What to say about the official Durex South Africa twitter account? I’ll bet there are all kinds of uncomfortable meetings going on at Durex HQ right now. People flinging phrases around like “Hey we got 2 000 followers so we must be doing something right” and “There’s no such thing as bad publicity! Ha ha… ah… cough.”
The ‘but our target market loves it’ justification didn’t really help their case either. In fact, it made it worse. So the Durex target market are mysogynistic retards who ‘believe in the rights of woman’ (sic)? They then proceeded to vomit up THE BIG BOOK OF SEX JOKES you used to find in bathrooms in the early nineties along with Andy Capp comics.
‘Shutting women up’ with their penises? ‘Licking women in the front and poking them from the back’? Why, what lovely people you are speaking to. How funny, your bro-jokes from the 90s. How aspirational, the lifestyle you advocate. NOT.
Please, enjoy these four gems from what has to be the case study for the twitter disaster of the year. There are loads more here.
Durex, you guys deserve better than this. editor@capetowngirl.com – I can recommend a great social media management company.
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Phone rings.
Me: Hello?
Secretary: Hello Alex Robert Mugabe is here to see you.
Me: [...]
Secretary: Hello?
Me: Robert Mugabe?
Secretary: Yes. Can you come down?
Me: Um, can you tell him I’m in a meeting?
Yes, not every day you get a phonecall like that. A man resembling a certain not-very-loved African dictator came to present me with a Nando’s Meal-for-6 voucher today, in honour of the new Meal For 6 promotion Nando’s is running. The site goes live at 4pm, so head on over to mealfor6.co.za for more details. And look out for the TV ad – starring our favourite dictator and 5 of his friends.
You can also win yourself a meal for 6. You just gotta tweet the names of 5 people (living or dead) that you would like to have dinner with and include the hashtag #mealfor6 and you’re entered.
Highlight of my day: when I did go down to meeting, secretary says to me “I’ve never seen Robert Mugabe in real life before, is that really him?”
Came out today. Love this ad done by friendlies Paige & Karin. Paige also wrote a few books. I interviewed her here once.
It’s a great issue, packed with all sorts of views on the whole women and body and looks debate. Can’t wait to get stuck in. Get it – it’s the november issue with Candice Swanepoel on the cover.
Loving the new Accessorize Spring / Summer and beach ranges. Went into the store and had a fight with myself over whether you could wear a leopard print bikini with a leopard print kaftan. The lovely store assistant calmed things down by saying that was quite acceptable, and also suggesting that I get a floral bikini to wear under the leopard print kaftan. Crisis averted! Here are some of my best pieces:
Such pretty floral sandals.
Floral bikini aptly called ‘The Amalfi’.
Stunning leopard print kaftan that caused all the drama in the first place.
A floral fan. I MUST have one for beach times!
The bikini. Worth having a fight with yourself over.
And most excitingly, Accessorize are giving away an iPad 2 with a gorgeous Accessorize iPad cover on their facebook page! Just head on over there and enter by CLICKING HERE!
So much goodness, where does one even start?
He got the headline in this twenty year old ad for Maybelline. ‘Kissing Potion’ flavour lip gloss? They just don’t make them like they used to. Same with men. I don’t know anyone called Richie, Fred or Bob. FML. Don’t have a blow-wave fringe either. I’d be nowhere in the eighties!
it would just be silly not to go!
That’s me and MEJ at the Loerie Awards Marie Claire Winner’s after party at Reserve. What is the Loerie Awards, you ask? It’s when a whole bunch of people who spend all year surfing youtube and tweeting about their hangovers get together to drink a lot and clap hands for work made by other youtube-surfers and then tweet about their hangovers. Don’t let that detract from the prestigious nature of this event – it is ‘Africa’s premiere advertising awards show’ after all. And it was good fun. First night was hosted by Riaan Cruywagen, the newsguy who’s been around forever.
And last night was hosted by The Hoff. As in David Hasselfhoff himself. Yes.. he arrived on stage in a sparkly jacket singing along to the Baywatch theme (don’t you worry… it’s gonna be alright..) and proceeded to crack a lot of Hoff jokes. He also referred to himself as ‘the ultimate integrated campaign’… fair enough. He also made a lot of jokes about sleeping with a lot of women, which always makes a man look like he wants to you think he’s slept with a lot of women, which makes him a) a bit ew (promiscuity is so 70s) and b) appear a little insecure. No matter! He made up for it by bursting into a rousing rendition of Hooked On A Feeling while he walked down the CTICC auditorium, carrying a baywatch lifebuoy, with seven strippers in catsuits gyrating around him.
All in all, it was good fun. Oh, and some people won some awards. Read more here.
Are these the shoes one buys to WEAR when killing said cats? Or do we reward ourselves with shoes after killing said cats? Or after killing said cats, by mistake, do we buy these shoes as part of retail therapy? I don’t know. But my head hurts.
Image from Bizcommunity.
