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New Hovis ad

Posted on September 18, 2008 | 8 comments |

Doesn't it make you proud to be British (or English, or something)? Bonus points if you can name all the historical periods correctly.

8 Comments

  1. Marie wrote:
    September 18, 2008 | Reply

    I found that quite moving actually. I'm so soft.

  2. Anonymous wrote:
    September 18, 2008 | Reply

    It's not often that you see a really really cool commercial. I'm Canadian, but can I play?
    I presume he starts in 1908, passes posters of Titanic (1912) and see the suffragettes protesting, waves to a Tommy marching off to war in 1914, passes through a 1930's street, ends up in the Blitz (1941)and hears one of Churchill's stirring Battle of Britain radio addresses, stumbles upon a Coronation Day street party (1953), into the swinging sixties (not sure what the guys in the union jack car are shouting about), briefly on a 1970's street showing new multicultualism, blunders into the middle of a strike stand-off between workers and police in Thatcher's Britain of the 80's, hurries under Millenium fireworks, then home to 2008.

  3. Persephone wrote:
    September 18, 2008 | Reply

    The above was me, by the way; I guess in the software updating, my automatic sign-in got lost...

  4. MediumRob MT replied to Persephone's comment:
    September 18, 2008 | Reply

    Yeah. Happened to me as well. Stupid bloody thing. Hopefully, shiny new features at some point in the future will make all the annoyance worth it.

  5. MediumRob MT wrote:
    September 18, 2008 | Reply

    Oh, and excellent work on the periods, BTW. Suspect they might be World Cup fans in 66 or Mods. One of the two, although Mods would naturally be on mopeds, I'd have thought...

  6. Persephone replied to MediumRob's comment:
    September 18, 2008 | Reply

    Splendid. Can I blame my spelling mistakes on the new software? Or shall we just admit I'm hopped up on cold medication?

  7. Jane Henry wrote:
    September 18, 2008 | Reply

    I'm guessing (and haven't looked at anyone else's comments honest) that beginning bit is supposed to be late Victorian/early Edwardian. Then it jumps to 1912, (titanic),1914 WW1, Unless I missed something Straight into the Blitz 1939/40, then VE Day 1945, then 60s, 70s. 80s. Maybe I missed the 90s, but I think we ended up in the Millenium, and then to the present day.

    I liked it to.
    What a saddo.

  8. Jane Henry wrote:
    September 18, 2008 | Reply

    Oh what a dork. Didn't think of the coronation...

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