Favourite Ever TV Ad?

[maven]

:clap: I just love this one with Britain's own Maureen Lipmann for British Telecom:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEfKEzX9QLE

:unsure:

[Sharona]

I love Maureen Lipman - did you ever read any of her books, Maven? The characterisation of her mother was really amusing. Reminded me of my own mother, too:rolleyes: A real Mrs Malaprop, she was!

[maven]

I love Maureen Lipman - did you ever read any of her books, Maven? The characterisation of her mother was really amusing. Reminded me of my own mother, too:rolleyes: A real Mrs Malaprop, she was!Those were the days when it was fashionable to be Jewish in Britain. Margaret Thatcher of Golders Green 'in da House'.

I will try to find something from her books on the net tomorrow Sharona, she was fab.

That ad was a novel in itself! How lucky any kid is to have someone in their family encouraging their education. :unsure:

[Sharona]

How lucky any kid is to have someone in their family encouraging their education. :unsure:

If they're anything like mine, it's less a question of giving encouragement and more a question of shoe-horning!

And then of course there's downright bribery!

Keeping kids on the straight and narrow is a really hard job these days. It's a real 24/7, full-on alert, never take your eyes of the ball, game.:D

[maven]

If they're anything like mine, it's less a question of giving encouragement and more a question of shoe-horning!

And then of course there's downright bribery!

Keeping kids on the straight and narrow is a really hard job these days. It's a real 24/7, full-on alert, never take your eyes of the ball, game.:DThe kid in the ad is a real old-fashioned sweetie. It must be incredibly difficult to even be in the same warp-space as a modern kid who is almost 50% computerised and existing on levels undreamed of just a few years ago not to say probably rarely even sitting down for a meal at the same time as his mum and dad. I dont envy you Sharona if you are herding modern 'yoof'. :unsure:

[Sharona]

There is a secret or two to herding modern yoof, Maven.....

1) Boundaries and discipline - I've spoken to many kids in the course of work I used to do and I was surprised at how many of them dislike lax discipline. Who'd have thunk it, eh? When there was talk about opening a sort of kids cafe, over three-quarters were actually against it because they thought it might attract unruly kids who'd spoil the night for everyone.

2) Sport. I'm lucky inasmuch as mine are very keen and active. At one stage I don't think I had a night off of running around to football, rugby and karate training. My son has represented England at european and world level - that's how much training I had to run around supporting. Karate is also a world of discipline and respect - my son's teacher was perhaps more like a drill sergeant than a teacher. His students were expected to be well-mannered - in a really old-fashioned kind of way.

Although rugby is - to me anyway - an extremely rough, often dangerous, sport, it has its own 'manners' code, too.

With these 'rough' sports, I've spent a fair bit of time in A & E, too:D

For me, it's also been about fostering respect at home which I think extends when they're outside. I get some really nice feedback from people so something's working.

[maven]

And all that good work will be passed down the generations, that's the great thing. :unsure:

Another ad I liked and found amusing was this one for Hamlet Cigars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdxm8Ia0Wc

[Y. Shulamith]

I can't find it....it's the Kodak Ad with the little boy or girl....turn around, turn around and your three, turn around and your fifteen, etc.

Oops, I found it....whattatearjerker.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBWVWjdNWC0

[andak01]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdXp8CtyaR0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvbTjM5HPCI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8MMx90_tzI

I told my sister-in-law, other countries have their operas, their poets, their great painters, all our genius goes into marketing.

[dayag]

I think this Israeli Honda ad is hilarious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ilbAbPgXbU

The slogan is: "Honda, sometimes you can forget it's a family car"

[Rob]

I think this Israeli Honda ad is hilarious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ilbAbPgXbU

The slogan is: "Honda, sometimes you can forget it's a family car"

Haha, yes, love that one.

McDonalds - Mossad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCxETCrLUHU)

Not sure whether it was posted here before

Heineken - new fridge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ZZreXEqSY)

Its in Dutch, but you will get the joke I assume

Heineken - alien life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neoUi4poCXI)

The new Dutch guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7PTx4vYVGY&feature=related)

Clinton - voodoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFG-WD2UExs&feature=related)

[maven]

'XXXX' Beer ad Australia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yZYMW8GISg&feature=related

[Kenneth]

Here's some good ol' fashioned sexism of the printed variety from the golden days. (http://www.oddee.com/item_96674.aspx)

[Sharona]

Ha-ha, Kenneth:D

I can assure you the sentiments expressed in those ads never reigned strongly in our house at any time.:p

I've been pondering the term thrown at anyone who objects to Islamic extremists - Islamophobia. Which is a nonsense because any 'phobia' often tends to render you having physical symptoms when you see the feared thing.
As yet, I've not heard of anyone switching on TV, hearing Anjem Choudray giving forth and ending up screaming, shaking, having palpitations, hiding behind the sofa and/or breathing into a paper bag.

So, if we're going to apply the term 'phobia' to this, I suggest we look at other things that concern us and whack 'phobia' on the end of it. In the interests of balance, of course.

I'm going to change 'Chauvanist' / 'Mysoginism to 'Femmophobia'. I also propose that a dislike of washing up becomes 'Dishophobia'. You can use this for any disliked chore - Hooverphobia, Polishphobia, Linenphobia - and so on.
I'm pondering one for 'I hate washing the car'-ophobia.

Anything that concerns me or which I do not like, will, forthwith, have 'phobia' shoved on the end of it and, eventually, I will aim to make it politically incorrect to mention it.