or rather: (thank god for germans)

Ehmm…. Dutch

You know the sort, the Guinness domino one was one, there was the beer one which also had stuff falling on top of other stuff and so on… quite a trend dominoes have been recently.

I tend to take offence on behalf of dogs when they’re treated as stupid by ads. Like the one a while ago (Eagle Star, I think) where a dog and cat were talking about what to do with “their” SSIA and the dog kept saying “lets get a speed boat” while the cat counselled him on prudent investment.

I figure the only remedy is to make an ad that points out how heartless a cat is and that it will stab you in your sleep if it thinks it will derive some benefit from it. Not sure how to fit that into an ad campaign for anything, though.

That Aero ad offends me somewhat – the one with that smug twat in a towel. So does the Kinder Bueno one where your woman robs the guy’s towel for fun (because she eats Bueno, you see). I want to see those ads done with the genders reversed, see how many complaints they get.

(That said, some of the male-focused ads for stuff like Lynx and Rustlers are pretty bad in that respect – although I’d argue not as much).

I also tend to take some offence at the underlying message of various adverts. Like the Carlsberg ‘memory hotel’ series, which implied that drinking Carlsberg makes you cultured and cool, with the added bonus of helping you forget your bad memories.

The Coors light ‘heatwave’ one a few years ago was similar. It showed a scorching hot day that suddenly froze over when someone cracked open a few Coors’. The undertone being that Coors Light solves your problems.

However it’s not like I have a “think of the children” reaction, nor do I feel that my moral integrity has been compromised as a result of watching these ads. I just feel very cynical about them.

Yeah there was unfortunately hence the deletion.

harpymarx, there was worse? I’d say that was unbelievable, but clearly not.