Yes, a very costly mongrel ...'manufactured' from quite possibly two carefully bred pedigree dogs. No long term knowledge about temperament, health issues, etc. with all the 'oodle' mixtures - even though some are delightful looking dogs.

Today, I was walking our 4 months old puppy, and a man stopped to ask 'Is that a real poodle!?' He'd seen so many of the poodle mixes, he wasn't totally sure, but delighted to have seen ours


I got the impression they were trying to emulate the old M&S food ads ...those very irritating ones informing us that this isn't any old food, it's M&S food
It also resembles some of the Tesco Finest meals.

ASDA werewolves

I like that advert especially the little boy saying to the mum that he does not want to be a Werewolf anymore. So she buys something to put on his head so he would look different to her and his sister

The silly boy in the shop at Oak furniture who says No Interest.. I want to scream..

You probably never want to look up asmr then.

.britishseniors ad "lifetime pay back"
"I didn't realize that you could pay in more than your cover value" of course you can, how do you think any insurance company make it's profit, out of the people who pay in more than they draw out of course, otherwise they would go bust.
Oh and "No medical checks"? now would YOU insure with a company that insured cars at the same rate whether one had drink driving convictions or not, it means that they charge a rate set for the worst risk, I want an insurance that takes into account my clean record and thus gives me the best rate.

Poodles are lovely dogs, ALL dogs are lovely, I'm with Will Rodgers on this, but please always remember ALL dogs are wolves just a little removed and the original Poodles were bred as German working dogs the Schafpudel, for herding sheep and thus had to guard against their cousin, the real wolves, they can therefor be a fierce animal, as can ALL dogs if their ancestral genetics are encouraged to "Kick in"

typical miss use of English in ads, "Pay no interest" NO "take no interest"; "Better than half price" £10 is better than £5 and so £4 is NOT better the half £10, it is LESS than half price, when I was selling antiques as an antiques dealer, NOT an antique dealer, I am NOT over 100 years old, people would often ask of the price that I was asking, "Can you do better"? yes if I wasn't selling to a cheapskate like you.
"The care careened down the road" NO it din't, it Careered down the road, to careen means to turn a boat on it's side to clean it's bottom.
"Now for less pounds" NO for fewer pounds, fewer pounds, less money, oh I could go on, but mummy is calling me for lunch

One less crap advert no more to pollute our TV screens...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37773576

The offer is certainly 'better than half price'. 'Better' doesn't mean 'bigger'; for the customer of course a price of £4 is better than a price of £5.


I've never seen any advert use this wording, and would be amazed if I did.

Your other examples have nothing to do with adverts, though I've also never in my life seen anyone misuse the word careened...

Bawls!

Getcherandsonaah bigbloobawls!


This is why you can have a gun *or* a telly, not both.

Your first point is ridiculously nit picky, and the further two points have never happened.

the ad doesn't say "For the customer" and I never said the "Better meant bigger"

and if you haven't heard any of the other examples in adverts, then you either don't watch many ads or haven't been watching for very long

well if you think that picking up on bad English is ridiculously nit picky, all that I can say, heaven the English language

The irony being here that the end of your sentence doesn't make sense.

But your example doesn't really work either. £4 from £10 IS better than half price. From the consumer's point of view it is better.

Oh, the start of a sentence begins with a capital letter by the way.

I'm curious then on what basis you're claiming a sale price of £4 is not better than £5? Of course it's better for the retailer if they take £5 but to claim this is what the advert intends is nonsense. Adverts are all about appealing to the customer - of course the offer is 'for the customer'.

I'm genuinely interested in examples of the others in adverts if you can provide any.

I don't have an ad to point at but instead one that is possibly 'most needed to exist', I look forward to seeing everyone's comments on one from the Civil Mediation Council

so if I give you £4 instead of £4 for a £5 note then you would be happy?, because that is what it amounts to for the retailerf, fine where can we meet, bring lots of £5 notes with you to exchange for 4 £1 coins

and YOU call ME nit picky, so I missed out the word "Help" in Heaven help the English language and now you are telling me to start sentences with a capital letter, the words pot, kettle and black spring to mind

You beat me too it, was going to mention this one.

I remember when this ad first came on the air earlier this year and a number of us on this forum suspected it would sooner or later be banned by the ASA.

Curiously I just checked the Diet Chef youtube channel and the ad is still up on Youtube. I hope they realise that the ASA also has authority over advertising material on youtube and everywhere else online (if aimed at the UK market).

So Diet Chef will need to either take the ad down from Youtube or geoblock it in the UK (if the ad is also for other markets outside the uk).

I wonder with regards to youtube and online ads how long the ASA give those in breach of the rules to get there ads offline?

I really don't know how to make it any clearer to you how stupid your statements are so I give up

Yes, poodles are lovely dogs - we've had five of them over the years.
Yes, all dogs are lovely - we've had eight since we've been married, and both of us grew up with them.

Very true, the poodle was originally bred as a working dog, and in some cases, still is. Our last one was bred to the original standard size, and was a very large, sturdily boned dog. She was adorable too. Great house dog, great friend to all of us. Thinking back, we've never seen any of them angry or threatening.

Any dog can be treacherous, and in many ways, it's the way they're treat that forms their behaviour.

But, very little of the above has any bearing on the Flash TV ad

I love it when posters settle on a very specific meaning to a word or phrase and then refuse to accept that any other possible meaning may apply or that context is a thing.

Sure, technically it's laughing at dumb people. But it's a special type of dumb so laughing is allowed.

I don't think it was a point about the mathematics of the claim, it was in the use of the comparative "better than" when it would be more grammatically correct to have used "lower than" or "less than" in the statement.

To use "better" requires the presumption that "lower = better" which in general terms of pricing it is (from the consumer point of view at least)*, so the advert is correct in the context and it is just a nit pick.

*Although it does also assume that the only quality used in assessing the product is the purchase price. If they've halved the price and reduced the quality by two thirds and dropped the guarantee period by 80% and dropped the free delivery (for e.g.) then it's not as easy to decide if it is a "better" deal after all.

To be honest, it's not as bad as statements such as "some items up to half price" - which conveys no real information at all. You might find a bargain, you might not, depends how many "some" are and just how close "up to" actually comes to half price.

Truly hideous. An abomination <shudder>.