Scandis in Fear of 88 Pound Girl

Below the fold, the video that Swedes are afraid of:

Not particularly fun to watch, I admit. The girl isn't particularly cute and the song is depressing.

But nothing to be afraid of.

But we're talking about puffin-sniffers here.

he Facebook group was created by Swedish student Anders Hammas late one evening while he was studying. “That was when I saw this commercial that I thought was pretty horrible,” he told the Expressen newspaper.

The description of the Facebook group reads: “Those of us who have a TV and like to watch commercials/can't be bothered to reach for the remote are facing a problem. Apoliva has begun to run a commercial that is frightening. A woman singing a Nordic/Swedish folk song in freezing rain with lightning. I am creating this group for those of us who need somewhere to seek support and talk things out. It's only a matter of time before it creeps into our dreams and terrorises us in our sleep.”

“We definitely weren't prepared for this reaction,” Eva Fernvall, brand manager at Apoteket AB, told Expressen.

“It was never our intention to scare people,” she added.

But these aren't people. They're shaved yetis.

Thanks to DrewM.

posted by Ace at 12:40 PM

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