A Chianti would go well with those drug-filled balloons
Hot Press has a drugs issue out this week, so it’s made an ad for it. With balloon swallowing, Eastern European accents, graphic toilet scenes and coke being snorted off cleavage, it may in fact be a clever trailer for a Roaring Twenties spin-off.
Watch it here. (Thanks Ivor for the tip)
WARNING: Make sure you’re not eating while you watch it. You may laugh so hard that food will come out your nose.
Ha ha ha bonk. There goes my head.
Did you see the subtle message? Just after the guy prises himself off the pot?
It’s a slightly more hirsute version of this.
Comment by Nat King Coleslaw | January 30, 2008 at 5:19 pmThat Eastern European accent though. Chilling is just not the word.
I bet Hot Press will turn to the shocking amount of Polish food sections in supermarkets next.
We’ll see SHOCKING footage of a man frantically piking minced beetroot into his quivering maw.
“Slow down comrade. You heff tventy morr jarss to go.”
Comment by Nat King Coleslaw | January 30, 2008 at 5:22 pmI don’t know about you lot but I’ve been put right off licking drug filled balloons after watching that!
Comment by Brock Landers | January 30, 2008 at 5:32 pmHilariously awful.
Comment by Twenty Major | January 30, 2008 at 5:48 pmThe sound effects when that lad is on the john are frighteningly real!
Comment by Daddy Dec | January 31, 2008 at 9:12 am“Maria Full of Grace II: Now it’s His Turn”
Comment by Steve K | January 31, 2008 at 9:41 amNiall Stokes is on RTE Radio right now talking about the ‘powerful statement’ that the ad makes.
Comment by Brock Landers | January 31, 2008 at 10:42 amBrock - That powerful statement being what?
That the reality of drugs is far more comical than ever portrayed?
That making balloon animals might seem like a fun way to make a living, but it can have its dark side?
Comment by Shane | January 31, 2008 at 10:45 amShane- All I know is that it made a ‘powerful statement’. This was enough for stand-in Myles Dungan and should be enough for all of us.
Comment by Brock Landers | January 31, 2008 at 10:54 am“Look here’s a snake. And here’s another snake. Yes, all snakes are brown. Shut up.”
Comment by Twenty Major | January 31, 2008 at 10:56 amIf you saw how Olaf Tyarensen writes his articles, you would never read one again.
Comment by cw | January 31, 2008 at 11:01 amWTF…it is just a series of non sequiturs…plus I’m fucking insulted by whatever woeful stock tune they’ve used for the “dance scene”.
Anyone reckon Niall Stokes asked them to ban this?
Comment by Ronan | January 31, 2008 at 11:47 amAt least it clearly demonstrates that the more portly members of the construction industry have other career options if the slump continues.
“Now you could turn around. We need to see your crack, so as to gauge if you are a 20 or 40 balloon mule?”
Comment by Dan Sullivan | January 31, 2008 at 12:51 pmDan -Being honest, it hasn’t put me off snorting cocaine off cleavage. But it has put me off blowing up balloons.
Comment by Shane | January 31, 2008 at 12:57 pmput me off reading hot press!
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Comment by Ronan | January 31, 2008 at 1:37 pmI’m disappointed at the reaction to this.
They’re trying to do a good thing with this promotion; if you realised that your cocaine had been up a bloke’s hole, you would think twice before snorting it off a piss-soaked toilet seat.
Comment by cw | January 31, 2008 at 2:19 pmCW - I don’t think the point has been missed by us, it’s just that it’s been drowned out by the laughter.
Comment by Shane | January 31, 2008 at 2:26 pmThat’s nonsense CW.
I’ve been at parties where, come 8am, people would snort the coke if the guy was shitting it onto their face.
Comment by Ronan | January 31, 2008 at 2:33 pmShane, I didn’t think I’d have to make the irony in that post any less subtle for you to get it.
Sorry.
Comment by cw | January 31, 2008 at 2:40 pmAh, the trusty old “I was being ironic! Really I was!”
Comment by Nat King Coleslaw | January 31, 2008 at 3:25 pmMy point being that if people are snorting off the most disgusting surfaces imaginable, the fact that it was in a balloon in a fat bloke’s arse probably is of very little consequence to them.
Comment by cw | January 31, 2008 at 3:28 pmIt was in a balloon… it’s completely hygienic!
Comment by Steve K | January 31, 2008 at 3:37 pmCW - I have asked before that any irony/sarcasm arrives THIS IS IRONIC written, in triplicate, so as to avoid embarrassment on my part.
Steve - We had a little discussion in the office as to whether a party balloon (”Happy 12th birthday!”) would be used for such a thing, or whether a different type of balloon or a condom would be a better move. I admit to some ignorance on this issue.
Comment by Shane | January 31, 2008 at 3:45 pmIt’s too late, Shane.
You’ve ruined it.
Comment by cw | January 31, 2008 at 3:46 pm