[Humour] It’s not for girls…

[sydney]

God I seriously hope that this is a wind-up and it's a whoosh enticing post Easy.

he's not bad is he...

 

[WATFORD zero]

For me, in my 60's, where's the poll option ?

My kids, in their late twenties would probably prefer a poll option

So, 'my 12year old daughter last night, who could not believe this was allowed at anytime to be on tv' sounds about right for a well balanced 12 year old

 

[Eeyore]

Can be looked at in two ways without outrage.

First that it is cringeworthy. It was then and it is now. Back in 2002 I was watching stuff like that and thought it was pathetic stereo-typing. Not 'outraged' just felt it was bit embarrassing.

Secondly, it's not meant to be taken seriously and shows how pathetic some people are in life with their attitudes towards women.

Either way, I'm happy such advertisements are gone. But only so I don't have to cringe. When I was growing up we had far worse than that.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

It's all fair. How many blokes stopped eating Flakes after the subtle erotism it portrayed?

 

[Eeyore]

Kind of underlines the point really. I mean, that has be the most rubbish advert imaginable.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

 

[Motogull]

Ignoring the gender stuff, it is a f***ing shite marketing campaign. I bet sales would have been no different it was 'not for red sea pedestrians'.

 

[A1X]

So can we drive over hedgehogs or not ?

I read that we could, but then it was on Spiked so that counts for nothing.

 

[Live by the sea]

I showed this advert to my 12year old daughter last night, who could not believe this was allowed at anytime to be on tv.
My wife remembers the advert, and thinks although it is funny, is now gladly a thing of the past.
Me I think it’s funny, and probably because I’m a white heterosexual 50 plus male, don’t really think beyond that, I guess that’s wrong.

Is this a timeless harmless funny advert ?
or an embarrassment that quite rightly a thing of the past.

It’s not pc but that doesn’t stop it being funny . It’s fairly harmless

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Bear baiting, cock fighting, and public executions - hanging, beheading and burning - were considered harmless good all round family entertainment in their time.

For some bizarre reasons, they are not today.

 

[Littlemo]

I liked it and found it funny. Will add that I am a girl.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I sometimes find the antediluvian attitudes of many on this board highly depressing

 

[Stato]

Bear baiting, cock fighting, and public executions - hanging, beheading and burning - were considered harmless good all round family entertainment in their time.

For some bizarre reasons, they are not today.

Some of us remember when viewers of this very website would be offered savage fights between animals as entertainment. Time moves on and we're sorry for all the mantis shrimp that died* for sport at the paws of honey badgers.

* - very easily.

 

[Swansman]

If you ignore the cringeworthy idea that their chocolate bar is too tough or something for women, I think its a clever and funny ad. Wouldn't be made today.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Kind of underlines the point really. I mean, that has be the most rubbish advert imaginable.

First time I have seen it today, not a patch on the English version

 

[SteveU]

If anyone feels guilty and uncomfortable watching this advert which was a bit of fun then I genuinely feel nothing but sorrow for you.

Looking for something to feel offended or upset by is a new pastime to many and it’s sad really.

 

[portlock seagull]

Say everything does change and all 7 billion people share exactly the same liberal left culture cancelling woke ways of thinking (spoiler: will never happen)? What then remains to scream for a police person(!)? Will there be any need for the police therefore? And what ever happened to the cup final money?

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Bear baiting, cock fighting, and public executions - hanging, beheading and burning - were considered harmless good all round family entertainment in their time.

For some bizarre reasons, they are not today.

I miss the 1970s.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

If anyone feels guilty and uncomfortable watching this advert which was a bit of fun then I genuinely feel nothing but sorrow for you.

Looking for something to feel offended or upset by is a new pastime to many and it’s sad really.

Please nobody google the Robertson's jam adverts of the mid 20th Century who hasn't seen them before. Your head will probably explode

 

[Live by the sea]

I miss the 1970s.

Not in the UK for I suspect over 150 years . Slight difference in the complain about everything culture we have nowadays .