Actually, it's probably a good idea. Especially after about 10 beers.

Yeah, that totally makes sense to me. I initially misread the headline as "Would you like a condom in your beer." That would be less appropriate, I think.

Unless...

Better than a condom in your beer...

I fail to see the problem with this, since a lot of people do stupid things like not wear a condom when drunk after picking up a girl.

but seriously, beer is piss water. Do people actually drink that cheap crap? gross.

Its better then a reminder to take your STD medication before taking that girl or boy home.

I think this is kind of smart advertising, personally. And also, "Stiffler from American Pie" would not be my first thought upon seeing that.

Ironically, if everyone heeded this message at the bottom of their glass, evolution would be a moot point.

But I am vehemently pro-birth control, so go nuts, condom folks.

No

Yeah I also think it's a good idea - Me and all the other "accidents" out there may not be around takin up too much space if they started this earlier!

Just kidding. In this day and age, people are sleeping with anything that stands still long enough, with little regard to safety or birth control. This is a necessary evil.

But it depends on where this was at. Was this some seedy dive bar? Or a real classy lounge? That might be a little tasteless for the latter.

hmm, everyone wearing condoms and the entire human race going extinct...well, you'd sure have one over on God...he would not have seen that one coming.(No pun, God I hate puns)

i wouldn't be opposed to them taking it a step further and handing out a condom with the beer.

Maybe it's really a way to get you to drink more beer since most people probably don't have any need to wear a condom if they're in a bar drinking a beer so they drown their sorrows with another beer....

@Uriel: What's wrong with puns???

Puns are considered the lowest form of humor only by those that don't find them funny.

I'm much happier with a bar subsidizing the skyrocketing price of beer with ads in the glasses, vs. the use of "falsies" and exaggerating the head.

@bovinekid: @Uriel: That would bring new meaning to the term "beer goggles"...

Doesn't seem much different than those coasters with the beer brands on them. Heck my local coffee shop has ads on the hot sleeves now for Sprint and Weight Watchers.

@testsicles: agreed.

Maybe if Trojan invented a condom that was virtually undetectable by the wearer and the... umm... recipient(?) then maybe they wouldn't have to jam it down peoples throats.

Wait, that didn't come out right. I must be drunk...

@Uriel: You've been drinking the wrong beer, I think.

I don't have a problem with it. Condoms prevent STDs and unwanted pregnancy - I've got no problems with that.

@ekthesy: That was my thought as well. Whoever decided on the whole "evolution" tagline did not think this thing through.

The more seeds I plant, the quicker I'll propagate my webbed toes as a useful genetic abberation. Fish people unite against condoms!

Now, about that beer again..

It would be much better if condoms came with beer.

I think it can be something of a pickup line..

To the girl at the bar next to me...

Me: Hey there.. check out this useless ad at the bottom of my glass.
Girl: Yeah, you won't need that with me because I'm not going home with you.
Me: Good, you just proved my point.

Reminding people in a bar that using a condom if your picking someone up, not a bad idea. Ads in the bottom of my beer, that sucks. I'm really tired of ads showing up everywhere.

@Uriel: but seriously, beer is piss water

Busch Light is piss water. I'll take a Sam Adams or a Sapporo or a Lobotomy Bock any day of the week, though.

Also, Indian food + IPA = extra win

Actually, Chris; this seems like a very good idea. You are completely wrong.

so any of this money generated from these ads will ever end up in my glass as free beer ? perhaps a free condom to make balloons out of...........

Yes, yes I would like a condom ad in my beer. How about a reminder about not drinking and driving and the danger of sexual assault and alcohol too. Thanks.

This is useless. Someone so drunk that they need reminding to protect themselves can't see well enough to read the ad, anyway Now if only they made beer goggles that can protect you from thong shrapnel, you'd have something.

Oooo... I'm going to hear about that one.

Leela: Didn't you have ad's in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!

I think it's a good idea - but it doesn't reinforce as much as an actual beer ad would. If I'm drinking a beer and suddenly see a Sam Adams ad (for example), I might be willing to give Sam Adams a shot if it's at the bottom of my glass, especially if the ad says it's on sale.

I don't see the harm in it. You don't get offended when you go to the bathroom in a different bar and see the condom machine there...

And sorry chris, but the first thing I'd think of is me getting laid.

I don't think it's a bad idea. Trojan's marketing seems to focus mostly on young people and using a condom as a method of STD prevention, so advertising in a bar makes perfect sense.

I think that I heard that one in five adults have genital herpes. After thinking about that long enough, this ad seem totally fine.

At least it was a trojan ad instead of a cheaper and far worse condom company.

oasn (on a side note), I'd be interested to find out how many people get laid after drinking at that bar. If maybe somehow seeing that ad plants a subliminal seed to get laid.

actually, this isn't a truly terrible idea. why not, right?

the way it looks to me, you see the ad the entire time your drinking your beer.

I don't see the problem with the ad - when I think back of my days in college when I was a resident advisor, and the number of girls who came to talk to me because they were worried they might be pregnant after having slept with who-the-hell-knows after a night of drinking, maybe something like this might have helped.

@Darkwish: Seriously! Puns are a rare medium, especially when well done.

I wouldn't want to stare at an advertisment at the bottom of my cup while drinking my beer. Sure it means well, but it is still an advertisment and I think it looks damn tacky.

Condom machines in the restrooms would seem to be more helpful. Regardless of the fact that its a trashy dive or classy jazz bar, the condom machine could be available in both. Too drunk to drive to the corner store with your hot date? Grab a vendy condom while in the bathroom! Its discreet and conveinent. There could also be vendy lubricants.

Why doesn't this happen? Bring forth the vendy condoms!

It's jimmy HAT. I didn't even listen to real music in the early 90s and I know that.

I wonder what else they will advertise in the bottom of the beer glasses... maybe aspirin for hangovers? Maybe a certain brand of pretzels...

The photo was taken at The Surly Girl in Columbus, OH. They've got a great beer selection. Just seedy enough to make you come back.

Maybe if having sex with condoms didn't feel like having unnatural sex. Maybe if no matter how large they are they always feel like they are sqeezing the life out (and I guess eventually do).

Until then I'll just have to be careful and not be a slut.

@LJKelley: Yeah bro, only sluts use condoms! Hi-five!

@LJKelley:

you're a jackass. go head-butt your frat bro for me.

@PersonOfInterest: I don't know what's wrong with the Consumerist. This is a brilliant idea. The only thing that would make it more brilliant is adding your ideas too.

@LintySoul: Have you ever been in an establishment that serves liquor? The condom vending machine is about as common as the high school girl's bathroom tampon machine.

Somewhere, some drunk bastard is wearing a beer glass on his dork trying to get laid telling the lady "It's cool baby, it's by Trojan"