Government is a Scam – Office of Fair Trading Parody (Scamnesty Radio Advert)
I pretty much ignore mainstream media as best I can, but occasionally when I’m driving I will listen to the radio, and when I do, I am bombarded by retarded government adverts. If they’re not warning you to take a rest when driving, they’re trying to scare you about the dangers of drugs. The other day I even heard one explaining the benefits of eating fruit & vegetables. None of them, however, annoy me as much as this one:
I don’t know why it irritates me so much, perhaps it’s the condescending tone, maybe it’s the complete lack of useful information, but what I really think it is is imagining the people who made this advert congratulating each other on how clever and witty they are with their smarty pants twist narrative!!! I could write 10,000 words on how stuff like this is a waste of money, an ugly misallocation of valuable resources, the signs of impending nanny-state suffocation and not even remotely useful in achieving its stated purpose, but instead I just made a parody video:




March 10th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
This is brilliant!
March 10th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Ribenaberry is very wise!
March 30th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
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