Back to the nursery.
- 13 February 2012 14:57153295I saw the department of misery and health's latest offering to the population last night warning of the "dangers" of drinking paltry amounts of alcohol.
It's not the message I have a particular grape, sorry gripe, with but the way they put forward their ideas.
Aaaaye naice soft sporken noerthern voiceovers proberbely Blackberrrrn or in that area. Cartoon figures and moving beer and wine glasses giggling to one another, a scene that would have ended up on the cutting room floor in the editing suite of the Teletubbies. We are warned amongst other things that this type of behaviour MIGHT lead to mouth cancer and it advises our two protagonists to drink tea. However it fails to warn of the dangers of oral cancer caused by drinking tea which is too hot.
The public information film finishes off with some faux cockney with the catchphrase "Chainge fer loif naeow why doncha gor blimey guvnor".
Nearly every advert on the telly consists of cartoons and men and women putting on silly voices. Rather disturbing isn't it?
Anyways here's the film:
[URL][/URL] - 13 February 2012 15:29153297I mute the sound during ad-breaks and between programmes. I firmly believe I shall live a long and healthy life as a direct consequence of this. Nowadays there is enough such down-time not only to make tea, but for it to cool down also.
These public information slots did at one time have their effect...
A brick, a bolt, a bar, a cup...invariably fall down, not up...
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 13 February 2012 16:12153307like tom i mute the t.v. when the ads are on.
looking at that one in the link it shows that i am doing the right thing. - 13 February 2012 16:22153309They're assuming that us old ones are past hope so are targeting youngsters who have the most to gain from a lifetime of clean living, hence it's one step on from Teletubbies as that's their target age group and I first saw it mid-afternoon when they were just getting home from school.
- 13 February 2012 18:42153355If they've got to put 'local dialects' in adverts, then they should get the real ones, and the genuine 'natives' from those areas. The Fred Dibner or Les Dawson types for a start.---------------------------------------------------
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