Strange Ads
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I saw an ad today for "Dresses That Don't Itch." What strange ads have others seen or heard?
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Not an ad as such, but an example of sales-speak: Budget Dresses for the Maturer Lady with the Fuller Figure ie cheap frocks for fat old women.
One I saw recently showed someone who had, for no obvious reason, bought an industrial sized bottle of fabric conditioner. The ad showed them struggling to remove it from a cupboard and weaving their way towards their washing machine struggling under the weight of it. They then tried to tip some into the washing machine drawer, but it was too heavy to control and spilled onto the floor, and then the person was on their hands and knees laboriously cleaning up the spill. They were clearly traumatised by their abnormally large bottle of fabric conditioner.
The product being advertised was for fabric conditioner sheets. It showed the delighted person holding a lightweight box of these sheets, their abnormally large bottle woes over!
The other alternative - next time buy a manageable standard 1 litre bottle - was not a solution which had occurred to the inept person.
I may be inept at many things, but at least I'm not so inept that I buy bottles of fabric conditioner larger and heavier than a small child!
@Heavenlyannie what does Mr Heavenly reckon to the equigroomer comb for cats ?
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Our, admittedly short-haired, cat makes do with a £5 brush with push up function for disposal of fur. Mochi is groomed about 3 times a week - she loves being brushed - and she is in beautiful condition with a glossy coat. I’m happy with a £5 brush.
There is an advert on the TV which has me totally bamboozled.
It has what I see as someone carrying horizontally under his/her arm either a plank with a head, or human being as stiff as a plank. This 'plank' is then dunked, headfirst, into a lake or similar body of water, and brought up dripping with weed or some other gross substance, and looking much larger and not at all plank-like
I believe it is a KFC ad, and it is possible, having a chicken reference to add to the visuals, to imagine the 'plank' has become a giant piece of chicken covered in a lumpy coating of some sort.
No idea why it should do, and it is far from appetising, but that is the only explanation I can come up with, as my brain is making no sense of what my eyes are telling it.
Please can anyone interpret this somewhat unpleasant vision for me.
Can't have been any worse than the Greggs Christmas advert a couple of years ago that had a Greggs sausage roll in a manger being worshipped by the Wise Men.
KFC crossed with Soylent Green?
I just thought that it was weird & gross. Wouldn't even have associated it with chicken if it hadn't pasted the word across the screen. Looked like some alien monster from the deep - and those slimy tentacles were supposed to be gravy?
Have never had KFC, and this is certainly not tempting me, repulsing me rather.
I’m reminded of an array of ads from some decades back that all turned on the trope of people being just unable to manage really basic tasks, usually in the kitchen, until now, with the Ronco Miracle Widget, etc. I’m not sure any of those things would be helpful for someone with genuine physical difficulties (and thank God for those devices, absolutely), but it sounds like the same tone you’re describing here.
If you want really bad adverts - I play silly games on my phone. With Ads.
Every ad for another game includes at least some of:
kept count either).
OK, I should just stop playing stupid games, but these are so unbelievably bad.
Thank you.
It's why I buy 5L everything household cleanser related. Cheaper and less garbage.
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One of the actors from Eldorado was in the SpecSavers home eye-testing adverts. I recognised her voice straight away.
The problem is, there are not many recent series that are quite as famous for wooden acting, or I would have used one.
Maybe I should have said "So bad, they make William Shatner look fluid" But that would have got me into a whole different heap of trouble.
I see your Eldorado and I raise you Albion Market
My rubber, I think.
Perhaps this should have been posted on, 'You know you're old when' ..... Sorry
Triangle?
His bread knife could not have become that blunt overnight, unless he was using it to prune his roses or something. So he's obviously been struggling for quite a while with this knife. And he already owned the Miracle Knife Sharpener, because it was right next to him. So, if the Miracle Knife Sharpener is that good, why not use it regularly? Why keep it as kitchen clutter on the work surface until driven to use it as The Final Resort?
They needed to splash out on a second actor to spot the first in despair with his pile of crumbs and introduce him to the Miracle Knife Sharpener. They could call the Man in Despair Henry and he could sing "My knife is too blunt, dear Liza, dear Liza" and she could reply "Then sharpen it dear Henry , dear Henry, with this Miracle Knife Sharpener!"
I do love these ads. They leave me with a warm glow of thinking - I may be inept at many things, but I grasped the concept of Keeping Knives Sharp decades ago.
No no no! A serrated knife makes lots of crumbs. Use a really, like really, sharp knife.
What do they teach young people at school these days?
Not if wielded properly.
Nor do I want really, like really, sharp knives knocking about the cutlery drawer.
I've no idea what they teach in school these days, since I left going on 50 years ago.
See your Eldorado, Albion Market and Triangle and raise you You rang M'Lord?