I’m in recovery and ever commercial is “the bold refreshing taste of uncle berry lemon twist vodka. Having a bad day? Drink this. You know you want to. Drink it Michael! please drink responably
Every ad portrays drinking as a party, and your in a pool throwing a beach ball with your friends, and your ex Chrissy finally admits she was wrong. It’s an unrealistically positive. If you drink Tito’s your father in law will finally grow close to you. It’s not Christmas without even Williams egg nog!
There is no safe amount of alcohol to drink. It is like cigarettes, entirely bad for you.
I’m not saying don’t sell it but why is every add for booze being blasted every. Especially to me because the algorithm knows I’m an alcoholic.
How is that legal?
Please drink responsibly? You’re aiming your ads at alcoholics primarily.
It’s like advertising morphine on skid row. You know what you’re doing.
Edit: for the people saying I’m America centric. I have a Texas education.what the hell is the US? Nothing is beyond our boarders. We are the only land mass. Ill add a picture in the comments.
For the people who happily explained what it’s like in thier country. Makes me feel less crazy for pointing out the problem!
I don’t even see ads for drinking online, that’s how banned they are in my country.
Srsly. Bring back cigarette ads
In Russia, alcohol ads are banned. So, beer ads take all the air, rolling their usual, and adding a small fast “nonalcoholic” at the end for their obscure nonalcolohic version no one cares about.
So, effectively, advertising your beer is legal as long as you have a nonalcoholic version.
Damn They manage to weasel around the law anyway.
TBH: Interesting question, post ruined by this “US-centric or not” BS. (Rest assured that as European, I don’t give a f about your insecurities with your education, at least not in unrelated posts. I’d bet most Europeans would not be able to point to most U.S. on the map, maybe Texas, California, Florida (wink) or NY but that’s about it. Even I know barely half of them, and that’s because I’m a terminally online look-up-everything-on-wikipedia nerd.)
I was just curious about what would people say about ad regulations. I would have no problem with question being US-centric or any-other-country-centric.
Insecurities about our education? It’s a well known fact our education is pretty crappy compared to other stable countries. It’s known we don’t learn shit about other countries. We are behind countries I can’t spell in literacy and 17th in education.
It’s like saying “I’m sorry you’re insecure about your broken leg? “ “im not insecure my leg is broken it just hurts and we should probably be doing something about it”
If I don’t mention I’m talking about America I get people mad at me, if I do mention I’m from America I get people mad at me.
So I guess just be mad and I’ll keep telling jokes.
Btw you do not want to wink at Florida. You won’t like the red neck that winks back lol
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scratch that, I just discovered there’s this wheel on my mouse that make bad comment go up up up and away
There’s also a way to delete your comments and block people you don’t like. If you want me to walk you thru the steps let me know.
I’m feeling a lot projecting right now. I’ve always been good the women folk. Just pretend seX is out of the question .
Don’t talk to her about “are we gunna” or think “that was the most expensive place in town!! Open up”
It’s easy for me to say I’m asexual . I’ve only had sex because the girl I was with wanted it.
I have a lot of female friends because I’m not trying to fuck them all the time.
It’s really a low bar. I demonstrate the bar as “you can masterbate thinking about her but for gods sake don’t tell her.
Low bar. Such a low bar osha doesn’t even require yellow tape. Around it.
I’m not making fun of you. I know it’s hard (pun intended) don’t look at women like conquest. Just hang and enjoy the moment with them, talk, and eventually what happens happens. Dm me if you ever need relationship advice. I won’t teach you to trick women but it’s not that hard to get laid unless your only goal is to get laid.
Cigarette companies themselves actually lobbied for cigarette commercials to be banned. For more information, look up knowing better cigarettes on YouTube since I’ll have to write an essay to explain why and he puts it way better than I can
I’m not saying I don’t believe you. But is saying if cigarettes wanted to stop advertising they didn’t need approval.
So op advertising.
To try to oversimplify: there was some law from the Clinton administration that said for X amount of ads for cigarettes, information for what cigarettes do to you must be aired as well (in the form of an ad). So, to kill 2 birds with one stone, they lobbyed and successfully got cigarette ads banned. This served to try and suppress potential competition outside of the big name brands and information for what cigarettes actually do to you. So, it was a 4D chess move done by the big cigarette companies collaborating with each other. I hope that makes sense
The proof that there is only Texas as promised.
That’s… not at all where the asteroid belt is. This tracks for Texas hahahaha
There is no safe amount of alcohol to drink. It is like cigarettes, entirely bad for you.
Not a great analogy. You’ve just decided the cons of drinking outweigh the pros.
It is always so weird traveling outside of Norway and see commercials for alcohol.
I spend a lot of time in Ireland and tbh I can’t remember the last time I saw an ad for regular alcoholic drinks like beers and whiskeys… However a lot of these companies skirt around rules, at least here at the moment, by making ads about non alcoholic versions instead. So you see a lot of Guinness 0.0 and Heineken 0.0 etc.
Tbh even that should banned at this stage too.
What’s worse though is gambling advertising. I fucking hate that shit so much. Its popularity preys on desperate people and further drives the K shaped economy we are seeing nowadays. Its so fucked up.
Gambling ads and sponsorships are crippling the youth. I know lads coming out of school in debt to loads of people to be down the bookies.
The zero ads are a workaround but I wouldnt be so annoyed if they were a different price at the tap!
I would miss the guiness ads but they aren’t even Irish anymore so fuck em.
I have a feeling Australia feels the same about fosters beer now too.
Why is my comment below being removed for harassment for pointing out a fact?
How do you think I feel when I see the guys in these ads surrounded by beautiful women? It’s like the opposite feeling for me, you’re showing me something that can not happen.
We don’t, it’s illegal. (Maybe preface with what country you’re talking about instead of just defaulting to everything revolves around 'Murica?)
r/USdefaultism
is what I’d say if this were reddit lol
What the hell is the US. I know every county in Texas. Got a cousin and pig in each one. Never heard of none of that “us” business.
I went to the shiny-est college in the planet (which is Texas) and I saw a black man there! He was delivering groceries but almost looked him in the eye. I’m a progressytives!”
Edit: just to be clear I wasn’t naming two animals at my farm. Each farm has a pig who is my cousin. Just wanted to make that very clear. I have cousin pigs
2nd edit: and sometime I lie with them as bride and groom.
It’s legal in Texas as long as a gun is involved
Canada has aboot 40 million people, the UK has about 70 million, Australia has 30 million, and New Zealand (5 million) is basically a rounding error. Since the US has over 300 million people, other English speakers tend to migrate to primarily US platforms.
What I find most interesting about these statistics is the difference in population density between the UK and the USA. Although the US is ~40 times larger, it only contains 7x more people.
I want to add I also get negative comments when I do say “I’m American” to preface something.
It’s really lose/lose but I don’t blame them. America has been pissing a lot of people off lately. Including Americans. Even the trumpets are looking at him like “wtf are you doing”
The various native tribes here have had to band together because we keep deporting NATIVE AMERICANS!
Oh interesting side note when my American friends travel they say they are Canadian because they are embarrassed.
who tf is we?
It’s the Royal we
