Two Oddly Sexist Results I Got When Googling "Vintage Flower Ads"

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Was hoping to find something for the contest and my eyes fucking popped out of my head when these were the first two results.

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[memnet.livejournal.com]

Holy shit! Would not have suspected those results either. :)

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

I actually ended up following the rabbit trail after posting this and it's a dude who has a pinterest site with nothing but incredibly sexist ads on it that he's collected from around the world.

I cant' imagine putting that much time or effort into that.

I only posted these because of the "holy shit!" reaction I had.

[memnet.livejournal.com]

Whoa...clearly someone with some issues. I agree, can't imagine putting that much time or effort into something like that.

Oh yeah, I got that, NP. :)

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

The thing is I use Google.fr which translates English search terms automatically so it must have had a weird burp or there is some french slang term that I'm unaware of that I accidentally triggered.

[memnet.livejournal.com]

Ahh yes, could well be what happened.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Ah!

Looking around it looks like "AD" is a tag on a lot of french BDSM porn and I know "fleur" can be used as a sexual reference so I think it thought i was looking for light vintage bondage. (And probably also noticed all the advertising magazine cookies on my browser.)

[memnet.livejournal.com]

Interesting. :)

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Though who know, really.

Google image results are often weird.

[memnet.livejournal.com]

Interesting. :)

From the Donald Trump archives

[mrbudtaub.livejournal.com]

Not politically correct favorites of Donald

[livejournal.livejournal.com]

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[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

"holy shit!" was my reaction, too.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

all i could think of on the second one was "dude, if you like your sub, give her some kneepads!"

then again, i'm bent a bit that way. *laughs*

[bradygirl_12]

I thought the same thing. :)

[dandyads]

I posted this below.. the company offered a free pair of knee pads if you returned an empty case of bottles to the store (yes, seriously, that is a real thing that happened)

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

I'm DYING here!!! *giggling*

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Sort of sad that the way to get this community into the Top 25 LJ entries is for me to post things that horrified me.

[dandyads]

I'm almost positive the first one is fake.

The second one, though. My gut on that was probably real, because it's consistent with everything I know about Russian advertising.. but probably not vintage.

Anyway I did a little digging and I found that this is very much a real ad (although not Russian - it's Bulgarian). It seems to be from around 2010 and additional fun fact: the company ran a promotion to go along with it where you could get a free pair of knee pads if you returned an empty bottle to the store.

[dandyads]

http://www.adrants.com/2010/04/flirt-vodka-offers-ladies-free-knee.php

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

That really is astounding.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Wow.

That company must be run by crazy people.

I wasn't trying to claim that it was vintage - just that it came up when searching for vintage flower ads.

[rejectomorph]

I wonder if John Bobbitt had a copy of that booklet?

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Weirdsville!