* what I'm doing too closely anyway

Must do my yoga video tonight

I thought the insinuation was that smart people used there product. as the woman was clever enough to work out that the moth would be attracted to the light in the cubicle next door. Therefore if your using our product your smarter than the average man and woman and if your not using our prodcut your a bit thick and scarred of moths.

And if you by *any* of that then your're dunber than average.

Not so much an advert, but definitely a product plug.

The BBC at the moment is trying to advertise its services of extra channels for which you need special equipment. The annoying thing is the way that trailers are shown for these great and interesting programs only to find you can't watch them because you don't have the necessary hardware and connections.

The more agravating thing is the plug for BBC Bitesize, a channel and software that will (allegedly) help kids with their revision. Do the ads *really* have to be on three or more times in one evening?

The thing that really annoys me about the ads for things like BBC digital services is that they are only available to certain parts of the country. They do tell you this during the ads, but only in small letters at the bottom of the screen. The people proclaiming the wonders of BBC digital don't actually come out and say it.

Harking back to complaints about dubbed ads, there's a recent one for some Airwick product ("Contains 80% perfume"). It's set in an art gallery. The people in the gallery are so stupid that they can't tell the difference between an air freshener and a piece of modern art. The fact that the ad is dubbed is really obvious, and really annoying.

Theres a new one for air fresheners (they dont freshen they mask stinky smells with other smells why hasnt this been challenged by the ASA) anyway these new ones work as a team or something

Why dont they just say "buy more of our stuff because we like having your money, Thanks very much."

The thing that gets me with the BBC Bitesize adverts is that they never bother to update the site itself.

Local phone monopoly is running adverts on the radio about how competition is good - support this piece of legislation. Left out the bit about how they still aren't allowing competition and that's why we have the communications laws we have.

Oh god, the *moth*.
Who's scared of moths? Not enough people to comprise 100% of
But that is the latest in the line of bad, dubbed adverts where some dim man (him again!) gets the wee discreet tampon mixed up with sweets, sugar etc.
(Why does the soundtrack have an horrific scream just at the end, too? Perhaps an urban legend will arise that this was the real dying shriek of someone struggling with an outdated oversize tampon. It also sounded disturbingly like 'Warning' by Green Day.

The Moreva (sp?) advert did sound like 'w*nk'. They changed the music, and threw in some nonsense about a 'babysitter'...

There's two other 'natural rhythm' ads to go with Senokot. Oh, the choice! flooding the market...
Strangely, there are only 2 diarrhoea-cessation products I can bring to mind.
The 'itching' one ('the intimate feminine area'...) beats all, except maybe the Canestan advert full of unaccountably joyful women. Yes, your chemist will be enraptured to give you the thrush treatment. Then you can skip off arm in arm with delightful companion, presumbably free of yeast even though you've had no opportunity to use it yet.
Destroy fungal infestation through Jollity!

I really think I should watch more ads, they can be such fun
One of my most hated ones is the Perwoll ad, where a stranger strokes over the sweater of that woman and says: It's so soft, is it new? and she replies : No, it's washed with Perwoll , and then, simsalabim, she shows him the package of Perwoll, which fortunately, she always takes with her.That's so stupid, and I personally, wouldn't recommend any stranger to stroke me

I loev Yeast. I thnik he's a greta pote.

FR

Wrong thread, RF, there are sooo many anagram threads

That's it, mate. You're eating tampons!

I will start stroking strangers and see what free goodies they give me. Free nose jobs, perhaps.

(Presumably the man in the advert went ahead and *ate* the tampon? or put it in his tea, worse...?)

Don't know how they do it in the UK, here they just hold the tampon in the the hand and then close the hand round it. The small son of a friend really thought the hand was the right place to put it

The advert was about how discreet the tampons were, and in pretty shiny wrappers; the woman left them lying everywhere in her flat and emptied them out of her handbag in a cafe.
That is like when my brother was small and could only just read... signs saying 'Do not flush towels down the toilets' caused him some confusion.

That dreadful Yop advert. Lose the enlarged distorted mouths please ! Advert would be quite good if it just showed the half asleep people with the Eddie Murphy tune.

I agree about the Yop ad - it is creepy too. The words dont even synch with the mouths......and why a load of white people with an obvious black voice and song?

Newest annoyance is the advert for Dove anti-perspirant/deodorant where all the girls in the changing rooms have sweaty armpits when seen with a special heat sensitive camera. Well duh! But what really took the biscuit was the small print quickly flashed on screen that stated that the anti-perspirant results (that are mentioned in the dialogue) were based on "comparison with deodorant only" Cheeky s*ds!


(I'm sure there were too many "that"s in the last sentence)

Since perspiration presumably exists to cool a hot-blooded critter down, would't the area treated with anti-perspirant appear even hotter after use?

Is this what they showed?

>> ...and why a load of white people with an obvious black voice and song? <<

That's post-post-post-post-modern irony, or whatever we're calling it these days.

RF