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dvtimes
08-06-08, 12:42 AM
The Top 10 Most Annoyingly British Commercials (http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/08/04/top-10-most-annoyingly-british-commercials/)
this did confuse me a bit as many of them i had not seen, then i read the user comments at the end.
its actually a lost of offensively stereotypical British figures in american advertising.
if i had to choose the most offensive adverts shown on british telly, it would have to be the ones that are really, really obviously made for overseas markets and just given a tacky voiceover (or in the case of american conglomerates - not even that ... the gillette adverts REALLY, REALLY grate!)
when i'm the boss of the world, things will change!
Nottslad
08-06-08, 02:30 AM
We recently had satellite installed so we can receive TV from Florida. I was amazed how many adverts use British accents, it's almost every other one.
US TV and especially the commercials are very eye opening with respect to how those from the US live. It's pretty scarey really.
daveydude
08-06-08, 02:55 AM
We recently had satellite installed so we can receive TV from Florida. I was amazed how many adverts use British accents, it's almost every other one.
US TV and especially the commercials are very eye opening with respect to how those from the US live. It's pretty scarey really.
Do you think ads reflect how people really live? You need to get out more :p
Nottslad
08-06-08, 05:33 AM
Do you think ads reflect how people really live? You need to get out more :p
If I believed the US ads I'd think every Brit drives a Rolls Royce, has a spotless kitchen and knows the Queen.
It's the more serious ads that make me wonder; cars sold as 'econmical' because they do 22 mpg around town.
Slop portrayed as a healthy meal for all the family replete with smiling kids, next a commercial for a meals on wheels diet "freshly prepared" delivered to your home for those too lazy to do anything about their obesity.
Followed by a $10, call now toll free, exercise gimmick that makes you look like Arnie within 4 weeks with only 10 minutes a day.
It makes me laugh anyway.
If I believed the US ads I'd think every Brit drives a Rolls Royce, has a spotless kitchen and knows the Queen.
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we have don't you, and we do have T with HRH :cheer:
Note to Tigger - must remember to give Queenie her copy of the Tudors back
If I believed the US ads I'd think every Brit drives a Rolls Royce, has a spotless kitchen and knows a Queen.
I do, so does JT............. and if you replace Rolls Royce with Multi coloured Car, Spotless Kitchen with firepit and Knows with is - so does DVT :noway2:
Dunno about adverts, but I fucking cringe whenever a non-English film has British people in it, every cunt speaks with a plum in his mouth (the vegetable variety). I was reminded of it when someone said about the film indepence day, with our lot saying something like 'by jove, they've gone and cracked it chaps! A co-ordinated strike by the americans is being planned, about time, what what!'
I literally fucking cringed with embarassment. Also Mark Lamarr was interviewing eddie murphy, and eddie did a piss-take of mark lamarrs 'cockney' accent. "oh yah, sooper" was about the gist of it. I like eddie murphy and think he's quite a funny cunt, but I didn't realise he was fucking deaf...
Anyway, I'm off to wax my handlebar mustache, so
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US TV and especially the commercials are very eye opening with respect to how those from the US live. It's pretty scarey really.
you are after a teacher job in Asia, aren't you?
this did confuse me a bit as many of them i had not seen, then i read the user comments at the end.
its actually a lost of offensively stereotypical British figures in american advertising.
The stereotype is that the British are classy and refined (despite the fact you are sufficient evidence to the contrary) and anything they endorse warrants a premium.
I don't really see it as offensive. British accents are used to sell all kinds of crap here.
The stereotype is that the British are classy and refined (despite the fact you are sufficient evidence to the contrary) and anything they endorse warrants a premium.
I don't really see it as offensive. British accents are used to sell all kinds of crap here.
no, i wan't saying that it was offensive. that was taken from the comments.
And what have i done to upset you?
no, i wan't saying that it was offensive. that was taken from the comments.
And what have i done to upset you?
don't be a girl, I was just fucking with you. :catfight:
to be honest, i'd rather you did fuck with a girl. i'm still a botty virgin and i'm saving myself for that special man. :gaylords:
Pic of me http://populationpaste.com/img/2006/05/chubmen/chub01.jpg
Am I special enough for you?
strictlybroadband
08-07-08, 11:30 AM
If I believed the US ads I'd think every Brit drives a Rolls Royce, has a spotless kitchen and knows the Queen.
Or they're punk rockers who say "blimey" and "bollocks" twice in each sentence.
strictlybroadband
08-07-08, 11:33 AM
Talking of stereotypes, there's a new Guy Ritchie movie on the way. I loved Lock Stock, and Snatch almost as much, but there are only so many loverbull cockerney comedy-gangster movies you can make.
Talking of stereotypes, there's a new Guy Ritchie movie on the way. I loved Lock Stock, and Snatch almost as much, but there are only so many loverbull cockerney comedy-gangster movies you can make.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x9k-AXlMyME :)
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