Cigarette advertising from a few years ago in Germany: “Sooo grand, sooo grandios, sooo Gauloises!”
Now read this with an English mind: “Sooo gross, sooo grandiose, sooo Gauloises!”
I like the description “gross” in connection with smoking and cigarettes. Remind me to tell my sons (again).
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and any possible synonym: antipathy, displeasure, repugnance, disgust, repulsion, abhorrence … the act itself the vending the ignoring of rules the littering more littering and more littering Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Dislike
Smoking. It used to be glamorous but with a touch of the not-so-respectable about it. .
For a while the tobacco companies tried to flee this reputation but …
… it’s not so glamerous anymore.
Even the tobacco companies seem to have realised that it is just … gross.
Athough in fairness, Cheech and Chong had more this kind of smoke in mind when they made the movie:
And just to round UP this post here is a somewhat misleading (or honest?) billboard. Of course, the German slogan for this iconic French cigarette translates as “so great, so grandiose, so Gauloises” but because they used UPper case only (and hence no “ß”) the association (at least for English speakers) is that smoking is something non-desirable. It’s simply gross.
Linked to Cosmic Photo Challenge: Just an Illusion.
