Showing posts with label serbia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label serbia. Show all posts

Friday, November 25, 2011

F'd Ad Fridays: "I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash ya got"

"Edwina's insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."
What a hilarious find by Buzzfeed's Dave Stopera — a Serbian Biology lesson book that stole its "happy family" on the cover from the Cohen Brother's awesome 1987 comedy, Raising Arizona.

If you haven't seen the film (shame on you) it's about a career criminal (Nicolas Cage) and his ex-cop wife (Holly Hunter) who turn to kidnapping when they cannot naturally conceive a child.

Not exactly textbook...

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Sex, sex and racism at Belgrade's Grand Casino

Ads of The World featured this rather unimaginative campaign for Grand Casino in Belgrade, Serbia. It uses party shots to make visual puns on gambling, like this:


And this:


That's just run-of-the-mill female sexploitation. The guys, of course are all players, while the women are prizes.



But here's the one that really stopped me cold:


Even if the word "spade" does not have the same connotations in Serbian, it's still pretty damn offensive.

Agency responsible: Euro RSCG

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