Unfortunate Advertising

"HOT AND READY.
IF ONLY MARRIAGE WAS LIKE THAT."

Buffalo Wild Wings billboard.
That may not be the exact wording in the second line, I can't remember, but if not it's very close.

Just how classless can you get? Personally, I'm disgusted by this.

I can understand if this ad were in some "dude" magazine or something--somewhere that's all about cheap women and sex. But on a billboard, where the projected audience consists of everyone sixteen and over who can drive and uses a major freeway? I'm sorry "B-dubs," but I think you may be a little overconfident in how many people you think that your ad campaign caters to. Seeing it succeeds only in making me never want to go there again, and significantly lowers my previously indifferent opinion of the place. And maybe that's their strategy--to attract only a select crowd that they cater to. Which makes sense, but somehow I think that a place who sells wings for under and dollar and has them ready in a suspiciously short amount of time is looking for all the people they can get. You can't get that kind of fast low-quality service at anywhere that would attempt some distinction of class.

But I'll give them this, they're catching on to the decadence of mainstream society. Maybe my opinion is of the minority here and the ad campaign is going fantastically.

Posted by shroy017 at 6:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

"Sea kittens are just as intelligent (not to mention adorable) as dogs and cats..."
http://www.peta2.com/Sea_Kittens/index.asp

Is this honestly for real, PETA? Just how idiotic do you take us for?

Fish. Kittens. Bear absolutely NO resemblance to each other WHATSOEVER. The only person who could possibly be swayed in even the slightest by this campaign is someone who currently does not know any of the characteristics of a fish. But, to have been exposed to this campaign this said person will have to have been to exposed to some sort of the media. And if you have access to the media, even if you haven't ever encountered a fish in real life, you have most likely seen a fish. A wet, slimy, scaly, not endearing in even the slightest, fish. So if PETA wants to gain any new fish-rights activist recruits with this campaign, they're going to have to change their strategy--I suggest to handing out fliers in dry, land-locked, technology-free areas--and they just may have a chance.

The website claims: "Nobody Would Hurt a Sea Kitten!" And maybe this is true. If cartoon fish dressed in adorable kitty costumes existed. But wow, I sure as Hell would want to hurt this this thing: http://www.bountyfishing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/fangtooth-fish1.jpg Which, and I know you were probably having a hard time distinguishing this, is a fish, not a kitten. "What?!" you say. "But they're so similar! I could never even fathom harming something that bears such a striking resemblance in both physical features and personality traits to one of my society's most beloved pets!"

It's true.

Posted by shroy017 at 1:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)