Head & Soulders - Everyone Knows a Bloke Like Mickey

27 August 2007 by Silky

Ah social networking, isn’t it great?

Networking, socially, brilliant fun. Except I’d never really got in to it.

I do have a MySpace page for this blog but I don’t look after it. I haven’t made any friend requests and I never update my page. Worse than that, the only people that want to be my friends are actually just fronts for porn sites. And although I enjoy their company, our reunions only ever last for 30 seconds or so.

No, I’m looking for some friendship that is a bit more deep and meaningful than that.

So when I recently discovered the wonders of Facebook I was fully satisfied but in a different way to MySpace.

Oh but it’s not all roses.

Whilst Facebook has reunited me with some friends that I haven’t seen for years (”I mean, you call them *friends* but then admit you haven’t seen them for years. How friendly is that?” OK, I’m rubbish at friends) it also has the worst feature of any social networking site - the friends counter.

Yes, I love the smell of competitive friendship in the morning. It reminds me just how shallow we all really are.

“How many have you got? 69,754? Rubbish, you loser! I’ve got 1.8 million give or take.”

What’s more, it seems impossible to have a *network* of *friends* without someone who plays competitive friendship.

Let’s call him Mickey for ease of reference.

Mickey is everything I hate about people. He’s self-centred, arrogant, manipulative and slimy but thanks to a chistled-jaw that could cut granite, he’s popular.

I’m for ever getting messages on my “Facebook News Feed” that says “Mickey and X1 through to X1000 are now friends”. In fact, that’s virtually all it says on there except for the occassisonal:

“Mickey has added the Arrogant Wanker application”

“Mickey has added the Treats Women Like Objects application”

“Mickey has added the Smug, Self-satisfied Bastard application”

Yeah, everyone knows a bloke like Mickey… and he’s a cunt.

I’ve still got him as a friend though because, by Christ, I wish I were as popular as he is.

Join My Group

You can join my TVs Worst Adverts Facebook group and have me ignore you like I do all my actual friends.

Go on, it’s not very popular.

24Responses:

Mike Empuria

August 27th, 2007 10:40 am

I hate Mickey. Every time I see him I just want to punch his lights out. And that “Mickey’s got a look for every occasion” crap? Intellectual? I’ve seen frogs that look more intellectual than Mickey. Mickey’s got one look - arsehole!

I don’t like the advert either.
Chris

August 28th, 2007 1:15 pm

I know what you mean, I hate the new Micky advert from H and S. I have known a lot of Micky’s and they never change. Head and Shoulders better watch out their brand is not boycotted due to this new advert.

Chris
http://www.threerooms.com
wodge

September 4th, 2007 1:04 pm

I hate Mickey even more than I hate Nadine Baggot!
Lee

September 5th, 2007 10:48 pm

I should have nominated this one but luckily my brain had censored it from my memory
I just want to set fire to his hair, “flaming hair” Mickey’s least favourite style.
Starstel

September 10th, 2007 1:58 pm

Thank god! I am not the only one who hates the arrogant twat from the H&S advert. It doesnt want to make me buy Head & Shoulders. The more I see the ad , the less I want to buy the product and the more I want to punch the dickhead in it.
Andy

September 11th, 2007 11:25 am

My favourite is ‘Windswept and Interesting’.

I see. So as soon as it’s a blustery day and you have a mop on your head you become ‘interesting’. What the hell do you mean by interesting? Do you mean interesting in the sense that everyone who watches this ad is interested in smashing mickeys head (and shoulders) through several glass windows?
Lucy

September 11th, 2007 1:06 pm

The advert’s for Head and Shoulders???! Do you know, I was so busy hating Mickey, I had no idea what product he was supposed to be promoting! In addition to the comments raised above, is the plainly obvious fact that Mickey is pig-ugly, yet loves himself and is supposed to be irresistible to women! Well you can count me out. When the voice-over says “just plain gorgeous” my mum and I make euwww noises. I actually don’t know a guy like Mickey - thank goodness!
frankie smales

September 15th, 2007 8:47 pm

the worst ever advert on tv was the jamster crazy frog mobile ringtones
and not to including the suicidal swety the chick advert yes it was an invension for kids to play on thiere mobiles but it got constantly annoying
nearly every single break that crazy frog advert was on it was irritating
and it got worse by hearing it on some kid phone very loud whilest travelling on the bus it was so annoying.
Stu

September 23rd, 2007 1:21 am

He should be advertising dog food with a face like that. The very fact he has long hair is clearly in order to cover up his ugly, deformed looking face.
Plain gorgeous? Who makes these adverts??
if I had his face on a punch bag, I’d be a contender over night!
Lee

October 3rd, 2007 10:50 am

Wish I could vote 10 for this, please take this off our screens it’s the most annoying advert ever.
Alan

October 7th, 2007 2:50 pm

And jealousy gets you nowhere…
izgrant

November 6th, 2007 9:42 am

I have to say, this has to be in my top 10 list of most hated adds. I would rather garrotte my testicles using a rusty cheese grater singing a Kaiser chiefs song then to watch this god forsaken add again. Don’t get me started on that band either! Bunch of ….
Mike Empuria

November 6th, 2007 10:29 pm

^^ Intersting image, garrotting with a cheese grater. That wouldn’t happen to Smeaton!^^
Mike Empuria

November 6th, 2007 10:30 pm

And tomorrow I’ll be able to spell interesting. D’oh!
steve

December 11th, 2007 1:38 am

yep, officially the most annoying cunt in the history of tv ads, my bird says so too, and she has no problem saying who she fancies.
that bit where the bird ruffles his hair ought to continue whith her grabbing a handful and bringing her knee sharply up into his pig ugly bastard mush.
i’ll never ever buy head and shoulders because of this advert, and i’ll send any member of my family to coventry who do.
ClientFan

January 2nd, 2008 11:57 pm

In the follow-up ad, I’d love to see Mickey bombarded by a flock of seagulls who’d been fed a consignment of ‘Dulco Ease’ 2 days earlier.

The only ‘bloke’ Mickey reminds me of is his namesake off Big Brother a couple of years ago, that egocentric mumbling supposed ‘male model’, a strange occupation given his physical resemblence to Zig & Zag. The type of cunt who thinks that all the girls want to polish his knob because he spends all his parents’ allowance on the latest designer hair, clothes, shoes and monkey-see-monkey-must-have electronic gadgetry.
Sack

January 23rd, 2008 7:56 pm

This advert is qual, ur jus jealous cos yas arnt guys like mickey, I AM!!!!!!!!!! Hes cool and yas r jus gutted that ur not haha!!!!!!!!
Silky

January 23rd, 2008 9:31 pm

No, no, it’s a good point you make there, Sack.

Or it would have been if I weren’t, in fact, the bloke that played Mickey. Well, I was the Wind Swept one. And I know that a few of the other commenters played Mickey in the other scenes too (we all met up for drinks after the shoot, I was parched from standing in the wind for so long).

But yes, all the uvvers r jus jealous cos theys arnt guys like mickey, like wot we arse
mikeempuria

January 24th, 2008 11:52 am

As ever Silky you hit the nail on the head - with the last word

I was the intelektul Micky. We had a gud Laff aftR d shoot; Xcpt dat ba*d Micky wz ther.
Silky

January 24th, 2008 5:56 pm

Yo have da sed it da Mike… ah, no, I’ve lost it!

I’m just not really all that good at communicating with young chaps and chapesses now-a-days.
Demy

January 27th, 2008 1:11 am

Argh, I could kill him!!! He drives me crazy. ARGH
Dave

February 5th, 2008 9:09 pm

Yeah lets drag the cunt down a dark alley and kick the fuck out him till he stops squirming, that’ll fuck his hair up, ‘the just been twatted look’ H&S can call it.
Maggie the Cat

February 24th, 2008 2:15 pm

He’s quite good looking but he’s a twat. I’ve know a couple of guys like Mickey. One laughed because I use No7 instead of Clinique, and the other laughed at the shape of the arms of my glasses!! WTF?? Do many people scrutinise glasses arms for an uber-cool factor? About as deep as a fucking tray, both of them. Neither of them lasted very long.
Bobdog12

August 30th, 2008 12:03 am

Ironically the ‘just plain gorgeous’ Far Side woman’s helmet-head is the least attractive barnet of the lot. But it doesn’t matter really. Everyone knows Head and Shoulders makes you go bald.