No, I didn't find it offensive either. Just entirely stupid. Unless you had mentioned the name Moneysupermarket I would never have made the connection. Advertisements are often too abstract and vague these days. I kind of admire the old Cillit Bang! adverts. It's an advert, it's trying to sell you a cleaning product. It gives a demonstration and it's done. It may be annoying, amusing, lacking imagination, but it gets its message across. I admire its efficiency. 99% of adverts that happen to invade my world I find unmemorable. Which I would say isn't the idea. It also doesn't help that I barely watch any commercial TV at all, mainly because I don't like advert breaks. Excellent point on the betting ads. Personally, I would ban betting advertisements. Goodness knows who had the brain fade to allow them to start.
Do I Wanna Know or I bet you look good on the dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys (for a slightly newer song)
The first second of "Whiskey In The Jar" by Thin Lizzie is very distinctive. Also "Black Dog" or "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin.
Possibly because a small amount of alcohol is rather good for you. And it's quite a bit more than the government would have you believe for odd statistical reasons. Vin
Battle of Verdun was 100yrs ago yesterday. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/02/legend-verdun Just reading about it makes me feel down.
It may be my age, but I find more and more adverts so obscure that they pass me by. Bring back "You'll wonder where the yellow went .." (older posters may complete!). My BAFTA award for great fun and making the point it wants is to Specsavers. As I have a son who is a vet I particularly like the myopic vet calling his nurse's furry hat as an emergency. Interestingly, despite this, I have never been to Specsavers and remain loyal to my excellent local opticians, so that proves something. Not sure what. On the "offending ad" - for goodness sake. It's crass. The company that produced should go out of business. But offensive? There are too many things to get offended by in the world to worry about this piece of nonsense.
That Specsavers advert is brilliant! Also unfortunately there are too many people within society today who's default stance is to be offended about something or even look for reasons to be offended
Here's a graph of coronary heart disease risks, from: http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-1/39-51.htm please log in to view this image 20g/day is about 75% of the old UK max recommended daily dose of three - four units. The graph was chosen because it was the first result showing risks against consumption. Not a scientific reason for choosing but as good as any. HOWEVER, studies on alcohol are always based on self reporting of amount drunk. If you add up the amount British people self-report they drink, it adds up to roughly half of the amount of alcohol sold in in Britain (and that amount of under-reporting is pretty consistent across the planet). So a reported 20g/day is actually likely to be 40g/day or about seven units of alcohol per day. Now that's just heart disease but it's not something I've ever heard any government shouting about. Very good analysis on here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yfypf - Starts about 30 seconds in. Worth listening to. Vin PS. I drink about ten (genuine) units of alcohol in a typical week, lest you think I'm defending drink for personal reasons.
Interesting stuff, might have a listen to that when I get a chance At work at the moment though so bit of a no go As for your last line then I wasn't implying or thinking that in any way. Though I had a severe drink problem as a youngster so happy to admit that is a big reason for my strong views on it
Well, we did meet in the pub after all... That programme is brilliant. Not just on this subject but on pretty much everything they cover - they tease out the real stats behind the headlines. Vin
I attended a course on epidemiological studies only a few weeks ago, very interesting. Very difficult to draw out definite conclusions though, particularly as there are so many confounding factors when it comes to health/disease. Does this particular report go into any detail about any other effects having a small bit of alcohol every day incurs? And how this weighs up vs a (relatively) small decrease in relative risk of developing heart disease?
