Doctors want Ferrari Sponsorship Inquiry

http://www.crash.net/f1/news/159203/1/doct...ri_inquiry.html

Looks like some people are raising hell about Marlboro's bar code insignia. I wonder if Ducati should be worried. Marlboro allegedly funds a huge portion of their operation. I wonder what Suppo is thinking right now.

its getting attention.


Ferrari barcode labelled a subliminal ad - Part II
Posted by Tony Dennis on Apr 29, 2010 21:33
Tags: Casey Stoner, Ducati Marlboro, F1, Ferrari, MotoGP, Nicky Hayden, racing bikes, Sendo

Rating: Barcodes have been on Marlboro racing bikes for ages

An avid GoMo News reader has pointed out that the imitation barcode logo used on the lastest Ferrari F1 cars has, in fact, been around a long time on Ducati Marlboro racing bikes.

ducati We checked and he’s absolutely right. If anything, the logo on the Ducati bikes looks even more like a genuine working barcode than the one which adorns the Marlboro Ferrari F1 cars.

One of the two riders in the Ducati Marlboro MotoGP bike racing team is Nicky Hayden. The illustration used here is from one of his bikes. The other Ducati rider is Casey Stoner.

Defunct british mobile phone handset manufacturer, Sendo, used to sponsor Ducati racing bikes. Not many people remember that.

Anyway, the bike’s barcode is so realistic that mobile barcode scanning software like NeoReader desperately tries to auto-focus and read it.

Perhaps Marlboro has learnt a trick from Japanese advertising agencies which deliberately use fake 2D barcodes so that they won’t give out erroneous information.

It’s funny how nobody thought these barcodes were subliminal advertising before, isn’t it?

Just let us smoke in peace you .... wits.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pigeon @ Apr 30 2010, 07:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>its getting attention.


Ferrari barcode labelled a subliminal ad - Part II
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It’s funny how nobody thought these barcodes were subliminal advertising before, isn’t it?

It one was to take the subliminal part out of modern advertizing, well, not much would be left

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Goatboy @ Apr 30 2010, 03:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Just let us smoke in peace you .... wits.


you are absolutely right - just should wear a closed full face helmet while you're all doing it - or be locked in an airtight room. But hands off Ferrari and Ducati

These "doctors" wittering on about it are doing significantly more advertising for Philip Morris than the bloody bar codes ever could!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (yamaka46 @ Apr 30 2010, 05:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>These "doctors" wittering on about it are doing significantly more advertising for Philip Morris than the bloody bar codes ever could!

Exactly. Kids who never knew what the barcode stands for, now understand that it's all about cigarettes.

this is ........! with the economy the way it is they're Lucky that the good people at Marlboro are shelling out millions for a stupid barcode and not even they're full Logo! People are going to smoke regardless of sponsorship deals in Motorsports. I am not a smoker but then again no one in my family is. my assumption is most kids pick up smoking because the parents, siblings and/or friends smoke, Not because because of a bar code on a moto gp bike or F1 car

Why is it that alcohol gets a pass when it comes to sponsorship and advertisement.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (povol @ May 1 2010, 10:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Why is it that alcohol gets a pass when it comes to sponsorship and advertisement.

Hell, even Rizla on the Suzuki's. We all know what Rizla rolling papers are used for.

What about Playboy last year on the LCR bike? Little Timmy might become the next Tiger Woods.

Never understood how tobacco is so evil, yet there are whole sections of supermarkets dealing just with the booze. I takes me 40 years to kill myself from smoking, but I can kill myself in a few hours of heavy drinking.

These doctors have never seen a MotoGP or F1 race in the past half decade. They a bit late to be bitching.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Hayden Fan @ May 1 2010, 11:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Hell, even Rizla on the Suzuki's. We all know what Rizla rolling papers are used for.

What about Playboy last year on the LCR bike? Little Timmy might become the next Tiger Woods.

Never understood how tobacco is so evil, yet there are whole sections of supermarkets dealing just with the booze. I takes me 40 years to kill myself from smoking, but I can kill myself in a few hours of heavy drinking.

These doctors have never seen a MotoGP or F1 race in the past half decade. They a bit late to be bitching.
And a bus load of kids

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The California Kid @ May 1 2010, 08:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>this is ........! with the economy the way it is they're Lucky that the good people at Marlboro are shelling out millions for a stupid barcode and not even they're full Logo! People are going to smoke regardless of sponsorship deals in Motorsports. I am not a smoker but then again no one in my family is. my assumption is most kids pick up smoking because the parents, siblings and/or friends smoke, Not because because of a bar code on a moto gp bike or F1 car

Even if the whole track is set with "Smoking will kill you!" signs, kids would go "What is 'smoking' dad?" Now, those signs are everywhere and I do not see them complaining! Idiots, a bar-code says much less!

I echo the sentiments of most poster on the thread. Really now what the .... are those do-gooder docs smoking? I've always thought who gives one flying .... if the Marlboro logo was splashed on the vehicles, the people who are inclined to smoke will smoke regardless. Jesus, alcohol kills way more innocent people, and like CK said, that can happen in a flash. Its funny to hear the teams deny its associated with Marlboro, anybody with half a brain knows it is, but who gives a .... except these people who go around trying to ruin everything?

Let the smokers smoke, if it bothers me I just ask them to move a few feet away, they are usually nice enough to do so. Its bad enough that they have a ban on advertisment, what next Ducati & Ferrari can't paint their vehicles red because Marlboro has red on the package? ....... idiots!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (VHMP01 @ May 1 2010, 11:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Even if the whole track is set with "Smoking will kill you!" signs, kids would go "What is 'smoking' dad?" Now, those signs are everywhere and I do not see them complaining! Idiots, a bar-code says much less!
Hahahahaha Yeah, and here is one more for you. These same type of psuedo-do-gooders are the same type to ban giving out condoms to kids; but then have a fit about teen pregnancy. The kids are gonna do what their gonna do, we just need to educate them on the consequences while giving them some prevention options. I think putting on the pack a warning is suffice. If that cross bones and caution warning didn't stop you from smoking, is an ad at the track gonna stop you? Please.

Cigarette companies are the lowest form of life on the planet and lets forget that people - they stilllosea shitload of product every year that turns up (and is given away for free) in some 3rd world location to get a new market hooked as western markets dwindle.

However, lets also not forget these doctors that are jumping up and down have no problem subscribing drugs that have been sold to them at a free dinner put on by the drug company, and its only 5-10 years later we find out the drug actually caused some other problem (for example currently its blood pressure meds possibly contributing to altzimers).

Western medicine is one of the biggest killers in our society today. In Australia, approx 18,000 people die as a result of western medicine each year. In the US I read that it was up around 250,000 per year.

Just recently we have had kids dying from the flu vaccination!

But I ....... hate smokers. You would have to be a complete imbecile to take up smoking these days. I just wish it killed them quicker because the world is over populated so we may as well take out the most stupid in our society.

But now Rizla advertising is good because there can never be enough weed (good old fashion bush grown stuff) smokers!!!!

TP70 said:

Western medicine is one of the biggest killers in our society today. In Australia, approx 18,000 people die as a result of western medicine each year. In the US I read that it was up around 250,000 per year.



Just recently we have had kids dying from the flu vaccination!



But I ....... hate smokers. You would have to be a complete imbecile to take up smoking these days. I just wish it killed them quicker because the world is over populated so we may as well take out the most stupid in our society.



But now Rizla advertising is good because there can never be enough weed (good old fashion bush grown stuff) smokers!!!!

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Insurance pharmacutical Gun Tobacco and Alcohol companies are all Scum Bags That are in the business of taking everyones money and not giving a .... about the consequences! its up to each individual to be smart enough to know how to manage dealing with all theses things as well as teaching they're kids about it. But when it comes to money most people don't care where it comes from as long as it makes things possible like Moto gp and F1

TP70 said:

Western medicine is one of the biggest killers in our society today. In Australia, approx 18,000 people die as a result of western medicine each year. In the US I read that it was up around 250,000 per year.



Just recently we have had kids dying from the flu vaccination!



But I ....... hate smokers. You would have to be a complete imbecile to take up smoking these days. I just wish it killed them quicker because the world is over populated so we may as well take out the most stupid in our society.



But now Rizla advertising is good because there can never be enough weed (good old fashion bush grown stuff) smokers!!!!

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WTF are you on about? Drinking the government Kool Aid I see. So smoking tobacco will kill you and is imbecilic and you wish it'd kill the tobacco smokers you hate quickly, but smoking weed is just fine, in fact it should be encouraged in your little world.



Get a grip. Smoking tobacco, whilst potentially harmful, is no worse for the lungs etc than smoking skunk, or running down the side of a gridlocked dual carriageway. Government figures which list any death from cardio vascular or lung issue as smoking related (remember, passive smoking kills too ) is how they come up with such inflated numbers of deaths "due to smoking". It's the same con as CAGW - wake up and smell the coffee before this kind of mis-information strangles your brain.



I'm not saying smoking tobacco is safe, just that the religious fervour attempting to demonise a legal drug is seriously overstated IMHO. Michealm may take issue with this, but at least he is a qualified MD.

people are gay and seek attention.

J708 said:

people are gay and seek attention.

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eh?