Tuesday, August 21, 2012

One weird trick.

Here's another great banner (or sidebar? I don't know) ad that the internet chose for me when I was reading an article on Discovery.com. I don't know what information the internet has on me, but it seems to think that I am not very good with the ladies, left to my own devices. Or it just thinks that I am getting old.


Embroidered yoga pants. Paul Shaffer sunglasses.
Tiny backpack. Possibly lives outside in a forest.
Holy crap, this is my dream girl.

In trying to draw some correlation between the prospect of discovering one weird trick to boost testosterone and the photo of the lady that may have been taken in Romania in 2001, I came up with two distinct possibilities for what the ad creators were trying to say. They were either:

a) implying that by boosting your testosterone with their one weird trick (what is it, eating dirt? It's probably eating dirt) you could make yourself irresistible to women like the one in the picture. And how could they possibly miss with a picture of one of their cousin's Facebook friends? She doesn't look like she'd be weird to spend a lot of time with at all;

or, b) implying that by using their client's (or their own - let's be honest, the testosterone-boosting company probably threw this ad together themselves) weird trick, you could make yourself appear as tough and manly as the guy in the picture. And then they accidentally put the wrong picture in the ad.

A Google images search of the phrase "how to boost your testosterone" returns a number of pictures of rippling male bodies, any of which may have been the one the ad creators meant to attach to this ad. This one, for example, would have made much more sense paired with the suggestion that employment of the weird trick could get you similar results:


There's my dream body. Complete with deltoids
that look like walnuts.


Of course, that same Google search returned this picture as well:



No joke.


So now I don't know what to think. Not that I knew what to think before all of this. It's a familiar feeling for me.