Stupid adverts

[Doc Spock]

Saw an ad on TV yesterday for a cleaner that uses "high temperature" steam. No sh1t.


I bet it uses "wet" water as well.

[dustypuss]

What a bout the cleaner that kills 99.9 % of germs . How can you have a .1% of a living germ I mean 9%of the last germ is dead and 1% of it is still alive. ????? . And they have the cheek to keep saying ( honestly ) it kills 99.9%!!!!!

[Doc Spock]

Good point Dusty.

[meglet]

Dustypuss I think you've got the wrong end of the stick there LOL! Its not that the product kills 99.9% of a single germ, its that it kills 99.9% of all known germs! There are many many different tyes of them so put it this way....

Say there are, for example, 1,000 different germs on a surface. You apply the product and it will guarantee to kill 999 of them.

[dustypuss]

so what has that 1 germ got that the rest haven't ( RAMBO GERM) The old adverts use to say that the product would kill 99% of all Known germs . But now it says 99.9% ? . Is this just Mathe's?.

[andrea81]

It's mainly to cover themselves. If it doesn't work for a particular germ then they will say "Ah but I didn't say it was 100% effective!"