This ad starring Cristiano Ronaldo flogging body exercise electrodes called SIXPAD – or SEXPAD? – has been airing UK television for some months now, but every time it comes on it still makes me gape – pardon my French. It’s… Read More »Ronaldo The Electronic Sex Doll
Mark Simpson on the sweet fetishism of Coca Cola’s ‘delightfully slutty soda ad’ How much Coca Cola ads have changed since the famous singalong, smiley, folksy, innocence of the famous 1971 commercial! How much the world has changed. If it were remade today… Read More »A Taste of the Forbidden – Coca Cola’s ‘Pool Boy’
Mark Simpson on how beating up on men has become a painful corporate cliche (Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph, 01/11/2016) Does the empowerment of women need to take the form beating up on men? And isn’t it anyway something of… Read More »Sassy Misandry: Abusing Men isn’t ‘Bloomin’ Awesome!’
Premier Inn appear to have launched a builder-themed gay night. Or a Top Gun-themed builder night. Either way, I’m checking in. This hilarious, very smart new TV ad ‘Scaffolders’ for the budget UK hotel chain is currently airing nationally – not just… Read More »Dreamy Scaffies at Premier Inn
Is it just me? ‘We all look but only some of us see’ is the slightly pretentious tagline for this new ‘Home Alone’ TV ad for the UK household furnishing store Habitat, part of their #HabitatVoyeur campaign. Perhaps I’ve been doing… Read More »Habitual Voyeur