Does the entire Innocent Smoothies aesthetic strike you as deeply fucking irritating?

(innocent have moved, btw. the industrial estate in W12 (W6?) where Innocent Towers used to be now has a sign on the locked gate saying 'luxury apartments coming soon')

xp I thought it was David "Bumble" Lloyd?

i dunno, i was joking. sounds too young for Bumble to me.

no, it cd be him on re-listening

shd've given the gig to Michael Holding, i wd actually buy anything he asked me to his voice is so lush

you heard it here first, vendors of financial products!

I think it is Bumble. Friend of mine was in a pub in Birmingham once where David Lloyd and Bob Dylan Willis were sitting in a pub with some young women (surely daughters or... something) at about half ten in the evening, and Bumble was being cheerful and talkative and Bob Willis was staring gloomily across the table, and then said in his unassuageably dreary tones, 'Do you fancy another, Bumble, or are you done?'. He wouldn't sell many smoothies.

Holding could sell anything for sure, but I'm slightly scarred by the memory of two comments he made during a West Indies/England Test a number of years ago now (could it have been that series where Harmison went berserk?). Anyway, the camera was panning around the all but empty stadium, and Holding's gentle warm accents gave forth the line, 'Not many people here today. Not many people at all. There wouldn't be many casualties if there was a terrorist attack here.' THEN, a bit later or the next day or something, the camera panned over to a boy sitting up a palm tree outside the ground, watching the cricket. A bucolic scene + avoiding any terrorism. Holding goes 'Lad up a tree there. Watching the cricket. Hope he's sitting safe, he could break his neck if he falls out.'

Dark places, Mikey, dark places. Still, yes, would buy a broken neck/large-scale-minimum casualty-terrorist attack off the guy.

Mike "Alan Partridge" Holding

think we need some recognition of all the dreadful animated adverts for financial products etc full of human/soft-toy hybrids in a pantheistic wonderland

there really are a lot of these

i just don't get who they're supposed to be influencing. i can't even remember who the above one is for and i've had to watch it about 100 times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc9yKO-OCAc

and the recurrent use of 'that's why we' in adverts

homely sounding northerner: nobody likes seeing their child abducted and murdered

{animated child carrying teddybear wanders off into enchanted forest}

homely sounding northerner: that's why we provide child-abduction-and-murder insurance at no extra cost

proper whippet-powered northern broadband (­­¿wtf?)

see what this partisan distrust of the capital has wrought

i like meerkats as much as the next man but if you base your decision to purchase home insurance based on the offer of a cuddly toy then you probably shdn't be running the household budget tbh

our insurance is shit (images of your family homeless after a flood)that's why we target idiots in our marketing

Lol @ 'that's why we' - this never fails to make me shout at the telly

"we're passionate about (x)"

also "that's why at" in same role as "that's why we"

"at * we're passionate about * and that's why"
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i'll admit, i'm now thinking about clean things. advertising really works.

there's not an ad nor company in the world could clean up my thoughts tbh

passionate seems to be very common in grad cvs.

"I'm passionate about spelling"

You fuckin what.

http://updates.gawker.com/post/34707490903/if-you-think-buying-coffee-has-become-way-too

off topic, but the plain english foundation is literally the worst foundation on earth

sorry, the campaign for plain english. they are the worst campaign. the plain english foundation is apparently something different.

ugh plebs

"frothy coffee"

We are passionate about clean, and that’s why we are in the cleaning business. We embrace “clean” in the fullest sense of the word

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tories in government v fond of the 'that's why we' formulation also

I'm NOT just a paper cup...

..BUT now i have fulfilled my destiny you probably just see me as rubbish. Tell you what, while I am on your desk I would make a great pencil pot!!...I could be good at that! But whatever happens, I will never forget the day I carried a Pour Moi drink for you.

don't forget to!.........

I just Googled "Gag Reflex" after reading that. I don't recommend it.

it's a good job the coffee's nice, is all i'm saying

wonder if cameron has employed these marketing guys to help flog fighter jets to the saudis

Some people might think of me as a tool for violently suppressing troublesome civilians, women, that sort of thing. But I could be so much more! A really cool taxi for those heavy evenings in the Definitely Not Drinking "Gentlemans" Club! A christmas present for that awkward 10 year-old cousin who you just made Minister of Football! A personal kebab delivery mobile! Go on, let me stick you down for 3 dozen and we'll throw in a crate of shock batons and a week's training session with MI5 on 21st century "interrogation" techniques. It'd be rude not to!!

"Fighter jets. The north. It's not rocket science mate... that's why when you strap yourself into the Eurofighter Typhoon, you're not just sitting into a metal killing machine. You're sitting on thousands of years of British imperial warfare. Of course, we can't kill the people for you, we're too busy playing Angry Birds Star Wars!"

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there's one person writing all this shit.

Thankfully they don't work for 0range.

the worst is when i don't pay up, first they send you an email saying "Hello! Bit of a problem [...] We'll have another go in a few days" and then when you get round to it it actually says something like "Thanks! We know no one likes paying bills so..." etc

i mean at least send me a cupcake or a rasher of bacon to show ur gratitude yknow

ha, the nearest 0range get is calling their router a 'BrightBox' ffs.

o2 is just mindless automaton with hint of big company menace.

it's spelt Orange xp