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This is the Conversation Forum for Ask the h2g2 Community Jesus is coming back. Get ready. >> Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Sep 25, 2009 by Taff Agent of Kaos.We are Borg....Resistance is Futile....Bufoons are Go This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2021 I remember a program about beauty products and they were saying things like hiloronic acid did have the effect described, but the quantitys required had other side effects that no-one was prepared to risk, so the active quantitys in the products are so small as to be effectivly useless and its all just a marketing ploy and play on words along the lines of X product does this our cream contains X product buy our cream..... at no time do they outright say our product does this????? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Sep 25, 2009 by Br. Robyn Hoode - Ginger and Spice and all things nice. This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2022 Ah, the good old 'highlyironic acid'. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Sep 25, 2009 by Orcus This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2023 >active quantitys in the products are so small as to be effectivly useless< That'll be homeopathy then. That's seems to market quite well... Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Sep 25, 2009 by Bright Blue Shorts This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2024 Being in the middle of reading "Bad Science" ... the author Dr Ben Goldacre states that almost all beauty creams need to hydrate the skin, and Vaseline will do it very well although you want to eliminate the greasiness. A tub of Hydrobase, £10 for half-a-litre will do the job well enough. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Oct 16, 2009 by Deb This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2025 Two ads annoying me just now. The first is a mobile phone ad with a woman using the phone, surrounded by a lot of people in orange robes forming concentric circles away from her - it looked like they were in the middle of a big orange. I had no doubt whose ad I was watching until right at the end when it was revealed that the phone company was the oxygen one, not the citrus fruit one. Seems a bit stupid - surely someone noticed? The other is the radio ad for confused.com. The guy says "I just typed "confused.com" into a search engine and..." wtf? Why wouldn't he just type it into the address bar? No wonder he's confused about car insurance. Deb Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Oct 25, 2009 by The Invisible Knight This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2026 The ad for Simplyhealth (an insurance company) who state they formed 40 yrs ago "because the NHS didn't exist back then". So their creation date of 1948 is untrue? Or your advert is fraudulent in its claim? Which sounds far more likely. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Oct 25, 2009 by The Invisible Knight This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2027 Oh and the advert for Windows 7 with the girl in the back of the taxi who can't be much older than 20 who claims she "invented the task bar" for Windows 7. That'll be the taskbar thats been there since Windows 95 was invented when you were about 14 then? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Oct 25, 2009 by Bright Blue Shorts This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2028 14? Are you using the same math as Simplyhealth ? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Oct 26, 2009 by Br. Robyn Hoode - Ginger and Spice and all things nice. This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2029 'loose' math, it's a new theoretical branch of mathematics that could prove the existence of god AND dinosaurs. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Oct 26, 2009 by Reefgirl (Happy Xmas your gluteous maximus, I pray God it's our last) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2030 Anyone else annoyed by the 'Apocolypse Now' British Gas advert? I love the smell of Napalm in the Morning, hmmm Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Oct 26, 2009 by Reddyfreddy This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2031 >> The ad for Simplyhealth (an insurance company) who state they formed 40 yrs ago "because the NHS didn't exist back then". So their creation date of 1948 is untrue? << The advert starts "Almost 140 years ago..." Although wiki gives their formation as 1922, so I think they're stretching the truth there a bit. RF Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Oct 26, 2009 by Xanatic, juice for Allah This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2032 So you´ll believe Wikipedia over an ad made by the company themselves? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Oct 27, 2009 by Reddyfreddy This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2033 OK, here goes... Simplyhealth was formed from a company formerly known as HSA, which was incorporated in 1922. However, HSA previously took over other companies, and merged with them, one of which may have a history going back 140 years. But it's stretching the truth a bit to believe that the company currently incorporated as Simplyhealth has been in existence for 140 years. If I form a limited company today, Reddyfreddy Ltd, and take over Barclays Bank, can I reasonably claim that my company's history stretches back to the 17th century? RF Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Oct 27, 2009 by Not-so-bald-eagle This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2034 I think if you called your company Booty-takers you could have a fair case.... if your called it Bizarre Bonuses something more recent might be better Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Nov 4, 2009 by RodtheBrit/pseudo Kiwi under training - now only half goes in a glass This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2035 On a flyer, in everybody's mailbox Here's your exclusive invitation to the sale everybody waits for Monster Sale Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Nov 4, 2009 by Taff Agent of Kaos.We are Borg....Resistance is Futile....Bufoons are Go This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2036 how many monsters were on sale and what type were they???? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Nov 4, 2009 by Orcus This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2037 There is an advert for ScS sofas at the moment with a guy dressed up in a tuxedo in the corner of the screen who has to point and grin at every deal they announce. Not really advertising stupidity but bod it's irritating me. The guy has got to be the worst advertising actor ever - and he doesn't even say anything. Didn't they realise just how cheesy and spivvy he comes across. I hope he got well paid for the advert as his mates must be mercilessly ribbing him for looking like the biggest ponce on telly in that ad. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Nov 4, 2009 by Cheerful Dragon This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2038 I agree the man on the ScS ad is irritating. What's worse is that it's latched on to the popularity of Strictly Come Dancing, with the offers of 'Strictly £10'. I switch channels when that ad comes on. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Nov 4, 2009 by Orcus This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2039 You know, I hadn't even noticed that. Must be because I'd rather eat my own poo than watch anything related to dancing Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Advertising stupidity - now with added Title Posted Nov 4, 2009 by logicus tracticus philosophicus : a parasite of no consequence: This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2040 Must be because I'd rather eat my own poo <<<<<Silly missing a market opportunity, for a unique food with lots of roughage Read the First Reply to this Posting << < Conversation list Most of the content on h2g2 is created by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. 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