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6541

Risky Advertisement ! What do you take from it ? My take is consumption of Guinness can change your sexual orientation.

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Timberrrrrrrr

6541 wrote: »

Risky Ad ! What do you take from it ? My take is consumption of Guinness can change your sexual orientation.

Sounds like you have tried several pints of it today

316

Guinness can give you a grand dose of black shites too.

Wibbs

Maybe it's more of that gender fluid they're discussing in the other thread?

ToddyDoody

Gay but still incredibly masculine so it works.

Mother Brain

My gender fluids are beechwood aged. For a clean, crisp gender.

kneemos

They have the weirdest ads.Can only assume it's deliberate.

Fukuyama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7phQqO0zsE

Decent Ad.

This one was from 1995. Never made it to air.

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

agent graves

guinness turn me gay? depends on how good the head is

Fukuyama

agent graves wrote: »

guinness turn me gay? depends on how good the head is

Can't believe I laughed at that. Bravo.

Lyaiera

Good ad. I think in a larger sense it's trying to break away from the notion that stout/Guinness is for aul fellas with a gut, stained pants and a pneumonic cough. Most of my favourite beers are stouts, especially from the macro breweries. West Kerry Brewery's stout is superb, as is O'Hara's Leann Follain. Stout developed a bit of a tired reputation and this seems to be a fight against it. Sure won't they're be a better flow on it?

Although I prefer Beamish.

agent graves

Fukuyama wrote: »

Can't believe I laughed at that. Bravo.

nearly patted myself on the back with that one ha.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Hey quick question do the Guinness family still have the controlling stake in the company or is it Diageo? I know that they do still own St James Gate.

It's just that I was reading up on something recently about Arthur Guinness requesting that the company never leave ownership of the family.

Fukuyama

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Hey quick question do the Guinness family still have the controlling stake in the company or is it Diageo? I know that they do still own St James Gate.

It's just that I was reading up on something recently about Arthur Guinness requesting that the company never leave ownership of the family.

It's all Diageo now.

Which, in a way, kind of spoils this ad. Because it's not a small company showing their stripes. It's a massive corporation making a calculated move to gain traction with a younger audience who sees Guinness as being an old mans drink.

The 1995 ad was calculated but ultimately they bottled it (pun intended).

Diageo have taken a hammering off micro breweries. I've drank Guinness since I was 18 but any chance I get I'll switch to Galway Bay Stormy Port, Murphys, Beamish or O Haras. They're all nicer.

That said it's a nice ad and it tackles a stereotype better than any government initiative. So...yeah.

Gatling

Well done Guinness.

StonyIron

Guinness has always spent a fortune on ads though and has commissioned some of the most iconic TV ads over the years.

It's also always been accused of being an old man's drink, yet someone's clearly drinking it...

positivenote

thinking behind it is similar to the 1995 advert, in that guiness is the alternative pint... not like the majority of pints.

FrKurtFahrt

Being one of the old fellas that prefers Guinness to the pishyellow alternatives, and completing the stereotype (I'm unable to show the appropriate link) - Keith Duggan has an interesting article in the sports section of the Irish Times today, discussing Guinness and its use of advertising.

StonyIron

Well, it's good someone's breaking the stereotypes and as much as I think some people will think it's bandwagon jumping, it takes big brands and big voices to make changes to attitudes.

The reality is there are plenty of gay men and women who don't meet any stereotypes.

The_Valeyard

Guinness is only good for rear exit. Not rear-entry.

Red Kev

GUINNESS - Once you go black, you'll never go back.

Tony Beetroot

Guinness always fcuks you in the ass.

philstar

i can understand effeminate guys like graham norton being gay.. but this guy??

can't believe he's gay, he's too hard looking to be gay he throws the whole gay image on its head

maybe he's just into it for kinky kicks ??

The King of Moo

Fair play to him for having the strength to come out, but I'm a bit cynical about Guinness using them in their ads. I don't see the link between the drink and his situation, they just seem to want to attach themselves to an inspiring story.
If this ad was the first time he came out publicly, then I'd say they were being a bit braver.

[Deleted User]

It completely smacks of jumping on a bandwagon. It would have been an edgy campaign in the 80s.

Paramite Pie

philstar wrote: »

i can understand effeminate guys like graham norton being gay.. but this guy??

can't believe he's gay, he's too hard looking to be gay he throws the whole gay image on its head

maybe he's just into it for kinky kicks ??

There's lots of hard-looking guys on grindr and i've seen some in gaybars. Personally I shun the more effeminate gay scene myself (not that I'm saying i'm a tough lad -- i just can't relate).

You pass people on the street every day who you don't notice are gay. We only spot the more camp ones!!

alan partridge aha

Advertisers are like politicians, one crowd is in it to increase profits and the other is to increase votes. It's all BS really.

NachoBusiness

Deleted User wrote: »

It completely smacks of jumping on a bandwagon. It would have been an edgy campaign in the 80s.

Absolutely. Seen it for the first time last night and you could feel people cringing. It was in the Imax too and that made it worse I think. Usually you can ignore trailers a little but the fcuking noise of that place there was simply no escaping it Lets face it, it's good PR for them. No one in Diageo (or wherever it was dreamed up) could give two fcuks about homosexuals being more accepted in society. At the end of the day, they're just after the pink pound (and the fashionable one also) lets not pretend otherwise.

Vinculus

The last time I drank a pint of Guinness was nearly two years ago ( I live abroad) and at this time of a Sunday afternoon, I would do anything for a couple of pints of creamy black.

Anything!

;-)

suicide_circus

Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when multinational corporations use on trend social causes for marketing

Overheal