For the bewildered : Is it just me.....or is this just daft ?

In the spirit of Dave Gorman's recent series :

Why do British Airways think it's a good idea for their "cool trendy aspirational" holiday advert to use a song that clearly contains the lyrics :

"Siren of an ambulance comes howling...."

and

"... I look up into the sky for the path of a lightning bolt"

neither being things you want to associate with getting on a plane ?

I'm no fan of Ed Millibean but isn't the way the trailer for GMTV Breakfast or whatever it's called just a teeny-bit biased in the way it has Susanna Reid begin asking a question along the lines of :

"Isn't the general public's problem with politicians that they don't think they can trust them?" or words to that effect....


and to have the first part of the question appearing as a voice over with David Cameron sitting looking serious and like he's listening to the question.....

....and then the last part "don't think they can trust them" appear over a particularly close zooming in towards poor old Ed looking particularly gormless and vacant (I know, when does he look anything else ) and like he's cluelessly searching in vain for an answer to come back with?

OK they can't help his face, but they can be a bit kinder with the editing ?

Why not have Cameron also looking equally shifty/a bit stuck for an answer as well - I'm sure there's footage ?

Have you noticed the number of car adverts lately that show the driver partying like a lunatic behind the wheel, looking anywhere but the road, because the car makes their life so happy and exciting, slapping away at the steering wheel like a drum machine, or else being so relaxed and zen in the cocoon of their luxurious silent roadster that they are practically falling asleep while driving it.

Setting a very poor example, both of them.

And I especially can't stand the one where the inanely grinning man in the little white car steers towards an elephant in a jam-packed street while looking in the opposite direction.

Imagine the complaints if it was on Top Gear.

I'm sure I read somewhere that Jaguar got into trouble for the tagline "It's good to be bad" but it's still being shown so maybe that's bollocks

(22-09-2014 20:56 )M-L-L Wrote:  I'm sure I read somewhere that Jaguar got into trouble for the tagline "It's good to be bad" but it's still being shown so maybe that's bollocks

They got into trouble for the ad, but not because of the tagline.

Statement from the Advertising Standards Authority:
"We considered that the second part of the ad suggested that the car was being driven at excessive speeds and that the ad therefore encouraged irresponsible driving. The ad must not appear again in its current form."

According to the BBC weather forecaster, a weather front to the north west might be bringing, quote "enhanced rain".

WTF is enhanced rain ?

Does cough medicine need to taste so disgusting or does the manufacturer deliberately add a nasty secret ingredient with the intention of making you believe that the worse it tastes, the more good it must be doing for me.
I recall seeing a newspaper ad for some recently with the tagline "reassuringly vile" or somesuch.

(28-09-2014 13:35 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  Does cough medicine need to taste so disgusting or does the manufacturer deliberately add a nasty secret ingredient with the intention of making you believe that the worse it tastes, the more good it must be doing for me.
I recall seeing a newspaper ad for some recently with the tagline "reassuringly vile" or somesuch.

Sounds like the sods law food principle.
All the things that I think taste horrible are good for me.
All the things I think taste delicious are bad for me.
.

That reminds me of my favourite ever television advert. I think it was from Norway or Sweden. Four guys in white lab coats are up on a rooftop beating the crap out of a fifth guy in a white lab coat. A really violent Tarantino beating with punching and kicking and blood splattering everywhere, until they finally throw the guy off the roof. Then the remaining four dust themselves off and walk off screen...

...Tagline: "Four out of four dentists recommend Colgate".

But in keeping with the spirit of this thread, why does the BBC always feel the need to send someone out to "interview" the weather? This is my license fee! (well, it would be if I paid it). I know what rain, sunshine, snow, heavy winds and flooding look like. The little studio map works just fine. Do they really need to send someone to Hastings every time the wind blows, to stand on the seafront screaming into a mic that it's very windy?

Speaking of which, I am convinced that there are some attention-seeking narcissists living in Shropshire villages that have bought kayaks for the sole purpose of being cast as the 'Guy in a Kayak' that turns up in every single BBC report about every single flooded village since the second world war.

Has anyone ever found a use for the tachymeter feature on a watch ?



I know how it works in theory but it seems no more than a decoration in practical terms.

Now prove me wrong.