Ads that get right on your tits

[Whiteball]

Whatever they replace petrol with will eventually be just as expensive be it electricity, water or some other such 'fuel'.

If they made a car run on water and everyone got one, do you think you could just fill it up every day from your tap? The price of water would go up many fold because of tax and general greadiness.

As for electricity, if we use more, we have to generate more. That in itself creates pollution be it radioactive waste, coal burning smoke and gases or whatever.

As usual the problems are never solved just shifted to a place where they hope less people are looking.

[Rhythm]

But .. is this really true ? Is/would be it really CHEAPER compared to petrol ? Is it really the cost to recharge such a battery less than filling a car with car ?

At current rates, yes, a lot cheaper. Rates at the moment charge a Zero X for 40p, and it has a range of 40 miles, so 1p per mile or ~500mpg. But that's at current rates, with no provision for the governments of the world getting their tax and duties back in other ways once we hit a tipping point of people not using petrol/diesel for fuel.

[merman]

As Mazda point out, their new internal combustion engines burn more efficiently, removing the need for catalytic converters and improving fuel efficiency.

But, that aside, the new Tampax Pearl ad featuring the female high jumper getting her monthly gift is so gut-wrenchingly awful. It's bad enough the descriptions get more graphic every year, but this Olympic-inspired ad really plumbs the depths. P&G (the Proctor & Gamble conglomerate) have really gone overboard linking their products to the games.

[gilesgoat]

Whatever they replace petrol with will eventually be just as expensive be it electricity, water or some other such 'fuel'.

If they made a car run on water and everyone got one, do you think you could just fill it up every day from your tap? The price of water would go up many fold because of tax and general greadiness.

As for electricity, if we use more, we have to generate more. That in itself creates pollution be it radioactive waste, coal burning smoke and gases or whatever.

As usual the problems are never solved just shifted to a place where they hope less people are looking.

In fact, there seems to be already an 'electric energy crisis' where everyone tries/forces you to be 'green' and do all they can to consume less ELECTRIC power, etc. there are ads that may get on your tits for this too ( there are a few ).

Now imagine all population begins to switch to electric cars, needing around 6Khw/day more per day to recharge a thing like that zero ( sounds like it takes about 1 Kw per 6 hours to charge it ).

I think 'power grid would go mentalist', consume of electric energy would go to the moon.

I think at that point the only thing capable to supply such demand can't see anything else but nuclear Wind, solar, whatever .. is not sufficient nor constant for such kind of demands (*).

Ironically, another thing could happen could be .. electric power stations burning petrol to generate electricity .. so instead of having a 'converter' from 'petrol to movement' in your car you'll have an 'intermediate' converter converting petrol to electricity first and then into movement again ( adding another loss in the middle ).

Electric cars could be fantastic IF you'd have electric power ready availably easy at reasonable costs, which .. is actually a problem and while petrol can be stocked in barrels electricity cannot well, that's another problem (*).

One thing that I always found funny is people thinking that 'hydrogen will solve everything' .. except they forget that most hydrogen in the world comes from minerals which the ONLY big enough supply for it is in China IIRC and again takes energy to be extracted.

Whoever thinks about 'hydrogen from water' has no idea how much energy you need to take it out from that, that's the least economical of all the solutions and again 'you'll never get a gain > 1', if you are lucky you'll get close to '1' but never '1'.

Maybe charcoal is an option If you plant trees enough and you consume charcoal in moderation that could be a renewable source

[Rhythm]

Generation of electricity's not a problem - nuclear, nuclear, nuclear. It's clean, efficient, safe. Storage, that's another matter

[KlaxonCow]

I think 'power grid would go mentalist'

Those in charge of the UK National Grid are perfectly convinced that it wouldn't.



From 9:24 onwards, predicting around half a million electric cars by 2020, it's about a gigawatt or so, he reckons, and that's nothing impressive in the grand scheme of things. He's more than happy they'll cope, no problem.

[Mark]

McDonald's are apparently "proud providers of the official player escorts" for Euro 2012 on ITV. They "provide" small children now, apparently. Nice.

And it's reassuring that we know we're getting "official" player escorts - those bootleg ones were really undermining things.

Hold on. WHAT THE FUCK FUCKING FUCK KIND OF ADVERTISING IS THAT? They've managed to corrupt the idea of having kids accompany the players on to the field. I used to like the fact that a few kids got lucky somehow and got to walk on to the pitch with big name players. I now can't help but think Ronny McD's marketing bastards are vetting the little buggers for marketability before the choice is made, and there'll be an angle for each kid on show.

I liked it better when I thought it was just to give the kids a treat. And I generally hate kids.

[Colonius]

They don't vet them, they breed them. They're battery-produced to a standard template. Ones that aren't up to McDonalds exacting standards are sold off to do the Iceland ads.

If you're giving kids a treat it has to be a finger of fudge, everyone knows that.

But seriously, no there appears to be nothing that can't be sponsored now

[starshipcommand]

I just want to say "Autoglass repair, Autoglass replace" can sod off

[Rubisco]

Thank you, Mum.

Fuck you, P&G.

Proud sponsor of nothing being sacred.

[Ratsoap]

Those ads with dentist/doctor/whatever saying 'I'd recommend xxxx'.

Of course you would, you're being paid to appear in an advert for xxxx, you cunt.

[merman]

I'm now thoroughly sick of the ads for alternative lenders. "Yes, I'll pay it back over twelve months so you can whack up the APR even higher."

Come back Lombard Direct and the little blue phone, your 18% rates sound reasonable in comparison...

[Truder]

I think adverts have also stopped asking if you've been mis-sold PPI and are now saying "You have been mis-sold PPI". I'm generally sick of all the compensation adverts.

[merman]

I think adverts have also stopped asking if you've been mis-sold PPI and are now saying "You have been mis-sold PPI". I'm generally sick of all the compensation adverts.

What I'd like to know is exactly how the Ministry of Justice is regulating the PPI claim firms. Is it just something they can put on their headed notepaper and means they can carry on with terrible tactics? I'm sick of the texts saying "our records show..." because:
- it's so obviously a generic amount
- I've never had a loan, so their records are wildly inaccurate

Also, the leading building societies had over 3,000 false claims in three months. So people are obviously trying to profit from it.

[(o)(o)]

Three years now without telly and loving it.

I remember sitting through this one a few times.. never gets old does it !