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(Posted on behalf of Dh) AIBU to be cross about the Lloyds advert

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Soubriquet · 11/10/2016 19:47

Dh has asked me to post this

The Lloyds advert has come on, the one where the horse is running through all the scenes.

He usually loves it. Tonight he is pissed off. The scene where the man is proposing to his boyfriend has been cut out.

Why?!

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Icapturethecast1e · 11/10/2016 20:15

Sad but I luv this advert. Don't even remember really what it's about. The music just reminds me of Donny Darko.

Pardonwhat · 11/10/2016 20:16

Bugger off! The horse isn't funeral-y. It is majestic and beautiful and currently on my tv as I type.
And that's final.
(Ok ever so slightly funeral-y but mostly beautiful).
YABU

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Soubriquet · 11/10/2016 20:17
Grin
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FeliciaJollygoodfellow · 11/10/2016 20:21

The horse is the horse of death and the music makes me cry.

That is all.

Grin
OutDamnedWind · 11/10/2016 20:22

That horse is creepy as fuck.

gleam · 11/10/2016 20:26

I've never noticed the proposal before.
Too busy trying to work out whether they use more than one horse.

SansasEscape · 11/10/2016 20:27

What a fantastic advert. The agency have done really really well there, I love it.

SansasEscape · 11/10/2016 20:29

Of courseeeeee it was adam&eveDDB! Everything they do is quality.

If anybody is interested: www.adamandeveddb.com/work

SansasEscape · 11/10/2016 20:30

They did all of the lovely John Lewis Christmas ones too. Company-crush over, I promise!

2kids2dogsnosense · 11/10/2016 20:35

8noeuf*

Christ!

You're right!

it IS a Death Horse!!!

I'd never noticed the ad, (am always rushing to the lavvy when the adverts come on), and have watched for the first time here, and it's like a Terrible Omen, hurtling people to Their Doom.

That kid in the schoolyard - he one with no friends - it's like the Death Horse of Doom has Cursed her with Tragic Loneliness for the Rest Of Her Life.

I feel quite sick now. I need ice cream to take away the Harbinger of Horror that is the Death Horse.

(rushes off to freezer for Cafe-au-Lait ice cream)

Ptarmigandancinginthegloaming · 11/10/2016 20:36

I'm not sure the horse-on-hospital-ward concept in the advert is wise tbh..there may be a couple of health and safety issues...then again, they take dogs into hospitals to cheer up the patient don't they, so why not a massive, galloping stallion, for hospitals in posh areas?

2kids2dogsnosense · 11/10/2016 20:43

Ptarmigan

Typical bloody NHS - private patients get a Magnificent Death Steed, and the rest of us plebs have to make do with the rats that come up through the toilet pipes. Not even a Magnificent Death Rat.

Money certainly talks ( storms off resentfully to write to Jeremy Corbyn about at least providing Magnificent Death rats in poorer areas if when he gets into No 10)

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Soubriquet · 11/10/2016 20:45

They could have at least put a nappy on the horse for the hospital couldn't they?

And booties on the hooves to muffle the clip clops

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Soubriquet · 11/10/2016 20:52

Nice quick response!

Whoever said they had different versions was right.

(Posted on behalf of Dh) AIBU to be cross about the Lloyds advert
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SouthWestmom · 11/10/2016 20:54

2kids

I've just had crisps to make me feel better.

The death horse is like meet joe black in real life. Everything goes still as he's stealing their soul. If I'm ever in hospital and a horse talks to me in patois I'm fucked

SouthWestmom · 11/10/2016 20:55

Soub

Can you ask them how many suspicious deaths are related to the making of the advert?

Gabilan · 11/10/2016 20:56

Odd scene to leave out on National Coming Out Day. But yes, they cut different bits. It's not like I know adverts with horses in like the back of my hand. But I've always thought it odd that they use a song called Mad World.

I don't know if Lloyds own the horses or not but for a long time the Lloyds horse was a Trakehner stallion called Cancarra. I think he went to his owner's wedding actually, now I think of it, so it wasn't Lloyds who owned him.

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Soubriquet · 11/10/2016 20:56

I shall just for you

and make myself look like a tit

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Titsywoo · 11/10/2016 20:57

Ooh I was walking down the road past the playground when they were filming this. They had loads of horses. One appeared to be wearing a full on gimp outfit. Clearly he was cut :(

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Soubriquet · 11/10/2016 20:58

Oh my now that's an image to have in your head isn't it...

Gimp horse.

Maybe the next Christmas top seller? Barbie and her Gimp Horse

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honeyroar · 11/10/2016 21:01

I bet the gimp outfit was actually a grazing muzzle.

acasualobserver · 11/10/2016 21:02

There is actually a final version that Lloyds haven't shown yet: the horse is turned into a huge lasagne and all the people in the advert join together to eat him.

honeyroar · 11/10/2016 21:04

Oops, posted too soon.

The original black horse in the adverts was bought by someone because they thought it looked like the horse from Black Beauty..

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Soubriquet · 11/10/2016 21:05

There is actually a final version that Lloyds haven't shown yet: the horse is turned into a huge lasagne and all the people in the advert join together to eat him.

Grin that's bad...but funny

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londonrach · 11/10/2016 21:07

Love this advert as well as the one with the horse in ww1, milkman horse etc

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