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Old 07-06-2014, 08:41 AM   #116
Sundae
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I like. Dad as nurturer.

I wondered years back where the Dads in adverts were, finally deciding that men didn't buy the particular items being advertised in significant quantity for them to be the target audience. Supermarket clothes for children for example still seem to exist in a Dad-free world.

Thinking about "like a girl"... I wonder if it is the word girl that gives it a negative connotation. So that if it was "like a woman" would it be better? Or is it just the gender comparison. If someone said that you run like a black man I still think it would be a questionable comment, but probably meant as a compliment. How about suggesting someone dives like a gay, with the clarification that only if the gay person in question is Tom Daly.

I dunno, just musing.

Old Stephen Fry advert, because I'm reading his second volume of autobiography.
He said it made no sense to him either, but it paid exceptionally well for a young man who'd yet to become one of the stately homos of England.


I have no recollection of it, not knowing who he was at the time.
The Alliance and Leicester adverts however, I remember quite clearly (compact and bijoux, Mostyn, compact and bijoux).
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