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dirtydog

Microsoft pulls IE8 OMGIGP vomit ad


MICROSOFT has bowed to public outcry and pulled from the web an ad rapidly gaining fame as "the worst technology commercial ever".

The ad, which plugs Microsoft's Internet 8 browser, features a couple eating breakfast while the husband's browsing on his laptop.

He leaves the table and hands it to his wife, who inadvertantly finds a site in the history file so disturbing, she vomits on the floor.

The insinuation is it's hardcore pornography.

Hubbie returns, slips in the vomit and is conseqeuntly thrown up on several more times by his wife.


The ad also features former television Superman Dean Cain.


The catchcry for Internet Explorer 8 "OMGIGP" – “Oh My God I'm Going To Puke".

The ad is Microsoft’s attempt to sell Internet Explorer 8's ability to cover any users' browsing tracks.


It was directed by Bobcat Goldthwaite, who rose - and fell from - fame after starring as Zed in the hit Police Academy movies.

Goldthwaite had directed a series of similar ads also featuring Cain, based around the catchphrases "GRIPES" (Gripping Rage Internet Pathetically Extra Slow) and "SHYNESS" (Sharing Heavily Yet Not Enough Sharing Still).

Microsoft defended the ad, claiming it was "tongue-in-cheek" and displayed "irreverent humour".

"While much of the feedback to this particular piece of creative was positive, some of our customers found it offensive, so we have removed it," Microsoft said.

Those who branded the ad offensive drew attention not only to its vomit content, but also the fact that Microsoft backed IE8's ability to hide content from one's spouse.

The ad has been removed from its own website, YouTube channel and its ad agency's website, but several versions still remain on YouTube.

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jandajoy

Harry dot what?


Don't you love it when the big boys fuk up?

Norton

I give it a

WujouMao

wasn't all that bad. by the way, the bloke at the end, was he the star of the superman tv series?

dirtydog

Reading is a great thing when a post contains words

WujouMao

oh yea mate. so it does. i only got as far as 'wife puking on hubby', so i watched the vid

Plan B

The question is... "How can firefox capitalise on this?"

Afterall they've had the whole clear your private data thing for a while. Maybe the same ad but with the teenage son giving his lappie to his mum after closing down ff and having it delete all his personal data, whilst going to his dad's computer, using IE, and leaving a load of dodgy sites in the history.

dirtydog

^Unusual sexual habits you have

ItsRobsLife

I've tried IE8 and it made me want to puke.

I use IE7 and I'm quite happy with that, however I'll have to change soon as Youtube are going to stop supporting it.

Happyman

Anybody know what he was watching ????

WujouMao

Japan Pledges To Halt Production Of Weirdo Porn That Makes People Puke


feb 2009
TOKYO—Acknowledging its embarrassment over worldwide outbreaks of violent, uncontrolled regurgitation, the Japanese government apologised Wednesday to the millions of viewers who have been sickened over the past three decades by the revolting depravity of the nation's pornographic exports.
The response came after leaders of the world's 20 largest economies signed an accord threatening sanctions against Japan if international distribution of the nauseating materials did not immediately cease.

The Japanese government has banned all 1,500 hours of film seized from this one-room studio in Kobe.

"We honestly had no idea people did not enjoy this stuff," said Cultural Affairs Minister Kazuhiro Nakai, expressing regret for the thousands of hours of bondage porn, rape porn, utensil-rape porn, food-rape porn, frozen-food-rape porn, vomit-enema porn, elder-care-coma-patient-rape porn, and the kind of a porn in which a nubile youth is kidnapped, stripped, tied down in a wading pool and raped. "We are deeply ashamed for whatever it is about these films that has made people around the world vomit so vigorously. Please know that the content was only intended to entertain and arouse."

I've seen about a million of these films, and each one is worse than the next," Portugal's José Randulfo told reporters after receiving treatment for dehydration, caustic chemical burns, and fractured ribs—the result of a 45-minute vomiting spell he suffered after renting Naughty Ginza Maids Drink Cocktail Of Refuse And Bile. "The doctors say it may take months before I remember what normal genitals look like, and even longer before I remember how they are intended to function."

maybe this? ^

BobR

The ad is funny. I get sick of whiners who bitch about everything. Stupid America has no sense of humor anymore, and some people are always offended by one thing or another.

baldrick

if it sounds like an onion article - it probably is

Japan Pledges To Halt Production Of Weirdo Porn That Makes People Puke | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

WujouMao

lol, you found it eh. i actually saw the link on another site, which gave me a link to...yes you guess it, japanese puke pawn. grim. the girl is all trussed up like a turkey on the floor, with another girl sitting on top with a tube in the mouth which goes into the other girls gob, feeding what looks like to be vomit

god i feel sick just writing this.
need to watch a proper movie