Would this help you choose your car?

[ruby27]

http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2008/03/suzuki _swift_th

I find the ideas behind this advert campaign to be a mixture of the offensive; that women's sexuality/femininity should be exploited in such a manner.
To completely ludicrous that even if women mannequins did find cars an irresistible sexual turn on, that this would then translate to the probably spotty gawky 20 year old who had bought the car.

What do others think.

[China Doll]

All men no doubt, do you have any idea how hard it is to get my hair straight and keep it that way if there is any moisture in the air?! It's the only thing that turns me in to a believer frankly. First impressions are so difficult.

[Octavius]

I think they have missed a trick really, the church that is. They could have joined up and ran with the 'if you use ghd and pray with your rosary beads, you could be beautful too'.

Keep the faith alive. And the hair straight. And less of the lingerie.

[Theland1]

It's a good job they didn't use mohammed in the adverts, they'd have no hair to straighten - they'd have no head!

[Octavius]

It would have been a little pointless seeing as the hair under the burqa is more likely to be straight anyway. Making yourself beautiful is not mubah, although playing with rosary beads and being scantily clad might be.

[naomi24]

Good afternoon everyone. Theland you're wasted as an engineer. You should have been a comedy writer, you really should. You make me laugh so much at times. You are daft! :o)

The advert is just cheap and tacky. Par for the course with a lot of things these days though. I can't imagine many taking it seriously. My first thought was that it looks like those poor girlies have had a terribly embarrassing accident! Sort of thing where any girl with a modicum of decorum would beat a hasty retreat - never to be seen in that place again!

Know what you mean about the hair, China. Slightest bit of moisture in the air - and whoosh - it's a gonna! Sorry boys, just a little diversion there. Do please carry on.

[naomi24]

Octavius, Have you read 'The Bookseller of Kabul'? The ladies in that loved their make-up, etc, despite the fact that no one could see it!

[Octavius]

No Naomi, but when I worked in the middle east I always though it quaintly odd that there were always some very rich women in head to toe burqas in all the designer shops buying up all the designer togs.

One can only assume that they wore them for show at home.

[naomi24]

I've asked my Muslim friend about this (she wears western clothes incidentally - and make up!), and she said those women who hide themselves beneath all those wrappings do make the effort - but it's only for their husbands to see. Got to wonder if it's often a mad dash at 6pm while the potatoes are boiling!!

[Theland1]

Naomi - I could fix your pneumatics, your hydraulics, your gearboxes and transmissions, and for you I would do it all for a special rate. But you have touched a raw nerve there oh Great Heart, for you know that inside every engineer there is a writer trying to get out! And a comedy writer at that! Oh what bliss that would be. A modest income from my scribblings that might even pay for the wifes catalogue and send the milkman away happy, clutching his cheque for fourteen pints of red top.
Surely it could happen? Surely there must be an upside to depression somewhere?
Being so old fashioned makes me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Or is it the other way around?
Mannequins or not, knickers around the ankles is not ladylike, so this advert is zero out of ten.

[naomi24]

Theland, fixing pneumatics and hydraulics is all very well, but how are you with elastic?!

Why not give the writer inside a chance to escape? Try it. We never do anything if we only think about it. Get yourself a copy of the Writers & Artists Year Book - and go for it!!

[Theland1]

Well I do manage to make Waldo laugh, and chakka has immortalised me with a new word, "Thelandesque," so I might buy a copy out of my new found wealth.
I'll send you a P.M. with details, and hey, the rest of you, no begging letters please!
On the question of the failed elastic in the advert, an engineer would fix a pair of braces and a belt, and keep them up forever!

[naomi24]

Braces and a belt?! Wow! What style!! Forget the writing - it's the fashion industry for you, my lad!

[Theland1]

I got the idea from my tailors, "Ethel & Austin."

[ludwig]

That's a funny link. The rules on how you should make a comment are hilarious. It's like something out of 'the modern parents' from Viz.