So apparently, the workmen’s compensation board in Ontario decided to raise awareness about workplace safety by scaring the living crap out of the TV viewing audience. Presented for your consideration are a few of the commercials they cooked up. Fair warning: the imagery in a few of these is pretty…intense. Seriously, it’s not for the faint of heart. Viewer discretion is advised.
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So what do our neighbors to the north think of these? Have these commercials made you scared to watch Hockey Night in Canada?
the first one came out like months ago, i never saw the other ones though, i feel bad, lol, but yo the one with the guy being sent over the building, that was a snapout yo .
I saw the hot oil one the other day for the first time and I can’t believe they would do something that fucking crazy. I can imagine kids watching tv with their parents, seeing that commercial, and flipping out. Yeah, it gets the point across, very much so but what they show is a little extreme.
It’s about the equivalent of when I saw horror movie trailers as a child on TV. So yeah, its rather extreme. It’s almost as if they’re packing in all the intensity of those old French construction safety commercials into 30 second clips…wild.
Why did the black guy have to die like that? He didn’t even finish his speech like the rest of them. Everyone else got up after the accident but he was just laying in the street.
Do they really not censor out “You fuckin’ bitch” in the PSAs? If so, that’s awesome.
Our PSAs are mostly this black faggot with huge glasses droning on about tobacco.
Edit: It’s really funny to hear “You fuckin’ bitch” in what sounds, to me, like a midwestern accent. (Canadians and midwesterners sound pretty similar… the pronounciation of sorry comes to mind.)
Generally there are 5 specifically Canadian accents in Canada:
(I say Canadian because there are obviously the usual ones like Chinese/Korean, Russian, Jamaican, Trinidadian, etc)
-The more common mid-western-esque one you mentioned that would be common in most areas, and especially Ontario, BC, etc.
-The French Canadian accent you might hear in Montreal or Quebec
-The southerner-esque accent you might hear in Calgary and parts of the prairie provinces
-The maritimes/newfie (Newfoundland) accent
-The english spoken by people whose families have been here a long time and are basically as Canadian as it gets (in other words, their families didn’t immigrate here within the last couple of generations). This is what constitutes the stereotypical Canadian accent you hear in a lot of American media or on a show like Royal Canadian Air Farce. It’s very rare though, and I’ve never met anyone under 40 who had it.
If you talk with any of the last two, you’ll get teased mercilessly in school anyway.