for those of you who do not work third shift, prepare for a lesson. for anyone that does or has worked third shift prepare to read a whole bunch of stuff you already knew. Sundays suck horribly for working third shift. Knowing that you have to go into work that night, after adjusting to sleeping like a normal person all weekend, just makes you jealous of people that work a normal shift. You try to sleep sunday evening, it doesn't work, so you go to work sunday nite and deal with coworkers who also slept like shit and they're all in wonderful moods. Plus, the steelers played horribly against the eagles. They need to go out and buy an offensive line, you paid ben 102million dollars to play quarterback, how about quit being cheap assholes and open up that crusty old wallet to protect your biggest investment since you put giant fucking ketchup bottles on top of the scoreboard.
plus i pulled a muscle in my back. boo life. hooray beer
It looks like the wonderful world of advertising has taken another blow. This time, it is the condiments company Heinz that aired a "gay-themed" commercial in the UK, which apparently drew in over 200 consumer complaints.
In advertising for Heinz Deli Mayo, the 30 second commercial depicts a family scene, with two children referring to a stereotypical New York Deli man as "Mum," before "Dad" walks out and gives him a kiss as he is leaving for work.
Regarding the decision to pull the ad, Nigel Dickie of Heinz UK, said: 'It is our policy to listen to consumers. We recognize that some consumers raised concerns over the content of the ad and this prompted our decision to withdraw it. The advertisement, part of a short-run campaign, was intended to be humorous and we apologize to anyone who felt offended."
The viewers complained that the material was "offensive," "inappropriate," and "unsuitable to be seen by children," while other viewers were perturbed that they had to explain homosexual relationships to their children who didn't understand the ad.
Perhaps at a glance, the ad simply depicts two gay men sharing a kiss, however when seeing the humor in it, it just seems to say that Heinz Deli Mayo is so good, mom would approve -- and be transformed into a Deli man just by using it.
Did you enjoy this ad, or do you believe that Heinz UK was right in removing it early? Would you be offended if your children saw this?
1. I've noticed that increasingly restaurants are going to ketchup spigots instead of packets or pumps. The stuff that comes out is red, but it is *not* ketchup. Ketchup is the stuff you have to beat the bottle to dispense, not something that flows out smoothly at the nudging of a lever.
I'm highly suspicious.
2. While buying gas this evening the woman on the other side of the pump was quite unhappy. She complained aloud to somebody that her pump wasn't working. Further loud comments revealed that what wasn't working was the metal piece you can use to rest the pump handle on so you don't have to do it manually.
Since it wasn't working, she thought it was broken. The man she was voicing this to (again, quite loudly) suggested she pump it manually. This was unthinkable to her because she wouldn't know when to stop. Apparently in her mind the pump will stop when a piece of metal is holding the handle in place, but she won't know to stop when the same forceful push of the handle when the tank is full. Hmm.
She decided that she would pump by hand, but she was only getting $10. Why risk it, right?
3. I'm not paying a lot of attention to this whole John McCain/lobbyist story, but I heard one of his lawyers use a great illustration saying the newspaper article about it was like cotton candy. Bite into it and there's nothing there. Very nice mental picture. It reminds me of the Barack Obama plagiarism charges. Fluff it up and make it look like a big deal, but when you bite into it there's just no substance worth getting worked up about.
I'm really trying not to let anything that's going on affect me. I know that everything happens for a reason so no matter what happens it's going to turn out that way because that's the way it was intended to be. with that said, I need a little humor. I dropped a whole bunch of ketchup on the floor. this was the result:
