that’s the second-most annoying ad campaign on tv right now. there are several close runners-up, including the geico caveman ad campaign, which has gone all post-modern and meta-fictional. sorry, but “so easy, a caveman could do it” just wasn’t funny enough to begin with to justify the spate of cavemen-with-hurt-feelings-about-the-ads ads. also, any republican political campaign ads (for example, fox news shows) that force me to look at dubya. especially when he’s smiling, his smile being a heady mix of smugness and vapidity. should you ever need further proof that we done condescended from monkeys, look no further than our president.
anyway. the most annoying ad, by far, is the ad campaign for the new HPV vaccine that will prevent 70% of cervical cancers. in it, dozens of healthy, pretty women declare, “i want to be one less.”
nice sentiment. good idea. (note to the geniuses on the religious right: if you oppose the vaccine to avoid “encouraging” sex, i guess y’all better start lobbying against those damned seatbelts, which obviously just encourage people the world over to speed like bats out of hell. what would jesus do? why, obviously he’d keep sex as deadly as possible! now to start the “flush those aids drugs before they get to africa!” campaign! you know, the one mentioned in luke 3:22.)
the only problem is that “women” are not like some great, innumerable mass of playdoh from which you can lop off any number of woman-chunks… nope. surprised? no, really. with the exception of siamese twins, each woman is a discrete unit unto herself.
hence, it should be “i want to be one fewer.” ARRRGGGHHHHHH!!! AND THOSE STUPID TWITS MAKE ME LISTEN TO THE GRATINGLY UNGRAMMATICAL TAGLINE ABOUT 50 TIMES IN EACH AD SPOT!!!
and the moral of the story: that’s what happens when you let women write ads and stuff. it’s about time to end this recent experiment in educating women, and go back to keeping em knocked up, and seen and not heard. yep. probably shouldn’t let the bitches drive, either.
