Nood Tea advertising gone to far?

Statistician · 03-05-2012 02:15PM

Phoenix Park wrote: »

Slightly off topic, but humour me.

There is a TV ad on these days for Newbridge Silverware. Mainly on Setanta, but i think i have seen it on Sky too. Gammy ad featuring one of Ireland's most endearing celebrities, one Ronan O'Gara. This commercial has been run before but it seems to be making a comeback.

I am almost certain one can see a partial nipple in this ad. Towards the very end, there is a topless woman with some (very reasonably priced and high quality) Newbridge Silverware covering her left nipple. You cannot see a full areola. I do not have a high definition television yet, but if this ad keeps running i'm off to Peats to buy a VCR. If i'm right about this one, and i'm condident i am, i shall be back with a half nipple for you shortly. I have looked the ad up on You Tube for your inspection, and had hoped to post a link, but sadly it has not been uploaded.

I look forward to that with eager anticipation.

shopaholic01 · 03-05-2012 02:17PM

I remember when sexist ads/comedians etc were considered funny.

Now it appears the more liberated we think society has become, the more repressed people are.

The PC brigade really have a lot to answer for.

Is anyone actually offended by a naked body (never mind a teabag)? Do people still believe that sex is dirty and we should try to suppress our sexuality?

BTW OP it is 2012.

Luckycharms_74 · 03-05-2012 02:19PM

Owen wrote: »

Oh noes, won't someone think of the childers.

some random drunk · 03-05-2012 04:25PM

toexpress wrote: »

I just don't understand why they need to use the whole "dressing up" and "getting naked" thing it's tea we aren't talking about Gin or Whisky here that's what I am getting at and it's not just this tea website/marketing it's a wider thing really

Noel Edmonds in drag is more sexual than that website.

Dermighty · 03-05-2012 04:32PM

From the website: "So, everything we do at NOOD is stripped back – no frills, no false sales pitch. We let our very leafy tea leaves speak for themselves.

Some might argue that dressing-up is more fun, but in our experience getting naked is far more honest and interesting."

Firstly: I think you're exaggerating, a lot. Being naked isn't necessarily sexual, that's how you perceive it.

Secondly, this isn't worth making a thread about unless you work for Nood and want people to start talking about their tea.

That's my opinion.

prinz · 03-05-2012 04:37PM

Ha, Nood/Nude. I just got that. :pac: Makes more sense now.

toexpress · 03-05-2012 04:43PM

Dermighty wrote: »

From the website: "So, everything we do at NOOD is stripped back – no frills, no false sales pitch. We let our very leafy tea leaves speak for themselves.

Some might argue that dressing-up is more fun, but in our experience getting naked is far more honest and interesting."

Firstly: I think you're exaggerating, a lot. Being naked isn't necessarily sexual, that's how you perceive it.

Secondly, this isn't worth making a thread about unless you work for Nood and want people to start talking about their tea.

That's my opinion.

Well I shall try this for a last time, I have picked this because I was thinking about it from the point of view of my customers. And I can safely say if I put that marketing about the place Bridie and Maggie would have a conniption and I would have the local ICA coming down the main street with a bunch of flaming torches.

Now at first I found the notion of that particular reaction funny until I began to think about it and then I sort of began to see their point. That then made me think about the number of things that we use sex to sell. We use it to sell Gold Blend coffee ... remember those adverts? Now it was more overt, a look, a glance etc so while I picked this particular brand it's a wider thing. I don't care if people talk tea, coffee, cauliflower or disinfectant.

Interestingly ... I buy Gold Blend coffee

prinz · 03-05-2012 04:50PM

toexpress wrote: »

That then made me think about the number of things that we use sex to sell.

Everything from cars to mobile phone network packages to crisps. Sad really.

sbsquarepants · 03-05-2012 04:58PM

toexpress wrote: »

That then made me think about the number of things that we use sex to sell.

prinz wrote: »

Everything from cars to mobile phone network packages to crisps. Sad really.

It would be a much better world, if we could use it to buy as well.
Well, i'd have better stuff at least!

Thrill · 03-05-2012 05:09PM

The thought of grannies getting naked and going around serving cups of tea gives me the shudders.

We don't want our old folks prancing around in the Nood.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 03-05-2012 05:42PM

Sharrow wrote: »

I am can't wait to show them the site when they come home from school,
they will roll thier eyes and say how lame and that will make me laugh.

It should. "Lame" is such a... lame word to say.

Feeona · 03-05-2012 05:48PM

'Ride me sideways was another one'

AskMyChocolate · 03-05-2012 05:55PM

"So, you tell me is this teabag being too sexy for my sister to wear?"

Fair play OP for getting the thread past the mods

BettyM · 21-05-2012 12:56PM

This is brilliant. I love tea ( as opposed to that disgusting sweepings off the floor in bleached white paper bags) and if this means I can drink real tea without having to use a teapot, I'll be off to buy some of this to try it!!!

I heard Desert Island Discs last week and Anna Ford chose, as her luxury, a supply of whole leaf tea. Good tea is sexy and very fashionable here in the UK. It's also delicious (unlike PG tips or Tetley's which tastes about as bad as powdered Maxwell House instant coffee. Ugghhh).

Does anyone know where I can buy this when in Ireland???? Where did the OP buy it???

xsiborg · 21-05-2012 01:40PM

sbsquarepants · 21-05-2012 01:43PM

This is brilliant. I love tea ( as opposed to that disgusting sweepings off the floor in bleached white paper bags) and if this means I can drink real tea without having to use a teapot, I'll be off to buy some of this to try it!!!

I find your love of tea and hatred of tea pots to be hillariously dichotomous.

(above post to be read only in an english lord of the manor voice)

BettyM · 21-05-2012 02:08PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I find your love of tea and hatred of tea pots to be hillariously dichotomous.

(above post to be read only in an english lord of the manor voice)

I find your assumptin that I hate tea pots to suggest that you jumpt to incorrect conclusions. It seems that real tea in a tea bag is just such a brilliant, and an obvious, idea. Why has no one thought of it before?

sbsquarepants · 21-05-2012 04:34PM

Ha, it has been said before betty. I'm a conclusion jumper, no doubt about it!:D

I like my tea, can't really be arsed with loose leaves though - twinnings do quite a nice range in tea bags, for potaphobes such as yourself!

BettyM · 22-05-2012 11:56AM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Ha, it has been said before betty. I'm a conclusion jumper, no doubt about it!:D

I like my tea, can't really be arsed with loose leaves though - twinnings do quite a nice range in tea bags, for potaphobes such as yourself!

I can't be arsed with loose leaves either which is why I think this is such a brilliant idea.

Its great you like Twinings. Once I started to drink whole leaf tea and realised what a beautiful drink that makes, I can no longer drink any brand of paper tea bag (even Twinings) which is filled with the sweepings off the floor, as the resulting drink to me is pretty murky and horrible.

It's the same for me about coffee, I love coffee and have a couple of cups most days, but can't stand what is called "instant coffee" which I think is completely disgusting.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 22-05-2012 12:21PM

toexpress wrote: »

Right all joking aside for a minute!

I spotted a product called Nood Tea. Thought it looked interesting had a look at their web site (am not a tea drinker but am in the food business) when I looked at their website I thought emmm not for me the old dears that are my customers would rather die than use this sort of product with the marketing behind it.

Basically on the website there is a very sexual element to the marketing, about getting naked and dressing up. Now at first I thought harmless but when I considered the point of view of my customers I began to realise that this was marketing an everyday kitchen cupboard product using sex as a tool and it seemed just a bit bizarre to go there.

Tea is a sort of traditional Irish thing where it is wholesome and good, we have it all the time when we are dealing with hardships and so on, it's a reminder of comforts etc.

So the question is has advertising gone a bit far when marketing is trying to sexualise tea?

This is YOUR OWN company, isn;t it?

HydroPump · 02-06-2012 12:08PM

toexpress wrote: »

Right all joking aside for a minute!

I spotted a product called Nood Tea. Thought it looked interesting had a look at their web site (am not a tea drinker but am in the food business) when I looked at their website I thought emmm not for me the old dears that are my customers would rather die than use this sort of product with the marketing behind it.

Basically on the website there is a very sexual element to the marketing, about getting naked and dressing up. Now at first I thought harmless but when I considered the point of view of my customers I began to realise that this was marketing an everyday kitchen cupboard product using sex as a tool and it seemed just a bit bizarre to go there.

Tea is a sort of traditional Irish thing where it is wholesome and good, we have it all the time when we are dealing with hardships and so on, it's a reminder of comforts etc.

So the question is has advertising gone a bit far when marketing is trying to sexualise tea?

No

Dudess · 02-06-2012 01:08PM

Sexing up tea would be pathetic IMO - not because of the sexual element (it's hardly gonna be anything too questionable) but how desperate would the company have to be. Reminds me of the sexy ad for the catholic church on The Simpsons.

The usual "Sexually repressed", "PC brigade", "Ireland is prudish" stuff of course - generic soundbites.

kowloon · 02-06-2012 04:58PM

These tea people really must stop dropping the vast majority of the tea on the floor.

18AD · 02-06-2012 05:03PM

[rant]Oh, the ads. The ads have gone too far. I want my ads to reflect my social standards. The ads. They've gone to far, the ads have. My moral compass has been put out by the ads. They give everyone a bad message. Ads are hurting society. They're a real social issue, the ads. I either don't buy the product and am outraged by the ads or I do buy the product and somehow feel associated with the message portrayed in the ads. The ads reflect part of my character. Why can't the ads just be nice. I want to consume with a clear conscience![/rant]

02-06-2012 05:30PM

Now I'm horny and want herbal tea

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

holystungun9 · 02-06-2012 06:22PM

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

tea is a traditional english thing that the irish copied

i suppose really its more likely a traditional asian thing that the english copied

And teabagging? Where did that come from?

Canis Lupus · 02-06-2012 06:28PM

toexpress wrote: »

Well I shall try this for a last time, I have picked this because I was thinking about it from the point of view of my customers. And I can safely say if I put that marketing about the place Bridie and Maggie would have a conniption and I would have the local ICA coming down the main street with a bunch of flaming torches.

Now at first I found the notion of that particular reaction funny until I began to think about it and then I sort of began to see their point. That then made me think about the number of things that we use sex to sell. We use it to sell Gold Blend coffee ... remember those adverts? Now it was more overt, a look, a glance etc so while I picked this particular brand it's a wider thing. I don't care if people talk tea, coffee, cauliflower or disinfectant.

Interestingly ... I buy Gold Blend coffee

AHA!!! NOW you sneak in your sneaky advert!!!! I see what you did there. :P

BettyM · 16-06-2012 11:39AM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

AHA!!! NOW you sneak in your sneaky advert!!!! I see what you did there. :P

It's over 8 years since we had a jar of what's know as instant "coffee" in our house. The other day someone offered me a cup of what they claimed was "whole bean instant coffee". It was, of course, just more marketing fluff and was just another brand of revolting instant "coffee" which has not more in common with coffee that would a brand of instant Chateau Neuf Du Pape where one sprinkled a few red granules into a glass of water.

I think the beverage known as instant "coffee" is horrid, and has little resemblance to any coffee I have tasted. Why do some fall for marketing fluff, and ignore the quality of the product?

Sarky · 16-06-2012 12:32PM

Tea is sexy. My tea making skills have certainly gotten me laid on more than one occasion. The tea most Irish people drink is muck. Lyons, Barrys, they're nice enough, but they're tea in the same way that Jedward are classical music.

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA

opinion guy · 16-06-2012 01:01PM

Nood Tea advertising gone to far?

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