Claims made on ads that aren't true (nor ever challenged)

Seth Brundle wrote: »

"Totally unlimited mobile data" which has usage limits

Mr.S wrote: »

This one is really annoying. There's some stupid rule that says that if a majority of customers don't go near the usage limit, they can advertise as unlimited.

This boiled my pish in the day. I queried it with ComReg. Thought I still had the reply, but yeah, basically because most people don't hit the limit they're allowed to call it unlimited. They couldn't understand the actual meaning of the word unlimited:

not limited or restricted in terms of number, quantity, or extent.

JohnFalstaff wrote: »

For 20 years Toyota used the tagline 'the best built cars in the world' as part of its advertising in Ireland.

Now they're busy instead conning the world into thinking that their "self charging" hybrids pull electricity out of their arse and run their batteries on kinetic energy for 50% of their driving time when in fact the car has a real life electric range of about 3km, and just burns petrol to recharge the battery.

Their campaign has been banned as misleading in a number of countries.

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

That the emergency services in this country will find you faster with Eircode.

(Sorry if mentioned before, the search function is disabled.)

I have a friend who was a paramedic and he insisted that it was a big help.

I know for me, stick my eircode into Google maps and it will take you right to my door.

KaneToad wrote: »

Mobile telcos claiming 90% coverage in Ireland.
The small print revealed that it was 90% of the population not 90% of the landmass.

Problem is you get rejections in Ballybackofmyhole when you want to fit a €250k mast to benefit the inhabitants.

DrPhilG wrote: »

I have a friend who was a paramedic and he insisted that it was a big help.

I know for me, stick my eircode into Google maps and it will take you right to my door.

One eircode I entered in, got me mid section of a motorway. I was then expected to stop my car on the grass margin and walk the rest of the ways.

Tic Tacs are made from 94.5% sugar.

But in the US, the nutritional facts box on the back lists the sugar content as 0g.

This is because the nutritional facts are done on a "per serving" basis, and they've defined a serving as one singe Tic Tac.

A Tic Tac weighs .49g. FDA rules only require sugar more than .5g per serving to be reported.

So 94.5% sugar legally becomes 0g.