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

I'll second that, pedro. Awful advert. Though he seems to be the world's dumbest man, he can't do ANYTHING by himself, so he might just be capable of admiring a razor. I just can't decide who's more annoying, father or son?

Oh I hate most shaving adverts. "invisible barrier" is inch thick white foam, "new technology" is battery powered or sticking another razor on it. And what the hell does a sports car have to do with it, and why do you need a briefcase for one, and why do they have such stupid names? And 100's of other stupid pointless things.

Because of this thread I've developed an obsession for watching sofa adverts to see if they're barefooted. They usually are

The Guardian's alternative interpretation of the razor ad:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1979365,00.html

I'm glad someone else understands

An ad for some anti-bacterial gunk to put on your hands.

Apparently it "inactivates" germs

Thanks for that Roymondo I've complained about the grinning fool in that advert every time it has been on! Someone told me it was made elsewhere and just gets redubbed for each new country. Doesn't stop it being an *awful* ad though.

Those sofa actors *are* all really short. Husband and I will be getting a new sofa fairly soon and had a wander around a couple of the furniture shops in the sales - most of them were too short-backed for me at all of 5'4 - not a hope for husband at 6'6...

Oooh, give us some of your criteria and tests for choosing a sofa that will be comfortable! Short of bouncing up and down on it in the showroom....

(Apologies for the topic drift)

"Natwest are opening more branches"

Anyone out there who can confirm EXACTLY what they mean by this?

I was half-watching a Weight Watchers advert today and was about to make a comment to ewif about it and she opened her mouth and said the same thing. At the end of the advert a man says "My wife is back to the person I married". Repugnant. I wouldn't have had a problem with something along the lines of "My wife is back to the happy person I married".

Similarly, there is an advert for spot cream where a young guy is talking about going to a new school when he has spots. He imagines how his future will pan out if he has acne - he sees himself stuck at home with his parents. What message does this send out to young people? Probably "You will have no friends if you have spots".

I dread to think what kind of world my kids will grow up in if the type of shallow nonsense from these two adverts is perpetuated.

Rant over.

TBH, if they're old enough to have spots they're old enough to work out that's not the case.
I feel annoyed with censorship for the same reasons. Like people saying that a band's album cover is going to create a killer. If that's the case then ban the news, their all too many influences and give anyone under the age of 20 ideas on how to kill and make them want to.

The current annoying ad is for the toyota yaris.

the girl puts some panties into her boyfriends pocket getting him arrested for shoplifting.
And what awful crime had he committed to deserve this?
Wiping crisp crumbs from his lap onto the floor of her new yaris.

yeah, like that's enought to deserve getting arrested.

dozy cow. stupid toyata

Our lovely friendly government is at it again via the medium of radio. The current campaign from The Home Office is against employing people wh are illegal immigrants and threatening such people with imprisonment for doing so.

Er, yeah. Right. And the reason why there are so many illegal immigrants seeking work? Yes, that's right, The Home Office. You've failed in your basic responsibility to keep them out in the first place.

STOP BLAMING OTHER PEOPLE FOR YOUR MISTAKES!

RF

I heard that ad today as well RF.

YOU wil be guilty of........ YOU will be comitting an offence..........YOU will be liable for.....

How about saying to the Home Office, YOU created this problem.......You sort it out ......otherwise YOU don't get my vote

Ford focus ads with that stupid robot dog. Get off my TV NOW!

...Frankly most of the car ads at the moment drive (no pun intended...) me nuts...


...and all the 'Home-Owner' Loan ads too...

There's one for a ferry company operating routes to the Scottish Isles that seems to be making a feature of "our purpose-built ships".

"purpose-built ships"?

As opposed to other companies that use ships that were originally designed as toasters I suppose.

What it probably means is that the ships were specifically designed to do that journey or something... but it still seems odd to specifically refer to them as 'purpose built'.

The advert that bugs me at the moment is that car one (can't remember the name) that goes "How? Where? Who? Why? Why? How? Who? Where?" and is basically a montage of scenes that presumably describe some sort of story. The thing is though is that a car advert doesn't *need* a story, it needs to say "this is a car, it goes fast, buy it". Oh, and another annoying car advert is that one where the car is driving through streams of silver goo... I can't help but wonder why (How? Where?)...

My dogs love that little robot dog - they get all curious and run up to the tv doing that tilted-head thing when those adverts come on

So they recognise it as a dog? Interesting.