Things that baffle you Page 12

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ February 27 2012, 5:37 PM GMT

I am confused by the Boots advertising campaign featuring that 'Here come the girls' song.

On the one hand, it's trying to show that women are independent and empowered because they can go shopping in the chemists and on the other, it makes money by convincing all women that they are old, ugly and stink.

'Here come the girls - to spend £60 on a jar of moisturiser that's exactly the same as a £3 bottle of the stuff'

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I love David O'Doherty's take on Boots adverts in his 'My Beefs 2011' song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX45vU4Z6Pw

Quote: Chappers @ February 27 2012, 2:38 PM GMT

Who has ever done that?

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Who has made jokes about it? Last week, it was used on Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD.

the Boots advertising campaign featuring that 'Here come the girls' song. On the one hand, it's trying to show that women are independent and empowered../

It's also ironic that the lyrics are nothing to do with independence and empowerment, but instead are the crazed lustings of a serial philanderer.

Quote: Nogget @ February 28 2012, 8:58 AM GMT

Who has made jokes about it? Last week, it was used on Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD.

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I'm assuming that was a joke - because otherwise "Vienna".

Quote: Harridan @ February 28 2012, 7:30 AM GMT

I love David O'Doherty's take on Boots adverts in his 'My Beefs 2011' song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX45vU4Z6Pw

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Thanks for that Harridan, I do like David O'Doherty. Yep, Boots are evil - the chemist not the footwear.

On X men, why is the character named Wolverine, when he's more like a wolf? And not much like a wolverine?

Why did they model Wolverine after the Clint Eastwood of the 70s?

Probably wanted to make his day

Francesca Martinez performs on radio 4, and no-one makes fun of her very obvious speech impediment, but people like Jonathan Ross and Chris Ewbank get the piss ripped out of them. Why should it be ok to make fun of mild speech impediments, when it's not ok for more major ones?

Isn't her speech impediment part of a greater illness?

She has cerebral palsy doesn't she?

Hardly the same as just not being able to roll your f**kin r's properly

Quote: Nogget @ January 12 2013, 9:25 AM GMT

Francesca Martinez performs on radio 4, and no-one makes fun of her very obvious speech impediment, but people like Jonathan Ross and Chris Ewbank get the piss ripped out of them. Why should it be ok to make fun of mild speech impediments, when it's not ok for more major ones?

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It's easier to make fun of male celebrities. If you make fun of a woman's speech impediment then you're a sexist, racist and potential rapist.

Quote: lofthouse @ January 12 2013, 11:26 AM GMT

She has cerebral palsy doesn't she?

Hardly the same as just not being able to roll your f**kin r's properly

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*agrees*

*agrees too*

Quote: lofthouse @ January 12 2013, 11:26 AM GMT

Hardly the same as just not being able to roll your f**kin r's properly

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Uncle Albert: "I didn't know he had problems with his R's"

The thing is, if people laugh at a bit of a lisp, then by ignoring a bigger speech impediment puts an elephant in the room; we know they would laugh at her, if it was 'allowed'.

Quote: Nogget @ January 12 2013, 5:14 PM GMT

The thing is, if people laugh at a bit of a lisp, then by ignoring a bigger speech impediment puts an elephant in the room; we know they would laugh at her, if it was 'allowed'.

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I really don't think people, other than scumbags, would laugh at her.
And she makes reference to it herself. So it's not totally ignored.