Damn, that’s great. While it’s unlikely that I’ll ever be asked that question, I’m tucking it into the back of my mind just in case.
As the late Paleozoic Carboniferous was roughly 360 to 300 million years ago, perhaps you meant carbon-based? Or not. 
Yeah, I’ve seen a few whirling around in my time, too. 
I guess you missed the whole JC Penney thing from a while back.
I live in an area with a lot of mixed race couples (usually black male/white female) and mixed race couples are common enough in the UK that it doesn’t cause widespread shock and horror when they turn up on TV (witness, for example, the Mickey/Rose pairing at the beginning of the NuWho reboot, although it didn’t last). Yes, there are still racist idiots who complain but then they complain about anything black people do up to and including existing so there’s no helping them.
Heh - I got “The Purple Kangaroo” from there (“El Canguro Morado”). It features a wild-eyed chinchilla named “Senor Ernesto de Pantalones”, although it’s a bit hard to determine the ethnicity of a cartoon chinchilla wearing pants.
The funny thing is that it would not be unusual at all to the kid in that commerical cast as the child of 2 black parents. Interracial folks are not rarities at all in the advertisement business. They just aren’t usually portrayed as the offspring of white people.
Is this bruhaha limited to youtube commenters? Because that population will always find a way to post racist crap, even if the subject is kittens.
Of course it is. No one except a few fringe nutcases who must get worked up over such things dozens of times every day would sincerely, IRL be worked up over this. I’m sure some people saw it had passing not-especially- nice thoughts in their heads, but forgot about it two seconds later.
Just in case somebody at General Mills is reading the thread, I wanted to come in and say “Well done.”
It’s a very charming commercial, nice and short too; and I too will buy a box of real Cheerios instead of generic next time I am getting one.
Don’t even get me started about cats - black cats and white cats having grey kittens…
That’s even true in towns where there are no other black people. I sometimes wonder where some of those babies come from - really.
I have a relative who used to teach high school in a rural Iowa town where there were no black people, except for the babies that the girls inhis 9th and 10th grade learning disabilities class popped out with alarming frequency. ALL of them were biracial, with black fathers! You never saw these girls out in public with any guys other than their brothers or own fathers, if he was around, either. It was the weirdest thing. And I also worked at a low-income health clinic in another Iowa city, and never saw a white woman with a white child, unless she was a Bosnian refugee. Again, all of the white American women had biracial kids - 100% of them, and if the fathers were in the picture, I never saw any evidence of it.
LOL!
Actually, my biggest problem with the commercial is that kids are going to see it and dump Cheerios all over a sleeping parent. :rolleyes:
Yeah. That isn’t confirmation bias at all…
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Well, last year General Mills did take a stand re: gay marriage:
I think most major corps support have long supported same sex benefits when before gay marriage became really hit as a big issue till the 2000s or zeros. It is not really much of a surprise that General Mills would do that.
On other hand, the thing below surprises me :eek:
Yeah I did miss those :D. First time I heard of it. I did see the ads. I looked at them (the gay and lesbians ones) and I thought the gay one looked like single parents with their kids even with ad line
From ABC News
“First Pals: What makes Dad so cool? He’s the swim coach, tent maker, best friend, bike fixer and hug giver — all rolled into one. Or two.”
Lesbian one will the woman having her arm around other is more obvious. Both ads still look nice though and good.
If you want shocking ads, there is Ray Ban “Never Hide” and GAP “Be One” (Also first time I ever seen those).
But I never seen a TV or internet commercial with actors portraying a gay/lesbian with kids advertising acting out a scene for a family product. Is there one 
I think it would be risker to do since you have a bigger view ship for ad and lot more protests than a newspaper or catalog ad though I can be wrong:D.
Glad that some of the articles are still well-written. Lately I’ve been stumbling onto a bunch that were mean-spirited and, well, irrational. They take it as given that everyone reading knows that whatever it is is irrational and instead use the article to hate on the subject rather than to inform. And they use this very informal style, without citations, which leave room for debate.
It was bad enough that I was worried people were too overwhelmed to fix it. I sure was.
I read the whole page you linked to, and nowhere did I see anything about Cheerios being sugar coated or having lots of sugar added. In fact, I didn’t see a single cereal mentioned by name anywhere on the page. I give your cite a 1 out of 10 but only because it was in fact a working link.
I copy-pasted wrong link - my apologies.
Here’s the right one: The M.D.’s Lung Protocol: Better Ways to Boost Lung Health | OmniVista Health Learning
However, despite Google making it easier than ever and since you appear to be one of those who need to be “served” (pun intended) from that page there’s a full report on cereal: http://static.ewg.org/reports/2011/cereals/pdf/2011-EWG-Cereals-Report.pdf
Let me know how this went facts-wise…
From your first link.
They’re not Cheerios, they’re made by a different company, they’re made from graham flour, contain honey which all the health food types tout as superior and have some kind of “crunchies” in the middle.
His research is sadly lacking.
From that link (bolding and format are mine)
Are you arguing against yourself now?
Oh snap!
But no Crackle and Pop?