the thinking person buys a 4x4?

adverts again. this time the kia sportage. why when the media is full of stories of "hate 4x4" and the local streets get plastered with flyposted "no 4x4" signs on lamposts near hypermarkets and schools, do they advertise a 4x4, being chased by an angry mob?
the "thinking man" would see the "thinking mans 4x4" and think, no thanks.

daytime tv adverts - are they meant to put you off?

daytime tv adverts, nearly all for one of 4 companies, such as rbs (directline, natwest, churchill, first active, tesco insurance etc), hbos (esure etc) and condsolidation loan groups under their retail names are really awful. they can be so bad i am sure they must actually put people off.

norwich unions quote me happy with morons, says "are like these morons if so, ring"

rbs never stop advertising, they must be the largest spender, if it isnt direct line pet, its home, if it isnt home its churchill, if its not churchill its tescos...

and esure must have annoyed the country with winner and then the mr mouse adverts.

although i care first about quality and price of any product, if it comes between 2, then the one with the least stupid advert will win!

more adverts that blow

Mazda, why would a dog peeing on a car be a good image. True the car fights back with its headlight washer jet, but the idea the dog is "marking its territory" must be far too subtle.
To most people it will be saying, car is crap, dogs piss on it.


Talking of car adverts, they do seem to be by far the worst by type. What is it with the Vauxhall fat kids acting like parent adverts. They are just sick making. Now they have introduced "the token asians" - well they must be. After all they were northern lower/middle class kids with accents you associate to up and coming asian communities. So there is something very uncomfortable about the new advert where not only is the addition asian, but he is someone wearing glasses, with a new car & house and the comments "well someones doing well for themselves" passed at them. It just seems so token.

mad cows, bombs, it only maters if you want to boycott

its so sad, when bombs go off, or mad cow is detected in the food supply, tourists and buyers will shun the country affected.

unless it happens to their own country, then they will then ignore it.

the sad truth is people often use these things for their own benefit. look at america now suffering the odd case of mad cow disease.

when one cow was detected in other countries the barriers went up, people refused to eat imports from those places, but when it happens to their own stocks, consumption of their own stuff goes up!

i am not being anti american, that was just an example. we all do it. its one of the reasons people will always find reasons not to like other people how ever "fair" you try to make the world.

trying to buy british.

its really not easy at all. for example, i want skimmed uht milk. if i go to tescos i can buy their own brand with the "food" tractor mark showing its british. unlike sainsburys who dont have an own brand, perhaps because, the uht skimmed they sell is french. however if i am at tescos and want some yogurt with my milk, then tescos own brand is made in germany. not that buying any of the famous old british brands is better as they are nearly all owned by the french now. so do i buy german yog or more expensive yog where the profits go to the french?