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Breasts should be banned

Thursday, 9 November 2006 advertising internet rant

This thread is really going to bite me in the arse one day, but this needs to be said: advertisers should not be allowed to use breasts to sell things (unless its directly related; eg: bras). Take this fine example.

Boob-fuelled advertisement

You’re just looking through a site and suddenly you’re waylaid by a pair of these staring right back at you. Distracting to say the least… How can you not click them?

If they were tea coseys, things would be a lot different. People would only click them if they wanted a tea cosey. Everyone WANTS boobs but does clicking that banner get you any? I’ll let you experiment there but this leads onto the first of many scientific polls to be carried out on thepcspy: