When you think about it

TV Adverts are really rather silly aren't they? Take for example the toilet duck range of toilet cleaners. You'd buy that product if you were happy with it's cleaning power shouldn't you? Why shoudl your choice of purchase be influenced by the fact that in the advert said product is used by a cartoon duck which seems to have aspirations of being a ninja. Then there's the advert which claims that most toilet cleaners don't really get rid of limescale just bleach it enough to so the toilet looks clean and when they spray a special liquid into the toilet the Limescale shows up. So as far as I'm aware most people don't carry round said special liquid to spray in toilets to show if there's invisable limescale.

But worse then those adverts are the ones which post blindingly obivous warnings in huge text because their obivousily worried that if they don't someone will sue them. For example there is a advert for a surface cleaner which has a doom ladden voice over saying that bacteria can live for a longtime on surfaces. Shows mother preparing a plate of raw chicken legs. She wipes the surface with a cloth then cuts some carrots on the surface before giving one to her baby. At which point when the carrot piece is in the babys hand it morphs into a chicken leg obivously to indicate the fact that as Mother wash the work top properly she might as well as just given the baby a raw chicken leg. Most people would get the symbolism but of course the company must have been worried about those that don't as when the carrot morphs into the chicken leg it says in nice big writing underneath on the screen " Dramatisation". Obivousily to make it clear for those people who believe that carrots can morph into raw chicken on a regular basis that this isn't one of those times.

And then of course there are those adverts that make you cringe. For example a newspaper is giving away free mp3 players to readers to advertise the release of the new James bond film. Cut to guy walking down street listening to his new player whilst 'singing' the Bond theme tune. He bumps into girl who is also singing theme tune and they go in sync and walk down the road at which point everybody in a cafe jumps up starts to join in the singing as well and everybody dances off down the road in a remarkably in sync and non chorographed ( honest guv) dance routine as so often happens in real life and not only ever in High school musical films! I mean maybe it was just my high school but none of the pupils ever seemed to burst into song and dance routines in the middle of class, in a corridor or sports lession :-) If I was walking down the street and everybody in a cafe jumped up and burst into song I would start running the other way very quickly indeed.

Okay, so in case you haven't guessed by this point it was one of those days today. Not a bad one of those days mind you just a rather odd 'one of those days, which I know probably doesn't explain things in the slightist but there you go, it's been a long week and me grasp of the big words is no goody write now.

Which admitally is rather a poor excuse I know but c'est la vie I guess.

Anyhow it's the weekend now so two whole days all to myself and who knows. I might even get something constructive done this weekend too :-)

Later folks