Adverts that wouldn't be allowed today

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  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Community Member Posts: 4,455 Championing

    'All because the lady loves Milk Tray'. Creepy. As if a man would swim through shark-infested waters etc to break in and leave a silhouette card. Yuk. More like stalking than romance.

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  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,916 Online Community Team

    I saw a snippet of an old England world cup advert with the German bomber song when the dad is teaching the boy it, then they get in the elevator with a load of German fans and the boy starts to sing it, and he grabs him and shuts him up. I'm not sure that chant would be allowed now

  • Anhedonia2
    Anhedonia2 Community Member Posts: 70 Empowering
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    Be lucky if they made the effort to go to the shops let alone swim through shark-infested waters!

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Community Member Posts: 4,455 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1132696#Comment_1132696

    Ha ha very true; although happy to rely on myself though if I want chocolates which is a rare delight, I can make one bar last 3 months πŸ˜‚πŸ€£. I've long since needed any grand gestures 🀣. Shark-infested waters indeed, who are they kidding πŸ™„πŸ˜¬πŸ˜‚.

  • Emilee
    Emilee Community Member Posts: 39 Connected

    It has a real James Bond feel to that advert, doesn't it @Santosha12? Although I'd rather get myself some chocolate than having someone break in to deliver it too. Not that I'd pick Dairy Milk any more, the recipe has been strange for a few years now.

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,365 Championing

    To be fair to the Milk Tray man … whilst a bit creepy, and today he'd end up on a special register, I know where he's coming from

    If I buy flowers or chocolates … it's what have you done … not awww fanks

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Community Member Posts: 4,455 Championing

    🀣 'he'd end up on a special register' ha ha, @WelshBlue that's true although just not believable that he could swim across water with sharks πŸ™„ he must have done something majorly wrong to go to that extreme, or maybe I just don't need to take it so literally πŸ€” I rarely eat chocolate but it's different for sure @Emilee and smaller, it's like, as well, crisps 28g in a bag ?? I'm sure there used to be more. They say less is more.... no, it is most definitely not πŸ™„πŸ˜¬πŸ˜‚.

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Community Member Posts: 1,200 Championing
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    Now that you mention it I can see what you mean, but for some reason for me these Milk Tray adverts have always had a James Bond feel to them rather than a stalker feel.

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Community Member Posts: 4,455 Championing

    I do feel that too, or I did when younger and saw the ads, very James Bond-like really. It's only putting it into 'today's' world that it'd be more freaky if someone did that. Can you imagine if I went out now and came back to a box of chocolates next to my bed that would be well weird. Although if it happened right now I'd be quite glad of a chocolate ha ha. I'd eat some and only then ring the police 😁🀣.

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community Member Posts: 15,453 Championing

    Found in some old equipment and stuff - from the 70s I think. I think a joker made a load as opposed to it being an official advert campaign…they always had a bit of a sick sense of humour!

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