Dear readers, I am participating in Alphabe-Thursday where ‘A’ IS FOR ADVERTS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD!
Here they are:
Here they are:
1. Saatchi for Australian Red Cross promoting blood donation (above)
2. A South American beauty clinic’s campaign alleging how ‘wrinkled’ Angelina Jolie and Paris Hilton would be without skincare (below)
2. A South American beauty clinic’s campaign alleging how ‘wrinkled’ Angelina Jolie and Paris Hilton would be without skincare (below)
3.’Anti-smoking’ campaign by Les Droits des Non-Fumeurs 
4. Family Violence Partnership, Milwaukee raising awareness about statutory rape
4. Family Violence Partnership, Milwaukee raising awareness about statutory rape 
5.Spoof campaign for Prius portraying murder. Caption reads: “Well, at least he drives a Prius”
6. Benetton – Aids sufferer 
7. Bizarre ad for Jetsetters Deutsch Magazine
8.Agent Provocateur – against illegal detention of Guantanamo Bay prisoners
9. Kenneth Cole - campaign highlighting Aids
WHICH ADVERT(S) DO YOU FIND THE STRANGEST/ MOST SHOCKING? 
Do check out other Alphabe-Thursday posts @ Jenny Matlock!
And, finally, thank you to all my dear readers who have visited or commented. Have a great weekend!
Enjoy!
XOXO LOLA:)
25 comments:
I must really be just an old lady because all of them were quite shocking!
All shocked me, but some more than others. How the world has changed over my lifetime.
Uhhh, I'm not sure. Most were a bit shocking!
Wow. Shocking indeed. As a prudish American living in Europe, I've been shocked quite a few times by things over here. Sometimes, I think it's good for me. =>
To me they are all shocking.
Shocking, but thought provoking. I find some of these kind of disturbing, but maybe we live in a time where people are so jaded that you need something like this... not sure.
*kisses* HH
Some of them I just don't get and others are just plain disgusting, but I'm really puzzled by the Prius ad. Was this sponsored by Toyota or was it a spoof of some kind?
These all seems way over the top!
Uhhh! A great collection of provocative adverts!
Thanks for sharing. And thanks for visiting and taking the time to comment;o)
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Can't wait to see how SHOCKED Mrs Matlock will be...mwahahahaaa
Yep, I am with the others - shocked! But then I grew up in the days when Ozzie and Harriet were on TV every week...sure do miss them.
Oh my! I found them all quite shocking too! Some are also a bit disturbing.... I'm guessing a lot of these ads are not found in American publications...
The lady with the dog is definately the most disturbing to me! But they were all pretty outrageous. Good post!
You get an A from me for your awesome advert take on A. :) Amazing stuff!
They're all pretty disturbing. Some of them even made me angry at what we are willing to accept these days.
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Wow! These are quite a bit different from what we see here in my little town! We give you an A+ for this post though...you always find the neatest stuff to blog about!!! Hugs to both of you...Lola and Nora!!
xoxo Chloe and LadyBug
Hi Lola and Nora,
Sometimes ads catch our attention and give us the shock treatment, but I suppose that is what there job is.
thanks for always having an interesting post.
Wonder what Angelina and Paris would think of their new look!
Hope you are enjoying your weekend
Hugs
Carolyn
Wow, I guess shock is sometimes what's needed but sometimes it's just overdone. There's a fine line but no matter what, someone is always offended so our part of the world has taken to playing a lot more safe in a lot of areas and that.... I think that has also made things a little worse in many different ways.
Wow.
Speechless.
Kinda/sorta sick to my stomach.
I guess that's the purpose of shock advertising, though, right?
Some I think are shocking in a powerful-make-you-think kind of way. Others are just disturbing.
I need to go wash my eyeballs out now so I can forget a few of those images!
What a rivetting and disturbing link.
A+
I found most of the pics shocking too.
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Number 7 is so bizarre lol.
Simply beautiful!
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I have to say you really went all out on this post. So many different sights to see.
True! They are really shocking!
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These days, there's not much that shocks me any more, sad to say. But I find them all distasteful!
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