Comments on: The Unilever Files: Still Wishing That Girls Were More Like Pot Noodle

By: Rayedish

Rayedish — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:53:56 +0000

What is that ad even for?

By: Lauredhel

Lauredhel — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:29:27 +0000

they also think girls should smell just like those little “deodorising” trees that people hang in their cars.

Cigarettes and pine oil? Mmmm.

By: Deus Ex Macintosh

Deus Ex Macintosh — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:26:27 +0000

Could be worse – they launched a ‘Spring Fresh’ version of their Bold 2-in-1 washing powder/fabric softener combo a few years back in the UK. Pity they chose the same perfume you find in Raid insect repellent in Australia.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:22:12 +0000

Judging by unilever’s horrid Dove products which those duffers sent me, they also think girls should smell just like those little “deodorising” trees that people hang in their cars.

By: Deus Ex Macintosh

Deus Ex Macintosh — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:50:15 +0000

Pot Noodles are instant noodle pots similar to Suimin, except I LIKE Suimin and pot noodles are foul.

By: I just called to say…go fuck yourself « Fuck Politeness

I just called to say…go fuck yourself « Fuck Politeness — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:46:00 +0000

[...] Uniliver for the ad suggesting that women ‘fuck men up’ and men’s lives would be simpled up so much if women were like pot noodle soup. Including, yes, being kept in a cupboard. If you want to fuck a bowl of noodles, or some other inanimate object then go right ahead, but if you want the benifits of a relationship with a real live woman then get some fucking respect quick smart. Or be left to jerk off in the dark in misogynist bitterness after a bowl of those lovely cardboard-tasting unilever products. [...]

By: Sophie

Sophie — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:53:51 +0000

Pot noodle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_Noodle
Instant noodles cooked with hot water plus flavouring, requires no actual cooking or washing up.

You know, with only a change of slogan that ad could be a (very sexist) promotion for prostitution…

By: fuckpoliteness

fuckpoliteness — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:50:26 +0000

Ah, haven’t we ALL wished that we women were more like nutritionally devoid, tasteless psuedo-food at some point? We’re just so needlessly *complex* with our irritating tendancy to complicate things by way of not living in cupboards, and breathing, thinking, talking, laughing, telling dickhead men and Unilever to go fuck themselves. In the spirit of generosity though, perhaps we could have the roles reversed:
“Oh I wish that *I* were pot noodle Soup
Farewell to being mocked and demeaned
Tortured and raped
Farewell to debates on my sexuality
and my right to choose when and how and if I parent
Farewell to putting up with dickheads
Who think their self absorption
Their idiocy and social ineptness
Their put-downs, their belching, their ballscratching and leering
Are fine
But my raising my voice when angry means I’m crazy
I really wish I was a pot noodle soup
Some peace
Some quiet
Not having to fight for respect
or for my opinion to be heard
Not having to fear for my safety whenever a human with a penis wanders past and I feel vulnerable
If women were pot noodle soup
Does this mean men would want to fuck a bowl of noodles?
Or shall we finally be left to get on with our lives
As they apparently should be:
Silent
Brainless
For consumption
And male satisfaction
Kept locked up for when the urge strikes?
Oh – AM I pot noodle soup?
Unilever has confused me”
(As you can see poetry is not my thing, but hell in comparison with Unilever’s ditty I’m going ok)

By: Fine

Fine — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:34:29 +0000

What the hell is a pot noodle? Don’t these guys get anything at all? Like what century it is?