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Mentos ads started out very friendly. "The freshmaker!" the man with the vaguely foreign accent would proclaim. They were cheesy and fun. Their newest project, though, is far, far, darker. We're not quite sure how it's supposed to make us feel, but we would describe the experience as awkward and terrifying. If you choose to visit MentosKissCam.com [via Adrants], be prepared for some virtual sexual harassment.
You go to the site. Do you like boys or girls? Click one. Dramatic music swells up. A film starts: a beautiful woman, bathing in the ocean, with, it must be said, a rather revealing outfit. She strides towards you. She wants your gum! You place it in her mouth, and she is happy:
She moves towards you. What's this—she wants to see your webcam? You turn it on. Now you're supposed to kiss her!
The site freezes; its dirty little electronic self is waiting for evidence from your webcam that you are actually leaning in and kissing the screen! That's when I turned it off. I don't like Mentos that much. But please, feel free to try it and report back. I think this may be asking a bit much of even the most bored breath mint aficionados.
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Still better than mycolonoscopy.com
My computer just raped me.
Nothing "vaguely foreign" about it! He was clearly from South Dakota.
These pictures aren't going to get around are they? I have a budding political career these can't surface.
So between the Nick Douglas post and this, I've been fucked AND kissed today. The Freshmaker indeed!
This is on my list of things I maybe ought not to do in the office.
Why do the ladies get a middle-aged guido wearing white pants? WHITE PANTS! I ain't kissing that.
@In Other News...: What was up with that post anyway?
Mentos advertising has always been about "freshening away" anti-social behavior. Can we really be all that suprised that the advertisements that once flouted authority by having a young man don a headband and grab a musical instrument to make it past a bouncer, has encouraged stalkery behavior?
The guy who walked stepped through the limo that was in the middle of the pedestrian walk? Today he's a car-jacker.
Forget GTA IV. I think we can blame Mentos for all of our social ills.
I prefer the site where nasty people throw food at you.
[thegoodfoodfight.com]
It's just how I roll.
You mean I was supposed to kiss her face?
Oh. How embarrassing.
Anybody got a napkin?
@Unfun: Bleh.
@MisterHippity: If it's possible, I love you even more now.
@contradicto: Um, hmmm. You know Unfun's name? The opposite of that.
She tastes like burning!
I gave her a moustache, goatee and devil horns. Shouldn't have used permanent marker...
Oh yeah - if Mentos is gum, then Skittles is fruit.
Oh, well, thanks for telling us we needed to have our credit card ready.
@MisterHippity: Exactly.
I just learned that things are easier to insert in my computer's CD-ROM drive than they are to eject again.
@mark duffy: I'd like to put my dongle in her USB drive.
Bitch wouldn't take the gum from me so I punched my monitor.
@MisterHippity: SOME things are easier, that is. Blerg!
@MisterHippity: ... in her USB PORT, I mean.
Fuck. I should have quit after my first comment.
I became a mento to a special needs Eurasion Oblong.
Even I preferred the lady, and I'm usually all over those gay ethnic guys.
It's much more fun to tease guido with the offering, just to watch him wanting it in his mouth. If only I could slap him with it. . .
What?! Everyone gets the same guy coming up and trying to kiss them? That bastard told me I was special...
@BalknChain: I like it when you call me that. Whisper it again.
@In Other News...: *my special Eurasian Oblong* xoxo
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