Green eggs and ham

its a blog...its a load of rubbish!

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

sing along if you know it...

mah na mah na
doo doo doo doo doo
mah na mah na
doo doo doo doo
mah na mah na
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
mah na mah na
doo doo doo doo doo
mah na mah na
doo doo doo doo
mah na mah na
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

: )

Saturday, July 09, 2005

the dreaded 4 minutes...

im talking about the four minutes that occur in the middle of every tv show, which contain some of the most ridiculous pointless adverts conceivable. do you think the people creating them are given a spec that if they cant come up with a clever way of advertising a product just to make it as annoying/pointless/stupid as possible so if all else fails at least it will stick in peoples minds?

Current adverts which are in my opinion stupid/annoying

...magicool

basically they want you to buy a can of compressed air. My main problem with this advert is that there main aim is to combat people jumping in a pool of water with their clothes on, i wasnt aware that many people did this?? the other thing that annoys me is the winking camel, purely because its a winking camel!

...3

the advert for 3 mobiles with the slogan " we like play" and features a freakish Chinese girl with massive hands, i dont get it. I think its not meant to be got though, its just stupid! and the whistle music gets stuck in my head!!!

...the direct line identically forgetful twins

yeah, i think the one with the dogs is the most annoying, i think if a real dog swallowed something that big it would die!! the other annoying one is the one where they leave the tap running and suddenly the roof caves in...um, i hardly think so. and of course direct line come round four minutes after its happens and sort everything , which is also highly unlikely.

...ring ding ding

that stupid ridiculous crazy frog and his equally sinister friend tweety the chick!!!
why do kids like it so much thats what i dont understand!! and the worse thing about the crazy frog is that there are now 3 versions, i hate the crazy frog!

...elephant.co.uk

and im not sure whether the elephant or the "actor" selling the insurance annoys me more though, its close.

...the quote me happy insurance people.

well since when is anyone happy about paying for insurance no one cheers down the phone in real life and if they do, thats silly!

...injury lawyers direct

sometimes accidents happen, i think the whole concept of it is crap. Most annoying one is the guy who crushes his hand when he falls off the ladder. he says "i was given the wrong type of ladder", well if you knew it was the wrong type of ladder why did you climb it?? and the ladder they show on the advert is clearly the wrong type of ladder to do ANY job, it infact looks like the first ladder ever created! its made of wood for flips sake!! and he get like £5000 for stupidity.

...herbal essences

its shampoo!!!! shampoo does not invoke that type of reaction in anyone, and if it does, they need to get a life!

...bazuka

antony actuallyl pointed this out to me. The advert is about bazuka gel and how it will bazuka that veruka, and the whole thing is set in a swimming pool, suggesting that if u use it , its ok to go swimming, BUT in tiny tiny tiny writing along the bottom of the screen says that you shouldnt swim until completely clear of infection...stupid!!

...the kandoo advert

the kid just freaks me out. Did they intentionally try to find a alien looking child or was that a happy coincidence??

...the lynx adverts

spray yourself with lynx and women will be all over you with very little clothes on...um, maybe not eh? lynx isnt even thats nice, its only deoderant for goodness sake, it cost like £3, and girls know that your gran prob bought you it as part of a christmas giftset!!

...calm down dear, its only a commercial

need i say more?

Friday, July 08, 2005

um ...

what was i just saying about life being somewhat unpredicable these days??

this has been a very bizarre week. Its weird how things are really good one minute and just crap the next.

for a change im not even talking on a sam scale but nationally!! Wednesday night, i got in from the live8 concert filled with a renewed sense of hope for humanity and thinking that the world was soon to be a better place. People all over the country im sure were also chuffed about the whole olimpic thing. What a contrast to how i felt on thursday morning, i wake up to find out that London has been subject to a terrorist attack. its just crap!! innocent people are dead, all they were trying to do was go to work. I just find it really hard to understand how people can be capable of such evil. How is it even possible to combat the problem when these are the kind of people who are willing to strap a bomb to themselves and die just to kill other people, what can possibly drive someone to do that??

it didnt compleatly disrupt the g8 summit(which perhaps it was meant to?), and the acton plan for africa is moving in the right direction. And they have promised to further discuss the trade issue...which is the most important thing that needs to change. so thats also good but i hope it doesnt get forgotten about or put on a back burner now that there isnt constant coverage of make poverty history marches or live 8 concerts to keep it at the front of peoples minds...

well, that was the serious side of sam that infrequently blesses this blog with its presence, but there you go.

Sunday, July 03, 2005

life is weird!!!

mine is anyway! life has become somewhat unpredictable, not always a bad thing i suppose. Just been thinking about stuff actually. well, this was the train of thought i think give or take a few things

...make poverty history
...wow
...wonder if the whole thing will work
...wonder what a difference it would make in ten years time
...or in one years time
...or even by the end of this week
...and infact where will i be in ten years time or next year or this time next week
...wow

and then it sort of carried on from there on various different tangents, such as

...if i hadn't quit my teaching degree id be qualifying as a teacher next year.
...wonder how my uni friends are actually
...wonder if i will go back to uni again
...wonder if i will quit uni again if i do
...wonder if my family would nag me more or less if i did that
...wonder what the favorite sibling will do when she grows up
...wonder if she likes the top ive got her for her birthday
...wonder if she will be even more of a diva when she's 15
...wonder if that's actually possible
...wonder if she will acuse me of intentionally chastising her
...wonder if she would use smaller words than that but to the same sentiment
...wonder if antony likes her better then me i def used to be his fav sis!!
...wonder if antony will still live in edinburgh or london this time next year

and then i seemed to have gone full circle to where will i be this time next year!!
so then i eventually got on to the general thoughts of how some things will enevitably change

...James wont live round the corner anymore, in fact as of tomorrow he is moving back to england :(
...someone will at some point move in with alastair
...alastairs life size Jamie oliver will prob move to the living room as soon as james leaves
...we will have to buy our own dvd's/cd's instead of stealing james'
...fashion will change, this time next year boho will be frowned apon!!
...hairstlyes will change, although ghd's will prob still be a must have
...we will prob have more useless things that we dont need, and i dont just mean bunny accessories
...something will happen which is completely unexpected that i couldn't even begin to comprehend or imagine now but as soon as im finished typing this i shall more than likely ponder many an unlikely senario in my head