Absolut Nonsense

Rest assured I absolutely will not be drinking Absolut vodka after seeing their Mexico ad campaigns. That’s no small loss to that company as loving wife and I do like our vodka.

Hopefully this will gain some momentum in the blogosphere and enough Americans will stop buying their vodka to make it sting a bit. I cannot imagine America is not a bigger vodka market than Mexico, land of tequila.

UPDATE:

I emailed Absolut Vodka to complain about the ad and got an email back saying that the email box was closed and no longer receiving email. Wonder why?

UPDATE:

Absolut posts a non-apology-apology on their website. Predictable. Screw em, I’m drinking Skyy, Stoli or Grey Goose from now on.

UDPATE:

Hi to the visitors from Sweden. If you are Absolut people, you really screwed-up. Sucks to be you today.

UPDATE:

This Absolut story has legs - long, tight, tanned, legs - just Google blogs and see. Of course Ace takes a look at it in the way only he can, and it’s from him I steal this great take on the Absolut ad.

As Ace paraphrases the Absolut(ly) lame apology excuse, “it reflects a Europe that many Russians feel would be more ideal.”

UPDATE:

Even more Absolut World parodies

One Less Customer

Have you seen this Ford Escape hybrid commercial? You know the one where the young girl is getting a ride from her dad and she asks to be dropped off a block before they get there because “people in that part of town are riding bikes and have hybrids and stuff.”

I hate that commercial.  So much in fact that I now vow I will never buy another Ford vehicle . . . ever.

And I was a big Ford guy.  Granted it was mostly because my father-in-law worked for Ford and I got a great family member discount.  But also because I liked their vehicles, which for about 15 years consisted of Aerostar and Windstar mini-vans.

But no more.

Now I am only buying foreign SUVs like the Honda Pilot I have now. 

Not a hybrid by the way.

I’m tired of this global warming guilt trip everyone is throwing at me and not buying any more Fords is my first chance to fight back.  Using kids to frame an argument, a favorite tactic of the left, including environmentalists, just disgusts me, and you can find no end of so-called public service announcements and commercials with sad-eyed kids begging us adults to save the planet before we run out of air in five years or it just explodes or something.

And what is worse is when corporations follow suit and try to guilt me into buying a hybrid so I won’t embarrass my kids.

First of all, isn’t embarrassing children the job of parents?  I think it is and I take it very seriously.  And secondly, I don’t buy into the “humans are the cause of global warming” crap that is being sold to me now by Al Gore and other liberals.

Yes, the world is getting warmer. And, yes, human activity no doubt ads to that warming. But I believe it is mostly a natural cycle and, while it certainly doesn’t hurt to cut carbon emissions, it isn’t going to be the world-saving deal these enviro-nuts want us to believe.

Especially if you don’t believe the world is going to end in the next million years or so like I do.

You think it doesn’t happen?  Check this out.  My youngest son, a 12 year old and in the 6th grade, was told by his teacher that he wouldn’t ever be able to drive when he turned 16 because there would be no gasoline left unless we moved to green power.  He was naturally upset and I had to spend 30 minutes explaining to him what a putz his teacher was and that he would indeed by wrecking cars like his two older brothers did.

You want to clean up the air?  Bring back nuclear power. You want me to cut my carbon-footprint? Stop flying in private jets you elitist nanny-staters.

And stop scaring children.