Re: [Global] Trains in TV ads

[pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family)]

On Thu, 11 May 2000 14:01:20 GMT, "Dave Proctor"
<daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>"Brown Family" <pcc@ocean.com.au> wrote in message
>391aaea6.47585887@news.ocean.com.au">news:391aaea6.47585887@news.ocean.com.au...
>> On Wed, 10 May 2000 18:37:41 +1000, Roderick Smith
>> <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote:
>>
>> >Lots & lots.
>> >This is a regular reporting section in RNV.
>> >
>> >Did anyone get a photo of the full-length condom ad on the exterior of a
>> >Melbourne articulated tram before Citizens for Welfare of Moral Decency
>> >made PTC remove it?
>> >
>> I don't exactly relish the idea of putting a condom on a tram either.
>> I think there's better places to stick one (!) than on the side of a
>> B2 rolling past a primary school. Society's morals, or lack thereof,
>> don't need this sort of shit.
>
>So you would rather that they died from diseases that were preventable by
>the condom, rather than them getting the message to use them?
>
That's a stupid and idiotic statement to make, Dave. I expected better
from you than that.

I'm not against condoms, far from it. I'm against senseless and
insensitive advertising. 

You do realise there is a difference, don't you? 

Les Brown
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.