It's official: Virgin Trains travel slower than horses, according to their new TV advert. The advert features a chap sitting on a train, which then gets chased by Native Americans on horseback. Perhaps not the most politically correct portrayal of Native Americans, particularly given its bizarre strapline along the lines of "Man on big train um heap big idea". But as long-suffering gf pointed out, it clearly shows that people on horseback can outpace Virgin Trains, which is often my experience too...
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playwrite27
- http://www.davidtennant.blog.co.uk
- 2006-09-17 @ 22:41:13
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judgejon
- 2006-09-30 @ 12:14:38
You walk? Which part of the US are you in? Anytime I've ever walked along the side of a road in the US (e.g. to go from one shopping mall to another, rather than drive 200 yards), drivers sound their horns at you and think you are a crazy person.
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Very funny. But..at least you have trains, where I live in the states, we have the trolley bus---for one dollar--about a half a pound-- one can ride roughly 2 miles (a bit over 3 kilometers)in roughly an hour and a half. But they only run during the summer hols. The rest of the year it's either walk or take a cab--which, for the same distance as that one dollar bus ride, runs about 16 to 18 pounds--one way, depending on the cab company one uses. So...maybe not so bad having a slow train, ey?
One must wonder though, what the advert agency and Virgin were thinking of, when they choose this ad, ey?