Nelson off!

It is the problem with advertising, that it it is an open ended message. it power lies then in in ambiguity.I mean the product is always also their, and yet always with other thing. Any attack on it, or any attempt t place it in a gallery of shame is likely to come unpicked, as these extra elements demand their also also (and so comment of whether the criticism is all that advert is).
in the end the only real thing to do is to escape this full nelson, is not to engage with the advertising medium at all. Which is easier than it sounds, as it is only advertising that claims that the adverts are universal.


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Get a grip

you know what the real problem of the London Olmypic nonesense is? the fact that the planners (if that is what they are) have been placed in a structure that simply stops them seeing the consequences of their own actions. I mean to them 9.3 Billion or 11.8 billion pounds spent is very little different.
you try telling that to the theater groups up and own the country whose funding is being cut in the Olmypic squeeze. You tell that to the sports organization whose funding has gone. You tell that to those who have to look after heritage monument...
Their looseness will have very considerable 'extra costs' elsewhere- where the squeeze is really felt.
A fact that the very structure of the bid seems to have hidden from the bungling greedy sanctimonous fools who are responsible for it...

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I hope this is funny

Tories clearly have two new games.
the first is that old rebranding trick - the name game. conservative sounds a it like conservation at all. So they hope by having postures splicing themselves with the green party that no one will notice they are not (and never have been). tis move is all the more interesting as it allows them to pose as the bridge between big business, ecology, conservation and the country side alliance, and do it without ever a policy being drafted (or even being draftable!)
The other one is saying day and slightly enaging thing about helping the poor . I mean if you say something in a nice enough way then people at least know you mean to do it. If your policies (and they have published policies about this one) do the opposite, never mind, you tried hard. Which is then of course more than than Mr Brown,who always frowns (but who actually well occassaionaly) has policies to held (specially selected and worthy) poor.
And Jane Austen showed us one can go far in having the illusion of goodness, rather than the real thing. All the more so because if you do have the real thing,t hen any slip in you goodness will really be counted against you!


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Mr Punch and the Shrug

The person who edits the by line pictures on the BBC blog (is certainly wit. a headline about Cameron's failure to end Punch and Judy politics, has him looking like Mr Punch himself. Good thing too, if you want my opinion (anyone you is so brand/bland aware as Cameron, by and large merit such treatment..)
More importantly Cameron's claim to end punch and Judy politics is a claim he might have been able to genuinely achieve, and yet he dismisses it with a shrug. He merely says I did not want to do it, in the end (as I was looking good as Mr Punch).
one wonders how any of Cameron publicity hungry policies will similarly be sacrifice to his ego!

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Botch-alisms

It is a blending thing I guess. One of the really scary things about modernity it its botchedness. I mean take, a story about less boys (ignore the effects of Chemicals), and look at the correlation between Boy and high energy (and so often high Chemical ) foods, and the number of Boys, and all of a sudden boys become assoicated with high energy diet. The story then becomes a biological truism, and Bingo Henry vIII was right to expect his hight status wife to produce men - why else did he feed them? Be are mediveal again!

or again take a french prejudice against the English, and a Muslim loathing of the excessive Christainization of the global culture (calendar, ect), and yo get the demand the the Muslims follow their own time system (not based on GMT). A demand which of course then flies in the face of globalization: which was possibly the point!

That is to Globalize is also to botch, or to pitch what is bothced against the very process in which it was created....What a fun place the world is!

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Parti-what?

It is the trouble with 'being patriotic'. it means to things. yes to dressing up, and engaging in elabourate pagents and mock historicism, and then getting very very drunk. But No to violent racism We were here first ism. the trouble is that as the first is no doubt the equivalent to a dog weeing on a bush, it rather naturally leads to the second!


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odd...

Poverty is such an odd thing- or perhaps it is just political popularity.
I mean since Thatcher the great mantra of the governing classes is shit of the poor. New labour then added an extra bar in this mantra shit of the poor, but not the deserving poor. The deserving poor being those the Manx's son cold approve of (families, and Oap's mostly) the rest could and did go to hell ( try living off less that 5000 a year, and not being in those categories, will will have got poorer, quite alot poorer over the last ten years, i know I have).
Suddenly then this golden rule of British politics has changed. we are all worried about the poor. i mean the non deserving poor (like me). Or perhaps we are all concerned to allow other people are also deserving.. well at least some other...well at least something to tell the voter...
a guess that kind of inconstistency is the magic of democracy, it is certainly its prorogative!


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Poesy

Well at least that explains the Prescot Food bill. £4000 of funding his Bulima. One cannot help thinking that there is something beautifully symbolic in all this. Here was a scourge from the Left, taken into a reactionary right wing government, and castrated.He responds to his impotence? By going an a feeding frenzy,eating as pointlessly as capitalism consumes.

I can only think Good on you John. This is such a more honest response than say, becoming caught up in a mist of piety and self righteousness, were any attack is taken as a sing of ones own sancity (and so correctness) - aka Blair.

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Bumrush

News really ought to be about forcing one to confront what one does not know. the trouble is that we have, in our myths of a global village lost sight of what we do not know (we are all the same don/t you know). The trouble is we have then used that blindness to warp the new back into what we always wanted it to be - about us. We are after all the most important of things - aren't we?
Let us hope that the unknown (which only the elite see?) does not once again erupt...

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They said it

it is just a headline, and yet one that needs to be kept, and it sums up the problem we face. the headline runs
"Smith pledges more terror police" - what it means is clear. What is also says is clear. our trouble is what do we do about this also which currently stalks all our lives just as much as that other terror does....

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roman tradegy

After the madness and horror of the end of nero's rain Glaba suceeded. Galba was a mystery to classical writers. A man who had all the halmarks of a great emporer, and years of public service behind him, and yet made an utterly lousy one (he was assassinated in nine months or so). Sounds rather too like Brown for comfort...

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The game of me me me

So Cameron uses a trouble seat. so what one asks. well in itself this is petty and utterly boring. i do not care. What Of course is important is that he felt the need to share the way he brings up his children with us, in order to make us like product cameron. My problem is that I will never like it I guess, and so reamin painfully aware his job is meant to be to aspire to run the country, and how he potty trains his two years olds is not really of any conecern.


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The slogans say it

I admit I have always loathed Osbourne. i remember too well his Cambridge days - but that is another story.
he is clearly surpassing himself in idiotic bombastic folly at the moment. that slogan of his about roofs and sun which is as homely as apple pie (and just as bad in large doses) is surely rather a stupid one for a Tory to use. I mean it was as if the Tories never run up huge debt or as if they save money in the good times. Actually thinking about ti they were so bad at running an economy there were not many good times in the last tory government - but that is another matter...
It i therefore a slogan which as it reminds one of a certain history, reminds one of just how bad the tories really were. Classic Osbouurne them. All Bumpituos bombast with no viable (or equitable) content, and merely an irritating and under under mining refrain.


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The yong burks naff it

I doubt it is a conspiracy -more a meeting of idiocies.
What is the case is that it is clear that tories and liberals (those trimming lawyers of the election process) are running is a pack. i mean here, that given their leader are near enough identical. Both are over confident and over promoted 'young' and 'hansom' men (in politics youth or being not bald or fat is one and the same as being hansom), it then makes sense for then to operate together. if one then the other can both go on the media a supporting each other attacks (on the economy or crime) then the contrast with the current 'overblown' encombant of No 10 is clear enough (and does not need stating). it is an old lesson, that youth hunts age in packs. our trouble on the left is of course what one does about it/ that is what one does when the junior member of our own pack has left us for another young man...


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