To find the Malteaser advert to be bad taste?

[tessiegirl]

Has anyone seen the Malteaser advert with the disabled woman?
She describes to her friends how she and a guy had been getting frisky when she suddenly had a spasm.
She then shakes the Malteaser bag obviously mimicking how she was giving the guy a hand job as she spasmed and proceeds to spill the contents of the bag which obviously alludes to the fact he 'finished'.
I don't know, the advert seems in bad taste somehow?

Definitely cannot be compared to the flake advert...

It's not about using disabled actors though and how they are fairtrade!

The diet coke advert where he takes his top off?
And the women are all staring?

Yeah another weird way to sell. But it would have been a whole lot worse had he been rubbing a button on the washing machine while it trembled to a finish

Flake Advert

Maltesers travesty

It was funny when it first came out, about a million years ago!

Seriously.there must be some money in the budget for a new advert, surely!

Menare [ grin] !

I must be so naive, the hand job reference totally went over my head..

But it would have been a whole lot worse had he been rubbing a button on the washing machine while it trembled to a finish

Good point well made.

I think I'm mixing up my sexual adverts

Launderette one was levis. But still, sexual without pretending to bring someone to orgasm.

Menare you're absolutely right re trembling washing machine button, can you imagine?!

Shes mimicking a sex act!!

Flake add was a reference to female orgasm, why can’t it be compared?

And, assuming the issue is the reference to sex, rather than a simple dislike of the style, what has the music and cinematography got to with how suitable it is or isn’t?

The Malteasers ad is so crude about it though, the Flake ad was suggestive

All I know is I'm now gonna Deliveroo the shit out of some Maltesers now as it's all I can think about!

CoachBombay

Presumably you know that sending those photos to your mates is illegal? yet you're all up in arms over an advert

Also, what woman willingly throws a newly opened packetfull of Maltesers over the floor? Not bloody likely.

Suggestive and crude aren’t opposites. The maltesers add is suggestive too, it’s not explicit. If the OP’s complaint is that it’s crude (which does fit her title of “in bad taste”) rather than that it’s the reference to a sexual act that is poor (as she’d later stated) then the Flake ad is less pertinent.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having a variety of styles in advertising, broadcast media hits a variety of people who have lots of different tastes and they should all be catered for. I find the maltesers ad mildly amusing (though less so in repition). I thought the flake ad was overblown and naff, not so much “in bad taste” as just lacking merit. But we all have different taste, so can’t get upset about it. It’s the constant reference to sex to sell pretty much anything that bugs me and that’s the case for both the flake and maltesers ads.

@Van it's not illegal at all. The gentleman who have shared their genitalia on a public platform in a group Snapchat are all over the age of 18. If that happens to then be screen shotted and shared it's sort of the original guys fault for Snapchatting his dick it to his "tinder bitches group" on Snapchat.

Anyhoo it's a complex arrangement that led to the dick pics and why they were shared. Mushroom man still wins though if that helps.

The point I was making was I don't mind discussing sexual adventures with close friends, I don't want to see random women gesturing about hand jobs on an advert about chocolate!

I don't like the adverts and they don't say bugger all tome about maltesers.
I know they are supposed to be all about having disabled actors in them and putting disability into the mainstream but I think they go the opposite way and are more along the lines of we'll take it too far here but because we're using disabled actors no one can say anything
To me that's taking the piss out of disability more than anything else

Well said ssd

CoachBombay

Number 5. You're welcome.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/nude-photos-7-laws-protect-4146809

I swear this thread happened AGES ago with the exact same wording

Yes I don’t like it either - it’s crude and meant to shock - handjobs as an advert, really?! And I couldn’t care less about the actress, ability or disability.

In all the years I've been on here, posting little, following often..I've never seen such outrage over an ad....any ad ((happy to be enlightened)) Is it more about a disabled woman talking about sex in a graphic way? (if you're an adult, hopefully your preschoolers and primary kids will be innocently oblivious to any gestures)? Maybe it's distasteful for you to know that disabled women and men can and do have sex....and not just vanilla??