Geeklawyer has had the misfortune to fly Ruinair and it is a miserable painful experience eavened only by the realisation that sweet death is only a few short decades away. Not short enough alas.
Equally the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has become the poster child (rivaled only by the BBFC) for all the cretinous, incompetent and self serving quangos that act as substitute for proper civil governance in this farcical metacognitive dissonant clusterfuck that we refer to as ‘regulation’.
Geeklawyer has said so much before and will presumably say so many times in the future.
Weird, then, that he should have to choose between Ruinair and the ASA. It is as though a slightly retarded God was engaged in a pathetic viva voce with Geeklawyer to prove that the Creator of Everything was superior. Jeez God, get over yourself.
Oh yea, the point. Right. This picture was used to advertise cheap flights:
Geeklawyer won’t pretend that his cock didn’t momentarily eclipse the London dildo. Really, he is heterosexual and he does have a pulse.
Following the complaints of 13 dweebs the puritan plebians at the ASA chose to regarded the advert as likely to cause offence, suggesting as it did that teenagers might have sex. This is of course a monstrous slur on our chaste virginal youth.
As for Ruinair:
Peter Sherrard, declared: “The ASA becomes more Monty Pythonesque by the day. It is remarkable that a picture of a fully-clothed model is now claimed to cause ‘serious or widespread offence’, when many of the UK’s leading daily newspapers regularly run pictures of topless or partially-dressed females without causing any serious or widespread offence.
“This isn’t advertising regulation, it is simply censorship. This bunch of unelected self-appointed dimwits are clearly incapable of fairly and impartially ruling on advertising.”
Sherrard insited Ryanair would “not be withdrawing this ad” and would “not provide the ASA with any of the undertakings they seek”.
Honestly. That meteor that’s going to pass near the moon — can Geeklawyer divert it to hit the ASA’s Central London offices dya think? Does anyone have Bruce Willis’ mobile?
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