Dumb ways to complain
Dr Mumbo’s favourite time of the month is when the Ad Standards Board reveals the complaints it has adjudicated on.
While the serious coverage goes to the stuff that’s been banned (just one so far this month), the comments of ‘ordinary’ members of the public make for far more entertaining reading.
Who, for instance, could be offended by the multi award winning campaign by McCann Melbourne for Metro Trains, Dumb Ways to Die?
Dumb Ways…..?
I guess you havent had a Family Member commit suicide eh?
The complaint about the Smiths advertisement is probably warranted. If the roles were reversed, the advertisement would be condemned as blatantly misogynist. In reverse apparently it’s okay. Seems a little puzzling.
The laughably idiocy of that ad for pads to soak up women’s sweaty crotches is that the problem is practically non-existent and is more of a male exercise dilemma. I see it at the gym and driving behind badly dressed male cyclists in traffic. The ad exists to trick women into using a product between monthly bleeds. It’s to move more menstrual related products the other 3 weeks of the month. It’s hilarious.
Maybe these responses are all “fallacious” (sic)
OK. Someone has to go there – so it might as well be me. How about this for a complaint.
“Dear ASB,
Regarding the recent Amazeballs ad, I am compelled to write that I am sick and tired of marketers shoving their testicles down my throat”.
“Old Man Yells At Cloud”
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That’s not Billy Connolly. Someone should call his agent.
Personally I find the Pork ads on television and the radio offensive, degrading to women, no wonder we have a hard time relating to our female prime minister. Also I stopped watching shows like House Husbands because I don’t like seeing ads for women’s periods products, it’s personally disgusting when people are eating to see that. It’s revolting to be told about it when your eating, I wish more people would complain!!!
I find it worrying that these consumers (your bosses, ultimately) are subjected to ridicule for having the balls to tell you guys they hate your ads. The Bear Grylls one IS feral. But what do I know? I’m just another dumb consumer, right?
these people get ridiculed because they usually represent a tiny, tiny, tiny minority of people and quite often supply the ASC with hilariously narrow-minded complaints.
One spot runs, 2,000,000 people see it. 1 person is offended enough to complain. What kind of idiot listens to one person out of 2 million?
“What kind of idiot listens to one person out of 2 million?”
World Wars and bad religions have started on worse odds than that …