I just looked up at my TV and saw a commercial where Micheal Jordan is sitting next to some square on a plane talking about "bacon neck" t-shirts.
The lighting is such in the commercial that the whole time it looks like the natural indent above Jordans top lip is a Hitler mustache.
You can see the commercial at http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdc7q7_hanes-bacon-neck-ad_shortfilms although it's not quite as clear through a tv. My question is... how the fuck do these commercials go through the hands of so many people without one person piping up and going "Am I the only one who's going to say something about that Hitler mustache?"
Like the iO digital cable commercial with the mariachi band, the reggeaton soundtrack, the fuckin luchador jumping out of the back of the van.. etc. How the fuck do even I, a white male, find that shit racist but there wasn't anybody involved in the pitching/writing/filming of these commercials who noticed? I think once I had to break out a fucking pancho and a sombrero from the prop closet that something was amiss.
How about those AT&T (I think) mobile commercials with the two stereotypically Indian guys who are (I guess) supposed to be poking fun at outsourcing. That commercial is not only extremely racist, but making light of an economic problem our country is having in a time some consider the worst economic times in a century.
Another cable company is advertising that over 40% of people that switched to their competitor came back. Um.... THAT'S LESS THAN HALF. That means that a majority of people who chose to leave your service, were happy with their decision in the long-run. Advertising that 40% of people came back is the same thing as saying that 60% of people did not.
"A majority of unsatisfied customers did not return to our company after leaving. Sign up now".
Aren't there people who spend years in school and get paid lots of money to catch these things? I mean, that's three off the top of my head. Imagine if I actually sat down to watch commercials.
The lighting is such in the commercial that the whole time it looks like the natural indent above Jordans top lip is a Hitler mustache.
You can see the commercial at http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdc7q7_hanes-bacon-neck-ad_shortfilms although it's not quite as clear through a tv. My question is... how the fuck do these commercials go through the hands of so many people without one person piping up and going "Am I the only one who's going to say something about that Hitler mustache?"
Like the iO digital cable commercial with the mariachi band, the reggeaton soundtrack, the fuckin luchador jumping out of the back of the van.. etc. How the fuck do even I, a white male, find that shit racist but there wasn't anybody involved in the pitching/writing/filming of these commercials who noticed? I think once I had to break out a fucking pancho and a sombrero from the prop closet that something was amiss.
How about those AT&T (I think) mobile commercials with the two stereotypically Indian guys who are (I guess) supposed to be poking fun at outsourcing. That commercial is not only extremely racist, but making light of an economic problem our country is having in a time some consider the worst economic times in a century.
Another cable company is advertising that over 40% of people that switched to their competitor came back. Um.... THAT'S LESS THAN HALF. That means that a majority of people who chose to leave your service, were happy with their decision in the long-run. Advertising that 40% of people came back is the same thing as saying that 60% of people did not.
"A majority of unsatisfied customers did not return to our company after leaving. Sign up now".
Aren't there people who spend years in school and get paid lots of money to catch these things? I mean, that's three off the top of my head. Imagine if I actually sat down to watch commercials.
