Gracey
Well-Known Member
That’s just downright alarming
I can’t work out whether or not it is just a plain old ice cream commercial or something more sinister.
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Most Absurd/Ridiculous Product You've Ever Seen?
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That’s just downright alarming
I can’t work out whether or not it is just a plain old ice cream commercial or something more sinister.
Judging from the "reputed benefits" of consuming it, and it doubling as a cream/salve...That’s just downright alarming
I can’t work out whether or not it is just a plain old ice cream commercial or something more sinister.
(shudder)
Gracey
Well-Known Member
Ice cream made out of babies ? ...
... wouldn’t put it past the serial killer in the advert scooping the gloop from off his head and eating it.
GrownupGirl
Tempermental Artist
These.
AGXStarseed
Well-Known Member
The Happy Man Bottle Stopper...depicting a little man with a big personality.
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Reirei
Dragonair is debonair.
I feel afraid and oddly hungry.
AGXStarseed
Well-Known Member
Fair enough.
Since I'm talking about adverts starring/being made by people possibly doing drugs, check out these two:
1. An ordinary shower becomes a water slide because of a bar of soap:
2. A Nintendo advert broadcast in Australia that was way more creepy than it should have been, to the point where it had to be taken off the air and replaced.
Without clicking the video, I am going to guess that the golf club loin cloth combo
is a way to pee on the course, without exposing oneself, assuming one is male.
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OK then.
That was the idea.
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Grandma said that her grandmother was very disappointed in her because she,
as a little girl, did not master the ladylike habit of peeing standing up,
out in the field. Her grandma wore ankle length skirts. And sometimes left
wet patches on the ground when she walked away, when they were
out doing chores.
is a way to pee on the course, without exposing oneself, assuming one is male.
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OK then.
That was the idea.
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Grandma said that her grandmother was very disappointed in her because she,
as a little girl, did not master the ladylike habit of peeing standing up,
out in the field. Her grandma wore ankle length skirts. And sometimes left
wet patches on the ground when she walked away, when they were
out doing chores.
Gracey
Well-Known Member
On the picture in the advert,
It’s instructing me,
“tap to expand”
I’m guessing the stopper can also be used for tall bottles then?
So long as I tap him first?
AGXStarseed
Well-Known Member
Okay, last one I do for now...and these are pretty uncomfortable.
Just so you know, these adverts came out in the 1980s...at the time when a certain virus was all over the news and this advert was been shown on TV here in the UK:
Seriously, what were the people who came up with the name for that diet candy thinking?!
Just so you know, these adverts came out in the 1980s...at the time when a certain virus was all over the news and this advert was been shown on TV here in the UK:
Seriously, what were the people who came up with the name for that diet candy thinking?!
The product Ayds predated the immune deficiency virus by several decades.
https://www.amazon.com/Candy-Origin...004JBMCPM/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
1951 ad, for instance.
Ayds - Wikipedia
"The product was originally introduced by the Carlay Company of Chicago. A U.S. trademark was registered in 1946 claiming first use in commerce was in 1937.
In 1944, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission objected to the claim that the product could cause the user to "lose up to 10 pounds in 5 days, without dieting or exercising"
"By the mid-1980s, public awareness of the disease AIDS caused problems for the brand due to the phonetic similarity of names and the fact that the disease caused immense weight loss in patients. While initially sales were not affected, by 1988 the chair of Dep Corporation announced that the company was seeking a new name because sales had dropped as much as 50% due to publicity about the disease..."
The product "was eventually withdrawn from the market."
https://www.amazon.com/Candy-Origin...004JBMCPM/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
1951 ad, for instance.
Ayds - Wikipedia
"The product was originally introduced by the Carlay Company of Chicago. A U.S. trademark was registered in 1946 claiming first use in commerce was in 1937.
In 1944, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission objected to the claim that the product could cause the user to "lose up to 10 pounds in 5 days, without dieting or exercising"
"By the mid-1980s, public awareness of the disease AIDS caused problems for the brand due to the phonetic similarity of names and the fact that the disease caused immense weight loss in patients. While initially sales were not affected, by 1988 the chair of Dep Corporation announced that the company was seeking a new name because sales had dropped as much as 50% due to publicity about the disease..."
The product "was eventually withdrawn from the market."
GrownupGirl
Tempermental Artist
It's Valentine's Day, and I just remembered having seen really weird valentines on the internet. More like un-valentines. They have the "retro" artwork that was popular even back when I was a kid, with soft, fluffy adorable animals and sweet-looking, cherub-like little kids. But the valentine messages aren't so cute or innocent. For example there was one that showed a cute fluffy animal threatening suicide by pointing a gun at his head if you don't be his valentine, and another shows a little girl crying with red heart-shaped spots all over her like she has measles. She is clearly "lovesick", but more like literally sick with a life-threatening illness, and is crying because she feels horrible and/or is in pain. (the anti vaxxers would love that valentine!) There might have also been valentines with kids or animals in suggestive positions, but I don't really remember.
I don't know if these valentines were originally made at a time when such such humor wasn't seen as dark as it is now, or they're modern sarcastic versions of cutesy children's valentines.
She is clearly "lovesick", but more like literally sick with a life-threatening illness, and is crying because she feels horrible and/or is in pain. (the anti vaxxers would love that valentine!) There might have also been valentines with kids or animals in suggestive positions, but I don't really remember.I don't know if these valentines were originally made at a time when such such humor wasn't seen as dark as it is now, or they're modern sarcastic versions of cutesy children's valentines.
GrownupGirl
Tempermental Artist
Last night I saw an ad for some portable, reusable toilet seat covering. The woman speaking in the ad has a really obnoxious voice, and they show a public toilet with hand prints of liquid feces and cartoon germs floating around it. Then they tell you to use their cover to protect yourself, and then you can just fold it back up, take take it home and put it in the washer.
Yeahhh riiight, like I'm going to carry a toilet seat cover encrusted with various bodily fluids around with me until I get home.
Yeahhh riiight, like I'm going to carry a toilet seat cover encrusted with various bodily fluids around with me until I get home.
GrownupGirl
Tempermental Artist
On YouTube there's a channel called Cursed Commercials, and their last video showed an ad that was total nightmare fuel. It shows a horseback rider going over to his stable only to see two young women standing with their backs towards him. He angrily demands who they are and is his horse. The two ladies then turn around and they have horse faces instead of human ones. It gets worse. They start making weird sounds, as if they're trying to speak but can't, and this goes on for quite some time until they start to neigh like real horses. The guy is clearly horrified by what he's seeing and runs away.
I was like, "what in the name of all that is good and pure and right was that supposed to be?!!?. Was it some ad for a horse ranch? Was the ad supposed to *want* me to go there?"
I was like, "what in the name of all that is good and pure and right was that supposed to be?!!?. Was it some ad for a horse ranch? Was the ad supposed to *want* me to go there?"
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