World going mad??

[caneswell]

Things are getting very strange on your side of the pond!

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Lincoln drops Super Bowl ad

Ford Motor Co. earlier this week decided to pull a 30-second ad set to air during this weekend's Super Bowl telecast, due to controversy that the ad was insensitive to clergy sex-abuse victims. The ad, for the upcoming Lincoln Mark LT luxury pickup, shows a set of keys left on a collection plate. A clergyman, thinking the LT was a gift, grabs the keys and checks out the LT. A child comes to collect the keys back from him, and the clergyman is seen adding L-T to the bulletin board, interpreted as 'lust' by viewers. The ad would have been Lincolns first during a Super Bowl in over a decade. Ford will instead air a more straightforward ad for the Mustang Convertible that pokes fun at the model's winter introduction. The droptop will reach dealerships within a few weeks.


What the hell?? :roll:

[coombsie66]

LOL, just shows how patheticaly bad everyone is becoming at 'taking a joke'.
God its getting sad. :roll:

[mindgam3]

too right, its like the renault megane add of all the fit girls shaking their asses got banned because they thought it was taking the piss out of people with parkinsons :S

[nthfinity]

from what i understand, the mustang ad was set to air anyway, and the lincloln ad was never actually shot... i may be wrong, but i never once heard a word on a lincoln mark LT for the bowl game.

[23790554]

everyone should just relax, and replace the people in those commitee with people in JabbasWorld

[Pimp Racer]

LMAO! The world indeed is going mad! Speaking of superbowl commericials I will be looking around for any Gran Turismo 4 commercial! Hell I hope they do a commercial during the superbowl! That would totally rock!

[666fast]

And cost PD an assload of money that they know is not required to spend. GT4 will sell on it's own reputation, why spend millions for a 30 second commercial during a football game?

[Pimp Racer]

And cost PD an assload of money that they know is not required to spend. GT4 will sell on it's own reputation, why spend millions for a 30 second commercial during a football game?

True. But I heard people talk about seeing a GT4 commercial and I havent had the chance to watch TV for months since I am way to busy with my site. :lol: Anyways right now my mom is back and I have the camera in hand I am trying to learn how to transfer images to the computer and then I will take custom pics of the cars tommorow if they are here since both cars are gone and only the damn van is here.

[RC45]

from what i understand, the mustang ad was set to air anyway, and the lincloln ad was never actually shot... i may be wrong, but i never once heard a word on a lincoln mark LT for the bowl game.

I saw the add last night on TV here in Houston.

[nthfinity]

hehe, yes, i was wrong ;)

[lev_p]

Hm, reminds me of a printed ad for first generation of Seat Cordoba that was banned over here:
The photo showed a girl from behind, and her skirt was blown upwards just to show panties. The slogan was "Bad girl from good home". :P
It was banned because "it exploites women sexuality and body" :shock:
The world is defenitely going mad :?

[number77]

from what i understand, the mustang ad was set to air anyway, and the lincloln ad was never actually shot... i may be wrong, but i never once heard a word on a lincoln mark LT for the bowl game.

I saw the add last night on TV here in Houston.
me to. and while i think people should loosen up in general, it would probably be offensive to some of the victims in this instance.

[graywolf624]

In all serious.. people need to grow up. There is nothing in this world you can discuss without offending someone.. Hell some people you can offend just by being.

[gottacatchup]

Goddamn you Janet Jackson, all this crap is her fault. Jesus christ you show 1 second of titty and all funny commercials are banned for the next decade.

[ikon2003]

Tiz called "we're taking no chances."

Also, CNN headline news ran the fact that the 12 minute halftime show will have Paul McCartney as the only artist for the show. wtf?

[graywolf624]

show will have Paul McCartney as the only artist for the show. wtf?
Actually, thats a major improvement.. I might not be nuts about his work, but at least he doesnt look like a member of the opposite sex and actually performs his own music.

Damn lipsincing pop music..

[gottacatchup]

^^^and he's a smart ass

he said in some interview that they wouldnt have to worry about a wardrobe malfunction because his entire band would be naked during the entire show

[crayzayjay]

too right, its like the renault megane add of all the fit girls shaking their asses got banned because they thought it was taking the piss out of people with parkinsons :S
You're kidding. Please tell me you're kidding.

[crayzayjay]

Bit of research, turns out it wasn't the "shake that ass" video, but another one that was banned:


Ofcom has banned the Publicis TV ad for the Renault Megane 225 following complaints from viewers that it mocked people with illnesses, such as Parkinson's disease, which result in body tremors.

The spot featured a number of people in everyday situations shaking uncontrollably as the car passed by.

It was designed to be a follow-up to last year's "shake it" campaign, where people were shown wiggling their bottoms to a Groove Armada track.

Ofcom over-ruled the BACC, which had approved the ad on the basis that the repeat use of the soundtrack would make it clear that it was an extension of the campaign, and banned the ad.

Slightly more understandable, i think ;)

It's has gotten ridiculous though:

DDB London's spot for the Volkswagen Touran was also censured. The ad features a number of badly behaved children who, to the tune of Let's Misbehave, are seen breaking a window, drawing on a wall and dropping a mobile phone into a fish tank.

Thirty viewers complained that the ad could result in copycat behaviour.

Ofcom ruled that the actions of the children were not deliberately malicious but found that the ad was inappropriate for children under the age of eight. It has therefore been banned from transmission around children's programmes.

Heineken has been forced to change its ad starring Ray Liotta following an Ofcom investigation.

The Clemmow Hornby Inge spot showed a stranger appearing at the door of a man who had left some of his pint in the pub the night before. The stranger explained this was a waste as the beer was now 5 per cent alcohol by volume rather than 3.4 per cent.

Ofcom agreed that the central message - that the higher alcoholic strength made the beer better - breached the Advertising Standards Authority code and the ad has been banned.
^ that was a fucking good ad :roll:

[neilo63]

Idiocy, a world with a complete loss of sense of humour replaced by over political correctness.

[marcelobb82]

not quite, it seems this is still acceptable in the US

http://img12.exs.cx/img12/16/img17580up.jpg

:lol:

[ZfrkS62]

/\ where did you come across that Dan? that's a paper from Phoenix,AZ.

and Chipotle is a damn good burrito place :D

i don't see what you're talking about though...all i see is an ad for a church, a burrito joint and some family camp.

[shaikhmoiz]

i don't see what you're talking about though...all i see is an ad for a church, a burrito joint and some family camp.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=420&r=f this should explain

[antonioledesma]

i don't see what you're talking about though...all i see is an ad for a church, a burrito joint and some family camp.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=420&r=f this should explain

so... lemme see if I understand... that burrito 4:25 is a prank? of weed?

[ZfrkS62]

i don't see what you're talking about though...all i see is an ad for a church, a burrito joint and some family camp.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=420&r=f this should explain

LMAO!! ok..i get it now :lol: damn..i can't belive i missed that :oops:


so... lemme see if I understand... that burrito 4:25 is a prank? of weed?


no no. you smoke at 4:20, and at 4:25 you settle your munchies craving with a fat ass burrito :D