Perfume and shampoo. Do we need thousands of them?

So you’re in your local Super Market / soulless grocery leviathan…and you need shampoo. Then you are faced with an entire aisle of hair soap. All lined up like enticing plastic soldiers, luring you in with promises that might temporarily ease the deafening lead klaxon of self loathing. Because let’s face it, the media wants you to know you can do better, no matter what hair you have, you need it better! 

 We are humans, we just need to shampoo a small percentage of our body hair. I would have thought dogs would need more variety than us as they’re covered in hair, and what about horses, buffalo, lions?  I’ll wager your average orangutan needs fancier hair soap than you.

Purfumes are another weird one. It’s not Georgian times you know! We have passed to time of having to cover the smell of our rotten teeth and gangrenous gussets. 

Here’s an idea, just have a regular wash with some soap and save yourself a small fortune on perfume. Plus you won’t smell like a prostitute’s armpit in a candy cane factory. 

‘This photo will chill you to the bone….and other clickbait’

 Online spamming teqniques have got so ridiculous, I’m surprised they haven’t been made into a comedy sketch. 

‘The experts don’t want you to know this….’ thats because experts have more sense.

‘Woman is 79 but looks 23….’ yes, and I’m 40 but look like an ovum.

How much stupid can the internet throw at us on a daily basis? Clearly, a gargantuan steaming pile of it. 

Do advertising graduates leave college, brimming with creativity and inspiration, then walk into the boardroom to be told: ‘Find lots of pictures of celebs, you know, Hitler, A Kardashian, Ghengis Khan…then make some vague reference to sex dungeons, anti aging creams or the apocalypse ‘

Is this clever or lazy? Are they really titilating us with fascinating products? 

My thought is, if your product is so weak you have to use click bait to even get people to look at it, it’s obviously rubbish. 

I miss the days of cigarette adverts. Yes, they kill you, but at least the adverts were stylish!