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Reasons to be cheerful 2021

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  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Fresh watercress from the garden,  a lovely garnish on the lunchtime salad. 
    AB Still learning

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    My roses have started blooming.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Considering the angst over branding and advertising you would think someone might have spotted that @pansyface at some point in the process  :D 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    pansyface said:
    Just dragged a new box of Persil powder out of the cupboard. I had to laugh.


    I'm rather embarassed just how long it took for me to "get it "
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You don't owe them any favours @pansyface . However, it's good to let them know they've wasted a ridiculous amount of money on something that makes the potential customer snigger. My favourite one - I think it was Ralph Lauren aftershave. The Big Pony. Maybe it was just a London thing.💩
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    There's several well known examples from the motor industry.  The one that springs to mind is, the Vauxhall Nova.  Apparently in Spain No Va means no go, so it was decided to  change it as Spanish is among the top 3  most widely spoken languages.  
    AB Still learning

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Anyone remember when the bathroom cleaner Cif was called Jif ... apparently that means something else 😲in Spanish (?) and had to be changed ... or is that apocryphal?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    pansyface said:
    I have contacted them to ask if they might like to reconsider the wording.
    There's always the possibility that they're well aware of the double entendre and are using it intentionally with the idea that it will stick in the mind ... Persil being sure enough of their brand reputation to know that it'll be seen as a joke and not a comment on the product.  Marketing folk can think like that sometimes. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Just life.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Allotment Boy said:
    There's several well known examples from the motor industry.  The one that springs to mind is, the Vauxhall Nova.  Apparently in Spain No Va means no go, so it was decided to  change it as Spanish is among the top 3  most widely spoken languages.  

    Mitsubishi Pajero is apparently something very rude in Spanish slang.
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