it is time a health warning was put on charity adverts.

how many people get suckered in by the "sad" faces and emotional style of charity tv adverts.

what people dont know is those charities are often far from poor. in fact they have years of savings, making bank fund managers very rich.

and what about those "please give just £2 a month adverts" where do people think that is going to go, to help the little girl with sad eyes?

no chance, 50p goes to the bank for the direct debit costs, and the rest in charity admin and all the crap they will then send the donator to try and make that £2 a month something more substantial.

its time a warning was given on every charity advert. something along the lines of their audited needs, their out goings, their income, and the amount they spend on adverts, especially tv adverts.

let people know, if they donate just £2 a month, it wont go on help, it will go on getting more money from them

qatar - another "who" airline that relies on women to sell

another cnn advert, and again an airline that shows food and happy all smiles women stewardesses.

are they saying our staff are pole dancers?

because what does it matter?

at least they do make a point of where they fly, but its all food and totty otherwise.

people cant taste food on planes, the wines a specially selected for their taste at 30,000 feet and are said to be yeuk at home. so its not food anyone flies for.

they want a comfy seat, some sleep and thats about it.


food and women that wont shag you you sad person were 1970s ideas...

why do airlines still have "girl" adverts?

cnn runs an advert for Ethiopian airways. crumbs, i must admit i thought they would be concentrating on food than flying. still. there is the advert, where do they fly?

no idea. but i can see they have only women stewardesses serving lots of food to their passengers.

not everyone flying books by their dick, in fact it tends to be centralised purchasing and a team of women in administration there who do the buying. so who is it aimed at?

im more interested in the age of the fleet and where they go than the sex of the stewardess who i am likely to be asleep as they pass.

and what the hell is the point of the wkd advert?

time for another advert complaint.

what is the point of the wkd dentist advert?

so a dentist shocks his customer (for that is what they are) by acting like a pissed up fuckwit.

and that is meant to make the drink attractive?

and now its sainsburys that has a stupid advert.

ok another stupid advert, i cant stand jamie "tosser" olivers ones.

sainsbury's "little bill"

so they now resale hbos (esure) insurance. wow. great stuff. and how do they show it, well little bill, walks like a cowboy down a high street full of shops.

but salisbury's is destroying the high street, while a cowboy is hardly much of a positive image.

racist adverts?

the oh so politically correct "gremlins" adverts are back. the ones they showed last year, where someone who is poor with maths or reading is shown up and then beats their gremlins with a course.

by politically correct i mean the adverts have a cast of all races. however strangely, only white people have the "lead roll" negative based person with the problem. other colours only ever have the "positive" parts in the adverts.

why is that?

who the hell likes the kfc advert

the painful singing about how great their fast food is.

its really annoying, yet they continue to run a few different versions of the advert.

why? they must be getting hate feedback from their market testings.

perhaps burger king are paying for the adverts, because they dont turn me on.

then again kfc has always had dodgy choices. why is it their fries are brown in the adverts yet bleachy white in reality? why dont they show the real thing, are they ashamed?

then there is a previous advert that showed a new recruit to kfc, finding it had to learn the chicken is 100% whatever. that must have made everyone working at kfc proud. i mean to be portrayed as a total idiot on tv.

you have to wonder how these people get jobs to think up this rubbish

the thinkers dont make the cars it seems

more about the kia sportage "the thinking mans 4x4" which i have already questioned on this blog - why a thinking man would buy a 4x4 let alone one shown in an advert to be chased by an angry mob (perhaps the people behind that advert own their own 4x4s and get chased by angry people who protest about 4x4's and the idea just came to them!)


anyway, seems its getting yet another fault recall. so it might be bought by the thinking man, but nobody thought about it when building it !

robin cook rip

i for one was not one that shared many of robin cook's political views.

but it was very sad news that he had collapsed and died this weekend. one i am sure the conspiracy posts will swirl with after dr kelly ones in the past.

but mr cook was an star in the anti-iraq war debate. he was not a loud mouth, drum banging guy. he honourably resigned his government cabinet position, and then calmly asked important questions in a polite manner of the prime minister when one needed asking.

that is how our democracy is meant to work, and he stuck to those rules well. that meant he was given more reverence by his targets, and so actually got results.

his voice will be missed, not only by those who opposed the war, but those who regardless of their own views about his politics admired the way he went about his business.

if only more people in our system were as polite, thoughtful and effective.

another daft advert

ok i admit, this one plays a clever con.
vodafone, pointing out their new call charges mean you can spend longer on the phone than most people want to, shows people trying to finish calls asap.
now thats quite normal, at the high costs of the phonecalls (i know lots of reasons for the high charges such as interconnect kickbacks and the frontending of the handset cost) people do often try to keep the calls brief.
to highlight it they use "interesting" and "funny" situations where a few seconds really isnt enough time on the phone, eg bungie rope breaking, problems at customs, dad selling mum for 2 camels and telling daughter.
thing is, the person receiving the call is the one stopping it. which is the wrong way round. you dont pay for calls being received in the uk from anywhere, and thats what it was showing. so its actually not a realistic situation on the advert.
it looks a good advert but with in seconds you see, what they are suggesting is not relevant to the new vodafone deal they are promoting!

so whats the point of advertising something you are not giving! thats fraud.

stupid adverts continued

the astra sports hatch.
why would someone who throws themselves down a hillside, finally crashing into the road in front of the car, be taken as anything other than a total idiot? so when they then say "nice car mate" surely you would think if an idiot likes the car, i dont want it?!