Okay, so I have to admit I’m getting sick of visual clutter. Everywhere I look someone has put up an ad. There is narry a scrap of wall or pavement that isn’t covered. But come on! Leave the loo alone.
I walked into the office restroom. It seems the campaign of choice is for some booze called Jagermeister. Fine, whatever. Now, my girlfriend is on some kind of “dietary cleanse”. What that really means is that “we are both on some kind of dietary cleanse”. Lot of fiber. Had to hit the loo.
Advertisers take note: It is thoroughly weird for a guy to enter a stall, drop trou, and then be faced with a poster that demands: “Release the Beast!”
I’ve never seen adverts on the inside of stall doors. I’ve seen lots of phone numbers and crudely drawn penises, but not adverts. “Release the Beast” indeed, particularly after a long night of drinking Jagermeister.
Most of the bathroom ads I see are along these lines (possibly NSFW)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/troymccluresf/141566978/in/pool-99341593@N00/
but I’ve seen other ones, some with sound, and I actually saw one for some frat movie that had 3D plastic breasts emerging from the ad poster.
In an office restroom? I’ve seen ads in bar restrooms, but never in an office.
There are worse things.
When I was living in a dormatory, as a joke someone taped pictures of eyes that were cut out of magazines all over the inside of a toilet stall. Then at eye level while seated, they put a sign that said “Do you ever feel like you’re being watched.”
Creepy.
We share the building with an ad agency, the restrooms are in a common, public area of the building.
My personal favourite was for the Borat DVD. I’m not a Borat fan by any length, but this one was actaully funny.
It was in front of the urinal, and was just a mirror, with Borat’s mustache printed on it, and VERY NICE! At the bottom. If you were the right height (or bent your knees or stood on your toes) you got the mustache right where it should be. Kind of funny to see yourself with a big thick black mustache, especially during a long night o’drinkin.
I’m not a huge fan of being bombarded with brand names, but am actually in favor of bathroom stall ads. I like something to read while on the loo. And what else am I going to look at – graffiti about who may or may not be a bitch?
Someone told me there was an Axe deodorant ad in the men’s washroom with an actual can of the stuff. Cute idea. Sure it smells horrible, but consider the alternative.
My favourite was one above a urinal in a pub, advertising cheap international phone calls: “This is what American beer tastes like. Ring them and tell them.”