Category Archives: rants

ads vs reality

25 Wednesday Jul 2007

Posted by in media, rants

≈ 11 Comments

penelope-cruz-loreal-ad.jpg

L’Oréal lashed over Penelope Cruz mascara advert

Love that headline. From the article…

It said: “Penelope Cruz was wearing a few individual false lashes inserted into her natural lashes to fill in the gaps in her natural lashes for a consistent standard of lashes.”

A few indidividual false lashes??? Just click on the pic and check it out. I’ve been passing a huge in-store ad showing this photo in El Corte Inglés almost daily and my first impression was – ha! Yeah right, as if any mascara alone could do that. But someone obviously took serious exception and reported it to the Advertising Standards Authority, which upheld her complaint. Well done, I say!

I also love the Fast Food: Ads vs Reality website linked to here at Agency Spy, where I first came across the L’oréal ad controversy.

Which ads particularly bother you in terms of how far they stray from reality?

spam disclaimer

14 Saturday Jul 2007

Posted by in blogging, rants

≈ 4 Comments

spam.jpg

Boy this is annoying. f_cross.gif

This morning I was skimming through myAkismet spam file before deleting stuff in case any comments from friends got stuck there by accident and I saw one that at first glance looked like it came from me!!! WTF? Okay, on closer inspection it had a Yahoo search page as the website and the name was ‘azaharwordpresscom’ all together (not just ‘azahar’), but I thought, hell, what if other people get this and think it’s me spamming?. I deleted it but I’ve saved the IP number, which goes to a webpage saying that it originated in Amsterdam. 😕

What would be the point of this kind of spam, since there wasn’t a link in the message? Should I report the IP number? Just forget about it? Anyhow, just in case it ends up in other people’s spam files I wanted you all to know that it wasn’t me! Has anyone else had this happen to them? Or do most people not bother checking their spam before deleting?

god hates the world

30 Saturday Jun 2007

Posted by in philosophy, rants, religion

≈ 17 Comments

This is so incredibly vile and disgusting … and I don’t think it is a hoax.

I couldn’t find a ‘youtube’ version that includes the four-year-old girl ‘very cutely’ spewing out all this hatred by rote at the end of it – though I’ve seen it elsewhere.

These are Christians? Bob save us all!