Quotes

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning."


C.S. Lewis

"The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly."


Charles Reznikoff

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."


G.K. Chesterton

"Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason."


Francis Quarles

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."


C.S. Lewis

Share the Rainbow?
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Thursday, 02 August 2012

So my wife likes Skittles, a lot.

 

But some of their advertisements are simply unethical or inappropriate.

 

For instance, here is a recent advertisements:


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While it is regularly expected to see these types of advertisements for men's deodorant it is surprising that Skittles is now employing shock tactics in its advertising.

 

What's more disturbing is another advertisement depicting a newly married couple having sex (or at least suggesting as such) only for the man to ejaculate skittles everywhere. It is up on youtube but is too gross to be on this site.

 

Suffice to say Skittles have sold out in a major way in an attempt to get "shock exposure".