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

Or maybe it would be placed in a sealed glass box with biohazard signs on it.

"extreme" is the modern average

They've got a page for people like you in Private Eye!

Another radio advert...sorry, I spend more time listening to the radio than anything else, it may be being replicated on the telly, I don't know.

Blue Inc. is the company. Their advert is a dialogue between a bloke and his girlfriend. He's just telling her about his new clothes over the telephone, and she decides to come round and remove them from him.

The tag-line? "Where to get your kit on...and maybe get it off later!"

What, exactly, is this advert trying to say to me? So far as I can tell, it's:

(i) If you have a girlfriend, she'll have sex with you because you're wearing these clothes. Maybe.*
(ii) You don't have a girlfriend, but suddenly you will have one, who wants to have sex with you, because you're wearing these clothes. Maybe.
(iii) You take clothes off "later". Because it's time for bed, and you don't sleep in your jeans. Not so much of a "maybe" in my experience, but I know not what da kule kidz is doing these days.

None of these is making me want to buy clothing from this company.

RF

* Which makes her a bit of a crap girlfriend, IMHO.

I´d say what they are trying to say is (i), which just means they are trying to sell on sex like everybody else.

Except she doesn't see the clothes, so is the message 'these clothes sound really good over the telephone'?

Have just got back from Boots, where I'd bought a pack of Multivitamins for Men the other day.

This morning, looked at the small print on the side which started "Not to be taken by pregnant or breast-feeding women...."

but started to worry at the very last line which cautioned "not to be taken by smokers"

RF -
Don't bother - "sex sells" is a waste of time - No matter how much Lynx I put on, I still don't have hordes of women wanting to bed me! Perhaps I could sue under advertising standards...

There was an item in 'The Independent' the other day about how people need to just grow up (something to do with babyboomers). One piece of advice was to ignore any advert selling mortgages via the medium of a cartoon frog.

I know what the ad is *trying* to do. I just think it's doing it particularly badly. If I thought it was doing so in a post-post-postmodern ironic kinda way, like the Lynx ads with the guy with hoses under his arms spraying sweat, I might've raised a smile, even a titter. But I think they're serious. I think they think "yep, this'll work".

RF

Any advert with Andie McDowell in it. Are we supposed to believe anything that woman says?! As if she dyes her own hair! (she might- I just find it very unlikely- thats my personal view and not one of H2G2 or any of its affliates. Hur hur) She's a squillionaire for Bob's sake!

The huggies -'I can do it too with Can Do' - or any other baby ads

Can't stand any advert with either:
Babies/young children acting as adults
or
Adults acting like young children

The first is supposed to be cute but isn't. The second is supposed to be funny but isn't.

Oooh and those ones with the babies talking. Ugh, they're creeeeepy. I can't even remember what they are for, was just too freaked out by them.

Totally freaked this morning at an advert for some stuff that keeps your shit soft. FFS At breakfast time
And I have yet to meet a woman whose period is blue.

How would you know? Do you ask them all?

Yes. It's my mission in life. Some find it strange, but a man's got to have a hobby after all.

Good job Picasso was a bloke, not a woman.

He had a blue period.

RF

he could have made a fortune in TV advertising...

oh, and RF...

>>(i) If you have a girlfriend, she'll have sex with you because you're wearing these clothes. Maybe.*
(ii) You don't have a girlfriend, but suddenly you will have one, who wants to have sex with you, because you're wearing these clothes. Maybe.<<

I thought those types of women were every man's dream? no?

>> I thought those types of women were every man's dream? no? <<

No. Every man's dream wouldn't include the word "maybe".

RF