I keep getting adverts what I can only describe as ātechnical chinosā.
Absolutely hideous as you can imagine, designed by people who think what people really want is a pair of Rohan walking trousers tailored as chinos for the half-mast, white socks and boat shoes fashion brigade*.
*I guess this hasnāt been in fashion for about 15 years so it figures to aim at that lucrative 35 year old Accenture drone man market.
Itās supposed to be some kind of ergonomic wrist wrest, but I canāt figure out how it would do anything other than annoy you at best and injure you at worst
I kind of assumed the mouse was broken and awaiting repair and those bits had fallen off the underside of it. Which, thinking about it, is a bit odd in an advert
Does anyone else keep getting adverts from āMetalbirdā on Facebook?
Some shitty metal cutout of a bird you hammer into a tree, yet itās being advertised like itās some revolutionary product that will make you weep tears of joy. Absolutely bizarre.
Oh, I had in my mind something that lay flat against the bark. This is less interesting.
(Iāve just realised this one of those things a certain type of person you know gives you. They are the person who ALWAYS buys something they think is really cool but is something you hate.)
The adverts are all like āgive a truly meaningful gift this yearā and itās like buddy, this is garden centre impulse buy tat, Iād rather have a fucking gnome.
The name is irksome, but I quite like the concept? Like having any generic abstract art that you can just buy at IKEA, but with a story behind it.
My tech-minded friend rigged up something in a similar vein, heās set up one of those digital photo frames to play back a film incredibly slowly, like over the length of a week, in black and white: