I got a bit annoyed with the "Like A Girl" ad when the filmmaker started chastising the actors they'd brought in. It escalated to a nasty snarl at my screen when she gave that little condescending, "Would you like the opportunity to try again?"

Is it a problem that society views "like a girl" to be an insult? Yes. Is it interesting that young girls don't yet see it that way, giving hope that something can still be done to change society? Yes. But don't bring in these poor actors, who are just trying to make a living, trying desperately to please the director in front of them, and then act all haughty when they provide you with the most common, vernacular understanding of the phrase you used, the meaning that you obviously already knew they were going to jump to. Don't make them give a contrite speech about what they should have done, like children caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

I would have been fine with the ad if it just compared the adult vs. child interpretation, and maybe reaction shots of the adult actors seeing how the children didn't have the insult internalized yet. But the disdain made it less effective, for me anyway.

I must admit I didn't take it as real.
I assumed they'd all been briefed because otherwise how much studio time would be wasted?

That did niggle with me. But, reading what the director has to say about some of the interviews they did, it seems clear that there was a lot of stuff that didn't make it into the final video - they'd done quite a lot of interviews and back and forth and then cut it to a short film. It may not have come across as chastising taken with the rest of the interview.

I also suspect that's part of her style as a director.

Interesting though, to me, that this stuff is something that is being used in advertising now.

I think it was real. In an interview, the director talks about the answers given by the younger girls, and their parents reactions to those answers.

She's a documentary maker and director who has been working on this for a little while in conjunction with the Always social media campaign.

They may be actors, but their responses were not primed - according to Greenfield they did not know how people were going to answer.


[eta] I did feel a little bad for the young lad - when he was asked if he'd insulted his sister and said no...he'd insulted girls yeah, but not his sister. Won't do him any harm to think that one through a little, but that felt like he'd been set up a bit.

Thanks Lola - I was slightly taken aback by Jim's response tbh. *shrugs*

Dana, I love the Colman's ad with the nurturing Dad. Beautiful.
My Dad has always given good hugs, even when he didn't completely understand.
Great ad.

Milk adverts are getting fucking strange.

Just saw this advert and thought it was the most realistic portrayal of motherhood I've seen in a long time.

realistic in what way?

Not sure really - it just struck me as very believable. I think it's the way they all come in from the school run, her still in her nurse's uniform - and the way the meal isn't really planned - and her quiet glee, as she's hurrying to put a really lovely meal together whilst they're playing upstairs.

I dunno. It just seemed more believable than most ads. Even the house looked a lot more like a normal house (in the uk- I realise it probably looks uber tiny and cramped to anyone in America :P)

Perhaps, i shouldn't have said realistic portrayal of motherhood - so much as realistic portrayal of family life, with a very believable mother and kids.

Thought I'd already posted this but can't find it...

Anyway. My two current favourite ads:

Not meant as a criticism Dana, but that Just Rol advert is in a HUGE kitchen!!!
They should film in yours or mine. It's about as likely as finding a whole roast chicken in either of our fridges and just thinking of it as an ingredient :rolleyes:

Like the Mars one though.

Really? Huge compared to my current kitchen granted - but similar in size to the one I grew up with and slightly smaller than my bro's.

The idea of a roast chicken in the fridge as an ingredient seems ludicrous to you and I - but that's cause we're not proper grownups :P

Yeah, no.

Nobody just keeps roast chickens on hand just in case you might need it later. Although I can see buying one if you are planning a menu that calls for it.

Yeah but no but yeah...
I forgot about us not being properly grown-up.
And neither of us (me n D) have the childer. So I probably was thinking in unrealistic terms.
We'd have to tuck them in the coal celler if we did.

Glatt backs me up on the chicken front though, so I win anyway.
Except mysteriously, I found out Carruthers had a Just-Rol in his possession today. Along with dog food. No, he does love his father, he does, he really does.

Is that libel?

:D:D:D

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Why do they call 'em 'new potatoes'? It's not they're selling used potatoes...

^^^Ali Larter, btw...

Why do they add a price... It's not that they are giving them away...
It's from an old Abbott and Costello routine starting with a road-side sign:

New spuds seem to be available throughout the winter. They are either imported or stored. Quite how they manage to store them for several months without deterioration, I don't know.

Jersey Royals (see above) are the best. Had some for lunch today and looking forward to buying some more at the market on Thursday.

I like Charlotte potatoes myself.
But I will use Jersey Royals when I make you a salad of course. As long as I can have Caesar dressing and shaved Parmesan. I'll keep the jalapenos as a side.

Keep them cool, dry, and in the dark, they'll keep for months.

If all else fails...

Hard to think of a situation where you could replace lard with potato puree.

Love their slogan - "Nalley's is Adequate." Could this be a parody?

You're thinking of lard as a cooking lube, but people use to eat lard like mayo, at least the ad guys tried to persuade everyone they should.

Parody? Could be... kind of hope so, because it sound disgusting. But then again, people did eat lard. :haha:

When my Dad was a kid they used lard and bacon grease like butter.

I cook with bacon grease all the time. It's super good with brussels sprouts. Never used straight-up lard, though.

When I lived in Germany, our neighbors introduced us to schmaltz on bread. Basically lard as a spread. It was both good and disgusting at the same time.

I use bacon grease as a flavoring agent.

Put a little in green beans, pintos, black eyed peas, etc...

My Dad's generation used dripping as a spread.
Even when I was in my 30s Dad considered it a major perk of having roast beef; dripping to spread on toast the next day.

But the best bit of dripping isn't the white fatty bit, it's the dark tasty meat gloop at the bottom of the pot.


Sent by thought transference

We are talking about a man who used to have leftover Yorkshire Pudding the next day. With jam.

Actually he used to have jam with anything that stayed still long enough. Jam with ice cream or with chocolate cake being two of his more normal choices. Grandad used to talk about kippers and jam too. Steven and I used to chant it as children "kippers and jam, kippers and jam" although I can't quite remember why.

Jam with Yorkshire pud makes perfect sense.

Sent by thought transference

I would totally go to traditional snail mail letter writing if the postal service offered paper airplane home deliveries.

The MoneySuperMarket ads have evolved since the introduction of Dave and his epic strut a couple of years ago. I like them - they make me smile.

Here's the original Strut:



There were a couple of variations on that, and then they introduced Colin the Builder



And Gary...




And then things took a turn for the weirder



And now this...




That last one is my favourite

Those were ridiculous!

:lol2:

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Just sayin'. Tried to find a version that would play for us, the US.

No love.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

Add Tunnello browser extension for chrome. click on the icon and select the country you want to pretend to be in and hit go. reload the video

I see Ibby got a job. :rolleyes:

Thanks for the tip, but, I do not Chrome.

I Firefox.

They have a similar extension, you lazy lima bean

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ube/#id=323609

Excellent cat food ad:

Also the new Money Supermarket ad rocks:

Last but not least - this is very well done - worth taking full screen

I was expecting a little more, but, that was fairly cool.

I kept waiting for him to go over a cliff.