The new Burger King ad...

So Glad

What the hell have I just seen? My brain has been assaulted...

So what are they trying to say? If you don't eat Buger King your not a man? Because only real men have weight problems and high colesterol, roish?

Adverts are getting worse and worse...

I can't find a video for you guys to watch but I have found the American version which is less humiliating than the european version.

Watch in pain.

Rb

Wow, the monday moaning has began early I see.

Slight bit of an overreaction perhaps? I Haven't seen the european version but I don't really see a problem with the American version tbh..most ads are crap, this is just happens to be one of them.

mp3guy

Yeah, thats why I don't watch TV anymore

Ciaran500

Its meant to be a joke :rolleyes:

subway

i saw and ad on saturday that said if i eat meat ill become impotent.
quite enlightening :rolleyes:

****in peta

Ciaran500

subway wrote:

i saw and ad on saturday that said if i eat meat ill become impotent.
quite enlightening :rolleyes:

****in peta

o.O

I assume that wasn't in Ireland.

Hobbes

a lot of double entendres in that advert.

connundrum

I am a man, man

lol!

Quite funny tbh, 'From the makers on Police Academy 3'

subway

Ciaran500 wrote:

o.O

I assume that wasn't in Ireland.

it was on the tv in bruxelles,
i think it was a satellite broadcast of some metal channel.

im not in there much so couldnt say 100% that it wasnt a dvd

MrJoeSoap

So Glad wrote:

What the hell have I just seen? My brain has been assaulted...

So what are they trying to say? If you don't eat Buger King your not a man? Because only real men have weight problems and high colesterol, roish?

Adverts are getting worse and worse...

I can't find a video for you guys to watch but I have found the American version which is less humiliating than the european version.

Watch in pain.

If it doesn't make you want to eat Burger King, then the ad has failed. Which I would imagine is the case. You've nothing to worry about.

I personally don't think ad's are getting worse.

Mossy Monk

jesus

the size of the burger in that ad :eek:

Black Swan

You all know that if you trace all the corporate linkages of Burger King you would come to a holding company called Gen Met? It's a Brit holding company, which goes well with the title "King"? When you bite into one, just remember it's just another mad cow...

MrJoeSoap

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

You all know that if you trace all the corporate linkages of Burger King you would come to a holding company called Gen Met? It's a Brit holding company, which goes well with the title "King"? When you bite into one, just remember it's just another mad cow...

You what now?

Mossy Monk

it's a conspiracy

Black Swan

Mossy Monk wrote:

it's a conspiracy

Quick! Contact Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts and see if they want to make another film, "Conspiracy Theory II." And just before the film, they could air the latest Burger King ads and then sell them at the concession stand.

Sparky

Mossy Monk wrote:

jesus

the size of the burger in that ad :eek:

It's a texas double whopper!

stevenmu

So Glad wrote:

So what are they trying to say? If you don't eat Buger King your not a man? Because only real men have weight problems and high colesterol, roish?

You know it is actually possible to want, have, and even enjoy a big huge juicy meaty burger, without having weight problems or high cholesterol.

In fact sitting around watching burger king ads on TV is more likely to cause obesity than having the odd burger king burger

nicelives

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

You all know that if you trace all the corporate linkages of Burger King you would come to a holding company called Gen Met? It's a Brit holding company, which goes well with the title "King"? When you bite into one, just remember it's just another mad cow...

Maybe it's still not the case but in Ireland they use Dawn Meats premium Ranchers burgers for their whoppers, would seem bizarre importing beef from Britain for BK in Ireland.

Dragan

So Glad wrote:

So what are they trying to say? If you don't eat Buger King your not a man? Because only real men have weight problems and high colesterol, roish?

Not really, it's just saying "i'm a guy, i want a big burger".....the same way as Yorkie used to say "I'm a guy, i want a big chocolate bar."

I imagine the fact that people are putting up posts about it on forums saying....have you seen the add for the new Burger from Burger just means it's working.

You don't need to like an add to buy something, you just need to know its there.

Cabaal

Its an american advert, american adverts = ****e and very loosly regulated compared to Europe.

MrJoeSoap

Cabaal wrote:

american adverts = ****e

Not true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XCEx51yrKE

johnny_ultimate

At least it doesnt feature that evil being - the so called Burger King.
Warning : the attatched picture may terrify you

Binomate

Best ad ever.

So Glad

Why are people liking this ad!? For **** sake it's clearly trying to get into your head that Buger King = Manliness and healthy food (What the man started of with) is food for girls, or unmanly men.

Fast food restaurants have been going all out on adds ever since Fast Food Nation and Supersize Me came out...

Would you loike extra manliness with your meal, sir?

MrJoeSoap

So Glad wrote:

Why are people liking this ad!? For **** sake it's clearly trying to get into your head that Buger King = Manliness and healthy food (What the man started of with) is food for girls, or unmanly men.

Yep, all true so far. And you forgot to mention tasty too!

So Glad wrote:

Would you loike extra manliness with your meal, sir?

Yeah, and have you got any barbeque sauce? Thanks!

Dragan

So Glad wrote:

Why are people liking this ad!? For **** sake it's clearly trying to get into your head that Buger King = Manliness and healthy food (What the man started of with) is food for girls, or unmanly men.

Fast food restaurants have been going all out on adds ever since Fast Food Nation and Supersize Me came out...

Would you loike extra manliness with your meal, sir?

Come on buddy, relax a little bit. I'm a well know health freak around these parts and i can see the funny side to this ad for crying out loud.

What is the difference between Burger King implying that health food is for wimps and a big burger is cool, and Lynx making the leap to sexual sucess if you use there products???

I don't see you on here banging on about other ads that making silly implications based on product usage so something about this individual ad is obviously annoying you.....or do you eat healthy and feel this add demeans your lifestyle???

Binomate

So Glad wrote:

Why are people liking this ad!? For **** sake it's clearly trying to get into your head that Buger King = Manliness and healthy food (What the man started of with) is food for girls, or unmanly men.

Fast food restaurants have been going all out on adds ever since Fast Food Nation and Supersize Me came out...

Would you loike extra manliness with your meal, sir?

I like the way it makes women look inferior.

So Glad

I'm more concerned over the social aspect of the add. The whole manly bollox.

But I am a healthy eater and I am concerned over the health implications. I'm not saying this is a disaster for health I just mean that some people will take this add a bit too much to heart and honestly buy Big Macs or whatever because they are comfortable with the image it supplies, or has been entitled.

I just don't think products should be given non-exsistant properties. It's meat, for christ sakes.

r3nu4l

It's a blatant (sarcastic?) rip off of other ads already out there with crowds of people joining together to bring a 'message to the world'. There is already one for a soft drink and another for sanitary towels or tampons or something.

At least I hope it is sarcastic spoofing, either that or the same advertising agency is being used by all three companies and they are just recycling the same tired old ideas for lots of cash...:)

MrJoeSoap

So Glad wrote:

I just don't think products should be given non-exsistant properties.

That is practically every ad on television, so.

What you are implying is that whilst you have the common sense to recognise the flaws in this ad, some people do not and should be warned or saved from it, correct?

So Glad

Also, see if you guys can get a hold of the european edition of the add. It's much more irritating.

So Glad

MrJoeSoap wrote:

That is practically every ad on television, so.

What you are implying is that whilst you have the common sense to recognise the flaws in this ad, some people do not and should be warned or saved from it, correct?

No. I'm just saying that the ploy of this advert is to make money from the primitive human emotions most of us are sesitive of. For example, Lynx blatently states that wearing Lynx will make women uncontrolably attracted to you, where as it's just a persperant. I would like to say it does such a thing but alas, pigs still can't fly.

Many other adds play on basic human/animal instincts, mainly sexual. I just think it's an inhumane to exploit it as well as to make money off it.

Anyone remember the Clearasil add, that clearly stated that if you had spots, you will never get a girlfriend and you are doomed to be lonely? That sort of stuff can be quite emotionaly distressing, coming from a TV set. :eek:

I couldn't help myself:

Bill Hicks wrote:

"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root. I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no ****ing joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are ****ed and you are ****ing us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your ****ing soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show."

*EHEM*

Mossy Monk

So Glad wrote:

I'm more concerned over the social aspect of the add. The whole manly bollox

what are your thoughts on the adverts that make women look more intelligent and has men as stupid idiots?

sure those ads are probably a bit of fun

MrJoeSoap

So Glad wrote:

No. I'm just saying that the ploy of this advert is to make money from the primitive human emotions most of us are sesitive of. For example, Lynx blatently states that wearing Lynx will make women uncontrolably attracted to you, where as it's just a persperant. I would like to say it does such a thing but alas, pigs still can't fly.

Many other adds play on basic human/animal instincts, mainly sexual. I just think it's an inhumane to exploit it as well as to make money off it.

Of course it is, but most of us have just learned to ignore these ads (to whatever conscious extent that we can!).

So Glad wrote:

Anyone remember the Clearasil add, that clearly stated that if you had spots, you will never get a girlfriend and you are doomed to be lonely? That sort of stuff can be quite emotionaly distressing, coming from a TV set. :eek:

Of course it is, but realistically these ads are never going to be stopped, so it is up to us to just learn to accept them, and ignore them. I'll always appreciate a good ad, but it won't make me irrationally want to buy a product. The recent Sky ad (with the penguins) hasn't made me want to get sky, because I realise the product they are pushing is already available with NTL, I just love the ad!

So Glad wrote:

I couldn't help myself:

*EHEM*

Haha, thats weird, I have Bill Hicks' biography sitting right here beside me on the desk.

pepper

So Glad wrote:

What the hell have I just seen? My brain has been assaulted...

So what are they trying to say? If you don't eat Buger King your not a man? Because only real men have weight problems and high colesterol, roish?

Adverts are getting worse and worse...

I can't find a video for you guys to watch but I have found the American version which is less humiliating than the european version.

Watch in pain.

i laughted when i saw this- They have some cheek!!!!!!!!!

So Glad

True, I don't conciously accept any adds, except the new Chupa Chups posters around town these days.........the pleasure of sucking, eh?

Is it the "Love All The People" book? If so, schweet.

MrJoeSoap

So Glad wrote:

Is it the "Love All The People" book? If so, schweet.

No, I read that one earlier in the year then it fell in the sea in Thailand, this is the "Agent of Evolution" one.

So Glad

Fell...in...the...sea...........in Thailand?

How odd!

MrJoeSoap

Yeah I was reading it whilst on holidays, and was going to Maya Bay (the beach from the film "The Beach") and my bag fell in the water and the book was soaked. He has some great views on people in marketing, it has to be said!

happydaz

i hate the way ads overly use gender. whether it's a poster making chubba chubs overtly sexual(note only females in posters), or a woman 'knowing best' doing some housework, while the poor 'stupid' man struggles...

as for the burger king ad...it is so silly. i reckon it might even put more women off eating their products...it's like how choclate bars are marketed-big chunky bars for men...small light low fat bars for women (and even stil if they eat that it's deemed indulgement). are women going to feel fat by eating one burger king burger?

poking a fire with a stick makes me feel manly...but not eating a burger...

constitutionus

just out of interest, after two pages am i the only one who'd kill for an extra large bacon double cheese burger meal now?

thanks OP , tis off to burger king for me

projectmayhem

constitutionus wrote:

just out of interest, after two pages am i the only one who'd kill for an extra large bacon double cheese burger meal now?

thanks OP , tis off to burger king for me

i'm licking my lips now.

it was a funny ad, get over it.

L31mr0d

yeah get over it OP, its an ad. I found it amusing. How exactly is the european one more irritating anyway? Does it have french people in it? *zing* j/k :rolleyes:

I would consider myself a man in the classical sense, I like competition, I like beer, I like women, I like meat (bring on the puns, i'm ready for it ), and there are a lot of men like me out there which will like this ad. This ad isn't really saying that "your not a man unless you eat this burger" its saying that men, in the classical sense, will WANT to eat this burger, and I DO.

Whenever I go to BK, whether it be on my own in town just looking for lunch or with a group of friends who could be guys and girls, I always order the LARGEST meal on the menu, as I like a lot of meat, I do the same with steaks in restaurants, I would probably order 2 DBXL burgers *drool* and no fries as they are pointless carbs to me, and get a water instead of a soft drink, which can inhibit fat absorption.

I'm NOT fat or unhealthy, i'm just a man. If anything I have to thank you OP, as I don't watch a lot of TV, and usually mute the ads if I do so I would never of known about this new burger at BK, i'll make a point to tell my friends and head in there next time i'm in town unwittingly the OP is an advertisers dream, haven't you heard the saying, any publicity is good publicity.

Canis Lupus

I like the ad, I'm sick of seeing MD trying to convince u their food is healthy and so on. It's sort of a nice change to just see them say I'm a man and I'll have this big ****ing burger.

xzanti

While we're on the subject of Burger King... LOL

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13550714,00.html

Rb

xzanti wrote:

While we're on the subject of Burger King... LOL

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13550714,00.html

Lol, that little joke really backfired on them
Especially the 33 year old, hes fairly shafted!

astrofool

I think the only thing made clear from this thread, is that So Glad has a small willy (regardless of gender)

Gautama

It reminds me of the Taco Bell "Bonanza" ad, which was fantastic. Real targeted and honest, though not with the gender bias of the BK ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iBUWBJpdi0