"brainstorming" is a shit exercise anyway - people chuck out a load of ideas someone writes them down on a flip chart and then the paper gets taken away and is never seen again.
Talking of strokes of marketing genius, I was delighted to see the words EAT MORE POTATOES on a bag of spuds I bought today. Er, OK then!
I'd like to see this extended; DRINK MORE BOOZE on cans of beer and SMOKE MORE FAGS on cigarette boxes...
Is that the work of the Cyprus Potato Marketing Board ("The Max Cliffords of Cypriot Root Vegetable Products") by any chance?
Snaisbury's isn't it?EAT MORE POTATOES
Snaisbury's isn't it?
I saw that, I thought this was potentially irresponsible nutritional advice. How do they know I haven't already consumed a near fatal quantity of potatoes?
Surely that should be lower... or am I getting the wrong end of the stick?People who like to promote the inalienable human right to smoke ourselves silly 24/7 like to point out that cannabis has a higher LD50 (the theoretical dose that kills half of subjects when ingested in one go) than potatoes - I think you could OD on spuds because they contain small amounts of cyanide
Well that's what it's like in The Taking of Pelham and I can only assume that that's still our best guide to the "workings" of an underground railway system such as the tube."I always chuckle when I hear announcements on the tube introduced as "an update from the control room at Manor House (or wherever)" - makes it sound like a big room with a load of sixties computers with reel-to-reel tape things and blinking lights and men in big glasses, when it's clearly just a broom cupboard with a microphone in."
Surely that should be lower... or am I getting the wrong end of the stick?
The more of something you need to kill yourself, the less harmful it is (in that very basic sense, at least). So potatoes having a lower LD50 than cannabis means it would be easier to OD on them; they are, in a sense, 'more poisonous'.
Apparently, you can build up your resistance to some poisons by slowly dosing higher and higher.
My little brother's mate who offered me some cashews with the line "Hey man, you like peanuts? Then check this shit out."
The name of the chemical 'Sodium Laureth Sulphate' (the main ingredient after water in most shower gels), which sounds like it's really just plain Sodium Sulphate but insists on using its middle name in that slightly precious "I've got three names you know, and I'd be most obliged if you used them" celebrity kind of way. Like Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alexander Graham Bell.
Plus you can so easily imagine 'Laureth' being some utterly obnoxious spoiled blonde Valley Girl from an early '90s teen comedy. With a name based on shampoo. It's just too perfect.