Gay Guinness

12-09-2015 06:58PM #1

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

Timberrrrrrrr · 12-09-2015 06:59PM

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

12-09-2015 06:59PM

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

Wibbs · 12-09-2015 07:02PM

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

ToddyDoody · 12-09-2015 07:14PM

Gay but still incredibly masculine so it works.

Mother Brain · 12-09-2015 07:15PM

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

kneemos · 12-09-2015 07:32PM

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

Fukuyama · 12-09-2015 07:37PM

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 · 12-09-2015 07:41PM

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

Fukuyama · 12-09-2015 07:51PM

agent graves wrote: »

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

Can't believe I laughed at that. Bravo.

Lyaiera · 12-09-2015 07:54PM

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 · 12-09-2015 07:59PM

Fukuyama wrote: »

Can't believe I laughed at that. Bravo.

nearly patted myself on the back with that one ha.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 12-09-2015 08:05PM

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 · 12-09-2015 09:21PM

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 · 12-09-2015 09:24PM

Well done Guinness.

StonyIron · 12-09-2015 09:28PM

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 · 12-09-2015 09:30PM

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

FrKurtFahrt · 12-09-2015 09:47PM

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 · 12-09-2015 11:30PM

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 · 13-09-2015 01:12AM

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

Red Kev · 13-09-2015 01:28AM

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

Tony Beetroot · 13-09-2015 01:30AM

Guinness always fcuks you in the ass.

philstar · 13-09-2015 10:49AM

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 · 13-09-2015 10:51AM

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.

13-09-2015 10:54AM

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

Paramite Pie · 13-09-2015 02:07PM

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 · 13-09-2015 02:14PM

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 · 13-09-2015 02:16PM

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 · 13-09-2015 02:38PM

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 · 13-09-2015 02:58PM

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

Overheal · 13-09-2015 03:58PM

Gay Guinness

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