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Banned commercial not for cat lovers.
Posted: 2004-04-19 12:21am
by Bug-Eyed Earl
Search showed that this seemingly hasx not been posted.
Remove the space.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/ sportka.html
Posted: 2004-04-19 12:27am
by Spanky The Dolphin
As morbidly funny as that is, in the long run it's really just too disturbingly graphic to air, in my opinion.
I can't even see what timeslot or on what network you could get away with this, really...
Posted: 2004-04-19 12:28am
by Bug-Eyed Earl
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:As morbidly funny as that is, in the long run it's really just too disturbingly graphic to air, in my opinion.
I can't even see what timeslot or on what network you could get away with this, really...
Actually, it seems to have been created with the express purpose of being seen without being aired to generate controversy and thus, publicity.
Posted: 2004-04-19 12:29am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Yeah, I remember reading that from Snopes. A really dumb risk if you ask me.
*myan*
Posted: 2004-04-19 02:19am
by fgalkin
PETA will be on their ass very soon.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Posted: 2004-04-19 02:22am
by Rogue 9
Rally the APL!
Posted: 2004-04-19 02:24am
by Howedar
Wow, that was incredibly tasteless. Are we sure it's legit? Because all other things being equal I'd lean against buying Ford because of that.
Posted: 2004-04-19 02:24am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Posted: 2004-04-19 02:26am
by Rogue 9
The Anti-PETA League.
Posted: 2004-04-19 02:28am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Rogue 9 wrote:The Anti-PETA League.
Why? This is seriously an extremely disgusting advertisement. I wouldn't be bothered at all if PETA jumped all over Ford's ass about this, since they'd fully deserve it.
*myan*
Posted: 2004-04-19 05:47am
by Crayz9000
The pigeon commercial is morbidly amusing, but the cat one... uh... yeah, tasteless barely starts to describe it...
Posted: 2004-04-19 05:53am
by The Kernel
Since I'm not a cat lover, I can't get too worked up about it, but when I imagine that being a dog that they did something like that with, I'd probably strangle the guy who made it with his own bootlaces...
Posted: 2004-04-19 06:04am
by Spanky The Dolphin
I'm not really a cat or a dog lover, but I just find it simply revolting because that's all it really is.
*myan*
Posted: 2004-04-19 07:57am
by Montcalm
The moron who thought of this should have is or her head examined......sick fuck.
ps i know its not a real cat being decapitated.
Posted: 2004-04-19 11:28am
by Vertigo1
I've seen that before, along with the pigeon one. The pigeon one is funny, but the cat one....thats just fucking morbid. Whoever came up with that idea should have his penis welded to the exhaust pipe....
Posted: 2004-04-19 11:51am
by Oni Koneko Damien
Okay, that commercial is just beyond tasteless. I can just imagine some mentally fucked sadist trying to think up some new way of torturing other organisms, seeing this commercial, and saying, "Hey, that looks great!"
Of course I'm not saying ban it. The fucked up sadists will find ways to exercise their depravities regardless of what the TV tells them, but I think it's rather fucked up that a company would encourage this sort of behavior.
-Damien
Posted: 2004-04-19 03:48pm
by Supreme Monkey Lord
That's disgusting. The people that filmed it should be arrested for animal cruelty.
Posted: 2004-04-19 03:51pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Supreme Monkey Lord wrote:That's disgusting. The people that filmed it should be arrested for animal cruelty.
That'd be kind of pointless, seeing as the cat was computer generated.
*myan*
Posted: 2004-04-19 04:00pm
by Supreme Monkey Lord
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Supreme Monkey Lord wrote:That's disgusting. The people that filmed it should be arrested for animal cruelty.
That'd be kind of pointless, seeing as the cat was computer generated.
*myan*
If the cat was real that is. The commercial shouldn't air regardless.
Posted: 2004-04-19 04:01pm
by Imperium²
I give it a 6 out of 10 on the funny scale.
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Posted: 2004-04-19 04:23pm
by Admiral Valdemar
The ad is succeeding. It makes controversy and thus gets publicity and since there's no such thing as bad publicity these days, as sick as that ad is with the cat, it's doing what it set out to do.
Posted: 2004-04-19 04:27pm
by Imperium²
I really don't see a problem with the ad. A cat's head is lopped off in a sun roof. No screaming, no gore...nothing. I would have found it funnier if the cat was underneath the car near the engine, someone starts it and you here the cat "MEOOORRROOOWW!!!!", *car shakes* *wood chipper sounds* and fur shoots out the back of the exhaust. The only reason why the above commercial is funny is because it makes people so angry. In reality it is uncreative and lame.
Posted: 2004-04-19 04:41pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Imperium² wrote:I really don't see a problem with the ad. A cat's head is lopped off in a sun roof. No screaming, no gore...nothing. I would have found it funnier if the cat was underneath the car near the engine, someone starts it and you here the cat "MEOOORRROOOWW!!!!", *car shakes* *wood chipper sounds* and fur shoots out the back of the exhaust. The only reason why the above commercial is funny is because it makes people so angry. In reality it is uncreative and lame.
I think the idea of a self-aware car decapitating domestic pets is a little too much for people to tolerate. I'm certainly not going to rush out and buy a car that markets itself as a mean road vehicle because it performs animal mutilations when not in use.
Posted: 2004-04-19 05:05pm
by J
Normally I'd be very disturbed, but I just got back from watching
The Punisher with my Sandy & my BF which seems to have completely desensitized me for the time being...
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Posted: 2004-04-19 05:34pm
by Stormbringer
That's just sick, no two ways about it. I can't believe something made me side with PETA. I feel so dirty....
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