Car advertising

[mustang1]

At a particular school which is located on a small one way road, the school runners park on the sidewalk which leaves no room to get past them. So I just walk on the road amongst the traffic and don't particularly get out of their way too quickly.
Heck, if cars get parked where I walk, then I'll walk where they drive.

 

[Salar]

I quite like the latest Skoda ad with Paloma Faith.

 

[Threevok]

I quite like the latest Skoda ad with Paloma Faith.

Ah yes - the modern day Petula Clarke advertising the modern day Chrysler Sunbeam

 

[Gunk]

At the time they were brilliant. Now they’d feel noisy and slow. So my tastes have also moved on, Mk 7 Golf GTD for me at the moment although I’m thinking of going back to a GTi

 

[Salar]

Not interested in the Skoda

 

[mjr]

You know those cars that read speed limit signs and display the current limit on the dash? I want that, but added with an indicator for the point I need to lift off to decelerate smoothly to be under that limit or to reach the red traffic light or stopped/slow vehicle ahead at walking pace if it doesn't change/move as I approach. Do any cars have that and why is this stuff never in adverts? I don't mind driving when needed but I would always like it made easier.

Adverts lately seem more often to show shoot like touch screens and text messages which seem like drawbacks that make it more difficult to concentrate on not killing other road users.

And don't get me started on that insurance mascot nobber who hurtles round a blind corner and crashes avoiding a static deer. I don't want to pay for his claim!

 

[Threevok]

And don't get me started on that insurance mascot nobber who hurtles round a blind corner and crashes avoiding a static deer. I don't want to pay for his claim!

On a side note :

I was sat down the front at the Millennium Stadium for a Wales Rugby match when the aforementioned nobber (Welshman Wyn Evans) was standing near by the touchline, warming up the crowd.

When he finished singing, a bloke behind me shouted "pay my claim you b**** !" much to the amusement of the crowd

I've never seen him sing there at a match since.

 

[johnblack]

No, you're just leaping from one Aunt Sally to another. The problem is complicated. Why do people reach for the exhaust pipe so readily and what should we change to reduce it? Would tackling fraudulent false car-topia adverts help? Ban them from marketing cars as "ideal for the school run"? Really, that should be a socially irresponsible and repulsive idea but it seems to be accepted. Who's got the red pills?

Yeah ban it, definitely more banning is required.

 

[lane]

People buy cars for reasons other than their ability to go from A to B. I feel the same about my car as my washing machine - it carries out a useful function for me but beyond that I have no interest.

Edit - I don't particularly enjoy doing the washing and I don't particularly enjoy driving.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Cars are the devil, everyone doing the school run is a filthy, selfish polluter and we are all doomed. Am I doing it right now?

Yup, perfect. You are so (car) woke.

 

[johnblack]

Yup, perfect. You are so (car) woke.

..and I feel a weight has been lifted, even with the addition of a halo.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

..and I feel a weight has been lifted, even with the addition of a halo.

If you want to lift more weight from your shoulders, do some virtue-signalling too. Casually mention in all conversations that you saved the planed 400grams of CO2 this morning just by not turning on the hot water when you showered. Do suggest that others do that too.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Sounds a bit like a fairy tale.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

And the ads are sexists too. Fine when it's a man or a woman, but when its a couple the female is always subservient to the male, who is driving while she looks up at him adoringly.

Always?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neRg9YCyJqc

 

[All uphill]

Sounds a bit like a fairy tale.

Nightmare!