To think the latest malteasers ad is a bit much?

[wevegottobeathemdown]

So the latest ad depicts a disabled wheelchair user describing how her condition, whatever it is, led her to inadvertently wank off her date.

What happened to the chocolate ads of yore. Perhaps the milk tray hero should have been a bit more forward.

[MrsJayy]

But ALL the maltesers adverts are daft it is an advert for chocolate that friends chat in. The rude 1 is meant to be rude sometimes girls joke about sex.

[FrostyWind]

It was a thoroughly odd (and vaguely patronising) thing to post.

No it wasn't odd, just a statement of fact. The acting in the ads is dreadful. I was merely pointing out that there are plenty of people with disabilities who can act. What is bizarre is picking some who can't.

[multivac]

You felt the need to explain something as bloody obvious as 'there are people with disabilities who can act'; wheeling out your professional experience to support the assertion (because presumably non drama teachers would assume that acting is a skill unique to those without disabilities).

I'm afraid that is, objectively and definitely, odd.

[FrostyWind]

Yes, dear, of course it was.

[GilMartin]

I don't think implied sex used to sell mundane products is in any way novel. It is the disability angle that is unusual and probably unsettling people (whether they realise it or not).

As others have argued It is no more suggestive than the woman deep throating a flake and is considerably less graphic than those adverts with Nicole Shitsinger who is contractually obliged to have an orgasm in every bloody advert . The shampoo one even promises a totally organic experience. I wish someone would explain the difference between those and the Malteasers add other than one features a woman with disabilities and one without, why is one 'shocking' and why is the other just run of the mill? That's before we get perfume ads with near naked models writhing about.

On a side note: If a run of the mill shampoo and a cheap yogurt set can set Shitsinger off. I'd hate to see what happened if they got her advertise spin dryers.

[Boundaries]

Gill

[carjacker1985]

[grannytomine]

I can't think of an advert I actually like. Maybe these adverts are just being over analysed?

[haveacupoftea]

Mmm, Malteasers.

[MyWineTime]

'Once the people are featured without a clunky point being made about their disabilities, we'll be making progress.'
I think this misses the point. It was talking about her disability because people are afraid of talking about it. It was showing that there can be a humorous side to having a disability. That disability related incidents can sometimes be funny. The Channel 4 End The Awkward campaign has been trying to address that who awkwardness issue for a long time now. It was also showing a disabled person having a laugh with her mates - a normal everyday thing. It really wasn't wacky. I have had a number of disability related funny incidents from dates that I have shared with my mates.

[bibbitybobbityyhat]

Yanbu op.

I still dislike this advert just as much as I did back in Sept/Oct.

I think it is utterly patronising. As well as being crude, irrelevant and a bit eewww. Puts ejaculation and maltesers in the same mental picture, which just doesn't work for me.

[MrsJayy]

Oh god yes yes yes i forgot about nicoles orgasims over yoghurt and shampoo those are on during the day

[wevegottobeathemdown]

It's all a bit "I might be disabled but I've got a cracking sense of humour" for my liking.

[MyWineTime]

It's all a bit "I might be disabled but I've got a cracking sense of humour" for my liking.
Normal then.
What could possibly be uncomfortable about a disabled person having a cracking sense of humour?

[PigletWasPoohsFriend]

It's all a bit "I might be disabled but I've got a cracking sense of humour" for my liking.

And what is wrong with that exactly?

[PerpendicularVincent]

I totally agree, bibbity. It is patronising and crude.

[bibbitybobbityyhat]

I don't feel uncomfortable about the wanking theme. I just don't think its funny or (hoiks bosom) appropriate.

I don't think I've seen the hearing aid one. It sounds pretty unfunny too?

[SausageSoda]

So, my question is, is it sperm that makes people uncomfortable or the more visible disability?'

Neither. Malteasers have feck all to do with wanking and it's just a shite ad. Trying too hard to be funny and failing. I have no issues with masturbation I just don't associate it with malteasers and nor do I want to.

[TyneTeas]

Oooh there's another ad in Braille

m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/uk_586fa3c0e4b0961f0937d012

[hazeyjane]

Tbh the malteaser ads have always been enormously unfunny. Like the Philadelphia ads and stuff like rank low fat salted caramel yoghurts, all the things that women are supposed to 'treat themselves' and find 'naughty'. In advert land we all sit around with our friends making innuendos whilst slurping on yoghurt and looking orgasmic about a fucking malteser.

[MyWineTime]

I love the Braille one.
No sex, so the pearl clutchers might be able to cope with it.
I hope it will get people thinking and trying to work it out when they see it.

[chocohlic3]

So when your children emulate the action of wanking with their packet of malteasers (or other sweets ) that's ok ?