Posts by andrew llewellyn
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So... did Sarah really work for AMI?
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As for the smoking thing, yes I probably have missed past threads on the topic. I'm quite happy to leave it alone, but
Might be because I mused about banning ciggies completely. I will point out that that was a tongue in cheek response to watching the lurid cancer advertisement, and the lurid decaying body parts on packs.
I suspect they've reached the apex (or nadir?) of (probably expensive) discouraging campaigns & what's next?
Do these ads play through Mad Men?
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I was shouting at the television after two minutes.
Ha hah!! I watched one last year, it was spectacular - the mediums (media?) were told nothing other than two guys were strangled & thrown off a ship, their bodies were later found & the coroner deemed they'd been strangled & thrown off a ship.
Armed with only that information, two psychics divined that these two guys had been strangled & thrown off a ship.
Further, they were probably murdered by someone else on the ship.
I was convinced.
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Too subtle? :).
I like to get my sledgehammer out nice & early.
Maybe type "boom boom" after the next one. That might filter through to my tired brain.
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Too subtle? :).
I like to get my sledgehammer out nice & early.
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Hah - yes we have those lovely pictures on our ciggy packs, I was watching an ad last night with a tragic case - a guy recounting his radiotherapy as a result of smoking (no idea if he was an actor).
Lots of lurid pictures of cancer, tragic slurring of lines - at this stage I wonder if it'd be easier now just to ban cigarettes completely.
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Who doesn't know the red squashed cardboard box in the car park is from KFC,
years ago (80s) I cycled around the South Island with a friend, every few km, especially down the Wairau Valley & Buller Gorge for some reason, we'd pass squashed McDonalds packaging.
The odd thing was that at that time, there was no McDonalds in the South Island.
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Beer just isn't that much fun,
Shame on you D, Beer is that much fun!
Even just a month ago, the brain-damaged woman in the LTSA ads simply turns out to be Australian…
There's a poor taste joke going begging there...
wonder if this is similar to the outcry after TVNZ screened Forgotten Silver back in the 1990s, when people found out it was a superb fake. We'd so wanted it to be true, no matter how outlandish, it was a real letdown to discover the truth!
You're right - I twigged when they enhanced the date on the newspaper in the Richard Piearse scene. I was really angry. Next day I laughed like a drain.
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"Biodegradable" in the sense that they eventually break down into smaller pieces of plastic as the links between polymer chains break. But at the end of it, you're still left with a pile of plastic, and nothing eats it or breaks it down.
I use these doggy doo bags (actually they're nappy bags, but they're exactly the same as doggy doo bags, but blue instead of green, and they're half the price - they say they're "biodegradeable", do you think they really are? (real question, I have no idea).
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Hey, what could go wrong?
There's been some place in Upper Hutt way (a team building type place - can't think of the word right now) for several years, it's made of polystyrene. You'd never know.