A Song For The Right Wing Newspapers

19 July 2008
Added to Random Guff, Telly at 23:35

Just a quick thing tonight.

There’s just been a Mail on Sunday advert on the telly, as they are giving away the new McFly album.

I am fairly certain that one of the tracks is heavily derivative of the theme song from largely-forgotten 1980s Disney cartoon, The Gummi Bears.

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Of course, it could just be me. It probably is; McFly probably aren’t even old enough to remember the Gummi Bears, and this is probably less of a scandal than Roxette nicking the theme tune to Orm and Cheep in 1994. And I definitely made that second one up.

(Blimey. Look at that; the opening titles to The Gummi Bears run for a whole minute. That would surely never happen these days; at least forty-two of those sixty seconds could be used for Marketing Targeted At The Core Demographic or something.)

Milk, Grapes and Homophobia

17 July 2008
Added to Pictures at 19:23

A Distressingly Homophobic ReceiptYeah, it’s been a while since I have posted anything here. Life’s like that sometimes. Still, here’s something of note; it looks like my local branch of Iceland has branched out into selling cheap clothing. I assume that this is down to their rivals also selling cheap clothing; they don’t want to be left out.

I’m not sure about their product names though; I don’t see Tesco selling such niche items, and insulting their customers at the same time. Hmm. 

I suspect Jim Davidson was involved in the marketing meeting.
 
(Folks who are not from the UK may wonder just what the product I bought really is. Suffice to say, Mr Brain’s Faggots are a delicacy of sorts. Indeed, there are whole faggot families nowadays. Or five years ago, depending on your perspective. Which should be from a person in at least the year 2008.)



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