10 Ads The US Won't See

prostoalex writes "Some ads made by world's leading advertising agencies for well-known brands will never be seen in the United States. The Gucci G-Spot turned out to be too risque, video for Drug-Free America was deemed too disgusting, Internet's favorite Honda "Cog" commercial won't air due to the high prices for a 2-minute spot, and Japanese commercials with American actors have contracts preventing the companies to run the same ads in the US. AdAge provides a link to the pictures and video (Windows Media .ASF format, alas) of the 10 best unaired commercials." I can get the ASFs working under VLC.

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Clean coal burning

[jesterzog]

The most absurd commercial I saw were clips advocating coal energy. The tagline was like Electricity from coal: Cleaner, more affordable and abudantly better.".

I'm not an expert, but from what I understand there are very clean ways of extracting energy from coal these days. It has a bad reputation embedded in many people's eyes from the past, though, so it's not always a politicians' first choice from a public relations perspective.

Whether these cleaner methods for burning it make it more affordable and "better", I couldn't say. I guess it depends on the situation.

Re:Clean coal burning

[BiggerIsBetter]

It's pretty bad from a radiation perspective. Tons and tons of Thorium get pumped out by coal production, aside from any greenhouse gases.