The Rat
The Rat
Mousey Mouse
Nice flag placement - who have you been taking lessons from Iemma-baby?
Thursday, May 31, 2007
It's the Christian thing to do...
I would not be at all surprised if John Howard stepped down before the election – he is not above giving his number 2, and greatest supporter for many years, a giant hospital pass.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
The Viper
From Crikey today:
27. PBL majority shareholders dudded?
Michael Pascoe writes:
“…Which brings to mind another talent -- Alexander’s ability not to be at the scene of the accident. Having wrecked the old 9, he stepped back and David Gyngell/Sam Chisholm/Eddie McGuire became the fall guys as the results became apparent. Alexander was no longer ACP’s CEO just before the magazine cost-cutting topped out.
And now it’s Ian Law who’s left with responsibility for the old media empire, but Alexander retains an ability to meddle. Quite a talent, indeed.”
Too right Michael, too right.
I worked for that bastard when he was heading up ACP. My skin crawls as I recall the Snakepit that was Park St 7 or 8 years ago, and likely will be while ever the Viper stalks those halls.
27. PBL majority shareholders dudded?
Michael Pascoe writes:
“…Which brings to mind another talent -- Alexander’s ability not to be at the scene of the accident. Having wrecked the old 9, he stepped back and David Gyngell/Sam Chisholm/Eddie McGuire became the fall guys as the results became apparent. Alexander was no longer ACP’s CEO just before the magazine cost-cutting topped out.
And now it’s Ian Law who’s left with responsibility for the old media empire, but Alexander retains an ability to meddle. Quite a talent, indeed.”
Too right Michael, too right.
I worked for that bastard when he was heading up ACP. My skin crawls as I recall the Snakepit that was Park St 7 or 8 years ago, and likely will be while ever the Viper stalks those halls.
Monday, May 28, 2007
I used to work in advertising, but seriously...
man, some adverts make me mad. Some are annoying, like the stupid ball of red string being rolled around Melbourne, with the score that sounds like Enya on helium. Ugh!
Like I said pointless and annoying. But ultimately benign.
What really gets my goat are the thoroughly misleading semi-authoritative ones. Like Brand power.
Even worse are the ones that just plain come out and lie. And they know they’re lying but because not even the sensors or whatever know what they’re talking about, nobody catches them.
I’m specifically talking about the new Listerine ad. First they put on 30 seconds of the usual ‘bomb going off in the mouth’ advert.
OK.
No problem.
But then they cleverly follow it up with a sneaky ‘public service announcement-type’ advert.
In this advert the very brainy and attractive lady tells us that if we use Listerine, we won’t get mouth diseases and that this is especially good because diseases of the mouth have been linked to much nastier diseases of the body.
What bunkum! Hogwash! Trollop! Tripe!
The reality is that some nasty bodily diseases manifest with symptoms in the mouth. Like pellagra and scurvy, which are both diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies of B vitamins and vitamin C (respectively).
When you don’t consume enough C you get scurvy, an early symptom of which is gingivitis – infections of the mouth and gums. When you are short on niacin a B vitamin, you get ulcers in your mouth – a symptom of pellagra.
Now, if you have either of these symptoms, your best bet is to get some fresh fish, fruit, milk and veggies into you and very rapidly you’ll see these symptoms disappear.
Listerine will not do one thing about curing these symptoms, because they’re not caused by unusually bad bacteria in the mouth, but by your body’s inability to fight normal bacteria.
What bugs me is this whole treat-the-symptoms-so-you-can-continue-to-ingest-whatever-extruded-plastic-you-can-pick-up-at-a-drive-thru-window-for-$6.95-and-then-down-a-bucketload-of-hideously-expensive-flavoured-metho-to-keep-your-breath-smelling-sweet-while-you-simultaneously-bloat-up-like-a-whale-and-die-of-malnutrition.
(Thanks for the tip BigPharma…)
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Like I said pointless and annoying. But ultimately benign.
What really gets my goat are the thoroughly misleading semi-authoritative ones. Like Brand power.
Even worse are the ones that just plain come out and lie. And they know they’re lying but because not even the sensors or whatever know what they’re talking about, nobody catches them.
I’m specifically talking about the new Listerine ad. First they put on 30 seconds of the usual ‘bomb going off in the mouth’ advert.
OK.
No problem.
But then they cleverly follow it up with a sneaky ‘public service announcement-type’ advert.
In this advert the very brainy and attractive lady tells us that if we use Listerine, we won’t get mouth diseases and that this is especially good because diseases of the mouth have been linked to much nastier diseases of the body.
What bunkum! Hogwash! Trollop! Tripe!
The reality is that some nasty bodily diseases manifest with symptoms in the mouth. Like pellagra and scurvy, which are both diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies of B vitamins and vitamin C (respectively).
When you don’t consume enough C you get scurvy, an early symptom of which is gingivitis – infections of the mouth and gums. When you are short on niacin a B vitamin, you get ulcers in your mouth – a symptom of pellagra.
Now, if you have either of these symptoms, your best bet is to get some fresh fish, fruit, milk and veggies into you and very rapidly you’ll see these symptoms disappear.
Listerine will not do one thing about curing these symptoms, because they’re not caused by unusually bad bacteria in the mouth, but by your body’s inability to fight normal bacteria.
What bugs me is this whole treat-the-symptoms-so-you-can-continue-to-ingest-whatever-extruded-plastic-you-can-pick-up-at-a-drive-thru-window-for-$6.95-and-then-down-a-bucketload-of-hideously-expensive-flavoured-metho-to-keep-your-breath-smelling-sweet-while-you-simultaneously-bloat-up-like-a-whale-and-die-of-malnutrition.
(Thanks for the tip BigPharma…)
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