Monday, 17 August 2009

Commercials for morons

Here's one thing I've noticed over the last few days that never happened in the UK. Commercials seem to have ridiculous warnings on them either not to attempt stuff or that what's happening in the commercial isn't real. Now I understand this could be providing a public service in some instances, but here's the examples that I've seen in the last 24 hours:

- A commercial showing a woman jumping upside down from about 3 stories into a dress being held out of a balcony so she won't get white marks from her deodorant. In small letters at the bottom, 'Dramatization. Do not attempt'

- A car being picked up by a large crane, like they have in car crushing yards. Then another car falling from the sky and landing where the other car was. In small letters at the bottom, 'Do not attempt'. Do not attempt what?? I like the notion that car companies feel we have heavy lifting equipment lying around in our back yards

- A trash can shown to be emitting an unpleasant smell with large green wavy lines of vapour inflitrating the whole house. These grow bigger and look like the things cartoonists draw to illustrate pies left on window sills that smell good. In small letters at the bottom, 'Dramatization'

I assume this occurs because at some point, somewhere, someone has sued some company because they're weren't germs the size of gremlins in their toilet bowls. This is it folks. This is the society we live in.

I'd love to discuss this further but I've just seen Toilet Duck go into the bathroom and I've had enough of him stealing my aftershave.

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