Okay, this is just a little bit irresponsible to show an ad like this on television. Um, that’s because there’s a guy driving a muscle car down a desert highway, and his car starts boiling over, so he pulls into a service station and gets a nice cold bottle of water and pours it into his radiator. You might not really want to do that in real life. If you did what this commercial shows happening, not being able to get a boner would be the least of your problems! And then they say: “This is the age of knowing how to get things done.” (!!) I mean, really!
Okay, so here’s the problem(s), for those of you not already ahead of me here: If you pull your overheated car that’s actively boiling over into a service station, pop the hood, and remove the radiator cap, you’d get a radiator-full of boiling liquid spraying all over you, and you’d probably spend the next month in a hospital burn unit; and you’d be so unsightly afterwards, you might not ever have sex again anyway. But let’s say you could take off the radiator cap while your car is boiling over and not get third-degree burns all over your hands, face and torso (I guess you could wait for a while, which this guy doesn’t seem to do): even if you could do that, or you waited for the engine to cool off enough to be able to remove the radiator cap without spraying yourself with scalding antifreeze, you would most certainly not want to pour refrigerated cold water into a hot radiator! That would most likely warp and crack your radiator and hoses, and then you’d have to hire a tow truck or walk back through the desert. (Duh!)
Now, I see this spot on TV, but I can’t find it online. Maybe that’s because every gearhead would be linking to it and ridiculing its content ad infinitum, but I’m sorry I can’t show everyone exactly what I’m talking about here. But it’s running on TV, so hopefully you already know what I mean. But seriously, this ad should have a disclaimer that says: “Warning: Do not try this yourself! This is not really how to get this done!” And that should definitely have more importance even than the disclaimers about Viagra! And I’m not sure I even need to say this, but if their ads are recommending such dangerous courses of action as this scenario indicates, can they really be trusted about the medical stuff? Because the overheated car is pretty simple compared with the medical stuff, or at least I think so.
