Ryan

Absolute policy goldmine is the decisions by Ad Standards (formerly the ASB). Some poor panel have to listen to and make decisions on all the frivolous complaints made on commercial advertisements!

https://adstandards.com.au/cases/2018/August

Ad Standards Community Panel cases

Sep 1, 2018 at 11:54amWeb
Show threadDarth MillennialSep 1, 2018
@ryan the synopses on the main page sounds like little anti-capitalist vignettes.
Show threadRyanSep 1, 2018
@pxzzx
They make it sound like media is a constant fever dream of sex and violence coalesced together
Show threadDarth MillennialSep 1, 2018
@ryan the weird embellishments definitely give it a dreamlike vibe. Crossed with the accusatory tone of what a teacher writes on a detention slip.
Show threadSIGCINTSep 1, 2018
@ryan
Imagine someone reading those in a monotone voice over some droning electronica. That's the sound of distilled despair.
Show threadRyanSep 1, 2018
@SIGCINT
Sounds like an experimental spoken word art project in the making!
Show threadSIGCINTSep 1, 2018
@ryan
I'd put it on the boring evening emergency list, but my radio voice isn't up to par with the idea.
Show threadDJ ADANI MASTERCHEFSep 1, 2018

@ryan this is some grim stuff, man

imagine having to write a response to the guy who enumerated the road rules being broken in the maccas ad

the absolute definition of a bullshit job

Show threadRyanSep 1, 2018

@DJ_ADANI_MASTERCHEF

Hell, if the bureaucracy pays me well to write intellectual, excessive adjudications on meaningless complaints, I'll do it. I'll write 2000 words on why saying "Horny" in an advertisement is not an infraction