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Use a condom, thwart that evil Hitler sperm
Do condom ads reflect the mind-sets of nations? In the U.S., we get faux-patriotism and soft-core porn, while the French have safe sex on the beach. Now, from Germany, comes a dour dose of angst via Grey in a campaign for Doc Morris Pharmacies. The message: Use a condom, and be sure you're not bringing the next Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler or Mao Zedong into the world. Of course, you'd have to sleep with one of those three to risk that—and I imagine most would abstain, especially in the case of Hitler, since he's been dead for almost 65 years. Or maybe the ads are just generally likening sperm to invaders and terrorists. The bad hairdos should be enough to frighten anyone away. Via Ads of the World. —Posted by David Gianatasio |
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I think I spit out my cereal when I saw this. But it's funny, attention getting and probably will stop at least a few people from having unprotected sex...so I say kudos.
Posted by: Stuart Foster | Apr 13, 2009 11:01:32 AM
Or one could bring an Obama and his cronies into the world, too! That's just as scary!
Posted by: Cathy | Apr 14, 2009 1:22:59 PM
Cathy - really?
"Obama...[i]s just as scary!"
Barack Obama is EXACTLY as scary as Adolf Farking Hitler?
That kind of hyperbole is patently ridiculous.
You are part of the problem.
Posted by: jesse | Apr 15, 2009 10:32:01 AM
Of course, equally logically, using a condom also precludes the birth of the next Bach, Goethe, or Einstein, since, as far as I know, they don't block only evil sperm.
Posted by: Greg | Apr 15, 2009 10:38:35 AM
All sperm have evil in them. Only the two Adams (and Eve) were spared their influence.
Posted by: Jon | Apr 15, 2009 11:25:58 AM
DNA did not make a Hitler as much as the prevailing poverty, devotion to civil authority and willing avoidance of personal freedoms and rights that characterized early 20-century Germany did. This ad campaign is inherently fallacious. Well, at least the Germans are laughing at something besides other peoples' misfortunes for a change...
Posted by: johnnytwotimes | Apr 15, 2009 12:22:12 PM
Perhaps "zee Germans" finally had enough of the Brits ripping of their infamous icon. Take a look at the Spitfire Beer ad campaign:
Rugby World Cup Advert, "Odd Balls": http://tinyurl.com/dbayxz
And here: http://tinyurl.com/cw73la
Posted by: da' Square Wheeleman | Apr 15, 2009 1:38:00 PM
Sick. Just sick. Nothing involving Hitler should be used for any sort of advertising: positive OR negative. Folks who want trot out der fuhrer, uncle joe stalin or chairman mao need to go hop in a mass grave and roll around for awhile, maybe strike up a conversation.....
Posted by: dapperdan | Apr 15, 2009 3:11:08 PM
The pro-lifers need to come out with one where Albert Einstein gets aborted. Because I guess we are going there.
Posted by: james | Apr 15, 2009 4:54:31 PM
The comparison between Hitler and Obama is terribly offensive and without merit! Hitler SAVED his country's economy.
Posted by: Rechill | Apr 17, 2009 3:50:26 PM
Come one, everyone knows Hitler couldn't have children. He only had one testicle.
Posted by: ahemahem | Sep 17, 2009 5:20:40 PM
people using every occasion to slander obama - it's all based on mindless fox news based drivel. in all the high-pitched whining about obama i have yet to hear one concrete complaint about something bad that he has actually done. it's all "he has cronies"... "he's a dictator"... "he's a socialist"... "he hates white people". Why don't you look at the policies and criticize them? I'll tell you why... because you are a bunch of sheep who listen to your corporate sponsored propaganda-monkeys and having someone who is not an elite white-bread howdy-doody like Bush or Reagan is something that you can't rap your challenged little minds around. Get over it - Obama will be president until AT LEAST 2012. Suck on it.
Posted by: tg | Oct 2, 2009 8:33:56 AM
