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A reader sent this photo in, along with this comment:
Last week, I was amazed -- and disgusted -- to see this inflatable "ad" depicting two women wearing "pool ball" bikinis. It's on the roof of Breakers Billiards on Rt 46 in Clifton.
Well, with apologies to Mencken, no one ever went broke underestimating the class of the American people. What do you think?
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Comments (21)
Now dat's classy.
It's not so much the salaciousness but the class difference, isn't it?
Living in Bloomfield and all...I would like one for my lawn at Christmas time.
... And a local blog picks up the story and makes the tasteless work!!!
Three cheers for editorial discretion!!!
(Nothing like using the tasteless, to denounce the tasteless. Can we expect more?)
The pool hall dolls are fetishized/cartoonized female forms while the models in the H&M ad are emaciated forms foisted by Madison Avenue. One could make it a case of evolution or anthropology instead of class.
I go to a pool party every year in Cannes at one of the villas and the host always has blow up dolls in every window. As well as one in the pool. It's humorous in a campy way. The billiard ball boobies kind of take it to a whole new level.
What offends people just confounds me sometimes. Would a billboard with pictures of real women dressed similarly inspire the same disgust? I wonder.
i live in clifton and i was driving past when they were putting it up and my husband and i were hysterical we thought it was funny.
My response to the photo above was hysteria, rather than offense. Like SSP, I can't believe the things people become all bent out of shape over. There are more important things in the world to get upset about.
(Calling something distasteful is certainly not being hysterical. That I would refrain from posting such a picture is MY taste. Just yesterday I saw a sign next to a potted shrub, it read: FREE BUSH. I thought about taking a pix and sending it in. But I thought it was in poor taste. I, however, spent the day laughing at it.)
And while there are "more important" things to get upset about, is that the standard you want to use?
If so, porn should be everywhere. Let's gamble and get high. I mean, folks are dying, there are wars going on..... Who cares about these vices, let the kids see 'em!!!
To be fair, they should also have an inflatable doll of a naked guy up there with pool balls covering his, well, other balls.
I suspect that something like this would hardly garner a passing glance in many European countries, where they don't seem to share the same prudish and hypocritical hangups about the naked human body as we do.
I agree with Pork Roll.
And Prof, I guess you didn't see my other post undwer landscaping. My husband and I are now the proud owners of said, "Free Bush." We stopped and the woman said we could have a fir tree she was trying to unload.
Ah, the old they do it in Europe argument...
They know 4 languages!! (Failing to recognize that Americans can travel 3k mile and every speaks the same language, not true in Europe, so they MUST know multiple languages. When folks in NY start speaking a different language, NJ will be bi-lingual).
They give wine to babies!
They never stopped loving disco!
They have nudity on TV!
They are so EVOLVED!!
Whereas Americans are so dumb and prudish.
Amidst all the uproar, no one seems to have noticed the "Shoot Pool Not People" signs tucked safely into the midsections of the buxom billiard babes. It's not an ad, it's a public service announcement!
Nice rack.
Ah, a far more fitting future backdrop for Vinnie's movie reviews than the front seat of his car! (Speaking, perhaps, of hokey tastelessness.)
Jerseygurl, in probably every case of someone using this term but probably especially your own, there is something very unseemly and even possibly immoral about the phrase "I go to a pool party every year in Cannes...." Have you no shame?
And prof, on Italian TV they really do have some sort of nude game show. Even the audience was naked.
It didn't, however, strike me as culturally "liberating" in the least. Nor were the contestants or audience members at all modern equivalents to Venus and Adonis, if you follow.
There's a razor commercial thinly referencing its ability to shave a woman's nether regions. Nothing surprises me anymore.
I'm more concerned with the message this is sending about poolhalls. I spent a lot of hours at "Breakers" back in high school, and I can't remember seeing any scantily clad women with boob-jobs and crooked pool cues. False advertising!
I don't mind nakedness, so long as as the subject is, well, fit to be seen naked.
Understand, not everyone can have prof's rock-hard abs, strong, chiseled chest and large hands (...) or his wit and charm for that matter.
Those without should stay clothed.
The prof however, has a licensed to be naked.
But he's a modest man, with taste and would never pose for or with a blow-up doll.
Doesn't this belong juxtaposed with the thread on the "Real Housewives" of New Jersey? Or would that cause too much confusion?