Wednesday, 1 April 2009

billboards

right, apologies for no post yesterday, but of course occasionally i have to go out and look for annoying things to write about.
last night i went to see Billy Elliot. i have no idea why, will people please stop asking me, i was not the only boy in the world who went!
although it may have been that a lot of the girls that went were very manly.

anyways, i'm not going to attack Billy Elliot. it was actually quite good, i especially enjoyed the interval.
on the way to and from the theatre i noticed some strange lit up objects; like adverts on stilts, asfter some time i discovered/remembered that these are called billboards
but was still completely confused by them. mainly because of the crap companies put on them.
for example:

a new blackberry is coming out, whatever that is. it has been named the Blackberry Storm, which is the most stupid name they could have possibly given it. why not go for the vineyard
or orchard, surely they would have made more sense, i mean Blackberry Storm!?
sounds like something from heavens weather forecasts.

another thing i saw was 'IT'S COMING'. no other information, for all i know the driver of the coach wasn't paying attention and we wee about to have a fatal collision with whatever was coming.
i have 3 questions for the idiot who put this on a billboard: what is it? when's it coming? and why do i care?
i mean how is that possibly advertising your product, to me that advertises any product which'll be released in the near future.
this billboard was so crap that no one had even bothered to graffitti over it.
to me the saddest sight in the world, something that looks so bad already that the louts of today couldn't damage it any more.

1 comment:

  1. It's called curiosity. It's a marketing technique designed to manipulate people into wanting to find out about a product and to create hype before an official launch.

    lol.

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