Let's get going!

Noticed their latest tv ad. It was jibberish. If this is being put out by some government information department, why are we not given any information?

Check your temperature, change your mask, go to hell?

“Tell some lies”
“ take delayed action”

"Meh, who cares?"

I think I read these powerful 3-word mantras we’re dreamed up by a couple of Australian advertising types who had raised their own profile by promoting the snappy soundbites!

Check, Change, Go

Is it me? I have no clue what this means, apart from the fact that we should always check our change before we go.

Check the timetable, change trains if necessary and go to your destination?

No, it's not just you, Callistemon. I read it and thought "What on earth...?" and haven't worked it out yet. You may well be right about checking our change - it makes as much sense as anything else.

'Let's Get Going' sounds like a sixties pop song.

Yeah, yeah, yeah

You may well be right about checking our change
Twice over the years someone tried to diddle me - one was by 100 francs in a French grocery store. She didn't realise I could count.

Check your fly zip; change your undies; go forth with confidence!

This has all become beyond ridiculous - these slogans have become a substitute for proper planning and action to keep us all safe. Does the government really think we are fooled by all this?

Luckygirl

Check your fly zip; change your undies; go forth with confidence!

???

Check the facts
Change the government or we all
Go to hell in a handcart

It was dreamt up by this lot ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJjMc6PM_3U

Callistemon

'Let's Get Going' sounds like a sixties pop song.

Yeah, yeah, yeah

This one?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xddl8fpf2uA

no, not that one although I did love Cliff when I was about 14!

I've remember now, it was 'Let's Get Together, yeah, yeah, yeah' sung by Hayley Mills of all people!

Nothing to do with going anywhere, but yeah, yeah, yeah, we can get together now - in a bubble.

Callistemon

'Let's Get Going' sounds like a sixties pop song.

Yeah, yeah, yeah

I thought of a song as well.

Let's Get it Started

Just looked at the amount of views this song has had ... 169 million!!

So of course that made me look who has the most views

Despacito. Which I love. But this isn't the Justin Bieber one. This is all in Spanish and by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee

6.6 billion views.

It has three and a half million comments! I'm blown away by this. Damned good song. Incredible.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk

Sorry, I have totally wandered away from this thread's point

Aha! Here's a clue ...

www.theguardian.com/travel/shortcuts/2020/jul/13/check-change-go-uk-government-slogan-holiday-advice

Silly me! I thought it was something to do with wearing face masks. Doh!

And this appears to be the official version ...

www.gov.uk/government/news/major-new-campaign-to-prepare-uk-for-end-of-the-transition-period

I can imagine there will be millions of people in businesses all over the country all jumping for joy shouting "Let's get going! Check, change, go!"

But, oopsminty 'Let's get it Started' would be another great slogan!

Suggest it to Boris.

'Life on Mars' seems an attractive alternative at the moment.

Check what day it is

Change the 3-word mantra to an even more meaningless one

Go for another extended holiday in the middle of a public health crisis

This is because completing the first two tasks have been such hard work that you need to get away from it all.

And this is encapsulated by "Let's Get Going", which means let's go on holiday.

I agree, Callistemon!

I think 5 words are better than 3.

He's done 3 words once too often in my opinion