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To think Poundland ad is not “genius” and is actually a bit I appropriate?

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speakerwoofers · 21/12/2017 15:25

Most comments on Facebook are proclaiming it “genius.” I don’t think a sexual innuendo is that genius TBF.

Plus why is it a woman lying on her back with a t shirt saying “power” and a man standing over her dominating her. They could have at least chosen another sexual innuendo.

Also difficult to explain to kids.

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

To think Poundland ad is not “genius” and is actually a bit I appropriate?
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bakewelltarty · 21/12/2017 22:26

No I don't think I do.

loobyloo1234 · 21/12/2017 22:27

I loved it Grin

Tessliketrees · 21/12/2017 22:29

bakewelltarty

Okay, I realise it's a chore. I will clarify.

You implied I somehow agreed with Elton when I didn't. Nor did I exhibit anything remotely close to outrage.

Hope that summary clears things up.

Frequency · 21/12/2017 22:33

I'm also not outraged. I'm not gonna lay awake all night seething over it or boycott Poundland. I just don't understand what is humorous about using a plastic elf and a plastic doll to simulate a sexual assault on a woman? Barbie doesn't look all that into it from where I'm sitting. It's a bit tacky and juvenile for my liking.

If it had been done deliberately as a reaction to #metoo then I'd find it v crass and offensive but I agree that the reasoning behind it was to create a reaction rather than belittle sexual assault. Unfortunately, they've managed to do both.

The strip poker ad, the hot tub one and the toothbrush one were just a bit yanwsome but this took it a step too far, imo.

bakewelltarty · 21/12/2017 22:35

Apologies if a misunderstood your post Tess. I had read your 25 million cost post but now realise that you had rectified that incorrect post. It can be a chore to read things properly first eh? 😉

Pluckedpencil · 21/12/2017 22:37

I thought teabagging was a prank that men did as a laugh to other men,not just women?
Dh laughed. A lot. He has politely asked for the vipers to not tell me to kill him in his sleep tonight as punishment for his pathetic humour level.

Tessliketrees · 21/12/2017 22:37

It can be a chore to read things properly first eh?

Indeed, which is why I went back and read it properly then corrected myself without even being prompted!

Giftdilema · 21/12/2017 22:38

I'm not outraged I just don't get why everyone on social media seems to think it is so clever and hilarious. It's like being in a playground of 14 year old boys who have just discovered smut tbh.

bakewelltarty · 21/12/2017 22:40

As I said Tess, I apologised. This is getting a bit tiring now.

Eltonjohnssyrup · 21/12/2017 22:40

Elton I think you’re giving the makers of this advert a bit too much credit. This isn’t a well thought out, critically considered, clever, meta-marketing campaign

Sorry. But are you seriously suggesting that the Poundland marketing team sat down and said 'Yes, let's do a teabagging joke, everybody will have a little titter and it will be forgotten about tomorrow'. Of course they fucking didn't. They knew it would go viral, they knew it would outrage people and as a result end up in all the papers and get them wall to wall press coverage for £25.33!!

It's a rude, basic, cheap and easy laugh for people absolutely determined to prove their sense of humour at all costs. It’s the equivalent of a ten year old using rude words when his mum is out of earshot to make his friends laugh.

Yes, exactly. And why do they giggle? Because they know it's rude and Mummy wouldn't approve. It's titillating because it's forbidden and can get you in trouble.

And lo and behold! Lots of mummies are getting very cross! Which is making this ad even more thrilling and titillating.

It's the entire bloody point. You're supposed to react like this!

You know what would probably have really pissed them off? If they'd had a few posts saying 'how infantile' or a rolled eye emoji and then tumbleweed. But instead they've got a hysterical over reaction which is getting them huge publicity.

Tessliketrees · 21/12/2017 22:41

I just don't get why everyone on social media seems to think it is so clever and hilarious

In fairness I haven't seen anybody calling it clever (except for the alleged outrage it will cause to people who don't like Brexit and Corybn which is a clever plan because reasons).

sagamartha · 21/12/2017 22:42

It's the entire bloody point. You're supposed to react like this

What would you have done if they had done a racist or homophobic ad just to generate outrage?

Ignored it?

What else should we ignore?

Eltonjohnssyrup · 21/12/2017 22:42

I'm not outraged I just don't get why everyone on social media seems to think it is so clever and hilarious. It's like being in a playground of 14 year old boys who have just discovered smut tbh.

Again, exactly! This is the exact point. It's a smutty bit of silly innuendo on the level of kids. Not particularly clever or funny. Yet they've baited a load of people into behaving like it's the end of civilisation as we know it and an arrestable offence.

And THAT is the joke. Not the elf and the teabag.

Tessliketrees · 21/12/2017 22:42

This is getting a bit tiring now

You can stop replying you know?

even more thrilling and titillating

More thrilling and titillating than it is already?! Surely not?

hollowtree · 21/12/2017 22:44

Hahaha hilarious!

Frequency · 21/12/2017 22:44

I don't understand what Brexit has to do with anything?

If they'd sat Barbie up and made it appear she was an active participant, then I'd agree it was toilet humour. I wouldn't find it amusing but I wouldn't find it as icky as I do.

I don't for a second believe they've deliberately made Barbie the victim of a sex attack but their lack of thought has made the ad rather more insidious than perhaps they meant it to be.

Eltonjohnssyrup · 21/12/2017 22:45

What would you have done if they had done a racist or homophobic ad just to generate outrage?

Ignored it?

What else should we ignore?

You can't consent to them like you could to teabagging could you?

And I eagerly await your ridiculous reply explaining exactly why you can tell that this doll hasn't given her consent and how this elf is deliberately ignoring that lack of consent.

shinysinkredemption · 21/12/2017 22:46

I'm sorry to see that that's been given the all clear to be published - it's pretty crude and about as funny as spelling boobies on a calculator. I'm not outraged but saddened and see it as another marker on the road of our increasingly sexualised society.
Elton are you really as pleased as you seem to think of people getting all het up about it?! Do you think everyone who spends more time in Waitrose than Poundland is actually Hyacinth Bucket?

sagamartha · 21/12/2017 22:46

You can't consent to them like you could to teabagging could you

Actually it looks like me to someone hitting a doll and asking how many lumps she wants.

Eltonjohnssyrup · 21/12/2017 22:47

.If they'd sat Barbie up and made it appear she was an active participant.

You can't teabag someone sitting up. They'd just get a ball full of teeth.

Eltonjohnssyrup · 21/12/2017 22:48

Elton are you really as pleased as you seem to think of people getting all het up about it?! Do you think everyone who spends more time in Waitrose than Poundland is actually Hyacinth Bucket?

But they are. They are this generations Hyacinth Bucket.

Tessliketrees · 21/12/2017 22:50

They are this generations Hyacinth Bucket

Never heard anything as stupid in all my life. Hyacinth would have abhorred Corbyn.

shinysinkredemption · 21/12/2017 22:51

Actually Elton ignore that - perhaps people are getting worked up, somewhere. I hadn't heard of this ad before I saw this thread on MN and don't expect to see it IRL, or indeed read about anyone being outraged. But you never know.

Eltonjohnssyrup · 21/12/2017 22:52

Never heard anything as stupid in all my life. Hyacinth would have abhorred Corbyn

But she would have loved Thatcher, that generations messiah offering hope for all ills.

PumpkinSquash · 21/12/2017 22:54

You can't teabag someone sitting up. They'd just get a ball full of teeth.

Grin

The having to explains are making it even funnier than the actual original tweet Grin

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