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Love for a Nokia ad

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If you have read my blog, you should know by now that I'd love this kind of stuff

Ad Grad questions...kill me now

For the past month or so I have been filling out graduate scheme applications which means I have been fidgeting, tossing and turning, asking friends and family weird things, scribbling stuff, staring at the flashing cursor on a blank Word document for hours, drinking lots of tea on my many breaks, and generally hate myself at times but then sometimes I realise how great I can be. From the adgrads blog, I found a role for a marketing company in the midst of all the schemes and fellowships. They too had some tricky think-outside-of-the-box-but-keep-it-relevant questions. Here are several of my answers to the more creative questions:  1.      You are the owner of a broken computer. Persuade us that we want it. (Max 100 words) I don’t know what to do with my broken computer but I cannot let it go. I bought it from a friend 2 years ago who worked at the News of the World. Unknown to him, it has the most unbelievable undisclosed information on th...

Is this okay?

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A kid eats Petit Filous and successfully sees off bullies with threatening behaviour of his own. Girl sees this, admires him and grasps at his 'muscley' arm with devotion. I'm not a feminist, nor am I so up-tight that I can't see the light humour taken from a serious subject like bullying, but I saw this and it gave me a bad feeling. Kids are so impressionable and if one saw this would he/she think it was acceptable to respond to bad behaviour with more bad behaviour? Would a little kid think something like this would work in real life? I understand the yoghurt provides calcium to make your child grow stronger but surely having the child pick up a lorry would have been more to the point, less of a bad influence, and just as realistic?