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OregonBecky
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01 Nov 2007, 10:53 am

South Park's Christmas Poo is perfectly appropriate for South Park but cartoon mucus characters on ads goes too far! I wonder how McDonalds would feel if they knew that cartoon mucus families preceded their ads. When I went to fill a prescription, I saw that the store had one of those nasty mucus characters was made into a stuffed toy that they hang up. If it's okay to have mucus characters all over the place pretending that they're as cute and acceptable as a Disney cartoon (wait for the mucus movie!) then what's wrong with having the Christmas poo advertise Ex-Lax. Or cartoon vomit for that pill that makes you puke. Or cute little pockets of cartoon pus to advertise first aid cream.

Mucus is the one body secretion that I hate to think about unless its my own. I need to move to another planet. Blah!


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01 Nov 2007, 12:18 pm

Have you ever seen some of the commercials from Europe? Those can be very vulgar.

I've seen some of them on these "World's Funniest Commercials"-type shows.

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01 Nov 2007, 12:22 pm

Sometimes the only way I can deal with vulgar TV is with the serious hand flapping. There must me some mystical cleansing going on with hand flapping. I feel so pure afterwards. :D


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01 Nov 2007, 2:23 pm

If your happy and you know it, flap your hands.



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01 Nov 2007, 2:32 pm

Kalister1 wrote:
If your happy and you know it, flap your hands.


Hey! That should be the Autistic National Anthem. We should surround those cure conferences and sing that song!


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01 Nov 2007, 8:02 pm

I'm so glad someone said something about that. I dont need personification when it comes to stuff I hack and cough up. Its not something you want to feel sorry for.



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01 Nov 2007, 8:05 pm

Ick! Those mucus ads are truly disgusting!

One ad that drives me crazy is an ad for kitty litter. It works so well that the cat has trouble finding her own litterbox. I'd hate to see the condition of that house a week later, when there's cat poo piled in a corner and cat pee on the couch, pillows and carpet.



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01 Nov 2007, 8:17 pm

9CatMom wrote:
Ick! Those mucus ads are truly disgusting!

One ad that drives me crazy is an ad for kitty litter. It works so well that the cat has trouble finding her own litterbox. I'd hate to see the condition of that house a week later, when there's cat poo piled in a corner and cat pee on the couch, pillows and carpet.


Hahahaha. That's exactly what I thought.


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02 Nov 2007, 12:05 am

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what's wrong with having the Christmas poo advertise Ex-Lax. Or cartoon vomit for that pill that makes you puke. Or cute little pockets of cartoon pus to advertise first aid cream.


Actually, I don't see anything wrong with those ideas. They'd let people know immediately what the product is intended for. People that don't speak the language would still know what the product was for.

I never let the sound of an ad on TV get to my ears, ever. As soon as the show that I'm watching happens to break for commercials, I turn the sound off (by habit even). I can't stand the noise of ads. And I certainly don't need to be exposed to their messages.


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