Anyone Seen the HiHi Advert?

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Doesn't make sense to me...

Guy says he has a problem with a CU.

Bloke in the office looks and says "You're missing a wire, it's probably too short."

???
 
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Missing more than one wire
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seems left hand RCD has no MCB's connected.
 
This is all over forums and Facebook. It may not make any sense, and the electrician may appear inept, but it’s doing brilliantly what an advert should do........almost going viral. You now know what a HiHi is, which is their goal.
 
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Doesn't make sense to me...

Guy says he has a problem with a CU.

Bloke in the office looks and says "You're missing a wire, it's probably too short."

???
First time I saw it I cringed, second time it really annoyed me after that I wondered if the makers realised how poor it is then it dawned on me I was talking to another person about it and that it had achieved their goal for publicity.
Having said that, I had not a clue what the advert was for until the other person told me.
 
First time I saw it I cringed, second time it really annoyed me after that I wondered if the makers realised how poor it is then it dawned on me I was talking to another person about it and that it had achieved their goal for publicity.
Indeed. In so many contexts it is very easy to forget that it is often the case that "any publicity (even 'bad publicity') is good publicity"! However ...
Having said that, I had not a clue what the advert was for until the other person told me.
This seems to be increasingly common with TV adds. There are a good few which I "know very well", sometimes finding them interesting or amusing, and sometimes 'technically impressive' (and could often 'hum the tunes' and/or recite some of the dialogue) but in relation to which I haven't got a clue as to who/what they are advertising. Hence, whilst they might have 'entertained' me in some senses, they have surely failed miserably in what they were (presumably) trying to achieve?

Kind Regards, John
 
I have had a think about this.

My Ma used to have to go to a Clarks shoe shop for me because I needed shoes of different sizes and Clarks were the only ones who would do this.

I'm pretty sure this is before I went to secondary school, ie pre '77.
 
I have had a think about this.

My Ma used to have to go to a Clarks shoe shop for me because I needed shoes of different sizes and Clarks were the only ones who would do this.

I'm pretty sure this is before I went to secondary school, ie pre '77.
I recall talking about this at work and with who so i think it had to be 1974-75.
 
You're almost back far enough to the days when shoe shops (Clarks and otherwise) encouraged children to 'play with X-ray machines'!

Kind Regards, John
Heck:eek::cautious::censored: I don't remember that.

However going off at a complete tangent I had loads of whip aerial base loading coils for different frequency ranges but externally looked identical, someone had not realised they were different and mixed them all in a box.
I was working at BBC Bush House at the time and asked if they could run them through the mail Xray machine. It saved a lot if work testing them.
 
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