One of the most ridiculous bags of potato chips EVER

[Tarquin Farquart]

http://www.boredstop.com/rc.htm

[Hyper Squirrel]

YOMANK at "No ring, no thing!"

[Richard W]

"Why should a man respect us if he can have us before marriage?"

Hmm...

[Jay Tea]

"It's all that...and a bag of chips"

I'll stick to Worcester Sauce French fries and Pom Bear thank you very much...

This article indicates there may be such a product...

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...23/ai_12937515

I find it disturbing...

[musicgeek]

There are a few groups out there trying to promote positive messages to urban audiences through food packaging -- IIRC, Ice-T (yes, the "Cop Killer" guy) was working with a company manufacturing ice cream novelties with messages on the wrapper. There was a Newsweek article about it, and the text on the wrappers was pretty outrageous. One of them said (and I'm pretty sure I've got this almost verbatim because the use of slang absolutely killed me), "Knockin' boots is stoopid fresh, but on the serious tip, you got to protect yourself, so don't forget your jimmy hat." Just what I want to think about as I'm sucking on a fudgesicle.

[Richard W]

Originally Posted by musicgeek

"Knockin' boots is stoopid fresh, but on the serious tip, you got to protect yourself, so don't forget your jimmy hat." Just what I want to think about as I'm sucking on a fudgesicle.

So... if I go out in my boots, I might be ridiculously cold (like the ice lolly! I get it!), so I need to wear a warm hat to protect my extremities as well...? Or is it warning you how to behave on construction sites?

[musicgeek]

I knew I wasn't imagining it:

NewsWeek article (registration required for full text)

By the way, Richard, I can never tell if snopesters across the pond are just joking or are genuinely baffled by the hip-hop speak, so just in case:

"knockin' boots" = having sex
"stoopid fresh" = extremely good, enjoyable
"jim hat" = condom

[Victoria J]

I think Kathy needs some help. Or something to prop her up.

Or is part of the wonderful inclusiveness of that image that she has some kind of disability - perhaps involving palsy ? It is certainly a very odd pose.

(Or did people walk like that in 1991 and I've just forgotten )

Originally Posted by musicgeek

By the way, Richard, I can never tell if snopesters across the pond are just joking or are genuinely baffled by the hip-hop speak, so just in case:

Pretty sure he's joking. I'd never heard the third term but it was still obvious in context.

So, where do we send that definition of irony again ?

Victoria J

[BringTheNoise]

Originally Posted by Victoria J

I think Kathy needs some help. Or something to prop her up.

Or is part of the wonderful inclusiveness of that image that she has some kind of disability - perhaps involving palsy ? It is certainly a very odd pose.

(Or did people walk like that in 1991 and I've just forgotten )

Victoria J

I think it's supposed to be an "attitude" pose, showing how "cool" Kathy is, rather than an inclusiveness thing.

[BlushingBride]

Originally Posted by Victoria J

(Or did people walk like that in 1991 and I've just forgotten )

It's true. I walked like that in 1991. The doctors think that with just 4 more years of intensive therapy, I may be able to bend at the waist again.

Wish me luck.

[Wicked Tinkerbell]

I remember some news coverage about this in Southern California "back in the day"*. I also vaguely recall some small scale advertising.

*It was 16 years ago, when I was a wee imp

[James G]

Originally Posted by musicgeek

By the way, Richard, I can never tell if snopesters across the pond are just joking or are genuinely baffled by the hip-hop speak, so just in case:

"knockin' boots" = having sex
"stoopid fresh" = extremely good, enjoyable
"jim hat" = condom

Well that did actually skip me by. The explanation however just fills my mind with Hoopy Froods, and thus I'm wondering how it can be said with a straight face.

:S And this is on an ice-lolly? Is the market different in the US, as I generally associate the sale of ice lollys to the under 10s, most of whom the message will be completely irrelevant to. (Then again, they seem to sing about milkshake.*) Or is the intent that the whole thing is so strange that they'll remember it later, and, when 16 will say to their partner, "Hang on, I've just got to grab a jimmy cap like Ice-T told me to back on a lolly I had six years ago."

* Yes. This bit was sarcastic. I may have not understood all the stoopid fresh stuff, but I'm not completely naieve.

[Victoria J]

Originally Posted by BringTheNoise

I think it's supposed to be an "attitude" pose, showing how "cool" Kathy is, rather than an inclusiveness thing.

I was being silly. Token disability is always a person in a wheelchair or a blind person with a stick...

But I was amused by both the obvious attempt to cover a selection of races and the fact that the stance of Kathy is remarkably like someone walking with a type of palsy.

Originally Posted by BlushingBride

It's true. I walked like that in 1991. The doctors think that with just 4 more years of intensive therapy, I may be able to bend at the waist again.

Wish me luck.

Good luck !

Originally Posted by James G

Well that did actually skip me by.

Oops. I was so sure you were being silly I spoke up about it. Sorry.

You've really never heard the phrase "knocking boots" ? Or you couldn't extrapolate and fill in that incredibly cool missing g ?

Victoria J

[mizzie]

Seriously? OMG.

What really strikes me is that, for all the really great reasons out there to be a good parent, wait to have sex and avoid peer pressure, "because a bag of chips told me so" isn't really one of them. Honestly, who came up with this and why on earth did they feel it was needed?

I can just see that meeting now:

"Things are going to heck, parents don't teach their kids about sex or peer presure anymore! What can we do?"

"Well, we need to get the message out there. Hmmm... let's see. Kids... kids... Well, kids eat snacks. And kids can read. I've got it!"


Yeah, I got it:

Originally Posted by Victoria J

I was being silly. Token disability is always a person in a wheelchair or a blind person with a stick...

But I was amused by both the obvious attempt to cover a selection of races and the fact that the stance of Kathy is remarkably like someone walking with a type of palsy.

Yeah, the rainbow of diversity here is almost, but not quite as good as in The Extreme Ghostbusters.

(It's kind of hard to tell in that picture, but the guy on the left actually *is* in a wheelchair.)

[Victoria J]

Originally Posted by Class Bravo

Yeah, the rainbow of diversity here is almost, but not quite as good as in The Extreme Ghostbusters.

(It's kind of hard to tell in that picture, but the guy on the left actually *is* in a wheelchair.)

I'd totally forgotten that program. (And now I remember it I sort of resent that it was taking up brain space). Wasn't he actually an obsessively fit and sports playing guy too ?

But no one in what would appear to be Islamic dress though - though I think they're still tied.

Victoria J

[Tarquin Farquart]

Originally Posted by Victoria J

I'd totally forgotten that program. (And now I remember it I sort of resent that it was taking up brain space). Wasn't he actually an obsessively fit and sports playing guy too ?

But no one in what would appear to be Islamic dress though - though I think they're still tied.

Victoria J

Imagine if they'd had someone with Islamic dress in Ghostbusters... the Daily Mail would no doubt call it political correctness gone mad or possibly... running amok.

[Victoria J]

Originally Posted by Tarquin Farquart

Imagine if they'd had someone with Islamic dress in Ghostbusters... the Daily Mail would no doubt call it political correctness gone mad or possibly... running amok.

It's bad enough they're coming over here and taking over our inspirational and educational crisp packets.

[/voice of the Daily Mail]

*goes away to wash thoroughly after that*

Victoria - channeling hatred - J

[BringTheNoise]

I'm surprised they didn't already. It does have one of those terrible EMU-GOTHS!