One of the major high-speed internet providers around here is Bell Sympatico. And yes, it’s a big new trend to have all those babysitter settings on your internet connection to make sure little Jimmy isn’t surfing for porn. Well and good.
But this ad is appalling. I’m so glad to know little Jimmy will be protected from nasty textbook images of evil female bodies! And that he will never learn what an ovary looks like!
Bell Sympatico: Pandering To Those Who Also Thought Those Evolution Stickers Were A Good Idea.
On another note…what’s so obscene about a stomach? 
Oh god, they covered up that ovary and that stomach alright, but that duodenum was just hangin’ out there in the open for all of God’s green earth to see!
The horror, the horror.
Her hips and thighs and stomach are still SCANDALOUSLY visible! Think of the children!
Ho mama! Did you all get a peek at that hot liver? Wow. And check out that circulatory system. What a bloody babe!
Hey, does anybody have the February centerfold from The Journal ofCardiovascular Surgery? Her pet peeves include cold forceps and doctors who forget to call after operating. :dubious:
Not only that, but check out the other page! There’s an uncensored HINDER!
I am, however, wondering if this is a parody.
Someone needs to tell them that the brain is the most important sexual organ. That’s out there just a flappin’ in the breeze, too. :eek:
I assure you it isn’t, although I wish it was. While the version in the picture is not mine, I could easily have scanned the identical version we received in the mail and which is still lying on our kitchen table.
It has the hallmarks of one, actually. I suspected it, too. The textbook illustration looks like folk art, the censoring tags are just freeform cut & pastes of the logo bar on the right, and the url looks like a fark-type site to me.
Maybe they thought the stomach was the uterus? It’s an easy mistake to make.
The cut out parts look like the logo in that picture, because in reality they’re just actually cut out of the page.
jayjay, I can back up with Laurange is saying. I got the exact ad in my mail today and one of Toronto’s independent newspapers also mentioned it in this week’s paper.
link deleted; not work safe
Scroll past the picture and quote…
That’s no god damn work safe Kid_a. Please report it to have that changed.
Oh wow. Wonder how many complaints they’re going to get. I’d be sending mine in, if they were trying to do business here. Did they truly intend to imply that teaching kids basic anatomy is inappropriate, or was their advertising department really, really not thinking?
I may write them anyway.
This ad is also on TV. When the kid opens his text book there’s parts missing (IIRC).
I dunno. It’s either Bell making a parody of retarded parents or someone in their marketing department lost their minds.
I don’t see anything not work safe there. Did I miss something?
I won’t open it again (I’m at work) but there was an ad or a picture of 2 people lying next to each other. The women was naked and quite visible.
It might be an rotating ad.
Re: the inappropriate page - there’s a sidebar ad that pops up occasionally for the “Love & Sex Guide” with a nude couple in an embrace.
Well, somebody’s missing something. Like a sense of humor?
For the love of God, people, lighten up! The ad is a joke. It’s saying “Look how far we’ll go to protect your kids”, ie way past the bounds of sanity. Didn’t the censored stomach give you just a tiny clue that this ad was not serious?
