Guess the product!

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Give it a try.  You won't get close.

Comments

[memnet.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* unfortunate choice of names and nope, had no clue what they were selling.

The second ad really fucking offends me. Gah! Oh yes baby, maybe next time you'll give me a vacuum cleaner...maybe a new bucket and mop.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I actually kind of relate to that one. For Mother's Day, I got a pressure canner and I bought some jars and other canning paraphernalia. It's what I wanted and what I asked for, though. I've been on a food preservation kick lately, but it hasn't quite reached doomsday prepper level yet.

So far, I have mostly used it as a pressure cooker. I call it "steampunk cooking" (yep, I am a geek). I did can some tomatoes, though.

[memnet.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* You're into it though; it's a creative endeavor for you, which is totally cool. She was expected to do canning, jarring or whatever because *...drumroll...* she was female. I just think that domestic devices, implements and other paraphernalia shouldn't be given to women as gifts.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Exactly! A gift should be about the person and what THEY want. I also don't think men (or women!) should be given things like tools unless it's to support a hobby and you know that's what they really want. For example, we had to buy a new mower a few weeks ago and I can't imagine saying, "here, honey! Enjoy your present!" He would HATE that!

[bradygirl_12]

That must be some sexy wallpaper! ;)

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Yup, I always climax when I clean my wallpaper.

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

There is a cleaning product here in Europe that up until relatively recently was call "Cif" in continental Europe and "Jif" here, because of the unfortunately similarly-sounding "Syph" STD. Nowadays most people don't refer to syphilis as "Syph" so the cleaner is now called "Cif" here as well.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

(wow this is complicated)

WIKI: Cif is a brand of household cleaning products by Unilever, known as Jif in Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and the Nordic countries. Cif is the largest selling abrasive cleaner product in the world. Cif is not marketed in the United States.

The Cif product is sold under the names Jif, Vim, Viss and Handy Andy, depending on which of the 51 countries it is sold in.

In Sweden, the United Kingdom, and South Africa the products were sold under the name Vim before this was changed to Jif, the launch name in Ireland, the Netherlands and Hong Kong. In 2001 the name in most of these countries was changed to Cif in order to harmonise marketing and product inventories across the continent. Despite this, many in the UK continue to call the product Jif[citation needed], as well as in the Netherlands[citation needed].

In Belgium, Finland and Portugal, the product was known as Vim for quite some time, after which it became Cif. In Canada and India, it is still called Vim. Recently advertisements for Cif surface grease cleaner have started to appear in India, while Vim name is still used for the kitchen dish cleaning product. In Germany, the cleaner's name is Viss. In Norway and Sweden the product is still today traded as jif.

In the US, Jif is a peanut butter. :D

[bradygirl_12]

The Vim name makes me think of Vip, the phony product in the Doris Day/Rock Hudson movie about feuding ad execs (Lover, Come Back). :)

[kat-food.livejournal.com]

CLIMAX: "The result seems almost magical - a real reward for your effort." BA HA HA HA HA. Yes.