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Say What? Sarah Haskins Rages Against the Machine
“As the Internet and TV and movies all become one scary machine in your living room, it’s important that we all have some level of media literacy."
— Sarah Haskins, who sends up ads directed at women in her amazing Target Women clips on Current TV. She thinks advertisers show how clueless they are about women by doing two incompatible things at once: "trying to still use some of the traditional gender roles, while also trying to match the changes .
Muscle Milk, the Drink Douchebags Reach For First!
I didn't know people really still said "getting tail" as a term for bagging chicks. (OK, I guess there's really no way of saying that without sounding like a Neanderthal.)
Speaking of Neanderthals, the irony is not lost on me that the tagline for this Muscle Milk ad is "Drink. Evolve."
Sign Language: That's What Friends Are For!
The Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas' new ads promise that Toronto businesses know how to treat their neighbors. These ads also show that the agency for the TABIA knows how to construct a good ad.
Get Benjamins For Your Bling by Selling Your Breakup Jewelry
Did you just wash that man right out of your hair? Are you simply not the sentimental type? Well, if your ex doesn't take back the jewelry he gave you (he'd have to pry it out of your cold, dead hands, right?), then you should go to Outofyourlife.com and sell them your breakup jewelry!
Guess What This Ad Is For?
Hint: How can something this cute be a problem? At least there's a solution.
Ewww! Anti-Drinking PSA Works Hard to Gross Us Out
This Belgian anti-drinking PSA tells young people not to delude themselves into thinking that drinking too much is going to give them the night of their lives. Warning: it's gross. Don't say I didn't warn you!
Meatloaf Trading In on Name For A-1 Steak Sauce
He would do anything for love money, and he'll even do this.
Adrageous: Flirty Girl Fitness
Why run on a boring treadmill when you can pretend to give a random sweaty dude a chair dance — and strengthen your quads?
With the Flirty Girl Fitness exercise DVD, even stay-at-home soccer moms will find their inner-stripper. One woman claims that with FGF, she lost two feet!
Guess What Part of Your Body This Is For?
It looks so familiar, I can't quite place what this product reminds me of. Can you guess what part of your body it's used for?
Adrageous: Comfort Wipe, the Toilet Paper on a Stick
It's the invention we've all been waiting for — Comfort Wipe, the "sanitary paper extension arm and holder." I can understand if there are people who cannot, uh, reach for whatever reason, but who on earth is so averse to "disgusting and archaic" toilet paper that they need an 18-inch pole to throw TP away for them! Like other bloggers who have watched this again and again — looking for an Onion logo or a sign that this is a joke on purpose — no go.
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