Fucking Gross Adverts

Blimey mumsnet is regressive

Although again thats more of a public information film it sounds like, or was it for a brand of condoms?

I remember many years ago seeing a Scandinavian, possibly Swedish, advert on a programme looking at ads all over the world. It was for promoting condom use. A cartoon penis was slouching along (the balls were its feet) and comes across (no pun intended) a hole. It immediately brightens up, straightens up and prepares to dive in, then stops and produces a condom which it proceeds to don like someone pulling on a jumper. Another Scandi condom ad showed a man glumly pushing a supermarket trolley around with a tantrumming toddler. The slogan was “don’t want one of these? Then use one of these.” Must have been at least 20 years ago I saw these, and yet with all the ads showcasing bodily functions, in this country we still don’t have ads encouraging condom use? I think we should, at appropriate times obviously.

The one with the men playing basketball and the crotch smelling

Bulky pee pads!
Sits on mans shoulders at concert with her new incontinence knickers on the back of his neck, 😮

"I really don’t see the problem with this. I was just thinking the other day how refreshing it is that advertisers no longer have to use blue liquid to represent menstrual blood. Why should something experienced by half the people who have ever lived to adulthood be something to be ashamed of or disguised?"

Oh, this is a dishonest response. You've applied this intent to other people's reactions to make them seem unreasonable. And this is the very lie that was used to push our boundaries in the first place, this is what forces us into having more and more graphic or unpleasant imagery pushed on us. I'm not ashamed of my bodily functions just because I value my privacy and dignity. Anyone who needs the product will understand what they're for, we don't need like-for-like imagery or close ups of a woman's crotch in lacy knickers.

Everyone laughed at people who'd warned us of the slippery slope, but it's true. We became desensitised to what once shocked us and so they're able to push the limit a little further next time. And then again, and again.

Not just with product ads but ads for tv shows... I've noticed eg channel 4 promoting post watershed shows early in the morning and it just looks like they've just looked at whatever they can get away with showing, as opposed to having any common decency.
It's degeneracy that's being thrust on us, that's why our boundaries are never respected. And it's why "pushing boundaries" is always being presented as a good thing.

"I really don’t see the problem with this. I was just thinking the other day how refreshing it is that advertisers no longer have to use blue liquid to represent menstrual blood. Why should something experienced by half the people who have ever lived to adulthood be something to be ashamed of or disguised?"

Oh, this is a dishonest response. You've applied this intent to other people's reactions to make them seem unreasonable. And this is the very lie that was used to push our boundaries in the first place, this is what forces us into having more and more graphic or unpleasant imagery pushed on us. I'm not ashamed of my bodily functions just because I value my privacy and dignity. Anyone who needs the product will understand what they're for, we don't need like-for-like imagery or close ups of a woman's crotch in lacy knickers.

Everyone laughed at people who'd warned us of the slippery slope, but it's true. We became desensitised to what once shocked us and so they're able to push the limit a little further next time. And then again, and again.

Not just with product ads but ads for tv shows... I've noticed eg channel 4 promoting post watershed shows early in the morning and it just looks like they've just looked at whatever they can get away with showing, as opposed to having any common decency.
It's degeneracy that's being thrust on us, that's why our boundaries are never respected. And it's why "pushing boundaries" is always being presented as a good thing.

Not the same at all.
And those weren't adverts, they weren't trying to sell anything, they were highlighting dangers to children back in the day where children were always out playing and exploring without supervision. They were trying to save lives!

Totally different to trying to encourage people to slather unnecessary chemicals all over their nethers.

"Charm" is the very last word I would use for that advert.

You are absolutely right OP, it's as if all the kids that used to think saying bottom was funny have taken over the asylum. I said much the same as you last night to my DH when we were treated to a shot of woman sitting on the toilet, holding her panty gusset prior to applying a pad to it.

To be honest, I find it almost refreshing if there's one featuring a man for a change. Most of them seem to target women in an actively unpleasant and demeaning way, featuring or even inventing bodily problems we allegedly all suffer from. The adverts for Tena pads for men disappeared so quickly, if you blinked you missed them.

The dignity of the human spirit, let alone a little basic respect, is as naught to them.

"I really don’t see the problem with this. I was just thinking the other day how refreshing it is that advertisers no longer have to use blue liquid to represent menstrual blood. Why should something experienced by half the people who have ever lived to adulthood be something to be ashamed of or disguised?"

Oh, this is a dishonest response. You've applied this intent to other people's reactions to make them seem unreasonable. And this is the very lie that was used to push our boundaries in the first place, this is what forces us into having more and more graphic or unpleasant imagery pushed on us. I'm not ashamed of my bodily functions just because I value my privacy and dignity. Anyone who needs the product will understand what they're for, we don't need like-for-like imagery or close ups of a woman's crotch in lacy knickers.

Everyone laughed at people who'd warned us of the slippery slope, but it's true. We became desensitised to what once shocked us and so they're able to push the limit a little further next time. And then again, and again.

Not just with product ads but ads for tv shows... I've noticed eg channel 4 promoting post watershed shows early in the morning and it just looks like they've just looked at whatever they can get away with showing, as opposed to having any common decency.
It's degeneracy that's being thrust on us, that's why our boundaries are never respected. And it's why "pushing boundaries" is always being presented as a good thing.

I think that's the one I was "treated" to in big screen glory at the cinema. I'm still traumatized now.

I mostly watch drama serials on iPlayer, or films on Prime which doesn't have many adverts, so I don't see many of them.DH recently watched a film via the Channel 4 app. So many blinking adverts! Reminded me of why I usually watch Prime.

Now this commercial has a little bit of a charm to it: the wink the chap gives, plus the Welsh accent and bottom cluck - makes me laugh

Bulky pee pads , then she's sitting on someone's shoulders, with her incontinence knickers on the back of his neck,

Not offended at all and I used to swear a lot.

However, it was pointed out to me that swearing sets out your stall. If you are effing and jeffing all the time, others may see you as low-rent, common, uneducated. People may 'screen-out' your words and may extend to any good ideas you may have.

I don't think anyone has ever listened to people more, or taken them more seriously, when every sentence contains a swear word.

That struck a cord with me and I don't swear any more.

Your mileage may vary, of course.