Another funny ad. The great thing about this is that although it is so simple, and low budget it manages to engage the viewer while still being humorous. I won’t ruin it, but I was actually proud of myself when I got the number right only to end up laughing at myself at the end.

This is another British ad, made to bring awareness to the safety of cyclists, after a whole day of driving my scooter around Manhattan, I think we could use a few ads here as well for bikers in general.

One of my favorite ads, though I may have posted it before. I think I only saw it once on TV, but every couple of months I get the urge to watch it again. The song in the ad, by the way, is by Mint Royale, an electronica duo turned solo act based out of Manchester, England.

So I spend entirely too much time watching The Discovery Channel and National Geographic and Man vs Wild is one of my favorite shows. That is, it was, until the word spread that Bear Grylls (pictured above eating a raw, rotting Zebra) would actually spend some nights in a hotel while filming the show, instead of roughing it like he swore to us he was.

Well apparently new episodes of his show are coming out, so he’s doing press stuff or whatever and there’s an article on Yahoo where he discusses the hotel issue briefly and talks about the new season. Anyway, there was one particular passage that caught my attention:

In a forthcoming episode in Mexico he killed and skinned a snake, ate it, made a bag out of the skin, and urinated into it. He drank the urine the next day to show people how they can survive for long periods without water.

Now, I don’t know how many of you have drank your own urine (much less from a bag made from the skin of a snake you recently killed, skinned and ate) but I’m willing to forgive this man a few hours in a bed. I think he’s at least earned that.