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

""Oh look at us, we're all green and shiny!" No you're bloody not; you own the nuclear power station down the road"

They *are* green and shiny, but that's just the radioactive glow.

Petty hate (and probably a repetition, but it keeps cropping up): falling for people I can't be with.

wrong thread i think Mr D

I agree the giffgaff ad is... somewhat confusing "what are you offering! stop blowing up a cake!"

Giffgaff's philosophy behind the exploding cake is that as the network is run by the users, they control what happens (i.e. they get to pick what gets blown up next on the ads)

I still get ratty with those Mazda adverts. I drive a Mazda 3 and it's actually a lovely car, but why do they persist in that stupid "zoom zoom" whisper at the end of each ad? I hate it so much and thinks is makes Mazda look like idiots, but then that makes me an idiot by association...argh...

Father's day looms up again and sure enough we get bombarded with
plugs for a cd. This year, all the fathers will be getting the complete
Fleetwood Mac cd collection.
Apart from me, I'm hoping for Max Payne 3.

To be fair, for my dad at least, we could do a lot worse than a Complete Fleetwood Mac CD collection. However, we will do even better by letting the 'occasion' slide by unmarked, as is his hope and wish.

Hubby's family never gave cards on Father's Day, but did on Mother's Day. The latter is a long-standing tradition, the former was invented because somebody thought fathers should have a special day, too. It's just a way of getting money out of us.

Yes,those ads irritate me, too. They're not very imaginative when it comes to gifts, are they?

slightly off topic but something that irritates me is adverts in the gym.
They are an annoying break in the music, always louder and feature
a chap with a whiney voice urging me to BUY NOOOW.

"wrong thread i think Mr D"

Yeah... for some reason I had two Hootoos open and I got confused...

There's a new chinese restaurant open in town. They have a sign with their name on in blinking neon-like lights. Maybe it's just me but when I see a neon-sign saying "Miss Asian", my first guess would not be that it's a restaurant.

"What about the "new and improved" items you see everywhere? As far as I know, if I have an "improved" product, it must be "improved" from an older existing product which then in its self can not be "new". And by default, if something is a "new" product, it could not have already been known to exist be "improved" upon.

good points walnutcowboy...
btw did anyone ever tell you that youre nuts?

The 'new' refers to the packaging which is usually extensively redesigned to go with the 'improved' product.

well, fluffykerfuffle, no one has ever called me nuts after observing how difficult it is to corral a wild walnut. which reminds me (nice change of direction, right) there is an eatery that USED to have a saying that said " If you liked our food, tell your friends. If you did't, remember that silence is golden".

Oho, a new father's day promo, this time it's a magazine subscription,
I'd really sit up and take notice if they said buy him flowers.

Some real cringe-inducing ones around just now. The BT one with the sleazy bloke saying "Rocking from an early age" about Duran Duran. Since when were Duran Duran "rock"? I actually think that series of ads has the sub-plot that he is a secret serial killer. One day the "cool" student is going to come home and find the sleazy one wearing the girl's face whilst he whips himself with a belt made of nipples.

Or the Irn Bru "fanny" advert - toe curlingly bad, almost as vomit-worthy as the Belhaven one showing various teuchters mangling a Burns poem.

"Since when were Duran Duran "rock"?" I refer you to this thread: http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/brunel/F19585?thread=8243829

And Into the Valley is now used to advertise Halfords

I only caught a glimpse of the ad out of the corner of my eye so perhaps someone here knows. Why do EDF appear to be giving away turds?

That's not a turds, it's a very obese tapeworm.
That's what the HFCS in processed food will do for you.

Well I've got to laugh, turds is ok but try posting its singular and
it gets blocked.