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Cat Owners- Doritos "Missing Cat" ad Offensive or are we too sensitive?
February 6, 2012 | vanity

Posted on 02/06/2012 4:00:35 PM PST by SMGFan

Last night's Dorito's ad was apparently meant to be "funny". A dog seems to be responsible for a missing cat's disappearance and he bribes a guy with Doritos to keep silent.

If we find this offensive, are we too sensitive? Is it wrong to request Doritos to kill this ad? They suggest the dog killed and buried the cat , or even worse. My best friend's cat was killed by a dog a few year's ago.


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To: SMGFan

If this is the worst thing that happens to you all week, I’d say you are living a charmed life!

I found the ad very funny... and I have a cat and dog. It might happen in our house, but it will be the cat burying the dog if it does..... and he won’t be offering us doritos... he will be demanding we feed them to him.


81 posted on 02/06/2012 6:11:53 PM PST by Grammy
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To: APatientMan

They’re all piled up around the campfire. They’re waiting for pickup. The baby seals are dead. Clubbed and then piled up! One or two try to crawl out of the pile and a guy picks up his bat and slams the seal again. We could go further. How’s this for being hilarious? A tire company shows how it’ll keep the car from skidding all over the place when it hits a couple of baby racoons trying to get across the road. Too funny!!


82 posted on 02/06/2012 6:19:57 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Never Have Regrets Because At The Time It Was Exactly What You Wanted")
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To: 6SJ7

I am offended by your defense of corn! Corn is not an innocent victim, corn is a monster! Corn gives me a horrible headache and it has wormed it’s way into everything in the grocery store! Down with corn!


83 posted on 02/06/2012 6:21:43 PM PST by Ditter
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To: SkyDancer

The ad: Silly, trite, but not offensive.

Your comment about baby seals: I’d LOVE to be able to go out and kill a half dozen white coats and make a coat for myself out of their fur, but certain hyper-sensitive types forced the Canadian gov’t to outlaw that harvest OVER TWENTY YEARS AGO!

Of course, the sudden explosion of seals wiped out the cod, but that’s OK, because the PEOPLE who relied on the seal harvest AND fishing for food and money ended up on welfare.

I can be REALLY offensive to all: Why don’t we just NUKE the unborn gay whales?

The Doritos commercial last year was so homo-centric I nearly barfed the first time I saw it, but I sure didn’t sit here whining about being offended, I just haven’t bought Doritos since, and I sent them a letter telling them why.

As others have said, Get a life!


84 posted on 02/06/2012 6:48:38 PM PST by Don W (You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.)
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To: SMGFan

Here’s how the free market works- don’t like the commercial, don’t buy the product. Get over being offended. Sheesh.


85 posted on 02/06/2012 7:05:22 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
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To: SMGFan

Here’s how the free market works- don’t like the commercial, don’t buy the product. Get over being offended. Sheesh.


86 posted on 02/06/2012 7:05:35 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
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To: Don W

I used the baby seals as an example. If you think killing animals for a TV commercial is funny then I suggest you get a life!!!!


87 posted on 02/06/2012 7:10:30 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Never Have Regrets Because At The Time It Was Exactly What You Wanted")
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To: SMGFan

It wasn’t real.


88 posted on 02/06/2012 7:11:45 PM PST by InvisibleChurch ( go in peace , serve the Lord)
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To: SMGFan

I just found the Doritos commercial on Youtube (didn’t watch the Snoozer Bowl) ... thought the commercial was hilarious so I watched it again, and again, and again :-) Not bad for twenty bucks.


89 posted on 02/06/2012 7:12:19 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (NewtÂ’s not a perfect candidate but Jesus isnÂ’t running this year. - shoff)
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To: SMGFan
Anyone who got upset at that ad has a few more problems than just being too sensitive. Good grief.
90 posted on 02/06/2012 7:14:27 PM PST by LuvFreeRepublic ( (#withNewt))
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

you spell **chichuachua?** worse than I do LOL


91 posted on 02/06/2012 7:30:07 PM PST by goat granny
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To: cripplecreek

Belly laugh.....


92 posted on 02/06/2012 7:33:00 PM PST by goat granny
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To: leaning conservative

sometimes remember the # that was eliminated and down thread someone might let you know what was said by their response. i always check...its sick I know, but am always curious, unless its my post that was deleted “O(


93 posted on 02/06/2012 7:37:06 PM PST by goat granny
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To: SMGFan

It was make believe. Nobody’s cat got killed. Lay off the zanax for a couple of days.


94 posted on 02/06/2012 8:11:31 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SMGFan

I bet all these stooges telling you to get a life would be all up in arms if there was a commercial depicting a dog getting killed for laughs.

Hey guys, wanna see something really funny? Watch “Planet Terror” and about halfway through this dog gets splattered all over the highway by an army truck! HILARIOUS!!


95 posted on 02/06/2012 8:21:17 PM PST by sadponies
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To: SkyDancer

Good grief, IT’S TELEVISION for crying out loud!

IT’S NOT REAL! An ADVERTISEMENT that shows a “missing” kitty is THAT overwhelmingly offensive to you that you insist everyone you’ve never met FEEL the same way you do is ludicrous.

Are you sure you’re on the right site? I hear that PETA is looking for members...


96 posted on 02/06/2012 9:44:18 PM PST by Don W (You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.)
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To: Don W

Bookmark


97 posted on 02/06/2012 10:56:57 PM PST by Publius6961 (My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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To: goat granny

LOL. Thank you! :-)


98 posted on 02/07/2012 5:02:58 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: SMGFan

Whatta bunch of crapola! I hate cats, but it’s a sorry excuse for a cat with quickness and claws for climbing that lets a clumsy dog catch it! Coyotes, on the other hand, are much quicker and stealthier and just love to eat cats which is fine with me! Feral cats are usually disease-ridden, destroy small wildlife (especially birds), and are the scourge of urban neighborhoods!

Still, it was just a commercial, so get over it already!

JC


99 posted on 02/07/2012 5:53:06 AM PST by cracker45
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To: SMGFan

IMO the ad was counterproductive. Husband bribed to lying about the kitty killing over Doritos. Only wives and cat lovers would have a negative reaction to that. Though I suppose cat-hating men would eat it up.


100 posted on 02/07/2012 5:59:46 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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