General Chat

Merriweather, you are right about that ad being antipodean. I think the fountain is in Mission Bay in Auckland. There has been a follow-up ad with a young girl asking her mother the same question and if I remember rightly the mother hums and hahs and then says 'ask your father'. I cant say I watch the ads much, my brain turns off when they come on but my OH often comments on something in an ad and I have to admit that I didnt see/hear it. Though having said that, there is one that I hate, a small boy saying in a horrible squeaky voice 'mummy mummy pick me up mummy'. I think it is for tena pads. I always mute the tv for that ad, in fact for most of them.

Huia.

I hate that advert too! You poo, loo smells - been like that for decades - get over it!!

Mac, the best thing I (accidentally ) found for constipation was Jeyes fluid in a bucket! When we had an 'empty your own' system in the Shetlands, I used to disinfect the bucket using Jeyes fluid and hot water. Sit on that for a minute or two and your bowels come to life!! LOL!
Maybe something to do with the steam.

Almost? *shudders*...lol

xx

The interesting thing about the 'where do I come from?' ad, is that the kid actually seems to come from Australia, or NZ. I think we shoud tell him that he's an Ozzer before someone else does, or he might get over-enthusiastic about all those wonderful,but unnecessary fireworks!.

One of my first threads on this board all those years ago was about the ad for Pot Noodles with the horn lol Someone must have been reading the thread as it was discontinued soon after lol
I too hate the poo one and another one I think it ridiculous is the one where the kid says Daddy where do I come from and gets a birds and bees lecture all the way home, just as they pull into the drive he says, Oh that's so cool, so and so only comes from Scotland!
So predictable and the child is dreadful at the acting bit

Lizx

Horrible, beastly ad and dreadful little boy. I suppose, when my kids were small, they probably used old fashioned euphemisms like 'going to No 2s' but they just better had been expecting to do their No 2s in their own loo, as I remember noone who would have said 'Come in little child, we're just hoping you'll do your log in our bog - ours smells so much nicer than yours'. But, I can imagine everyone's indignation, including my own! Kill the little blighter. Oh, and I hate that word 'poo' (pooh) even if I do use it myself.

Yuk

Mac

I will be away from laptop tomorrow *frets*

You will have to pm me..lololol

xx

I must have been missing that advert.... oh dear, what a shame...
Deanna X

Mac... you are quite right, I REALLY wanted to know that.
You sound like my husband... are all men like that??
It would make me feel a little better knowing that I was not alone with a *rude* husband.

So happy to see you back to normal... whatever normal may be.

Deanna X

No-one has ever accused me of being a prude but I think the advert is vile.

That advert gets on my nerves too and him trying to be masterful with his mother - little blighter. I would like to take him by the ear and march him up to their loo and say SIT until you S.it! LOL

OH cannot stand the other advert. He says fancy discussing things like that in a cafe. I did say that we women do generally discuss all subjects no matter what they are or where we are! But you would have thought by now her "problem" was rectified! PMSL


~~~waves to Mac~~~~ - hope you get relief soon .

Tina x

Mac - Old Geezer - I was prescribed a product call LACTOLUSE, but you can buy it over the counter, for a largish bottle at under £5, and it works for me. I take a swig at last thing at night ready for the next day. Don't go out until you've GONE
Good Luck
Julia in Derbyshire

PS. I hate that advert.

Jean you are absolutely right.I worked for Unilever and remember years ago talking their advertising dept who said its the adverts that get people talking that are doing the trick.Mind you some of em are shooting themselves in the foot cos I would never buy cos the advert annoys me so !! lol

i know they are trying to sell products but I find some of the adverts really distasteful,Surely they can come up with better adds than wanting to go to the mates Paul for a crap!! Sorry but it makes me cringe seeing that advert.
Standards do seem to have dropped or been laxed on what is acceptable

I hate it and the little boy too. :)

Mind you it's worked hasn't it We are all talking about it. Only thing is I can't remember what they're advertising. lol

Jean x.

hi mac sorry i should have added that the one you get from the chemist is not of the sweet kind it,s a hard one spec for your compaint . but good luck with the one you got . if you ask them they will know what you need.

I hate the advert, and wrote on here about it, also the one about the girl who cannot go, because it is all hard, she goes boss eyed when she is telling the others at the Cafe table.

My OH always says look at her gone boss eyed through straining.

My cousin sent me a video of Billy Connolly talking about taking laxatives before a Colonoscopy, OH and I were in stitches, we had both gone through this, and could see the funny side of it.

Anyway hope the liquorice works Mac

Mo

just wonder who PAUL IS --HIS FATHER --- LOL

Well his mothers no better ...

Letting him go to Pauls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi mac if you go to the chemist and ask for a stick of liquorice that should do the trick it,s an old fashion remidy but work,s o/h had the same prob some time ago did the trick .