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« Reply #13965 on: Saturday, November 15, 2014, 19:40:28 »

Playing FIFA 15 and just scored with Louis Thompson- who appears to be a bald middle aged White man.
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« Reply #13966 on: Saturday, November 15, 2014, 22:46:32 »

The Sainsbury Christmas ad. Superb bit of television. Have to say my eyes looked like I'd chopped a dozen onions after watching it. 100 years ago this year. Lest we forget.
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« Reply #13967 on: Sunday, November 16, 2014, 00:42:41 »

Was gonna post this in the things that annoy me thread, but noticed it had been mentioned in here.

Really? It's ok to use the lost generation of an entire continent to sell groceries now? It's well produced in an overly sanguine way, but it's still manipulative. I just don't understand how using a generation dead is acceptable in what is a fucking advert.

I get they are using the Christmas Truce. But that almost makes it worse, wouldn't want blood on our tomatoes (on the vine).

Does 100 years mean its fair game? I'm honestly confused why its ok to use such a tragedy as advertising.

100 years. So in 32 years time an advert where American Troops liberate a Concentration Camp and share a Coca Cola with the survivors. Would the be okay?

Or in 87 years time, a recreation of a woman's last phone call whilst trapped in the twin towers, but tells her lover that she'd really like a Big-Mac. "I'm loving it".

I'm not normally offended, and I can't understand why nobody else is.

e: sorry, not my normal eloquent self.
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« Reply #13968 on: Sunday, November 16, 2014, 08:47:42 »

Agreed Ben. Cynical in the extreme.
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« Reply #13969 on: Sunday, November 16, 2014, 10:17:32 »

Couldn't give a monkeys about the advertising side of it, it's just a very well produced 3 minutes of television. Will it make me shop at Sainsbury? Does the John Lewis ad make me go there? Nope, on both counts.

If it raises the awareness of the conflict and loss to more people, great.
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« Reply #13970 on: Sunday, November 16, 2014, 10:27:43 »

I'm not offended by it.  The story of the football match on Christmas Day 1914 is legendary in its own right, and worth celebrating for so many reasons.  The wider conflict of WWI is almost peripheral.  I think it would have been very different if the ad focused on the first day of the Somme.
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« Reply #13971 on: Sunday, November 16, 2014, 11:31:24 »

Couldn't give a monkeys about the advertising side of it, it's just a very well produced 3 minutes of television. Will it make me shop at Sainsbury? Does the John Lewis ad make me go there? Nope, on both counts.

If it raises the awareness of the conflict and loss to more people, great.


And the Royal British Legion will get some money from it as well

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-11-14/sainsburys-selling-5-000-british-legion-chocolate-bars-per-hour/
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« Reply #13972 on: Sunday, November 16, 2014, 12:13:45 »

Couldn't give a monkeys about the advertising side of it, it's just a very well produced 3 minutes of television. Will it make me shop at Sainsbury? Does the John Lewis ad make me go there? Nope, on both counts.

If it raises the awareness of the conflict and loss to more people, great.

I agree.
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« Reply #13973 on: Sunday, November 16, 2014, 13:23:56 »

I never go out for breakfast but we were invited out this morning by my wifes sister and we ended up in the goddard arms and for 4.95 for a full english i would go back again.
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« Reply #13974 on: Sunday, November 16, 2014, 13:30:14 »

Playing FIFA 15 and just scored with Louis Thompson- who appears to be a bald middle aged White man.

I scored possibly the best goal i've ever scored on FIFA 15 with Louis the other day.

Picked it up on the edge of my own penalty box ran the entire length of the pitch and slotted past the keeper.

Agree he looks like a Bale white man however.
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« Reply #13975 on: Sunday, November 16, 2014, 20:35:03 »

We've all heard of footballers moving to a different career, but this has to be the best of the lot.

Tim Wiese (ex Germany Keeper) is now a wrestler in the WWE http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/watch-former-german-footballer-tim-4637335
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« Reply #13976 on: Monday, November 17, 2014, 10:43:45 »

And ex Port Vale keeper Stuart Tomlinson has done the same thing Chubbs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Tomlinson

http://www1.skysports.com/other-sports/news/13043/9563970/wwe-soccer-ams-adam-smith-meets-goalkeeper-turned-wrestler-stuart-tomlinson
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« Reply #13977 on: Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 20:27:34 »

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« Reply #13978 on: Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 22:19:09 »

Loving the fact there's a Swindon scarf in there too. The Japanese really do go all out when it comes to "celebrity" obsession.
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« Reply #13979 on: Thursday, November 20, 2014, 14:23:58 »

...why is Luongo big in Japan? I thought he was part Polynesian ethnically?
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