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

From what I've read on my course, natural gas power stations give out less CO2 naturally anyway, so yes, it's likely they have less CO2 than other suppliers. I'm pretty sure that the other energy 'suppliers' still have to get their gas from British Gas, they just sell it on under different names. So in effect the other suppliers they are talking about would be electric power stations. Unless I've got my wires crossed here.

It's similar to those herbal infusions which market themselves as 'naturally caffeine-free'. They might as well say they are 'naturally heroin free' because it means just the same!

My current pet hate is the Cheez Strings "Gotta Dance!" advert with the little school boy finishing his lesson, jumping onto his chair then table, dancing out of the class and eating a Cheez String with his friend.

In response to "Gotta Dance!", I reply "Gotta get detention for climbing on school furniture twice. SO make that 2 detentions. Idiot"

Detention for climbing on a table? Sheesh, you UK people...

Isn't it annoying when one of your favourite songs gets used in an advert?

Very.

However, I wish to complain about something entirely different.

There's currently a radio ad for Shell petrol, which basically claims all the credit for Ferrari winning the F1 constructor's championship "5 times since 1999" or somesuch.

So, nothing to do with one M. Schumacher being in the driving seat, then.

RF

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Oh yeah... like last year when Black Flag's Nervous Breakdown was used in some internet ad.

Nah, Mr Schumacher isn't a racing driver! I've seen him in the adverts, he drives vans! I think the ad is for Fiat vans...

You must remember the L'Oreal shampoo ads he did, too? They were priceless .

It'll probably be Fiat, as they own Ferrari...

Ah, the fallacy of advertising being linked with sports to try and make it sound cool.

Ok, so those football adverts by Wickes about cementing down diving strikers and building an actual physical wall get the pass grade, but there's a lot of stuff out there that very little if anything to do with football. I wouldn't be surprised if the next World Cup is sponsored by an Official Leg Hair Remover as well as all the other nonsense about an Official Fast Food, Gaming Console, Credit Card, Electricity Company, Tasteless Lager and so on, none of which feature particularly strongly in the Beautiful Game.

"none of which feature particularly strongly in the Beautiful Game."

I might be wrong, but with regards to the leg hair remover...

Was it not a certain Mr Beckham who is known for a certain amount of body hair removal?

VO5 and Lynx seem to be competing for the sexist, dumb advert award. What's-her-face and the Mynxs sends my blood pressure to unseen heights, and the Boom-chicky-wah-wah $hite really gets on my nerves. On the other hand, VO5 and their "hair fracture" bull$hit rubs me on the wrong side too, especially when the doctor says at the end "don't thank me" (cue woman flicking her beautiful, long, luscious black hair) "oh, wait, do thank me!"
Funny! Not.

There were 2 in the one ad slot last night that I hadn't seen before - both of them promised to make me an IT specialist able to earn millions of squids after only 4 weeks study.

But this is totally true, Bea! 4 weeks are all you need to be an IT type person, without doubt all the losers who studied for any longer were wasting good time and money.

Is 'two-times concentrated' proper English anyway??

Not to the best of my knowledge, but it's the way adverts speak at the moment so we end up with "two-times thicker lashes" or "five-times stronger hair"

Whiter than white

I particularly like "five times less breakage".

How *exactly* did you measure that?

RF

Forgive me if this got mentioned before but that stupid ad with that bloody woman banging on about insurance to her bored son in the car.

oh but I love that one.

2 times concentrated is my current

along with ANYTHING to do with puppies/toilet paper and cocoa pops

What makes me laugh is the opposition to the puppies - Kitten Soft toilet tissue.

How do they know?

When did they last wipe their ar$e on a kitten??