Urinal Pad

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-03-13 06:00am

I went in to the bathroom at this deli/restaurant place, and I used a urinal. While I was conducting my business, I happened to notice that the urinal pad had the words "SAY NO TO DRUGS" printed on it.

This struck me as just about the most insane place to have an anti-drug advertisement (or any advertisement, for that matter).
First of all, who the hell is going to heed the words of a urinal-pad advertisement? I can understand if some kid says "no" to a joint because Guile and Blanka told him that winners don't do drugs. That makes sense to me. But a urinal pad? I would like to meet the person gullible enough to accept a suggestion for the reason that he read it on a urinal pad. I would like to meet him, and then I'd like to castrate him, because that person has no business passing on his genes.
Second of all, isn't it kind of odd to print your advertisement on the target that guys use when they piss? That seems rather self-defeating to me. Unless perhaps it was secretly a pro-drug message, and it was just proving a point by having me piss all over the anti-drug message.

Well anyways, now that I've seen this ridiculous advertisement, the only thing I have left for "Fucking Insane Marketing Bingo" is a barbecue sauce ad printed on a tampon.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-03-13 06:17am

ROFL

Easily the dumbest idea ever thought up by advertisers in a long time.

Although if they had put that massive Coke sign up in space I would demand that it be destroyed by ASAT.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-03-13 06:32am

It just gives me more pleasure to piss all over the Anti Drug ad, then. No harm in that...

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-13 06:53am

I always learnt to loathe the people that skit the idea of the urinal ad.

I... uh, read that... on... a urinal... pad...

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-03-13 01:48pm

Why a urinal cake? Did they run out places on the bathroom walls to put ads? It's insane

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-13 01:52pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:Why a urinal cake? Did they run out places on the bathroom walls to put ads? It's insane

Some of the bars around my area have plasma screens in the toilets instead.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-03-13 01:59pm

They should put the faces of celebrities who are anti-war on these.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-13 02:07pm

It's the newest advertising philosophy. Since people are learning very quickly to tune out ads on radio, TV, billboards, the Internet, newspapers, magazines, and other traditional media, they're now planning to saturate every available public surface with advertising. They're already placing plastic sheets with ads printed on them on sidewalks in major cities. This is, of course, idiotic--it just speeds up the rate at which the public becomes immune to advertising, not to mention produces situations where drug legalization advocates like myself can gleefully piss on a government-sponsored anti-drug message.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-03-13 02:30pm

I buy whatever a urinal pads tells me.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-03-13 02:33pm

It's not that stupid, when you think about it. A guy has to stand there and look down to aim, so its a sure bet he'll read it at least once.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-03-13 02:36pm

If you go take a dump will there be something written in the toilet.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-13 02:40pm

Montcalm wrote:If you go take a dump will there be something written in the toilet.

No, but don't be surprised when ads start showing up on the walls and doors of the stalls. It'll probably be guerilla advertising--stickers and the like, rather than posters or painted ads, but they'll be there. The idea is to just saturate your field of vision with ads until you sublimate the message. I think it's going to waste a lot of money and cause a huge backlash, but what do I know?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-13 02:48pm

Pfft, brainwashing. I don't fall for that ad crap.

*Opens a Cadbury's chocolate bar whilst sipping at his Red Bull and typing on his Medion home PC keyboard with Packard Bell optical mouse*

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-13 02:51pm

Vympel wrote:ROFL

Easily the dumbest idea ever thought up by advertisers in a long time.

Although if they had put that massive Coke sign up in space I would demand that it be destroyed by ASAT.

ASAT's damage path is only inches across. A sign that fucking huge wont give a damn. Better to find a way to deorbit it onto North Korea.

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2003-03-13 02:52pm

As long as the urinal doesn't evolve a feature that makes you have to watch the advertisment for a minute before it lets you leave (such as with some computer thing, or commericals)

I'll leave the specifics on how it would make you stand in front of the urinal for a minute after you've done your buisness up to the imagination

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-03-13 02:59pm

Larz wrote:As long as the urinal doesn't evolve a feature that makes you have to watch the advertisment for a minute before it lets you leave (such as with some computer thing, or commericals)

I'll leave the specifics on how it would make you stand in front of the urinal for a minute after you've done your buisness up to the imagination

How about you have to watch the commercials before you can use the urinal?

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-03-13 03:01pm

neoolong wrote: How about you have to watch the commercials before you can use the urinal?

People will start pissing in the sink.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-13 03:11pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Vympel wrote:ROFL

Easily the dumbest idea ever thought up by advertisers in a long time.

Although if they had put that massive Coke sign up in space I would demand that it be destroyed by ASAT.
ASAT's damage path is only inches across. A sign that fucking huge wont give a damn. Better to find a way to deorbit it onto North Korea.

Why do I suddenly get an image of a giant inflatable Coke ad that is really a giant space-mirror ready to burn down Pepsi Co. HQ...