Ad on the back of a bus

[Waylander]

How about ACC does a modified version of the "Fruity-bars" one...

Pretty much unchanged except for the voiceover at the end where it could go "Avoiding accidents can be as simple as looking where you're fucking going"

Sory wolf but something THAT genious is far beyond the total mental capacty of the ACC.

[chickenfunkstar]

How about ACC does a modified version of the "Fruity-bars" one...

Pretty much unchanged except for the voiceover at the end where it could go "Avoiding accidents can be as simple as looking where you're fucking going"

Isn't that the whole piont of the ad?

[Wolf]

Isn't that the whole piont of the ad?

No, it's about keeping the floor clear of obstructions so you can happily wander around your house mugging at the camera without fear - its kinda like the moves to get all adult material of the 'net (anything not fit for Sunday school kids, not just porn) so you can let your kids surf the web unsupervised.

Whoever wrote that ad was obviously not a parent - no parent would script an ad suggesting you can clean up after kids. OSH and ACC would have a conniption at our house - hazards abound but we have a safety process in place called LWYFG - "Look Where You're Fucking Going" - it's really amazing the amount of toys you don't stand on/trip over when applying it.

To get back to the original raison d'être of this thread, the advert on the bus is possibly designed to sway public opinion against the idea (I'm sure the regional authority or whoever it is that controls the busses is against the idea) by depicting bikers as morons with no idea of basic safety.

"Look Mabel, eejits with insufficient protection are going to be riding in the bus lanes..."

Maybe I'm just a cynical old prick, but I often eschew Occam's Razor in favour of suspicion when it comes to people likely to have an agenda.

[Ixion]

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Maybe I'm just a cynical old prick, but I often eschew Occam's Razor in favour of suspicion when it comes to people likely to have an agenda.

[Pedant mode ON]. That's not Occam's Razor that's Hanlon's Law

[Biff]

[Pedant mode ON]. That's not Occam's Razor that's Hanlon's Law

But Hanlon's law is based upon Heinlein's Razor isn't it?

[Wolf]

[Pedant mode ON]. That's not Occam's Razor that's Hanlon's Law

Puzzlement. My understanding of Occam's Razor is "the simplest explanation is usually the correct one" - the simplest in this case would be they just hastily grabbed any old pic of a biker and sent it down to the ad room to get incorporated into the poster; whereas my contention was they, with malice aforethought, sought a picture that portrays bikers in a bad light and put it out there to discredit us in the eyes of the general public, thus making their own viewpoint more tenable - not exactly a simple explanation.

Though it could be said that I am also ignoring (breaking?) Hanlon's Law/Razor, I was more concerned with my convoluted explanation than with inappropriate (???) attribution of malice - since I firmly believe that accusations of malice, where thes SoBs are concerned, are seldom wrong...

[Ixion]

Puzzlement. My understanding of Occam's Razor is "the simplest explanation is usually the correct one" - the simplest in this case would be they just hastily grabbed any old pic of a biker and sent it down to the ad room to get incorporated into the poster; whereas my contention was they, with malice aforethought, sought a picture that portrays bikers in a bad light and put it out there to discredit us in the eyes of the general public, thus making their own viewpoint more tenable - not exactly a simple explanation.

Though it could be said that I am also ignoring (breaking?) Hanlon's Law/Razor, I was more concerned with my convoluted explanation than with inappropriate (???) attribution of malice - since I firmly believe that accusations of malice, where thes SoBs are concerned, are seldom wrong...

Correct, but Hanlon's fits better. "Thou shalt not attribute to malice that which is equally well explained by ignorance or stupidity"