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

I think the message is that quorn isn't just for veggie tree-hugging teenage girls, but also for 'normal' people. So everyone go and buy it. And if you eat it already, you'd be stupid not to continue doing so.

Still tastes crap though.

Yet the advert seems to be encouraging people *not* to eat it.

RF

I think it's saying that teenage girls are a pain in the 'arris. More of a pro-contraception public service announcement than a Quorn ad.

I laughed at a car ad last night, for a Ford, with a robot dog in it. The experience made me wonder what's becoming of me.

I think someone might have mentioned this before, but on the offchance they didn't:

Buttercup. If you only need one bottle of Buttercup for every kind of cough why have they got two different ones in the advert?

I assume one of them is for kids and the other for adults, but it kind of ruins the thrust of the ad!

Quorn = Apple Computers?

If you eat Quorn without wearing some sort of dolphin paraphenalia, the fashion police will come and muss up your hair and tear holes in your jeans in your sleep .

Isn´t Quorn also some kind of endangered tapir-like creature?

I guess this isn´t stupidity, but rather a good thing that they are required to say it. But I just saw an ad for Loreal Revita Lift, with a text underneath saying "Revita Lift has not been proven to have a physical lift effect." Guess that rather spoils it for the advertisers.

Not seen the robot dog one, but a while ago Renault advertised the new Scenic by making their car act like an excited dog, running around, out of control, skidding about, making all sorts of noises...
Ermm... not what I want from a car!

Quorn is yummy if you cook it properly (with sauce)

I hate those Dolmio ads. all of them. And the idea behind disguising vegetables - it is cheaper, easier and healthier to do it yourself. Stop those ads. Please.

I didn't overly mind Dolmio adverts.
The buttercup one is annoying, the different bottles are different flavours, but it's more the song that annoys me.

Actually, being a former member.
All the adverts for The RAF are annoying the heck out of me.
"You don't have to be a pilot to fly in The RAF"
Of course not, the Airforce is full of other trades.
That and the fact they can't afford the people they do have and keep advertising for new people but still keep making folk redundant.

I've just seen a TV advert for Sheba, a high-end cat food. This particular one was for chicken breast chunks. It ended with the tagline "share the experience".

What? Eat cat food?

RF

Is that the one with the fat blue cat in the maze? I have often wondered about these people with that sort of relationship with their pets!

What's wrong with tinned cat food?

There's loads of weird cat food ad's. One ends with the tagline "how can you resist?" Quite easily, I'm not a starving cat.

Saw one last night-

Man in wheelchair, doing tricks in a skateboard park.
Cut to woman watching, looking miserable.
Cut back to man doing wheelies in park.
Cut to man in wheelchair next to woman, now a bit more cheerful.
Caption - "Stunts by"
Caption "Care by"

Voiceover - along the lines of "become a careworker, it is really rewarding".

It then finishes with the tagline "Careworkers - 1+1=3"

1+1=3???

What the h@ll is that all about?

"Are you miserable? Are you innumerate? Become a careworker!"

New one from British Gas with the tagline "Lower CO2 emissions than any other major energy supplier"

Umm. Apart from the excrutiating irony of a gas company citing their emissions as a *good thing*, does that not just mean that they sell less than everyone else?

No, I would have thought they have over 50% of the energy market. After all, it started from having 100% of the gas sector, and that's a lot to loose. And it entered the leccy market from nothing, so everything is a gain.

So, on balance, and having worked for the company (though I've left now), still over 50%, I think.


Geggs

In which case I can only assume that they mean lower CO2 emissions per kWh, due to a higher renewable content or whatever. But they don't say that.

Though, thinking about it they can only make that claim of low C02 per kwh because they own a few gas fields and power stations, and can monitor CO2 at those sites. Everything else comes from the grid (be it gas or lec) and will be no different to anyone else's. Unless they are counting the CO2 output of their offices as well, and so claiming that theor overall carbon footprint is lower than anyone else's.

Either way, I think it's a claim that would be very difficult to prove. Particularly given the number of staff that were flying to India and back during the last year to train the new people over there.


Geggs