Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Age of Innocence

So I was wasting some time on the old social network the other day when I noticed a peculiar advertisement. I can't remember the exact wording, but it was something like, "Come check out the pants of the future." Because I'm so hip-to-the-jive when it comes to clothes, the future of pants was something I had to know... When I clicked the link, this is what I saw:





I spent far too many precious minutes of my life deliberating on whether or not this website was serious or if I had just been linked to an Onion article. But as far as I can tell, these guys are for real.

First of all, crotch heat index? That sounds made up to me. I would ask to see some data, but I think it better that the methodology of that study remain a mystery to me.

Second of all, "drastically lower"... I have to ask... Are the temperatures of our groinal regions really getting so hot that they need to be drastically lowered? And if that is in fact the case, the best thing we can come up with is turning corduroy sideways!?!

I'm feeling two things right now:
1) Oddly violated by the targeted marketing of the social network
2) Severely let down by the designers of the future

Anyway, I hope this didn't ruin anybody's day... The next time I decide to expose the future I'll be sure to have a spoiler alert at the beginning.

5 comments:

PLANET HANSEN said...

I'm not sure if I am supposed to be laughing right now, but I am. :)

Carolyn said...

...you know, the way online marketing works, they usually look at your interests and frequently visited websites to know what to market to you....i'm hypothesizing on what kinds of websites would pull up horizontal corduroys as a likely-fruitful ad for you. hahahaha

Megan said...

My day has been officially ruined. Thanks a lot!!!

;)

Hadley's said...

WOW the accuracy of facebook ads! I know you may not realize but everyone knows that you could use a temp decrease in the crotchal region. I meant to say something years ago, and then you tipped my pizza over on jakes nasty carpet and lead me to believe thats the way I received it, so I held off telling you of your abnormally warm crotch...Whos got the last laugh now fire crotch?

Jennifer Lane said...

You never stop amazing me.