Thirst Trap Lube

What? I didn’t I didn’t say that. Yeah, you did. Yeah, you did, just now. I know the kind of sex stuff that I say. I would never say that.

We’re back for a second go at Black Mirror series seven’s opener Common People (see Honey Nugs if you haven’t’ already), and things are getting a bit hot under the collar. For me personally, that’s mostly to do with the unfettered rage I failed to suppress on having to include the word ‘flavor’ on this one. And we are undoubtedly in America; it’s mentioned a couple of times and we can see a map of the country on Tracee Ellis Ross’s office computer monitor. And Irishman Chris O’Dowd utters the phrase ‘fucking Americans’ at one point in the programme. When Rashida Jones blacks out in the car due to exceeding the geographical boundaries of her Rivermind implant, the place ‘Palmer County’ is mentioned. I’ve tried to find this but only really come up with Palmer in Texas. There is a Palmer County in Queensland, Australia but you’d never catch them spelling ‘flavour’ without a U.

Anyway, lube. The couple are attempting to conceive and during an intimate moment, Rivermind kicks in with an ad for Thirst Trap and effectively ruins it all. Following it up with another ad for erectile dysfunction gel. Kind of counter productive, really. I couldn’t really bring myself to do any deep and meaningful research into the whole viagra scene, so went with the lube as it’s kind of a unisex affair. As in the BBFC says – U: suitable for all (something that people in the US should take note of when spelling the word ‘flavour’).

Let’s forget the U thing now, hey. The design is based on an admittedly slightly older version of a logo from a company that manufactures condoms and the like. ‘Personal lubricants’ they’re calling it here. I’m unsure what an impersonal version of this would be. As far as I know, there aren’t any public lubricant outposts anywhere on the planet, but I could be wrong.

Honestly, though. I didn’t even know you could get this shit in flavo(u)rs. Back in my day you had ‘overbearingly chemical’ flavour and had done with it. Though back in my day we didn’t even have the internet, so I suppose this is progression of sorts.