Imagine for a moment if you will that you are the head of one of the evil tobacco companies* and you are rolling in profits from the misery you cause** by selling your products. You could take that money as dividend/bonus/extra pay but you know that if you do the beautiful angel of goodness Debs Arnott*** will condemn you for it. Instead you decide to continue a longstanding arrangement to sponsor a racing team.
Imagine your surprise when you've complied with all of the restrictive legislation that surrounds such a deal and the beautiful angel**** and her legion of righteousness***** attack you, and the racing team, over the deal.
One of the complaints from John Britton of the guardians of truth is that
the red, black and white colours of Ferrari bore a close resemblence to those of Marlboro, creating strong links between the two companies.Will he be insisting that Coke changes the colours it uses on its packaging? Maybe Rip Curl, Lego, Pizza Hut, You Tube, the Rolling Stones, Virgin, and Charlton Athletic FC are in the pay of the tobacco companies too? They all use red white and black as their colours so there MUST be a link surely?
*new readers should be aware that this statement comes with free added tongue-in-cheekness
**and this
***ditto
****see above
***** you get the idea by now
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Marlboro help sponsor that famous racing team do they?
I believe that ASH statement ought to be publicised more widely, just so that everybody realises.
/sarc
PS Has anybody else realised Philip Morris, with their red+white corporate colour scheme, also appear to sponsor most road signs in the UK? I wonder what ASH's reaction to that will be?
Thanks JP! Every time I drive into a new speed limit I'll be wanting to light up now .. .. .. ..
That's what happens when you ban a hugely profitable organisation from advertising. They then have a massive pot of cash to just hand out without strings - it'd only be taxed otherwise. ASH created the problem they are now complaining about.
They've been recycling this one for years. Strange how they never come up with anything new or even remotely relevant, just repeat the same ridiculous rubbish over and over.
Even more baffling is why they think anyone would care.
Seems almost diagnostic of the recto-cranial/recto-ginglymus inversion from which they suffer?
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