12/4/2003: Baby / cockroach ad
 

http://cellar.org/2003/babycockroach.jpg

(Sorry to any UK readers who are already aware of this)

This is an advertisement. One assumes it's also a fake.

It's an advertisement from Barnardo's, a childrens charity group in the UK, who wanted to point out how 1 in 3 children in Britain are born into poverty. Thus the not-at-all-obvious pun, altering "born with a silver spoon in his mouth" with "silver cockroach". Yes, that's what they intend; the campaign, which is defended here by Barnardo's, is entitled "Silver Spoon".

In turn, this has led to the most complaints to the government's Advertising Standards Authority since a condom ad in 1995.

If it was intended to both offend and get publicity, I guess it did; stirred up media attention.

I don't understand what the big deal is. The way I see it, that baby was born with food in it's mouth. Good protein. Sheesh.:eek:




GBA

DNK

Doesn't that baby's head look mishaped?

Great timing on that image, too -- I was just sitting down to lunch with a fresh, crunchy salad.

Hurk.

Newborns often have misshaped heads. They usually even out eventually.

And they have that cool soft spot thing, too. We call it "the reset button", because they stop crying when you press it.

They often have cone heads - that baby's head is freakin' square. :3eye:

EEEEEEP!!!

Tell me more.

Not always:


http://www.futcher.com/homepage/img/conehead.jpg


Grew up to be:


http://itsb.ucsf.edu/~vcr/conehead.gif





Okay, not really.

But there was the ancient tribe (for lack of a better word) that found coneheads attractive. Here's a skull:

http://www.mondialhosting.com/axxon/...ppingCHm02.jpg


GBA

DNK

Thank god I no longer have roaches.

just be careful of his little fontenelle!

Tribe? Coneheads?

How did they shape the skull? What about the brain cavity?

Not the best photoshoping job I've ever seen.

Hey didn't the last issue of the Weekly World News have an article on some kind of bug that gets in your head and eats your brain?

Everybody be very careful

Well, if I recall, some were found in Africa, some in South America. It was considered a sign of beauty, the more elongated the skull was. I think they did tight head wraps, same as those long neck people, or the big hole ear people, just stepped up progressions until the desired look was acheived. But what is eerie, is what could have been the motivation to emulate elongated skull structure?














http://www.photomosaic.com/rt/examples/alien.jpg

Perhaps?



GBA

DNK

Source?