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Is this 2015 ad in bad taste?
| October 10th, 2022 at 10:27:30 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Is this 2015 ad in bad taste? I think it is pretty cute. |
| October 10th, 2022 at 10:47:56 AM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11803 | Haha Love it Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| October 10th, 2022 at 2:48:44 PM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4969 | Obviously you are referring to "the tasting of the bush". My understanding when I was in Australia a long time ago was that oral sex was not terribly popular there. Maybe their tastes have changed. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
| October 10th, 2022 at 11:04:59 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Did you do a poll? |
| October 11th, 2022 at 3:01:05 AM permalink | |
| OnceDear Member since: Nov 21, 2017 Threads: 11 Posts: 1510 |
Hmmmm. and obviously the visual joke at https://youtu.be/ezMYbSGdj14?t=23 I'd loved to have seen the ad team pitching that idea. |
| October 11th, 2022 at 5:32:05 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
It would seem that advertisers are not supposed to link alcohol and sex in Australia. I guess they don't have beer commercials in Australia. Personally, I think that ads that repeatedly use phrases like "cut the cheese" where a person is seen literally cutting a block of cheese are more offensive because children know exactly what they mean. The slogan 'Taste the Bush' should mean almost nothing to prepubescent children. To adults other than 19th centuy Pentacostals and Greek monks, this ad is not 'degrading and offensive' but a clever way to get people to remember the advertisement. |
| October 11th, 2022 at 6:10:50 AM permalink | |
| quadriga Member since: Mar 30, 2019 Threads: 0 Posts: 114 | She setting the wine glass there and says "taste the bush" has to explain to Americans under 40, "what's a bush?" (80% of women mow their lawn and 90% in their twenties do the same.) |
| October 11th, 2022 at 8:37:31 AM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4969 |
After I got divorced and started dating again that was confusing to me. I didn't realize in those ten years that most women went from hair to no hair. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
| October 11th, 2022 at 11:21:52 AM permalink | |
| OnceDear Member since: Nov 21, 2017 Threads: 11 Posts: 1510 | "cut the cheese" meant nothing to me as a brit. I guessed what "Pitch a loaf" meant, never having heard that before either. |
| October 12th, 2022 at 8:25:37 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
The phrase "cut the cheese" is from both American and Canadian English. I thought that "Pitch a loaf" was in British English as well, but I could be mistaken. "Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (1748) seems to be the derivation of the meaning of the word in Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, For some reason it's meaning changed in the US in the 1920s to it's considerably less explicit American euphemism. I assume Canadians follow American English, but I am not sure, |