Mmmmm nice ...
I'm taking the opportunity to perk up some of these older pages, including my Rude Packaging page.
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... by no means is it the largest source of rude packaging images on the web but it has some unique pack shots that are featured nowhere else. Sadly, many great example of rude packaging have slipped through my hands before I could photograph them. The Czech Republic was an excellent source for material - I fondly remember coming back home with a bottle of lavatory cleaner called 'Colon' and not buying a pack of Gonad in a Prague supermarket (never figured out what that was).In my experience German and East European languages are the best for unexpected rude soundingness in English; for example, I believe the German word 'fahrt' means power in English which is great when buying batteries because packets feature pictures of cheery cartoon characters exclaiming 'Gute Fahrt' and similar. Other top German products that have come into our life recently include 'Gluhfix' and the scrumptious 'Mini Dickmanns' - sadly 'Enormous' and 'Donkey' Dickmanns were out of stock ...
My own person favourite example of rude packaging is the whole 'North Americans don't understand the alternative use for the word member thing'. Hence we have a brand of Canadian designer clothing proudly described as the Private Member Range on 30ft high posters for the whole World to see and the American Express campaign from years back - 'There's one word on our card that says more about you than money ever can - That word is MEMBER!'. Totally and absolutely marvellous.
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