A job ad that brings out the smiles, and a silly 'navel gazing' fuss!

A tongue-in-cheek job recruitment ad which appeared in ST (23 Sept), with a vacancy for a "slave", went viral. Here is the insing/com story that I came across:

http://news.insing.com/tabloid/hilarious-recruitment-ad-goes-viral/id-0bc63e00

It is so good to find humour among boring job ads. The bicycle parts company in question said it is looking for "an additional slave". The applicant needs to have a minimum two years' "talking cock experience... be shameless and fearless... and like to suck up to bosses".

Also, he (or she?) must have "own horse. We provide the fodder". And the punchline...

Only Singaporeans/PRs need apply! Here's the ad:

On the other hand, the Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore (ASAS) seems not only to have no sense of humour, it offered a lame excuse for calling for the removal of a large wall advertisement -- of a bare-chested man wearing a pair of low-slung jeans -- on the Orchard Road shopfront of fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch. It breached the local advertising code of decency, the watchdog said (ST, 29 Sept, page B1). Its lame excuse?

"The general consensus was that the portrayal of the human anatomy had crossed the path of decency because the navel line was very much exposed," ASAS' chairman said! Here's the "indecent" ad:

Come on! What about this typical print ad (for a slimming company), with the navel line clearly exposed!