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Reminds me of "1984"...actually bugged me and I'm a social lefty...
 
Yeah this one was pretty good.
 
Blazer_Hippie said:
Reminds me of "1984"...actually bugged me and I'm a social lefty...
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It really bothered me, too.

The pre-Super Bowl spots seemed more like Reno 911. This was like Cops.

Too real for me, and, I would imagine, many people.

I would have preferred (although they didn't ask me) a less official "Green Police". Maybe a Barnie Fife-like guy who was writing tickets. Not an omnipresent organization that had more power than the local police and have the ability to look into windows.

It still creeps me out thinking about it.

And, further, "Green Police" was the nickname for Orpo, the Jew-hunting organization in Nazi Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnungspolizei

I didn't know about Orpo, but shouldn't Audi (a German company, after all) have?

Just seems like a poorly thought-out commercial in terms of overtones, even if bits of it (and the overall concept) are humorous...

Ed O.
 
I liked the Letterman/Oprah/Leno spot
 
Even though I'm pretty liberal, I'm glad to see some push back through humor about environmentalism. Any time you get a big trend like this there's always a major risk it goes way over the edge.

I wish there'd been a lot more satire about our screwed up housing market back in 2006, or the way we went to war in Iraq. Satire forces us to look at these things from a different perspective, which is good for the country.

That said, after reading some comments here I'm not so sure it's a great way to sell Audis.
 
Clean Diesel!

But with freaks like Gavin Newsom and others here in LA with their fucking wack-job laws, this isn't too far off.

Some cities here actually banned plastic bags already.

and this:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/01/MN47122A98.DTL
Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents' trash to make sure pizza crusts aren't mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor Gavin Newsom.


And if residents or businesses don't separate the coffee grounds from the newspapers, they would face fines of up to $1,000 and eventually could have their garbage service stopped.

The plan to require proper sorting of refuse would be the nation's first mandatory recycling and composting law. It would direct garbage collectors to inspect the trash to make sure it is put into the right blue, black or green bin, according to a draft of the legislation prepared by the city's Department of the Environment.

The program is designed to limit the amount of food and foliage that goes into the city-contracted landfill in Alameda County, where the refuse takes up costly space and decomposes to form methane, one of the most potent of greenhouse gases. It will also help San Francisco, which city officials say currently diverts 70 percent of its waste from landfills, achieve a goal set by the Board of Supervisors to divert 75 percent by 2010 and have zero waste by 2020.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/01/MN47122A98.DTL#ixzz0ez94BtBE
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So if you hate your neighbor you can sabotage them by throwing compost in their blue or black bin.
 
Buzz Killington said:
Some cities here actually banned plastic bags already.
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What's wrong with that? They're a trash eyesore, and really pretty unnecessary.

Personally, I'd rather just see grocery stores charge a premium for using them. $.10/bag. Half the profit goes to the store, the other half toward city litter cleanup.
 
mook said:
What's wrong with that? They're a trash eyesore, and really pretty unnecessary.

Personally, I'd rather just see grocery stores charge a premium for using them. $.10/bag. Half the profit goes to the store, the other half toward city litter cleanup.
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Well, its similar to the commercial, except there is no choice.

I like plastic bags, I use them for garbage bags at home. Paper ones aren't as compact.
 
mook said:
Even though I'm pretty liberal, I'm glad to see some push back through humor about environmentalism. Any time you get a big trend like this there's always a major risk it goes way over the edge.

I wish there'd been a lot more satire about our screwed up housing market back in 2006, or the way we went to war in Iraq. Satire forces us to look at these things from a different perspective, which is good for the country.

That said, after reading some comments here I'm not so sure it's a great way to sell Audis.
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mook said:
What's wrong with that? They're a trash eyesore, and really pretty unnecessary.

Personally, I'd rather just see grocery stores charge a premium for using them. $.10/bag. Half the profit goes to the store, the other half toward city litter cleanup.
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That's probably a good idea.
 
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