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LVA pub radio ads

  • 16-12-2005 3:39pm
    #1
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭


    Anyone heard these?
    Theyre usually on Newstalk 106 and I think Darragh O'Brian does them.
    Theres something about them thats really irritating but I just cant quite put my finger on it :mad:


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  • #2
    ionapaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭ionapaul


    It's the fcuked up message they put across - 'try to survive the awfulness of Christmas day, sure the pubs of Dublin are open on the morrow and you can go back to having the craic first thing in the morning'....(you miserable, pathetic alcoholic with nothing in your life but your love of your local - that's me reading between the lines in a way the LVA probably don't approve of). They're desperate to get people back into the pubs after being caught ripping us all off, and so they resort to the tired tactic of 'if we tell you that sitting around in the pub all day is cool over and over and over again, you'll end up believing us'. Sad thing is some people eventually will.


  • #3
    grumpytrousers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭grumpytrousers


    There's similar ones on the radio down the country, done by the 'rural vintners' and they are, as the OP I think is trying to say, cringe-inducing.

    'You've had a hard week, and there's nowhere else to unwind and relax than in your local pub'. It's the patronising tone more than anything else that gets me; don't get me wrong, I love going to the pub - the stupid banter, crap quizes and all that goes with it.

    I hate, however, being treated as some class of muppet who can't remember what activities float my boat and which don't...

    slightly OT, there's the ones for MEAS at the moment as well (mature enjoyment of alcohol) which pay homage to 'Double D's' (designated drivers) and I'd swear they've been done by the same agency - such is the inanity being peddled. I'm not attacking the message, y'know, but I would - happily - shoot the messenger...


  • #4
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    ionapaul wrote:
    It's the fcuked up message they put across - 'try to survive the awfulness of Christmas day, sure the pubs of Dublin are open on the morrow and you can go back to having the craic first thing in the morning'....(you miserable, pathetic alcoholic with nothing in your life but your love of your local - that's me reading between the lines in a way the LVA probably don't approve of). They're desperate to get people back into the pubs after being caught ripping us all off, and so they resort to the tired tactic of 'if we tell you that sitting around in the pub all day is cool over and over and over again, you'll end up believing us'. Sad thing is some people eventually will.

    Yes thats probably it. It feels almost patronizing listening to it


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