I love British TV!
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fightingthecage...specifically, commercials.
I'll be the first to admit, I have a bizarre sense of humour. Or perhaps it's just typically British. But either way I'm glad of it because it means that I find some things side-splittingly hilarious that others don't.
There's a commercial for Tango on at the moment, which I don't believe y'all have in the States. Kinda like Fanta but slightly different, it's made by the Coca-Cola Company anyway. It involves a woman sitting in her office getting buckets of water thrown over her by random guys (whose job it is to throw said water) every time she has a drink of the new flavoured water drink. As she explains to her perplexed male boss, it's a metaphor. At which point, she has a drink, more water is thrown and a female colleague of hers walks in and says,
'Oh! Nice metaphor!'
The look on the wet!woman's face when she says, 'Thanks!' is nothing sort of genius. I die every time.
Although I do think the 'Women get it and men don't' subtext a little rude. But in this case, possibly accurate. Men don't always get the metaphors in my experience. The fact that I have yet to find a male friend who finds this commercial offensive for that reason is possibly proof of this - or perhaps they're sensible and just don't care. Ho hum.
Second - an internet car insurance company that likens telephone car insurance people to chickens wearing little headsets. By, uhh, having a commercial filled with chickens wearing little headsets. Again, I die.
And third - a magazine advertising a feature with the '160 hottest chicks in the world!' that's running this week in said publication...by having two blokes snogging passionately on a sofa. Yes yes, OK, it's just so that their girlfriends can come in and catch them and dump them, thereby leaving them free to puruse aforementioned hot chicks - but that's not the point. Men snogging! For a long time! On primetime TV and to sell a girly mag! Bwhahaha! I love my country.
Although if I was one of the girlfriends, I totally wouldn't dump the bf. I'd just watch.
So. Yes. This pointless update has been brought to you by Me. We now returned to your scheduled LJ flists. :D
I'll be the first to admit, I have a bizarre sense of humour. Or perhaps it's just typically British. But either way I'm glad of it because it means that I find some things side-splittingly hilarious that others don't.
There's a commercial for Tango on at the moment, which I don't believe y'all have in the States. Kinda like Fanta but slightly different, it's made by the Coca-Cola Company anyway. It involves a woman sitting in her office getting buckets of water thrown over her by random guys (whose job it is to throw said water) every time she has a drink of the new flavoured water drink. As she explains to her perplexed male boss, it's a metaphor. At which point, she has a drink, more water is thrown and a female colleague of hers walks in and says,
'Oh! Nice metaphor!'
The look on the wet!woman's face when she says, 'Thanks!' is nothing sort of genius. I die every time.
Although I do think the 'Women get it and men don't' subtext a little rude. But in this case, possibly accurate. Men don't always get the metaphors in my experience. The fact that I have yet to find a male friend who finds this commercial offensive for that reason is possibly proof of this - or perhaps they're sensible and just don't care. Ho hum.
Second - an internet car insurance company that likens telephone car insurance people to chickens wearing little headsets. By, uhh, having a commercial filled with chickens wearing little headsets. Again, I die.
And third - a magazine advertising a feature with the '160 hottest chicks in the world!' that's running this week in said publication...by having two blokes snogging passionately on a sofa. Yes yes, OK, it's just so that their girlfriends can come in and catch them and dump them, thereby leaving them free to puruse aforementioned hot chicks - but that's not the point. Men snogging! For a long time! On primetime TV and to sell a girly mag! Bwhahaha! I love my country.
So. Yes. This pointless update has been brought to you by Me. We now returned to your scheduled LJ flists. :D
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Date: 2006-02-05 12:29 pm (UTC)