{"id":48214,"date":"2021-11-02T00:51:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T04:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48214"},"modified":"2021-11-02T00:51:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T04:51:04","slug":"man-what-a-stupid-commercial-018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48214","title":{"rendered":"Man, What a Stupid Commercial (#018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-48215 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hennessy_wtf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hennessy_wtf.jpg 510w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hennessy_wtf-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Blowing the dust off this \u2018ol category here . . .<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Good thing I don\u2019t drink Hennessy, because this is the kind of shit that would make me stop if I did: some hokey campaign or promotion called \u201cOriginal Odyssey\u201d supposedly meant to feature Asian culture.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>First episode, the one being pushed to the moon to help boost the awareness of it, starring two hafus, Henry Golding and Liv Lo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Yeah, going real super Asian there, Hennessy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Yes, it\u2019s shitty to go all Asian-on-hafuAsian criticism because Asians in general don\u2019t need any more bullshit piled on top of them, but this is more to criticize Hennessy for trying to do some sort of Asian awareness, but still being racist and superficial enough to only draft guys like Henry Golding to be their spokespeople.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The guy is about as Asian as Chinese food in America and has a fucking British accent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>His wife is half Italian, and between the two of them, they have the gene pool for a single Asian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But then they go blathering on about just how Asian they are and pretending to make Singaporean rib soup, chasing it with some shitty spirits, and I\u2019m rolling my eyes wondering on whether or not to brog about this or not.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But the frequency in which I keep getting these ads in social media, and the right circumstances hit, here we are, with me hating on a bullshit campaign intending to be for Asian awareness, but coming from a company that doesn\u2019t have the courage to actually feature any real Asians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s like that episode of <i>King of the Hill<\/i> where the Laotian country club that Khan keeps getting denied membership to, talk about a golf tournament they\u2019ll have where the greatest Asian golfer of all time is slated to show up: Tiger Woods.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It really is kind of like that joke.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blowing the dust off this \u2018ol category here . . .\u00a0 Good thing I don\u2019t drink Hennessy, because this is the kind of shit that would make me stop if I did: some hokey campaign or promotion called \u201cOriginal Odyssey\u201d supposedly meant to feature Asian culture.\u00a0 First episode, the one being pushed to the moon &hellip; 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