This Just Feels...Wrong

[AnaKhouri]

I went on CNN and watched a short newscast on the Iran riots, specifically the cell phone video showing a young woman apparently dying after being shot by police. It's quite disturbing.

But before I could watch the newscast, I was subjected to an ad...30 seconds of an animated bear rubbing its ass with Charmin toilet paper.

[Ringtail Z28]

I know how you feel, those shitting bears always came off as weird.

[Rapscallion]

At least they're doing it in the woods.

They are, aren't they? They're still crapping in the woods? Tell me it's true...

Rapscallion

[Giggle Goose]

Yes, Raps, they do. But they have rolls of Charmin stuck on tree branches, just like TP holders in a human bathroom.

I always thought those commercials were weird...I now use Quilted Northern.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I'm always kind of disturbed by bizarre juxtoposition of silly ads for trivial thing alongside serious, gut-wrenching news.

Like, as you mentioned, a cartoon bear rubbing it's ass with tp with a young woman being murdered in the street.

Or, in what's the most poorly placed ad I've ever seen, a web banner of an anorexic ass being shoved in my face with the line "trying to lose those last 10 pounds" right next to a headline that featured a half-starved Indian tsunami survivor screaming in anguish over her dead family.

Nice placement, there.