The COVID-19 Blues

LT42

San Marzano tomatoes were a large part of The Pizza Connection case in the US in the 70s. The Bonnanos were smuggling heroin into the US, through Canada, using tins of Marzano which were distributed to all the pizzerias where the “Brown Gold” was then repackaged for the streets. Carmine Galante got shot through the eyeball because he monopolised the profits for himself due to his cousin in Naples holding a massive San Marzano production operation.
7 degrees of separation between anti-vaxxer Funky in Belfast in 2023 and one of the most famous murders in Mafia history in Joe & Mary’s diner on Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn 1979.

C_J

Funky sorry mate. just pulling your leg. No offence intended.

mono-stereo

LT42 😂 lol!

Hursty

I never knew the government hired advertising agencies to come up with slogans such as ‘Stay at home’ lol!

Sounds like they continue to grab a slice of the pie…

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/16/pr-firm-behind-tory-pandemic-response-linked-to-covid-inquiry

Along_the_Wire

Hursty that’s how it’s always worked Hursty. Buy food, sleep in a bed, smoke tabs. Advertising requires no thought and it doesn’t affect people, right?!

Mad_Cyril

Hursty
Getting a civil servant to knock up a quick PowerPoint would have been lethal!

hugopal

Hursty covid advertising you say?

Someone pass me the sick bucket:

Hursty

Along_the_Wire yeah for sure, it just amazes me the government needed help to come up with ‘Stay at home’ and hand washing procedures which have been in place in every medical facility for donkeys years and could have been reused?

C_J

Oh, you know what Grant’s doing, he’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market, he’s very smart

Along_the_Wire

C_J 30 more days of this shit and I’m out, CJ! There are other threads I can mention this on too

Along_the_Wire

Hursty there’s more to advertising than the slogan, Hursty. That’s all I’m saying.

vinnyt77

Hursty I imagine the cabinet in the early days of the of pandemic to be a lot like an episode of the apprentice…

vinnyt77

Along_the_Wire That’s right - someone’s got to draw the pictures as well 👍

Hursty

Along_the_Wire I’ll take your word for it.

Talking of the Apprentice, I’ve not watched it for years but I do remember an advertising task where the contestants had to pitch to JCDecaux, and they got absolutely roasted by the panel of advertising experts for being hopeless

Along_the_Wire

vinnyt77 messaging Tim, get the messaging right. The vaccine campaign was particularly successful. A very simple message too.

vinnyt77

Along_the_Wire Oh, you mean the jingle?

vinnyt77

Hursty Isn’t that the premise of basically every episode? Get 12 low IQ fuckwits to perform a task for which they’re woefully inadequate, and then laugh at their pitiful attempts to pitch their resulting work to industry professionals?

Along_the_Wire

Hursty one of my mates was one of the experts. The day that you think a reality show is the place to make any judgement call, outside of everyone concerned being a cunt, is just plain stupid.

Hursty

vinnyt77 yeah definitely, for some reason I just remember that one as the experts were exceedingly professional and cut throat, no messing, just tore into them like knife through butter

vinnyt77

Hursty cut throat, no messing, just tore into them like knife through butter

That sounds like our Grant to a tee 👍️

Along_the_Wire

vinnyt77 a jingle doesn’t exist in a number of key advertising formats.

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