Feb 19th 2008 By Cary McNeal

Real Ads, Really Disturbing

Take a trip with us back to the "simple" era of the mid-20th century, when old people were "tyrants" in need of sedation, women wanted nothing more than a blender to make them happy and every half-witted diet claim could be spread across a full-page ad.

That could never happen today, now could it?

(Cue the creepy self-aware laugh.)

Politically Incorrect Ads of Yesteryear

And if there are any we missed, let us know.

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Thursday 28 February

By Kate Roda

Neutral

Ok, secondary comment to all you ass holes arguing about political correctness and men being belittled and rap and rock and drugs and blabla friggen bla.

Seriously, shut up. Everyone has an opinion and everyone has ignorant ideas and everyone is insulted by something! It is impossible to be politically correct as the term refers to a statement that offends no one and hurts no one. So unless folgers is going to start advertising with giant billboards that just say "The Sky Is Blue" no one is ever going to e perfectly happy with what advertisers say. (The sky is blue thing could also insult scientists and crazy people so even that's out)

The point of an advertisement is simply to catch the attention of the public. Any thing that holds our attention for 3 seconds or more, especially anything with WORDS, will leave a lasting imprint on our memory and possibly make us, unconsciously, more willing to buy a product. So the next time you go to the grocery store to buy food to feed your kid remember, you can't buy Doritos because they've been endorsed by Missy Eliot (she's a rapper don't you know) and you can't buy V8 because it promotes violence (for the sake of comedy) and you can't buy Chips Ahoy cookies because they are running sexual commercials (or is clay-mation flirtation ok??) I can't keep up with what to buy and what not to buy anymore so now I just do the best I can to make sure that the things I buy are at least somewhat healthy and low cost. I don't care who endorses them anymore.

P.S. If you don't want your daughter to be a ho and get naked on the cover of magazines then you should make sure not to buy her a stripper pole for a 4th birthday present. And maybe teach your kids some friggen values...you could even give them a MORAL COMPASS....instead of just relying on the media to teach your kids right from wrong. It's never happened before and it's never gunna happen so give up!

Saturday 01 March

By dallasoldcootcc

Neutral

what ever happend to free speech

Saturday 01 March

By Steed's Girl

Neutral

Love these old ads...some go way back before my time. The worst two in my opinion were the ads using a baby and a doctor to sell cigarettes! Just shows the crass and irresponsible approach once used to sell a dangerous product with no concern for accountability. On a lighter note, did anyone look closely at the young actor playing the husband in the Kenwood kitchen blender ad? Despite the demeaning slogan about a wife's duty as cook, the guy sure looks like Richard Benjamin, doesn't he?

Monday 03 March

By jesse

Neutral

Political correctness is communist term to control free speech. Political crapness is what it really is!

Monday 03 March

By Brian

Neutral

Ads are too politically correct these days as are other forms of media. We need to get real.

Tuesday 04 March

By Reasonable Truth?

Neutral

I laughed at some of the captions at the bottom that made these really funny, but I'm thankful for how far we've come. I'm really shocked that you guys are asking for this stuff back...or am I reading too much into what's being said? I love the captions they made at the bottom of these advertisements. They (I think) would have been accurate even for waaay back then. I'm glad ignorance is censored today. I'm happy that everyone doesn't have to be exposed to ignorance anymore. Keep that in your house, not mine.

Tuesday 11 November

By King George Frederick 6th

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I am the only living son of King George the 5th. I was born in 1930 ish in England. My mother was Princess Alice Victoria Elizabeth Julia Marie. I believe or Mary of Teck. After she had me in 1930 they said she had schizophrenia and committede her to a sanatorium. Then of course they impersonated her. I was told by my father that Victoria was my mother not Mary of Teck. I said Queen Victoria, he said no another Victoria. I don't remember her I was also told she died when she gave birth to me. In 1936 after my fathers death, on my abdication day, I felt unfamiliar with the Orange Windsor Castle and when I arrived all the women were sitting at the table laughing, they told me to go and wash up and prepare for my big day tomorrow. When the day came for me to be crowned King I told them I did not want to go, because I did not know these people, felt uncomfortable and was scared. I did not know what abdication meant. Elizabeth Margarite asked me who will become King and I pointed to a man in the crowd wearing a royal uniform and said Him. This man was Elizabeths son and she got excited and got someone else and told me to tell him. I said just say he is my elder brother. This man was the one to be crowned King George the 6th. I knew him and even witnessed his death in 1952 when the Edward the 8ths imposter John England had murdered him and kidnapped me. I also witnessed Edward the 8th, my older brothers death in 1939 ish. He was shot through a log cabin door after I had been playing at the fountain with another boy and his father was mad at me that I had got him wet. When he died he was impersonated on and off by John England. He died when he and I got in a Fight and he pulled a double edge speare on me and I grabbed it and he ran into it. The CIA then impersonated him from 1969-1972. John England was the one that left me in the Amazon Jungle and I got the title George of the Jungle. Also we got stranded on Gilligans Island. One way to prove I am The real George the 6th is that I created the series Gozillia in the 1940's-1960's. A Japanese man made the movies for me as I have been King my entire life. I am 821/2 years old now. I have had 4 face off surgeries. One in 1959 to make me look different from Gilligan from Gilligans Island. One in 1973 to make me look like a child after the imposter Edward the 8ths death. One in 1983 after I returned from seeing Elizabeth Margarite in Hawaii, who worked at Town and Country Resturant. This face off was make me look like a teenager, and one in 1993 when I returned from seeing Marianne Adelaide in Backwater UK. Now they want to give me another face off at age 82 and impersonate King George the 7th.

I understand Scott Fustine at Windsor Castle is being questioned for the last Email I sent regarding King George, I was not born in Gran Rapids Minnisota it was England. Scott is a Fraud and is pretending to be a decendent of Edward the 8th, I know who he is, the CIA have put us together, he is a Gotti family spy on mind control and I been listening to the Winsor Security question him, he is on Mind Control and they are telling him how to answer the Questions,

Give this to the Security at Windsor Castle by order of the King of Great Britain, and Crown Prince

I may have turned down the crown on my abdication day in 1936 and created the House of Windsor by picking them out of the Crowd by I was also Crowned Prince by Elizabeth 2 in the Early 1980's I will send another email with more proof of my identity.

This is an emergency they are going to take the my face off and end my life and I am 80 now. And the only living son of King George the 5th. I need to speak to the Security of Windsor Castle, I have evidence of everyone identity and the Conspircy which has taken place since 1952 with my chosen King George 6th. And With Edward the 8th. They are going to impersonate King George the 7th Please Help me.