Sex Sells, I Guess

The following ad popped up on a webpage (specifically, a page on ap.org), and I was somewhat confused as to what it was trying to tell me:

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Are Texas drivers “furious & shocked” that skinny blonde women will get ticketed for driving in bikinis? Because they should be! That is an outrage!!!

Except no, that’s not it. My curiosity got the better of me, and I contributed to somebody’s ad revenue by clicking on the link. It goes to a page that wants to sell you car insurance. I guess there’s just no effective visual hook for car insurance besides scantily-clad outlaws.

So what’s the rule that’s shocking and infuriating so many Texans? It doesn’t quite say, but it sounds like it has something to do with usage-based insurance, which involves—hold on…..do you actually care? Because I don’t.

Okay, cool. Instead, here’s a GIF of Patrick Stewart dancing:

And here’s Kenzie from the show Lost Girl hula-hooping:

You can go about your business.

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3 thoughts on “Sex Sells, I Guess

  1. That hula-hooping GIF prevents me from getting back to my business. This is the second time I’ve seen it, and it’s pretty distracting …

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