Adverts

[el Chi]

I just saw a new advert on British TV for Marks & Sencer (remember the Xmas "Magic & Sparkle"? Sort of like a Yuletide "Shock & Awe"). this advert featured a collection of "real people" extolling the virtues of M&S's delicious seafood platter. The last one was an old lady (seventies at least), sat next to her equally aged husband proudly stating the following (I quote as far as my short-term memory allows, so it's quite close) :
"Yes. I want to come back as the seafood platter. I can just imagine the whole family gathering round and tucking in! They'd have a whale of a time. Oh! <as if she'd just realised> There's your pun right there!"
And once more with feeling:
"Yes. I want to come back as the seafood platter. I can just imagine the whole family gathering round and tucking in!"
And who says sex doesn't sell...

 

[Reven]

lol, i dont think i would have noticed

 

[MrWhite]

Lol, me either. But subtle references like that can be found all over.

 

[63]

i dont get it

 

[el Chi]

Erm, I'm not sure how to put it without being so graphic as to get banned...
Hmmm - the grandma wants her family to come and eat her fishy parts. Oh Christ... <Shudders>
I am not a bad person, just the result of a crooked society and one too many Graham Norton shows...

Seriously mods PLEASE don't ban me if this went too far, just delete the post :| Purleeease?

 

[MrWhite]

didnt go far at all, relax man.

eat her fishy parts.... classic

 

[el Chi]

Yeah but I thought I'd play it safe... Huzzah for octogenarian sexual inuuendoes! <Shudders>

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I think thats a little too deep really...

 

[el Chi]

Deep like what? Like Graham Norton deep?
Or do you mean a bit to twisty to be obvious?

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

A bit twisty to be obvious...Most people simply dont have the inuendous (Word?) capacity to think of that.

Basically, most people dont have minds that automatically latch onto obscure inuendo like that.

 

[el Chi]

<Is ashamed>

 

[Axyon]

<Is ashamed>

There, there. I got it

 

[el Chi]

THANK you!
Incidentally, d'you reckon the ad company was having a laugh, or is it just me being a filthy filthy boy?

 

[ComradeBadger]

I think it's you

I got it .. and gouged my brain out with a phillips-head screwdriver.

Feel free to quote me on that

 

[Axyon]

THANK you!
Incidentally, d'you reckon the ad company was having a laugh, or is it just me being a filthy filthy boy?

Probably the latter... although you'd think someone might notice it up at the ad development studio, unless they're all just really boring and wouldn't understand anything like that. Kind of like those adverts that try to appeal to kids by being 'cool'. Ugh.

P.S. 3000 posts, rah!

 

[el Chi]

I find it amusing that the approach if "Look these are real people!"
No they are not. We are not stupid. You did not scour the streets in an attempt to find people willing to be on TV waxing lyrically about your fish. You big lie-bags.

 

[Fat Tony!]

I dont get it but i think the problem is, is that i dont even understand what she's meant to be saying never mind the inuuendoe.
/me is confused
Is she trying to say she wants to reincarnate into a fish ?? wtf!

 

[el Chi]

I dont get it but i think the problem is, is that i dont even understand what she's meant to be saying never mind the inuuendoe.
/me is confused
Is she trying to say she wants to reincarnate into a fish ?? wtf!

I think what is really meant is that she loves this thing so much that if she could come back as anything, it would be this, because it would make her family so happy. How lovely is that?
The grubby innuendo... Hmmm. How far can I go, mods? I could confuse things slightly further by saying that it's a reference to communal cunning linguist :naughty:

 

[ComradeBadger]

Just don't be explicit.

For all our sakes.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

There is another advert though, along the same tracks where a woman at the end speaking of some other marks and spencer food says, "Its really does it for me. Its reaches the places a man cant you know? lol"

(LoL added for comical value)

 

[el Chi]

You've made that one up, surely?

 

[PvtRyan]

This is Sofa King cool!

On the other hand.... el Chi is just being a little pervert

 

[el Chi]

"Sofa King cool?" Care to elaborate?
And I am not a little pervert. Just smutty. There's a huge difference.

 

[spookymooky]

Probably the latter... although you'd think someone might notice it up at the ad development studio, unless they're all just really boring and wouldn't understand anything like that. Kind of like those adverts that try to appeal to kids by being 'cool'. Ugh.

P.S. 3000 posts, rah!

i know what you mean. recently i saw i commercial for these sliding phones dancing to rap music. argh

 

[MrWhite]

Probably the latter... although you'd think someone might notice it up at the ad development studio, unless they're all just really boring and wouldn't understand anything like that. Kind of like those adverts that try to appeal to kids by being 'cool'. Ugh.

P.S. 3000 posts, rah!

Oh I just love how McDonald's is taking the biggest corporate attempt to steal our cultural identity. :hmph:

 

[Zerimski]

Oh dear god. I bet some intern is sitting in his darkened bedroom chuckling maniacally because none of his superiors caught on to his sick sick sick SICK SICK SICK mind.

 

[el Chi]

Oh dear god. I bet some intern is sitting in his darkened bedroom chuckling maniacally because none of his superiors caught on to his sick sick sick SICK SICK SICK mind.

Let's face it, if you were working for the ad company responsible for that campaign and you thought you could work in some dodgy innuendo without anyone noticing, you'd take it...

Regarding McDonalds at the moment and the "I'm lovin' it" (how sad that it went from Justin's pretty little voice to 3 feckless British nobs): Maddox pointed out that "I am loving it" can be rearranged to spell "Ailing vomit."
But almost all McDonald's ad campaigns are sh*t. Not unlike their "food".

 

[Zerimski]

This is true, I would jump upon such an opportunity. But I think I would steer it well away from octogenarian cunnilingus.

 

[el Chi]

Mmmm, it's an interesting one to choose, but disgusting and obtuse enough that people might not notice and you could claim innocence if someone did.

 

[Zerimski]

"What?! You mean my advert could bring up mental images of Granny-Akimbo on the dinner table?! Never!"