Japanese carmaker Nissan said Friday it has pulled a raunchy commercial starring “Sex and the City” actress Kim Cattrall from New Zealand television after complaints over its content.
Cattrall, who plays sex-obsessed, promiscuous Samantha Jones in the hugely successful U.S. series, appears in the ad purring with excitement about Nissan’s new sedan.
“Why didn’t you tell me it was so big, I just wasn’t prepared for it?” she gushes. “The all-new Nissan Tiida makes you feel really, really, really good inside.”
She tells a salesman: “Ah! That was amazing. Absolutely fabulous! I mean the great body and the way you moved it.”
The double entendre-laced ad was approved by New Zealand’s Television Commercial Approvals Bureau before broadcast. Nevertheless, it sparked a number of complaints to the Advertising Standards Complaints Board.
Nissan said it was taking the commercial off the air before the board could consider the objections.
“We made this decision in the interest of self-regulation and in response to public feedback,” Nissan said in a statement.
New Zealand generally is regarded as liberal when it comes to TV ad content, with no complaints reported about the Australian tourism campaign “Where the bloody hell are you?” which was banned in the UK.
Though in the Just how big a nerd are you, Kevin? department, let me point out that if KMRG (seen in reverse about a fifth of the way in) is some sort of radio/TV station identifier (for April, maybe?), the K-prefix doesn’t jibe with the NYPD car markings at the end.
I know that claims of hot MacBooks have become quite passe, but my laptop was literally hot enough on the bottom to burn me. At idle, CPU load averaged at around 1.50 and the harddrive was constantly writing according to the activity monitor. I brought this situation to the Apple forums and promptly recieved the answer.
Apparently Apple overlooked several logfiles when they set up the log rotation scripts in /etc/weekly. The texfile /var/log/samba/log.nmbd had topped 100 million lines in a month. The file measured 6.8GB before I removed it.
Ian’s got a step-by-step procedure to get all the logs a-rotating correctly. Looks like useful stuff.
There’s No Way I’m Saving That Guy
By Jesus Christ
All right. I realize I am supposed to be all-merciful, universally loving, the Light and the Way and everything, but even a divine avatar of the Supreme Being’s loving grace has His limits. I know I’ve said many times that there is always room for one more — even the lowliest — at the table of the Lord, but even so, there is just no freaking way I’m redeeming this S.O.B.
This is not a good time for my extracurricular events.
I was offered a chance to make it into Club 33 this weekend (thanks, Sara!), but had to decline ’cause it would’ve cost a bundle to jam down to Anaheim.
That’s okay, as it happens, because I got violently ill late Thursday night. Whatever it was, it kicked my ass six ways to Sunday; I only started to feel somewhat human yesterday.
Comic-Con starts Thursday. For the first time in seven years, I’m not going.
For those of you going to SDCC, or for those who are merely curious about the impact of the con on downtown San Diego, here’s an article on locals’ reactions to the invasion of “Nerd Prom.”
“It’s huge business for us,” said Dan Flores, marketing manager for the Gaslamp Quarter Association.
He hesitated, then broached the sensitive part: “The attendees are … ”
Japanese carmaker Nissan said Friday it has pulled a raunchy commercial starring “Sex and the City” actress Kim Cattrall from New Zealand television after complaints over its content.
