Colin Leake Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 We all know that there are some adverts that grate on us. Indeed when some come on my wife reaches for the remote to mute the telly. What gets me though is the ones that don't seem to make any sense to me. Sometimes having watched some in passing I'm left wondering what they were advertising. The one that's puzzling me at the moment is for a well known brand of toilet roll. Apparently is now made stronger to last longer. Now I can see the obvious advantage of it being stronger (especially when compared to the caravan club product!) and I can see that made stronger to last longer is quite a good catchy advertising slogan but what I can't work out is how making it stronger makes it last longer! May be its so strong you can put the used sheets in the washing machine dry them out and reuse them. Any ideas or other examples anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Probably, but we don't listen to any adverts because I hit the mute button at the start of every ever increasing commercial break so we are spared the rubbish! There are some funny ones - Marmite being one of the latest and I must confess to quite liking my wee Meerkat mates - although the calibre of those has dropped very considerably over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Leake Posted August 15, 2013 Author Share Posted August 15, 2013 To be honest we often record programs with adverts in and skip the adverts, or time slip the program so we can skip the adverts. I can't understand ITV making some of their best programs clash with the best BBC ones when it's obvious that viewers are going to record theirs for later viewing to enable them to skip the adverts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwendolyn Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Rarely watch TV nowadays – well, out of the country half the year. It’s the old ones I recall. A favourite from the past is the one with Paula Hamilton ditching the bloke, the ring, the fur coast and nearly ditching the VW car. But deciding to keep it. Alan Price singing ‘Changes’ was, I think, the theme tune? It’s probably on You Tube if I could be bothered to search. But lots of silly ones too are in the memory bank - "Murray Mints, Murray Mints, the too good to hurry mints" is one such. Daft! And even dafter is the fact that I can remember the tune. Cheers Gwen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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