And there was me thinking Personal Emotional Mobility was my bicycle...
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Personal Emotional Mobility
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Posted 13 years ago #
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Here on Copenhagenize.com we highlight the numerous examples of the car industry backing itself into a corner and angling their advertising to attack the growing armada of Citzen Cyclists in an attempt to maintain their market share, as well as promoting bike helmets to scare people off of bikes.
Argh aaaaargh! AAARGH!
although this link proved interesting
Posted 13 years ago # -
So spytfyre can you explain why Volvo are promoting cycle helmets for children? It is like Smith & Wesson introducing children’s bulletproof vests...
Posted 13 years ago # -
Over the past 5 years, as I've increasingly removed myself from the automobile, car advertising has become more and more surreal to me.
The auto ads do play very well to the emotions, but perhaps for me they miss the mark. I much prefer long-legged brunettes to the brassy blonde that the marketeers promise will arrive virtually at the same time as my my new manlymobile.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"I much prefer long-legged brunettes"
I much prefer nurse Gladys Emanuele... and her Morris Minor.
Posted 13 years ago # -
@Wee Folding Bike, this is not the first time you have mentioned Nurse Gladys Emanuele (is the Sylvia Kristel spelling correct?). Also have you not mentioned Come OUtside (with auntie mabel and tiffin?) I think you might have a thing about that actor/actress
Posted 13 years ago # -
No doubt about it. IMDB has it as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel.
I like Come Outside... but going for a loaf by plane is silly. The dog was Pippin.
Gladys Emmanuel has a Morris Minor, two if you watch the number plates, and that's hard to beat. There is a brown 1970 Minor in Coatbridge. It lives out on the road all year.
The memsahib knows all about this.
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"Argh aaaaargh! AAARGH!"
Quite (and carefully) aside from the question of whether said plastic hats will save any lives, the actual point is quite a thought provoking one.
Suppose you were in charge of marketing declining car sales against the ever-increasing number of people who are going for the cycling alternative. What options do you have, as a company? Can't say it's more expensive than driving, or makes you fat, or takes longer..
No, if I worked in such a job, even as a cyclist myself, the main line of attack would certainly be that the roads are dangerous to ride on. In that respect, handing out helmets, elbow pads, and so on in carefully crafted viral ads would be a killer.
They wouldn't even need to spend that much money. Giving out emergency next of kin and organ donation forms to every cyclist on the Innocent / Roseburn, or every child doing proficiency training would probably have as much effect or more. And nobody can complain because organ donation would save a lot of lives...
Posted 13 years ago # -
trying to keep the topic of this string off the verboten Jerry Helmet. There is a lovely Morris Traveller in Currie, I know the owner, very nice chap, takes the car out for a spin in the summer. You cannot beat a motor vehicle with strips of wood on inside and outside.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I think the Beach Boys would agree, gembo, they wrote plenty of songs about such vehicles
Posted 13 years ago # -
We were at a wedding recently where the back seat *was* the boot...
Not so practical going over speedbumps I fear!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Just read (some) of the reason for this thread -
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Bangle said one thing that stood out, bold black on white. He said that the number of 16-18 year olds in the US who aren't bothering getting their driving licences is growing fast. Cars register less on their radar. Then Bangle said it:"We have to hook them back to the car."
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http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/08/personal-emotional-mobility.html
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