Startling British TV Ads of 2011

**bijou** · 12-13-2011, 03:06 PM

Other people’s TV commercials are weird, aren’t they? It’s easy to get used to your own because they’re on all the time, and the internal reference points have to be universal to your culture or they don’t really work as adverts. Play the same ads across a global arena and everything suddenly looks very different.

Mind you, the magnificent seven examples here look fairly strange to us Brits too: ...

Ah yes, things which appear to be sweet on TV, that would be hideously embarrassing in real life. Some wazzock on the opposite platform starts singing a song about you, and using it to find out personal details, and somehow that’s not sexual harrassment so long as he’s got a ukulele? Hmm, Match.com, HMM… ...

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglopheni...v-ads-of-2011/

**linda22003** · 12-13-2011, 04:27 PM

Bijou, you can probably tell me the name of the store.... but I remember seeing a hilarious ad a few years ago from a British chain of sex shops, that just showed the goofy faces women make during orgasm. It was VERY funny.

**ABC** · 12-13-2011, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by linda22003

Bijou, you can probably tell me the name of the store.... but I remember seeing a hilarious ad a few years ago from a British chain of sex shops, that just showed the goofy faces women make during orgasm. It was VERY funny.

Sorry Bijou to hijack your thread, but couldn't help it! (Bad! Bad ! ABC ... Smacking-self on wrist!) :D

Linda ...

You just reminded me, how about the faces and sounds women make during "fake" orgasms such as this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hY7_CNuEQY

~ ABC

**ABC** · 12-13-2011, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by bijou

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglopheni...v-ads-of-2011/

Mind you, the magnificent seven examples here look fairly strange to us Brits too: ...

Typing as someone born on *your* side of the pond ... you are right. A little strange!

The first one of the cat filing it's nails wasn't animated, but made me laugh anyway. Would love to do that myself to our little sharp-clawed creature, but am afraid that SHE would win the battle that would ensue, hands down! :D

~ ABC

**ABC** · 12-13-2011, 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by ABC in Georgia

Typing as someone born on *your* side of the pond ... you are right. A little strange!

~ ABC

Correction ... and outta here, have gifts to wrap while hubby is downstairs!

Should have written they are right. You were quoting.

~ ABC

**bijou** · 12-14-2011, 04:13 AM

Originally Posted by linda22003

Bijou, you can probably tell me the name of the store.... but I remember seeing a hilarious ad a few years ago from a British chain of sex shops, that just showed the goofy faces women make during orgasm. It was VERY funny.

Was that Ann Summers?

http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA2563