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Paul1965
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Burger King launch their Super Seven Incher with one of the most unsubtle ads of all time. Or is it just me? 
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bish
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Advertising these days, is to catch the subject audicence. In this case, people under the age of 25. What has this done? Exactly what I just said.
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AlunD
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all they needed was to add a comment about "lip smacking good " 
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Nick
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There's a joke about swallowing in there somewhere...
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bish
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It does look exceedingly good though. Pity they dont actually look like that then they are cooked. I asked about it once, the response I got was - "It's because we have to make so many of them so we can't always make them look good." I was 'gob-smacked' 
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ProfessorF
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Advertising clearly works.
FWIW, there's probably some ad exec in the US who probably can't quite believe he's gotten away with it. I expect there's usually a dozen piss-poor ideas rafted, but some moron in BK went with this one. I used to come up with crap like this in university and upon presentation to the tutors it always got a raised eyebrow and a middling mark.
Mind you, look at the American Apparel adverts. For all their puritanical views over the last few years, the US seems to do a brisk trade in risqué advertising.
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bish
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Personally I would have just put "It'll blow your mind" the away is completely uncessecary.
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Nick
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Does anyone else think that the model doesn't look human, and looks more like one of those fake rubber dolls that are supposed to look human?  _________________
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bish
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Yep, I think she looks like one of those Stepford Wives.
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ProfessorF
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I was thinking Katy Perry.
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finlay666
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saspro
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So is this burger coming over here or not. I'm now in a Burger King mood
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bish
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Ooooh. That's a low punch.
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ProfessorF
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finlay666
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It's from the 60s/70s I think Saying that you might be the exception, my housemate hit another car (apparently not her fault) and has had 2+ 'bumps' (as in obviously dented bodywork) on the replacement car. She drives like a boy racer and doesn't wear a seatbelt mind so that might be it.... _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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