Dear Comcast Cable Internet,
What’s the story? We’ve been together for quite a few months now. Yeah, I was late paying my bill the first month. And maybe again on the fifth month. But I’ve been good ever since about paying on the time. So why do you stop working all of a sudden for no good damn reason? Seriously, I want to know.
I got up this morning, and, concerned that my bill was due soon, checked your website so I could pay. Lo and behold, it said I owed zero dollars. Cool, I thought. I’m payed up, nothing to worry about yet. So why do I come home to find my Internet not working? What the fuck? Is this funny to you? I am not pleased. That shit had better be working when I get home.
Dear Timbuk2,
You mind telling me what this ad is supposed to be about?
“…that jerk who stole your virginity”? Jeez, that’s great. What fucking decade did the tools in your marketing department fall out of? Let me guess, your next ad campaign will talk about the durability of your products, right? “Just like the shame that comes with being branded an adulteress, our bags will last for a lifetime.”
Please.
I am even less amused with you than I am with those Comcast bastards. Although I’ve used one of your laptop bags for the last two years and enjoyed it, this is not cool. Cut this shit out, or I may have to destroy you.
(Image and info courtesy of Portland Indymedia.)
June 6th, 2007 on 2:53 am
Uhhhhhhhh… am I the only one who sees this ad and thinks “rape?” I don’t know exactly how I am supposed to equate that to Timbuk2 products, but this is not something I am wanting from my laptop bag…
June 6th, 2007 on 7:08 am
Holy Crap! When did advertisers get so lazy that they go for the vulgar and not so funny tagline? I don’t quite think “rape” (LOLDave) but I do think sleazeasaurus rex, indeed.
I hope your Comcast is back when you get home, those bastards!
June 6th, 2007 on 8:39 am
Wow. Tacky, to say the very least. But I guess wearing the dress on the right gets you the guy on the left. Perhaps the follow-up ad could show the stud she’d have gotten had she been in a dress fashioned from the “exotic fabrics” that those laptop bags are made from…
June 6th, 2007 on 1:36 pm
Perhaps it’s just an unusually tacky take on the old theme where men are one-dimensional beings intent only on “bagging” women ?? I’m with you — Timbuk2 needs to knock that shit off. And Comcast? I’ll beat ‘em up for you if you want.
June 7th, 2007 on 6:43 am
Dave, Hilly, and Laurel: I think we’re all in agreement that the ad is in poor taste, definitely.
And Shari: Good to know you’re on my side to help beat up cable companies at the drop of a hat.
June 9th, 2007 on 1:02 pm
What is with the Cable Companies around here. I have the same problem with Charter. They blow! Almost as much as that add. How do the hacks that come up with that crap even get jobs?
June 9th, 2007 on 2:47 pm
I tell ya, Mad William, it’s the from the monopoly of only having one cable provider in town. They don’t have to compete for your business so they get pretty lazy and fix your problems on their own time.
And as for the ad — yeah, it blows.
June 10th, 2007 on 5:12 pm
Thanks for putting this up, the more awareness it gets, hopefully the faster Timbuk2 will realize that people are PISSED OFF about it. They’re received loads of angry emails from the VM women, family, friends, coworkers, streching across the US.