LadyAngelika
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I don't know if I consider the advert shocking, but it is slightly disturbing. But I'd say in this era where people are so blasé and nothing much shocks them anymore. Does it take something like this, bringing us back to our childhood loves (hides her box of 200 schtroumpfs) and essentially terrorizing us? Good question. Obviously the producers of this advert thought so.
Well I'm not sure; Look at the news reports : flooded areas with corpses floating, bombs bursting in air (and flag still there), mothers crying over the dead bodies of their children, children dying of starvation (while I'm eating, how undecent !)... at least that's the kind of news report I get here. I guess you see the same thing, except if you only watch the news reports of the Disney channel. There's nothing scarier than the news report, if we really pay attention. Maybe using something unreal as the smurfs, those little nice blue guys, can reach us and suddenly make us realize that the news reports about all these kids dying and killing each other in Sierra Leone, Burundi etc are real. Very real, and unacceptable. And here are these guys who can do a little something about it, with just a little extra money. I thought it's a very good ad.
I guess that's what I meant to say but you said it better then me. Yes the news is scary when you really stop to think and look at it. But how many people really stop and look at it (much less read it!). The smurfs get people to stop and think. I agree with your analysis.
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Btw, Belgium is also the country where fries come from and you French took all the credit!! So they aren't French Fries or Freedom Fries, they are Belgian Fries! And don't even think of highjacking the waffles!
But we invented the crêpes ! Haha ! Well, OK, Brittany probably wasn't french when crêpes were invented but anyway... plus the Bretons also claim the belgian fries. Oh, a funny thing I just remember from childhood. In elementary school we have lessons about "our ancestors the Gauls" ( ), and there's a list of things we have to learn about them. And one of the most important is that they invented the casks (for barley beer, not wine).
Ok. But who invented the Baguette? The Belgians, the Bretons or the French ;-)
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), and there's a list of things we have to learn about them. And one of the most important is that they invented the casks (for barley beer, not wine).
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