Comments on: Funny French toilet paper TV commercial

By: Rob Whyte

Rob Whyte — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:58:00 +0000

I shit in my toilet which has a bidet toilet seat on it. (Samsung SBD-970C if you’re ineterested)

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:30:00 +0000

If Stalin had gotten Gérard Depardieu to go away, he might still be popular.

By: major

major — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:04:00 +0000

Your last sentence…Really? Wasting such an interesting joke for such an idiotic ending. Hollande is a French socialist not the new Stalin.

By: Cajun Exile

Cajun Exile — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:57:00 +0000

Reminds me of the old joke in the Soviet Union where soviet mom tells young son, “Go down to the newspaper stand, buy Pravda for father, Izvestia for me and a copy of Komsomol Pravda for you.” Soviet father meets son on his way to the newspaper stand and sends him back home with a message to soviet mom to stop wasting money on newspapers full of communist party lies. When young soviet son walks back home and explains what happened, soviet mom sighs heavily. Soviet mom then takes some money back from her son and says,”Go down to the newspaper stand, buy Izvestia for me, a copy of Komsomol Pravda for you and your father can wipe his ass on the radio.” Not surprising that a french company might reference that joke considering the current Hollande government.

By: wygit

wygit — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:42:00 +0000

Kinda weird. If I look at the stream on boingboing.net, it shows the youtube version. If I go to this page, it shows the vimeo poster, but the embedded video here gives me “Sorry, this video is currently available on Vimeo.com”.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:39:00 +0000

My guess is that the actor who plays the husband now encounters a lot of hostility when he goes out in public.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:31:00 +0000

Wait. You shit in your bidet?

By: ganman

ganman — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:28:00 +0000

Actually, the poster image itself spoils the joke.

By: Meadhbh Octopodidae

Meadhbh Octopodidae — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:58:00 +0000

yeah. that was the real shocker to me. what self-respecting francophone would accept a television advert in english? possibly the quebecois, are we sure this isn’t canadian?

By: axlrosen

axlrosen — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:47:00 +0000

Um, thanks for giving away the punchline Mr. Pescovitz…

By: L8

L8 — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:49:00 +0000

If my internet knowledge is correct, half of the using your portable device on the toilet club is not aware of the rules of the using your portable device on the toilet club. Either that or there is some sort of Project Mayhem that reclutes members by tempting them with the whole toilet idea and then not accepting them because they’re too young or too old.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:31:00 +0000

Why is a French commercial in English?

By: teknocholer

teknocholer — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:53:00 +0000

If he’s going to be such a patronizing dickhead, I’d say Emma showed admirable restraint by sliding it face up.

By: TacoChuck

TacoChuck — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:41:00 +0000

Holy crap, you scratch up the back of my tablet by doing that and we are going to have some words. I don’t even like my tablet, but that is no excuse for ruining the thing by sliding it on gritty tiles with no case.

By: nox

nox — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:39:00 +0000

Would we consider dishes to be clean if we just rubbed them with dry paper?

Bidets are better anyway. My paper consumption has dropped precipitously.

By: TheKaz1969

TheKaz1969 — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:32:00 +0000

shhh! The first– err, second rule of using your portable device on the toilet club is you don’t talk about using your portable device on the toilet…

By: Forkboy

Forkboy — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:03:00 +0000

As if this guy would walk into a toilet not already clutching an iPad.

By: Chentzilla

Chentzilla — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:51:00 +0000

I thought he was saving the paper for precisely this occasion.