(Click on the thumbnails for the full photos)
Idiotic ads work
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That’s quite frankly the only conclusion I can come up with for what seems to be the ever-continuing ad campaign by Forum, a small shopping center in downtown Helsinki. They’ve been milking the same concept for years. I didn’t find it funny the first time, and it’s becoming increasingly less funny as years go by – seriously, it’s got to be one the worst ad campaigns I’ve ever seen.
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This one says, freely translated: “Buy a talking point. You get a mini-skirt for free.” If I frequented them to begin with, I’d be willing to boycott them just over their incredibly stupid ads. But over the years they’ve had countless variations of this same idiotic inverted theme, so it must work – I doubt shopping centers engage in charity for ad agencies.
One funny simulator
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Talking about charity, there was one funny simulator earlier today near the Kamppi center in Helsinki: a queuing simulator. With just €1 (or €3 for two queuings) one could get in the line and “experience the fascination of queuing”. Hilarious.
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The proceeds went to charity.
Swedish-speaking households are smaller than Finnish-speaking?
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The image on the right is of fridge magnets, with a recipe for pancakes on them. The one on the top is in Swedish, the one on the bottom is in Finnish. The ingredients list is the same, only the Finnish version is dimensioned for twice the size of the Swedish version. Eh?
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Why? I guess that’s one of the small mysteries of life.
Welcome to Holiday Inn Munich South – and the 20th century
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All hotels these days should have Internet access. And by Internet access I mean broadband – in the US most self-respecting places have offered it for free for some time already, but especially in Europe they want to charge an arm and a leg for that. But still, almost invariably hotels provide you broadband access, wired and/or wireless.
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Almost invariably. Some – like the one mentioned – are apparently still stuck in the 20th century, as witnessed by the “Internet Guide” of the hotel in the title. For Internet, they provide modem access. Excuse me, modem access?! Who uses a modem anymore!? My phone (networks willing) is five times faster than a frigging modem and it’s still slow!
