Saturday, March 20, 2010

The third brand


1. "Be kind to your behind." This is obviously not marketed to all the people out there who enjoy anal abuse or industrial-strength toilet paper or the "extra durable" sandpaper-textured stuff you (this verbiage implies) get with other brands. And further, it's phrased in the form of a command: the imperative mood is used as a kind of capitalist order, a fascistic demand with a kind of implied ad baculum fallacious reasoning ("Be kind to your behind. Or else! We have ways of making you be kind to your behind!" [This works better if you read it in a Hollywood Nazi accent]), all in an attempt to make the soft-brained proletarian consumer pick up this product without thinking, fearing the bourgeois threat of what will happen if they are, indeed, NOT kind to their behinds by using this toilet paper which offers by way of evidence of its kindness to your behind this description of its intrinsic qualities:

2. "tuggable huggable softness." Okay, first: Why are you tugging on your toilet paper? It shouldn't be a struggle. Is it not perforated? And if it's "tuggable softness," then you shouldn't really have to tug, should you? Is this being marketed to the enfeebled and hopelessly befuddled, those who can't actually figure out how to separate the needed sheets from the roll? And aren't those people the first who get sent to the wall when the bourgeoisie want to reduce excess labor to create further competition among workers so they can drive down wages? Oh, yes, insidious, indeed. And second: "huggable softness"? Listen, if you actually hug your toilet paper, then there's nothing I can do for you. You're lost. And if you hug it AFTER you use it, then I DEFINITELY don't want to hear about it and please please PLEASE stop reading this blog immediately and go straight (do not pass Go, do not collect $200) to your nearest Emergency Mental Health Clinic and see if they can do anything for you, because YOU, my fecally-fixated friend, have a fucking problem!


8 comments:

  1. This made me laughed SO hard .I just had to tell you.

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  2. Comrade X appreciates your support. Please do not hug your toilet paper.

    -- X

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  3. I'm not sure that wrapping your puppy in toilet paper is acceptable. Has anyone contacted PETA about this?

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  4. tugging and hugging were the only verbs the market group could come up with to use in this campaign. What were they gonna say? We all know that what it's used for is un-marketable. Nobody want's to hear that shit (ha!). Sheesh. But damned funny my comrade. It's frightening how much we have stopped seeing about the products we use. And thank god for irony and translation. Imagine if we took it all literally, like the bible, and as your descriptions point out. Now that would be a funny fucking world. Bring on the Christians! But only the Charmin' Christianelles of course.

    JJones loves your blog.

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  5. Charmin' Christian Cottonelles! Now with more intolerance! 12 double-auto-da-fes = 24 single auto-da-fes! Diamond weave dogma leads to more huggable, tuggable insanity!

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  6. I actually bought this brand and type because of this blog. I never knew it existed until I read about it here. The double size does not fit in the toilet paper roll holder area. You have to use half of it before you can get it to fit on the holder. I don't understand. Unless really rich people have a delivery system that does not involve the regular size roll holder. It is soft though, dear God , it's like cashmere.

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  7. Hmm. I think you might be missing the larger purpose of the blog, which is to KEEP you from buying these brands. But what the hell -- it really is soft on the ass. As for the delivery system -- free yourself of conformity! Don't use the holder! I ripped mine out of the wall. Keep the roll on the back of your toilet! take as much paper from it as you want! I hate the way, when on the holder, the paper tears off at a point you didn't want it to tear off at, and then you have to get a bit more and somehow combine the two strips into something manageable. Fuck that!

    -- X

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  8. HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA.

    I had to take time out of my online divorce questionnaire to laugh at this.

    --Y

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