So...

[tencrush]

Apparently, yesterday was International Fetish Day. Who knew? Seriously, who knew? I'm international, and I've got quite a few fetishes, but I was unaware of this event. Next time, people, when instigating International Days for things we should be aware of and support, Advertise Moar. Speaking of advertising, here's my belated contribution to International Fetish Day, which also goes to show that advertising just isn't as fun as it used to be. Or marriage, for that matter.




In other news, I am disappointed that no one in the US who loves me has even vaguely offered to send me tasteless Obama memorabilia yet. What does a girl have to do?



Honestly, you people.

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[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Someone more talented than I needs to shop Jack 'n' Ianto into that ad.

[tencrush]

I'm sure Jack could pull off those heels.

[cirrocumulus.livejournal.com]

So, this is officially the funniest goddamn thing I have ever read/imagined.

[oneloveonelight.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I see Jack as the one with the braces/suspenders on (and ARGYLE socks?), spanking the bad Ianto for his choice of coffee all while Ianto is multitasking by fashionably holding himself up and rubbing Jack's back. "I'm sorry, si-*whap*-ir. Please teach me a les-*whap*-son. My lesson's a little higher than that. Oh yes..."

What? Oh, sorry, I got carried away. Or, yes, it'd be quite hot (and possibly more realistic) in reverse since we all know Ianto is really the top.

Would a photoshop be breaking tencrush's rule of no manips? For humor's sake, I think that rule could be broken.

[jo02]

Oh, I can guarantee marriage isn't as much fun as it used to be.
Don't get me started.

But, International Fetish Day? I coulda done with some of that.

[furius.livejournal.com]

I just googled in order to read the text. While the imagery's lamentable, I do wish to see the phrase "Woe be unto you" more often in advertisement...

[tencrush]

And by "lamentable" you mean "kinda hawt", right? No? Just me, then? Fuck.
*hides*

Does the text give anything away as to the degree of irony involved?

[furius.livejournal.com]

Well, lamentable I mean it looks like it rather discourages buying fresh coffee. She's so...happy..

[off_coloratura]

"If your husband ever finds out you're not "store-testing" for fresher coffee... if he discovers you're still taking chances on getting flat, stale, coffee... woe be unto you! For today, there's a sure and certain way to test for freshness before you buy

Here's how easy it is to be sure of fresher coffee

Look for the "Dome Top" Can of Chase and Sanborn. That firm, rounded top shows it's packed under pressure, fresh from the oven.

Just do this:

Press your thumbs against the dome top before you buy. If it's firm, it's fresh. If the top clicks, pressure's gone -- take another. It's the one way to get the freshest coffee ever picked.

No other can lets you test!

You can't test an ordinary flat top can. Some are "leakers" that have let air in to steal freshness. But all flat top cans look alike. You can't tell which are good and which are stale.

Here's the payoff!

Sure as you pour a cup, they'll want more! For Chase & Sanborn is a glorious blend of more expensive coffees... brought to you fresher. No wonder Chase & Sanborn pays a flavor dividend you won't find in any other coffee!"

Hm, "firm" and "rounded" huh? I wonder what could remind her of that?

Also: http://www.corpun.com/sell.htm and http://www.corpun.com/sellsupp.htm. Spanking SELLS.

[bandgeek01.livejournal.com]

If I find some tasteless Obama stuff I'll def. send it your way.

I haven't seen anything yet. You would think you know I would be seeing all sorts of stuff.


Nicole

[mellacita.livejournal.com]

I live in DC. You really want tacky Obama memorabilia? 'Cause I can do it.

[tencrush]

There must be something really incongruous and weird out there that makes you wonder why someone decided to put his name or face (or preferably something that looks nothing like his face) on it. Like a Subway wrapper. Or some sort of sanitary product. There must be something that makes you go WTF? Especially in DC.

[off_coloratura]

I'll keep an eye out for you. If only I were back in Chicago; they've undoubtedly got LOADS of crap.

That ad = HAWT. Did husbands really commonly spank their wives Back Then? Not in a sexy way, but for punishment, like kids? DAYUM.

ETA: By Back Then I meant in the time of that ad, and really I should have known better than to ask. One google search and several sites on Christian Domestic Discipline has me all shaky, and not in a good way. Women have demons in them! It's up to Perfect Man to correct her and stop that nasty bad habit of daring to believe that she's equal to him! BARF.

[tencrush]

Yeah, it's like as soon as you bring religion into it, spanking's a whole lot less fun.

I like to think that husbands commonly spanked their wives in the fifties, and that it was my mother and her bra-burning 1960's ways that, although achieving all that equality and women's lib stuff that's very important and appreciated, effectively ruined spanking for us and turned it into that big superiority issue that CDD types love and makes others decry it as anti-feminist. It's just spanking, for fuck's sake.

[off_coloratura]

Feminism is GOOD. Being treated as an equal by your partner and being able to CHOOSE what role you want to play in your relationship, as opposed to having it decided for you by society, is also GOOD.

Going hand in hand with the whole "spanking your wife" thing back then was the view of women as overgrown, capricious children, and that was why the blase attitude towards the husband keeping them in line by spanking them, and all the winky cartoons and ads and movie references. And sure, maybe some found it sexy. But all I can think of is how much that societal inequality made it tacitly ok for men to abuse women. I don't call that fun.

[tencrush]

I'm being facetious, sorry. Feminism's great, obviously. I've had one too many conversations about what it is I'm allowed to find a turn-on whilst still being allowed to call myself a feminist, it's bollocks and beside the point.

I'm joking about the fifties which is why I'm trying to work out how ironic this ad is, it's kind of fascinating me. I have a lot of magazines from that time and can't imagine this ad being in them. I don't think it's trying to show a normal domestic situation or attitude. Is it?

[off_coloratura]

Sorry for the overreaction; I'm a bit oversensitive on this, I think maybe because of that one "Kiss Me Kate" promo picture I was in that strangers were getting off on.

I think it's clearly meant to be comic exaggeration; stale coffee would not warrant a spanking even in the fifties (unless you were Ianto Jones, of course. Don't trifle with his coffee.)

I've seen it a lot, referred to jokingly, as a comic situation, in stuff from this time period. In "Kiss Me Kate," for instance, she's being a brat, he has had it, she's outraged and the situation is meant to be funny. Also, perhaps it was subtextual for naughty goings-on, a way to get around the Hayes act, "it can't hurt that much" sort of thing.

[off_coloratura]

Oh, check out this article in the department of Obama memorabilia. See anything you like?

I think I'm gonna go down to Ben and Jerry's for a scoop of Yes Pecan!.

[off_coloratura]

I love this.

Oh. My God.

[(Anonymous)]

I just basically read all your posts in a row at various times throughout the day. Linked from Torchwood Australia.

I think the only thing I disagree with is your dislike of Freema as a talented actress.

God, I can't count the amount of times I laughed. The best bit is that you don't take yourself too seriously, you admit when you're wrong and you have a great insight into the whole Janto thing.

Seriously they should just have Ianto break up with J already. Something along the lines of "Well I've ploughed you so many times that crops are starting to grow, time to move on. kbye."