The Friday Night Smoke » advertising http://blog.fridaynightsmoke.co.uk Live every friday from 11:30PM-2AM on ukbassradio.com Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:13:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Soviet Health&Safety http://blog.fridaynightsmoke.co.uk/2011/01/21/soviet-healthsafety/ http://blog.fridaynightsmoke.co.uk/2011/01/21/soviet-healthsafety/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:44:55 +0000 Martin http://blog.fridaynightsmoke.co.uk/?p=384 Found via David Thompson's blog

Health and safety posters, Soviet style

In Soviet Russia, train catches YOU

Stop, hammertime

Them Russians are/were very good at propaganda posters, I have to say.

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A BMW advert, proudly proclaiming "drinks like a camel"; intended to describe good/low fuel consumption

...and directly over the page from this double-page spread; an article which explains that camels actually drink quite a lot...

Whoops.

This post was going to be entitled "truth in advertising", but the claimed 50mpg is actually quite good.

Now, before any beemer-haters start coming out of the woodwork, here is das FNS-wagen relaxing outside in the snow. It's actually very good on fuel ;)

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Fake Gordon poster, FNS, 19-01-2010

Conservative party poster, Mar 2010

Great minds etc

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