Things you don't need

[hellison]

Having a nice quite evening, silly channel 5 thing about the 80s, bottle of champagne, all going well. Til suddenly ad of sobbing girl over dying parent with cancer.

GREAT.

Do these ads actually make anyone stop smoking anyway?

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[whit-merule.livejournal.com]

I remember being terrified when I was younger by an ad promoting pool safety - basically someone floating, eerily, drowned, in a swimming pool, shot from an underwater perspective so you get that ghostly quality of drifting white clothes and so on, with ominous scary music and THIS COULD BE YOU, PH43R commentary.

As I recall, my most coherent thought at the time was "well, next time I find myself in trouble in the water, the memory this ad is REALLY going to help me relax and stay calm".

Did you know that most drowning deaths actually tend to occur as a result of the person... well... PANICKING?