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Can I just have a righteous rant about TV adverts please?

37 replies

tigana · 25/04/2008 15:46

Ra ra ra!
That advert for the burger that you put in the microwave and your date suddenly goes from being 'up tight and frigid' to 'up for it and semi-naked' (the only 2 types of woman in the world - clearly)
Ra ra ra!
The shreddies one. All grannies knitting - woman power - but it is up to a man to be quality control (and naturally one of the grannies fancies him...)
Ra ra ra!

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TheDevilWearsPenneys · 25/04/2008 15:47

Oh god we could go on all day.

What advert is a 'good advert'?

TheDevilWearsPenneys · 25/04/2008 15:47

(excepting nspcc/ drink driving etc that are actually important)

tigana · 25/04/2008 16:00

But while most ads just pass me by as just generally rubbish...these ones, however, make me react...negatively.

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tigana · 25/04/2008 16:01

Should have read that before posting - please mentally delete the 'however' as it is superfluous. Thanks.

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hanaflower · 25/04/2008 16:02

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tigana · 25/04/2008 16:08

That is because cravendale advert does not stereotype/objectify women. Just cows

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Sunshinemummy · 25/04/2008 16:09

I like the ad for Berocca with the people on the treadmills.

Hassled · 25/04/2008 16:13

That microwave/burger ad effectively compares a woman to a piece of meat - I rant every time I see it. It's offensive and sexist, and they obiously only want men to buy their products.

UnquietDad · 25/04/2008 16:15

Don't forget the other side of the coin. Just About Any Washing Powder Ad You Care To Name, Ever: bloke tries to do the washing and makes a mess of it (pours powder on the floor while turning box upside down to read the instructions, etc.) Because clearly men are incompetent and thick and it's acceptable to laugh at them for not being able to do housework.

tigana · 25/04/2008 16:16

Yep.
On par with "Women, don't expect any help on a Thursday because that is when a shitty mans mag comes out and we all know you can't hammer in a nail for love nor money with your dainty painted nails and lack of strength"

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tigana · 25/04/2008 16:18

UQD am with you. That one formen with greying hair " my girlfriend said she like dmen with grey hair until it happened to me"
and
the one where there is a man in the sauna and the women steal his towel or something...
Ra Ra ra!

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LazyLinePainterJane · 25/04/2008 16:18

I like the Crusha adverts with the cut out singing dancing cats

jumpingbeans · 25/04/2008 16:18

We try to guess what the adverts are advertsing,hardly ever get them right, wtf has a load of trucks got to do with chocolate?

Izzybel · 25/04/2008 16:19

Ooh yes, and any cleaning product makes it so easy to do that a man can do it AND can finish in time to watch the footie!

TheDevilWearsPenneys · 25/04/2008 16:20

UQD genius , again!

blinkingthreetimes · 25/04/2008 16:21

I tell you my pet hate about adverts

the slimming ones inc special K ,adois and weight watchers

They are all targeted at women telling them what shape they should be. No obese man tucking into some special k or his friends and family discussing his weight

The worse one I think is the adois one though as it has a small girl of abput 8 wiggling her bum in the mirror and shouting adois

Izzybel · 25/04/2008 16:22

The Cabury ones really get on my nerves too, jumpingbeans. The truck one is worse than the gorilla one!

Divastrop · 25/04/2008 16:22

and theres the 'mum's night off bucket'(kfc)advert,which implies that it is a womans job to cook,and that men cant cook.

i think these advertisers know exactly what theyre doing.they make adverts as offensive as possible so they will get complained about and thus mentioned in the press and discussed on t'internet,which means more free advertising for the product in question.

TheDevilWearsPenneys · 25/04/2008 16:22

The constipation pill ones always make me laugh

Izzybel · 25/04/2008 16:25

If you had constipation, would you go out for coffee with your friends and chat about it? Erm... no!

skeletonbones · 25/04/2008 16:25

That one for immac or the like where the woman extolls the virtues of immac becasue shaving leaves stubble 'stubble is for MEN!!' she says is a shocked and disgusted voice.
Because obviously womens body hair is so disgusting even if you shave you are still a big butch trucker as you might have GASP a bit of hair still visible by microscope.

jumpingbeans · 25/04/2008 16:26

The always seem to put those constipation ones on when i am eating my tea,mmmmmm nice

Izzybel · 25/04/2008 16:28

The Bazuka ad really annoys me. Those kids doing karate, or whatever it is they are doing. God, I watch too much TV! [Need to get out more emoticon]

Izzybel · 25/04/2008 16:29

Yes, or the ones for haemorroid cream.

madhairday · 25/04/2008 16:30

I HATE that bloody dairylea one, the one where the obnoxious child announces 'mum, I'm hungry' in a horrible whiney voice and then of course it's mums job to immediately satisfy his hunger and what better than the pile of crap that is dairylea dunker-cheese straw-nachos whatever they ares. Grrrrrrrr.....anyone else find this ad so annoying?