Clearly I need to be watching more commercial television, because I turn my back for a few months and the morons take over.
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So. You’re asking yourself a pretty important question – what the hell is Sam doing having fallen for the upbeat marketing wizardry with hints of science that is the Gillette Fusion ProGlide? Yes friends, I have taken the Gillette Fusion ProGlide Challenge and I hereby announce my results.
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Have you ever been enticed by a mobile or broadband package describing itself as “unlimited” only to find that in fact it was very much limited? I’ve seen a few of these and as updated recently decided to contact the Advertising Standards Authority to question the practise. Here’s the response. Continue reading “Sam vs All Telecoms Companies Part 2” »

While my default mood is possibly best described as irate I have recently started becoming increasingly vexed by members of the marketing and advertising professions who have taken it upon themselves to hijack various pieces of language for underhanded uses.
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In case you haven’t been paying attention, in the last couple of years those in the banking profession and the institutes they work for have been taking something of a public perception kicking. Whether this is due to them being parasitic minions of beelzebub, or whether we’ve got the wrong end of the stick is neither here nor there, the one thing for sure is that the charm offensive is now on.
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I hit upon the idea to confront perpetrators of heinous advertising very easily – they create a horrible ad and I go for the very obvious jugular. So far, business as usual. Sometimes however I go chasing some heinous advertising and find that it gets worse as I go looking for the “contact us” link on the website. (I do link to the advert, sorry in advance.)
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I find sexism as funny as the next man, but when it’s used to portray a product as being “so simple a man could use it” I’m curious as to whether this is sensationalist marketing for the sake of it. I have tried to figure this out by writing to the makers of Oven Pride, and they obliged me with a response.
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Thoroughly enjoying the recent spate of cranky old man letters sent to anyone who’ll listen, our hero sets his sights on the Liberal Democrat party and picks some holes in their political approach which will probably leave them unelectable. Again.
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Apparently this marvellous product is “so easy a man can do it”. As a domesticated badass I am obliged to find out exactly how simple that actually is, just in case I have the double digit IQ necessary to use it.
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