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nakahara · March 19, 2015 12:22 pm

ancientsgate · March 19, 2015 12:49 pm

ukaunz wrote:
I googled a bit and found out that the car is an MG GTS crossover in bright orange. Have a look here:

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/first-official-pictures/mg/mg-gts-2016-mg-makes-an-suv/

It looks like Benedict is making deductions from the mud...

Thanks for the info about the car. We spent a half hour on the internet yesterday evening, searching for what it might be, and got nowhere. We figured it was a Brit-manufactured car, but couldn't seem to get our heads out of Vauxhall land.

And yes, I think that was meant to be Sherlock (but in the wrong coat, lol) deducing about the dirt on the side of it.

ancientsgate · March 19, 2015 12:50 pm

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:
Oooh that commercial looks sexy as hell!

It really does!

ancientsgate · March 19, 2015 12:51 pm

ukaunz wrote:
I can't find the commercial anywhere to watch it properly, does anyone know where it has been uploaded? It looks like a Japanese watermark on the gifs.

The Dunlop tires campaign is apparently a Taiwanese thing. So maybe the Asian characters are Chinese? ??

ukaunz · March 19, 2015 1:00 pm

ancientsgate wrote:
ukaunz wrote:
I can't find the commercial anywhere to watch it properly, does anyone know where it has been uploaded? It looks like a Japanese watermark on the gifs.
The Dunlop tires campaign is apparently a Taiwanese thing. So maybe the Asian characters are Chinese? ??

Yes, nakahara thought it was a Chinese commercial, I don't know why I thought it was Japanese as I should know the difference having been to both countries! (I don't know about Taiwanese). I think I was influenced by some misinformation I read while I was googling

nakahara · March 19, 2015 1:25 pm

The quick way how to discern between both writing systems - the Japanese writing systems will have simplified "hiragana" signs between an elaborate Chinese characters, most frequently this little and neat "no" sign meaning "of" in English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_%28kana%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana

So the Japanese text, being a combination of elaborate looking and simple looking signs, will look like this:

[img]http://www.google.sk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slideshare.net%2FBernadetteLopezFitzs%2Fsubmitedtolhpresenlcd740312222014&ei=Sc0KVeLNJIHTO83EgPAK&bvm=bv.88528373,d.ZWU&psig=AFQjCNE2txWKtQLQwInwnMxYb413X9BRbQ&ust=1426857595014961[/img][img]http://www.google.sk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slideshare.net%2FBernadetteLopezFitzs%2Fsubmitedtolhpresenlcd740312222014&ei=Sc0KVeLNJIHTO83EgPAK&bvm=bv.88528373,d.ZWU&psig=AFQjCNE2txWKtQLQwInwnMxYb413X9BRbQ&ust=1426857595014961[/img]

While Chinese text will look definitely more elaborate:

There´s hardly any simple looking sign in this text. And the above-mentioned "no" sign is not to be seen anywhere.

Last edited by nakahara (March 19, 2015 1:38 pm)

This Is The Phantom Lady · March 19, 2015 1:43 pm

Aaah, I see I wasn't too far away in my deduction about this being a Sherlock inspired thing...

In a way I find it a bit odd... but none the less, Ben looks HAWT in it!

As he doesin that picture with his white shirt... wow

nakahara · March 19, 2015 3:06 pm

nakahara · March 19, 2015 3:08 pm

nakahara · March 19, 2015 3:24 pm

tonnaree · March 19, 2015 3:33 pm

I could compose an epic sonnet to his beauty.

Vhanja · March 19, 2015 4:05 pm

nakahara wrote:

Oh, my, I think that is one of the most gorgeous pictures I've seen of him. (And that is saying something considering the amount of gorgeous pictures there are of Ben, just in this thread).

This Is The Phantom Lady · March 19, 2015 4:49 pm

I just drooled into my dinner.

No fair!

tonnaree · March 19, 2015 5:00 pm

I'm about to slide out of my desk.

ukaunz · March 19, 2015 7:58 pm

nakahara wrote:
The quick way how to discern between both writing systems - the Japanese writing systems will have simplified "hiragana" signs between an elaborate Chinese characters, most frequently this little and neat "no" sign meaning "of" in English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_%28kana%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana

...

There´s hardly any simple looking sign in this text. And the above-mentioned "no" sign is not to be seen anywhere.

I looked, but I didn't observe

ukaunz · March 19, 2015 8:05 pm

*sigh* This thread is always a good way to start the day. Love those pics

Vhanja · March 21, 2015 8:00 am

*snigger*

Last edited by Vhanja (March 21, 2015 8:00 am)

This Is The Phantom Lady · March 21, 2015 11:04 am

Now THAT is how to sell the show!

nakahara · March 23, 2015 2:37 pm

That crazy advertisement again:

nakahara · March 23, 2015 9:55 pm