crodonilson
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Does nobody watch these before they approve??
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[Cricket] Offensive TV Ad
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Does nobody watch these before they approve??
Mackenzie
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- Oct 21, 2016
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Does nobody watch these before they approve??
I don’t really get it , it’s not clever and it’s not even funny , it’s just daft but it’s not offensive .
nickbrighton
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- Feb 19, 2016
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I think Crodo has "Whoooshed" us here, cant see anything offensive at all
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Or misjudged the advert/mood in the room
hart's shirt
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Comic Jenny Eclair said it must be taken off air over its implication that a woman "conned a man into fatherhood".
Tweeting about the advert being "beyond mad", Eclair said the line was "massively offensive".
She added that Crown Paints needed to "get that offensive baby ad off air" as its creators had "basically... set up a scenario that implies a woman has possibly conned a man into fatherhood".
Replying, author and podcast host Daisy Buchanan said she welcomed Eclair's tweet as "I honestly thought it was me being mad".
Other Twitter users responding to Eclair's tweet said the advert was "offensive", "misogynistic" and a "serious error of judgement".
The lyrics state that "now a baby's coming and they don't know what it is", before continuing: "Hannah's hoping for a girl, Dave's just hoping that it's his."
Apologising for it, the Darwen-based paint firm said it appreciated "people have differing views on humour".
In a statement, a spokeswoman for the paint firm said the series of ads were "intended to be a humorous celebration of special life moments that prompt people to paint their homes, in this case focusing on Hannah and Dave, a happy couple expecting a baby together".
"Whilst the ad has been broadly well received, we appreciate that people have differing views on humour and we apologise if any of the lyrics have caused offence," she added.
Reacting to the company's explanation, blogger and radio presenter Nickie O'Hara said their "gaslighting response" was "just abhorrent".
An ASA spokeswoman said it had received 58 complaints about the advert and was "currently assessing [them] carefully to determine whether there are grounds for an investigation".
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Pathetic. It's almost like some people need to suffer a war or extreme hardship to get their sense of what is important back.
Me and my Monkey
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Very odd. Just very, very odd. And a bit worrying, really.
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I'm not offended by the advert, but just found it cringeworthy, and over-engineered. The whole thing - the song, the colour palette, was plastic.
Why can't adverts be like the old days?
'It does what it says on the f*ckin' tin, yer ******* !'
Edit: Crown paints are **** anyway. Dulux is miles better.
Why can't adverts be like the old days?
'It does what it says on the f*ckin' tin, yer ******* !'
Edit: Crown paints are **** anyway. Dulux is miles better.
albionalbino
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Wouldn't get that with Farrow and Ball.
Baldseagull
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Does nobody watch these before they approve??
Offensive serial fishing post starter.
Me and my Monkey
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We could start a new game and call it “Find the Offense in That Ad!”. I’ll go first - just seen an ad from Experia credit something, man in a vet’s waiting room with an oversized goldfish in an undersized bowl. Everyone knows how detrimental those bowls are to the happiness of a gold fish. Animal cruelty, advert should be banned. Who do I complain too?
I should like to point out that I’m not normally one to get offended by people being offended, on the whole I find it all a bit tedious, but really a line needs to be drawn somewhere, surely?
I should like to point out that I’m not normally one to get offended by people being offended, on the whole I find it all a bit tedious, but really a line needs to be drawn somewhere, surely?