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Marketing to the gullible

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supercrutch

supercrutch Report 24 May 2010 19:23

I have just seen an ad for a home liquid soap dispenser that is activated by sensor. Hmmm...

It's marketed on the tag that the press top on a 'normal' soap dispenser hosts germs/bacteria. So you need never contaminate yourself or the sweet child also depicted in the ad ever again.

Strange that! I thought that if you pressed the top in order to get some soap you were intending to WASH your hands. Silly me!

Also, and how convenient, this magic new dispenser delivers it's own measure of liquid soap, I may be a touch cynical but I wonder if they have made the quantity a little larger than usually pumped by a human?

Sue x

Eldrick

Eldrick Report 24 May 2010 19:25

I wonder - once it's empty, could you refill it with whisky.....how convenient would that be now. You could have your glass in one hand and cuban cigar in the other and still be able to get a refill with no effort.

Every little helps.

StrayKitten

StrayKitten Report 24 May 2010 19:26

some companys get dafter, i think ill stick with my palmolive hand despensors lol
i read in the paper on the flight home, that they are now advertising abrotions on our telly! im shocked and disgusted by this, xxx

Silly Sausage

Silly Sausage Report 24 May 2010 19:27

do you get posh optics like that in the pub Eldrick lol

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 24 May 2010 19:27

Makes you wonder how we survived with an ordinary bar of soap!!

Eldrick

Eldrick Report 24 May 2010 19:30

whats an optic?

We usually just drink out the bottle.

Rambling

Rambling Report 24 May 2010 19:31

Stray the first ad is due to be shown C4 tonight I believe...don't think i will get into any debate on th is one..... !

xx

supercrutch

supercrutch Report 24 May 2010 19:31

Common as muck!!

Edit: Eldrick I mean...lol

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 24 May 2010 19:36

Those OCD types in the disinfectant ads always give me the right hump.

As for the abortion ad...i'm reserving judgement til I see it aired ... I'm willing to jump either way at the mo...I'm a *don't know* x

StrayKitten

StrayKitten Report 24 May 2010 19:46

im jst shocked we have moved forward so much, but its supoose to be, "tactfull" hmmm

my bessie has OCD i bet she would love a no hands touch dispensor lol, altho id probably mucky the sensor when i went to hers on purpose haha xxx