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

saw an advert yesterday for makeup to cover dark circles round the eyes caused by fatigue!!!!!

get some sleep!!! it works,

the worst bit was...... these washed out knackered hags were bouncy vibrant energetic sex goddeses just after they used the eye makeup

WTF!!!

yeah realy???

Gotta try me some of that! I've never been a bouncy vibrant energetic sex goddes before. If only I'd known it was that easy

Deb

There´s a supermarket across the road, they have a sign with the words "We care" on it. Great slogan if you´re an insurance company or lawfirm. For a supermarket however, I´m a bit unclear what it is they care about. That their tomatoes are ripe? That the rainforest doesn´t get cut down?

To me that sound great. Hey, they CARE! What lovely people

*naive*


Or mabye, they care about their profit margin. Mmmmm.

*cynical*

Yup. And they close on Thursdays at 4 "to improve their service".
Well, that was a bank and in Germany, so it might take some time to clear the import formalities until you get that.

didn't the banks close early on a wednesday and stay open late on a thu....thing!

i remember commertz bank on the main drag, by the canal, being open after work on a thing.. and being able to get there after work to get gelt. for the weekend

<bat<

Moot point anyway because now you have ATMs - but their latest invention is you can´t do money transfer from your home PC if you don´t buy a special SMS receiver.

no concern of mine

i still go into my branch and cash cheques

safer that way!!!

when going to an ATM at the weekend can mean no on monday morning

What with the connection between overspending and hangover, shouldn´t it rather be spelled Monday mourning?

Not so much advertising stupidity as product stupidity and/or consumer stupidity. The makers of Nurofen are advertising a new painkiller, Nuromol. This is a combination of ibuprofen 200mg and paracetamol 500mg. I saw the product in my local Tesco today - you have to ask the pharmacist for it. Nuromol is priced at £3.99 for 12 tablets. I can buy 16 paracetamol tablets for about 20p. I'm not sure how much 16 ibuprofen costs, 'cos we buy a bulk box of 96. However, I'm pretty sure it's less than 50p. So that's the equivalent of 16 Nuromol for less than 70p. And I don't have to ask the pharmacist for either of the component parts.

It's sad to know that there are people who will pay through the nose for this pointless product, just as they will pay extra for ibuprofen with a brand name on the box 'because they work better'. I just don't understand these people, really I don't.

"just as they will pay extra for ibuprofen with a brand name on the box 'because they work better"

There are scientific studies that prove expensive drugs work better than cheaper ones. Obviously it's placebo effect, but it's proven.

Then again, I personally use the placebo effect to avoid getting ill at all ...

It gets worse (and more relevant), CD. I've seen TV adverts that specifically advertise it as "a brand new formula" (not sure about the exact wording). When I saw the advert, from the brief glance of the box that I got, I did wonder why this "brand new formula" mentioned ibuprofen and paracetamol in reasonably large letters on the box...

True, Just Bob. The advert claims their scientists worked 'for years' to arrive at this 'new formula'.

The product does have one benefit. Paracetamol doesn't work for my hip pain and ibuprofen does nothing if I have a headache. I've often wondered if it's OK to take both at the same time. Now I know. So thanks for that Reckitt, even if your product is totally pointless and way overpriced.

On the back of a recent scientific magazine, there´s an advert for a machine that can make spiral-shaped photons. Fair enough, that´s actually a real thing. However the company slogan is "Photon is our business". Just the one photon then?

Also at the supermarket today, there was a stand for one of those companies that buy up your gold. On it was written "Recycle your gold and help save the environment" I know goldmining is quite bad for the environment, but it´s not like I was going to throw my used gold in the trash if they hadn´t been there.

That Diet Coke advert with the puppets who destroy a handbag, walk out of the shop with and tell the angry shop assistant to calm down. Because apparently criminal damage and theft are desirable qualities in the modern girl about town.

I wondered about that advert: what if the girls were nto all on the same wavelength? How would you feel if the friends to either side of you were suddenly wielding a blowtorch and an angle-grinder with intent?!

Crikey, Van Damme's looking rough these days... and there's no way that's his real hair.

Just seen an advert for a hair product describing itself as "the ultimate solution for damaged hair".

Surely the ultimate solution is to shave it off and start again?

RF

Ask Dr. Guillotin.

We decided that David Carradine's unquiet soul had invaded the body of JCVD, leading to the result in the advert.