Grrrr….

A few years ago ‘advertising media’ was the default get rich scheme.  Some guy would see a space that didn’t have advertising on it, like the sides of churches, hubcaps, footpaths, dental surgery lights etc… and go “Hey, I should sell advertising on that and make a million dollars!”.  None of these schemes would work because no one is really interested in reading advertising written on the side of the coffin at the funeral they just went too, and even less people are interested in paying to use the space. This didn’t however seem to deter people from investing everything they had in the “brilliant new media opportunity” they just thought up.

What did stop them was the iPod.

Now the default money making scheme is “Hey! I’m going to make a million dollars by making something that an iPod can plug into!”

The tiling is quite well done but there are just too many things going on here.  Little tip, if you’re going for a themed or novelty bathroom look you have to totally commit to that theme.  In this case you should have really limited your colour palette to just red, white and black. Trying to add blue and green ‘brush effect’ tiles just makes you look like an idiot.

Interestingly this neo-nazi has shampoo. Is shaving your head out of fashion now?  Also imagine if Hitler had had dreads and made all his army have dreads as well. While you’re at it, try and imagine Hitler without a mustache, because I can’t. Everytime I try Hitler just disappears completely.

Less then 10 years ago this is what Rave Kids were like.  And there were literally hundreds of thousands of them the world over.  Can you imagine being one of those kids now looking back on their old photos going “that was the most forgettable period of my life”. Well guess what, the rest of us are going to remind you everyday how you squandered your youth dressing up like 5 year olds and listening to the worst music human culture has ever produced. While at the same time some of the most innovative bands were playing at small venues in towns all around you and you totally missed out on seeing any of them live because you were at k-mart looking for soft toys.  You stole your own youth!

UPDATE: Turns out that not only did I offend ravers from 10 years ago* with this post I also offended ravers from right now! That’s right, there are kids in America right now dressing like this and writing blogs about how much they love My Little Pony dolls and how they hope to be Senators one day!

Their blogs are worth going to, just to read the self authored poetry about how hard life is because mom and dad just don’t understand their pain.

Wow, it’s like New Orleans threw a Mardi-Gras for Teletubbies.

From left to right we have: Roo, Envy, Pop Rocks, Stardust, and Geisha.  I kid you not.

*To be fair, I haven’t received any angry emails from the ravers of 10 years ago. Obviously because girls that were doing this 10 years ago are too embarrassed to admit they were doing this 10 years ago.

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