Bold child on cow&gate ad - mummy doesn't bat an eyelid

amdublin

Anyone seen the "feed their personality" cow and gate ad?

At the very end mummy and baby/small child on a luas or bus. The child grabs the headphones off the fella sitting beside them. Pulls the headphones off him and then grabs the phone and puts it into his mouth.

Mummy thinks it's hilarious.
If that happened me I would not find it hilarious.

Why does mummy not say no to baby.

Mint Sauce

amdublin wrote: »

Anyone seen the "feed their personality" cow and gate ad?

At the very end mummy and baby/small child on a luas or bus. The child grabs the headphones off the fella sitting beside them. Pulls the headphones off him and then grabs the phone and puts it into his mouth.

Mummy thinks it's hilarious.
If that happened me I would not find it hilarious.

Why does mummy not say no to baby.

Because its not real.

Molester Stallone

She beats the baby half to death with his bottle off camera, is that better OP?

amdublin

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Because its not real.

True.

But it's a variation of real life... I.e. Parents letting their children do bold things and laughing "oh so cute". Eh no, "oh so bold"

LETHAL LADY

She should have used the one punch knock out technique for such an offence.

hairyprincess

It's an anti formula ad, they are telling mammys that if you feed your baby formula this is what they will do. Breast is best.
That baby should get an asbo

amdublin

Molester Stallone wrote: »

She beats the baby half to death with his bottle off camera, is that better OP?

No, a simple "no, don't do that, give the man back his phone" will suffice.
And a "sorry about that" to the fella.

She's training him like in black&white, Evil alignment Creature baby
He'll be burning down houses and stealing the sheep next

Sir Osis of Liver.

Haven't seen the ad but that child sound like a right c unt.

amdublin

Does no one believe in teaching their children what is right or wrong these days??
(Or people think it's okay to grab stuff from randomers beside you on the train)


Won't somebody think of the children.

Ihatecuddles

Can we call the baby Teddy??

Molester Stallone

amdublin wrote: »

Does no one believe in teaching their children what is right or wrong these days??
(Or people think it's okay to grab stuff from randomers beside you on the train)


Won't somebody think of the children.

Gary Glitter did & look where it got him!

amdublin

mauzo! wrote: »

Can we call the baby Teddy??

Can we agree on Bold Teddy?

RobbingBandit

Jebus they put a baby with a mummy, aren't they afraid of a curse from the mummy, poor kid bold or not.

anncoates

Even babies don't like twats with Beats headphones.

geeky

I haven't even seen the ad in question, but I'm not remotely surprised that dunderhead advertising 'creatives' would produce something like that. They're exactly the sort of people who imagine that their little darlings - inevitably named something like spailpin or fuinneogg - can do no wrong.

'Oh, he's so fantastic at expressing his personality.' No love, he's just a little brat.

amdublin

geeky wrote: »

I haven't even seen the ad in question, but I'm not remotely surprised that dunderhead advertising 'creatives' would produce something like that. They're exactly the sort of people who imagine that their little darlings - inevitably named something like spailpin or fuinneogg - can do no wrong.

'Oh, he's so fantastic at expressing his personality.' No love, he's just a little brat.

Are you sure you haven't seen the ad :cool:

purplecow1977

I think you're reading FAR too much into this!

amdublin

purplecow1977 wrote: »

I think you're reading FAR too much into this!

Watch the ad at the end.

Bold baby.
Mummy "ho ho"

spurious

It's probably a boy baby and part of the feminist conspiracy.

Grumpy Greg

laissez faire parenting is cruel to children. They need to be shown boundaries. It reinforces the idea that they live in a safe world that is predictable not chaotic.

In order to be 'bold' a baby has to know the consequences of it's actions and to decide to do it anyway regardless, knowing it would upset people.

Mummy should say no so baba starts to learn, but calling a baby bold is ridiculous.

amdublin

Candie wrote: »

In order to be 'bold' a baby has to know the consequences of it's actions and to decide to do it anyway regardless, knowing it would upset people.

Mummy should say no so baba starts to learn, but calling a baby bold is ridiculous.

Okay bold mummy

alleystar

What's all this "mummy" crap? Ugh.

Grayditch

If it grabbed my headphones while I was enjoying a lovely Megadeth solo, that kid is going out the window.

Pumpkinseeds

Substitute bus for supermarket/shopping centre or any other busy place and you wouldn't be too far off the mark. Fcuking kids running wild while the parents don't give a flying fig about them getting in peoples way, but hey, just so long as they aren't under the parents feet.

Don't even get me started on the gobs*ite parents who let their spawn bring dolls prams/bicycles/hurleys/footballs etc to said same places, fcuking idiots, it didn't happen when I was a child. Then again people had decent parenting skills back then, as well as a bit of consideration for other people.

amdublin

alleystar wrote: »

What's all this "mummy" crap? Ugh.

Sorry

Arbiter of Good Taste

Reminds me of the time a doting mama and her b*llix of a child got on the bus I was sitting in. Bus was nearly full, so not many extra seats -even so, it doesn't matter. Mama sits down with child on her lap across from me. Child points to my seat and says "I want to sit there". Now a reasonable person would say, "no, darling, that lady is sitting there". Instead, mama turns to me and asks can her child have my seat. Obviously, I say, "no".

I mean WTF? What kind of jerk is that child going to grow up to be?

anncoates

alleystar wrote: »

What's all this "mummy" crap? Ugh.

It's an informal synonym of Mother.

alleystar

anncoates wrote: »

It's an informal synonym of Mother.

Yes, well done you.

20Cent

I've taught my six month old to give the finger to people. V funny when on the bus.

amdublin

Arbiter of Good Taste wrote: »

Reminds me of the time a doting mama and her b*llix of a child got on the bus I was sitting in. Bus was nearly full, so not many extra seats -even so, it doesn't matter. Mama sits down with child on her lap across from me. Child points to my seat and says "I want to sit there". Now a reasonable person would say, "no, darling, that lady is sitting there". Instead, mama turns to me and asks can her child have my seat. Obviously, I say, "no".

I mean WTF? What kind of jerk is that child going to grow up to be?

Stupid mother

Archeron

hairyprincess wrote: »

That baby should get an asbo

A Basbo, I like the sound of that.

Stavros Murphy

I get why they are calling the mammy a cow, but is gate code for little git when applied to kids?

holystungun9

20Cent wrote: »

I've taught my six month old to give the finger to people. V funny when on the bus.

This is one of the few times I hope the poster is trolling and not giving an insight into their attitude and influence over their offspring.

ArtyM

Ah ffs does nobody use spoilers any more?
Ruining adbreaks for the rest of us.

Iwasfrozen

alleystar wrote: »

Yes, well done you.

Well you didn't seem to know.

alleystar

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

Well you didn't seem to know.

Sorry, the next time I'll make it more clear for users like yourself.

That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy

Washing powder ads can be brutal. Little kid is caught painting on clothes with shoe polish and lipstick and all mummy does is smile. If I had a kid and caught him or her destroying my clothes with lipstick or shoe polish, far from smiling I'd be doing.

I love the calpol ad where little kids are running amok clogging up the toilet with loo roll, sticking the contents of wallets down into floorboards and other bits and the ad says something on behalf of calpol which I forget now.

JONJO THE MISER

I saw the add and i think its his brother he grabs the phone off of.

Iwasfrozen

alleystar wrote: »

Sorry, the next time I'll make it more clear for users like yourself.

Thanks.

--LOS--

Not as bad as when I was on the bus one day and the mother was teaching her child to say 'dyke'

osarusan

It's lucky the cameras were there to capture this piece of authentic parenting, and luckily the footage somehow founds it way to C&G, who luckily decided to use it as an advertisment.

Son Of A Vidic

Molester Stallone wrote: »

She beats the baby half to death with his bottle off camera, is that better OP?

No, a headbutt would suffice.

Cienciano

A far worse problem with society is people complaining about meaningless non real situations in ads. People complain about bloody everything these days.
OP, I assume you wrote a strongly worded letter to the advertising authority.. We can't let advertisers get away with this. Imagine a bold baby in an ad, this country is turning to shíte

Arbiter of Good Taste

Cienciano wrote: »

A far worse problem with society is people complaining about meaningless non real situations in ads. People complain about bloody everything these days.
OP, I assume you wrote a strongly worded letter to the advertising authority.. We can't let advertisers get away with this. Imagine a bold baby in an ad, this country is turning to shíte

What about people who get annoyed about how other anonymous people choose to waste their free time?

amdublin

Cienciano wrote: »

A far worse problem with society is people complaining about meaningless non real situations in ads. People complain about bloody everything these days.
OP, I assume you wrote a strongly worded letter to the advertising authority.. We can't let advertisers get away with this. Imagine a bold baby in an ad, this country is turning to shíte

No I posted here. My intention being to get people thinking about the "norms" that the ad is portraying and to challenge what is acceptable behaviour in child-rearing and what is not.
To start debate if you will.

People being tolerant of tiny children not knowing any better and playing with their brother on the bus (pretty sure it's a family group).

This is a norm that must be crushed.

amdublin

Candie wrote: »

People being tolerant of tiny children not knowing any better and playing with their brother on the bus (pretty sure it's a family group).

This is a norm that must be crushed.

That's one hell of an age gap if that's the brother :rolleyes: I'd say about 17 years. The mam must have been been 12 when she had the first kid.

And it's not playing. It's taking what is not theirs. Whether brother or not the mam should say "no, give it back" instead, " ha ha ha oh so cute".

Arbiter of Good Taste

Candie wrote: »

People being tolerant of tiny children not knowing any better and playing with their brother on the bus (pretty sure it's a family group).

This is a norm that must be crushed.

Are you being deliberately obtuse? Or just don't understand? It's not the children. Of course they don't know better. That's why parent need to show them right from wrong.

amdublin

amdublin wrote: »

And it's not playing. It's taking what is not theirs. Whether brother or not the mam should say "no, give it back" instead, " ha ha ha oh so cute".

The older kid is smiling at the baby, so we can assume he's not traumatised.

Never mind, the mother might have kicked the baby into unconsciousness afterwards to teach it a lesson.

Since the scene was only a few seconds we just don't know, do we?