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[sabotabby]

I'll post soon about my most exciting evening, but for now, here are some words from our sponsors.

First up...here's a questionable ad for a good cause.





Perhaps there's another way to read this. But I'm reading it as, "if you get AIDS, you clearly don't have any self-respect." I don't think that's the intent of the ad—I hope not! But I can't figure out what else they're trying to say.

It's in the subway. I don't like looking at it.

The other one makes no sense, but I found it amusing.





I went to the guy's MySpace, which expresses a similar sentiment.

This sounds like fun for a guinea pig.

Up next: A Batshit Insane Adventure.

Comments

[sabotabby]

It also seems to blame contracting AIDS on a lack of self-respect. Most scientists seem to blame it on HIV infection, but they're probably the same scientists who insist that global warming and evolution are real.

I thought the second one might just be an ad for the guy's MySpace (he is in a band), but I think it might be real. Potheads do wander off sometimes.

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

"Most scientists seem to blame it on HIV infection"

OK, now we're straying into the territory of public health advertising that'd say "HIV is on the rise. Please prevent pathogens from infecting your T-cells." Cause that would clearly work, being so completely fact-based and and scientific, which is what really matters in marketing.

I think I am grateful you're not an ad-exec!

[sabotabby]

You're taking me too literally.

I'm saying that the message I got, from reading this at a glance, was connecting "avoiding AIDS" and "self-respect" not "condom use" and "self-respect." The latter connection is the intended one; the former comes through because of poor word choices and font size.