To despise the virgin trains advert and wonder what they hope to achieve by it?

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Just to make lone female passengers feel even more than ever that some creep over the aisle is ogling them??
Anyone?

No I hate it too, especially the bit at the end were he sees another women to stalk

YANBU

I feel really uncomfortable about it too, like it's ok to stalk any woman who looks like she's travelling alone.

I've not seen it. Can you link please?

Link!

I meant link? ! May have come across a little aggressive.

What they aim to achieve by it?

I'm guessing it's supposed to me a "modern take" on the romance of rail travel

I like it. The twat assumes she's returning goo goo eyes at him and when she forgets her book and he thinks this is my chance... He sees she's being greeted by her adorable twin girls and her way hotter husband. Kind of gives the "as if you ever had a chance with her" impression. I thought the old man grabs the book off him in the end.

Wow, there's some inventive reading between the lines here.

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths people will go to to be offended.

I don't think that it's people just being professionally offended.

What has it got to do with train travel? Some bloke following random women. Obviously not Virgin's intention but it does come across as creepy.

Would you like to be ogled and followed by a odd man while travelling on your own?

Stupid advert. But pretty much every advert is stupid. That amore ( ? ) yoghurt one for example ...

Don't find it offensive, just a bit rubbish. I think it's a leap to call it stalking - fancying someone isn't exactly sinister.

"Fancy" several lone women who are strangers and following them isn't stalky? Ok then...

reverse the situation and put men in the place of women

The station at the start is Glasgow Central but the advert is advertising Manchester to London. Irrelevent to the discussion, sorry

wow there is a lot of projection on this thread..

Urgh.

I find a lot of the virgin adverts annoying or disturbing in a similar way

I don't like it because a long time ago when I was young I was on one of those old trains that had a corridor and 6/8 seat carriages on my own when a man who looked just like the guy in the add came in and started behaving strangely he then sat right by the door and put his feet up across the door saying "Right that will stop anyone else coming in"
I picked up my bag asked him to move and got out of there luckily.

Since when do virgin trains look like that anyway? Last one I went on half the lights were out, buffet carriage had been cancelled and the person doing the announcements couldn't have given a shit.

I'm more offended by the false advertising than I was by the man :o

Wheresmycaffinedrip, absolutely agree.