I don't see the sexualisation at all.
I see someone strutting their stuff saying, "Look at me! I'm stylish!" rather than "Look at me. I'm dead sexy!" Of course, the commercial is successful in that it gets noticed - difficult to do these days, and it quite funny. Stylish? When your underpants are full of chic? But if they really wanted to do a parody it should parody the parents who think the toddler gives a damn if it's dressed in Walmart's clothes or Ralph Lauren.
I remember Billy Connelly in 'An Audience With...' doing a great skit about incontinence pants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDhETFcgWTE
Now that was funny and even today remembered by most Brits who watched it 25 years ago.
(Edit: and at 1:30 you see Théoden in the audience)
The End of the World as seen in a TV ad . . .
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Oh good grief.. anything to market an item and charge more $$. (referring to the denim diapers)
I used cloth diapers because my daughter was very sensitive & had a reaction to (I am guessing the chemicals used in) disposables until she was quite a bit older. We couldn't have afforded the disposable ones anyway.. but I recall they were just coming out with the 'designer' diapers around the time she was born.. the boy/girl specialty diapers..
Anything to charge more money and make a 'convenience' item seem indispensable.
I used cloth diapers because my daughter was very sensitive & had a reaction to (I am guessing the chemicals used in) disposables until she was quite a bit older. We couldn't have afforded the disposable ones anyway.. but I recall they were just coming out with the 'designer' diapers around the time she was born.. the boy/girl specialty diapers..
Anything to charge more money and make a 'convenience' item seem indispensable.
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Don't wanna know.“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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One evening, my dad came upstairs, sat down for dinner, and with that haunted look and voice he gets when he's just seen something he really wishes he hadn't, announced "Never google 'slap suits'." We giggled nervously because we'd all run google searches or mis-typed URLs and ended up places we'd never wanted to go before and because a term like "slap suit" sounds like something that can't lead you to anywhere but horror.
Later I learned it was actually SLAPP suits he was looking for, but apparently he ended up in bad place anyway.
Later I learned it was actually SLAPP suits he was looking for, but apparently he ended up in bad place anyway.
When you can do nothing what can you do?
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Primula Baggins
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I set Google to Moderate Safe Search and it seems about right. I do a lot of medical searches with iffy terminology for my work, and still find everything I need, but without any, um, surprises. I'm editing a gastroenterology text at the moment, so what those surprises might look like . . .
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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I never shoulda left.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
I think this is more surely a sign of the End of the World than the denim diaper idea:
http://www.inthecompanyofdogs.com/itemd ... H=(d97029)
http://www.inthecompanyofdogs.com/itemd ... H=(d97029)
I don't have a problem with the diapers as such except they are marketed to the kids whose parents can afford them, thus putting even babies in the US into a class system.
The dog thing is just wrong. Help starving homeless people or diaper our dogs.....oh we'll diaper our dogs. 
Not to mention how cruel to the dog, sheesh if you're too lazy to let the dog out to go pee, maybe you shouldn't have a dog. Accidents happen with animals....geeze.
The dog thing is just wrong. Help starving homeless people or diaper our dogs.....oh we'll diaper our dogs.
Not to mention how cruel to the dog, sheesh if you're too lazy to let the dog out to go pee, maybe you shouldn't have a dog. Accidents happen with animals....geeze.From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.
Loving living in the Pacific Northwest.
Loving living in the Pacific Northwest.
