If you want to effect change, write to the companies sponsoring the advertising and announce your boycott of their prodcut until they remove the offensive ad material from the national treasure. Then tell everyone that will sit still for five minutes to do the same. This is how change happens, not through anynomous posts on fark.

*alerts Darrin Stevens*

I was wondering what ever happened to all the euro-trash from the 80s; I should have known they'd be selling the rights their nation's treasures by now.

Is this as bad as the companies that had kids "tattoo" a logo on their heads?

DNRFTA

Don't you folks worry. As soon as they perfect beaming images into your brain from outer space, billboards on buildings will be a thing of the past.

Damn those crass Americ...oh. Next thing you know, they'll be covering their atheletes in ads.

Does anyone else NOT buy products simply because you've seen the stupid add OVER AND OVER again. I'll never buy the new lays pringles knockoff because i saw the damn commercial 50 times over the weekend.

Sorry...here's the picture:

If I lived there, I would be tempted to deface those ads...

docfate
Wow. Europeans are quickly becomming as retarded as Americans.

Now that's funny.

I got a small kick out of the mention of ads in Rome for Tunisian tourism

/obscure?

"it would enhance the glamor of your product to have an advertisement on it"

Yeah, and it would crappify the object on which the advertisement was posted.

note to self: visit europe before it becomes america

I wish a strong case of genital herpes on these farktards.

stickitinyoureyeball *alerts Darrin Stevens*....

McMahon-Tate would never have stooped to this.

We brits are way ahead of the game. Boobies on Westminster Palace!

Scraw56,

You are about 15 years too late for anywhere in Western Europe. You have about 15 minutes to get to Romania & Bulgaria before those nations join become Pepsified.

ClothedSexualTouching

Hmm, maybe I'm all turned around on this idea. Nice.

Still pretty ridiculous, though.

ClothedSexualTouching

What exactly is she advertising? Or is she just there to look good?

not that I'm complaining or anything....

quieter

Well done. I especially like the Grand Tetons.

I smell a Photoshop.

Idea: Uncommon places to see a Fark ad.

But the furor has stirred a debate about the advertising.

cant Adolf keep his nose out of anything???

billboard ads of all types should be outlawed. This is even more of a travesty though.

wilbo26 - Yes! I also refuse to watch television shows that have been pushed in my face like that. Anything advertised on SpikeTV during MXC is pretty much never going to be seen by me. Also, anything DIsney.

Oh what a relief. After reading the headline I thought we would begin to have ads right in our face while peeing in public restrooms.

Oh wait...

Crosshair,

You live in Grand Forks? I'm working on a campaign in ND and from what I hear, that place is tiny!

Has anyone else set up a "mental filter" regarding ads? I see so many ads these days, that I dont see any. knowwhatimean?

Its like this.

Ill be driving along with some people, and they will laugh about some billboard that we passed. I will _never_ catch those kinds of things, as I simply dont pay attention to any advertisments anymore.

anyone else do this?

I studied in Rome two years ago, and was absolutely awestruck at the beauty of Campo de Fiori and the Pantheon, among others. This is obscene. They can find other places to ruin besides some of the last great things of antiquity and early modern history. This is a travesty, yes, I am beating a dead horse, but this pisses me off.

Great Jorb Roma! En Boca al Lupo!

Wow... that is so freaking stupid! I'm so glad I got there when it was still pristine... still filthy ass dirty, but not with capitalism...okay covered in ads.

The adds pay for the restoration of the monuments. If the public is unwilling to pony up the cash for the job out of thier own pockets they need to stop biatching.

/only skimmed the article.

YellowNumberFive, if you had done more than skim the article, you might not have missed the part where it is suggested that some buildings are putting up the scaffolding for no reason than to sell the advertising space. The Pantheon, for example, is described as not needing restoration that would take more than a few days at most.

I'm thinking about going to Italy next year, and if I find out that I can't take a picture of the Pantheon because of some stupid advertisement, I have every intention of writing to whoever is in charge of Rome's tourism and telling them I will be changing my plans and adding more time to my visits to Ravenna and Pompeii.

I continually hope that someday finally the market will become too saturated with ads and then people stop responding to the ads and they go away.

Annoying me with ads are the surest way to make sure I don't buy the product. With most ads I'm thinking what out of touch CEO approves this crap as a good idea??

heirloom_tomato

I knew not reading the whole article would come back to bite me in the ass. If they are selling ad space for the sake of selling ad space, then that is asinine indeed.

BTW - thanks for taking away the purple mountain thread Fark Gods, as it was the only one I was really paying attention to at the moment.

Drew giveth, and Drew taketh away

Sig, Yellow :

No doubt. I thought we had an interesting discussion going on in the Purple Mountain thread.

Maybe a "certain" chocolate company was getting concerned...

When visiting Rome,
Enjoy the reprieve.
The Trevi Fountain's,
Filled with Summer's Eve!

Burma Shave!

You'd have thought this stuff would have happened in the U.S. first. I can see it now, American Express ads over the Statue of Liberty!!

What other way can you express the "freedom" spending you get from using an American Express card? And its an "American" Express card!!

Get used to it, people. The ads aren't going away, not unless we make them go away. It's just like spam... until you stop buying their stuff...

/dreading the future of ads on your car's dashboard, ads projected into the sky, and ads beamed directly into your brain
//you won't be laughing in 50 years

I would never go to a place pulling this kind of bull.
/really
NO $$ for you

Hebalo, Sig, Yellow
Maybe a "certain" chocolate company was getting concerned...

I think it was pulled b/c the headline didn't match the article.

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now watch this drive.

IronChefRichmond

Hebalo, Sig, Yellow
Maybe a "certain" chocolate company was getting concerned...

I think it was pulled b/c the headline didn't match the article.

Mods can change headlines, and do on a fairly regular basis.

Besides, I wasn't sure about how the headline didn't match the article. The headline said something about environmentalists protesting a company that was going to shine a purple spotlight on a mountain, while the article was about some environmentalists protesting a company that was going to shine a purple spotlight on a mountain.

Good use of the asinine tag.

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