{"id":1896,"date":"2009-05-14T16:19:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T16:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2009-05-14T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T16:19:52","slug":"charge-your-ipod-kill-a-polar-bear-or-how-i-learned-to-hate-the-period-and-love-the-tampon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"Charge Your iPod; Kill A Polar Bear (or how I learned to hate the period and love the tampon)."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Charge%20Your%20iPod%3B%20Kill%20A%20Polar%20Bear%20%28or%20how%20I%20learned%20to%20hate%20the%20period%20and%20love%20the%20tampon%29.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Looks like iPods are the next device <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2009214989_apeugreenergadgets.html\">to be targeted<\/a> by the alarmist crowd. And the environuts wonder why they&#8217;re having such a hard time selling <del datetime=\"2009-05-14T14:10:35+00:00\">Global Warming<\/del> <del datetime=\"2009-05-14T14:10:35+00:00\">Climate Change<\/del> Man Caused Disaster&#8230;.what, that one <a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/content\/2009\/03\/17\/the-war-on-mancaused-disasters.php\">is already taken<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Look. What they need to do is look at the case of the tampon. They used to have to sell it for women who were having their &#8220;Special Time&#8221; (yes, I looked but couldn&#8217;t find a commercial featuring that line on youtube). But some clever folks down in Australia have found a hip new way to sell the icky produce. No more mention of absorption. No more driving around in a poluting convertible, getting advise from your mom about that &#8220;Not So Happy Time&#8221;. No more mention of wings, causing some women to wonder why they need to <a href=\"http:\/\/queenofspainblog.com\/2007\/03\/19\/sticking-with-the-tampon-theme\/\">stuff an F-18 up their&#8230;. region<\/a>. No. Make it fuzzy and fluffy. Love the tampon. Embrace the tampon.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SgfWuzN_NJw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SgfWuzN_NJw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The Global Warming bleeders need to hire the advert guys that did this commercial. Of course, the sugar coating in that commercial hides a nasty fact. Even tampons <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.babycenter.com\/momformation\/2009\/01\/22\/saving-the-planet-one-tampon-at-a-time\/\">aren&#8217;t safe anymore<\/a>. Let&#8217;s face it. Being alive destroys the planet.<\/p>\n<p>But then, commercials like this next one might cause God to go ahead and move the Armageddon up a bit.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PgsZXwIL_-s&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PgsZXwIL_-s&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Jeez. How did I get from Global Warming to tampons?<\/p>\n<p>PS. This one takes the cake. SNL couldn&#8217;t have done better!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3JDML6J94Nc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3JDML6J94Nc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Charge%20Your%20iPod%3B%20Kill%20A%20Polar%20Bear%20%28or%20how%20I%20learned%20to%20hate%20the%20period%20and%20love%20the%20tampon%29.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Looks like iPods are the next device to be targeted by the alarmist crowd. And the environuts wonder why they&#8217;re having such a hard time selling Global Warming Climate Change Man Caused Disaster&#8230;.what, that one is already taken?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,14,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}