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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Well, that one is pretty awful too. But I still remember an under-age Brooke Shields and the Calvins ad, so that's sadly a bit par for the course.
What was it with the seventies and young girls in sexual situations? It seems like most of the creepiest stuff that I've seen in that vein, in terms of things in mainstream media, are from the seventies.
I'm pretty sure the Lysol ad is actually the worst, because it is about douching with Lysol.
I've seen quite a few ads for douching with Lysol. Apparently, in addition to the "you must be totally clean and not smell at all like anything natural" message, there are also a few with subtext of using Lysol after sex so that you won't get STDs. They don't directly say that, but they say things that make no sense read any other way.
There were also apparently people who tried to use it as a sort of birth control, but it turns out that sperm is one of the few things that Lysol doesn't kill.
I think the postage meter one is worse. I don't even get what they are trying to sell there.
Yeah, I totally don't get that one. Why does he want to kill her -- does he not like the postage meter?
Maybe it's just something that's been on his mind, like "How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?"
I got an idea of what the Lysol ad was about and quickly scrolled past. Because, WTF?
And the postage meter one really is just bizarre. And offensive.
Happy Birthday, Frank! Maybe instead of going to Maine you could just go fishing in Massachusetts. Quite a nice fish Rachel caught there.
Not looking at offensive ads, because yuck.
I'm not completely sure I need to be offended by the postage meter one, it's almost Dada in it's nonsensicality.
Speaking of vintage ads - this one is one of the most bizarre: [link]
The Bathroom Bolshevik Poster reads: Is your bathroom breeding bolsheviks? Employees lose respect for a company that fails to provide decent facilities for their confort. The poster is an actual ad for Scot Tissue Towels that first appeared in the 1930's.
Or the WWII propaganda poster urging US citizens to "Grow Hemp for the War": [link]
Is the Grow Hemp For the War guy smelling the hemp rope?