They have covered most of the ads around the city now with a big yellow and black sticker that says something like: "Thankfully Obey isn't real. Kids should be able to choose their own future, especially when it comes to their post-secondary school education" and a URL at the end. I don't recall the exact wording. It varies. You can't see the original ad, as the sticker covers almost all of it. Again, I ask: "What is the point?" If these kinds of 'mystery ads' achieve anything to sell a product or create awareness I have yet to be convinced of that.
...an advocacy group called Colleges Ontario
Figures. Only an advocacy group could come up with something so lame. Alright, maybe I'm the only one who didn't buzz over it, but I still think it is lame. What exactly did it accomplish? If I didn't read Adland, I still wouldn't know what the ads were for. How many people still have no idea what it is about? What was the point?
"LINK to the Museam of Hoaxes article.
"Happiness is overrated."
I've not heard anyone talking about them. In fact, I only remembered them when I saw this post. I see the big billboard five or six days a week, as I travel on the London transit system to and from work. It got really old, really fast. It isn't even something that gets my attention. I had to see it a few times before I actually paid enough attention to it to read it. After that, I quickly lost interest.
It is about as interesting to me as a common street sign.
"Happiness is overrated."
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"Happiness is overrated."
I've seen these ads around my city (London, Ontario, Canada). I wondered what they were for about three seconds before moving on. I see one billboard each work day while I ride the city transit. I don't know what they are, and I have long since stopped caring. I'll go out and snap some photos of them, if anyone is interested.
"Happiness is overrated."
To the ones who brings up the polar bear: Off course you´re right, but WWF Norway wanted to use the polar bear to remind people about the fact that the arctic ice field is getting smaller and smaller year by year, and that threathens the ice bear.
The end is nigh, again.
I suppose deliberately lying to people is okay as long as they send in their donation?
Obviously, the WWF doesn't know much about the polar bear, or the Arctic. Here, you can see an image of the current sea ice.
The ice grows and shrinks every year in the winter and spring, respectively. Yes, the Arctic has summer, it gets warmer, and most of the sea ice (approximately an area the size of the continental USA) melts. It comes back in the winter. This season may set a record for the high rate at which the sea ice has expanded. Try to find that in the news. The prophesies of doom about the complete disappearance of the Arctic sea ice and the polar bear comes from flawed computer models. Sound familiar? (Think, Global Warming/Climate Change doom) It isn't hard science, it is crystal ball gazing.
Scientists only have accurate sea ice measurements (via satellite) for about 30 years. The ice has been growing and shrinking for thousands of years for which humans have no record. Scientists also know the Arctic was warmer about ten thousand years ago (and even as late as the 1930s) than it is today, and yet the polar bears survived.
There are also permanent polar bear populations as far south as James Bay in Canada. They don't all live in the high Arctic.
Oh, and the Giant Panda population has been increasing too.
I know this isn't the forum to be arguing about things like this. I just really dislike 'environmental groups' like the WWF that out-right lie about the environment.
"Happiness is overrated."
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Isn't this just a copy of Harold Edgerton's work?
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