Wtf Robinson’s juice advert

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I don’t normally feel quite such outrage over an advert but what I’ve just watched has really pissed me off.

A new Robinson’s ad where a woman opens her fridge to get out a bottle of wine.

Small child comes up behind her saying ‘Lucy, it’s a Monday. After a stressful day at school I like a glass of Robinson’s juice’. She tries it and says ‘oh yes very nice’ or something similar.

Am I the only one to think fuck off Robinson’s don’t start shaming people (mums particularly) for choosing to have a glass of wine - even if it is on a fucking Monday. Fuck off.

Any minute now someone is going to trot out 'somebody must be able to drive in case of an emergency'. I'm not allowed to drive for medical reasons. Does that mean DS(14) is in constant jeopardy when DH is out working?

It’s just an ad that has a gentle , humorous jibe at some parents.
It doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

Need? How many things do we ingest that we don't "need"? Coffee, tea, cake, a biscuit or two? Do the sanctimonious live off lettuce and plain water?

There's a massive gulf between a glass of wine and alcoholism.

Gordon Bennett. What with this thread and the one that compared children helping out with filing paperwork to child abuse ... Is it lockdown?

I've not seen this advert, but yes I would absolutely be on the "f~~k off Robinsons " side. Definitely one to bring out the "Karens" though.

Oh I love that advert. I don't like the one of the girl in court. I don't drink juice though so I have no horse in the race.

YANBU. Almost makes me want to have some wine.

What do your kids get up to that you need to be 100% alert at all times? When do you sleep?

kojolo Sleep is a necessity; alcohol isn’t. If you can’t see that distinction I think you may have a problem.

Are you an actual fool?
Or is this just a joke ?
Or recovering alcoholic

Samtsirch I’m not joking, and I’m not a recovering alcoholic. I don’t drink; I don’t agree with it. I think alcohol should be illegal and if it was discovered today it absolutely would be.

That’s all I have to say on the subject. This thread proves my point really; alcohol has become so normalised it’s unhealthy.

Oh Christ, get a bloody grip!!

I think it’s funny

If you get so agitated by a silly advert, maybe you should drink juice instead of alcohol. It's not great for your blood pressure.
I do find it funny. And I do drink during the week.

Has become so normalised? You do read history don't you? It's not a new phenomenon. In Victorian England beer & gin were safer to drink than the water. If anything we're more drink aware in the 21st century than ever before.

Wine on a Monday?!?! No thanks, I’ll have a cider please

' "“Lucy, it’s a Monday in lockdown. Put that artificial sweetener filled shite back in the fridge, get out the Rocks and some decent gin.”'

I'm sure there are some serious points to be made but @OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow, I enjoyed this. Thank you for making me laugh.

Just run out of tonic though

@nostaples, you need to team up with the woman who reported the other day that Morrison's arrived with her delivery one Friday evening and brought none of the wine and gin she'd ordered, just the tonic.

As if Robinson's juice is a health food.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g I really do. I hate a tonic emergency!

I sort of hear what @heartsonacake is saying. Sort of. Hear me out.
I drink gin and wine, sometimes on the same night. Err, usually....
But - I hate the gin o’clock signs, the books “why mummy drinks”, the bloody birthday cards with Prosecco on them. Yawn. So I get that is it seen as normalised, but to me it is mainly cringeworthy and a marketing fad.
Sorry if I’m not being being very articulate, I’ve had the aforementioned gin and wine 🍷

O God 😂😂
@Heartsonacake are you OK hon ? You can tell me. Let me just grab something from the fridge first though.

Some people on MN have a very odd relationship with alcohol. And I don't mean the posters who like the occasional glass of wine or gnt.

@heartsonacake

Illegal? Oh for goodness sake. Save your sanctimonious claptrap for Sunday.

Some people don't have any relationship with alcohol and are fine with that. This was about the advert though, the fact that some are so defensive about their own drinking is a bit of a klaxon.

Drink/don't drink... who cares? Why care what other people think?

I heartily dislike the Tampax advert, "Get it up there, girls!"

Gonna go against the grain and say I think romanticised alcoholism is really unhealthy, personally. I hate that people feel the need to drink all the time and that the only adult activities people ever want to do is going to the pub/bar for drinks. I get way too much sensory overload to handle pubs and I get anxious when people drink around me, so I don't have a whole lot of adult friends.

"But - I hate the gin o’clock signs, the books “why mummy drinks”, the bloody birthday cards with Prosecco on them. Yawn. So I get that is it seen as normalised, but to me it is mainly cringeworthy and a marketing fad."

This explained it better than me, lol.