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Nice advert. [message #55090]

Tue, 16 December 2008 10:52

On fire!

Location: Worcester, England
Registered: January 2005
Messages: 1560

Nice advert - watch to the end.

http://www.pepsi.co.uk/PepsiTvAd.aspx?lid=-13

Cheers me up a bit after the Heinz fiasco.

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King

Re: Nice advert. [message #55091 is a reply to message #55090]

Tue, 16 December 2008 12:22

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796

Oh god yes!

But that is in comparison to Heinz. The advert does lack punch, it's too long. And it is barely amusing.

Aren't we a but beyond advertisers trying to go viral just because there's a queer in it?

[Updated on: Tue, 16 December 2008 12:29]

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: Nice advert. [message #55093 is a reply to message #55091]

Tue, 16 December 2008 12:40

On fire!

Location: Worcester, England
Registered: January 2005
Messages: 1560

timmy wrote:
(snip)
> Aren't we a but beyond advertisers trying to go viral just because there's a queer in it?

For me it works because it makes the point that we all - gay, straight, whatever - get nervous (terrified) about chatting people up: that it reinforces the things we have in common. It would be interesting to know whether straight guys identify with the gay character, or with his companions.

Incidentally, I came across this ad. 'cos I was served it on "friendsreunited". I can't really think on what grounds, as I'm probably outside the target demographic: there are no tick-boxes to say I'm gay (though my profile does say "out and proud, currently unpartnered").

Re: Nice advert. [message #55097 is a reply to message #55093]

Tue, 16 December 2008 17:06

acam

On fire!

Location: UK
Registered: July 2007
Messages: 1849

So someone on friendsreunited has you in mind - and favourably, NW.

Well good on them.

Love,
Anthony

Re: Nice advert. [message #55099 is a reply to message #55090]

Tue, 16 December 2008 20:28

Deeej

Needs to get a life!

Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
Messages: 3281

I'm glad to see that my employer's hardware and network is being put to good use. Smile

(Pepsi.co.uk is one of our machines.)

David

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