Control yer Drinking!!

[Elimare]

Has everyone seen those despearate new ads to cut down on people's drinking?

One of them shows two couples, dressed up to the nines holding glasses of wine (if you look carefully you can see the 4-bed semi in the distance.) with the tag line "It was a great night... I can't remember a thing."

The other one shows a young fella saving a goal with the tag line "Too many cans... and you can't."

Completely rubbish, my suggestion is to have a young fella on a football field, dressed in a filthy strip (cos he was too hungover to wash it)bloodshot eyeballs hanging out of his head, sat on the ground just outside the net as a a load of balls go past him.

For the other one the four yuppies should be in various states of undress with cans of Harp and bottles of Bulmers all over their nice new coffee table.

Who does the marketing for these things anyway?

[xandy]

how about a picture of a guy slumped over a keyboard at work fast asleep with drool hanging from left corner of mouth and the tag-line " too many cans.......fuck off and leave me alone"

[paddy_james]

Dear Elimare
I think you missed the point of the second ad.
Think about it.
Score being another word for....
Youre right about the ads though.

[Elimare]

Did I? the ads don't seem to be intelligent enough to have any double meaning to them, that's just my opinion tho'...

[micko]

El, not slagging your footie knowledge (much) but if you had...

"a young fella on a football field, dressed in a filthy strip, bloodshot eyeballs, sat on the ground just outside the net as a load of balls go past him"

...the subliminal message to me isn't that he can't score. It's that he's a crap goalie.

[Elimare]

Exactly my point mick, if he was sitting there being a crap goalie then maybe fellas would consider limiting their drinks.

PJ was the one who brought the whole idea of 'Scoring' into it.

[paddy_james]

Sorry Elimare
Just have a bit of a one track mind at the moment.I wont argue this point.
A better ad would be:
Man wakes up in bed next v.ugly girl (can substitute man for woman.boy etc..before i get shot down in flames) Caption reads
"Too many cans can impair your judgement" etc...im no poet.


[This message has been edited by paddy_james (edited 02 September 1999).]

[4ofUs]

Today's deep thought:


"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I
feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about
the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams.
If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and
their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It
is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come
true than be selfish and worry about my liver."

[shaggy]

My deep thought for the day:

I look at that empty bottle of vino in the corner of my flat, and I try to imagine all the empty bottles of wine I have happily guzzled over the years, the bottles stacked up like soldiers, row upon row, outside in the muddy garden of my flat in Dirty Dublin. And then I think of those pheasant workers toiling for hours and days under that hot sun in the fields of France and Italy and South Africa. The women in their rustic costumes stomping on the grapes, sweating away, singing and having fun. The red juice as it trickles down the wooden pipe. And the coopers who make the barells, and the old man in the printshop printing out the pretty lables, and the man who tastes the wine, and the boy who loads the crates into the lorry, and the man who drives the lorry to the market, and the people who sail the ship that brings the lorry over to Ireland, and the shopkeeper in the dusty little corner shop at the bottom of our road who sells the wine.

And I say to myself: "It is a far, far better thing that I drink this bottle of wine and let their dreams come true - and any chance of a shag with one of those pheasant girls?"

[bloke]

Sorry to go back to eighties ad's again, but...
Do you remember when they had a similar ad campaign with shots of a secretary at work, a builder/engineer at work, she leaves for the day, he discards his hardhat and races off in the renault 5, they go to a disco and then the scene fades to the poor old renault 5 wrapped around a pole with blood everywhere? Maybe the samne ad agency is running this campaign?

[Bigjoe]

I'm sure the ad man / woman could have come up with a campaign with loads of double /hidding meanings but the likelihood is that the bastard was really hungover and this was his / her best effort.

[Bigjoe]

ps what the hell is a junior member. i want to be a full member god damn it. how does one go about this??

[4ofUs]

Well, Bigjoe, you have to post a lot of messages to become a full member. So, do what I did: ramble on about nothing every time someone posts a message. Like now, for example. I could go on & on, but I really must get the hell outta here. Have a good weekend everyone!

http://www.p45.net/rant/NonCGI/smile.gif

[Bigjoe]

thanks for that 4ofus.
does 4ofus refer to the band of the same name or the fact that there are 4 of ya's.

beginning to get the idea.

[4ofUs]

Ah, see, I went through this before with paddy_james & Elimare. My real name is Mary (no longer a secret in these forums), so.... There we are.

[Bigjoe]

anything to do with the 4 mary's from the Bunty (I think). I could not be arsed to read through tonns of old stuff, like I've loads more doss surfing to do before I go home and go to bed after my 2 hours sleep last night.

[4ofUs]

Thank you for spelling that out.

[Wobble]

no problem at all..

[Bigjoe]

yeah thanks. that explains it fully. why use sentence's and paragraphs and the like when cryptic codes will do

[4ofUs]

well, if you're familiar with the band The 4 of Us, then you're most likely familiar with the song Mary. Anyway, math/logic wasn't your best subject, was it? Certainly wasn't mine.

[Wobble]

Mary = 4ofus = song

[Pete]

So Mary,

Like the song, did you have a married boyfriend called Frank?

[silent bob]

Mneh, yer' all complaining about this ad campaing to stop drinking, when what you should really be doing is sitting down laughing long and hard at it (with some sort of alcholic beverage in your hand of course..). As to an effective ad? how about some nice happy guy/girl with his friends, next day theyre all dead, with an open can of beer near by, I know it doesnt makes sense, but neither do the ones already there, now do they?

[Bigjoe]

Got it Mary.
I trust I can call upon you to restore my confiedence when required.

[4ofUs]

Pete: well, no. But my friend who has a girlfriend & who is trying to get in my pants always plays it for me. I haven't restored his confidence.

[shakuhachi]

An "interesting" scene going through Tara
St. DART station last night after 10PM.
Two O'Reillys (the pub under the station)
bouncers in the entrance alley not really
near the pub sitting on a bloke on the
ground. Most people didn't realise they
were bouncers (they were all young
looking skinheads) and cleared the area
fast.
Dunno what the bloke on the ground did,
but he didn't seem drunk and was just
asking them plaintively to let him up.
They were just sitting on his legs and
shoulders.
No idea of the full story, but hope he
can sue the bastards. He was nowhere near the bar and everyone passing had to
witness this pathetic sight.

[Mrs Staunton]

That was Steve Staunton. They kicked him out for being a shite footballer

[shakuhachi]

Steve Staunton, yeah.

Shoulda guessed, he looked as if he'd
been easily tackled.