Friday Photo

Husband tipped me off to this advertisement which is in the underpass at Sukhumvit MRT. It's good to see some celebration of bottoms:

Friday Photo

Advertising 'Thai style' via the tuk tuk.

Advertising in Asia

I was standing in the queue at the Siam skytrain stop the other day and over the head of the woman in front of me, I spotted something. Ewugh, I thought.

Then yesterday Daughter texted me from the school bus “Blog picture,” she texted, “Bottom of the Cowboy: giant spider 7m by 5m. Really gross but good pic.” (The Cowboy, one of Bangkok’s red light districts, is at the bottom of our soi.)

Sure enough: Big Siam Spider’s cousin, Cowboy Spider, clung to the building.

It was only then that I worked out it was advertising Clorets sugar free mints/gum. (Yes, I really am that short sighted.)

What? How? Why would anyone advertise breath freshening products with such a venomous looking spider? Am I missing something?

I googled and found nothing. Are they trying it out on us? Yes, I know I’m talking about it but only because ewwugh…. This would never persuade to try their products.

During my googling I found this: Asia really has its own rules when it comes to advertising.