this morning i had to go online to pay another wodge of my hard-earned cash to powergen to cover my electricity bill. on the online payments page i was greeted with this inanely grinning tart. what the fuck is going on here? why do these huge companies; energy suppliers, banks, local government - insist on sending us bills, threatening letters, final demands for payment and the like, embellished with these plastic-toothed, american-chinned, vacant looking clipart mannekins?
is it supposed to make me feel that handing over sizeable percentages of the little money i have to monopolistic multinationals and faceless bureaucrats - for the joy of being able to cook my meals, having a drop of water to wash in, seeing where i’m going at night or [in the case of the iniquitous council tax] purely for the privilege of living in this shit-hole of a town - is supposed to be some kind of almost orgasmic experience? the joy of giving, is it? the sheer exhilaration of contributing to the national economy?
well, i paid that leccy bill and i’m sorry to say that my willy remained resolutely flaccid throughout the entire experience and my lips simply refused to part into a post-coital grin for even the merest of moments. so if anyone else out there had a whopping great bill to pay this morning - “how was it for you darling?”
29 June 2005 at 21:10
Simple, really. Sex sells–or at the very least, the _possibility_ that the transaction is somehow associated with a potential lust-provoking situation attenuates the financial trauma of normal business intercourse. Use Firefox or another web browser and you can easily delete these images from your Internet experience.
BTW, “vacant looking” I agree with, but “american(sic) chinned?” Would you prefer a Malaysian or British chin? I guess I’m not that perceptive…or lack such discriminating tastes…
30 June 2005 at 00:04
by “american chinned” i mean those big unfeasably large hunky square jaws that an alarming number of american women [as well as men] seem to have. think that bloke out of cheers. what’s his name - “ted danson”? and you’ll get what i mean.