I wonder why Advertising Companies think that having their actors shouting in the adverts make the advert more appealing to the watchers.
The trend seems to be if you cannot be creative with your advert then get some loud mouthed person to shout at the top of his or hers voice some totally inane statement or catch phrase.
BOG OFF from the windows people and the rubbish of IGGIE POP and that dreadful puppet from SWIFT COVER immediately spring to mind.
Do they not realise that if you have to watch these adverts more than once or twice you will certainly turn the sound down when it comes on again. The message has been lost.
Some people will swear that during adverts the volume is increased by the TV company. This is not so.It is a system that the Advertisers use called 'Compression'
I believe that we should complain to the appropriate companies when their adverts are so annoying.
I certainly will and I hope you will join in too.
Saturday, 22 January 2011
Saturday, 15 January 2011
Packaging of goods
I am just about at my wits end when it comes to opening packs of food.
I know that we are basically Hunter/gatherers and we have a working brain but when it comes to opening even the smallest item, either in blister wrap or especially clingfilm, this is really hard work and I think it may be time to go out again and catch our food in the packaging that God provided.
I would sooner skin a rabbit than open a pack of cheese from Tescos and I think it would be quicker to do the rabbit than try to open a packet of double wrapped hygienically sealed biscuits from a major manufacturer.
Even when you do eventually open the biscuits you quite often find them broken.Are they packed broken or is this a problem caused by wrapping them too tightly at the factory?
Then you come to cheese, especially soft cheese,provided for sale wrapped in a form of high tech cling film that has no beginning and certainly no end.
No instructions and no built in magnifying glass to help you identify a venerable spot which might yield to a sharp knife or other pointed object.
By the time you have plucked up courage to attack the wrapping by any means possible to blast an entry, the cheese is in such a flattened and distorted shape that you wonder whether it is worth eating.
On reflection, perhaps this is the way Supermarkets are helping us to slim without affecting their sales figures! More on that later.
Right, I'm off now to find a substitute crispy nut cornflake out in the local fields and perhaps a cow to provide the milk without the packaging.
I know that we are basically Hunter/gatherers and we have a working brain but when it comes to opening even the smallest item, either in blister wrap or especially clingfilm, this is really hard work and I think it may be time to go out again and catch our food in the packaging that God provided.
I would sooner skin a rabbit than open a pack of cheese from Tescos and I think it would be quicker to do the rabbit than try to open a packet of double wrapped hygienically sealed biscuits from a major manufacturer.
Even when you do eventually open the biscuits you quite often find them broken.Are they packed broken or is this a problem caused by wrapping them too tightly at the factory?
Then you come to cheese, especially soft cheese,provided for sale wrapped in a form of high tech cling film that has no beginning and certainly no end.
No instructions and no built in magnifying glass to help you identify a venerable spot which might yield to a sharp knife or other pointed object.
By the time you have plucked up courage to attack the wrapping by any means possible to blast an entry, the cheese is in such a flattened and distorted shape that you wonder whether it is worth eating.
On reflection, perhaps this is the way Supermarkets are helping us to slim without affecting their sales figures! More on that later.
Right, I'm off now to find a substitute crispy nut cornflake out in the local fields and perhaps a cow to provide the milk without the packaging.
Friday, 14 January 2011
My first Blog
I have arrived here at my first blog having moved up from Twitter.
Hopefully, with more room to write I can say more about the situations and circumstances that affect and effect my life and my family.
Being a young 74 year old I have managed to become a Grumpy Old Man and along with my buddies we put the world to right every Monday and Wednesday down at the Local Pub.
So look out for our ideas to improve the World and make it a better place.
Someone will listen one of these days
Hopefully, with more room to write I can say more about the situations and circumstances that affect and effect my life and my family.
Being a young 74 year old I have managed to become a Grumpy Old Man and along with my buddies we put the world to right every Monday and Wednesday down at the Local Pub.
So look out for our ideas to improve the World and make it a better place.
Someone will listen one of these days
Thursday, 13 January 2011
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