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» Best and worst TV ads
"You'll never forget your first Dime bar"
"You'll never forget your first Dime bar"
I hated that ad. I remember as a kid watching that ad and freaking out because I hadn't yet had a Dime bar and I knew that if I then had one, because some advertising twat made up a throwaway slogan, I would remember that experience for the rest of my life. It's only a chocolate bar for fucks sake and I would probably have had one anyway, but now I would be in danger of being bugged for the rest of my life by the knowledge that I can't forget something just because someone said it on an advert. I hate my mind sometimes.
So, because I knew it would bug me forever, until the day I die, and would probably be the last thing I think of on my death bed, I resolved never to eat one.
I told this to my girlfriend a few months back and she offered to feed me my first Dime bar in a way that I would want to remember.
Now I have that image in my mind, I really really a Dime bar. She hasn't delivered yet, despite me pestering...
(Fri 16th Apr 2010, 13:42, More)
"You'll never forget your first Dime bar"
"You'll never forget your first Dime bar"
I hated that ad. I remember as a kid watching that ad and freaking out because I hadn't yet had a Dime bar and I knew that if I then had one, because some advertising twat made up a throwaway slogan, I would remember that experience for the rest of my life. It's only a chocolate bar for fucks sake and I would probably have had one anyway, but now I would be in danger of being bugged for the rest of my life by the knowledge that I can't forget something just because someone said it on an advert. I hate my mind sometimes.
So, because I knew it would bug me forever, until the day I die, and would probably be the last thing I think of on my death bed, I resolved never to eat one.
I told this to my girlfriend a few months back and she offered to feed me my first Dime bar in a way that I would want to remember.
Now I have that image in my mind, I really really a Dime bar. She hasn't delivered yet, despite me pestering...
(Fri 16th Apr 2010, 13:42, More)
» "You're doing it wrong"
Scissors
I'm right handed (for most things...) but whenever I pick up scissors I always get them the wrong way up (not the pointy end, the handle bits...)
It took me until my twenties to work out that one handle was bigger than the other - how did I not notice that sooner? - but this was a result of always getting my thumb stuck in the narrower 'fingers' scissor handle and having to shake them off (I think I might have fat thumbs...).
Anyway, once realising that there is a proper way to pick up scissors so that your thumb does not get stuck, for some reason, I never ever remember this until I try to put them down again.
And by the laws of chance, you would expect this error to be a 50/50 occurrence, but I never (ever) fail to pick them up the wrong way round. I've tested it and noted it. For the past 20 years, I have *never* picked up scissors the correct way round.
Which means I must do it unconsciously. Work that one out Freud...
(Thu 15th Jul 2010, 22:40, More)
Scissors
I'm right handed (for most things...) but whenever I pick up scissors I always get them the wrong way up (not the pointy end, the handle bits...)
It took me until my twenties to work out that one handle was bigger than the other - how did I not notice that sooner? - but this was a result of always getting my thumb stuck in the narrower 'fingers' scissor handle and having to shake them off (I think I might have fat thumbs...).
Anyway, once realising that there is a proper way to pick up scissors so that your thumb does not get stuck, for some reason, I never ever remember this until I try to put them down again.
And by the laws of chance, you would expect this error to be a 50/50 occurrence, but I never (ever) fail to pick them up the wrong way round. I've tested it and noted it. For the past 20 years, I have *never* picked up scissors the correct way round.
Which means I must do it unconsciously. Work that one out Freud...
(Thu 15th Jul 2010, 22:40, More)