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30 vintage advertisements that will make you squirm (Original Post) Quixote1818 Sep 2018 OP
Something just occurred to me. dameatball Sep 2018 #1
Bacon grease on the comforter, Codeine Sep 2018 #3
And I bet you never thought of wearing at tie to bed either. Merlot Sep 2018 #4
That's only for "special" dates. nt eppur_se_muova Sep 2018 #6
Nope. Especially not a long red one. dameatball Sep 2018 #7
I have an Aug 1946 LIFE magazine that I found at an antique shop many years ago. lamp_shade Sep 2018 #2
my grandparents had a 40's era Life magazine OriginalGeek Sep 2018 #16
I don't know, but the cocaine toothache drops sound interesting. Merlot Sep 2018 #5
. dalton99a Sep 2018 #8
The creator tells how it came about: sl8 Sep 2018 #15
The modern ones in that collection are also awful oberliner Sep 2018 #9
The modern ones are worse, because by now they knew better Merlot Sep 2018 #10
I find this one the most repulsive Quixote1818 Sep 2018 #11
Their commercials were even worse oberliner Sep 2018 #12
WTF did I just watch? Quixote1818 Sep 2018 #13
I wonder if any of those ad execs Ilsa Sep 2018 #18
That's beyond horrific! StarryNite Sep 2018 #14
Pretty sure that's one we included in our WAVAW slide show in the early 80s Ms. Toad Sep 2018 #19
Do an image search for Toddlers and Tiaras Revanchist Sep 2018 #21
What really makes me squirm are the comments jmowreader Sep 2018 #17
This reminds me of a Rolling Stones ad. area51 Sep 2018 #20

dameatball

(7,398 posts)
1. Something just occurred to me.
Sun Sep 2, 2018, 04:57 PM
Sep 2018

In my entire lifetime I have never really wanted breakfast in bed. It just never appealed to me.

 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
3. Bacon grease on the comforter,
Sun Sep 2, 2018, 05:22 PM
Sep 2018

dried bits of oatmeal on the pillowcases, and the stale smell of overheated cooking oil hanging in the air for a week — what’s not to love?

lamp_shade

(14,836 posts)
2. I have an Aug 1946 LIFE magazine that I found at an antique shop many years ago.
Sun Sep 2, 2018, 05:17 PM
Sep 2018

That was the month/year I was born. I think I'll go leaf through it and look for similar ads. I'm sure I'll find some.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
16. my grandparents had a 40's era Life magazine
Sun Sep 2, 2018, 09:22 PM
Sep 2018

My favorite ad was the Olympic marathon runner shilling some brand of cigarettes. Cracked me up.

sl8

(13,786 posts)
15. The creator tells how it came about:
Sun Sep 2, 2018, 09:13 PM
Sep 2018

From http://rjwhite.tumblr.com/post/472668874/fact-checking

Fact-checking

About seven or eight years ago, I made this fake ad, exhorting parents to give soda to their babies. It was done on a bored afternoon when J.D. Ryznar asked for someone to make that very specific thing on his livejournal. I whipped it together, posted it to the web, joke over.

THEN. A couple of years later- it started showing up online, in those weird lists that pop up every so often with a “Oh man, ads sure were strange back then, weren’t they?” theme. Thing is, those ads are largely real and mine is not and very obviously so.

I’ve gotten used to seeing it out of nowhere from time to time, but this latest flare-up is high-larious. Over at the Natural News web-site, it has become the basis for an angry column about evil corporations wanting to put chemicals in your kids’ bodies.

...



More at link.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
10. The modern ones are worse, because by now they knew better
Sun Sep 2, 2018, 06:35 PM
Sep 2018

That D&G ad is horrible. No one could look at that and not know what was going to happen.

At least the ketchup bottle one was more subtle.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
18. I wonder if any of those ad execs
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 12:10 AM
Sep 2018

ended up in prison for creating in real life those awful fantasies?

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
19. Pretty sure that's one we included in our WAVAW slide show in the early 80s
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 12:31 AM
Sep 2018

We juxtaposed (then) modern day ads against porn images (strikingly similar, if less explicit) - and one of the themes in the slide show was the infantilization of women, including that some of the models in the ads using sex to sell were children. A number similar to the rape image in Dolce & Gabanna.

Revanchist

(1,375 posts)
21. Do an image search for Toddlers and Tiaras
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 06:12 AM
Sep 2018

and tell me if you still think this is that bad. That show is some major pedo bait

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
17. What really makes me squirm are the comments
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 12:03 AM
Sep 2018

Ninety percent of them are from Deplorables complaining about how liberals are "destroying traditional American values."

Which makes me wonder...why, if you're so hell-bent on Protecting Traditional American Values, did you vote for the guy Harold Hill said we needed a boy's band to protect River City from?

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