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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

to disagree with the persil definition of 'what is a mum'?

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stainesmassif · 08/04/2009 22:14

'someone who saves to buy a pretty hat and then spends the money on a cricket bat instead'........am definitely not buying persil now!

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screamingabdab · 09/04/2009 18:19

Thanks staines, but my mum and dad kindly delivered all my old school books and certificates to me a few months ago when they were clearing out the garage. More crazy crap to clog up the cupboards!

morningpaper · 09/04/2009 18:19

I thought this was a PARTICULARLY terrible advert

SalBySea · 09/04/2009 18:20

I use Ecover, told DH last night that I wasnt the mum of our baby cause telly said ya have to use persil to be a mum

PinkTulips · 09/04/2009 18:21

erm... are they not clips from ads through the 100 years of persil's existance?

tbf, should we not be more irritated by the insinuation throughout those 100 years that only women use their products?

nomoreamover · 09/04/2009 18:24

I liked the advert - I think it shows just how much mums give up on a daily basis and have done since time began. Got my thumbs up actually......

PinkTulips · 09/04/2009 18:25

soapnuts users....... i used them for a while but got sick of good clothes being ruined by stains not coming out and general dinginess and stuff not smelling clean. was i doing somthing wrong or is dingy stained clothing the price i should be paying to save the planet?

poisondwarf · 09/04/2009 18:38

YABU - this advert is all about nostalgia. Certainly when I was growing up it was not unheard of for my mum to selflessly brandish a cricket bat when we got out of hand.

Aah, memories...

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stainesmassif · 09/04/2009 22:28

i use a washball - is that what you mean by soapnuts? mine came with a stain stick which i use on collars, cuffs or particularly stubborn stains. clearly i'm no persil mum. i've never coveted any hats, pretty or otherwise.

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studentkatie · 09/04/2009 22:32

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PinkTulips · 10/04/2009 12:53

staines....nope, soapnuts are little shells from the soapnut tree/bush. you buy them by the bag and use 5/6 of them ina little clothe bag in the wash... you can reuse a few time.

great idea but not hugely effective on toddler and baby clothes tbh... especially mud obsessed toddlers like mine!

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stainesmassif · 10/04/2009 13:01

in that case - why not try the washball! eco friendly and much cheaper than regular detergents. and it works. i bought my latest from aldi for 5.99 and it promises to last for 150 washes. they also sell them in lakeland for 9.99. also don't need conditioner.

hmm, it turns out that i have just ended up advertising a rival cleaning system!

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gavel · 10/04/2009 13:06

That 'a mum says big boys don't cry' bit made me run out the door immediately and stock up on Ariel.

Shite advert.

PinkTulips · 10/04/2009 13:10

bought them from kleeneazy before and they weren't much better than soapnuts.

the amount of ruined clothes i had to chuck because of my ecowarrior experimentation is horrifying

and by god that shite about not needing conditionar is utter tripe... clothes like cardboard when you use those things in hardwater areas!

PinkTulips · 10/04/2009 13:13

i once experimented and did a couple of washes with no detergant, soapnuts, washball, anything at all and guess what....... got about the same results as the eco friendly options did!

so basically if you want to be eco friendly with your washing you're as well of just using nothing rather than buying eco friendly options!

Anifrangapani · 10/04/2009 13:19

It is a pile of poo ad - jumping on a nostalgia band wagon when we are feeling a bit skint.

I thought women had moved to a little more equality since the 50's and 60's. If they wanted to do a hark back to the old days could they not of injected a little irony into it to reflect how we have moved on from the Stepford model of gender roles.

Very lazy work by their ad agency IMO.

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stainesmassif · 10/04/2009 13:19

gavel- vg point!! a mum who says that is a bit of a cow imho.

pinktulips - my clothes seem to come out of the washing machine perfectly ok, but then i can't claim to scrutinise them very closely for stains.......we must be mums to discuss washing methods at such length

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leonifay · 10/04/2009 13:20

"a mum is someone who buys persil" makes me so how dare they suggest some one isnt a mum just because they dont buy persil grrrr

gillybeanie · 10/04/2009 13:21

does make me laugh though when he spills the soap powder on the floor,and goes oh mum
use surf liquid myself

Quattrocento · 10/04/2009 13:26

It's a truly terrible advert

FWIW I think the hat thing was meant to evoke bygone times (that section of the ad is black and white and smacked of post-war austerity) then the whole advert moves through generations of motherhood.

Whoever produced it needs shooting

Yay for buying the cricket bat for herself and going to play for the england ladies

EmmaOri · 18/07/2009 23:29

gosh - that's has to be one of the most frustrating adds on television right now. I'm not even a mother but I was enraged when I realized the add was for Persil! That's the last time I use their product, it's too bad, really. Sent them an e-mail to express my dissatisfaction, let's see how they respond..

simplesusan · 19/07/2009 09:54

Well I have never saved up to buy a hat opr a cricket bat so perhaps I am not a real mother.

I do object to the constant references to cleaning which somehow make a person a better mother.

I can however polish my halo as yesterday my dd told me that her friend had said she wished I was her mother. The reason being that I let her do hobbies and never complain about taking her to and fro to such events.
Made my day.

BonsoirAnna · 19/07/2009 09:57

Just turn off the TV!!!!!!!!!!

The ads are rubbish, don't bother wasting your time on them in any way.

Cloudspotter · 19/07/2009 09:59

A 'pretty hat' is what annoys me about this. A Pretty hat.

Makes us sound like a bunch of idiots, mindlessly grinning mum-robots. Agree, terrible advert.

Understand the sentiment, terrible execution.

poshsinglemum · 19/07/2009 14:24

It alweays annoys me that the dads never appear on Persil adds. But that would be too politically correct and boring.

Thandeka · 19/07/2009 14:28

Screamingabdab I like your poem- my piece de resistance was:

"i love my mum,
she may have a big bum
but she is the best mum in kingdom come"

I thought the mum was buying a bat to beat her kids with?

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