Elvis at ARC

Is it just me or is that image of the Elvis lookalike with safety specs that stares out of the ARC ad on the homepage just a little unnerving. Every time I visit this site I find the image a tad spooky. Mind you it serves its purpose in attracting attention.

Doug

She does not look like Elvis to me.

Could be worse had they used a photo of Ketan in his UVEX PPE

Can I respectfully suggest a visit to a certain Opticians

Mick 🇬🇧 😎

Angelina Jolie springs to mind.

Tony

I'm glad it's not only me. I keep thinking the same thing.

Me too. I scroll away from it as soon as possible.

... Maybe just an unfortunate trick of the light: **LINK**

https://d3rbxgeqn1ye9j.cloudfront.net/fileadmin/www.uvex-safety.co.uk/Media/catalogues_and_brochures/uvex-small-ppe.pdf

MichaelG.

It makes a change from the other pics displayed. Obviously caught your attention, so possibly half the job done in getting you to consider their PPE?

Elvis, Angelina, Angelelvis? It's how one see oneself that seems to count nowadays, but I think it looks like James Dean.

Martin.

No, I cant see Elvis, all I see is an attractive young lady.

Jason, next time you speak to Ketan can you ask him not to have such images on his ads as it scares some of our members, probably a picture of Nora Batty in her wellies would be less scary for them..

Edited By Ron Laden on 31/12/2018 14:31:03

"Every time I visit this site I find the image a tad spooky"

I am with you on this, It is NOT attractive. Airbrushed springs to mind. Not in a good way.

Sharlene Spiteri did a fun Elvis impression, it was a while ago now though.

Mike

I've just had a closer look and by jings it is a female image, but I'm not sure if that makes it any less spooky.

Doug

I'll just book my appointment with specsavers, that link settles the matter.

Doug

Douglas, if you click on the link posted by Michael you will see a couple of images of her that you may find less spooky

Yes Mick, further down she is modelling ear plugs, and footwear.

Ian S C

Nope.

My dad used Brylcream that's so wrong.

You must be a very sensitive person if she spooks you! She could likely sell me PPE that I don’t really need!

On a second note (while looking for your location) I spotted that you, like myself, understand the attributes of desiccant dehumidifiers and were - back in 2009 - going to design a system to automate the running time for minimum leccy cost. Did it ever progress, because I would be interested in how you did it.

Currently, my simple timer circuit is adequate for reducing the atmospheric moisture, but probably insufficient to maintain the workshop temperature (at times) on the setting of 2 hours run-time per night. I am clearly being conservative and running the dehumidifier more than necessary as I don’t like the workshop machinery getting too cold!

Now that I know the image is female I am beginning to warm to her, but enough said about that.

I didn't ever get round to sorting anything out with the dehumidifier mainly because my well insulated wooden workshop has proved to be very good with regard to condensation. The only thing I now use are the small silica gel units that can be plugged in overnight to remove the moisture from the silica gel. I stick one under the cover of the lathe and another under the cover of the mill over the winter months and they get dried out about once a week. I am not sure they are even needed but it gives me peace of mind.

Doug

Oh thank goodness that spooky female Elvis seems to have gone from the ARC ad. Please don't bring it back

Doug