The internet is a weird, wonderful but mostly disturbing place.

If you don’t believe me turn off the Google ‘safe search’ option and type in just about anything. Click the images tab and scroll down – if you haven’t come across at least a boob within a matter of seconds you’re a better person than me.

That’s not the pressing matter though, we have bigger fish to fry and those fish swim in the ABSA pond.

As one of SA’s biggest banks we want to know how something like this advert below has come to pass:

Some people have a foot fetish, whilst others get turned on by stranger things like gnomes. It’s not that we’re getting all judgy, someone in this office once drunkenly admitted to being turned on by panda sex so we’re an open-minded bunch.

Just look at those little top-hatted freaks above – try and tell me that one on the right doesn’t look like he’d peep through your window late at night when you’re getting ready for bed?

But here’s the real million rand question (fingers on buzzers) – which member at ABSA (or their ad agency) managed to get their sick fantasy approved? Because we can assure them now that no one saves to buy hideous little garden gnomes, these are trying financial times and there are more pressing issues to be dealt with first.

Unless, perhaps, their aim is to advertise directly to garden gnomes and offer some kind of a garden gnome special just for garden gnomes? You may think it seems unlikely, but you’d be forgetting that garden gnomes are usually quite business aware and Business Day would be one of their regular reads.

Where does all this leave us? Scratching our heads and looking over our shoulders, that’s where.

If you have more information on just why ABSA have gone with this angle, or where gnome fetish enthusiasts gather to compare their collections, feel free to let us in on your dirty secrets.

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DISLAIMER: it is common knowledge that 2oceansvibe and 2oceansvibe Radio have, from time to time, harboured garden gnomes. We need to be clear that those gnomes came to us and we didn’t seek them. We merely took them in and offered them a safe and loving environment.