Microsoft’s got a pretty stellar track record of terrible Windows infomercials. Some for the consumer, some internal, all pretty rough. This 1988 video showcases Windows/386, a fairly impressive upgrade to Windows that introduced multitasking among other features. The impressiveness of the upgrade does not come through in this video. What begins as a dry-but-corny corporate…
Stop It, You – British Handkerchief PSA (1947)
The “wear a mask” of its time, this charmingly pithy British PSA reminds us that failure to catch one’s sneeze is the behavior of a true garbage person.
Correctly pointing out the real health risk involved in an uncaught sneeze, the narrator then proceeds to dump an absolutely insane amount of pepper into the protagonist’s face, causing an uncontrollable sneezing fit.
It sort of becomes difficult to watch.
Oh also, wear a mask. Just wear a mask.
(wear a mask)
-ds