Possibly a fridge?
An HD fridge? No idea. It’s very glamorous and exciting, though, whatever it is. Your cheese wouldn’t believe its luck.
“Life is Cool” definitely suggests it’s a fridge, but it’s surely way too narrow. You wouldn’t be able to get an ASDA four-pint milk thing in the door of one of these. Perhaps they don’t have ASDA four-pinters in Korea? Maybe they buy milk in test tubes, or “yards”?
Or maybe they have effective cryogenic suspension out there? Maybe it’s a DEATH POD for disposing of the old and unattractive, and those two are the bouncers? We will almost certainly never know.
filed in ACTUAL PRODUCTS, PROMOTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY on Jan.07, 2010
January 7th, 2010 on 11:09 am
An HD fridge or A HD fridge?
An HD fridge or A High-Def fridge?
Anyone know the correct grammar in this case? I’m always confused by this sort of thing. Should you use ‘AN’ because it’s a ‘word’ beginning with H or just use ‘A’ because the ‘word’ is actually an abbreviation for a word where you wouldn’t normally use ‘AN’?
Think I’ve actually confused myself more with that ‘explanation’ now. Anyone got any idea?
January 7th, 2010 on 11:20 am
I know what you mean. I always “go verbal” and freestyle it in these cases, as saying “A HD” would make you sound like you’re choking or trying to do a Tommy Cooper impression.
January 7th, 2010 on 11:47 am
I think ‘HD’ has become a strong enough term in its own right, and not merely an abbreviation to save time and space in any particular article, that “An” is correct.
That is assuming you believe it ‘H’ is pronounced ‘aitch’ rather than ‘haitch’.
Apparently, what side of the aitch/haitch debate you are on reveals whether you are Protestant or Catholic.
The fridge in question does look rather like a swanky coffin. Is there much call for keeping people that are dead and buried ‘fresh’?
January 7th, 2010 on 1:28 pm
It looks like it could be an air-conditioner to me. Are we certain it’s a refrigerator? Also, can we have a higher resolution shot of her shoes? Not for any particular reason, obviously.
That man has very fey hair.
January 7th, 2010 on 1:48 pm
@Paul, I think you’re right. My intensive research of typing Whisen into google revealed a youtube video of people being cooled by air. Not a single fridge or ‘Chill-Coffin’.
Ohh-ooh! Just had a great idea. Glass topped, ‘Chill-Coffins’ so when you go to the graveyard you can view your dearly departed in all their frozen post-mortem glory.
January 7th, 2010 on 2:30 pm
If it’s a cryocoffin, shouldn’t the slogan be “Death is Cool”? I guess that might be a hard-sell.
It also begs the question of what all the buttons on the front are for. Obviously temperature and humidity control. Maybe an intercom?
January 7th, 2010 on 4:32 pm
Whatever it is, it’s Wenge from some angles and therefore fantastic.
My understanding of where one stands on the ‘aitch vs. haitch’ debate is that it depends whether you’re right or wrong. Isn’t it just because some plonkers, when learning the proper names for letters at 7 years old, simply CANNOT COMPUTE a name for a letter that doesn’t start with the letter itself, thereby get it wrong for the rest of their lives, and thereby create a debate that is not a debate because ‘haitch’ is simply incorrect? This is all compounded by the teachers of our young having a lower then average literacy, of course*.
*I don’t actually mean this – I’m just trying to annoy a particluar person who may or may not be reading
January 7th, 2010 on 6:08 pm
Who you trying to annoy then? Would it be someone like myself who’s quite often wound up by the use of phrases such as “could of”, “could care less” or mixing up than/then. In this case, I find your usage of “lower then average literacy” rather ironic and amusing ;)
Regarding teachers inability to teach, you should see the hissy fits they throw when you switch off the internet access for a school. They’re unable to teach anyone without having high speed internet access apparently, a pc per child and a large interactive whiteboard.
Makes me wonder how teachers managed when I was at school. I know some of my old teachers are still there at the same school so surely they can show the newer teachers how it’s done?
January 7th, 2010 on 7:23 pm
I’m reserving comment until I find out what Dick Socrates thinks.
January 7th, 2010 on 8:55 pm
Dick Socrates (third person for extra WANK) is currently too depressed and tired and busy and etc to make a comment on this.
I also don’t have particularly strong opinions on air conditioning units’ role in the downfall of humanity.
January 7th, 2010 on 11:00 pm
Busy, Dick? I think you doth protest too much, if my new follower notification is telling the truth…
January 8th, 2010 on 5:07 am
New follower identification? Is that like what people used to call a ‘counter’?
January 8th, 2010 on 9:26 am
No, it’s on that other popular bit of the internet that starts with a “Tw” which never goes down well when you mention it on here.
January 8th, 2010 on 12:36 pm
I was busy. I decided during a BREAK to make sure I had the sole rights to this name on Twitter as it seems to have caught on slightly amongst 3 people. I plan to use it ironically of course. A bit upset that I don’t have 1.4 million followers yet though. I also plan to be the only person in England not following Stephen Fry. I’ll just bookmark his page.
I must say I’m shocked that Idiot and Cutlackowitz are the same person. Shocked. Kayfabe is well and truly dead.
Now to find out who M.Zorg is.
Enough of this wonderful navel-gazing. I shall return only when I have something violent to impart to the pointless masses.
January 8th, 2010 on 1:39 pm
Not following Stephen Fry? Tch, keep up, Peter Serafinowicz is the one to follow/make a point of ignoring now, I believe.
And why not something pointless for the violent masses?