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"Imagine if your hair felt as strong as you do" - as muttered by fat arse with a cheque book Lopez in some shampoo advert.
Really? Does anyone fall for this guff?? (Runs out to buy shampoo because telly told me to)
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New and improved. I hate that. It can't be both. Pick one.
shampoo and cosmetic adverts are full of double-speak. If the products really did do any of the things they want to claim they do then they wouldn't be a cosmetic, they'd be a pharmaceutical and as such advertising them would heavily regulated. So you have to have phrases like 'reduces the appearances of' or 'you told us that.....'
Same thing happens with food advertising, where you'll be told that something is 'an excellent source of antioxidants' but you can't say in the advert or on the packet what it is that antioxidants do for you if you eat them, if you can't substantiate the claim.
Mind you look at all the bullshit we swallow about the nuances and personalities of different metal pipes
My luxuriant coffier is largely due to EPO.
If it's good enough for Jan, it's good enough for me.
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Evening Primrose Oil seems to have lots of benefits.
what about Alpecin caffeine shampoo "for men". Eh? silly question, but why only for men? Does it smell of engine oil?
I clearly remember an advert on Capital Radio some years ago. 'Eye tests while you wait'! How the hell else are you supposed to have eyes tested? Pop them out can come back in a couple of hours?!!???
anything that says anti- ageing in its description usually of creams for women
lubricating molybdenum disulfide is deposited, via electrical induction, into the billions of micropores on the surface of hard-anodized aluminum.
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"... You're worth it ..." 🙄
New and improved. I hate that. It can't be both. Pick one.
Yes it can!
If I go buy a new car the same as my old one, there will be no improvement. If I buy a new car of a more recent model, then it's new and improved. 🙂
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I clearly remember an advert on Capital Radio some years ago. 'Eye tests while you wait'! How the hell else are you supposed to have eyes tested? Pop them out can come back in a couple of hours?!!???
Just for you cheesy... years ago in birmingham there was a chiropodist with a billboard outside. On the billboard was a huge poster pointing with an arrow pointing to the front door and the slogan "Doctor Bigfoot. Chiropody While Wait"
There's a cosmetics advert that says "Inspired by Gene Science".
W.
T.
F?
Bifidus digestiva!!!!!
"Inspired by Gene Science"
who's he when he's at home?
100% of 72% of 125 people agreed
[b]x fruit is a super fruit and has been shown to reduce cancer/lower cholesterol/kill aliens*[/b]
*you need to consume a metric tonne
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Gene Science"
Gene Simmonds moonlighting using a false name, conducting experiments using his large tongue
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I love the phrase "Digestive Transit".......that'd be a McVities' van then?
That Alpacin caffeine shampoo advert really annoys me, it doesn't actually say why on earth your hair would want to be bathed in caffeine!
New and improved. I hate that
Moreover, all this time we've been using old and inferior.
The amount of times some products have boasted "improved," how shit must they have been to start with?
They can't say why you'd want to put caffine on your hair because you can't make an unsubstanciated claim in and advert or on the packaging.
Where you[i] can[/i] make unsubstanciated claims in in the guise of news and editorial (remarkably). So the real campaign will be through press releases to copy hungry news agencies and by sometimes having a paid patsey working as a journalist.
Thats how a lot of nutritionism is marketed - the fad for superfoods is driven through news stories that suppliment manufacturers plant with journalists which they happily print without checking. The health claims are made in the press and the adverts conveniently appear around them
The general conclusion I have reached is that either most women are thick or at least marketeers think they are. Most of the spurious shite is in adverts aimed at women: hair and cosmetics, diet foods and organised anorexia rings they all assume women are vapid fools with no understanding of science or statistics...
Bodyform ads where female viewers are instucted to "Have a happy period" still illicit a prompt "**** off!" from my missus...
Bodyform ads where female viewers are instucted to "Have a happy period" still illicit a prompt "**** off!" from my missus...
Probably time of the month, mate.
The general conclusion I have reached is that either most women are thick or at least marketeers think they are. Most of the spurious shite is in adverts aimed at women: hair and cosmetics, diet foods and organised anorexia rings they all assume women are vapid fools with no understanding of science or statistics...Bodyform ads where female viewers are instucted to "Have a happy period" still illicit a prompt "**** off!" from my missus...
you just don't notice the ads that are targeted at you
More shampoo nonsense,
Pentapeptides!
What?
The general conclusion I have reached is that either most women are thick or at least marketeers think they are.
I think advertisers realised a while back that women had equal capabilities to men, as this 1950s advert clearly implies
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In fact some seemed to suggest that women were smarter.....
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Anyone remember boswellox, it was the magic ingredient in one of the anti wrinkle creams a few years ago (L’Oreal Wrinkle De-Crease to be precise). I reckon some cynical marketing type just wondered how far they could go, judging by the fact it was on the telly for a while quite a long way.
Any advert that includes the phrase 'up to'.
"This deodorant will make up to 1000 women want to sleep with you."
"Up to 1000" clearly includes the number 0.
I mean, I bought some anyway. You can't argue with the odds.
"This deodorant will make up to 1000 women want to sleep with you."
Got to be worth a punt. What's the deodorant called ?
Bifidus digestiva!!!!!
He has a fwend you know!
"thv3 - MemberBifidus digestiva!!!!!"
Is that not a spell from Harry Potter?
Bifidus Actiregularis, Bifidus Digestivum, L. Casei Imunitass, Bifidus Activo, Digestivum Essensis, L. Casei Imunitass, L. Casei Defensis & variants are all registered to Danone and used in their Activa range of yoghurts.
Wonder if its related to marketis bulshi titis?
I never miss my tripple aha fruit acids at breakfast time. 🙄
Caffeine is an insecticide, that's why the plant puts it in its seeds. Is the shampoo aimed at people with head lice or fleas?
Is the shampoo aimed at people with head lice or fleas?
What the advert can't say too overtly is the shampoo is supposed to prevent / reverse male pattern baldness
Maybe I imagined it, but I think I just saw an advert for Skegness on C4!?
Automatic soap dispensers. You are going to wash your hands after touching the dispenser, so even if it was covered in a shit it would not matter.
I think you'll find it bloody would.
Very well done chrisdw. Genuine guffawing here....
how about the car company that promises to pay a 'non existant' tax for 3 years, bit like a bank promsing to pay your "poll tax" to the end of the millenium if you take out a mortgage with them.
Recent dishonest ads:
That Holiday Inn ad with Shanaze Read biking around the place. I bet they'd love that.
Thomas Cook people doing loads of exciting stuff on holiday. 'I'm sorry Sir, that's not covered by your insurance.'
I'd pay more attention to ad's if they were produced by independent parties who could give an impartial opinion of a product, rather than manufacturers whanging on about how their latest offering is the best thing since sliced bread and your life will never be the same again if you own it - "oh really. well you would say that wouldn't you. seeing as you've just spend millions in design, research, production & promotion."
TV ad's are the equivalent of unsolicited mail/phone-calls.
Lynx adverts.
It's pretty mean to lie to spotty teenage boys that a can of deoderent is going to make them irisistable
(Can't remember the company, but it did make me laugh)
"We have further refined the ride by further optimising the suspension design, to allow greater traction, more control and greater efficiency"
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Fox 36
http://www.foxracingshox.com/2012preview/technology.php?t=tl
"Automatically adjusting to trail conditions in real-time, Terralogic allows you to focus on the task at hand. When it gets rough, the fork becomes active for plush, bump-absorbing performance; in smooth conditions, the fork stiffens to provide pedaling efficiency—and the option to have it either fully locked out or fully open."
What a load of old cobblers.
That Holiday Inn ad with Shanaze Read biking around the place. I bet they'd love that.
For balance, I have taken my bike (a lot dirter than Read's too) in two Holiday Inn Expresses, and never received anything other than smiles and helpfulness. They offered to stash it in an unused conference room if I didn't want it cluttering up my room too.
Limehouse and Royal Docks, in case anyone wonders.
Re the pseudoscience nonsense in ads targeted at women - you are all forgetting one key thing. It works. From their perspective, who the hell cares if it's rubbish? If you were the boss of l'Oreal, would you say no to it?
Oh wait, you aren't the boss of a huge global company.
They offered to stash it in an unused conference room if I didn't want it cluttering up my room too.
Why would you want to do that? You can't clean it in the shower if it's in the conference room.
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Also, why do the adverts saying 'Go to Wales/Scotland/Yorkshire/etc for your holiday' only get shown in the place they are advertising? Seems like the wrong audience
how would you know? You never fancied any of them anyway 🙂It's pretty mean to lie to spotty teenage boys that a can of deoderent is going to make them irisistable
I saw the "Can I have it" clover advert for the first time yesterday, I was well impressed. That man is not from tribe called quest.
90% of adverts are dross, occasionally get a good one. That new lottery one winds me up at the moment.
Some people are still surprised how easy it is to prepare frozen food
Carol Vorderman, Farm foods ad, What F'';;; people ?! that really used to wind me up 👿
emsz - MemberLynx adverts.
It's pretty mean to lie to spotty teenage boys that a can of deoderent is going to make them irisistable
To be fair, Lynx play quite well with that- they don't pretend it's not ridiculous, hence more and more insane ads with thousands of women charging across a mountain etc.
The best Lynx one was about the World Cup suggesting that millions of men glued to the TV would present an opportunity for a predatory male liberally sprayed with Lynx.
To right! All the bad drivers are watching TV, I'm out for a safe ride for once!