Sanitary product advertisers

Jeff_Bridges_hair

now the team of clever individuals who make these adverts must be on another planet!!

A sanitary towel as a rollercoaster ride? Yeh that really makes bloody sense.

Id cry if it wasnt so funny

welshbookworm

reminds me of the letter about 'Have a Happy Period'
http://wendi-aarons.blogspot.com/2007/03/as-seen-on-mcsweeneysnet.html

midget_gems

i personally like how my nephew interpreted the adverts that go down the "check out the super absorbency on this!" route.

cue him asking my cousin (his parent) infront of the entire family for some "Tampax, cos i saw on the TV it works better than bounty and i spilled my juice on the floor"


Aside from the obvious hilarity, it brought up more questions how they were able to consistantly get a 5 year old to clean up after himself every time.

Azari

welshbookworm wrote: »

reminds me of the letter about 'Have a Happy Period'
http://wendi-aarons.blogspot.com/2007/03/as-seen-on-mcsweeneysnet.html

Would be interesting to know if the dumb-clucks actually removed the stupid message.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

midget_gems wrote: »

i personally like how my nephew interpreted the adverts that go down the "check out the super absorbency on this!" route.

cue him asking my cousin (his parent) infront of the entire family for some "Tampax, cos i saw on the TV it works better than bounty and i spilled my juice on the floor"


Aside from the obvious hilarity, it brought up more questions how they were able to consistantly get a 5 year old to clean up after himself every time.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Only kids could come out with something like that! brilliant

trumpton

I like the old Tampax one where a woman is being pulled along on roller skates by a couple of dalmations. Very popular activity for when you've got the painters in, I would imagine.

Azari

trumpton wrote: »

I like the old Tampax one where a woman is being pulled along on roller skates by a couple of dalmations. Very popular activity for when you've got the painters in, I would imagine.

It's one of those 'what you learn from TV' things.

Periods are times when your blood turns blue, you become insanely happy, and you have an irresistible desire to put on very tight white trousers and wiggle your bottom at a camera.

And the designers of the products designed to handle these episodes each have an enormous luxury office all to themselves.

RadoJo

I was in the US last year and saw the only ads for sanitary products which I've ever actually thought were good and they were basically pointing out how obnoxious these ads normally are. It was refreshing to hear an ad which actually acknowledged that most women's experience of their periods was significantly different to how they are portrayed on TV. More info here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/business/media/16adco.html

I do sometimes wonder if the ads are actually aimed at women - I've never met any female who feels as though they are even vaguely representative, yet for some reason the style has prevailed for years. Hopefully the ads mentioned above will be the turning point for a change.

rustyboy21

my best mate, wont go into the local sainsbury's anymore after an embarrasing incident a while back.

He was wandering about, not a care in the world, then suddenly started singing at the top of his voice '' oh-ho Bodyform, bodyform for yoooou''

The looks he got were priceless, and the checkout girl, couldnt stop sniggering when he went through the checkouts:rotfl:

zarazara

Lol rofl lol

NiallB

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

A sanitary towel as a rollercoaster ride? Yeh that really makes bloody sense.

Very unfortunate choice of words there dude...:D