Dangerous TV ads?

**R6_kid:Me** · 7th September 2009, 23:36

Three people out of 3million potential TV viewers complained. So less than 0.000001% of the population is indicative of the nations feelings towards the adds? What a waste of time and money.

**EJK** · 7th September 2009, 23:37

EVERYONE! Getting a perm is dangerous! Hence the dangerous ad!

**Clockwork** · 8th September 2009, 08:22

Maybe the complainers just detested the stupid ad as much as I do and were just desperately looking for a way to get it off TV.

That one could be a front runner for the Fair Go Ad awards.

**Pixie** · 8th September 2009, 08:49

Originally Posted by Pedrostt500

Well we do live in Nanny Zealand, The add maker will get a stern talking to and 10 minutes on the naughty step.

Australia is worse - they banned the BMW Z ad because it showed a car sliding and would encourage hoons

**sunhuntin** · 8th September 2009, 09:14

Originally Posted by rainman

And yet, when I was a kid we would often hop in the back of a ute (no canopy) and be driven along at normal road speeds, sans seatbelts and other such cotton wool. On trips between towns, even, coupla hundred kms (it's a shit way to travel, of course - way better in the cab where it's warm and dry).

reminds me of that scene from the footrot flats movie with rangi and pongo sitting on the back when they left jess at the beach. its a wonder it hasnt been censored.

**PrincessBandit** · 8th September 2009, 15:44

Originally Posted by rainman

And yet, when I was a kid we would often hop in the back of a ute (no canopy) and be driven along at normal road speeds, sans seatbelts and other such cotton wool. On trips between towns, even, coupla hundred kms (it's a shit way to travel, of course - way better in the cab where it's warm and dry).

They still do, and more, in Raro. No complaints there I'm sure.

**Boob Johnson** · 8th September 2009, 16:52

WTF!!! Are these people for real???

In one scene, stuntwoman Zoe Bell is standing up in a four-wheel-drive vehicle being driven thorough the tunnel as she talks on a mobile phone.

She's a fuckin STUNTWOMAN FFS!!! Good lord! What next!! :slap:

Pretty Woman was on TV a few weeks ago, that has Richard Gere hanging out the top of a limo & he ISN'T a stuntman, no complaints from these same morons & it's been on TV at least half a dozen times over the years!

**rainman** · 8th September 2009, 19:55

Originally Posted by ajturbo

attack of the fuckin tree huggers again
or
AOTFTHA

Eh? What have tree huggers to do with this? I ask because a) I am a card-carrying member of the tree hugger brigade, and b) I think the morons who complained about the ad are, well, morons.

Or are you just a bigoted idiot?

**EJK** · 10th September 2009, 10:28

BRRRRRR!!!!

**Naki Rat** · 10th September 2009, 12:56

What we are shown on TV (and in media in general) is being made to suit the lowest common denominator. Looks like that has just dredged up the bottom three so best we cull them from the population and so increase NZ's average IQ

Next...

**klingon** · 10th September 2009, 13:31

Originally Posted by rainman

Eh? What have tree huggers to do with this? I ask because a) I am a card-carrying member of the tree hugger brigade, and b) I think the morons who complained about the ad are, well, morons.

Or are you just a bigoted idiot?

I have personally seen Rainman hugging trees. However, hugging a tree while travelling on the back of a ute at 100kph sounds like a really bad combination. Kids - don't try this at home!