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Old 11-30-06, 12:49 PM
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Originally Posted by picus
It always cracks me up that people spend time banning that, but violence in movies and on TV just keeps getting worse and worse. Timmy, don't watch the kid driving the Corvette, just go watch CSI!
Excellent point.

Kids dreaming of driving a vette in a commercial? Banned
Titty pops out on TV for 1.2 seconds from a distance away? Bigger news story for the next 2 months than the thousands of people dying and losing their homes in the war on Iraq.
People doing drugs, murdering, stealing, lying, cheating, and getting rich/famous from it? All over the same TV shows that wouldn't allow the Vette ad.
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Old 11-30-06, 01:14 PM
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The guy that wrote the article about the GS ad.....He needs some serious psychotherapy. He obviously has not been able to move past the events of 9/11. I'm sure he also believes that the number 11 or Roman numeral II are also parts in the global conspiracy as well.


The vette commercial was extremely entertaining. Absolute shame that, as others have said, that violence gets a pass, yet something that has an air of setting of our litigious soceity gets a ban.
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Old 11-30-06, 01:23 PM
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1. I am born and raised in NY.
2. The Twin Towers were my favorite building
3. I've seen this ad multiple times

I NEVER ONCE THOUGHT of 9/11 or ANYTHING NEGATIVE with this commercial and if you did, do us all a favor and don't reproduce and jump into a nice volcano spewing with lava

That is all. This is just disgusting, what in the HELL is wrong with people today?
 
Old 11-30-06, 01:42 PM
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WTF....? seriously WTF?
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Old 11-30-06, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Threxx
You guys think that's bad? This commercial was banned, despite them even putting a disclaimer at the bottom because they thought kids would emulate what they saw on the screen and go wreck their dad's vette.

America is too sensitive and serious-minded these days.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NRtPXPlA1E4
Dude! that add made me wanna buy a corvette
People are so...over sensitive what about the grand theft auto where you beat up cops to win...
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Old 11-30-06, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by picus
It always cracks me up that people spend time banning that, but violence in movies and on TV just keeps getting worse and worse. Timmy, don't watch the kid driving the Corvette, just go watch CSI!
TIMMEH!!!

heh exactly

i think whoever wrote this article was on crack or something
i see no correlations at all
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Old 11-30-06, 09:04 PM
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That's a bit of a reach. Sounds like the Mrs. Lovejoy's of the world needed something else to complain about.
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Insanity...

People come up with the oddest ideas.
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Old 11-30-06, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Threxx
You guys think that's bad? This commercial was banned, despite them even putting a disclaimer at the bottom because they thought kids would emulate what they saw on the screen and go wreck their dad's vette.

America is too sensitive and serious-minded these days.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NRtPXPlA1E4
that's so stupid, it's just commercial. what they should do it better educate the people.....
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Old 11-30-06, 10:56 PM
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Wow ... I've watched the ad many times, and never once even considered the Twin Towers .
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The only reasons i thought of 9/11 is cause its in New York but since it was in Manhattan i also thought of the New York autoshow and newyork style hotdogs. Than i wondered why they didnt use the GS430 so whats the big deal.
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