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CommercialsCanon AE-1 - Joe Theisman (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsBudweiser - Racing (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsBudweiser Light - Drafted (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsBriggs & Stratton - Invisible (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsAnacin 3 - Take 3 (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsAllstate - Estimates (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsAlbany Savings Bank - Bank Vault Door (local) (1983) - 0:30 (USA) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsSmash Mash - Workout - (1983) 0:30 (UK) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsSilkience - Self adjusting shampoo - (1983) 0:30 (UK) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsShakin Stevens greatest hits - (1983) 0:30 (UK) dabitch030 years 21 weeks ago
CommercialsActivision Megamania 1983 dabitch030 years 25 weeks ago
CommercialsActivision - Ice Hockey 1981 dabitch030 years 25 weeks ago
CommercialsActivision - Chopper Command (1982) USA 0:30 dabitch030 years 25 weeks ago
CommercialsAtari 2600 Jr. - The Fun Is Back (1986) dabitch030 years 25 weeks ago
CommercialsShake and Vac - Put the Freshness back / Original dabitch030 years 43 weeks ago
CommercialsActivisoon - Pitfall! In the djungle - (1982) dabitch030 years 50 weeks ago
CommercialsAtari - Have you played Atari today? (1982) :30 (USA) dabitch030 years 50 weeks ago
CommercialsBritish Gas - If You smell gas - (1982) :35 (UK) dabitch031 years 8 weeks ago
CommercialsMichelin - MX Tyres - (1982) :30 (UK) dabitch031 years 13 weeks ago
CommercialsMilk - Lotta Bottle - (1982) :20 (UK) dabitch031 years 13 weeks ago
CommercialsKenwood - process - (1982) :30 (UK) dabitch031 years 13 weeks ago
CommercialsSpecial K - The Pinch - (1982) :30 (UK) dabitch031 years 13 weeks ago
CommercialsJohn Smiths - Vacation - (1982) : 30 (UK) dabitch031 years 13 weeks ago
CommercialsHeineken - Card Player - (1982) :40 (UK) dabitch031 years 13 weeks ago
CommercialsHeineken - Poet - (1982) :50 (UK) dabitch031 years 13 weeks ago
  • dabitch said:
    Ooh, you know what he's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. ... Ooh, the anger dollar.
    Posted: 2 hours 2 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    The ASCII doesn't work quite as well around here, but points for effort. Might get better monospaced font if you use the CODE tag.
    Posted: 2 hours 21 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    What a terrifically unexpected comment. I can see you went straight to insulting me instead of taking apart my argument. What's the matter, too weak to type anything longer than that?
    Posted: 7 hours 22 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    Ha! While I'm sure that was the rationale - that they could aim for both - it's missing a key insight. Women buy romance novels, text, while men buy visual porn (gay or straight). You can't actually aim at both with one image. Going for the pink pound is perfectly fine, and in fact very wise if that's their biggest paying target, but in the case of middle-American salad dressing, I doubt it is.
    Posted: 10 hours 48 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    Coke is a great example of two wrongs don't make a right. I've hated that giggling office-worker-gals idea since it first appeared in the late 80s. Seriously, who the fuck does that? In fact, that's when I stopped drinking Diet Coke. Not that they care. The Diet Coke puppets on the other hand, oh la la! They're hilarious. and Jean-Paul, gay icon & fashion king, made a straighter ad. Go figure. It's not like they're without plenty of sexual innuendo, either. You bring up a good point, there isn't much of a reason for the spokesperson to be totally nude under a picnic blanket. This is exactly the type of ad that is banned by European advertising watchdogs, and I can't help but think this is what they're hoping for (a ban gets more earned media)
    Posted: 13 hours 54 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    Nobody on this website would say that only women are depicted in a sexist manner in advertising. In fact, I say sexist ads are bad for everyone. Tom Ford is an equal opportunity offender, with full frontal nude Sophie Dahl, full frontal shaved labia behind perfume bottles on his resumé. So yes, he did do that "just a vagina selling perfume" idea you have, and I immediately thought "it must smell like pee". Tom Ford has most likely inspired the gang rape images D&G used. The latter a tad more violent than simple nudity, with both hetrosexual and homosexual seemingly forced encounters and/or porn-sets. p.s. I'm a woman not blind to double standards, add that to your anecdata-pipe and smoke it.
    Posted: 1 day 14 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    Spam link removed because you can buy banner ads. Neener.
    Posted: 1 day 14 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    :D Yeah, it's not working on me (not tempted to pick up an e-cig but then I quite the habit proper and am supposedly not the target anyway since I am a quitter)... But I can see how this could work. e-Cigs are put on the map, no longer that odd device someone bought in Hong Kong ten years ago, but I actually see people using these in bars. This just might put Blu on the map. E-Cigs are going to be a thing.
    Posted: 3 days 13 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    I asked him when I met him in Cannes a year later, and he said no; it's a reminder of an awesome week in his life. Even if it's not that pretty.
    Posted: 4 days 10 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    Right, so him & his friend pitched Blu. If Stephen Dorf came up with the line "rise from the ashes"... well, that's not a bad line.
    Posted: 4 days 16 hours ago