Hahahahahahahahaha.

That made me smile, all warm like.

"When England play Germany they all run around for 90 minutes and then Germany win on penalties."

LOL. This youtube video like many youtube videos has been monetized by associating it with a commercial you have to watch before you get to the video. Guess what commercial precedes this video?

So pretty, so *intense*.



Another, also intense. The wingsuit footage gives me an uncontrollable thrill of heebie jeebies.

I find it pretty funny that those bat suit guys bother to wear helmets. I suppose it's for the end, when the parachute opens, and they might hit their head on a soft landing.

I guess everyone around here might have seen this. Still I can't help sharing. Its damn funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ZZreXEqSY

A zesty three-fer!

OMG!

I can't love this commercial enough!



Except this part, about the haters, I don't love this part.

Don't get the haters at all V.

I love this ad: For some reason it always makes me want to come down to the Cellar.

This is running in PDX now...

I like the commercial and I can see why it would have that effect on you, I feel it too.

But when it comes to Southern Comfort, I'm cured. I was inoculated for life back in my college days. :vomitblu:

Mmm hmmm. Yeah. Not my drink of choice. My brother put me off it when he got very ill after a SC binge at a party.

Re Dana's Southern Comfort ad:

I hadn't seen that ad, I really liked it, especially the part where the dog left it's master for the SC guy.

What I loved was the tune, "Hit Or Miss" by Odetta.

That was ƒucking awesome.

....

**YOU** are awesome for connecting me with the artist and title.

:notworthy:

Thank you, sir.

If you was pointing that at me, you are welcome.:D

My current favourite advert:

Ikea, One Room Paradise



Worth going full screen for to see it properly

That's pretty cute! But there's no way that's "one room".



We've been to IKEA recently, and I've seen most of what she's using.

Be a dairy farmer...

That's sick !

This advert really pisses me off:

I agree--least scary chest burster EVAH! A cow? A smiling cow? REALLY????

Chest? :eyebrow:

A young man's testimonial on a TV commercial for CHARTER COLLEGE

This is a PC issue that actually makes me feel sorry for the CEO of Dunkin Donuts in Thailand.

I don't see racist overtones in this ad,
and think it is a artistic portrait of a lovely black woman (even if it is a model in blackface)

I disagree with the main assumption.

This looks just like a model painted in the color of the doughnut that is being advertised. That's all.

I think it's racist to try and turn everything into a racist thing when it's not. That's the problem I see.

This.

PC has gone crazy. :headshake

They should have used a panther instead of a person, keep the color but not the racial overtones.

Except a panther can't really hold a doughnut in its paw, so just a panther, right, with a human hand holding the new black doughnut.

Ooh, but the human hand without a person in the shot might look weird, maybe even like the panther ate the person. So maybe a stylized art hand instead, and not holding the doughnut all dainty, but in a powerful grip that's not afraid of getting eaten by a panther.

Okay, so, black panther in the foreground, with a flag or something just over its shoulder, and the flag's got a raised fist on it, holding the doughnut. I like it.

'Sorry I ruined your Black Panther party.'

-Forrest. Forrest Gump

That is some classic Cellar.

Would an actual black woman have been less racist?

Is the doughnut itself racist because it resembles a possible human skin color?

This one reaches into new territory...

Hahaha. Does this come in Taupe?

That one made me laugh.

I'm not sure if I've posted this one before.
It's an advert for adverts, but it makes me smile every time I see it.
In fact if I am watching something on Sky+ and fwwding, I 'll stop to watch this one.

Ohhhhh love that!

Depends if she called someone an ofay cracker mother fucker.

Seconds 6-14 of this advert are filmed coming round the corner from Market Square to Kingsbury in Aylesbury.
Yay, Aylesbury!

To the left in the commercial is the bank from this photo.
Sorry, couldn't find my copy, so it's a Cellar link.

If you headed second right from the bottom photo you'd be entering Kingsbury.

It's kinda made to look like a place where people live, but in fact it is the town centre and it's very obviously very early. To those of us who see it pretty much every day; I think they worked it well as a location.

Careful what you say...

bwaaaahahahahahahahaa!








not that there's anything wrong with that.







I have on several occasions had the pleasure of a light beer.

This commercial makes me guffaw out loud every time I see it. Of course, it'll be most funny to those of us who remember the A-ha song/video when it came out!

This commercial is stoopid because the beeatch never really smiles. Yet there's the theme song by the ever-annoying Bruno Mars. There's a slight upturn of the upper lip, fleetingly for a second, a couple times, but mostly she looks pissed off and snotty.

Buster reminded me there is an advert I enjoy on TV.
Dana reminded me there is a more frequented thread for them.



I have already added "Woah! Tiger!" to the list of things which tickle me.
It may go the way of "SPIDER!" in being a very, very private joke.

(Spider comes from the TV adaptation of The Woman in Black, where Arthur Kipps runs out into the fog shouting the dog's name in terrible desperation)

Ha. My bro's mate has a dog called Spider.

And it looks like a mini version of Spit the Dog...or maybe Gnasher.

I expect to shout SPIDER! at the panto again this year and snicker to myself.
I'm in countdown mode btw, and I don't mean the late Richard Whiteley.

Ha!

Now I have the countdown clock in my head. Duhduh duh duh duh dededuh

Currently my favourite advert on tv:

O
M
G

That's why Mum's been singing it for the last couple of weeks.
I questioned her and she didn't know why. I even asked whether it was an advert, as I heard it most often as she went to make a cup of tea or go for a wee during what was obviously an advert break.

I mean at least I know why I have "Pass the Dutchie ('pon the Left Hand Side)" in my head every Thursday and Friday.
Two of the refresh breads I bake are Duchy Organic loaves.
Still makes me do my nut when I catch myself though :rolleyes:

Irn Bru:

These both made me laugh

Two adverts that take a serious look at gender, both of which are very clever:

First, an advert for Pantene hair products that draws on real research (the likeability study) showing the difference in how men and women are perceived when doing exactly the same things:



Second an advert for sanitary towels by Lauren Greenfield (winner of Sundance Film Festival’s Directing award for The Queen of Versailles)

Seriously? Or are you just trolling?

Umm...seriously. I thought they were interesting.

I find it interesting that companies now think a feminist message is something that will sell.

They both play with ideas I find interesting - and concerning. Growing up as a girl, being told things done 'like a girl' are just a bit rubbish is something that has always bothered me (you throw like a girl, don't be such a girl etc). I believe that has an effect.

The stuff about likeability is also something I find interesting - though, those findings are a little less solid - many male bosses loose out on likeability too after all. But likeability studies have shown that if you present a mixed group of men and women with a dossier of a successful boss and give it a male name they will come up with very different words to describe that 'man' and a different conclusion as to whether they would want to be in 'his' company to the words they use and conclusion they draw when the dossier is given a female name. Identical dossier, of a real life person, with the only elements changed being the gender.

This stuff interests me. And the fact that companies are using it suggests something intriguing about their expectations.

A much less impressive attempt to cash in on ideas of female empowerment - this one I find slightly disturbing! ;p



I really don't like the messages from this.

Since I've posted about ads that play to debates on womanhood and feminism - heres a side step - one of my favourite portrayals of fatherhood in advertising.

For quite some time the images of fathers in adverts have been fucking appalling - they're either portrayed as slightly ridiculous, bumbling fools, or they're shown as one of the kids with the mum being the grownup.

Just lately there've been some much more positive images of fatherhood, but there has been a bit of a tendency for the more positive ones to show a kind of perfect modern man type image - trendy, 'metro sexual'/emotionally expressive etc. Which may well describe a lot of young dads, but how about that older generation? I don't know about anybody else's dads, but my Dad would never have got into a deep emotional conversation with his kids - he showed his emotion in other ways. And that is ok - you don't have to say I love you, as long as you love.

I like. Dad as nurturer.

I wondered years back where the Dads in adverts were, finally deciding that men didn't buy the particular items being advertised in significant quantity for them to be the target audience. Supermarket clothes for children for example still seem to exist in a Dad-free world.

Thinking about "like a girl"... I wonder if it is the word girl that gives it a negative connotation. So that if it was "like a woman" would it be better? Or is it just the gender comparison. If someone said that you run like a black man I still think it would be a questionable comment, but probably meant as a compliment. How about suggesting someone dives like a gay, with the clarification that only if the gay person in question is Tom Daly.

I dunno, just musing.

Old Stephen Fry advert, because I'm reading his second volume of autobiography.
He said it made no sense to him either, but it paid exceptionally well for a young man who'd yet to become one of the stately homos of England.


I have no recollection of it, not knowing who he was at the time.
The Alliance and Leicester adverts however, I remember quite clearly (compact and bijoux, Mostyn, compact and bijoux).

It's just stupid as hell, but, I love this commercial:

Also, I kinda like this one:



But only cuz I love the song.

I'm trying to decide if that's Craig Robinson of "Hot Tub Time Machine" fame.

Yes/no/maybe?

Hay Day commercial? Hahaha.....that is funny.

Anyways, I posted a reply after Jim's post but I think I forgot to press the submit button. :roll eyes: Anyways, I was wondering why the commercials that Dana put up is viewed as trolling. I personally like the "Like a Girl" commercial.