Thursday, June 28, 2007

Strange Australian Rulings



We read:

"Even a child knows green monsters do not really exist, and UFOs do not fly around our cities, right? Wrong, says the Advertising Standards Bureau, which has upheld complaints against a McDonald's television commercial, because it encourages children to accept lifts from space aliens.

Scantily clad pole-dancing mothers, on the other hand, are acceptable vehicles for advertising fast-food chicken, the bureau's board has ruled, despite numerous complaints that described the ad as pornographic, degrading, sexist and idiotic......

Defending multiple complaints against its ad, another fast-food chain successfully argued the level of nudity used "was essential to ensuring authenticity". The ad shows a topless pole-dancing mother using fictitious "Nando-fix" skin patches and gum to control her craving for Nando's chicken....

The board of the Advertising Standards Bureau agreed, ruling that pole dancing was "a popular form of exercise" and "was not incompatible with family values" [Those board members sure sound like groovy guys!]

Source

There is a video of the alleged "family values" ad here

Nando's chicken IS pretty good, by the way.