If We Keep Buying All This Cocaine, Then The Mafia Wins
This is a neat and also HIGHLY DANCEABLE PSA put together by the Italian government to remind people that when you buy cocaine, you are funding the mafia, and I guess you shouldn't? I don't speak Italian so it's hard to tell. This could be a neat and also HIGHLY DANCEABLE ad for cocaine for all I know.
So, if you keep buying cocaine then the Squid Faces will bury radioactive waste under the tomato crates and then sell those tomato crates to women who just want to go to the club? And then a city will be built on top of a funeral and they will call their Squid Wives from Squid Jail on their magical Jailphones and their Squid Wives will take the cocaine to the corners? In Italy, it's like The Wire but with some Spongebob Square Pants up in it! The Mafia are such Litter Louts!
In any case, I just wanted a reason to use the expression "if [blank] then the mafia wins" and now I have one. So this works out great for me. Sorry, integrity of the Italian political system and sense of personal safety on Italian streets. (Thanks for the tip, Gideon.)
Posted by Gabe at 10:15 AM in PSAs
Tags: Cocaine | Crime | Italy | Mafia
does anyone else find it ironic that whoever came up with this idea was on drugs?
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Oh yes, surely patriotism will cure my coke addiction!
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Perhaps just the trailer for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes II? You've got to appreciate the intricate backstory.
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Dude, the news in Italy is AWESOME.
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over three mins for a PSA is a bit too long, i had to blow 3 lines to keep paying attention
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To be fair, the mafia in Italy have brought certain regions of the country to the verge of ecological collapse by running illegal toxic waste disposal services. The life expectancy of a lot of people in the farm lands is plummeting.
To be videogum, this may fail as a PSA, but if this were a videogame, i'd own a copy and have already beaten it by now. For the cocaine.
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What are they talking about??
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All I want to do is Freebase and practice my moves on the dancefloor.
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I asked my husband, who is from Italy, and he said that mafia are known as octopus because their tentacles reach everywhere. That still leaves a lot unexplained, though...
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I didn't realize Spank Rock was so mainstream in Italy.
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I love at 2:13, when the little voting ballot comes up, that it has a little Obama campaign logo (in Italian colors) as the second option. Is there anything that guy can't fix?
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I had no idea that Cthulhu sold coke. The more you know!
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Wait, are they growing tomacco?
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This seems to be aimed at people who do cocaine, but it makes me want to start snorting cocaine all the time while also starting Squid Face dance parties everywhere I go. I think the mafia designed this PSA.
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With a cameo from Boxy Brown
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