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Is this advert irresponsible?
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Saw this on tv tonight and I don't normally moan about many adverts (even the banned ones) but this one kind of annoyed me. Just didn't feel right, surely saying how amazing the life of gambling is, isn't acceptable to advertise on national tv? To glamorise it?
Or maybe I'm being too harsh to the advert...
Saw this on tv tonight and I don't normally moan about many adverts (even the banned ones) but this one kind of annoyed me. Just didn't feel right, surely saying how amazing the life of gambling is, isn't acceptable to advertise on national tv? To glamorise it?
Or maybe I'm being too harsh to the advert...
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I'm not a gambler, and after watching this I don't think that I'd ever be.
You gotta learn to play it right
You must be a pussy because... REAL MEN GAMBLE!!! (that's what the makers of this advert want their target audience to think anyway)
The Loan Shark and the Bailiff.
I agree that I watched it and will never become a gambler but there is people out there who are easily mislead and I think those people might think it's "cool" to gamble or what have you.
It's nothing special. It's just the "booze for the lads" template the drinks industry has been using for decades.
EVERY gambling advert does this
it's called SELLING
What exactly is supposed to be the matter with it? I can't see anything wrong with it at all. Are you sure you've got the right video?
It was sort of making it like it was cool and you are part of the in crowd (Dobie Gray) to be doing that sort of thing.
For me it is a mugs game.
For the three blokes I know who are pro gamblers (tables) it is how they make their living, and a good one at that.
That's typical of the "it's someone else's fault" culture that we have in the UK. People need to take responsibility for their own actions and decisions, instead of blaming someone or something all the time.
They might do a series of adverts like the BT adverts with Kris Marshall. Those two characters might appear later on.
You know the one, the couple enter the flat and seem to be obsessed with (and interested in nothing but) gambling.
They then sit down to a fun evening of gambling on their iPads.
I think it's supposed to look vaguely aspirational, but It comes across as antisocial and they even look like they have a bit of a problem.. maybe missing the odd meal and forgetting to wash from time to time..
It also reminded me of the Stan James ads. In those there's 2 characters where one of them is similar to the gut truster fella, and the is like the stats guy. They're always arguing with each other in the ads as to which the best approach is. It seemed a bit of a copy of that.
Can't say I thought it was irresponsible. I see people enjoying gambling and when I used to gamble I enjoyed it too. When hanging round with fellow gamblers we'd talk about what bets we were doing and why, expressing opinions on what might happen in a game/race/whatever and it was good. That's what these people seem to be doing as well, all having their different approaches etc.
...and The Loser - the most common archetype.
Still, it's an impression that'll quickly be dispelled when anybody first enters a local bookies, to be confronted by a few shrivelled, palid old men wearing charity-shop clothes who stink of piss and stale cigarettes.
That's the real glamour of your local bookie, right there.
While we're on the subject of adverts, the one that REALLY winds me up, at the moment, is that one encouraging people to have a second bite at the compo' cherry.
"If you've already successfully claimed compo' once, come and see us and we'll see if we can find a loophole which allows you to bleed them for even more".
Utterly twattish, IMO.
Oh my God I hate that advert. That couple is so smug bloody making bedroom eyes at each other in their smart suits over the kitchen table which is also a roulette table.
The ad where the woman plays bingo on her phone in her pink velour tracksuit on the bus is far more representative of the typical gambler.
It does glamorise gambling, but only in a very tongue in cheek way. Implying that a group of mates are all equally up for gambling at the same time. Don't really see a problem to be honest.
Incidentally, "The Professor" looks like the wwe wrestler, Damien Sandow.