There’s a Kotex commercial, this woman walks out “I am a believably attractive 18 – 24 year old” and goes on about all the flashy things pad and tampon commercials do to hook in customers, “Notice how everything is angled to make me look more beautiful? Everything is in white [insert reason why here]” and et cetera, et cetera. Basically, the creator of this graph just turned that commercial into, er, graph form.
What gets me is they always seem to feature women dancing around/windsurfing/jumping tall buildings in a single bound. Nowhere do you see someone who is angry and huddled on a couch, clutching a hot water bottle and eating about a ton of chocolate.
Nowhere do you see someone who is angry and huddled on a couch, clutching a hot water bottle and eating about a ton of chocolate.
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Since some people don’t do that. c:
Fancy words that make you feel stupid? In a tampon commercial designed at the 9th grade reading level? Perhaps you should’ve paid more attention in junior high. There. Bet you really feel stupid now.
Okay, so the reason that they use blue liquid is because a few people in the FCC objected to using red. They claimed it was obscene (go figure). The idea is that they show the absorption of the product without making it look like a period, and blue dyes actually show up better on camera anyway. You’ll see it in paper towel and toilet paper adds as well.
why is the orange ugly? my favorite part of the commercial is the fact that she WASN’T painting it white (well, it was white to begin with, but you know what I mean…). White walls are SO BORING.
I agree white walls are boring, maybe that comment is just me showing my abhorring nature towards the colour orange. My best friend a few years ago loved the combo of orange and blue and I thought she was nuts.
I just feel that it’s an odd and ugly choice for a wall colour.
Women are squids?!? hmmmm.
They could be honest and make the liquid red.
BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Yes,cap were necessary.
They show this crap on Cartoon Network… I doubt they’re thinking of the kids <.<
Mommies and 12 year olds need them too!
Very true.
not 12 yr old boys,
Let’s not forget: “Have a happy period. Always.”
KILL IT WITH FIRE.
Too true.
Agreed.
They could at least be honest and say ‘Have a slightly more bearable period’.
Be happy killing it with fire. Period.
Way to copy the U by Kotex commercials, dude.
thats what i was going to say!
agreed. this is just creative fail.
I’m confused, I haven’t seen this commercial. Someone explain?
There’s a Kotex commercial, this woman walks out “I am a believably attractive 18 – 24 year old” and goes on about all the flashy things pad and tampon commercials do to hook in customers, “Notice how everything is angled to make me look more beautiful? Everything is in white [insert reason why here]” and et cetera, et cetera. Basically, the creator of this graph just turned that commercial into, er, graph form.
funny ad, lame graph attempt.
now with wings!
What fancy words are in pad and tampon commercials?
The green portion of this graph should be white. The red portion should be blue.
But considering the blue portion of the pad commercials should be red, I think this color scheme makes sense.
It’s blue because blue is a nicer color then red. Red is negative, blue is relaxing, especially when it comes the period.
trust me, a woman knows.
but red is a far more true colour, periods are not at all relaxing.
true story, I actually was confused when I got my first period had to use pads, because the commercials didn’t make any sense.
You wouldn’t be relaxed if it came out blue.
WIN
not in real life, no. but still
What words are confusing? That’s all I want to know….
What gets me is they always seem to feature women dancing around/windsurfing/jumping tall buildings in a single bound. Nowhere do you see someone who is angry and huddled on a couch, clutching a hot water bottle and eating about a ton of chocolate.
If your period’s that debilitating, maybe you should consider medication. Mine used to be that bad but now I bearly notice it.
I hate women like you.
Women who would rather take Midol than be in pain?
Women who spell “barely” as “bearly”.
Bearly might mean extremly strong. So i guess you should swap medicaments.
The pill is a magical thing ^__^
unless it makes you sick
Or psycho
Or psycho and sick while being unable to hold down your own stomach bile.
But you do see that in the Midol commercials!
Mine come with migraines!
This idea was derived from cracked.com, amirite.
Nowhere do you see someone who is angry and huddled on a couch, clutching a hot water bottle and eating about a ton of chocolate.
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Since some people don’t do that. c:
Fancy words that make you feel stupid? In a tampon commercial designed at the 9th grade reading level? Perhaps you should’ve paid more attention in junior high. There. Bet you really feel stupid now.
While I agree that there really aren’t any words that should make you feel stupid, what’s wrong with a GED?
The new, extra absorbent iPad.
Now with blue liquid!
and bluetooth
Ugh, ripoff of the U by Kotex ads…(links below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOM4AMV050A
I leak thin blue liquid every month. Don’t you?
:O Are you an android?
I don’t know, I’ve never thought about that I guess. Is it normal that I have to plug into the wall every night to recharge?
That’d be your antifreeze. You might want to get that leak patched.
White everything + blue liquid = contradictio
What the heck are the “fancy words that make you feel stupid”?
You term them a tad ostentatious vocables that make you appear stupefied.
Why would someone look surprised when hearing big words? I would think he or she would seem unintelligent.
Okay, so the reason that they use blue liquid is because a few people in the FCC objected to using red. They claimed it was obscene (go figure). The idea is that they show the absorption of the product without making it look like a period, and blue dyes actually show up better on camera anyway. You’ll see it in paper towel and toilet paper adds as well.
so they use toilet paper instead of pads?!!
what i hate about the blue liquid is that they use it to show you how “absorbent” the pads are. but really, whose flow is that light?
THIS ^ THIS ^ THIS
I despised the textbook we had in health that said something like, the average period is one tablespoon! GRRRRRR.
The scientists were probably men…
Or they use big tablespoons
there is a reason: blue is the least human color
looks like the OP has been sucked in by those new Kotex commercials. lame.
Wait for menopause, ladies, then nothing will matter except imagining ways to antagonize men.
why is the orange ugly? my favorite part of the commercial is the fact that she WASN’T painting it white (well, it was white to begin with, but you know what I mean…). White walls are SO BORING.
I agree white walls are boring, maybe that comment is just me showing my abhorring nature towards the colour orange. My best friend a few years ago loved the combo of orange and blue and I thought she was nuts.
I just feel that it’s an odd and ugly choice for a wall colour.
I love orange. Do not insult orange. But orange and blue are well…weird.