that bloody Specsavers advert with those strange-accented sloths

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is there a more annoying advert on British television at his juncture? i think not, unless they've brought back that one with the guy in the car making screechy brake noises (that made me feel like how i could just kill a man....most likely the guy making the screechy brake noises)

what adverts annoy you and why?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

There's one that says stuff like 'If you can remember when John Lennon grew his hair, you're 50 something, If you can remember blah blah' with some 50 year old guy doing 'yoof' stuff. Not only does it annoy ME intensely, but if I was 50 'something' I would feel really patronised by this ad.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

HOW CAN YOU BE SURE?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, can't hear too well these days.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

the new head and shoulders annoys me:

greasy hair?
get a breath of fresh air.

the hair / air thing just grates especially when they repeat it about 15 times.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:22 (twenty-three years ago)

all the adverts which are obviously dubbed annoy me. Not least because I find myself watching the actors' lips to try to discern whether they have been dubbed from a foreign language or simply had American accents replaced with British ones. I think the latter is totally unnecessary btw. Is there *any* marketing evidence to suggest that ppl will be less likely to buy a product if the accent of the actor in the commercial differs from their own?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:25 (twenty-three years ago)

....does anyone know where the teacher in the "Full moon...half moon...total eclipse" Jaffa cake ad is supposed to come from, incidentally? Not an accent I am familiar with.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

The sloths scare me. I just cannot picture the thought process that arrived at that concept for a contact lens advert.

There were some mighty annoying ones recently for UK Living with Jane Middlemiss blathering about how 'quirky' and fab Britain is, which made me want to move to Norway.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:30 (twenty-three years ago)

MarkH: Romanian.

I still like the Carola (?) ad. Makes driving look fun! HEY HEY HEY HEY. Haha but still, ONE IN THE EYE for the advertisers because I have no WONGA for a car hahahha mis-read markets hahaha good advert but it didn't work, hahahaha.

Or perhaps they're playing the advertising version of the Long Game - and we shall see...

I like the sloths! "Vot, you got to GO there?" haha.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah, do you know or are you guessing?

*blushes* that sounds rude, sorry.

But seriously - *do* you know? Do you have Romanian friends or did you read that she was Romanian?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:57 (twenty-three years ago)

You don't say?

No, I do.

Well, I like the sloths.

Current ad hates of mine are the ones for Brita water filters with the awful couple who seem to have a very strange relationship.

"Are we the average family?"

"No, but we could work on it. Dad."

Shudders.

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I find it difficult to believe anything could be more irritating than Michael Winner's E-sure car insurance advert. What creative genius dreamt up the idea of associating their brand with the most loathsome man in Britain?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Lord, I lift your name on high...

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I am currently open-mouthed at the ads for LG's internet fridge (which I think is only on during the cricet, which they sponsor). A bunch of guppy-faced eurobores stand around a sterile apartment in dinner jackets, doing nothing until another tuxedoed chap appears on the fridge (which seems to be in the middle of the living room) and says in the most stilted way "sorry I can't be there - have a great time!. There is then a Stars in their Eyes-style pause, before spontaneous laughter and a "cheers" from the rather poorly attended gathering. Ugh!

However, an internet fridge! Word!

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

i hate that bizarre bt ad with the ugly skater kid being a little bitch to his parents etc all day and then at the end of the day he can talk to his mates about skating near the nft. no reconciliation, no 'it's good to talk', nothing

"bt: keeping people apart in their own little worlds so they can annoy you later"

― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

also the classic "SELMA YOUR HAIR IS SO LOVELY. HOW CAN IT BE SO? SELMA-" etc

i luv the cup-a-soup ads too

― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's the science bit.

Concentrate!

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I quite like the BT one, if only because it has the classic look of an ad that's going to be about cancer or drink driving or drugs, and then the kid turns out to have nothing wrong with him except adolescence and skateboarding, phew.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no! My tampon has just fallen out of my bag and my thick-as-pig-shit boyfriend from "Dream Team" has picked it up and is about to dunk it in his coffee! I know, I'll nag him for a bit about being too fat and then he'll put it down again so thankfully he won't discover my feminine shame and I'll get to cling onto him for another month

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"BT: at least you're not dead"

― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, yeh joe, when that tampon ad came on i just felt compelled to yell out "Oh my God! he can't know that I menstruate!", much to the bemusement of my girlfriend i must admit

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i hate that Sky Digital one with the woman talking about 'Punch & Judy' saying 'he makes one of the better 007s, well i dont know where you're going to find that level of entertainment...in such a small box!" i cant place her accent but it is annoying

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

best ad recently was the Playstation Tekken one with the old guy in a suit going "i'm looking forward to really getting my hands around you and hearing you scream like a little girly" etc.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

"I think I'll try to get this lovely airport lady to frisk me by using the allure of my chewing gum breath before blowing a blast of freezingness at the camera and drawing a fetching X shape in it"

The blue cellophane ad where he sticks his tongue out at his future father-in-law is no better.

However, the disco-dancing Lynx advert is brill! And after all this time, Thierry Henry saying "Va va voom" still makes me go weak at the knees.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

OI! you're not supposed to be here!

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Wake up, Cabbage, I came back yesterday.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, I was asleep.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I like to think that the Tampax girl is not trying to hide her menstruating womanly ways but instead is trying to spare her dumbass boyf the embarrassment of dunking a tampon into his tea. Even if this is the correct interpretation it is still a cruddy ad.

― Emma, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Cruddy indeed. But surely the point of it (regardless of the exploits of the idiot pair in the ad) is indeed that these new tampaxes are v.discreet and people wouldn't know that they are tampons. I wouldn't personally eat a sweet or biscuit from such an unmarked packet - I would assume it was something from a joke shop.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Taking sides: original Wrigleys Extra twat vs Wrigleys Thin Ice twat?

The scariest advert on TV is the one for AlPro soya milk. Right at the end the mum drinks some milk and her freakchild makes a hideous face and sticks his claw-like hand out towards her. It is possibly supposed to be cute but in fact is reminiscent of the LoTR film where Bilbo goes all weird about the ring at Rivendell...

Re. the awful tampon advert, I see it more as 'I'm going to need that tampon later; thank god it looks EXACTLY like sugar, isn't technology wonderful, and my bf happens to be dumb and easily led AS WELL, lucky old me'.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe there should be a follow up ad where the girl is in the lav and tries to shove some sugar up herself before realising what a dozy bitch she is.

― Emma, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

GRODY.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Would this be an advert for sugar or tampons?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Sugar-flavored tampons?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

New strapline for Tate & Lyle: Sugar! It won't absorb menstrual blood but it's smashing in tea!

― Emma, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

all the Lynx adverts are terrible....i mean, it doesn't REALLY happen :(

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Poor steve.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe there should be a follow up ad where the girl is in the lav and tries to shove some sugar up herself before realising what a dozy bitch she is.

*splutters diet coke out of nose*

ha ha ha

and I'd like to give the next Declan Swann Award for Pisspoor Advertising to that Nestle cappucino advert - where the man who has froth on his face (I am assuming he can't tell because he's had a stroke) gets "completely the wrong impression" from that woman who keeps licking her lips at him. I mean why not just say "excuse me but you have froth on your face". pricktease

Or to that Actimel one, the gist of which is "buy our product and you'll be very boring and have the shits"

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Three words: Modtro...Spafe...Simpology...

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

"do you speak wanker?"

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I like to think that the Tampax girl is not trying to hide her menstruating womanly ways but instead is trying to spare her dumbass boyf the embarrassment of dunking a tampon into his tea.

Perhaps she just doesn't know he's a vampire.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Tampax sell pre bloodied tampons now?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

truly we live in the age of convenience

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't seen the ad (as if you hadn't guessed).

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

oh the one i love is the one with the geek talking to this fascinated girl about bacteria, its so absurd - the twist of course is that the girl appears to be even more of a geek than him by telling off her friend next day for not knowing about the difference between 'good bacteria' and bad bacteria

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

(That girl went to my old yoga class a few times! I was v. excited about doing yoga with someone off the telly. She has done other adverts too)

― Emma, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

steve isn't that the actimel one I mentioned? agreed it is terrible.

also that awful chocolate advert where the bar jumps off the counter and asks a rather desperate-looking man to "lick my bubbles". it really gives me the creeps. thankfully I can't remember exactly what it's advertising.

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Aero?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

The chocolate ad is for Kinder Bueno.

That thing for the cartoon chracter that teaches kids how to speak French (often seen on the cartoon channels). This old woman comes on and says something like "Yes, they're speaking French! But here's the kick in the pants - they're fuckin' English! CAN YOU FUCKIN' BELIEVE THAT?! blblblblblblbl *head explodes*"

What was that one with the severe and rather snidey man who actually insulted viewers for not choosing to go with their crappy car insurance company, whatever it was? Didn't run for very long, unsuprisingly.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha possibly Direct Line with angry man from Emmerdale? Except it wasn't Emmerdale actually... some programme anyway.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

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Charmin. They've switched the bear looking thoroughly satisfied as he wipes his arse on the stuff to a bear looking thoroughly satisfied as he lies back on a bed of the stuff, but it's still yuck. My Nanna gave me a Charmin flamingo for Christmas.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

there is a lot of weird "did-i-just-see-that?" stuff flying around

(and when did bum-wiping become an acceptable ad-world meme? there's a cartoon frog miming it on some product i have luckily repressed)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Poo, what's that smell? Mummy's going to retch when she comes into the bathroom so I'd better spray some gross air freshener about. There, that's better. Now I'll pull up my ginormous Y-fronts.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I WAS REPRESSING IT FOR A REASON!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

YOU ARE ELEVEN MONTHS OLD.

(babiesbabiesbabiesbabies)

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)

that charmin bed will never hold together. needs more support. plus who's gonna replace all the pooey bits in the middle. i mean if you've got a bed MADE of loo roll, then it's gonna be tempting on those lazy mornings...

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

No Mark, there are TWO what's that smell ads. I was quoting from the OTHER one.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Eww bum wiping meme: saw from bus this morning giant billboard for Velvet loo roll – ‘Love Your Bum’ it says across an enormous shapely pair of buttocks. But surely for accuracy they should have had enormous picture of an actual shapely orifice or not bothered with the stupid ad in the first place? Toddlers’ buttocks in nappy/wet wipes ads are always vaguely disturbing too – WE KNOW WHAT THEY’RE FOR, NO NEED FOR ILLUSTRATION!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm waiting for the Tesco ad where Jane Horrocks finally flips and stabs Prunella Scales through the throat with a set of kitchen knives (just £4.97 - not available in all stores)

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

the whole reason television is better than life = no smell

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

we have entered the end times

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Marketing Magazine got very excited about Charmin back when it launched because it was the first defecation hygiene product actually to admit in its ads what people would be using it for (i.e. pre-Charmin a Martian would assume that all this rolled-up tissue paper was a play aid for puppies)

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 28 February 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

awwwwww puppies

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 28 February 2003 12:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha rabelais to thread!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 28 February 2003 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

that ad with the line-up of wonky bums in it would be much better if soundtracked with the theme from the gallery on "hart beat"

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 28 February 2003 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

and please tell my why those ads for Tena Lady / Canesten / Anusol etc always come on when I've just sat down with my tea?

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 28 February 2003 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Go on, LAUGH! And piss your pants safe in the knowledge that Poise will soak it up.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 February 2003 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

One of my life's ambitions is to make a Feminine Hygiene Product Of Your Choice advert with lots and lots of the colour red everywhere. No more mysterious blue liquids in demonstrations!

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I like feminine hygiene product ads, except they make me jealous of those lovely periods you women have. All that wearing of tight white shorts and roller skating and stuff, they're obviously tremendously fun and sexy times.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I really am irritated by the way the voiceovers on shampoo ads pronounce "hair" as "haiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyah". it's HARE, HARE OK?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

as in hare and tortoise not krishna

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Charmin'!

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

the new Specsavers adverts are pretty annoying as well - 'shoulda gone to Specsavers' - how can you possibly tell by looking at my spectacles from afar where i bought them from, you great shower of shit?

worse still is that Doritos 'friendchips' ad where they're playing the 'whats your movie star name' game....THIS GAME DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST. they changed it from 'porn star name game' that everyone already knows just so they could make a lame joke that one of the people playing's movie star name actually sounds a little bit more like a porn star name. jesus.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, that Specsavers ad with the bloke that thinks he's being eyed up is piss poor.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 26 June 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

By chance, I am due at my old Specsavers branch on Saturday for my first check up in four years. Then it’s the terrified grip of the plastic chair as the optician calmly tells me that because I insist on wearing my contacts for 12 hour stretches at a time, to compensate for the lack of oxygen reaching my cornea, the veins on my eyeball are growing at a vast rate into my iris and I will be blind before the month is out.

Anyway, yes, those Doritos ads are indeed suicide-inducing, and the most recent has actually strengthened my resolve never again to buy a packet of 'friendchips'.

― Alex K (Alex K), Thursday, 26 June 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

and who would live down Honeybush Lane with a cat named Ginger anyway - this aint the fackin Good Life you know

i am too much like that 'Spike High Street' guy for real, depressingly

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

can I launch into a tirade against that fucking advert where two petulant brats can think of nothing better to do with their magic powers than turn a shitty little convertible car into a shitty little pick up?

and also on a car note - what about that one with the "wank wank" soundtrack. didn't anybody at the agency notice?

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 26 June 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

when it comes to car ads you can't beat Grace Jones's Citroën AX promo

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 26 June 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

HATCHBACK!

OPEN TOP!

HATCHBACK!

OPEN TOP!

HAHAHA

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

what happened to The Quest For The Rowntree? they never finished that off.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

also there's this advert that is so annoying I have thankfully repressed all memory of whatever it is that it's trying to sell - the one with people singing "we will rock you" in childs voices - ARGH

and also that joanna lumley moisturiser advert - I mean, where's the liposomes and other long meaningless scientific words and mentions of fruit and tea tree oils?

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

*shouts GROW UP at stevem, waves wand, looks on with horror*

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

In that HATCHBACK! OPEN TOP! ad, the guy at the end looks like some buff younger brother of N.

I have only one more word to say on this thread: SPAFE.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

*does ear-piercing girly scream at j0e*

one advert i do love is that mobile phone ad with the two 2D cartoon blokes boasting about the things their phones can do, until one of them says 'yeh but can your phone do THIS?' and it shoots out a laser beam that slices off the other guy's arm...its only good for the way the other guy then says 'Veeerrrry nice' quite calmly...reminds me of Jon Tickle

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

shouldnt advertising people be reading this thread and furrowing their brows as i fail to remember what the adverts are actually FOR most of the time. sirs, you are fired.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I have only one more word to say on this thread: SPAFE.

Arghh! I think they should add FUNT to this ad.

I hate the couple in the Direct Line adverts; the sarky, career-minded woman and her lazy scruff boyfriend - they just don't make a believable couple.

― Alfie (Alfie), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

calm down dear, that's actually a very good commercial

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

j0e, which one? Modtro, Spafe, Simpology, Shidvert or the odd couple?

― Alfie (Alfie), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm still amazed there was never a Bryclreem advert starring Alex from Big Brother 2002, soundtrack being 'Thats The Way I Like it'.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

currently having nightmares about babies everywhere suddenly starting to talk like Donald Sinden professing how much they hope they dont 'have a little accident'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

SPAFE is the worst.

Best ad on TV - double one double eight double eight.

It's not subtle, but at least it bloody works. It's also my two year old son's favourite tune at the moment.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Alfie is spot on about the Direct Line couple. I want him dead. Dead, I tell you!

Ohh, and that one where the organist plays "she bangs" at a wedding. It would be okay, if a) that was the punchline, and the ad ends directly, rather than cringingly being padded out for another 30 secs; or b) if the sound that came out of the organ was actually impressive. Gah.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

see up-thread for fine slating of the direct line couple

anybody else find it weird that kylie is contracted to do ads for both BA and Eurostar? conflict of interests, shurely?

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 26 June 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

fly there, get the train back, variety is the spice of life ect ect.

do we want the sloths back in place of the long haired bloke whose lost his glasses and empties out the bin in an attempt to find them?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Schmozzy Schmosbourne, you mean?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm quite fond of SIMPOLOGY et al. My favourite word in Micra happens to be SPAFE => I am the opposite of JtN!

I am pleased by the Johnson's gurgle-o-meter adverts.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Anyone know where the sloths advert is available for download? Or even a soundbite?

― Raymond, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

here? (you'll need the relevant plugin)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

God! I saw this one two days ago (this post upthread was from Feb 2003 or thereabouts. the old womans accent is more Queen E x with Judith Chalmers. The above is not an exact quote tho...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Many many years ago swirly writing

Advert for Knour Soup. Working class family, she doing ironing, he in from work. Newsreader reading the news adding lots of words beginning with a pronounced "K", so you get the picture. Anyway, the wife says "Have you heared the news?" He: "What?" She "Our Doreen's pregnant again!" Newsreader coughs. Cut to packshot of soup.

WHAT? (This'll be 1969 or so...)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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