Thursday video: naked flight attendants kind of...boring

July 9, 9:06 AMDC Transportation ExaminerKatherine M. Hill

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Today's Thursday video is last week's internet sensation from Air New Zealand, who saw an opportunity in free marketing (I'm regretably doing it now!) by creating a digital alternative to airline safety videos. By giving its digital instructors painted uniforms.(Initial to h/t to Jezebel)

It's digital, safe for work, but also kind of...gross. The body paint is "thick" and the jokes are kind of lame, so if you want to skip the "cheeky" video, here's a decent summation from The Washington Post, so you can pretend you saw the video around the water cooler with this:

"We'd like to give you what we call the bare essentials of safety," says a man with a jacket, shirt and tie airbrushed onto his chest, his delivery a mixture of enthusiasm and dazed whose-idea-was-this-ness. At the end of the video, a chirpy female flight attendant (we know because of the airbrushed scarf) offers a traditional Maori greeting ("Kia ora, and have a great flight") before turning on her heel and walking off, her figure going out of focus just as her bottom half comes into view.

Clever!

Ultimately, I'm not impressed by Air New Zealand's sense of humor. If anything, I'm less inspired to choose the airline now than before.