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 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.
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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.
I do think that on a phone or computer one ought to be able to opt out, like how shops who spam me in email say “do you want to opt out of mother’s day emails?” Because they don’t want to send them if your mom or kid just died, right?
But I don’t know how you would do that without sort of registering as an alcoholic, which seems problematic.
I’m literally subscribed to an industry newsletter and research cocktails for the community here, and haven’t seen very many ads for any sort of alcohol though? Are you really seeing them all the time?
If you wanted to make it possible to opt out of certain categories of ads (like alcohol) on personal devices/computers, without having to tell the advertiser that you’re an alcoholic or similar, perhaps a law could mandate that ads made for those products or brands associated with them be tagged as such in some way, and that software that displays ads should have a setting to not display ones that arrive with that tag? That way the setting only needs to be client side. I mean ideally you’d just not have ads at all but that’s a much bigger and more difficult fight than just alcohol obviously.
It’s honestly hard to say. Obviously it’s not ever single commercial I see. I feel like an abnormal amount. I see more drinking adds than gambling ads.
But I can’t be positive because I notice every drinking ad because I’m struggling. I probably wouldn’t notice a Nerf commercial in the mix.
Because when you make the drunks angry they start shooting at cops. Smokers do not do that as much.
You have never tried quitting nicotine!
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
They have better
briberslobbyistsTo be fair, as an alcoholic, alcohol ads had zero effect on my purchases.
Before I quit, the only thing that influenced my buying was the calculator app on my phone. For beer it was Millilitres per can times cans per block divided by ABV, divided by price. Higher number good… For scotch and port it was easier.
divided by abv
Well it’s probably a good thing you quit!
The proof that there is only Texas as promised.
That’s… not at all where the asteroid belt is. This tracks for Texas hahahaha
It is always so weird traveling outside of Norway and see commercials for alcohol.
I’ve always found it weird that alcohol doesn’t have warning labels. At least not where I live. I guess the risks are common knowledge but we can say the same for cigarettes
And how there’s no requirements to show ingredients/calories per 100ml, despite it being required on all other foodstuffs. And imagine if they had disgusting pictures on beer cans saying “don’t drink and drive” or such.
Alcohol causes impotence
who tf is we?
It’s the Royal we
Why is my comment below being removed for harassment for pointing out a fact?
Big Booze
We don’t, it’s illegal. (Maybe preface with what country you’re talking about instead of just defaulting to everything revolves around 'Murica?)
