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Safety ads from the 70's and 80's,which ones would you like to see again?

darkdubh

With the unexpected reappeareance of the Where's Grandad? public safety ad I wonder are there any more long lost gems that people might have recorded on their vcrs and are waiting to be rediscovered?Some ones that I'd like to see again are.

The one with the fella using a powerdrill who electrocutes himself.His buddy rushes to help him and gets fried himself when he touches him.

The one about hearing protection at work where Yer man is watching a standup comedian in a pub and all he can hear is high pitched squeaking.

Big John,"Oh me achin back!" An all time classic.

I'm not sure if I dreamed this one as no one else I've spoken to remembers it but it had fellas in forklift trucks having all kinds of dramatic accidents.Driving them off piers,through walls etc.Anyone else remember it?

Admitedly the ads that came out in the late 70's are probably likely to remain unseen as very few people in Ireland probably had vcrs then.

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An Riabhach

This one's a chiller.
A real chiller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wntp95Ccqzw

darkdubh

Scar Tissue wrote: »

Does anyone remember the one where there was a family or something in a car, and they were in the car when it was being crushed like they do for scrap yards?

Think that might be the one here that starts at the 38.36 mark.

"Nothing on the road is more crushable than you"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsiV7iHItv0

johnnyyesno

Bonzos back.

https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/sheep/watch-tv-ad-from-1980s-with-killer-dog-to-be-revived-in-attempt-to-reduce-attacks-on-sheep-36822756.html

An Riabhach

This is a tough one.
Which one do ye think is the scariest?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wntp95Ccqzw

Or......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR4z9kCdsPs

The Crowman

An Riabhach wrote: »

This is a tough one.
Which one do ye think is the scariest?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wntp95Ccqzw

Or......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR4z9kCdsPs

Deffo second one

The Crowman

This was from the 90's but anyone remember the road safety advert where a guy is driving dangerously and there's a techno dance beat soundtrack then it changes to him in a wheelchair and the dance beat is him bouncing a basketball?

An Riabhach

The Crowman wrote: »

This was from the 90's but anyone remember the road safety advert where a guy is driving dangerously and there's a techno dance beat soundtrack then it changes to him in a wheelchair and the dance beat is him bouncing a basketball?

Yep, I remember that one well enough,but I can't remember what was said at the end.

The Crowman

Does anyone remember one from the late 80's or early 90's about anti social behaviour that showed CCTV footage of a bunch of fellas kicking the tar out of each other on a bus?

The Crowman

The first part of this has an old bus safety film from the 60's. For some reason tacked on is a clip from the LLS of Gardai motorcycle traffic unit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwVg1PrblDY

Amalgam

'High voltage frisbee of death with strangely animated and ominous music safety ad.'

That would be my choice.

You know the one.. I don't even have to link it..

Try_harder

The dog that falls in with bad company

Try_harder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SqRNUUOk7s

UK AIDS safety ad

Try_harder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghQVJ3qAcAU

Irish ad very heteronormative and not supporting condom use. Casual sex bad!

An Riabhach

Amalgam wrote: »

'High voltage frisbee of death with strangely animated and ominous music safety ad.'

That would be my choice.

You know the one.. I don't even have to link it..

"TIMMEEEEEEEeeee.......!!!!"

The Crowman

An Riabhach wrote: »

"TIMMEEEEEEEeeee.......!!!!"

The Irish version which I remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ocXmuwYU8

It uses edited footage from this British PIF which is the "Timmee" one even though it sounds to me like "Jimmeee"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_a6-rlxpQk

An Riabhach

The Crowman wrote: »

The Irish version which I remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ocXmuwYU8

It uses edited footage from this British PIF which is the "Timmee" one even though it sounds to me like "Jimmeee"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_a6-rlxpQk

Yep, tis "JIMMEEEeee" alright, I stand corrected!

The Crowman

John did ya put the cat out?

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

An Riabhach

Try_harder wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghQVJ3qAcAU

Irish ad very heteronormative and not supporting condom use. Casual sex bad!

AIDS.
The only thing that terrified me,gave me both nightmares and sleepless nights,and had me crying to my Mammy about it during my childhood.Ads like the two you have mentioned,and this one,made me educate myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anVO_iPGNZ8

The Crowman

An Riabhach wrote: »

You've just reminded me of the when the ads about AIDS became a bit more mellow and less scary in the early 90s,which had celebrities like Pat O'Mahony,Hillary Fennell and Thom "The Diceman" McGintey giving advice on AIDS.The series of ads just had each of them sitting down in a darkened room speaking to the camera,with the exception of The Diceman who just held up a sign which read "It goes without saying.Protect yourself.Always use a condom."

I distinctly remember that bitch Hillary Fennell basically blaming men alone for the spread of AIDS in her ad.

darkdubh wrote: »

They still had those ads running till about ten years ago with one of the Corrs (probably Sharon) and Sinead O Connor .

An Riabhach wrote: »

Yep,I remember those ones well also.

I think they were dealing more with the stigma of having AIDS and HIV more than anything else.
Either way,I found those ads pretty tame and ineffective.

Those ones are all up on YT. Theres several more of them under the same channel.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CKPAYrxTI

The Crowman

This was actually a print safety advert but I think it might have been connected with the old Irish "Play Safe" ad. Late 70's/early 80's, It was warning about the dangers of electricity and showed a cartoon man or boy climbing over a fence into what was presumably a power station, he was looking up with a glum expression at what looked like a big lightening bolt flying down at him and the lightening bolt had a super villian type head , a bit like Batman. To jog folks memories I've done a rough sketch from memory of this electricity bolt villian character.

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The Crowman

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Does it ring a bell with anyone of a certain age?

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Yellow man?

Zirconia

Hey I remember that guy! I don't remember any ads with him on it, but it was on a warning notice on the door of a local substation - as a little kid I was facinated by it, wondering if he was a man, and if so how could he be if he had no body. I've been searching the internet for years to see if I could find a photo of that sign!

Dakota Dan

trad wrote: »

Brendan Grace doing "The Safe Cross Code"

or the time the roll bars came in for the tractors and poor Tom overturned his tractor on the Riordan's, Well Holy God.

It was Pat Houlihan that turned his tractor on the road outside Tom's farmyard, remember Eamon ran out the yard after hearing the bang. Bloody fool shouldn't have been left near a tractor.

Hotblack Desiato

The Crowman wrote: »

This was actually a print safety advert but I think it might have been connected with the old Irish "Play Safe" ad. Late 70's/early 80's, It was warning about the dangers of electricity and showed a cartoon man or boy climbing over a fence into what was presumably a power station, he was looking up with a glum expression at what looked like a big lightening bolt flying down at him and the lightening bolt had a super villian type head , a bit like Batman. To jog folks memories I've done a rough sketch from memory of this electricity bolt villian character.

He was called Safety Man and he was a hero not a villain! Would turn up and stop kids who were just about to do something stupid.

Dakota Dan

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

@ 2:06 your man wasn't going to exert himself with the sledge, sure granddad would fall straight through that fence.

The Crowman

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

He was called Safety Man and he was a hero not a villain! Would turn up and stop kids who were just about to do something stupid.

Are you thinking of the Green Cross Code guy?

The Crowman

Zirconia wrote: »

Hey I remember that guy! I don't remember any ads with him on it, but it was on a warning notice on the door of a local substation - as a little kid I was facinated by it, wondering if he was a man, and if so how could he be if he had no body. I've been searching the internet for years to see if I could find a photo of that sign!

Yes , that's where I remember him from. I was thinking it was an ad but you've reminded me now he was on an electricity substation sign.

Hotblack Desiato

The Crowman wrote: »

Are you thinking of the Green Cross Code guy?

Nope. I can remember a cartoon strip with some kids who found a fallen wire and Safety Man appeared in the nick of time.

Don't think there were ever animations / videos with Safety Man.

The Crowman

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Nope. I can remember a cartoon strip with some kids who found a fallen wire and Safety Man appeared in the nick of time.

Don't think there were ever animations / videos with Safety Man.

Doesn't ring a bell. Anyway the advert I remembered wasn't an advert at all as it turns out. Zirconia's post was correct in that it was a warning sign on electricity substations.