…is apparently this, according to Ralph Lauren:
Well Ralph Lauren don’t want anyone to see this ad, because it’s a bit crap. They’re so embarrassed by it that they are threatening to take bloggers to court for showing it (so don’t tell them you saw this here).
There’s a big article about the whole thing here at BoingBoing.net: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/06/the-criticism-that-r.html
OK, well not ‘our’ kids. I don’t have any kids. Your kids. Your teenage kids. Do you really know what they are up to in their bedrooms, when they’re sitting in front of the computer late at night? Well you should pay more attention, because there is a good possibility that they may be iDosing.
iDosing is a new craze that is sweeping across the world and makes use of a technique known as binaural beats. The system plays one frequency in one ear and another frequency in the other. The idea is that this then modifies the brain waves of the user to make them high. Yes, you heard me – high on digital drugs.
Just to prove that I am not making this up, here is a link to the article the Daily Mail have written on the subject: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1296282/I-dosing-How-teenagers-getting-digitally-high-music-download-internet.html
Now while it has been speculated by highly reputable sources that the people doing this are just been overly suggestible and stupid, and other studies have shown that there is no effect on the brainwaves at all, this advice should be ignored. The best advice can only be lock up your kids and for goodness sake keep them away from any music devices.
Controversial-with-the-Advertising-Standards-Authority brewery BrewDog have just brought out the world’s strongest and most expensive beer. The End of the World, as it’s called, is 55% proof lager and comes with a £500 per bottle price tage. It’s infused with nettles and juniper berries and only 12 bottles have been made so far.
Oh yeah, and it comes served in a real life stuffed stoat.
BrewDog’s own blog entry on the beer can be found here
Found a link to this site on clientsfromhell.net. It claimed to be the worst website of all time. It wasn’t joking.
Yvette’s bridal formal: http://yvettesbridalformal.com/index.htm
As a proud non-US citizen with no interest in American Football, I have never seen a Superbowl before. However, as someone with an interest in Advertising I do feel that I miss out greatly by not getting the chance to see the contents of what I have been led to believe is the most expensive advertisng space in the world.
Thanks very much to the Onion in that case, for letting me see this sneak preview of Ford’s new ad for their new economy car.
Ford Unveils New Car For Cash-Strapped Buyers: The 1993 Taurus
This ad for the new Schick Quattro for women features some fine topiary and a completely unconnected statue. Nice.
It seems BP urgently require the assistance of your mother to block the oil leak, as she is the only one large enough to do so successfully.
This artist’s impression of an ad appeared in an Evening Times article on the 27th May this year.
But this ad will not run as it has been banned by Glasgow City Council as it has been deemed just a bit too racy for the general public. If you can’t see why, let’s take another look at it, but this time in close-up.
I think when you look at the ad a little but closer, then you do finally realise what the problem is – it does in fact contain the word ‘bum’. What Reebok were thinking when they considered posting this ad is beyond me. Maybe they were trying to court controversy, just using shock tactics to sell trainers, or maybe Reebok’s advertising agency is nothing but a cesspool of depraved filth and obscenity.
How proud I am to live in a city where we, the citizens and the children of our communities can be protected from the menace of these vile people. I’m glad I’ll never have to see that word anywhere.
Although, having said that, when I got home I did in fact see this when I was sitting down to watch some teatime TV:
Oh well….
From back in the days before all this crazy nanny state nonsense prevented pharmacies selling cocaine to children.
