People are totally lame. They’re just way too fucking sensitive. Mr T’s latest Snickers ad, the second in the “Get Some Nuts” series, has been pulled from telly in the UK after Americans complained that it promoted homophobia and gay-bashing.
The commercial, which premiered in the UK on July 13, was made by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO – the same agency responsible for a Heinz Deli Mayo advert withdrawn last month after showing two men kissing.
That commercial prompted 200 complaints. In contrast, the Advertising Standards Authority has received only two complaints about the Snickers advert.
However, it prompted strong protests from the U.S. – even though it was never shown on American television.
Bwah. Getting molested on the tube by a poof or finding a cock in your tail at the Bronx are adequate grounds for a good glassing, but Mr T isn’t even pitying a sausage-stuffer in this commercial. He’s merely offloading his gigantic chocolatey gun on some total dick who’s too fucking lazy to run. Remove the ridiculous gait and the gorgeous shorts, and all you’re left with is a scrawny, (bottom-) half naked auditor. What’s so gay about that (and I mean that in the non-derogatory sense of the word)? The ad is funny because speed walkers are tools! Hell, I’ve seen gay guys beating the shit out of other gay guys with handbags, hamster-cages and the Five-Fingered-Open-Palm-Exploding-Cheek technique just for mincing like speed walkers. Not actually, but I watched half of Brokeback Mountain, a few episodes of Queer Eye and most of the opening credits in a porno called Almost A Woman (it was incorrectly filed under the “Teen” section), so I’m 173% qualified to comment.
The U.S. lobby group Human Rights Campaign criticised Mars – which makes Snickers – for condoning ‘the notion that the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community is a group of second class citizens and that violence against GLBT people is not only acceptable but humorous’.
GLBT? I’m sure I ordered one of those at Subway yesterday. Delicious.
Jeez, I hate speed walkers. You see them throwing their arms around and swinging their hips like they’re God’s fucking gift to pavements, when all they’re doing is damaging the general pedestrian image. And obstructing joggers. Speed walkers are an evolutionary throwback: in the stone age, speed walkers were tapas to sabre-toothed tigers and velociraptors. It’s no coincidence they’re always the old, fat and/or frail, is it?
A bleeding bloody heart with two testes of his own to rub together would very quickly realise that the slogan “Get Some Nuts” is completely wasted on gay men anyway, seeing as they typically get more nuts than most. Well, the hot ones do anyway.