The Walk of Shame
Saturday May 10, 2008
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Oh, this, from Andrew's site, is very funny:...
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Is this supposed to be a parody of something?
The hookup culture makes me a little sad.
This video, though, makes me laugh.
This appears to be making light of a very serious problem -in the perspective of this blog. I thought it was pointing out the problem -exaggerating the situation to make the damage it causes more apparent. But it really is just about reveling in immorality -"yes, we're so pathetic, oh well." Am I wrong? I'm trying to understand why this is "funny", since the energy drink company really isn't taking a position against it. I'm trying to figure out Rod's point.
OK, so can someone fill in those of us who are pop-culture illiterates - - I imagine there are a lot of us reading this blog - - is this:
An actual ad for something?
A parody of an actual ad for something? If so, what is the original like?
Or just something someone came up with to make light of a very sad circumstance of modern youth culture?
For the record, I don't find it funny, just poignant...well, OK, the guy in the thong is funny.
As a twenty something I find it funny, but in general I hate and detest the hook-up culture for the wreckage it leaves. Dating and marriage is pretty much wrecked for people my age and I don't really care anymore, I'd rather stay single then swim in this mire. I have no good will towards our culture,may it burn.
I hate hook-up culture too, having come through it myself. But I guess you'll just have to shoot me, because I found this video funny. What, we're not allowed to laugh at human foibles, especially our own? How could we laugh at anything, in that case? All comedy is based on observing the distance between what should be, and what is.
I'm reminded of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfSFkBVwDDc
Anglican, I don't really care anymore, I'd rather stay single then swim in this mire. I have no good will towards our culture, may it burn.
I have no comment. I just wanted to see that in bold.
I have no good will towards our culture, may it burn.
Much better.
Wow, Anglican, I must have missed that part of the Book of Common Prayer.
Oh, and he cut the ending. It's an advertisement for the energy drink they are all prominently carrying in their hands.
Good Lord. This is something someone actually *wants* their product associated with?
Now it's *really* not funny...
There goes Johnny feeling blowsy, lousy
Hip-hop-a-ho'a, baby wha'd I lay?
There goes Johnny singing I got it comin'
Down in the doldrums, trying to greet the day
He got the yearning, now's got the burning
Yeah, the boy can't stay
Locomotion, some lotion
Regretting the night time in walking away
He do the song about the sweet bubbly tonic
He do the song about night's blame
He do the walk, he do the walk of shame...
[apologies to: Dire Straits]
Very funny :)
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