When I grow up, I want to be a mercenary Marine airhostess!

Sexy ads grounded by Jetstar

*giggles*

Suckers.

As a consumer of television, I've got to say that the Lynx ad is one of the few on TV that actually *really* irritates me. It's so sexist and just generally pathetically low-brow that it's not even funny.

Not only does Lynx deoderant generally smell like a dying camel in a can, but Lynx has always objectified women in its advertising, and their Lynxjet thing so takes the cake. I'm glad we're not going to be inflicted with Jetstar joining in on the puerile fantasies of the Lynx advertising team, which one must assume is made up entirely of hormonal teenage boys who are into Star Wars and are about as attractive as Chewbacca in drag after a night on the turps.

But alcohol's an excuse for everything, right? Well... o.0 These guys were described as being "obviously drunk" (probably with stupidity)...

On the news this morning there was something about how Marines in the UK had been filmed fighting naked or something like that and some Marine guy was filmed being kicked into unconsciousness by his Sergeant. The comment on the activity from some British guy? Basically, there's nothing wrong with that behaviour, they do that all of the time, boys will be boys, it's part of the culture, get over it.

Then the military people saying that bullying and such behaviour is "very rare in the armed forces," which, going by things that have happened with bastardisation here in Australia, you'd have to assume is total bollocks. The marines are probably only "shocked" by the video for the sheer fact that it was released into the media rather than for the fact that such activities occur within the armed forces.

Little wonder we get stories of videos of civilians being picked off by contracted mercenaries in Iraq (to the backing accompaniment of an Elvis classic, no less).