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\"avatar\"Now, see, I know I’m not the only person to find the Bird’s Eye Polar Bear adverts creepy. I know<\/i> this for a fact. Other people find him creepy too. The great divide seems to be whether or not we like him.<\/p>\n

Short answer: I don’t.<\/p>\n

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It’s bad enough that there’s this passive-aggressive, snarky mammal in the freezer that in real life would be ten times my size with feet the size of bicycle wheels, teeth designed for ripping seals apart and a tendency to chomp first, ponder prey-appropriateness later. Bad enough that he’s voiced by an actor I best remember going off his head in Platoon<\/a>. I mean, is that why he can’t tell whether it’s a pea or a cannonball? Because he’s still having flashbacks?<\/p>\n

He tries to tell you what to eat! A polar bear! Who lives in the freezer! And somehow can survive the lack of air and general scarcity of seals in the average British domestic household!<\/p>\n

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Then I realised. He’s trapped in there, talking to himself, going batshit crazy like Adrian Brody in The Jacket<\/a>. Playing with the switch that makes the light go on and off until the bulb blows; or fapping into the bags of vegetables while trying to drink himself to death on ice-cold vodka. The only interruption in his interminable life of tedium, imprisoned in the dark with the tupperware boxes filled with solidified leftovers and the peas that escaped from the bag to grow wrinkled and grey in the hoarfrost, is when someone opens the door.<\/p>\n

He’s deranged. Anyone would be after being stuck in there. There is no one who could possibly survive that sort of environment mentally intact. But these people, coming to the door, letting in a brief glimpse of daylight and a warmer world of colour and sun… He has to be careful. He can’t scare them off. They might not come back. He has to be nice, friendly, helpful.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing quite so creepy as a deranged predator trying to be nice, especially when the mask slips and the simmering rage and hatred sneaks out in the form of sharpened sarcasm:<\/p>\n

“Hey, Laura. You know, I love preparing chicken.”<\/p>\n

“Really?”<\/p>\n

“No, Laura, nobody<\/i> does.”<\/p>\n

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“I’m feeling a little neglected… And Clive? Don’t be a stranger.”<\/p>\n

I swear the subtext to that reads: “Because if you are, next time you open this door you might just find that I gut you like a pig.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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