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'feed your family for £50' adverts are banned for being misleading.
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http://www.dailymail....0-adverts-banned.html
If this advert is banned for being misleading, surely there are many more that should be banned for being misleading.
Take those adverts for cleaning products, the before and after shots, anyone can see that the after result is a brand new item.
Then the recent supermarket adverts for joints of meats, anyone seen such perfect examples of fat free and perfectly formed joints?
What ones have you noticed?
If this advert is banned for being misleading, surely there are many more that should be banned for being misleading.
Take those adverts for cleaning products, the before and after shots, anyone can see that the after result is a brand new item.
Then the recent supermarket adverts for joints of meats, anyone seen such perfect examples of fat free and perfectly formed joints?
What ones have you noticed?
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Remember the famous "Labour isn't working" poster that got Margaret Thatcher elected. It featured a long queue of jobless people at the job centre. Except they weren't. Turned out they were all paid up members of the Conservative Party. Set the tone for the next 18 years.
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There was an advert for cat food which states that '8 out 10 cats preferred Felix' (or whatever brand). In tiny letters it said 8 out of 10 cats, whose owners stated a preference, preferred Felix.
This mean that 2 out of 10 cats had owners who bought them this cat food even though the cats disliked it.
This mean that 2 out of 10 cats had owners who bought them this cat food even though the cats disliked it.
This may be a little controversial, but I also hate advert for animal charities which promise that your sponsored animal will 'write to you with an update every month' (yes, I really HAVE seen adverts with that tagline).
For a start, the animals in question do not have opposable thumbs, and therefore couldn't write a letter, and if given a pen, they would probably eat it.
It's just sappy and plays on emotions...and annoying.
For a start, the animals in question do not have opposable thumbs, and therefore couldn't write a letter, and if given a pen, they would probably eat it.
It's just sappy and plays on emotions...and annoying.
The caveats are always worth reading, if you can put the ad on pause and have good eyesight!
The ad authority can be very picky. An ad for hair colour said it covered grey. A voice off- screen asked whether it would cover her grey to which the celebrity on- screen said 'Even your grey, Mum' Later this answer was removed, apparently because the off- screen voice wasn't the celebrity's mother's !
I once complained about the misleading slogan for butter made from milk 'from free range cows' and that the cows shown were brown cows, Jerseys or Guernseys, which produce high fat but not much milk. The manufacturer would be using Friesian Holsteins, for high production of lower fat milk, which are black and white cows. I got the serious reply that the maker would not now use 'free range' but asserted that some tiny percentage of the milk had come from Jerseys, so that part would remain.
The ad authority can be very picky. An ad for hair colour said it covered grey. A voice off- screen asked whether it would cover her grey to which the celebrity on- screen said 'Even your grey, Mum' Later this answer was removed, apparently because the off- screen voice wasn't the celebrity's mother's !
I once complained about the misleading slogan for butter made from milk 'from free range cows' and that the cows shown were brown cows, Jerseys or Guernseys, which produce high fat but not much milk. The manufacturer would be using Friesian Holsteins, for high production of lower fat milk, which are black and white cows. I got the serious reply that the maker would not now use 'free range' but asserted that some tiny percentage of the milk had come from Jerseys, so that part would remain.
One advert that should definitely be banned is the Coronation Street sponsors one.
You must have seen them, the two females sitting on the sponsors sofas, a male partner of one of these women, is locked out and shouting through the letter box asking to be let in why these women are watching the soap, he is refused, and one woman smugly says to the other, "He knows the rules".
Yet another one, this same chap is ordered to bring in cups of tea to these two 'layabouts', after doing so and then trying to take a seat to watch the soap, one of these women, utter "what about the 'bickies'", of course he immediately jumps up to their command.
Totally derogatory towards men, would it be allowed if the roles were reversed?
You must have seen them, the two females sitting on the sponsors sofas, a male partner of one of these women, is locked out and shouting through the letter box asking to be let in why these women are watching the soap, he is refused, and one woman smugly says to the other, "He knows the rules".
Yet another one, this same chap is ordered to bring in cups of tea to these two 'layabouts', after doing so and then trying to take a seat to watch the soap, one of these women, utter "what about the 'bickies'", of course he immediately jumps up to their command.
Totally derogatory towards men, would it be allowed if the roles were reversed?
AOG totally agree re the Corrie ad, similarly the Malteser advert in which a woman flashed a breasts at a colleague by lifting her top. Can you imagine the outcry if a man had dropped his trousers in a simlar way! As far as supermarket ads go, I work on the principle that they're all deceitful, after all, they're out to get your cash! In fact, I would apply that to all ads, has anyone every had more than an advert offered?
jackthehat
Always on hand to spew your insulting comments towards me, yet on the other hand squawk if others do the same to you.
/// It is the *women* in that particular advert (Harvey's furniture) who are the figures of fun.....and not the man. ///
Nonsense, it all depends if one happens to be a Man or a Woman.
Always on hand to spew your insulting comments towards me, yet on the other hand squawk if others do the same to you.
/// It is the *women* in that particular advert (Harvey's furniture) who are the figures of fun.....and not the man. ///
Nonsense, it all depends if one happens to be a Man or a Woman.
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