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    I think Turkish Airlines are trying to reduce numbers flying by saying that you risk being sat close to the world's most irritating child.

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      Fucking YouTube ads! 6 ad breaks in a 13 minute NFL highlight reel. May as well have watched the bloody game by the time those cunts from Visa were finished.

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        General question to the UK-based TV watching section of OTF: do you think there is much booze advertising on UK telly these days? I just asked because it struck me today that I had seen so little of it recently (certainly compared with my memories of TV advert breaks when I was young) that I thought it must have been banned, but I don't think it has been. I watch so little telly that I don't really have much of a sample, but my impression is that most TV adverts these days are for tech products, be it phones, games, telecoms companies or whatever, and the rest are for insurance and price comparison sites.

        Funny how adverts from one's youth stick in one's head. Don't want to get all cliched nostalgia about it, but whenever I hear mention of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, I'll always imagine him joking "I haven't finished my Kronenbourg!".

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          Online gambling is the dominant subject in TV ads, later on at night at least. It is jaw dropping both in quantity and in content. Ads routinely depict behaviour that would be a red flag for gambling addiction as being cool and groovy, regardless of the nods to stopping when the fun does that they have to include.

          It seems like there is less booze advertising but if I stop to think current or recent spots for Smirnoff, Bacardi and one for a whisky briefly featuring David Beckham come to mind. They are all quite formulaic, with highly stylised 'partying' prominent, so may just be less memorable than the big campaigns of yesteryear.

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            I still find it jarring to see adverts for "hard liquor" on US television, which had been banned for decades until relatively recently

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              Originally posted by Evariste Euler Gauss View Post
              General question to the UK-based TV watching section of OTF: do you think there is much booze advertising on UK telly these days
              It's all gambling and various ecommerce websites as far as I can tell, but I don't really watch much actual telly with ads on.

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                Originally posted by Benjm View Post
                Ads routinely depict behaviour that would be a red flag for gambling addiction as being cool and groovy
                Indeed, and it seems to have gotten worse in recent months. I'm kind of astonished it's allowed. The equivalent for booze is definitely not.

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                  Whitbread, big head,
                  Trophy Bitter,
                  The pint that thinks it's a quart.

                  Mackeson.
                  It looks good,
                  It tastes good,
                  And, by golly, it does you good.

                  And many, many more...

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                    Proving the 'Schoolhouse Rock' theory, I can still remember tons of beer jingles from the '70s.

                    And like UA, seeing hard liquor ads on TV still jars. Bailey's Irish Cream late in the evening is one thing, but bourbon is quite another.

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                      The two that stuck with me from childhood are John Smiths' "Big John"*, and a similarly themed "Watch out for Webbo!" from Samuel Webster. Both had great kid appeal, especially if the school playground contained oversized kids called John or children with the surname Webb or Webster, who could then be teased.

                      On gambling, I am an enthusiastic daily gambler, but even I am disgusted with the advertising - it's not just late at night, they also target the bored housewife/unemployed woman demographic during the day, even giving them insulting female branding like "Pink casino" and "Legs 11". Something should be done, but it probably won't. The bookies have deep pockets and are expert lobbyists.

                      * when fact-checking, I discovered Big John was a northern only advert. Down south they apparently had a stereotypical Yorkshireman called Arkwright.
                      Last edited by jwdd27; 13-10-2020, 20:25. Reason: Forgot the footnote

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                        Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
                        I still find it jarring to see adverts for "hard liquor" on US television, which had been banned for decades until relatively recently
                        In the UK there was an unwritten agreement between manufacturers and broadcasters not to advertise spirits on television up until the mid '90s.

                        Thinking about it, there are still lots of alcohol ads on TV. They are probably more prominent on some channels than others. As with the programmes themselves, there isn't a situation where 20 million people will have seen the same advert at the same time, reducing their currency in the wider culture. If you are older than the target audience, as I certainly am, there is probably an element of them not sticking because they are filmed in a vernacular that doesn't connect with you. It's just noise and flashing lights, so to speak.

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                          Is there not still a lot of beer advertising in the UK? If you ever watch a champions league game anywhere in Europe it seems you have to sit through endless Heineken ads. Romanian TV is wall to wall beer advertising it sometimes seems. Mostly local but the aforementioned Heineken and a lot of Stella ads too

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                            I've got Licence to Kill on ITV4 (action and sport channel) the adverts at 21:30 - Uber Eats (McDelivery - sponsors films on ITV), Ladbrokes Casino, Nationwide Building Society, Volvo XC60, Innocent Smoothies, Lenovo Yoga laptops, McDonalds, GoCompare, and BT Broadband.

                            Quite a range, surprisingly.

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                              Originally posted by jwdd27 View Post
                              The two that stuck with me from childhood are John Smiths' "Big John"*, and a similarly themed "Watch out for Webbo!" from Samuel Webster. Both had great kid appeal, especially if the school playground contained oversized kids called John or children with the surname Webb or Webster, who could then be teased.

                              On gambling, I am an enthusiastic daily gambler, but even I am disgusted with the advertising - it's not just late at night, they also target the bored housewife/unemployed woman demographic during the day, even giving them insulting female branding like "Pink casino" and "Legs 11". Something should be done, but it probably won't. The bookies have deep pockets and are expert lobbyists.

                              * when fact-checking, I discovered Big John was a northern only advert. Down south they apparently had a stereotypical Yorkshireman called Arkwright.
                              The ones I remember are Castlemaine 4X mainly. Like the guy who falls, but can see the pub from his location.

                              On betting advertising - you only have to look at darts and football to see how it's taken over. I've just done a quick check and all of the PDC TV tournaments are sponsored by a betting firm. Not so long ago they would have been beer sponsors.

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                                John Smith's adverts were regionalised. I remember being mocked in Lancashire after one particular ad.

                                In my favourite of those, a Yorkshire one, two groups of men walk into a pub at the same time and try to get served a number of pints of John Smith's.

                                The leader of the first group says "We've been away for six months". The leader of the second says "So have we".

                                The first then says "We've been in the Arctic / Antarctic*, and we'd lie on our bunks each night dreaming of a pint of John Smith's, so we should go first".

                                The second says "Aye, but we were down south".

                                The first then said "After you"...

                                *Can't remember which.

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                                  I don't watch much TV, and very little on commercial channels at all, but the one inescapable bit of alcohol advertising I run across is the ident (or whatever they're called) bits for Trivento that come before and after each ad break on Quest, when I'm watching something like Salvage Hunters. They're abstract enough that it took me aeons to work out what wares they were actually hawking – not least because the name is a lot like (the equally random-sounding) Trivago, the hotel-comparison thing. Apparently though it's "the UK's leading Argentinian wine brand".

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                                    The absolute worst ad at the moment is the Veet one that keeps cropping up on YouTube - salty seadogs comparing wounds, then some male model type shows off his silky smooth torso - all with the single worst case of dubbing since all those weird Eastern European children's films the BBC used to show.

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                                      Does anyone here use the premium version of YouTube to eliminate the ads?

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                                        Originally posted by ad hoc View Post
                                        Is there not still a lot of beer advertising in the UK? If you ever watch a champions league game anywhere in Europe it seems you have to sit through endless Heineken ads.
                                        Not really no. Mainly it's been displaced by gambling, but even within alcohol it tends to be cider, WKD-type alcopops and various spirits. Can't remember the last lager/bitter ad I saw.

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                                          Stella still do the odd ones, along with Kronenbourg (Cantona still in their ads).

                                          Every now and then a different one will throw one forward, like Bud Light with their "Dilly, Dilly" garbage.

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                                            Occasionally Carlsberg will give us Mads Mikkelsen being Danish on a bicycle, telling us that they've improved their beer.

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                                              Originally posted by Simon G View Post
                                              Every now and then a different one will throw one forward, like Bud Light with their "Dilly, Dilly" garbage.
                                              Indeed. Like anyone back then used to supping strong ale and mead would've given the time of day to that watered-down Lucozade.

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                                                Originally posted by ad hoc View Post
                                                Is there not still a lot of beer advertising in the UK? If you ever watch a champions league game anywhere in Europe it seems you have to sit through endless Heineken ads.
                                                It's a while since I've watched one but CL games on UK TV certainly used to have annoyingly frequent Heineken "bumper" ads. Last time Wembley hosted the final they ran the same ad all season where our hero rushed into Wembley just in time for the final, and as he took his seat he was handed a pint of Heineken by his mate and he got stuck into it as the game kicked off. I didn't notice a sequel where he was promptly ejected from the ground and fined for drinking alcohol in sight of the pitch.

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                                                  There was one last year with a series of people just missing seeing a goal (including Andrea Pirlo answering the door), which was at least vaguely amusing

                                                  Edit: here it is. Though i could never understand why these people were disappointed that their team just scored a goal. I suspect the ad agency have never really been football fans

                                                  Last edited by ad hoc; 14-10-2020, 10:27.

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                                                    Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post

                                                    It's a while since I've watched one but CL games on UK TV certainly used to have annoyingly frequent Heineken "bumper" ads. Last time Wembley hosted the final they ran the same ad all season where our hero rushed into Wembley just in time for the final, and as he took his seat he was handed a pint of Heineken by his mate and he got stuck into it as the game kicked off. I didn't notice a sequel where he was promptly ejected from the ground and fined for drinking alcohol in sight of the pitch.
                                                    The first time I saw the Heineken ad, it was for rugby, so our friend could happily drink his pint watching the game. They omitted the part where he has to constantly stand up to let people past him to the toilets, and when someone clumsy fucker coming back from the bar with four pints pours half of one of them down the back of his neck.

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