Little Man, What Now? Comments

I like the Marcus Brigstocke comment about the BBC...

2009-10-22T23:34:26.087+01:00

I like the Marcus Brigstocke comment about the BBC in the Now Show, whose originator is Mitch Benn. I paraphrase, but the intent remains the same.

The BBC is not a taxi service; it's a bus. In return for the license fee, you get to be informed about many things that have nothing to do with editorial slant. But when they are delivered in that manner, the individual does not get to determine where the bus goes. It has a route already established.

And like the bus service, after a certain hour it gets a bit more blue. Good. It should. Some of us like that. And some of us love that. Individuals don't get to choose where the bus goes.

Oh,great, another crappy sign debate. When you guy...

2009-10-02T02:12:56.083+01:00

Oh,great, another crappy sign debate.
When you guys and gals get your head out of the shitter, there are some real questions to consider.

Should individual smokers be compensated for smoking related illnesses? How can one prove the illness was caused by smoking? Are smokers responsible for their own misfortunes? Should they be held contributory NEGLIGENT?

If the sign bothers you that much, knock it down physically not orally.

Dude! I'm a filmmaker in Texas, and I love your vi...

2009-09-20T22:01:03.981+01:00

Dude! I'm a filmmaker in Texas, and I love your vid. The police are reerees here and I get put in handcuffs for filming them all the time. Not one conviction. Turds. Keep it up.

Ah, Pooter, you are returned. Interesting points ...

2009-09-06T12:03:34.497+01:00

Ah, Pooter, you are returned.

Interesting points regarding the BBC. The only areas where I have an axe to grind with Auntie are (predictably enough) news & current affairs, where even a pretence at balance is but a dim and distant memory.

Everything else I'm perfectly satisfied with. Were some means available to rectify the appalling state of journalism and shoddy reportage then i'd continue to choke up the license tax without demur.

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2009-08-31T11:20:53.559+01:00

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Well said Charles. I often work with Ad agencies a...

2009-08-24T17:22:08.892+01:00

Well said Charles. I often work with Ad agencies and there is an awful lot of coke available.

I too winced when I saw this ad, and I think it co...

2009-07-10T13:14:55.906+01:00

I too winced when I saw this ad, and I think it could be effective... the correct number of decades ago, maybe. We're used to shock tactics now.

Example, how many of us are now quite content to sit there watching the charity ads with videos of crying children? How much is it... £2 a month... wonder if I've got time to get a glass of cola 'til the ad break ends...

I'm another nonsmoker, but I really don't think any one image could persuade me to change my lifestyle - much less a metaphor where I have to stop and read the caption to find out how it's even relevant to me.

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2009-06-18T03:12:24.790+01:00

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Vanity Fair magazine brought me the Christopher Hi...

2009-05-25T11:55:22.871+01:00

Vanity Fair magazine brought me the Christopher Hitchens waterboarding tryout, and it's not just a slick glossy, it also informed me about the so-called 'Bybee-Yuo torture memo' of the Bush43 regime, and published the definitions of exactly what constitutes torture.
Donald Rumsfeld who signed-off on that memo, hasn't evolved as significantly as the rest of us.

ok just looked at my licence and from what i can s...

2009-05-14T01:39:00.000+01:00

ok just looked at my licence and from what i can see it's really a road because if you notice there is a line (curved) going across the steering wheel symbolizing the hood (bonnet) of a car and the triangle is a road (sorry to burst your bubble

Sam, I own LPs older than you. 23 skidoo, Tobias...

2009-05-11T19:09:00.000+01:00

Sam,

I own LPs older than you.

23 skidoo,
Tobias.

To Tobias. please grow up and take your tin foil h...

2009-05-11T16:29:00.000+01:00

To Tobias. please grow up and take your tin foil hat off.

your friend,

sam

Mr Mitchell is the bravest man of our time! Stop m...

2009-04-27T17:35:00.000+01:00

Mr Mitchell is the bravest man of our time!
Stop mocking who wants the best for all of us!
its not about aliens, it is the knowlege for us to recognize our place in the universe!HIDING THAT IS THE BIGGEST CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY!
IGNORANTE BASTARDS!

I think that the guy filming is a bit of a cock is...

2009-04-16T09:51:00.000+01:00

I think that the guy filming is a bit of a cock is entirely irrelevant.

The fact that the police officers seem convinced that it's illegal to film them IS a problem.

If they are doing nothing wrong, then they should have no problem with their conduct while on duty being filmed.

That is the same rationale that the government have for sticking CCTV everywhere, and while *that* is not a cause that I'm going to pick up banners for it is something worth pointing out.

The Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) is the key ...

2009-04-15T11:35:00.000+01:00

The Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) is the key criminal justice agency involved in engaging substance misusing offenders in drug treatment. It does this through a variety of methods, some coercive, such as the Tough Choices program, and some by more traditional means. Its key partners include police, the probation service, prisons, courts and other criminal justice agencies, as well as the National Treatment Agency and the Department of Health. Over four years, there has been over £500 million spent on DIP. It has been shown to be effective in its aims; since 2003, acquisitive crime (which is largely attributed to substance misuse) has fallen by a fifth in the UK. In areas with more intensive DIP activity, early evaluation showed crime falling faster in those areas than areas with less intensive DIPs.

Drug Intervention North Carolina

...everything said above by Anon., and the stupid ...

2009-04-05T08:39:00.000+01:00

...everything said above by Anon., and the stupid bloody Tasmanians shot and killed and wiped out every last one of them as they did to the indigenous people, and platypus too.
Tasmania founded by British military and by convicted persons transported there of course ...

That was worth reposting, permission or no.

2009-04-05T08:33:00.000+01:00

That was worth reposting, permission or no.

"Where in Africa did you say you came from?"

2009-04-02T11:54:00.000+01:00

"Where in Africa did you say you came from?"

So you think that the advert is grim, everyone is ...

2009-03-10T17:40:00.000Z

So you think that the advert is grim, everyone is entitaled to there opinion but its an anti-smoking advert, not an advert for Heroin or inapropriate underwear. You think that things like that shouldn't be shown to the genral public, but think is ok to describe an advertising agency as'a bunch of coke-snorting wankers in soho' in a place were anyone can read it. I get the feeling that you are one of these people that complain just beacuse you can. So stop getting people down 'whose surroundings are often grime enough already!' (C.C. 13)

That was beautiful, thank you for reposting. Keep ...

2009-02-28T15:00:00.000Z

That was beautiful, thank you for reposting. Keep it up :)

Oh dear, all the arguing, insults and 'i'm brainie...

2009-02-20T00:29:00.000Z

Oh dear, all the arguing, insults and 'i'm brainier than you because I can spell with no typo errors' has made me forget the actual question that was asked... Oh yes -opinions on the NHS Anti-Smoking campaign!

Advertising is used to communicate a message to as many people as possible, but as we all know there are thousands of adverts that we observe each day, but how many do you actually remember?

The 'Fish Hook' (and other NHS campaigns) is a form of shock advertising to break through the fragmentation of todays media clutter, and therefore is purposely made shocking to make smokers/ex-smokers/people thinking of smoking to remember and reinforce the message - smoking could lead to 'more pain than pleasure'. The shock tactics of the NHS used has caused some strong emotions amoung people which is exactly what its intention is -further publicity of the intended message. Cliche, but bad publicity can be pretty effective - it has all of us discussing it.

One theory by Walster and Festinger (1962) states that people who are aware of the intent to persuade will be less persuadable - therefore iterates those who will smoke in defiance of the adverts intentionally. Some comments above have proven this.

Joffe.H (2008) research has proven that strong emotions such as 'disgust' and 'fear' are used to penetrate and help illustrate the message deeper, evoking cognitive thinking, stronger pathways = remembering advert better etc. NHS campaigns have used this emotion to evoke fear and disgust making sure we remember the advert.

Despite the above, an article in The Times (2008) has argued that although the NHS has spent £500 million on the recent smoking campaigns there has been no discernible impact on the population of smokers in the UK which has stayed at approx 24%.

As a 'social-smoker' I feel these adverts do make me think about smoking and I have definitely remembered most of them while lighting up my next cigarette (a pang on guilt) - especially the clogged up artery mentioned so many times. Infact, I think after conducting some research for a project that it's time to quit. This is my own choice and was not because of the NHS ads we see everywhere.

One question I would like to raise for a research question is whether the recent graphic images on cigarette packets influence smokers in any way to stop? Or do you just turn the packet the other side so you don't have to look?! After all 'ignorance is bliss'!!

I think scariest part of this clip is when the fem...

2009-02-17T20:40:00.000Z

I think scariest part of this clip is when the female officer actually says that it is an offence to film the Police...

http://parellic.blogspot.com/2006/02/james-rusbrid...

2009-02-14T10:55:00.000Z

http://parellic.blogspot.com/2006/02/james-rusbridger-spy-tradecraft-books.html

"At 4:15 AM, Anonymous said...

So James Rusbridger was wearing a Noddy NBC Suit - wonder where that came from?

Wasn't a minor MP found dressed in rubbish bin bags with an orange in his mouth trying to heighten some sexual stimulation by controlled strangulation some weeks previous to Mr Rusbridger's unfortunate demise?

Perhaps he was topped too?
At 7:12 AM, mjs said...

Conservative MP Stephen Milligan was found dead on 7 February 1994, just over a week before James Rusbridger. Both deaths appeared to be in similar circumstances, with rumour that they were both linked to sado-masochistic sex practices. However, is that what we are expected to believe? Like all these inexplicable events, the whiff of conspiracy is never far from the surface. I guess we need an insider to spill the beans on this one."

Charles, I see you have been feeding that cat well...

2009-02-08T15:24:00.000Z

Charles, I see you have been feeding that cat well since I last saw it.

Not inane, fascinating, mind-blowing. Here is (or ...

2009-02-03T11:29:00.000Z

Not inane, fascinating, mind-blowing. Here is (or at least was) an animal whose roots in evolutionary terms go back to the very earliest origins of the mammals. Marsupials and placental mammals have evolved separately for aeons, a hundred million years, maybe much longer, I don't know exactly. Because their reproductive systems are radically different there has been no sharing of genes all that stupendous time span. Yet after all that time parallel evolution has produced an animal which could be mistaken for a dog any day of the week. In fact it looks more like a mainstream canine than many specialist breeds you could name. A true wonder of nature; so amazing it knocks my socks off!