I don’t know if I’d got as far as “abhorrent”, but it’s 1970’s era humour and aged like milk.
Nothing wrong with it.
>Comic Jenny Eclair
‘comic’ is a bit of a leap, it’s however odd that a comic would criticize a joke no matter how good or bad taste it is.
Dozens of complaints, blimey!
Also I don’t agree with Jenny Eclair’s that the lyrics of the song “implies a woman has possibly conned a man into fatherhood”. To me “Dave’s just hoping that it’s his” implies that she may have been unfaithful and so it may not be his, nothing about whether he was planning on starting a family.
> “Whilst the ad has been broadly well received, we appreciate that people have differing views on humour and we apologise if any of the lyrics have caused offence,”
Humour doesn’t work for everyone and on a national campaign there will always be someone, in this case an ageing comedian, finding something to moan about.
‘Dozens of complaints’ – the majority of which will have been from people looking for something to be offended by, as per usual for this sort of thing. Watch now, as the number of complaints increases dramatically as a result of this news post…
I love the claim from some blogger that the companies response was ‘abhorrent gaslighting’ as well; those desperate for exposure tend to be the most indignant when jumping on bandwagons like this.
More quality non-issue reporting from the BBC.
People need to get out more. Its a paint advert- you’ve drawn more attention to it complaining. Which is probably what Crown wanted
Imagine *this* being the thing in the world you want to change. What a small, small person you must be.
If people are talking about it, the ad has worked!
I think people are getting overcome with emulsion about this. Best just gloss over it and move on.
I’ll get me (under)coat.
honestly if you have the sound on through the adverts you deserve to hear things that offend you.
sat in your living room watching a big screen being sold products, and getting mad because they didn’t sell them to you in a way that you like! good lord!
I find it weird that some people get upset over this, thinking that it *implies* something negative about women in general, even though it doesn’t.
Yet the same people will cheer when EE explicitly states that sexist abuse “starts and ends with men”.
Can I still wear my retro Liverpool jersey?
Ignore the fun police. You could invent cold water fusion and give it away and some people would start complaining.
Sorry you didn’t see him, but I’m glad we talked.
I missed the line the first time. Was expecting something major, but was just a joke line. People need to harden up.
I think there are more people complaining about people complaining than there actually are people complaining.
“Media hacks scour twitter to manufacture story based on trivial number of complaints”, more on the News At 10.
What a naff advert (I’m not offended by the content, it’s just the entire thing is insipid and lame).
This and “cool” ads for banks with Gwen Stefani music(what happened to the old reassuring ads?) makes me think that old Bill Hicks stand up routine about advertisers gets truer throughout the years.
My take on this is that it shows the misandry of those complaining, and lack of empathy to the male experience. No woman can know what it feels like to not be 100% certain they are the parent of their child, which without paternity tests being standard, is the experience a lot of men have. This doesn’t have to come from a place of fear of cheating, just biological fact, mixed in with the difficulties men can have feeling close to their child at the beginning, because they don’t spend 9 months carrying them! That people have to twist things so wildly to come to the conclusion it has to be a negative thing about women says a lot about them, and not much about the advert.
Curious to know how many of those commenting in this thread are women? The line about being unfaithful is a cheap shot and not funny, but I take more offence to the woman changing her mind about having kids.
Growing up, I and my female friends were constantly bombarded with “When are you having kids?”, “Are you having kids?” “You’ll have to hurry up, you’re not getting any younger” yet barely any comments were made towards the male friends in our group.
To me, this ad suggests that either the woman changed her mind because the guy wanted kids, or I’ve quickly made a decision because my biological clock is ticking.
Even if you disregard those points, the advert is shite and feels like a paradoy you’d see on SNL.
There’s always a few miserable and humourless people out there who want to make everyone else as miserable as they are. Keep these people out of your life and you’ll be a much happier person.
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I don’t know if I’d got as far as “abhorrent”, but it’s 1970’s era humour and aged like milk.
Nothing wrong with it.
>Comic Jenny Eclair
‘comic’ is a bit of a leap, it’s however odd that a comic would criticize a joke no matter how good or bad taste it is.
Dozens of complaints, blimey!
Also I don’t agree with Jenny Eclair’s that the lyrics of the song “implies a woman has possibly conned a man into fatherhood”. To me “Dave’s just hoping that it’s his” implies that she may have been unfaithful and so it may not be his, nothing about whether he was planning on starting a family.
> “Whilst the ad has been broadly well received, we appreciate that people have differing views on humour and we apologise if any of the lyrics have caused offence,”
Humour doesn’t work for everyone and on a national campaign there will always be someone, in this case an ageing comedian, finding something to moan about.
‘Dozens of complaints’ – the majority of which will have been from people looking for something to be offended by, as per usual for this sort of thing. Watch now, as the number of complaints increases dramatically as a result of this news post…
I love the claim from some blogger that the companies response was ‘abhorrent gaslighting’ as well; those desperate for exposure tend to be the most indignant when jumping on bandwagons like this.
More quality non-issue reporting from the BBC.
People need to get out more. Its a paint advert- you’ve drawn more attention to it complaining. Which is probably what Crown wanted
Edited: Dulux to Crown
Advert if [anyone wants a look.](https://youtu.be/PEuyG1D4c4Q)
Imagine *this* being the thing in the world you want to change. What a small, small person you must be.
If people are talking about it, the ad has worked!
I think people are getting overcome with emulsion about this. Best just gloss over it and move on.
I’ll get me (under)coat.
honestly if you have the sound on through the adverts you deserve to hear things that offend you.
sat in your living room watching a big screen being sold products, and getting mad because they didn’t sell them to you in a way that you like! good lord!
I find it weird that some people get upset over this, thinking that it *implies* something negative about women in general, even though it doesn’t.
Yet the same people will cheer when EE explicitly states that sexist abuse “starts and ends with men”.
Can I still wear my retro Liverpool jersey?
Ignore the fun police. You could invent cold water fusion and give it away and some people would start complaining.
Sorry you didn’t see him, but I’m glad we talked.
I missed the line the first time. Was expecting something major, but was just a joke line. People need to harden up.
I think there are more people complaining about people complaining than there actually are people complaining.
“Media hacks scour twitter to manufacture story based on trivial number of complaints”, more on the News At 10.
What a naff advert (I’m not offended by the content, it’s just the entire thing is insipid and lame).
This and “cool” ads for banks with Gwen Stefani music(what happened to the old reassuring ads?) makes me think that old Bill Hicks stand up routine about advertisers gets truer throughout the years.
My take on this is that it shows the misandry of those complaining, and lack of empathy to the male experience. No woman can know what it feels like to not be 100% certain they are the parent of their child, which without paternity tests being standard, is the experience a lot of men have. This doesn’t have to come from a place of fear of cheating, just biological fact, mixed in with the difficulties men can have feeling close to their child at the beginning, because they don’t spend 9 months carrying them! That people have to twist things so wildly to come to the conclusion it has to be a negative thing about women says a lot about them, and not much about the advert.
Curious to know how many of those commenting in this thread are women? The line about being unfaithful is a cheap shot and not funny, but I take more offence to the woman changing her mind about having kids.
Growing up, I and my female friends were constantly bombarded with “When are you having kids?”, “Are you having kids?” “You’ll have to hurry up, you’re not getting any younger” yet barely any comments were made towards the male friends in our group.
To me, this ad suggests that either the woman changed her mind because the guy wanted kids, or I’ve quickly made a decision because my biological clock is ticking.
Even if you disregard those points, the advert is shite and feels like a paradoy you’d see on SNL.
There’s always a few miserable and humourless people out there who want to make everyone else as miserable as they are. Keep these people out of your life and you’ll be a much happier person.
Literally dozens of complaints! The horror