Adverts and "Technology"

How about the "Up to 100% more than/faster than/longer than other products. That means anything from twice as good (100% better) to absolutely useless (100% worse)!

theres a book called 'brainwashed' that I keep meaning to read about all this bollox.
It pathetic, consumerism gone mad. People are so obsessed in making money from cr4p that they will go to any length to do it.

eye transplants

dont be dissin thirst pocket technology. good stuff that is.

I saw an advert for something or other yesterday and the text at the bottom said 84% of 43 people surveyed liked it.

Cillit Bang with Turbo Power!

this has turned into a dave gorman show

For the last ten years Gillette has been telling us that each new razor is capable of shaving you closer , so by my reckoning they were selling you something akin to a spoon to shave with when they first came out or else there lying.

all tag lines should be
'make up your own ditty here, think of the best thing ever, this is that thing now buy it and add to the recyclable cr4p on the planet'

unrecyclable even

I saw an advert for something or other yesterday and the text at the bottom said 84% of 43 people surveyed liked it.

That's a very common one!

Are these people useless at maths, even with a calculator?

36.12 people for Christ's sake, and the management pay thousands to the contrivers of this cr@p, without checking the validity!

dave gorman had ads for some make up company, max factor or maybelline or summat i dunno, where the ad made claims and at the bottom in tiny writing it said stuff like *23% of 40 women agreed. so, most of em didnt!

Actually is 9.2 but how the **** do you have 0.2 of a person?

23% of 40 women agreed.


the rest are just high on cocaine .....

Here we go again....

The must-have all-in-one remedy is Head & Shoulders’ new Soothing Care shampoo. Using state-of-the-art molecular techniques, Head & Shoulders scientists have shown that the shampoo’s Actizinc technology, with its signature ingredient ZPT, allows the scalp to help itself and so reduce itching and flaking.** The shampoo technology cleanses and conditions gently but doesn’t leave excess residues behind that could trap dirt and dust which can also contribute to the irritation/itch cycle.

I like the razors ads, in 20 years we will have razors with 50 blades in them so shaving only takes 3 strokes

Joe Baker used to advertise 'New Blue Daz' 40 year ago, which got your 'whites' whiter than white.

40 years on, no newer powder gets my 'whites' any cleaner.

But they have all said it does.

BB

Nay, damn CMAT! Powders reached their zenith 40 years ago. Now it is all techo liquid-tabs! You're working that poor woman to death.

She bungs it in a washing machine, that does all the work.