Government and Public Sector Adverts
Just stop it! You are infantilising swathes of the populous, insulting the intelligence of the remainder and pissing away jaw-dropping amounts of money.
NHS: It's not that people don't GET that sitting on their sofa all day, swigging beer, chain-smoking Gitanes filterless and eating butter straight from the packet or whatever it is they do, is going to give them health problems. They do it because it feels good and likely provides short-term relief from patterns of want and need determined very early on in childhood. A fucking plasticine figure with a rubber-tyre round its belly is not going to magically unravel the hugely complex array of defenses people have against giving up things they really like and/or feel they need: rationalisation, projection, denial yada yada. Everybody knows that smoking is bad for you. Everybody. I enjoy the occasional menthol in my garden on my time and I pay plenty in tax for the privilege - leave me the fuck alone.
And that godawful, patronising turd of an advert: "I don't do politics," in which it finally dawns on a badly drawn moron that politics impacts on his reality, makes my blood boil. It is blatantly based on an assumption within the Labour party that its own supporters are inherently dimmer and more politically apathetic than those of other parties. A cynical attempt to squeeze a few more votes out of the public under the guise of spreading the virtues of political awareness.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 13:00, 1 reply)

Love this
"eating butter straight from the packet"
such a pretty image. click.
(shinypurplebit booked his tickets (yay) on, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 20:39, closed)