Wtf Robinson’s juice advert

[Mycatsmellsbad]

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.

@heartsonacake

YABU. The normalisation of having alcohol at the “end of a hard day” is unhealthy. If you need it to unwind, you shouldn’t be drinking it.

And no, I don’t think either parent should be drinking when in charge of their kids because they don’t have all their faculties about them.

Well said! It’s hard to face facts, but British do tend to drink more alcohol than other cultures. I think it’s a competition between French and British on who can drink alcohol most often.

I have no issues with people drinking as much as they want, but if you’re a parent caring for a child you shouldn’t be drinking unless there is a sober adult/partner available. It’s not a trivial thing, most accidents happen at home. Children getting burned, drowning in tubs, falling out windows. Alcohol and children do not mix.

Always totally baffled by threads like these. Could not get annoyed about something like this if I tried.

It's an advert 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I always questioned my mums drinking when I was younger tbh and many kids do.

I mean I'm 17 and it was a big part of her day. Grabbing a glass of wine / vodka tonic / seltzer and melting into the sofa.

Its fucking weird in my opinion.

But that's just my experience I guess

I often enjoy a glass of squash.

I'd be Mmm that is nice, then open the wine feeling smug that I have already topped up my dehydration levels. If it was really good, I'd probably drink it the morning after.

I understand that, Loki, it is pure marketing.

The annoying thing for me is the aggression. Adults shouldn't need validation if they want to drink. People really don't care as much as you think they do.

‘Normalising alcohol’?!
Even Jesus had the sense to turn water into wine. After more than 2000 years it’s not exactly a new

@Shelby2010

‘Normalising alcohol’?! Even Jesus had the sense to turn water into wine. After more than 2000 years it’s not exactly a new

Fun fact. Changing water to wine was a popular party trick in Jesus time. Similar to how magicians today have popular tricks like levitating, mind reading, disappearing things.

Tbf, if alcohol was discovered today it probably wouldn't be legal. There are drugs out there that are less harmful & less addictive that are illegal, but alcohol which is very addictive, and contributes to many illnesses as well as the drunken injuries but it's still legal - and bringing in a shit tonne of money to the governments coffers.

The % of non-drinkers in the younger categories is increasing so if anything I think it is becoming less normalised, despite all the 'Prosecco time' naff stuff out there.

I'm a drinker btw and I do think that advert is sexist guff. Though no where near as bad as the horrendous 'get it up' Tampax advert.

I.'ve had a gin and am now on the rose wine. No children, but only a cat to care for. Was on Skype to a child and his daughter earlier. Am I irresponsible?

Fun fact. Changing water to wine was a popular party trick in Jesus time.
Ooh, that is a fun fact. Please tell me more. How did they do it? Did somebody invent food colouring in 66BC?

@heartsonacake

YABU. The normalisation of having alcohol at the “end of a hard day” is unhealthy. If you need it to unwind, you shouldn’t be drinking it.

And no, I don’t think either parent should be drinking when in charge of their kids because they don’t have all their faculties about them.

What about parents who have to take powerful analgesia? Or any other medication that might impair them? Should they have their kids taken off them?

Some things shouldn't be done after a glass of wine- flying a plane, driving a car, knife throwing, performing precision heart surgery are the first that spring to mind- supervising a child at home isn't one of them. It's hardly going to require such attention that a glass or two of wine would make much difference- they'll probably be in bed anyway by the time you reach the even slightly tipsy stage! Of course, you shouldn't get rolling drunk when looking after children, but a glass of wine isn't exactly reckless behaviour.

@LadyFidgetAndHerHandbag

Fun fact. Changing water to wine was a popular party trick in Jesus time. Ooh, that is a fun fact. Please tell me more. How did they do it? Did somebody invent food colouring in 66BC?

It’s a simple mechanical siphon type device in the jug. So the jug holds both water AND wine.

(Pause here to remind you that in Jesus time the “wine” they drank was always diluted with water before drinking. This is pertinent).

So the wine is in side compartment with a little siphon, while water is in main compartment of the jug. You pour a little water out, about 1/3 the jug showing off, it’s water, here taste it, look it my jug, it’s water.

Then the magic trick...you do various things dramatically but the trick happens when place the jug opening over your mouth and suck/huff in a bit...this activates the siphon and the hidden wine then trickles into the main compartment and mixes with the remaining water.

And voila! You have wine!

@PlanDeRaccordement

Mind. Blown.

It's an odd advert, not really appropriate for the product.

There are records of a Greek man, Hero, living in Alexandria, Egypt around 50 AD who improved on this trick. He made a jug that can alternate between water, pure wine, and watered wine. There are drawings of his design. He also invented other “magic” tricks, like a self opening door.

Fuck me. If ever there was a thread DEMONSTRATING that MN loses its collective sense by bedtime it is this one! It must be the wine!

The obligatory fun-free puritan sanctimony post, the Children Catch Fire if You Take Your Eyes Off Them for a Moment post, the Jesus was a only a common magician post... OK that last is a new one on me, but still.

Maybe there's a cut scene after the watershed where Lucy's mummy puts a glug of vodka in the squash when Lucy isn't looking?

Outraged - get a grip.

The Robinsons pink grapefruit stuff with vodka and tonic is very pleasant though.

Best of both worlds.

I think alcohol should be illegal and if it was discovered today it absolutely would be.

I’ve said this often. But as you’re seeing, most people are so socially conditioned to think it’s acceptable to drink “to unwind” every day, the suggestion is met with derision. The fact a 2016 Public Health England evidence review estimated the economic burden of alcohol as between 1.3% and 2.7% of annual UK GDP (approximately £21-£52 billion) is either unknown or completely ignored. £3.5 billion a year cost to the NHS alone.

Given the U.K. only takes £10bn in alcohol taxes, that’s a hell of a deficit.

A study in 2013 said people generally underestimated the amount of alcohol they consumed.

Jesus Christ, the fun police are out in force this evening.

I'd bet money on someone from MN writing that ad, the pearl clutching over alcohol here is hilarious

..not getting why the ad is bad really. But also not understanding why its horrendous to have a glass of wine, even if you are *gasp..the only parent there. Doubt anyone loses their seses from one glass, unless they have been teetotal all their lives and randomly decide to neck a pint of wine for their first time.

YABU but this thread is crazy

The magician jesus thing though, mind blown.