MBNA can't tell the time?

AlexMac

Am I alone in worrying that a major credit card provider can't tell the time - or maybe can't afford a clock which works?

I know its a real 'pedantic old git' point, but I was struck by the lavish, photographic double page spread adverts: 'Your MBNA - Apple Pay - Double Wowsers... ' in the broadsheet newspapers in recent weeks - such as today's Telegraph.

... which prominently features four 'boringly good' MBNA staffers (who also feature in TV ads such as https://www.mbna.co.uk/news/boringly-good-tv-ad/ ) giving a thumbs up to their new Apple payment service ... standing in front of a very prominent cheap, plastic wall clock...

... which displays an impossible time! The little hand is at nine minutes to the hour, but the big hand's at twenty past one??

So, they could afford an expensive agency, great photographer, four attractively geeky models and an indecent press placement budget with huge double page spreads...

but not a clock which works?

GingerBob_3

Just in case anyone is wondering - Staffer = Employee (I think).

meer53

Yes, you're alone in being bothered by this.

Superscrooge

AlexMac wrote: »

Am I alone in worrying that a major credit card provider can't tell the time - or maybe can't afford a clock which works?

I know its a real 'pedantic old git' point, but I was struck by the lavish, photographic double page spread adverts: 'Your MBNA - Apple Pay - Double Wowsers... ' in the broadsheet newspapers in recent weeks - such as today's Telegraph.

... which prominently features four 'boringly good' MBNA staffers (who also feature in TV ads such as https://www.mbna.co.uk/news/boringly-good-tv-ad/ ) giving a thumbs up to their new Apple payment service ... standing in front of a very prominent cheap, plastic wall clock...

... which displays an impossible time! The little hand is at nine minutes to the hour, but the big hand's at twenty past one??

So, they could afford an expensive agency, great photographer, four attractively geeky models and an indecent press placement budget with huge double page spreads...

but not a clock which works?

I'm glad you pointed that out. I'm going to immediately cancel my MBNA credit card

SnowTiger

AlexMac wrote: »

Am I alone in worrying that a major credit card provider can't tell the time - or maybe can't afford a clock which works?

I know its a real 'pedantic old git' point, but I was struck by the lavish, photographic double page spread adverts: 'Your MBNA - Apple Pay - Double Wowsers... ' in the broadsheet newspapers in recent weeks - such as today's Telegraph.

... which prominently features four 'boringly good' MBNA staffers (who also feature in TV ads such as https://www.mbna.co.uk/news/boringly-good-tv-ad/ ) giving a thumbs up to their new Apple payment service ... standing in front of a very prominent cheap, plastic wall clock...

... which displays an impossible time! The little hand is at nine minutes to the hour, but the big hand's at twenty past one??

So, they could afford an expensive agency, great photographer, four attractively geeky models and an indecent press placement budget with huge double page spreads...

but not a clock which works?

Little hand; big hand?

Do you mean hour hand and minute hand?

Old git pedants aren't what they used to be.

Vortigern

AlexMac wrote: »

The little hand is at nine minutes to the hour, but the big hand's at twenty past one?

1 minute = half a degree of movement of the hour hand. I'm surprised you can read it with such precision. Did you use a protractor?

p00hsticks

AlexMac wrote: »

... which displays an impossible time! The little hand is at nine minutes to the hour, but the big hand's at twenty past one??

Not seen the advert myself, but am intrigued by how a single clock minute hand can apparently be at 'twenty past one' ????