Wonga.com
"I've run out of tramp juice and methadrone and need to borrow £70 till next Tuesday, or Big Sean will replace my testicles with my eyeballs..."

"No problem sir, we can lend you this at 2988% APR. Only you're too stupid to know what that means, so let's just say we'll give you the £70, you give us £90 back next week; if not, we'll come round and slit the throat of your first born..."

"Wow, thanks Wonga.com. It's just like having my own bank..." (*)

I don't know what makes me more sad and angry. The sheer audacity of the short term loan shark, the fact that people will actually think this is a good idea or the fact that it's possibly one of the cheapest, nastiest adverts I've ever seen. I'd like to think that the actor involved has tried to give it his all, to really inject some humour, pathos, some meaning into the role. What is probably more likely is that he's somewhere in a squat in South London, cutting his own face off with the broken shards of glass from the frame that held his RADA graduation certificate while the advert plays on a mocking loop as he bleeds to death.

That, or like Carol Vorderman, he's just bent over and taken the cash.


(*)though come to think of it, it is rather like a bank. And it least with this, the promise of "your kidneys may be in danger if you do not make the repayments on this loan" is rather more overt than the small print you get from the Halifax.
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 13:41, 2 replies)

When I read the cutting his own face of paragraph
I heard it in the voice of Charlie Brooker.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 14:40, closed)

Snap!

(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 16:58, closed)