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

I hate adverts sooooo much. Why oh why am I ocnstantly subjected to being made to want to buy things...

One of the worst parts is when I dont know what is being advertised/ why I am supposed to buy said product. I think I am pretty bright but I just sit there bambozzled at times.

Even worse than that is when an advert actually works. The one I am thinking of is the Budweiser advert where they just show a bottle of bud with drips down the side then open it. I HATE budweiser (it tastes of piss IMHO) but that advert today made me desparate for a beer....

Please stop selling me stuff world...

And another thing why do they keep changing the names of stuff eh?

You know I knew where I was with Jif, Immac and Freeserve. Now it is Cif, Veet and Wanadoo. I have only just got used to Marathons now being called "Snickers" and a whole new set of things is changing name !

Globalisation mate, they change the name to sumat pronouncable by people used to speaking very different languages so that they can have the same label and name everywhere.

Roll with the punches and if all else fails just point and grunt if you cant remember the new names. I promised myself after ranting in the pub about the name of Skol going to Zamek to be more liguistically easy and sound more central European as thats where trendy beers were made at the time. I had a good point, the brewers had spent thousands changing the bar displays, new adverts etc... just to give us the same stuff. Then I realised I sounded like all the people I hate who whinged for about fifteen bleeding years after currency went decimal.

Take it all in your stride and you'll be a bigger man for it I knew where I was with Immac and Ulay, I still know where I am with veet and Olay...well clear of it all!

I know what you mean and wes just chillin, bob marley sense when my heckels were once again raised by that god damn Tescos advert with Prunella Scales

Personally, if my name were Prunella Scales I think I should have done something about it.




az

Detergent adverts really get my heckels up, look here TV I dont want my whites whiter than white allright?



I am finding this anti advert rant very theraputic

Apparently laughter is the best medicine, wonder what I could get for a kilo of Appy postings. No rock holes, no smell, no rollong (except obviously>, doesnt damage your lungs and completely legal.

God I miss smoking.

One love

How can something be whiter than white??

Hmm well Blicky I reckon that Appy is under a serious mis-aprehension about the meaning of the phrase "I am leaving", still he is always good for a laugh eh!

Not really sure Pyscorp, but that is what "Daz" claim isn't it.

Never normally see the whole advert cause I normally launch myself at the remote to change the channel as soom as an advert break comes on these days.

Having cable is a mixed blessing; on the one hand and get to watch more sport than you can shake a stick at, on the other had adverts make my blood pressure go through the roof

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Music channels. They fill in my ad breaks.

Well, MTV2, VH2 and The Amp are allright but I get pretty darned peeved at the others.

Plus on music tv they have all those REALLY irritating "Ringtone" ads....

Oh yes. I forgot about those.....

The Amp's doing my head in, I mean, I love Oasis but it's all they ever play!

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Or even cleaner than clean? The mind reels . . .

az

I think perhaps that adverts for cleaning products are primarily aimed at stupid people.

Otherwise thet just dont make any sense; or perhaps I am just being elitist... hope not...

I think the Amp has generally gone down hill since it started. It was *much* better at its launch IMHO. The whole "We Just Play Good Music" was good...

Now I think they just do loads of gimmicky stuff, still better than most of the dross but not as good as MTV2.

Only problem with MTV2 is they just show loads of non music shows all the time, usually if I switch to the 440s I wanna watch music vids...

Yeah, Jackass, Wild Boys, Viva La Bam. None of it's really funny after the novelty stage.

Well all of those progs are virtually the same, I laugh for about 5 mins then get bored.

BTW have you heard the "Hope of the States" album?

I've not actually... Any good?