In Scotland the advert for our national soft drink, Irn-bru showed a bunch of guys and lassies developing phenomenal strength after drinking. I was sorely dissapointed when I could not obliterate concrete after a can or two.
A childhood belief about adverts
others believed things like this
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- I used to think that if I ate spinach I would have a lot of strength (Popeye)— Fernando
- I used to believe that, in cities, if you dug deep enough in anyone's lawn, eventually you'd hit the concrete.— Kevin Fox
- I used to believe my father when he told me that if I sat on cold concrete I would get hemorrhoids.Anon
- I used to call croutons "concretes" because they were so crunchy, I thought they were made of concrete.— Scary Dream
- All the people that lived in Scotland were girls— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster