What would Beckham drive?

Sometimes it's not easy being english in japan. Fortunately there's no one around to remind me. David Beckham reminds me how much worse things could be everyday. He, and his slapper wife, are doing a series of adverts for TBC, a chain of beauty salons. It's not pretty. At least during the advert they don't speak, but at the very end, in trashy Essex accents, they say, "Just Beauty, tee bee see." Imagine walking down Romford High Street (easier for some of you, than others) and asking Sharon and Darren to do a voice over... Kill. Me Now.

Still, things could be worse. I could be American.

There was a segment on CNN today about changing attitudes towards SUVs. One part was about a "militant enviroment group" that had set fire to a dealers lot full of SUVs. A comedy moment, but nothing compares to the follow up, an advert that asks the amazingly vacuous question, "What would Jesus drive?" What the fuck?! I really can imagine no other country on earth that could form such a question... amazing.

"And, in other news, Shiva, the destroyer, is purported to have purchased a new, ultra low emisson, Toyota Prius..."