This ad is horrible! What's next? Mixing of the sexes? Premarital dating! Couples holding hands! Dancing? Rock and roll music! Think of the children!!!!
Seriously, anyone who has issues with this ad has major, major issues that they really need to work out. Those people really scare me. Last I checked going to bars and trying to meet people wasn't banned in ND . . . yet.
Progress, if you were a fat middle aged woman in small town ND with a possible pimple on your face, would you want people coming up expecting city-things like high heels and white teeth?
I doubt it, you have to look at it from their perspective. And remember they're happy with the status quo, it's why they don't like "obamacare's" dental plan.
How to leave as legend?... Hmm... how about each of the guys picking up a girl and having a fun night. If one of them picks up two... well, I guess that's a bonus.
Anyways, here's my question for you. If you are at the bar and there are a group of cute girls, do you first count their numbers to make sure your group size matches theirs? I guess that's what you do in ND... I mean, you don't want to look like a sinner, right?
That was meant as a joke but then I clicked on your name and read your other posts... Well congrats! You and your stuck-up prudish friends have made ND look even less appealing to any potential tourism dollars.
Have fun churning butter and waiting for the rapture... or whatever it is you guys do instead of trying to meet the opposite sex.
There are three kinds of people in ND: Those who know how to count and those who don't! And apparently having "fun" is one of the things that is frowned upon in ND!
You missed the point. ND stands for No Damn fun. If average people can't go there and enjoy themselves, then what's the point? Maybe they ought to show Grand Forks flooding or the freezing frozen tundra there and declare "what more could you ask for?"
Guess I sure won't visit North Dakota...with that kind of attitude, who would? I think it would be safe to say that no one in their right mind would mistake Fargo for Vegas.
Jeez people, come to Texas and we will show you how to pick up chicks. It ain't hard. Y'all realize they are capable (if you know what your doing) of having way more big 'O's that us fellas, nice wet sloppy ones on top of that. In other words, girls want it way more than guys do. That is a fact that if you are in the dark on, you definately need to come to Texas. Check out our teenage pregnancy rates. We know what we are doing here.
Unbelievable, how hard y'all make it sound like to bag a woman. I married an ex stripper who is now a college professor. Our best night was me, her, and 3 of her lil' buddies at a LaQuinta down from the club. I was very tired by morning and needed many small naps, but they took care of things just fine while I rested. THAT! is TEXAS btches!
All it takes is an internet connection and you can abuse anyone anywhere. It must make the basement dwellers feel really powerful to be able to jerk such an innocuous ad. Pathetic.
I am at a loss as to how anyone could be offended by that ad. Give those complainers a few more years with all those roughnecks, after that nothing should phase them.
I bet it was people offended by the flabby arms of the girls...maybe the females of ND didn't want the world thinking they were all fat, flabby and could only get men by hanging outside of bars waiting until the guys were drunk enough to take home...
maybe it was the guys, didn't want the world thinking they had to get drunk to attract females?
oh, I know...it was the lack of a bible on the table in the bar...no wonder people were offended by the image...
me thinks some people are just reaching for a distraction from the countries real problems...
Personally I agree that the ad goes to far. We should use this as a springboard to begin the cleansing of our public libraries. Public education should be moved toward a puritanical focus while eliminating private schools that might allow freedom of thought. Then we should ad a new cabinet level department for the president called the "Ministry of Cultural Affairs" that can be used to insure citizens and local governments don't deviate from the governmental prescribed set of cultural norms.
Or, as in this case, let the local private citizenry speak to how they would like to be portrayed and react accordingly. Why do almost all of you posters think you have the right to speak to ND's local values? May I suggest that we leave them to their opinions and their standards and don't try to make them duplicate the raging success of more "sophisticated" big city/state values? Puritanical values serve many people very well, and they avoid many, many of the rampant problems visiting the enlightened society with little or no common standards of behavior.
I dont really see what the ad has to do with North Dakota, the state is full of farmers, oil field workers and strippers, well I guess the guys could passed for a cleaned up version of a new hire roughneck and the girls could definately pass for stirippers so I guess I see absolutely nothing wrong with the ad.
You know if you TV watching zombies elect one of these wingnuts to run this country this is the kind of stupidity you will get on a daily basis. Ads like this will become illegal because it may incite some young adults to actually live a little rather than wasting their lives praying for the end of the world.
I saw a video on youtube the other day, actually a series of them by some wacked out chick who prays every night for jesus to come take her to heaven and she wakes up dissappointed that that world is still here and we are all still alive. The indoctrination of our youth into this very destructive and INSANE belief system is becoming detrimental to the survival of the human race. These wingnuts grow up and turn into homegrown rightwing terrorists or even worse POLITICIANS who have no true concept of reality and spend their entire lives making everyone elses life a living hell.
This cycle of insanity must be stopped, the children are our future and we are teaching the next generation to believe that the end of the world is coming any day and then it's off to heaven where you spend eternity thanking god for making your physical life so short, painful and meaningless, the mindless consumer praying for "god to save him from the hell he himself created on earth.
Doug, you clearly have limited firsthand knowledge of Christianity. The world has not gotten worse for embracing Christ and his values, it has gotten worse for abandoning them. God has not made life on earth a living hell, but to he extent it seems like hell, we've made it that way ourselves, and usually not from pursuing God, but from pursuing our own self interests.
Jogrinder, this world is no better or worse than when Jesus was traipsing around in his vintage Birkenstocks. As Bill Shakespeare said in the Bible "There is nothing new under the sun." Whatever depravity you think you witness around you today has been going on just the same for billions of years. Geico has shown all of us that cavemen were no different than us today.
Strangly put, but I won't argue that man's depravity is worse today than it was in Christ's time (Solomon and the caveman notwithstanding), though our capacity to carry it out may be enhanced by technology and other influences. And though you don't argue against the existence of man's depravity or it's source, I will argue against Doug's assertion that teaching children a belief system that involves praying to Jesus will turn them into rightwing terrorists and/or politicians bent on making other peoples' lives a living hell is placing the blame in the wrong place. I can't claim to know Doug's motivation for propagating ignorance or inciting others to follow it, but I say that even if in jest or to invite a reaction, it represents a lie that some will gullibly swallow and repeat. Doug's words describe the root of man's depravity, and that comes from man, not God.
Jogrinder, Reagan's secretary of state said "we dont need to worry about air or water pollution, Jesus is coming back for us soon", THATS THE KIND OF INSANITY YOUR SIDE BRINGS TO THE POLITICAL AREANA. THAT'S WHY OUR CIVILIZATION IS FALLING APART AROUND US, because you wingnuts dont care about anything except heaven. You have disconnected yourselves from the earth and tied mans fate to a FAIRYTALE.
The advertisers were obviously trying to appeal to the younger 20 something crowd. The slogan was kind of raunchy, but I guess maybe the ad agency was trying to make Fargo into a Vegas of the North or something.
I hope you're kidding. There are posters for perfume in bus kiosks that are more provocative than this. I don't think any reasonable person would find this offensive or to be the downfall of Western civilization.
@ the one and only- The advertisement would not have been raunchy for a liquor ad or for your example, a perfume ad. This particular ad was out of context for what the city of Fargo was trying to represent....not a place to get drunk and nail some one night stands.
Apparently they have "beer windows" in North Dakota.
Skinny good looking women can't survive the winters there?
I'm speechless at the prudeness of whoever made an issue out of this ad. Three homely women and a beer? There is absolutely NOTHING racy about it.
North Dakota? Attractive women with curves and shapes? Really? Anyone with common sense know that's NOT true!!!!!
That's False advertisement. The women there that I've seen are fairly boxy. I would compare their reality to the 1980's Russian beachware commercial.
Blame Happy Place.
http://www.happyplace.com/13451/the-sluttiest-tourism-campaign-ever
A bit up tight in the Northern climes eh?
I prefer this over the original ad "Come to ND - Our Chicks are Easy!!"
I'd probably start drinking if I had to go to North Dakota.
I know what you have to do to become a legend there!! lol
Wow, fat chicks dig North Dakota! And North Dakota men dig fat chicks.
This ad is horrible! What's next? Mixing of the sexes? Premarital dating! Couples holding hands! Dancing? Rock and roll music! Think of the children!!!!
Seriously, anyone who has issues with this ad has major, major issues that they really need to work out. Those people really scare me. Last I checked going to bars and trying to meet people wasn't banned in ND . . . yet.
Their reactions are a good reason NOT to go to ND.
Progress, if you were a fat middle aged woman in small town ND with a possible pimple on your face, would you want people coming up expecting city-things like high heels and white teeth?
I doubt it, you have to look at it from their perspective. And remember they're happy with the status quo, it's why they don't like "obamacare's" dental plan.
Holy Sh*t, John Sixty, don't confuse small-town ND with the reality in NC.
Yokels in North Dakota (born and bred) are better educated out of high school than most states south of there (below roughly the 40th parallel).
Well, there you go. Two states I won't be visiting with my tourist money.
RealWorldProgressive: So what do you think the guys have to do in order to "Leave as a Legend"? Curious... Your thoughts???
@Carl-404329
How to leave as legend?... Hmm... how about each of the guys picking up a girl and having a fun night. If one of them picks up two... well, I guess that's a bonus.
Anyways, here's my question for you. If you are at the bar and there are a group of cute girls, do you first count their numbers to make sure your group size matches theirs? I guess that's what you do in ND... I mean, you don't want to look like a sinner, right?
That was meant as a joke but then I clicked on your name and read your other posts... Well congrats! You and your stuck-up prudish friends have made ND look even less appealing to any potential tourism dollars.
Have fun churning butter and waiting for the rapture... or whatever it is you guys do instead of trying to meet the opposite sex.
There are three kinds of people in ND: Those who know how to count and those who don't! And apparently having "fun" is one of the things that is frowned upon in ND!
You missed the point. ND stands for No Damn fun. If average people can't go there and enjoy themselves, then what's the point? Maybe they ought to show Grand Forks flooding or the freezing frozen tundra there and declare "what more could you ask for?"
Guess I sure won't visit North Dakota...with that kind of attitude, who would? I think it would be safe to say that no one in their right mind would mistake Fargo for Vegas.
THAT, friends, is f***ing FUNNY!
Crossing North Dakota of my list as well. if I cant get laid while visiting, i may as well stay home with my wife!
^ This.
Ha! to Urban Cowboy. Many of you guys are quite humorous.
I lived in Minot, ND for 4 years. The women outnumbered the men 3 to 1. If you can't get laid in ND, you can't get laid anywhere.
with odds like that why would u move away?what couldnt get laid there
Umm, no. According to the 2000 cencus, "For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.0 males." #Demographics
jb2222, you're obviously not a golfer. I think he might have worn his johnson out.
Can I get another White Russian?
Minot ND demographics: For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.0 males. You are gunna get laid there.
Jeez people, come to Texas and we will show you how to pick up chicks. It ain't hard. Y'all realize they are capable (if you know what your doing) of having way more big 'O's that us fellas, nice wet sloppy ones on top of that. In other words, girls want it way more than guys do. That is a fact that if you are in the dark on, you definately need to come to Texas. Check out our teenage pregnancy rates. We know what we are doing here.
Unbelievable, how hard y'all make it sound like to bag a woman. I married an ex stripper who is now a college professor. Our best night was me, her, and 3 of her lil' buddies at a LaQuinta down from the club. I was very tired by morning and needed many small naps, but they took care of things just fine while I rested. THAT! is TEXAS btches!
That's great for the guys, but that leaves the women lacking in partners.
Please people remove stick from you know where and relax a little. Can't believe how puritan this country is becoming.
where the hell have you been for the past 2+ decades.
The teabaggers have recently taken over. Neo-conservatism is a surefire way to drive the country into the ground.
One way or another Bush is always to blame!
All it takes is an internet connection and you can abuse anyone anywhere. It must make the basement dwellers feel really powerful to be able to jerk such an innocuous ad. Pathetic.
I was thinking the same thing. Probably someone from another state who's jealous.
I thought they pulled the ad because the guys are dorks and the chicks are fat!
Ummmm... no. That would be you... a fat dork.
I agree with Richard, two gaydudes and three homely chicks. Well the third one has potential but not if she is hangin' with the other two.
Joke: what do you call two guys having a 3some with a girl? Twophags dirty'n up a perfectly good woman.
One more reason why North Dakota will always remain a "flyover" state.
I read your post to my husband. He replied, "It's a flyover state for anyone's fly."
Well, I thought it was funny. :)
Where exactly is North Dakota, back in the 1800's somewhere?
You have a night life. There's music there, things going on...
Music, blues bars - jams:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Muddy-River-Blues-Society/226007500756910
I am at a loss as to how anyone could be offended by that ad. Give those complainers a few more years with all those roughnecks, after that nothing should phase them.
I bet it was people offended by the flabby arms of the girls...maybe the females of ND didn't want the world thinking they were all fat, flabby and could only get men by hanging outside of bars waiting until the guys were drunk enough to take home...
maybe it was the guys, didn't want the world thinking they had to get drunk to attract females?
oh, I know...it was the lack of a bible on the table in the bar...no wonder people were offended by the image...
me thinks some people are just reaching for a distraction from the countries real problems...
Need a slogan to get Canadians to visit?
"Fargo is just like home. Besides, we're closer than Florida."
<would like to remind them it is North Dakota they are promoting> Before the ad, all I thought about doing there was hunt pheasants...
You go to South Dakota to hunt pheasants, you go to North Dakota to drill for oil, launch ICBM's and drink to deal with the winter.
I would change the copy of the ad to:
Dinner.
Drinks.
Drinks.
Drinks.
Drinks.
Drinks.
Bad decisions.
I wonder what those who objected to the ad would like to see it portraying? Family-friendly fun? Holy Toledo, I am "family"-ed out!
I would LOVE to know what "decisions" they are referring to. Maybe "Which one gets two of them first?"
Personally I agree that the ad goes to far. We should use this as a springboard to begin the cleansing of our public libraries. Public education should be moved toward a puritanical focus while eliminating private schools that might allow freedom of thought. Then we should ad a new cabinet level department for the president called the "Ministry of Cultural Affairs" that can be used to insure citizens and local governments don't deviate from the governmental prescribed set of cultural norms.
Don't worry. It's coming. Keep watching the social issues platforms.
Or, as in this case, let the local private citizenry speak to how they would like to be portrayed and react accordingly. Why do almost all of you posters think you have the right to speak to ND's local values? May I suggest that we leave them to their opinions and their standards and don't try to make them duplicate the raging success of more "sophisticated" big city/state values? Puritanical values serve many people very well, and they avoid many, many of the rampant problems visiting the enlightened society with little or no common standards of behavior.
Antelope Tim, sounds like you are voting for the country to be covered sweater neck deep in santorum.
I dont really see what the ad has to do with North Dakota, the state is full of farmers, oil field workers and strippers, well I guess the guys could passed for a cleaned up version of a new hire roughneck and the girls could definately pass for stirippers so I guess I see absolutely nothing wrong with the ad.
You know if you TV watching zombies elect one of these wingnuts to run this country this is the kind of stupidity you will get on a daily basis. Ads like this will become illegal because it may incite some young adults to actually live a little rather than wasting their lives praying for the end of the world.
I saw a video on youtube the other day, actually a series of them by some wacked out chick who prays every night for jesus to come take her to heaven and she wakes up dissappointed that that world is still here and we are all still alive. The indoctrination of our youth into this very destructive and INSANE belief system is becoming detrimental to the survival of the human race. These wingnuts grow up and turn into homegrown rightwing terrorists or even worse POLITICIANS who have no true concept of reality and spend their entire lives making everyone elses life a living hell.
This cycle of insanity must be stopped, the children are our future and we are teaching the next generation to believe that the end of the world is coming any day and then it's off to heaven where you spend eternity thanking god for making your physical life so short, painful and meaningless, the mindless consumer praying for "god to save him from the hell he himself created on earth.
Take a Percaset.
Maybe you should focus your worries on the youth being brainwashed in liberal viewpoints and irresponsibility on MTV.
No, doug is right.
Doug, you clearly have limited firsthand knowledge of Christianity. The world has not gotten worse for embracing Christ and his values, it has gotten worse for abandoning them. God has not made life on earth a living hell, but to he extent it seems like hell, we've made it that way ourselves, and usually not from pursuing God, but from pursuing our own self interests.
Jogrinder, this world is no better or worse than when Jesus was traipsing around in his vintage Birkenstocks. As Bill Shakespeare said in the Bible "There is nothing new under the sun." Whatever depravity you think you witness around you today has been going on just the same for billions of years. Geico has shown all of us that cavemen were no different than us today.
Strangly put, but I won't argue that man's depravity is worse today than it was in Christ's time (Solomon and the caveman notwithstanding), though our capacity to carry it out may be enhanced by technology and other influences. And though you don't argue against the existence of man's depravity or it's source, I will argue against Doug's assertion that teaching children a belief system that involves praying to Jesus will turn them into rightwing terrorists and/or politicians bent on making other peoples' lives a living hell is placing the blame in the wrong place. I can't claim to know Doug's motivation for propagating ignorance or inciting others to follow it, but I say that even if in jest or to invite a reaction, it represents a lie that some will gullibly swallow and repeat. Doug's words describe the root of man's depravity, and that comes from man, not God.
Amen
Jogrinder, Reagan's secretary of state said "we dont need to worry about air or water pollution, Jesus is coming back for us soon", THATS THE KIND OF INSANITY YOUR SIDE BRINGS TO THE POLITICAL AREANA. THAT'S WHY OUR CIVILIZATION IS FALLING APART AROUND US, because you wingnuts dont care about anything except heaven. You have disconnected yourselves from the earth and tied mans fate to a FAIRYTALE.
OOPs it was james watt reagan's secretary of the interior
Just once, I'd like to see someone respond to complaints of this nature with a "Jam it, Prudezilla" and use an even more objectionable ad.
The advertisers were obviously trying to appeal to the younger 20 something crowd. The slogan was kind of raunchy, but I guess maybe the ad agency was trying to make Fargo into a Vegas of the North or something.
>> The slogan was kind of raunchy
I hope you're kidding. There are posters for perfume in bus kiosks that are more provocative than this. I don't think any reasonable person would find this offensive or to be the downfall of Western civilization.
@ the one and only- The advertisement would not have been raunchy for a liquor ad or for your example, a perfume ad. This particular ad was out of context for what the city of Fargo was trying to represent....not a place to get drunk and nail some one night stands.
>> not a place to get drunk and nail some one night stands
For Brad: Is there some other reason to visit Fargo?
"One commenter called the ad "sickening,"
The same people that said this are watching porn on their computers 16 hours a day.
Maybe it was sickening because there was no nudity.
Well the women are clearly overweight. Not a healthy image to portray.
You are insane.
Jam it, Prudezilla!
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout! 99 more recruits and we hit the streets!