Inappropriate advert of the year award

[hightower]

This is my nominee. Just can't fathom what a scantily clad lassie sitting on presents has got to do with electrics or telecommunications (I think that's what at&t is)

 

[telectrix]

but why is she wearing yellow knickers?

 

[Leesparkykent]

This is my nominee. Just can't fathom what a scantily clad lassie sitting on presents has got to do with electrics or telecommunications (I think that's what at&t is)

Surely you don't mind though?

 

[hightower]

Surely you don't mind though?

I just don't get the whole 'let's use a woman to make some sales' type of marketing. I see it all the time in bike magazines. Instead of letting the bike speak for itself that think ooooo we'll stick her on it, that'll help sell some. If I want to see a naked lady I know where to find them. If I want to see new bikes, then get the silly tramps off them.

 

[Leesparkykent]

I just don't get the whole 'let's use a woman to make some sales' type of marketing. I see it all the time in bike magazines. Instead of letting the bike speak for itself that think ooooo we'll stick her on it, that'll help sell some. If I want to see a naked lady I know where to find them. If I want to see new bikes, then get the silly tramps off them.

lol Its a proven method for getting more sales. It certainly caught your attention

 

[Andy78]

I like pin ups, I don't mind Christmas. I approve.

 

[Midwest]

I don't what the worlds coming, sorry arriving to.

 

[LeeH]

LOL! ^^^

 

[Pete999]

This is my nominee. Just can't fathom what a scantily clad lassie sitting on presents has got to do with electrics or telecommunications (I think that's what at&t is)

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You will be getting a bad rep HT LOL

 

[westward10]

I like pin ups, I don't mind Christmas. I approve.

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Last year at your gaff was it Andy.

 

[hightower]

I like pin ups, I don't mind Christmas. I approve.

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I love pin ups. I've even got one tattooed on my arm. I just don't get how a multi billion pound corporation like that thinks that's an appropriate advert for a professional magazine. Might have got my attention, but for the wrong reason

 

[Wilko]

You should see the honey on page 3

 

[hightower]

You should see the honey on page 3


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I did remedial work at a beekeepers a little while ago. Bees were 400 yards away I was informed, but garage was full of dead bees for some reason

 

[Andy78]

I love pin ups. I've even got one tattooed on my arm. I just don't get how a multi billion pound corporation like that thinks that's an appropriate advert for a professional magazine. Might have got my attention, but for the wrong reason

Well it's clearly a Christmas "gift" from the company based on stereotypical expectations of the trade. Whether it is appropriate or not is really up to the viewer. Personally I think it is certainly chauvinistic but quite harmless. It's no different to a pirelli rep dishing out girly calendars to good customers really, just done more publicly.

If you have issue with the blatent sexualisation of advertising, I reckon there are far more worthy targets for criticism than this cheeky ad though. This is in a trade magazine likely to be viewed by adults and is cheeky at worst. Focus your attention on the far more explicit and suggestive material that gets thrust into our childrens' eyeballs through pre watershed TV advertising.

 

[telectrix]

ohno! have they got teletubbies in bikinis advertising maltesers now?

 

[Barry White]

Thats a good way to communicate the message merry christmas its in the universal language I understand