Posts by Isabel Hitchings
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Isabel - a fair number of them are ex smokers. Dave Gibson of elemnop (12 years) . This might not be obvious from the TV spots but there is a cast of 21 and they get rotated around a bit.
And if the ad out-and-out said "I used to smoke because I was a dumb-fuck" that'd be cool but the message I get is "we're cooler than you suckers" which is rather less cool. I find the ones that focus on quitting rather than just how evil cigarettes are somewhat less offensive.
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It's not the posing that bothers me, it's the absolute black and white preaching I find obnoxious.
Oh boy yeah and I think I loses the ad a whole wodge of credibility - i can't believe none of them have ever had so much as an experimental puff so it sounds like they are lying.
The less inflammatory language of the "it's not OK" campaign means that is much less of an issue.
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See the "not our future" ads get right on my tits - smug celebs being all holier than thou yet faux-hip.
Mind you as a non-smoker in her thirties I'm not exactly the target demographic there.
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I think I've heard Segg but had the idea that it was referring to a specific type/flavour and that Luncheon was a more general term.
A boston bun is round, iced with coconut icing (in pink or white) and contains raisins. If the fruit is missing it's just an iced bun.
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There's a different word for luncheon sausage?
Admittedly I've been a veggo most of my life so my meat product vocabulary isn't as wide as it might be.
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I thought the point of having kids was so they can provide you with grandchildren with whom you can do all the fun taking them out for treats stuff without all the boring getting to school on time and breaking up fights stuff.
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I've stuffed up remarkably few relationships. My record on complex not-quite-a-relationships isn't so flash though.
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With the Aussie one that's focusing on women i think it skirts perilously close to telling women that, if they don't report domestic violence, they are doing something wrong. "You should get out" rather than "when you are ready to get out help is available".
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I'm not one of those people who believes you marry your best friend. But maybe that's just me.
May partner literally was my best friend for about five years before I figured out that he did it for me in ways that weren't merely intellectual. That may well colour the way I see our relationship in ways I'm not even aware of.
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And yet there are mothers who aren't wives, and wives who aren't mothers.
And surely the married-but-childless and the childed-but-marriageless would still be a part of a family/household. However your family is structured the roles and responsibilities you have towards each other member get utterly entangled