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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 9, 2018 13:09:21 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2018 14:11:22 GMT
The French National Railways would like to thank us for helping to keep our carbon footprint small by taking the train.
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Post by lagatta on Dec 26, 2018 14:28:51 GMT
Unfortunately a lot of the older ones have disappeared, including the culturally inappropriate Shalimar ad - two blonds in India? and one referred to by several as completely inappropriate.
Nothing "progressive" about the Cartier ad, a fantasy about wealth a century or so before it was made, from Paris to Imperial Russia and over the mountains to China (wrong kind of leopard for that climate of course, although snow leopards do exist) and back to a fantasy Paris, though the model in that segment is wearing contemporary formal wear. The feline looks real, but who knows nowadays. I guess that now they can do CGI based on footage of a real cat, strangely docile though Spots is.
I enjoyed the SNCF ad, though unfortunately many railway lines have been closed in France. It would be important to promote goods as well as passenger transport by rail to counteract far more polluting TGVs.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2018 14:41:22 GMT
Actually, they all run on the same electricity.
I was reading the other day that 90% of all of the goods in the world still travel by ship.
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Post by lagatta on Dec 26, 2018 14:51:51 GMT
Well, that is quite a portrait of a rapidly - and unevenly - developing society.
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Post by lagatta on Dec 26, 2018 14:53:43 GMT
French big trucks are electric? Thought they were diesel. OOPS - I used the wrong acronym - of course TGVs are electric - I meant HGVs - huge trucks/lorries. Not quite awake yet.
I still remember the first time I took the TGV from Paris to Lyon...
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2018 17:25:14 GMT
I wouldn't even have known what you meant if you had written HGVs. I've never seen that acronym.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 15, 2019 21:00:27 GMT
I would like to think that this is progressive, but it might just be hypocritical.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 16, 2019 1:51:51 GMT
I just saw that online yesterday. I guess the motivation doesn't matter if the good message gets through.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 16, 2019 18:49:19 GMT
I will now throw my full support behind this commercial since it outraged Fox News and many other macho elements. More than 20 millions views since yesterday.
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Post by onlyMark on Jan 16, 2019 19:24:49 GMT
People get so outraged nowadays. So emotional. Outraged by proxy. The mentality of human beings is degrading rapidly. We'll soon all be running round shouting at any perceived slight on ourselves and on behalf of others that we think we have a right to speak for. Instant gratification begets instant offence begets instant twitter/instagram et al and begets stupidity. I'm not defending/attacking the advert as such, I am attacking those with nothing better to do, who have little knowledge of how the real world works, who look for ways to be slighted and no matter what someone says or does, there are always people who will jump on them for doing what they see as the wrong thing.
Cultural appropriation - stop attacking people who wear ethnic dress/ethnic hairstyles, especially as you are the ones wearing western dress and wouldn't be seen dead in anything traditional that originated from some ancestor of yours ten removed. Stop attacking "black face" where something traditional, from before slavery times, and that has nothing whatsoever to do with Africa or black races, is still being seen. Black isn't a colour you have sole right to. Other things can be black that have no connection to racism whatsoever.
Jeez, I could go on, but I'll turn even more into a 'Stinkstiefel'.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 16, 2019 19:55:55 GMT
I totally agree. "Outrage" at just about anything has become the new way to affirm that one exists. I certainly agree that the "blackface" controversies are totally ridiculous since comedy (or just "humour") is based on countless elements, such as adultery, stupidity, sexism, religion, sexual orientation, physical appearance, craziness and a zillion other things that do not come to mind immediately.
In this century, it now appears that being the first to point out that something is "unacceptable," even if said in jest, is a way to get more points. Frankly, I am fed up with a lot of it, even if I will never deny that many statements are in bad taste. I'm sure that there will soon be laws in several countries to ban the concept of off colour jokes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 16, 2019 21:33:54 GMT
Come on, y'all -- two wrongs don't make a right!
I agree that it sometimes seems that people are looking to be offended by things that are in no way offensive.
But by the same token, tacitly approving damaging attitudes by making light of them is helping to maintain them.
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Post by questa on Jan 17, 2019 2:55:59 GMT
"Outrage by proxy". What an excellent phrase!
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Post by onlyMark on Jan 17, 2019 5:34:58 GMT
I have a cleaner that comes twice a week. My house shares a walled plot with the landlord and he has a gardener and a woman who cleans and cooks for them and hence I see them every day. They think we in the west are crazy. I sometimes make a point of showing them stuff. A group in fancy dress with some white dude dressed as a black basketball player, a white woman with a cornrow hairstyle, some milk skinned youth dressed as a red indian, these sorts of things - they fail to see what the problem is completely, they have no idea why it is deemed to be offensive by some. It is totally beyond their comprehension. They have never heard of these attitudes. Not only that subject but I have an interest in what they think about a number of things like sexism, perceptions of the rich west, black magic, family, youtube challenges and so on. We've had many an interesting conversation, usually punctuated by them shaking their heads wondering at our completely foreign attitude to their experiences.
Mind you, our cleaner loves cat videos on youtube.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 19, 2019 17:10:41 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Feb 20, 2019 20:07:33 GMT
I loved the Berlin public transport ad. It was funny to have the Turkish or Middle-Eastern looking young men complaining about sharp kebab odours.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 21, 2019 14:25:04 GMT
Am I late to the party with this one? I've only just noticed it, but it seems to have been around a while: There is a 12-minute (TWELVE minutes) complaint about this on Youtube I notice, but I couldn't be bothered. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 21, 2019 15:02:38 GMT
I am surprised that they only promote their oven-heated products. Are they ashamed that it is actually fried food?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2019 21:16:55 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 20, 2019 11:22:15 GMT
A while back PatrickLondon posted about a series which included inventors addressing specific hopes by physically handicapped people. I particularly remember a bicycle triumph, but after 25 minutes of searching, I can't find the post. Probably buried somewhere in the TV threads. Anyway, the programme was called The Big Life Fix
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 20, 2019 17:20:22 GMT
Thanks, Patrick!
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 20, 2019 18:18:03 GMT
Anyway, I thought the Ikea ad was quite good.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 8, 2019 5:30:50 GMT
Not the usual political ad.
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Post by mossie on May 8, 2019 15:48:40 GMT
What a load of hypocrisy, when we are governed by unelected commissars, sorry commissioners.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 8, 2019 16:05:23 GMT
They are elected by the people we elected. Do you really think basic voters would be capable of knowing if an Estonian or a Spaniard had the qualifications required for certain posts? I think of that the same way I think of Americans voting for judges in their elections. Do they all have law degrees?
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 20, 2019 16:57:47 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 20, 2019 17:11:34 GMT
I like it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 15, 2019 17:40:41 GMT
For some reason, some people have been offended by an ad that refers to an important female body part even though the actual item is never shown.
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 20, 2019 6:39:58 GMT
Not sure if this quite counts as advertising since, although it's commercial TV, our ITV also has a public service function. Anyway, they recently ran a campaign on mental health (a big thing at the moment, with the younger royals joining in). Here's their trailer, showing all sorts of their most popular programmes shutting up for a moment: and they got some advertisers to do the same: My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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