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CIPC #471: Bern gegen Rassismus ad

Posted on March 31, 2026March 31, 2026

Technically speaking, I haven’t yet filleted any public service announcements on this blog. But they are really just advertisement under another name, so I’m not…

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CIPC #458: Siemens ad

Posted on December 31, 2025December 31, 2025

As the year draws to its end, all its calamities and horrors parade once more before my eyes and I realise it’s been a particularly…

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CIPC #455: Fiido ad

Posted on December 10, 2025December 10, 2025

To me, Fiido sounds like someone has lost his dog and is now calling for it everywhere, 1 hoping against all hope that it will…

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CIPC #436: Skinny ad

Posted on July 29, 2025July 29, 2025

I had never heard of Skinny, but it’s apparently a New Zealand provider of mobile telephony and data plans. In 2020, they launched an apparently…

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CIPC #416: Patek Philippe ad

Posted on March 12, 2025

I have featured an advertisement for watches once before on this blog, but that was ages ago. Before X, 1 before corona, hell, before the…

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CIPC #402: Weetabix ad

Posted on December 4, 2024December 4, 2024

Weetabix is a brand of breakfast cereal. In the space of all things, there is perhaps nothing farther removed from chess than breakfast cereals. So…

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CIPC #401: Wunder ad

Posted on November 27, 2024

Although I’m sure it’s never going to go away entirely, the time of the printed advertisement seems to be drawing to a close. But advertisement…

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CIPC #394: Botany 500 ad

Posted on October 9, 2024October 9, 2024

I don’t think I’ve ever spotlighted suits here, probably because it wouldn’t suit me. That is probably why the guy in today’s subject looks so…

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CIPC #382: OxyChem ad

Posted on July 16, 2024July 16, 2024

When I first learned about the existence of a company called OxyChem — which happened shortly before this post — I immediately assumed they somehow…

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CIPC #379: Honda Ridgeline ad

Posted on June 25, 2024June 25, 2024

We’re finally leaving the Lewis chessmen behind, but we’re not quite back to normal pieces: they’re still human sized. And they figure in a commercial…

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