Ok...which one of you wowsers did it?

[colic2bullsgirlore]

and reported my current favourite ad as ..... inappropriate .......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNWgn2Ki7qc

Welcome to the Family 

(to the tune of when Johnny comes marching home)

The family came in two by two hurrah hurrah,

 Stella and her high heels too hurrah hurrah,
 
"Uncle Phil with his plastic hip, old Aunty May with the hairy lip",

and nanna is meeting...... Bradley's special friend

The family came in three by three, hurrah hurrah

needed to pee behind a tree, hurrah hurrah,

Uncle Jerry's king of the pitch, Big old Barrys got a stitch,

Take a pew kids,......... grandads telling a yarn.

The family came in four by four, hurrah hurrah

Bring the cake, she's starting to snore, hurrah hurrah

Peter wished he'd had the snip, screaming triplets the whole trip

Welcome to........ the family

http://ms.adstandards.com.au/cases/0401-13.pdf

The complaint

This ad is attempting to advertise that they rep traditional families gathering together and the car therefore are a part of a traditional car.

However within the song they make reference to homosexuality and having a vasectomy.

Asthis ad is screened at various times during the day and evening I find that it is offensive to represent these issues as part of the traditional norm.

I believe that while these issues are within the community I don't feel that it is an appropriate presentation.

The subject of gay marriage is very important and there are currently campaigns running to encourage the Government to allow this.

The ad depicts GRANDMA rolling her eyes when her grandson arrives with his BEST friend meaning his partner.

This is going against a cause and I am disgusted that and is discriminates against her grandson.

I find references to such things as increased hair production "hairy lip" due to decreased oestrogen production and "plastic hips" which is a result from physiological breakdown of skeletal bone and muscle to honestly just be downright insulting, how do you think our aging

population within the age bracket where such physical issues arise feel about this blatant stigma on their televisions?


The determination (in part)

The Board determined that the advertisement did treat sex, sexuality and nudity with sensitivity to the relevant audience and that it did not breach Section 2.4 of the Code. Finding that the advertisement did not breach the Code on other grounds, the Board dismissed the complaints.

see the pdf on the link for the complete complaint, VW's response and the ASB ruling

http://ms.adstandards.com.au/cases/0401-13.pdf

[boris1gary]

i could think of a few culprits.....................

[punch*drunk]

OMG, people will complain about anything wont they.

I cringe every time I have to her one of those nasal spray for "longer lasting sex" ads. I think they should be banned.

[lloydslights]

I thought it was one of the funniest ads I had seen in quite a while.  It was entertaining. No station hopping when it came on.

DEB

[freakiness · Accepted solution]

Someone needs their own special friend if they have time to complain about one of the best, least offensive ads on TV

[spotweldersfriend]

Cory Bernardi or any number of the Tea Party?

[ca04]

At one stage the loonies only wanted to run rhe aslyum but bow they want to run the whole world.

[lloydslights · Accepted solution]

Am I allowed to say this?  

A special friend who uses nasal spray?

DEB

[colic2bullsgirlore]

I went looking for the lyrics on the net to win a bet at the pub but could not find them so I had to  analyse the ad and write them out myself.

For me, the ad evokes great memories of family gatherings especially when I was a child...

like when

 We were going over th the great grandparents farm to have a family gathering at the old property.

You could see the old house from the other side of the river and the cars parked all around it.

We stopped, and Mum and Dad pointed out different things on the property to us.

But it was still a 20 minute drive to go to the nearest bridge and then back up the other side of the river.

When we finally got to the old house but there were no cars...all gone?

So we went in search of the "gathering's actual meeting place on the  properties internal roads.

My elder sister was pregnant at the time and all the bouncing driving through the paddocks had coaxed her bladder to the point of explosion and she screamed

"stop the car I gotta pee"

so Dad stopped the car immediately.

Sometime mid flow she let this ear splitting scream go and did this funny "wallaby squat hopping type of impersonation.

Her husband and I jumped out of the car help  to find that somehow she had managed to squat on a half buried Porcupine who had taken offence to the golden flow washing his quills and had subsequently decided to relocate poste haste.

My sisters  banshee yodel disrupted the cows on the other side of the fence who then proceeded to stampede and bellow.

This, in the end, was our saviour as Uncle Joe who was on his horse at the time rode over to find out what was causing all the commotion and guided us back to the venue.

My Aunty Mary  commented often of him

" Joe ***** is the only bloke I know who can go into the wash house at  5am for a shower, a **bleep**, and a shave and come out at 6.30 as drunk as Mc Tannamee."

Joe loved the early South Arm Shandys especially around family celebration time

(which consisted of a near lethal and definitely fflammable concoction of Brown muscat and beer).

He had all of us kids fooled for years at Chrissy time when he would somehow put a large blow up Santa at the top of an extremely skinny Pine tree positing that "he had climbed it"

... To say were all in awe of his skills was an understatement.

It was not till I had my licence and made an early morning South Arm road Chrissy raid that we caught him pulling the tree over on an angle with his cattle truck then scaling to the top of the truck to place Santy on top then letting it spring back that we learned the truth.

Under that same pine tree a few years later my cousin Rady got married with the home recorded Banjo "wedding march" music coming from the cassette of his backed up, tailgate open,  HG panel van.

As the oaths were being traded an extremely large Black Snake made an appearance and the  rather staid,stuffy (we thought anyways) Presbyterian Minister sprang into action and snotted it with a handy lump of old car exhaust pipe without missing a beat and hardly batting an eyelid.

....and the Banjoes played on............

I knew there was a subconscious reason I love the movie "Deliverance"

 

[donnashuggy]

I'm too scared to post, I'm not bright enough to understand the rules. Whoever does this type of thing knows what works......I guess