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by qubex 2212 days ago
Italy’s 1990 “AIDS: If you know it, you avoid it” public service advertisement is indelibly seared into the consciousness of my whole generation. Drawing purple outlines around things is still an instant reminder of that. The soundtrack is often heard overlaid over threatening scenarios much as the Benny Hill soundtrack is overload over situations to indicate they are ‘funny’.

https://youtu.be/so94WTK8kBw
1 comments
sandebert 2212 days ago
What a sad way to ruin the song "Oh Superman" by Laurie Anderson.
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detritus 2212 days ago
It's one of my all-time favourite songs, since I was a kid. Italian partner looked at me oddly first time I played it at home, as her memory of it was all bundled up in grim negativity.

It's not a song that gets played much at home, when she's about :(

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qubex 2212 days ago
Yeah, it’s really ingrained in us. It’s shorthand for existential dread.
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