Comments on: Plumber's butt, transcended

By: Ant

Ant — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:53:00 +0000

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By: vrplumber

vrplumber — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:57:00 +0000

Well, the shape of the hammer head is similar to a full-sized sledge hammer, as opposed to a framing hammer, tack hammer, or ball peen hammer.

+like for the effective zinger, though:)

By: vrplumber

vrplumber — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:48:00 +0000

That’s what the banana was for. Just look at it. :)

By: vrplumber

vrplumber — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:42:00 +0000

Good on me indeed for spotting the obvious staging error without needing to read the article, and then pointing out the flaw for comedic effect. Maybe I should have also pointed out that the sandwich was not OSHA-compliant, so that the joke was more apparent.

Also, thanks for assuming I can read. People like you are the reason the internet is an unfriendly environment for illiterates.

By: Deceptology

Deceptology — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:58:00 +0000

If you like these, there exists a somewhat deceptive book called “Cleavage” created by Bethany Jean Fancher. http://www.deceptology.com/2011/01/somewhat-deceptive-book-called-cleavage.html

By: MarlboroTestMonkey7

MarlboroTestMonkey7 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:36:00 +0000

Hairy bosomed women!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:40:00 +0000

Funnily enough, the George Brazil guy never looks like the picture on the truck.

By: theganges

theganges — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:33:00 +0000

and ’twas how men found themselves lusting after other men’s butts…

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:28:00 +0000

What is with the yippee-ki-yi-yay at the end of the commercials? Are U.S. cowboys the macho meme there too?

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:24:00 +0000

But do you like looking at THESE ass cracks? Kind of messes up the scenery for you, doesn’t it?

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:22:00 +0000

Yeah, it looks British to me.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:17:00 +0000

Oh! Those contortions are supposed to be smiles? I always wondered why American models do their best to display three rows of teeths.

By: blueelm

blueelm — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:44:00 +0000

Yes, but plumbers also want you to choose their services. That’s where advertising come in. Who had the funny and sexy plumbers? Ah… it was our good confederation of craftspeople. They’re good people. We like them.

By: Ronald Lammers

Ronald Lammers — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:28:00 +0000

Indeed wall mounted hot water unit. Very common in the northern parts of Europe (at least in houses built between 1945 and 1970). Usually the unit provides hot water for the bathroom as well.

By: nate wharram

nate wharram — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:06:00 +0000

Good on you for not bothering to read the 6 sentences that comprise the entirety of the written portion of the article. If you had you would have seen the part where the photographer talks about staging this shoot over 3 days.

By: Christopher Bird

Christopher Bird — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:08:00 +0000

‘a mini-sledge hammer’

or, as people I know call it, a ‘hammer’…

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:55:00 +0000

Um, none?

The skin looks ‘shopped to me.

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:49:00 +0000

It’s really kind of funny, and a bit sad, that plumbers would need slick advertising.

You’d think that the “Listen up, ‘Civilization’, we are the thin copper(and/or PVC, copper ain’t getting any cheaper) line that stands between you and drinking the diluted shit of everybody in your vicinity.” message would really sell itself…

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:43:00 +0000

Percussive maintenance is the closest thing to a cross-platform standard that we have in this broken, postlapsarian world…

By: Erwin van der Linde

Erwin van der Linde — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:30:00 +0000

I’d say a rat?

By: Jan Bösenberg

Jan Bösenberg — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:22:00 +0000

Just found out that Markus Müller (the ass-crach photographer) actually made some photographs for Hornbach:

http://www.blog.kaitietz.de/markus-mueller-fur-hornbach/

By: allybeag

allybeag — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:07:00 +0000

Would /you/ smile if you knew you were destined to gaze down a plumber’s buttcrack?

Well, actually, yes, I probably would, but it’d be a sniggering smile, rather than a sexy one …

By: Katrina van Malksvig

Katrina van Malksvig — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:05:00 +0000

as a German woman, I can tell you that we mainly look cross when our face is stuck above a plumber’s buttcrack

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:42:00 +0000

I wonder why hot German women look so cross? Hot American women usually smile for the camera. Is this a cultural thingamajig?

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:09:00 +0000

Wait, no photoshop?

I guess they must have used Lightroom instead…

By: allybeag

allybeag — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:02:00 +0000

Too slim, too smooth, too hairless, too clean. These are NOT real plumbers.

By: Jan Bösenberg

Jan Bösenberg — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:48:00 +0000

There is currently a trent towards tongue-in-the-cheek heroification of home improvers and craftsmen in German advertisement, which I think is great. Watch these Hornbach (retailer of home improvement and construction products) commercials, they are awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouvf_y61kts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZLyUgQPLfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNlVp8SWkic&feature=relmfu

By: social_maladroit

social_maladroit — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:29:00 +0000

This photo was obviously staged.

I wonder how much time they spent matching the male models’ skin tone to the female models’ skin tone.

By: Florian Bösch

Florian Bösch — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:07:00 +0000

In other news, ass-crack-burqas now banned in France.

By: SedanChair

SedanChair — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 05:38:00 +0000

This is me judging you