it does work tho
I bought a book the other day after seeing an advert on the tube. It reminded me that the book was for sale and I'd wanted to read it. Yay for adverts.
( rob, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:29, archived)

ah
but there's a subtle double meaning.
edit: 'cos it's not like a proper job is it...
( rogan, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:30, archived)

I know, I mean, anyone could do it
Sitting at a desk all day, doodling? Piece of piss: Just look at the quality of the competition entries...oh, hang on...
( mikemystery professional bandwagoneer, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:33, archived)

I see you liberally applied this this morning

(Mattyboy, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:36, archived)

you're right,
every single advert produced by professionals is fantastic ;)
( rogan, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:39, archived)

No, alot of them are shite too
As you are well aware. But SOME of them a quite good, and a handfull downright brilliant...
( mikemystery professional bandwagoneer, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:43, archived)

But we're just having a laugh
a lot of lawyers are nice and very worthwhile human beings, we take the piss. a lot of priests do good and aren't peados, we take the piss. a lot of politicians do genuinely care and do behave with honesty and honour, we take the piss.

we're just taking the piss - please chill out, have a biscuit.

edit: caps made me look all shouty, which isn't how I meant it
(Mattyboy, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:47, archived)

You're a moody git
aren't you. Oh, I'm so sorry our entries aren't up to your high standards.

/cock
(cheapstudent, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 20:08, archived)

That's how I read it
Advertising is play.
( Artamnesia, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:34, archived)

Should be
But it's also bloody hard when you can't come up with an idea and are juged entirely on your creative output.
( mikemystery professional bandwagoneer, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:40, archived)

That's why I'm so glad I don't work in advertising
"K3rry - finished that advert yet"
"No - but I have re-written it into a PHP form...."
( K3rry, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:57, archived)

you should add
that when you got the bookshop you saw a book that looked interesting by someone you'd never heard of but you bought it anyway, so a new writer made more money to encourage them to carry on writing and eventually produce the next great British novel.

or would that be over-egging the pudding?
( martian, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:32, archived)

nope
didn't do that. I went it. Bought the book. Read most of it whilst my g/f was waiting in vodaphone trying to get her phone working. and then left it in the bog.
( rob, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:35, archived)

on
purpose?
( freshlegs, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:39, archived)

maybe he's signed up with the onlinebooksharingclub
thing
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:42, archived)

I saw that
so I left all my porn mags outside the churches

So far none of the priests have passed them on
( K3rry, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 20:00, archived)

And heaven forbid that companies
should spend large amounts of money to court your favour into buying things. No, how dare they...
( mikemystery professional bandwagoneer, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:36, archived)

face it
the general public hate advertising. yes, there's all sorts of hypocrisy in that. but it's gonna take more than another ad campaign to change it.
( rob, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:38, archived)

What advertising as a whole?
All adverts? None of them make you laugh even remotely? Not even a small wry smile? Not even one ad you have seen that made you happy? Sure?
( mikemystery professional bandwagoneer, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:42, archived)

noo
I mean the public has a general antipithy to avdertising, whilst enjoying some ads at the same time.
( rob, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:46, archived)

You speak truth
FACT
( mikemystery professional bandwagoneer, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:55, archived)