I hit upon the idea to confront perpetrators of heinous advertising very easily – they create a horrible ad and I go for the very obvious jugular. So far, business as usual. Sometimes however I go chasing some heinous advertising and find that it gets worse as I go looking for the “contact us” link on the website. (I do link to the advert, sorry in advance.)
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I find sexism as funny as the next man, but when it’s used to portray a product as being “so simple a man could use it” I’m curious as to whether this is sensationalist marketing for the sake of it. I have tried to figure this out by writing to the makers of Oven Pride, and they obliged me with a response.
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Apparently this marvellous product is “so easy a man can do it”. As a domesticated badass I am obliged to find out exactly how simple that actually is, just in case I have the double digit IQ necessary to use it.
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This is the first in what will undoubtedly be a series of guides written by yours truly on the subject of surviving inevitable apocalyptic events in the future. What is unknown is the nature of said inevitable apocalyptic event, so we’ll take no chances and cover as much as possible. In this first installment we’ll be suggesting the right course of action to be taken in the inevitable apocalyptic event that the whole world is blinded by astronomical phenomena and triffids take over.
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