Posted
on March 10, 2010, 23:10,
by bigmentaldisease,
under BADvertising.
Look at this ad. Pretty tame. In fact, I don’t think there would be any harm in letting a child see that, as they wouldn’t cop on to the sexual meaning.
Complaints about a television ad for a sex lubricant that appeared before its 11pm restriction were not upheld by a watchdog.
Viewers complained the ad for Durex Play O gel, which showed the facial expressions of women who appeared to be experiencing sexual ecstasy, was offensive and unsuitable for broadcast.
The ad was cleared for broadcast after 11pm but appeared on Channel 4 shortly after 10pm during Gordon Ramsay’s F Word and Derren Brown Presents the 3D Magic Spectacular programmes.
Channel 4 said Gordon Ramsay’s F Word was of an adult nature and contained strong language and sexual innuendo, and that viewers of the programme would not have been offended by the ad.
The Advertising Standards Authority noted the viewers who complained believed the ad was unsuitable for broadcast at any time.
Anything of even the slightest sexual nature and these joyless, repressed trolls are running to the phone. The miserable cunts spend at least a week out of each month complaining about things.
I seriously think they should just kill themselves, so the world can be a little bit brighter for the rest of us.
Posted
on December 12, 2009, 22:30,
by bigmentaldisease,
under BADvertising.
I think it’s strange that Gillette is trying to distance itself from sex romp cheat Tiger Woods. In my opinion he is the perfect representative, along with Thierry Henry, of their own outrageous con-product.
Posted
on December 1, 2009, 03:22,
by bigmentaldisease,
under BADvertising.
Irish phone companies seem to make an extra effort every Christmas to annoy the holy shit out of everyone with their irritating ads. You’ve got Vodafone with its ‘whaddya want for Chrimbo babe’ jerk. Then you have Three with its awful advert, the one that contains the stupid bimbo sending a picture of herself in trashy lingerie to the boyfriend, not realising that it will immediately be circulated to all his male contacts, and quickly end up on an amateur porn site. Daddy won’t be pleased, Claire. But I thought he was the one!
Nevertheless, the award for biggest Christmas douchebag goes to the bearded carol singer in the Meteor ads.
Beardy seems to be the epitome of the cocky Irish twentysomething. You’ll find him in Whelans every Saturday night, blathering on about Florence and the Machine, The Ting Tings and that time he met Glen Hansard in McDonalds on Grafton Street. Himself and Glen entertained the queues with their impromptu and heartfelt version of No Woman, No Cry. Beardy later on tweeted a picture of himself and Glen taking a disgusting shit in a Garda hat on South William Street before they went their separate ways.
If you ask Smugbeard what his favourite album is, he will decline to tell you, as you have probably never heard of the band.
Then he’ll wave you away with his stylishly ironic fingerless gloves.
Beardy/Smugbeard/Hipster Jesus scores at least one chick a night. And he NEVER wears a condom.
Over Christmas, you can catch the big bearded bopper bastard outside your local shopping centre, singing carols. Always ironically though.
EDIT – 8TH DEC: Beardy is miles ahead in the race to be the biggest Irish cunt. Beardy IS the biggest cunt, whereas Mary Harney HAS the biggest cunt.
Posted
on November 11, 2009, 18:09,
by bigmentaldisease,
under BADvertising.
Kerrygold advertisements are always a big pile of nonsense, but there’s a line in this one that takes the biscuit.
“Ah Sure. They export all our best stuff,” she says, ruefully.
What a pity Irish people are giving their precious butter to the horrible foreigners. What, do you have a problem with international trade or something, you big Irish mammy stereotype you?
I remember the other Kerrygold ads had miserable old people in them too.
Posted
on September 7, 2009, 13:26,
by bigmentaldisease,
under BADvertising.
There has been a bit of a controversy surrounding the new German AIDS awareness campaign by Regenbogen e.V. in conjunction with the advertising agency, Das Comittee. The commercial has been released to coincide with 2009 World Aids Day.
“Of course there are many HIV organisations that run their own campaigns, however I think the advert is incredibly stigmatising to people living with HIV who already face much stigma and discrimination due to ignorance about the virus,” a spokeswoman for the National AIDS Trust, which co-ordinates World Aids Day in Britain, said.
“On top of this it fails to provide any kind of actual prevention message (e.g. use a condom) and may deter people to come forward for testing.
“The advert is also inaccurate because in the UK thanks to treatment HIV is a manageable condition that does not necessary lead to AIDS.”
The shock factor is a common tactic used in the advertising industry, especially when it comes to awareness campaigns such as domestic violence, drink driving and infectious diseases. These ads are pretty graphic, so of course they are going to generate debate, which is probably the intention. It is a fair point to say that it may stigmatise AIDS sufferers, but at the same time, young people are becoming complacent in their attitudes to this virus.
Gone are the days of people dying in agony and wasting away on a hospital bed, now we have highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Patients can live fairly normal and healthy lives, as long as they remain on their medication. So no, it does not mean certain death if one contracts HIV but that should not translate into having a lax attitude towards unsafe sex. HIV is an ongoing concern and millions do die from the virus every year, in developing countries. So the ad is right in saying that the virus is a mass murderer. Sometimes shock may be the only thing that gets people’s attention.
