July 7, 2021
urf thursrday, friday now? yes yes i have something coming, uesh.
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this has never happened ONE TIME in the history of cordial police traffic stops. I also question whether cordial police traffic stops ever occurred.
how dare you ask this question!
you fool! they CAN’T!
it is true, i asked this on my own and therefore am calling myself a fool. i cannot expect everything I do to make sense to you!
as dopey as this ad is I prefer it to the other one I wrote about in my previous life or the one I wrote a few years afterward while evidently neglecting to notice and or care that it was the same product. because in the early 1990s ads were still hokey and corny and didn’t mind if viewers laughed at them.
i could not easily find video copies of the ads i took camera pictures of and crummy mp3 recordings of, but this one has the sport oafs at the end of it, evidently in another dimension from the main ad,
in which some dork loses a sword fight because his hair is the wrong color! and the hair wasn’t even visible until he took off the sword fight mask! and THEN after he changes his hair color enough that he gets better at sword fighting his opponent turns out to be wuh-wuh-ZOWIE! itsuh LADY!
a lady with perfectly brushed hair despite having it crammed into a fencing outfit and perfectly made up, sweatless skin despite being in a real sword fight and not a contrived television advertisement. Her hair isn’t even grey and she STILL couldn’t beat a REAL man in a fair fight! Or MAYBE she WANTED to lose *wink hink chortlebleem*. This ad is simultaneously blatantly unrealistic, even beyond the “this is an older guy” ad yet it is much more smug and bro-y about how fake it is.
I do not have a pertinent conclusion ready but here is King Richard from the 1938 Robin Hood film (which features slightly better sword fighting) wearing a real belt as he simultaneously wears an oddly-angled fake version of the same belt which is patterned into his clothing.
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Dhraiden sez:
Why brown chainmail? Ho, ho chortlebleem indeed.
Frimpinheap sez:
because it is grey now
A hooberdoober sez:
I would imagine the purpose of the multiple, differently-angled belts in the second image is to serve as a sort of scabbard suspension system. I cannot vouch as to how practical the particular rigging seen in the image in question would be in actuality, although if it is indeed simply a cloth pattern sewn in to the tunic, it seems safe to conjecture “not very”.
Frimpinheap sez:
I seem to no longer have the video file on my present hard drive but I took the screenshot at may third 2015, amitz a period when I was somewhat less obsessive compulsive about screen-shotting everything, and labeled it “king richard has a real belt and a fake belt.png” so I must have found the visuals rather compelling in context at the time.
more concerning to me is that you call it “the second image.” That should be the fifth image, excluding the two needless youtube embeddings.
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