Oily bikini lady in rebreather ad

[almitywife]

(not directed at RonFrank)

I wonder why when Tusa came out with it's Ad campaign last year it didn't raise this kind of a ruckus' (see below one of their pics.)

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because i consider Tusa a 3rd grade product for newbies that dont know any better and therefore i give their advertising very little thought & dismiss it totally

overall there are far superior products to TUSA and i would never buy Tusa (again) nor would i ever recomend Tusa products to another diver.

so let the newbies see these ads and buy, another example of dumbing down a product for the sake of a quick sale & interest......something that i thought KISS was above

 

[Kim]

Kim, I think Japan is a perfect of example of sexuality in a culture being sort of driven underground...I mean, where else can you buy school girls used knickers in vending machines ? I was wondering if you have any comment on this sort of thing (as related to marketing and cultural *norms*. Very sexually opressed on the surface, but a huge "shadow-life."

I'm not really an expert here. I arrived 20/30 years too late to have ever been involved in the dating scene, and I live fairly secluded in the countryside - nothing like Tokyo or Osaka etc. From what I understand though those vending machines are pretty much a thing of the past. I'm not sure that sexuality here is really "repressed" though - just perceived in a different way. I believe most Japanese consider most Westerners to be somewhat obsessed with the whole topic. They use girls in advertising though - especially stuff like the Asahi beer posters. It's a lot more demure on TV though - but they have some rather odd rules concerning what can be shown visually. Basically you can't show pubic hair - breasts are fine. It's all a bit odd, but I can't say I have a good understanding of the fundamentals.
Still - they have their "love-hotels" for couples (including married) to find some privacy - and these are everywhere - not exactly hidden. And they have the hostess clubs that are everywhere - again....not what you might think....just pretty girls pouring drinks and chatting with customers.

There could be a whole world out there I'm missing though - like I said.....got here too old (and happily married)....and I don't speak Japanese very well!

 

[Cacia]

thanks.
What you have here in this forum is people from all over the world commenting from very different vantage points.
..thats my point I guess.

 

[chickdiver]

Thanks, Chickdiver. Since you are the best tech instructor that I know of, then that is all I need to know about CCRs.

Thanks also for the previous hot tip on V-Planner as well.

ummm thanks....

The fact that I dive a Meg and not a KISS is not a comment on the KISS product, and can't be taken as such. There were a number of reasons I went with the Meg, not the least of which being that a whole group of us that regularly dives together all got the same unit. The KISS is a fine CCR. In fact, it's pretty much the only other unit I would seriously consider. Jetsam makes some other nice kit as well, including a baby booster (which I own one of).

 

[dlndavid]

did somebody mention sex for sale?

 

[mike_s]

because i consider Tusa a 3rd grade product for newbies that dont know any better and therefore i give their advertising very little thought & dismiss it totally

overall there are far superior products to TUSA and i would never buy Tusa (again) nor would i ever recomend Tusa products to another diver.

so let the newbies see these ads and buy, another example of dumbing down a product for the sake of a quick sale & interest......something that i thought KISS was above

While I agree there are far superior products to TUSA,

Actually Tusa's parent company, Tabatha, makes I think most of ScubaPro's masks/fins/snorkles and also at least one of their regulators.


From a Tech Gear perspective, Even Dive Rite had a nice picture of a bikini girl on the front of their catalog last year.

 

[almitywife]

While I agree there are far superior products to TUSA,

Actually Tusa's parent company, Tabatha, makes I think most of ScubaPro's masks/fins/snorkles and also at least one of their regulators.


From a Tech Gear perspective, Even Dive Rite had a nice picture of a bikini girl on the front of their catalog last year.

yes but they are not badged at tusa are they??? so my attitude, as the buyer, affects tusa sales and not scubapro's

for me its not about the bikini pic and if im offended by someones boobs - its about the direction of a good product that is my disappointment

yes, i would much rather see ChickDiver fully decked out in drysuit and breather selling the unit than Ms Dominican Thong chick. that type of ad (ChickDiver in gear) would say to me im selling the unit not come look at some skin and then enquire what we are selling

 

[RoyN]

:11:

 

[rhadamantus]

:11:

u meant this: :drooling: and not :11: . right, royn?

ooops, sorry, mrs.A!!! i can't help it!

 

[D_B]

I don't think anyone is calling anyone a bimbo. .

"So simple even a dumb chick (and we know that she's dumb because she's clearly had breast augmentation surgery) can use it."

OK, not a bimbo , she's clearly a dumb chick .. anyone can tell that by looking at her



That is just incredable to me, to think people still think like that