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AIBU to think this is the most unrealistic advert ever

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venusandmars · 27/08/2019 22:30

Just saw a TV ad for 'Always' ignoring the disgusting smell that they put in their products which means I would never buy them again anyway

The ad showed various sporting women. Great - strong female role models. However, one included a tennis player, in all white (of course), short skirt (of course), bouncing around. Come on! Mid-period is there any way that you would jump around, dressed in white, with a TV camera on you?

Maybe if you're on the pill, and have very light bleeding, maybe if you also have a tampon. But honestly? Not in my life.

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Clawdy · 27/08/2019 22:37

There was another one a few years ago with a model wearing tight white trousers. Very unlikely!

funnylittlefloozie · 27/08/2019 22:37

Its better than that hideous Trivago one with the rich woman smirking about the "reasonable" cost of a 4-star hotel with a pool, until the awful smug Australian bint undercuts her. And worse than the one for the caffeine shampoo with the awful woman who whispers "women over forty " as if such women should never show their faces.

Vasya · 27/08/2019 22:45

Mid-period is there any way that you would jump around, dressed in white, with a TV camera on you?

It must happen all the time at Wimbledon.

Mumsymumphy · 27/08/2019 22:45

I know the advert you're referring to and have often thought 'there's absolutely no way she's wearing a f pad!' No chance on earth would you play tennis in white knickers, don't care how 'thin' the sanpro is. They must think we're so gullible.

ShippingNews · 27/08/2019 22:50

I'd imagine that women competing in top - level sports like Wimbledon would avoid having periods completely .

Skittlesandbeer · 27/08/2019 23:01

At least women aren’t shown in gauzy tunics and flower crowns riding white horses on beaches in dreamy slo-mo any more. Must be a real bastard getting bloodstains off your horse.

UnderperformingSeal · 27/08/2019 23:10

No less realistic than the one where (I think) "John" and "Kay" are competing for a young man's attention via text messages promising footy and food/sex read out monotonously by his Toyota as he drives it around at 3:00AM, judging by the amount of traffic.

mumwon · 27/08/2019 23:14

spent years at that time of the month being dressed like a widow from the waist down! I always wondered how tennis players gymnast etc managed but I guess they were a mix of anorexic/on the pill permanently -

Celledora · 27/08/2019 23:17

Even DP laughed at this one!

DoomsdayCult · 27/08/2019 23:25

I think I’d rather see an advert with a woman tucked up in bed with a heat pad and a bar of chocolate (strategically placed to not touch) and perhaps her texting her boss with a “just going to have to cope without me today due to internal bleeding” and then smiling as she starts up Netflix.

Topsecretidentity · 27/08/2019 23:30

It must happen all the time at Wimbledon.

As if an elite tennis player would risk the biggest games of their career on a period. The ad is very unrealistic.

Sedlescombe · 27/08/2019 23:31

skittlesandbeer you win the internet today 😂😂😂

Mollypolly2610 · 27/08/2019 23:33

The Colgate one with the woman with the white hair and the huge white teeth, she stands and stares at a huge tube of toothpaste, her little legs look weird and her teeth are not whitened with Colgate toothpaste!

funnylittlefloozie · 27/08/2019 23:33

DoomsdayCult, there WAS an advert like that a few years back. It showed a glum-looking girl stuffing down popcorn in front of the telly. It was BRILLIANT!

fourquenelles · 27/08/2019 23:48

The people who made that tennis player advert also seem to think that you have a period out of your bottom seeing as how they have loving close ups of her bum!

PerpendicularVincent · 27/08/2019 23:53

My worst one is the stupid cider advert with the group of people singing Electric Dreams in a mediocre and smug fashion.

Why this necessitates cheers, whistling and smug facial expressions I have no idea.

BoopBoopedooBoo · 28/08/2019 00:21

I went to an all girls secondary in the nineties. For athletics and cross country, we had to wear what was essentially a pair of thick red knickers, over our actual underwear (weird and annoying and tight, no give to them really, and I wore mens Calvin Kline boxers to school so I had to tuck them in). No one liked them. I've just spent far too long trying to look this style of athletics "shorts" up, and I can't find anything like them, except err, actual pants. They looked like the ones in the screenshot which I've circled.

Point of my long winded typing is, that we had to participate even during our periods and it was horrid. I'm glad we didn't have boys there, it felt exposed.

But it also meant to a certain point it was normalised to me, being round people in just a sports shirt and pants. I was about 19 or 20 before I stopped walking round my parents place in the morning in just a t and pants.

I'm with the reckoning that the players might take something to delay their period, like women sue holidays and honeymoons do.

And yes, I do sound like a pants troll but I'm not joking. This was the nineties in Berks.

MorganKitten · 28/08/2019 00:32

As if an elite tennis player would risk the biggest games of their career on a period. The ad is very unrealistic.

As if any elite athlete would cancel any game or event due to a small event that happens every month. Most athletes have lighter periods anyway as exercise can do that. But even so it’s not a big deal and they’ll still play spot.
Can you imagine an Olympic athlete would back out the chance to win a gold medal due to a bit of blood.

Fartintheloft · 28/08/2019 00:51

@BoopBoopedooBoo they are Gym Knickers. We had to wear them too, ended up using them for ages over tights - great for keeping tights up!

StinkyWizleteets · 28/08/2019 00:58

The one that always bothered me was where the woman rides a bike in tight white denim shorts that wouldn’t survive a powerful fart. There’s no space for a decent fanny pad in those shorts and your tampon strong would be visible enough for Tarzan to swing on.

Don’t even get me started on the alleged odour neutraliser that gives me a headache, makes me want to vomit and causes my
c*nt to smell like a duty free shop.

64sNewName · 28/08/2019 00:59

I thought the pp was saying that elite athletes probably take measures to avoid having periods. Not that they back out of competitions because of periods.

CheeseChipsMayo · 28/08/2019 01:00

😂@Doomsday..my youngest DC v heavy long periods made the same comment to me!.i remember the ad with rollerskating girl in skin-tight lightcoloured leggings as a (un)bemused teen with similar periods from hell..30yrs on&still floggin the same dead horse😈 yep i know i did years of back2back pill as a traveller not wanting to hassles/mess on the road so would think it goes with elite/pro sport..

70sWitch · 28/08/2019 01:07

The Colgate one with the woman with the white hair and the huge white teeth, she stands and stares at a huge tube of toothpaste, her little legs look weird and her teeth are not whitened with Colgate toothpaste!

This one. I'm sure she's lovely looking normally but in that advert she looks like the fucking Joker!

SuzieSunshine · 28/08/2019 09:31

What about the one with Serena Williams jumping about on a mattress which also has a stack of perfectly balanced tennis balls on it - which don't move!!! Unlikely!!!!

JacquesHammer · 28/08/2019 09:34

I'd imagine that women competing in top - level sports like Wimbledon would avoid having periods completely

Heather Watson doesn’t (or didn’t). I gained a lot of respect for her discussing openly the effect of menstruation on her game and the sport in general.

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