…why an ad like this would never appear on U.S. television?
Har!
Support the Blog — Buy This Book!
For Kindle and with free ePub version. Only $9.49 Great reading.
Here is what Gary Shapiro CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) said: Dvorak's writing sings with insight and clarity. Whether or not you agree with John's views, he will get you thinking and is never boring. These essays are worth the read!
Put this ad on your blog!
Syndicate
Subscribe to Main Blog feed here:
Subscribe to Comments too (below):
Junk Email Filter
Not very many Sheffield Wednesday fans in the U.S.?
They ain’t speaking American.
3. It is the responsibility of each individual customer to ensure that their own local, national or state laws allow them to place bets.
we save adds that are this bad for our political campaigns
Even though we have a more progressive society than ever, we will never catch up with our European counterparts in edgy commercials.
Two guys in a tub? Not anytime soon.
One of them black? Even further out.
Both of them black? Not in my lifetime.
Too many puritains, too many homophobes, too many racists, etc.
Oh, so that is what paddypower is all about. I saw this on Six Nations Irish rugby game. Oh yes, American here.
Anyone who still watches ads is a sucker.
I’d bet money that the ‘betting on sports’ content would keep it off the air more than the sexual content.
Well, lets see:
1. Man in bath
2. Two men in bath
3. Bath Bubbles
4. Inter racial
5. Black Guy Goes under water
6. Thick accents.
7. Pukey color green.
8. Got the money wet.
I could watch again to get more, but my anti-social impulses are pretty well spent.
I don’t think the gamboling subject is bad at all. Its illegal which would keep it off the air but not because the american public would be negative about it.
Gambling is how you get rich in America.
Because online gambling is illegal in the US.
Imagine the outcry!
Bobbo pointed right to it.
We just saw the commotion about a cartoon showing two white cops shooting a chimp.
Now a white and a black in the tub together?
Ohh, I don’t think so…
(Now here is the sad part. It’s not a racist commercial. Nothing like it, but there are those who would cry havoc and make it a racist issue. I wish they would all grow up.)
#5, Dallas,
I hope you aren’t planning on a short life. I would have no problem, as would the majority of Americans, with seeing your scenario.
#14, Ah Yea,
Now a white and a black in the tub together?
Ohh, I don’t think so…
Why not? I’ve seen many commercials with blacks and whites together.