04-28-2008, 10:31 PM
My first thought when I actually heard the punchline on that first advert was relief that it didn't end with 'Vorsprung Durch Technik'!
I'm not as politically correct with regard to broadcast media as I am with regard to with personal comments (as I disapprove of the act of offending someone, rather than of crossing the shifting borders of current good taste), but I do tend to class ads and comedy relying on retro stereotypes as lazy writing: it's easier to provoke than impress (hardly 'Hand built by Robots' was it?) and safer to hide behind a deniable post-modern Punch & Judy than be honest (I think Billy Connolly manages to build whole acts around caricaturing the foibles of the nation he's visiting whilst conveying affection for them).
My next thought was that if they had a point e.g. about the reputation of the two different places of manufacture, it was lost on me.
I'm not as politically correct with regard to broadcast media as I am with regard to with personal comments (as I disapprove of the act of offending someone, rather than of crossing the shifting borders of current good taste), but I do tend to class ads and comedy relying on retro stereotypes as lazy writing: it's easier to provoke than impress (hardly 'Hand built by Robots' was it?) and safer to hide behind a deniable post-modern Punch & Judy than be honest (I think Billy Connolly manages to build whole acts around caricaturing the foibles of the nation he's visiting whilst conveying affection for them).
My next thought was that if they had a point e.g. about the reputation of the two different places of manufacture, it was lost on me.
Salvianus: Ste Kenwright
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A member of Comitatus Late Roman Historical Re-enactment Group
My Re-enactment Journal
~ antiquum obtinens ~
