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

It's also used to weaken hair follicles (I don't have my spelling about me today ) so it's sold as little epilation kits that cost (and make silky smooth) an arm and a leg.

Another one that annoys me has just been on.
The Walls sausage ad with the dog who is gripping onto the packet of sausages.
Er, gripping on with WHAT exactly?
Since when did dogs have thumbs. opposable thumbs too, which allow us and apes to grip.
NOT dogs.

so get STUFFED Walls!

A film finished tonight and the 10 minute 'buy this fab thigh trimmer now in 15 installments' typy adverts came on as I was closing the house up. The first advert was for some kind of amazing skin cream which was produced from snail slime. The advert was in Greek so I was a bit slow in translating and didn't get the name of the cream (Googling says there is a brand http://www.elicinaeurope.com/home.html which is famous but it wasn't this one - probably some cheap unbrand).

The bit that got me was the advertising showing you how great the results were and then superimposing a cartoon snail sliding over the faces of the models and leaving behind a slimy trail...

I don't care how fab it is at getting rid of my fine lines and wrinkles, I'm buying nothing that advertises a snail leaving mucus all over my face!!

They mustn't have seen 'Penn & Teller's Bullshit: Alternative Medicine', where dimwits in a mall try out a new facial treatment which consists of snails crawling across their faces.

Oops, forgot a link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0771272/

(Didn't check YouTube but it's likely to be there somewhere.)

See now, that's just wrong! Snails are to be flicked off yer patio and flung into the bushes, not to be crawling over yer face! Ming, ming, ming! Bleeeurch!

I also missed the Penn & Teller bit (don't think they've reached Cyprus yet!) but I still aint buying cream that is in any way developed from snail secretions. It's all wrong, I tell you!

>>Another one that annoys me has just been on.
The Walls sausage ad with the dog who is gripping onto the packet of sausages.
Er, gripping on with WHAT exactly?
Since when did dogs have thumbs. opposable thumbs too, which allow us and apes to grip.
NOT dogs.<<


Did you have a sense of humour bypass as a child?

I dont' think they were aiming for anatomical precision in this advert, it's supposed to be silly. Personally I think its a great ad.

Oh, come on, Orcus, it's one of the most nauseating campaigns in the world! Stupid dog, stupid guy, stupid Walls! I hate all their adverts.

And I hasten to mention mfi. GARRRRRRR! I don't know which is worse, the Japanese (Chinese?) couple, the teenager and her parents or the elderly couple. To me their ads mean- buy from mfi and argue with your partner/child/parents.

Sorry I find it amusing

If you don't like it fine, but it's not stupid because dogs can't grip opposing fingers and thumbs - that's a JOKE. (and yes I know it wasn't you who said it).

BTW, its seems to have stuck in your mind - which is what the advertisers want, they don't care if it annoys you (really) another reason why it's a good ad

Dogs can grip to a certain extent, especially dogs with long webbed toes like Dobermanns. They are perfectly capable of fastening their toes around a pole or a bone and holding on to it. Mine does it all the time to hold a rubber bone upright while he chews the end.

My Springers do it too, with bones. I think I know what would happen with sausages though

That's Life?

Actually it DIDN'T stick in my mind.

It was on the tv as I had the pc on and I found it annoying right there and then.

I don't tend to remember ads at all. I have to wait until they are on tv, see them and find they annoy me then post on here as soon as they've finished.

main reason I rarely post here.
And I have a great sense of humour, I just tend to find certain adverts are designed to appeal to idiots, cretins and fools. (like those finance adverts where people get a loan to pay off other loans and think they have money left to take a holiday)
And fans of Ricky Gervais/Micheal Barrymore/Sascha Barron Cohen/Catherine Tate.

Feel free to add them to the list of "Not funny even though they think they are and are never going to be funny ever no matter how hard they try"

>>Actually it DIDN'T stick in my mind.<<

Well that's OK because I wasn't talking to you at that point.

So all fans of that list are cretins and fools? Or they appeal to cretins fools AND that list of fans? Not sure, your post was ambiguous.
Anyone who likes Ricky Gervais is your intellectual inferior? Am I reading that right?

"which is what the advertisers want, they don't care if it annoys you (really) another reason why it's a good ad"

I'm probably in a minority when I say that on occasions when I've found an advert particularly annoying I've made a conscious decision to boycott the product.

I'm with you on that. Not only will I never buy anything by L'Oreal, I change channels whenever one of their ads comes on.

currently two ads make me gnash my teeth. One is for Indesit washing machines (actually, it's more a rant against the product than the ad...)

They have washes for 30°C, 40°C and 60°C. 40°C is pointless since (as Persil are rightly telling us) 30°C is enough (except for towels and baby clothes most of the time)

The second is the one for Lenor compact or concentrated or whatever it is. Yes, if the bottles are smaller indeed we will have less of it on lorries trundling around. but using conditioner in your washing is not necessary and bad for the environment. If we didn't buy it at all it would be even better.

30C won't kill the germs. Not sure 40 will either though.

I know but how many of us have germs? Dirty clothes are one thing, germs another. 30°C is good enough to clean whites.

60°C is needed for towels and baby clothes (and I use a 95°C wash which means that i fight my green credentials every time, for whites)

40°C is neither here nor there. If you believe the Persil ads (I think it's Persil) the energy saving is phenomenal.

The thing with the smaller bottles is that people will probably continue to use the same amount of conditioner they always did, and then have more plastic to transport throw away. We're all better off bulk buying.