Anyone remember this very un-PC ad?

DublinWriter

Basically it was for a brand of sticking plasters

They wanted to demonstrate how the plaster would let the skin breath, so they put a dolphin in a swimming pool, and they taped over the poor creature's blow-hole with this brand of plaster.

The dolphin swam around quite happily and lived!...or maybe his stunt-double lived?

Anyone remember this, or am I doing a Fr.Dougal again?

mike65

Don't recall that one, but I do remember the oral-sex Cadburys Flake ad. Mmmm

Twenty years ago Clive James, then television critic for The Observer, expressed his concern about an advertisement he'd just witnessed on the box. The ad was for Cadbury's Flake and it was, James thought, the closest approximation to oral sex he had ever seen. Chocolate and fellatio did the Broadcasting Standards Authority not know, he asked, `is that one of these things causes tooth decay''?

Mike.

DublinWriter

mike65 wrote:

Don't recall that one, but I do remember the oral-sex Cadburys Flake ad. Mmmm

EVERY ad for Cadburys Flake involved a simulated act of fellatio from about 1974 to 1986.

It's called subliminal persuasion. However, they've gotten a lot more subtle about it. Check out the ad for Miller beer (I think) with the guy on the bike constantly rolling downhill from home to shop to back home again.

Watch carefully as he leaves the shop, there's a sign to the left of the door that says "Open...A Bier", it's basically "Open" then the Spanish "A Bierto", but there's a crate that blocks the 'to' of the Spanish translation.

Accident? We think not! *dons tin-foil helmet*

mike65

Subtle?



Found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbhHOZZXnI

Choco porno

Mike.

DublinWriter

Oh FFS Mike! That hairdo is circa 1986. I've said they've gotten more subtle about advertising recently!

Alltogether now...hAoin Do Tri...."Oooonly the crumbliest, flaaaakiest chocolate, tastes like chocolate never tasted before!".

KTRIC

mike65 wrote:

Subtle?



Found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbhHOZZXnI

Choco porno

Mike.

Anyone know where I can get a keyboard dry cleaned ???

DublinWriter

KTRIC wrote:

Anyone know where I can get a keyboard dry cleaned ???

Fuck sake...DID THE DOLPHIN DIE IN VAIN?!

Degsy

DublinWriter wrote:

Fuck sake...DID THE DOLPHIN DIE IN VAIN?!

Twas an early ad for elastoplast waterproof plasters.They werent waterproof at all.That poor dolphin.

Oracle

This is a more PC version of the Flake ad, at least this woman looks like she's enjoying herself, a lot more stylish too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQDtFJtiBw&NR

Unpossible

This is a more PC version of the Flake ad, at least this woman looks like she's enjoying herself, a lot more stylish too

Why was Enya in a flake add?

kelle

DublinWriter wrote:

It's called subliminal persuasion. However, they've gotten a lot more subtle about it. Check out the ad for Miller beer (I think) with the guy on the bike constantly rolling downhill from home to shop to back home again.

Watch carefully as he leaves the shop, there's a sign to the left of the door that says "Open...A Bier", it's basically "Open" then the Spanish "A Bierto", but there's a crate that blocks the 'to' of the Spanish translation.

Accident? We think not! *dons tin-foil helmet*

Can I ask what you mean by this??????

DublinWriter

kelle wrote:

Can I ask what you mean by this??????

Yes, you can.

DublinWriter

Seriously kelle, if you want to see how this works (in particular NLP), you should have watched Derren Brown's Xmas show ("Something Wicked this way comes") where he reveals a little about the technique at the end of the show.

It's basically a way of getting someone to do something without them consciously realising it by the subtle use of images and verbal suggestion.

Archeron

Cool memories. Good timing too, cause I've just seen the latest Flake ad where the rain starts getting sucked back up into the sky. I love the way they've kept the theme going for so many years.


Although, check out the weird alien overlord/female elf queen type person in the latest one. I actually screamed when I seen her first.

dazberry

mike65 wrote:

Found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbhHOZZXnI

Choco porno

Mike.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3570680.stm

AFAIR, the woman in the clip is called Deborah Leng and is the current partner of Queen drummer Roger Taylor.

D.

/Edit: Get the first 34 seconds of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q22oGInO-uo

mike65

malformed url

Mike.

WindSock

The most recent flacke ad is also a bit racy with the rainwater falling up between her naked thighs. #ooooonllyyyy the raunchiest flaaaaakieeest chocolate....

DublinWriter

boreds wrote:

The most recent flacke ad is also a bit racy with the rainwater falling up between her naked thighs. #ooooonllyyyy the raunchiest flaaaaakieeest chocolate....

One of my favourite lyrics ever, guess the song and band:

God, I could murder a Cadbury's Flake,
Then I guess you wouldn't let me into heaven.
Or maybe you would 'cause their adverts Promote oral sex
A Romany bint in a field with her paints,
Suggesting we faint at her beauty,
But she's got Dickie Davis Eyes.

is_that_so

mike65 wrote:

Subtle?



Found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbhHOZZXnI

Choco porno

Mike.

Knew someone who claimed to have been acquainted with that lady in his youth.

county

mike65 wrote:

Subtle?



Found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbhHOZZXnI

Choco porno

Mike.

in your favourites yeh

WindSock

DublinWriter wrote:

One of my favourite lyrics ever, guess the song and band:

God, I could murder a Cadbury's Flake,
Then I guess you wouldn't let me into heaven.
Or maybe you would 'cause their adverts Promote oral sex
A Romany bint in a field with her paints,
Suggesting we faint at her beauty,
But she's got Dickie Davis Eyes.

Don't know, is it Kelly Osbourne? It barely even rhymes. I'd have rhymed flake with hake.

stovelid

Dickie Davis Eyes..Half man Half Biscuit.

P.S surely "F*ckin ell, its fred titmus!" is the best lyric

DublinWriter wrote:

One of my favourite lyrics ever, guess the song and band:

God, I could murder a Cadbury's Flake,
Then I guess you wouldn't let me into heaven.
Or maybe you would 'cause their adverts Promote oral sex
A Romany bint in a field with her paints,
Suggesting we faint at her beauty,
But she's got Dickie Davis Eyes.

jacool

Dickie Davies' Eyes - Half Man Half Biscuit
legend !!!!!!!!!!!!!1

DublinWriter

jacool wrote:

Dickie Davies' Eyes - Half Man Half Biscuit
legend !!!!!!!!!!!!!1

HMHB are still going strong and are at top form. Some of the CD they've released in the last 5 years are arguably their best, ones such as 'Trouble Over Bridgewater', 'Saucy Haulage Ballads', 'Four Lads who Shook the Wirral', and 'Actung Bono'.

http://www.hmhb.co.uk/

stovelid

I'm almost afraid to listen to saucy haulage ballads unless it doesn't live up to the ace name. I shall though.

DublinWriter wrote:

HMHB are still going strong and are at top form. Some of the CD they've released in the last 5 years are arguably their best, ones such as 'Trouble Over Bridgewater', 'Saucy Haulage Ballads', 'Four Lads who Shook the Wirral', and 'Actung Bono'.

http://www.hmhb.co.uk/

New ad.

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robinph

What the feck is the horse doing in this Flake add though?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEhfxGGCDzY

brianthebard

DublinWriter wrote:

EVERY ad for Cadburys Flake involved a simulated act of fellatio from about 1974 to 1986.

It's called subliminal persuasion. However, they've gotten a lot more subtle about it. Check out the ad for Miller beer (I think) with the guy on the bike constantly rolling downhill from home to shop to back home again.

Watch carefully as he leaves the shop, there's a sign to the left of the door that says "Open...A Bier", it's basically "Open" then the Spanish "A Bierto", but there's a crate that blocks the 'to' of the Spanish translation.

Accident? We think not! *dons tin-foil helmet*

Actually on that note, if you look at the new bud ad where the guy is screaming, in the background you see the bud symbol a few times. its not a proper shot but its definitely there. I bet if you showed the ad to someone and stopped it before it became clear what it was advertising they would still know!

mike65

robinph wrote:

What the feck is the horse doing in this Flake add though?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEhfxGGCDzY

The horse is a symbol of virility. Either that or its a beastial subtext. *cough*

Mike.