Ok, file this under the heading of Creative But Tasteless. A couple of ad wonks in the UK produced this ad for self-promotional reasons and it somehow managed to make its way out on the Internet.
The ad, to my mind, is perhaps a normal consequency of society's taking on board current world events. Some have theorized that societies can be modeled on the human behavior of its components.
Personally, I thought the ad damn funny. But there is little doubt it is tasteless and one has to realize that it could probably only be authored in some sort of vaccuum by those unaffected by world events (ad people, anyone?).
Judge for yourself. Probably not appropriate for viewing by anyone under the age of 8.
Posted by artandscience at February 2, 2005 08:04 PM | TrackBackBloody funny - the clear display of the fellow's jellabah, or whatever they call those things on their heads, was especially appreciated. On a par, taste wise, with better Python humor.
Posted by: Thomas Pindelski at February 8, 2005 05:05 PMIt's funny.. the reactions from women have been almost uniformly negative, those from men uniformly positive.
Maybe it's a guy thing? Probably biological.
Posted by: stefan at February 9, 2005 11:16 AM