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I have decided to join in...

People who take "offence" at the smallest thing make me despair. When I was young, we thought the four-minute warning could go off at any time, the IRA were active and we had been taught that you could catch VD from a toilet seat - there were, and still are, more important things to worry about. Having been told that my use of Gill Sans font was "morally dubious" (Eric Gill had an incestuous relationship with his daughter), I have decided to join in.

My first effort was an e-mail to Beechams earlier this week.

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Dear Sir / Madam,

I have just watched an advertisement for Beechams' capsules in which a man with a heavy cold jumps into the ball-pit of a childrens' play centre. This is an incredibly unhygienic, inconsiderate, selfish and generally anti-social behaviour. It contradicts common-sense and the rules of many play centres.

To make things worse, the use of a semi-colon in the footer of the video is highly questionable.

I can't believe this was not called into check at any point during the development of the advertisement.

Thanks,

Hugh


(as yet, no reply, though I can't recall seeing it a second time).

Unfortunately, this could be a symptom, not merely of pique on my part, but the maturation of the decades of mental-conditioning!
 
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I never knew that about the Gill Sans font. Every day's a school day.

From wiki:

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His personal diaries reveal that his religious beliefs did not limit his sexual activity, which included several extramarital affairs, incest with his two eldest teenage daughters, incestuous relationships with his sisters, and sexual acts on his dog


So he was very naughty with his, erm, "curly cue"... Shocked
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I never let my children play in ball pits. They always stank of Censored ! (The pits not the children!)
  
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You are OK with the font. It is Gill "sans" anyway.
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it's alright for you, swapping fonts can't be that bad.

I've been told for years I can't call my "hobby" Wegener's Granulamatosis because there is a suspicion that Wegener worked out what the disease was by having access to lots of bodies ... wonder where from in WW2 Germany ?

So I have to go by the label of GPA ... which nobody has a clue what it is until you whisper "used to be called Wegener's".
  
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I think a lot of German industry benefited from that sort of labour. Not to mention Hugo Boss, Fanta...

That said, when it comes to medical terms "Adolf Syndrome" didn't really catch on as a name for the condition where a male has but a single testicle. Instead, the name went to Stalin's personal physician who tried (in vain) to correct it - Whodja Nikkabollocov.
 
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