The YooToob thread

Iwannahurl

BMJD wrote: »

:eek:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10153792544045276

Very impressive fake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMCOXa3DNMw

GvidoR

Doesn't look realistic at all, but not a bad effort I guess.

Dartz

DOE..... so rediculous it's almost funny.

Drive a basic saloon perfectly safely and it'll randomly spin out and splatter a group of kids. Either that, or check your rear brakes in case they lock on... it's definitely not a speeding car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD8BkIgp9Fo

CianRyan

Hahaha, the lot of them. Bloody hell.

D'Agger

It worries me that somebody came up with that as an idea and somebody else approved it

Iwannahurl

Dartz wrote: »

DOE..... so rediculous it's almost funny.

Drive a basic saloon perfectly safely and it'll randomly spin out and splatter a group of kids. Either that, or check your rear brakes in case they lock on... it's definitely not a speeding car.

It's a road safety awareness ad, not a documentary. The point -- illustrated clearly in the video -- is that the car was not being driven "perfectly safely" and the clear implication was that the driver was speeding. We know that because the ad is scripted accordingly.

They didn't film a random car that happened to be passing and then pretended that it was speeding. In other words it's a one-minute awareness-raising effort, not a description of an event that is to be taken literally.

CianRyan wrote: »

Hahaha, the lot of them. Bloody hell.

The intention, as I understand it, is to show figuratively that a "classroom of our children" have been killed on the roads since the year 2000. I don't know when the video was made, but as far as I can see the idea is to engage our emotions by showing what that would be like if it happened all at once. Again, it's not meant to be absolutely literal, though I guess it's to be expected that some people will view it that way.

Iwannahurl

All the best ads, whether they are selling deodorant or promoting road safety, try to engage our emotions in a powerful way.

Why would anyone want to look at these ads in a purely literal sense?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw2aevh6oZ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TADO4LG29bs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvLaTupw-hk

Dartz

Unfortunately, when the emotion it engages is laughter, the ad has very much failed.

Or, te Pub Loo one... "What if he'd gotten glass in his eye?". The ad seemed more dangerous to me than the consequence even if it was probably controlled, or CGI.

Iwannahurl

Dartz wrote: »

Or, te Pub Loo one... "What if he'd gotten glass in his eye?". The ad seemed more dangerous to me than the consequence even if it was probably controlled, or CGI.

I doubt any ad reaches 100% of its target audience, and some people will put their own (unique?) interpretations on what they see.

coolisin

I just think the "metaphorical" road safety adverts don't work.
Poor Cgi or over the top fake just disengage the audience and the advert is no longer shocking to work! These ad's always have a car rolling through a hedge.

Back on the ad though love the way all the adults get out of the way!

also in other news:
http://www.newstalk.ie/Man-charged-after-driving-girlfriends-car-onto-track-during-VW-Beetle-race

Chris_Heilong

Dartz wrote: »

DOE..... so rediculous it's almost funny.

Drive a basic saloon perfectly safely and it'll randomly spin out and splatter a group of kids. Either that, or check your rear brakes in case they lock on... it's definitely not a speeding car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD8BkIgp9Fo

lol.....sorry but I did laugh when the car came over the hedge.

Kenny Logins

Dartz wrote: »

DOE..... so rediculous it's almost funny.

Drive a basic saloon perfectly safely and it'll randomly spin out and splatter a group of kids. Either that, or check your rear brakes in case they lock on... it's definitely not a speeding car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD8BkIgp9Fo

My God that's awful. I much prefer the G'N'R version.

dougie-lampkin

Dartz wrote: »

DOE..... so rediculous it's almost funny.

Drive a basic saloon perfectly safely and it'll randomly spin out and splatter a group of kids. Either that, or check your rear brakes in case they lock on... it's definitely not a speeding car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD8BkIgp9Fo

That tagline "shame on you" is just downright offensive. I haven't killed a classroom of children, why should I be ashamed? Shame on you, DOE, for having such a cheap ad.

The faked video with the two lads in Chile posted above has better CGI.

Iwannahurl

dougie-lampkin wrote: »

That tagline "shame on you" is just downright offensive. I haven't killed a classroom of children, why should I be ashamed? Shame on you, DOE, for having such a cheap ad.

There's that literal thing again. The ad doesn't say dougie-lampkin killed a classroom of children, it says speeding has killed a classroom of children since the year 2000. The shame is on the speeding motorists involved in the fatal collisions, and presumably the DoE's hope is that the fully justified shaming might have an effect on those motorists who continue to speed but who haven't killed any children (yet).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8bYkFJXzpw

ARGINITE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrkFYA52cwc

dr.fuzzenstein

Iwannahurl wrote: »

There's that literal thing again. The ad doesn't say dougie-lampkin killed a classroom of children, it says speeding has killed a classroom of children since the year 2000. The shame is on the speeding motorists involved in the fatal collisions, and presumably the DoE's hope is that the fully justified shaming might have an effect on those motorists who continue to speed but who haven't killed any children (yet).

I wonder how they make that assertion.
Have they looked at every accident where a child was killed and analysed if speed was a factor.
Since the forward motion of a car is it's speed, one can say that speed is a factor in ALL accidents.
How is "speed was a factor" ascertained?
Would the car have to break the posted limit or would a car that traveled within the limit but maybe inappropriately so also be counted?
What where the exact circumstances of each accident?
Did they just count the number of kids that got killed on the road, regardless of the circumstances and then said "X amount of kids got killed due to speed!"?
If that is the case it's just pointless hysteria along the lines of Babies Will Die!
They might as well do an ad that says:

Have you ever gotten into a car? Did you know that children get killed on the road?
That means that you are a potential baby murderer!
How dare you drive a car, you should feel guilty about it!

You will now argue that the above sentence is hyperbole.
Yes. And so is the ad. So you cannot argue that the hyperbole in the ad is OK and mine isn't, simply because one suits your single minded, unblinking anti-car agenda and mine doesn't.
I'm simply using the same argument to illustrate how silly those ads are.
But then you are an extremist and have proven time and time again that you will simply reel off your propaganda without listening to anyone's argument, so I will simply reel off my reply without listening to yours.
So you have what you want, you shouting down at people and not paying a blind bit of notice to them. You know it achieves the opposite, i.e. people in general will dismiss your argument, get entrenched against you and people who would otherwise be won over by reasoned argument, also turning against you.
You are doing more damage against road safety than any nutter speeding at 200 km/h through Eastern European cities.

biko

Moar of the yootoobs, less of the serious

dr.fuzzenstein

As you wish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw7un3ogEyk

Pique

Those big ol' police cruisers can fairly shift. I was expecting some hairyness on those high speed motorway bends.

Cleveland Hot Pocket

It is my mission in life now to emulate these people..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbAhfThNoco

h3000

I really hope the car is taken off this idiot. I've nothing against guys having a laugh in a quite corner of a car park but to do this sheet in the middle of a town in the middle of the day is just plain ****ing stupid. It also gives real rally fans a bad name for fool acting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITP6nEsYbhk

GvidoR

Jesus.

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

It is my mission in life now to emulate these people..

Ha! They smoked the Westboro Baptist Church! Now I know why Yanks don't like Daysuls

I bet thats nothin' on your Cortina :pac:

Dartz

Why are so many Twin-Cams owned by such utter ****ing twats?

Quazzie

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

It is my mission in life now to emulate these people..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbAhfThNoco

It is my mission in life to avoid contact with morons who think that that video is something to be emulated.

MetzgerMeister

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

It is my mission in life now to emulate these people..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbAhfThNoco

It's your mission in life to emulate absolute assholes who pollute people with cancerous diesel fumes and smoke

Jesus.

Quazzie wrote: »

It is my mission in life to avoid contact with morons who think that that video is something to be emulated.

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

It's your mission in life to emulate absolute assholes who pollute people with cancerous diesel fumes and smoke

For feck's sake, why is everyone so fooking serious on this Board?

Can't you take a joke?

Bigus

Jesus. wrote: »

For feck's sake, why is everyone so fooking serious on this Board?

Can't you take a joke?

He's not joking

Jesus.

Bigus wrote: »

He's not joking

And so what if he's not? Some clampits could do with a good smokin'

MugMugs

Jesus. wrote: »

And so what if he's not? Some clampits could do with a good smokin'

I'm pretty certain there's a degree of assault in smoking people intentionally like that and quite frankly find it difficult to understand how a cyclist deserves what's displayed there.

If this was done to me, the person who did it's head would prohibit any further smoke emitting from the exhaust.