People are complaining about omnipresent ads in all forms of media. Ads that are appearing on your Samsung TV, refrigerator, washing machine, coffee maker. Ads are annoying.
Now, hear me out. I’ve thought this idea through so you don’t have to. Ads would be less annoying if they were more pornographic. Naked people (fit and attractive, not disgustingly fat and black, like in the Dove ads with gross fat black chicks thinking they’re sexy) advertising liquid soap and the things it can lubricate. I’d watch that ad, all the way to the end.
Two minutes. Five minutes. Probably after 10 minutes, though, I’d become less interested.
My YouTube profile gives me a lot of dog food ads. I am not sure how they could be made “sexy” without violating everything decency related.
Bed wetting apparel. No. There’s no sexy there, either. Except, Pee on me, George!
Okay, so I am just now realizing that there is a limit to how many things you can reasonably sell to the public with nudity, golden showers notwithstanding.
Lawnmowers are one thing, but breakfast burritos are different.
Different short strokes for different folks.
I once worked with a PM who confused short with fine. In the daily review meetings he would say “we’re down to the short strokes” and we’d all laugh. He would look at us all confused, like he said something funny but didn’t know what.
Yes, we’re almost done jerking off the customer! What does that make us? A Thai masseuse providing a happy ending?
—DG
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