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18-09-2007, 11:56 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1   | Advert - bad taste? Is it just me or is the current Smirnoff ad in bad taste? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udMe7CZI2eo Maybe I'm being over sensitive but the implications seems to be that aircraft and ships lost during the war are not pure and the oceans need to be purified of them. Considering the lives lost, and that most are war graves, I don't like that implication. Any thoughts?
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19-09-2007, 12:11 AM
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War graves aside, they were used as the local rubbish tip after the war, especially by the US.
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19-09-2007, 02:20 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | Maybe so. But I just view it as the oceans used as a dump by mankind. Take away any context of what is being chucked out and it really is an amazing advert. However if anyone can give me an asnwer as to what it is that is arrowing into the cliff faces liek spears I would much appreciate it.
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19-09-2007, 02:30 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | I am sure that it has more to do with the implication that the sea should be as pure as the vodka! Just look at it as a admans dream! Also, I like that kind of vodka!
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19-09-2007, 02:38 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Yes, I know - probably being too sensitive. But in that case maybe they should have added the concrete encased barrels of radio-active material that was dumped too.
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19-09-2007, 04:00 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5 | You have to remember that it was done by an ad company who may not know about the concrete encased low level radioactive waste!
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20-09-2007, 01:41 AM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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21-09-2007, 12:46 AM
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As to the buttock smilie, I just couldn't resist being the first person to use it (but I've probably missed a previous use). I saw the Smirnoff ad once, on Channel 4. This was while watching The IT Crowd - definitely the funniest thing on TV at the moment (though Not Going Out is good). I identify with the nerds, of course. | |
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