I went shopping a couple of weeks ago with a friend - my mom - and while trying to buy a blender, I saw a gas cooker, really beautiful and all that and I was about asking for it to be moved to the check out counter, when I saw the name of the manufacturer - Ignis - and I just screamed, "dont even touch it"! Now, why would I do that, you might ask? I dont care if they make the best goddam electronics in the world, but a company that relies on infidelity to make a sale, is in my oipnion, very shallow!
What the fish does "a smart wife's first affair" mean?! So after the first one with Ignis, I am entitled to more - as long as Ignis is the first one?! With stupid billboards all over town encouraging women to cheat on their husbands with a regridgerator or the one with the washing machine pulling a woman's already short skirt (that one was creepy) and so many stupid things they insinuate, you can be rest assured i am not buying an Ignis product for as long as I live and neither will I allow anyone I know buy it, unless they change their sales tactics.
Shish!
I might as well mention a few of the adverts that reall vex me, while I'm on the topic.
Bukky Wright and that annoying Harpic advert?! Everything was really cool and almost believable until she seats down in the lady's house and she shoves a container of harpic in her face, while asking if any part of her house gives her any problem..... duh?! The lady should have said she had tooth ache and allowed Bukky to test "the power of harpic" on her mouth then, abi no be so?! Why didnt Bukky hide the bottle and ask the question and we would have been pleasantly surprised if after the woman said she had issues with her but.... I beg your pardon, her toilet, Bukky brings out the bottle and the hogbladash continued.
Julius-the-eccelectic Agwu...... That your Hollandia advert get as he be. " So tell me now hallofyuu (all of you)...." "...it's got kalzium... (calcium) ..... I cant even remember all the mistakes-with-attitude wey the guy make.... How much did they pay you, really?! That advert is really stupid. Although the chic is hot :P ..... Was that the incentive?! And Jide Kososko.... I love Chivita, but I hate that advert!
Skye bank.... skye bank... skye bank...... una dey sing o! I hope say the song dey bring in dividends sha, because he be like say instead make una train una staff for proper customer service, na accapella una dey do. Remember say Charles Soludo can ask for a bigger capital base again soon o..... This una sing sing,.... hope say he dey bring in money sha...
Ambi Pur encorages young women to only date older men with Ambi Pur in their cars.....
5555...... Thank goodness the entire album waxed to make us buy vicks lemon plus has been edited and we are saved from having to waste our time watching (well, pretty girls) performing a double clay (as opposed to a double platinum) single, just to get us to buy vicks.... which i stopped buying by the way.... I settled for baba blue... I'll tell you why.
I can so identify with the wierd looking guy in the blue outfit that the advert makes so much sense, and the ingrained humor is so typically Nigerian that it scores so much points with me....
Bank PHB has the best concepts I have come accross in a long long time... well, second only to Jimi Agbaje's "runnning for governor ads".... and it shows people are thinking.... For that and other reasons, I have decided UBA with their dead-man-talking-ads is out and bank PHB, here I come!
The CBN bit about the lady with the sick child who went to see a doctor and brought out money from her bra was really funny and nice and I have heard one or two people I know, who would ordinarily not give a hoot about where money comes from, correct others as per handling the naira with care.... So the ad worked.... well kind of :-)
The Dettol cool and Dettol Pure ads are equally nice.
Ah, Ariel gold too!
Viva Bournvita! My 19 months old cousin walks up to his mom and says he wants bournvita and she says "No". A simple " but every child deserves bournvita" made her scurry to the kitchen to prepare a full bottle of Bournvita for him! Now, that is a lovely adavert!
The list of the "good guys" is endless - the old MAMSER adverts... 7up's Fido Dido.... Nasco Adverts.... among others....
Ok, gotto get back to work... next will be my thoughts on the Obasanjo, Atiku, EFCC, INEC, Ala-Akala,National Awards, Baba Modinat, imbroglio..
Miss me.
/Nunu.
