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

which one is that?

>>> "It's a model of 'good wifey' I deeply resent!" <<<

Is that not how the real world is then? Still that BT 'range' of adverts shows how a "single woman with baggage" can saddle some dopey sod with 'em and get him to give up his weekends, TV access, internet porn access (err, I mean on-line research into car insurance prices etc.) have her ex come round and dopey look extra dopey as Mr. Smooth plays 'weekend dad'. Then binty loses the folder... Loses the folder; the b*tch! Ramle, ramble, waffle, waffle, babble, babble, mummble, mummble...

Are they aimed at families, single mothers, men that would settle for anything with a pulse? Who?

Na, BT ads, don't like.

But then; "I want to marry a light house keeper and live by the sea, keep him company.

Light house keeper in the U.K. yeah O.K. It's not just sh it's M&S s ooh I dislike the "it's not just" M&S ads too.

and there's me enjoying the BT ads because he seems to be doing a pretty good job of taking on the baggage (and he showed the kids how much cooler than the dad he was)

Ads that really got on my this weekend? I happened to be on some lifestyle channel with a programme entitled Extreme Skinny Celebrety Mothers (or some such) and each ad break (I was ironing, what can I say?) had ads for slimming pills

I don't understand the Veet wax strip ads. A woman tears a hole in her fishnet stockings, then takes them off and throws them away because her legs are so smooth. It's a bright, sunny day and she's wearing a strappy summer dress. Why is she wearing stockings in the first place?

Maybe it's what her client asked her to wear...

I glaze over as soon as the BT ads come on. No matter how hard I try, I just can't concentrate long enough to take in the message. I usually ask the wife what happened afterwards, and then instantly forget what she said too. I reckon those ads must be very cleverly targetted at people who actually care.

Hell, you've got the cute cheeky chappie from My Family (and other, better stuff!) tying himself down and growing up for an attractive MILF. They are aiming it squarely at the broken down society we live in today where men heading for their 30s realise they need to settle down and women in/heading for their 30s are looking for someone young enough to be fun but old enough to start wanting some responsibility after settling down too early with a man who didnt really understand them.

Or something. *puke*

MILF?

An unnattractive slang term/acronym for Mum I'd Like to

Stockings being removed.

BT: The 'Book a holiday one'. I've only just seen it in the last week. I've heard it, but never bothered to look up, or turn around a watch it.

That said when I did see it, this weekend I looked through the Saturday paper to see how much that broken home hub an pub quiz cheat device may cost. Too much.

Feeling a little bad about taking the polish off it for Sho, but on the bright side I have learned never to trust a MILF with my pictures.

Sorry, what did you say

I'm not sure if this is advertising stupidity or me stupidity but I can't stop wondering about this bread advert that says "The softest thing since sliced bread"

Does that mean that, as sliced bread, this particular brand was softer until that statement was applied to it?

fluffylump you've ruined my BT-Ad experience

I prefer the O2 ads anyway - because the Beanster's voice makes me

a_a_eye... I think that's supposed to be funny. The softest thing since sliced bread. In a bread ad it's quite amusing. In a loo-roll ad, less so.

Blimey, that's a bit high brow for a bread advert, anyway, I don't find it funny. I find it mentally traumatising. I don't need huge paradoxes with tomatoes on them assualting my temporal intuition on the way into work.

speaking of bread ads...

do we have a "what's your favourite ad?" thread?

Oh no! Where is that "where is that "where is that thread"" thread?

I think there might have been one, I'm not sure. There are enough kid's tv threads.

oh it's ok, I wasn't going to start one or post to one

Ad that seems to lack common sense on behalf of the subject.
Shows a busy mother with kids and a household to run. Loads and loads of washing to do so this little bit of cloth stops the colours running into each other.

If there's that much laundry, it shouldn't be difficult to get together enough for a white load, a dark load, coloured loads. That's just lazy, trusting this sheet rather than taking a little bit of time to sort stuff.

On the subject of laundry products, what about the one for Surf liquid? A woman puts her bag at the side of a fountain and it falls over, dumping a _closed_ bottle of Surf liquid into the water. This immediately sends forth clouds of fragrant bubbles. I know the ad says something along the lines that even a little Surf will make your clothes clean and fragrant. But if the bottle is tightly closed there shouldn't be _any_ liquid escaping. Unless there's something wrong with the packaging, in which case I certainly wouldn't buy the product.

I'm not a fan of this fad for overly-perfumed everything anyway. I dont mind some scent but this thing for needing to have your clothes stinking of synthesised 'scents' for a minimum of 24hours is just ridiculous.

Not to mention not entirely healthy. What with hair products, clothes detergents, body washes, sprays and perfumes, air fresheners, room scenters and so on, it's a bloody shock to me that anyone can smell or taste ANYthing!