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posted November 17, 2002 02:43 AM |
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Are Norwegians a particul
I was at the drug store today and I happened by the moisturizers (erm, that is to say, hand lotion type of moisturizers. Get your heads out of the gutter, ya sickos!). Anyway, one of the products was advertised as "Norwegian formula!!!" There was also a Norwegian flag on the bottle, in case you did not believe that it was, in fact a Norwegian formula. Now, I respect the Norwegian people and have no reason to doubt that they can make a fine moisturizer. However, is there something I don't know about Norway? Have Norwegians been devoloping moisturizing secrets from the beginning of time, carefully passing the secrets of Norwegian moisture from generation to generation in a special, ritualistic coming of age ceremony? My guess is no. My guess is that Norwegians are roughly as moist as other peoples of the world and are no better or worse at the art of moisturizer formulation than, say, Botswanans. My guess is that this is simply some sort of ploy to make me, the consumer go "aha! This moisturizer has been imported! Therefore, it must be superior to my locally produced moisturizers. I feel honored to pay the premium to acquire such an exotic moisturizer."
Anyway, what I want to know is -- are Americans the only people who are stupid enough to fall for this kind of stuff? Do they advertise "Special Mexican fan belts!!!" in the UK or "Exotic British pencil leads!!!" in Japan or "Super Happy Fun Japanese soda!!!" in Brazil? Or, for that matter, are Norwegians rushing to buy "Special, American Formula Hand Lotion!!!"
I just gotta know if it's the same around the world or if my people are particularly gullible.
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posted November 17, 2002 02:46 AM |
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All I know is that any nation who has people in it gullable enough to purchase the eiffel tower, The tower of london and Big Ben are gullable enough to buy norwegian hand lotion 
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posted November 17, 2002 03:03 AM |
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Norway sucks 
nothing personal, but as a swede that is my statement 
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posted November 17, 2002 03:07 AM |
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I got a m8 who was born in Norway (though he's british now and left there when he was 2) and he says pretty much the same about Sweeden (IE it sucks). Something about too much trees and snow
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posted November 17, 2002 03:15 AM |
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I don't see what good Sweeden has done the world. At least Norway has hand moisturizers.
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posted November 17, 2002 03:24 AM |
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You obviously don't know much about sweedish women.........
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posted November 17, 2002 03:27 AM |
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Yes, I guess that is true...
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bort
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posted November 17, 2002 03:33 AM |
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Hey! This was supposed to be a serious discussion on the follies of advertising. Don't fill it up with spam about the Swedish Bikini Team!
What's that?
My original post was spam?
I take umbrage at tha... oh. I see.
Carry on.
Seriously, though, are there certain buzzwords in other nation's advertising? For instance, in the US saying a car has "German engineering" automatically implies that it is good engineering.
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posted November 17, 2002 03:50 AM |
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All I know is that any nation who has people in it gullable enough to purchase the eiffel tower, The tower of london and Big Ben are gullable enough to buy norwegian hand lotion
Yeah, but look at it this way -- some day, some hillbilly is going to show up at Big Ben flourishing a deed and demand that he be given his property. He'll be laughed at until it turns out that the deed is airtight. Next thing you know, we'll be eatin' chitlins, barbecuin' up some roadkill, marrying our cousins and shootin' squirrel from your clock tower. Heh heh heh.
Then, and only then will the American Revolution be complete!
Washington had this planned from the beginning.
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posted November 17, 2002 03:56 AM |
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...there are all sorts of marketing schemes, down the very shape and color of the packaging, and where it is located on the shelves and so on. It really doesn't make any difference. Pretty much all of it is used, especially with all the advertisement to compete with their fellows on how well they can dress up their products. There are people who simply buy something because there is some hot chick on the cover with a nice clean, smooth packaging, instead of something with just some old looking paper covering. Then there are people who don't care about the actual product, so long as it is presented well in a commercial they saw on tv, with some celebrity saying how good it is. Of course, it also helps to be a popular brand. I mean who would buy Suzy's Homemade Special Carbonated Juice Biproduct Formula instead of Coke?
It really doesn't matter who you are or where you live. All of the things they try to do will help you make the choice for you whether you try not to be influenced by it or not.
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posted November 17, 2002 03:59 AM |
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I mean who would buy Suzy's Homemade Special Carbonated Juice Biproduct Formula instead of Coke?
I would! where can i get me some?
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posted November 17, 2002 04:01 AM |
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Hmm, I'm not sure. Have you tried Ebay? They well all sorts of crazy things on there...and if they aren't now, just ask around and eventually someone will begin to.
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posted November 17, 2002 04:49 AM |
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It's because Norwegia is so cold! Body parts get chafed and require special care. People from Norwegia have always been at the forefront of moisturizer development. 
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posted November 17, 2002 05:05 AM |
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I live in japan, but I dont understand the language so I can't know about that bort..
I'll tell you this though, where ever we go the foriegn chick's want "american ****"
(I'm pretty sure they like other nationalities too.. )
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posted November 17, 2002 05:44 AM |
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Yeah, but look at it this way -- some day, some hillbilly is going to show up at Big Ben flourishing a deed and demand that he be given his property. He'll be laughed at until it turns out that the deed is airtight. Next thing you know, we'll be eatin' chitlins, barbecuin' up some roadkill, marrying our cousins and shootin' squirrel from your clock tower. Heh heh heh.
Then, and only then will the American Revolution be complete!
Look for me next year sometime . . .
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posted November 17, 2002 07:25 AM |
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Great initial question Bort...I have wondered the same thing For years I used a hair conditioner specially made by the Swiss (well actually didn't look at the small print...probably would of been made in some forsaken place like Detroit)...but anyway back to the point...do the swiss have particularly silky hair or something?
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posted November 17, 2002 07:35 AM |
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lol stickboy! ooops, did i call you that publicly? hehe
Its an interesting point you brought up about shampoo! As i happen to have some "down under's"botanical shampoo" with a picture of a cuddly little koala on it - so i asked Rychenroller (an aussie) if he'd ever heard of it - and of course he hadn't, and upon further inspection, i discovered the stuff was manufactured here in Canada!
It really does make you wonder about the marketing, so far as i know i haven't heard of any stereotypes involving australians and silky soft hair.. Unless of course the shampoo gives you superhuman strength during battles with crocs - unfortunately there are none here for me to test that theory
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posted November 17, 2002 08:07 AM |
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Marketing...makes suckers of us all
I guess we won't be seeing any summer fashion line from Antartica...suntan lotion made from Congo....hamburger recipes specially seasoned from India...condoms tested and approved by Italy, etc
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posted November 17, 2002 08:26 AM |
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posted November 17, 2002 01:57 PM |
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I live in japan, but I dont understand the language so I can't know about that bort..
I'll tell you this though, where ever we go the foriegn chick's want "american ****"
(I'm pretty sure they like other nationalities too.. )
Are you talking about the Japanese girls?? GIDDYUP
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