Lol, strange ad.

Dunno why it would ever be banned, but I'm not gonna ever try and understand some of America's reasons for doing the things it does. o.O

*sympathises for taristan* (tho you ain't got it all bad )
Move to Auz dude, then we can go out sniffing together.
(aka patrolling, aka scouting, aka hunting, aka fishing, aka diggin' for a root, aka searching for ye anchor, aka looking for a ball and chain, aka trying to hook up.)

BTW, you can only ever say something like that to another drinking mate.

*snickers*
I can do the heavy drinking bit, and most of the other fun stuffs, but as it turns out, as of last weekend, I'm officially in a relationship O..O. So yeah. >..>

Grug wrote: Move to Auz dude, then we can go out sniffing together.
(aka patrolling, aka scouting, aka hunting, aka fishing, aka diggin' for a root, aka searching for ye anchor, aka looking for a ball and chain, aka trying to hook up.)

BTW, you can only ever say something like that to another drinking mate.

Frustrating, that f#####g great lump of desert, isn't it? Otherwise you could come out drinking with me

Seriously, at some point I need to go travelling and call in on a couple of the Aussie SGites (well - you and/or VA). Alas, money's a b**ch. What's it cost to go brissy - sydney OOC?

[EDIT]/me does his sums.

Wow. I could just about go Perth - Brissy - Sydney - Perth on 2 weeks pay - prolly less if I bussed or trained the middle leg. Hmmm... interesting...

Black Wolf wrote:prolly less if I ... trained the middle leg.

There's a market for that down there? Hmm....

*figures he could fly to Oz on credit and make the money back "training" to get back once the novelty wears off*

aldo wrote:There's a very good and obvious reason for it being shown backwards. i'm surprised you never cottoned onto that.

(also it'd be a fairly arty farty,boring advert if you reversed it and you would lose the humour)

I actually think the forward way would be the way forward. *ducks and runs*

No, actually I think running it forward makes much more sense as an ad. You have this awesome CGI, and you can tell what's going on, but you can't tell why. Towards the end, things get familiar - you have people, London, and then a pub. Finally you see the three guys enter the pub and finish off with a Guinness, and you cut to the Guinness logo with the same caption as it has now. That's the standard format of a commercial: grab your attention at the beginning, explain everything at the end.

To me, the commercial makes much more sense this way, as it conveys the impression that man has been evolving and straining forward for millions of years with the sole purpose of inventing and then drinking Guinness. Thus Guinness is portrayed as worth both the wait and the effort of millions of years of evolution, certainly a bold claim. That would make a good commercial IMHO.

So with that in mind, you can see why I'm so confused that they did it backwards. And after watching it yet again, I still can't figure it out. Care to enlighten me?

Because they don't follow your authoritarian views on how adverts should work, you fascist!

¬_¬

Goober5000 wrote:

aldo wrote:There's a very good and obvious reason for it being shown backwards. i'm surprised you never cottoned onto that.

(also it'd be a fairly arty farty,boring advert if you reversed it and you would lose the humour)

I actually think the forward way would be the way forward. *ducks and runs*

No, actually I think running it forward makes much more sense as an ad. You have this awesome CGI, and you can tell what's going on, but you can't tell why. Towards the end, things get familiar - you have people, London, and then a pub. Finally you see the three guys enter the pub and finish off with a Guinness, and you cut to the Guinness logo with the same caption as it has now. That's the standard format of a commercial: grab your attention at the beginning, explain everything at the end.

Exactly; the boring, conventional, easily ignored formulaic approach.

Goober5000 wrote:To me, the commercial makes much more sense this way, as it conveys the impression that man has been evolving and straining forward for millions of years with the sole purpose of inventing and then drinking Guinness. Thus Guinness is portrayed as worth both the wait and the effort of millions of years of evolution, certainly a bold claim. That would make a good commercial IMHO.

So with that in mind, you can see why I'm so confused that they did it backwards. And after watching it yet again, I still can't figure it out. Care to enlighten me?

Right.

Firstly, we start off with a perfectly ordinary scene in a pub. Happens every day, and you see in 99.9% of all other beer adverts. But then we regress, moving back and back in time, till we get 3 lungfish, drinking from a pool of stagnant water. And going 'ugh' (which is the punchline, BTW).

Motto is 'good things come to those who wait'. And it's more effective by constrasting the initial, uninspiring, boring normal image of being a person in a pub with a pint, to being a lungfish drinking from a pool.

Simple idea; showing people the wait, and making sure the beginning of the wait is the last thing they remember. Emphasises the time to pass. Do it the other way round, and you wouldn't think twice of the lungfish, stuck drinking the prehistoric equivalent of tennents.

Please don't me do that again; I f#####g hate deconstructing adverts. Can't we just agree it's cool?!

Well it sounded more like "pfleh" than "ugh". And for all I know, it was expressing annoyance that drinking Guinness caused the timeline to reset.

But I see what you mean now. In that case, though, it seems like the commercial is putting its emphasis on the difference between stagnant water and Guinness, rather than on the time span between the two events. It muddles the message IMHO.

But the CGI was very, very cool.

Lol Taristan, Congrats? Is it the one from the photo? <.< >.>

Black Wolf wrote:

Grug wrote: Move to Auz dude, then we can go out sniffing together.
(aka patrolling, aka scouting, aka hunting, aka fishing, aka diggin' for a root, aka searching for ye anchor, aka looking for a ball and chain, aka trying to hook up.)

BTW, you can only ever say something like that to another drinking mate.

Frustrating, that f#####g great lump of desert, isn't it? Otherwise you could come out drinking with me

Seriously, at some point I need to go travelling and call in on a couple of the Aussie SGites (well - you and/or VA). Alas, money's a b**ch. What's it cost to go brissy - sydney OOC?

[EDIT]/me does his sums.

Wow. I could just about go Perth - Brissy - Sydney - Perth on 2 weeks pay - prolly less if I bussed or trained the middle leg. Hmmm... interesting...

Actually I'd be tempted to visit Perth as well. I want to visit and pay homage to the SAS base, and the 'Rock'.

Hell, why don't we go on a pub crawl all round Oz?
Hell, why don't every SG come to Oz, and we all go on a pub crawl. ^_^
Any non-drinkers out there can carry us from pub to pub and watch our backs from trouble makers. (aka each other )

SectorGame Pub Crawl 2007! C'Mon! Yeah! W00t! ^_^

*has had no sleep in two days*

Heh, no not Tessa.

Goober5000 wrote:Well it sounded more like "pfleh" than "ugh". And for all I know, it was expressing annoyance that drinking Guinness caused the timeline to reset.

But I see what you mean now. In that case, though, it seems like the commercial is putting its emphasis on the difference between stagnant water and Guinness, rather than on the time span between the two events. It muddles the message IMHO.

But the CGI was very, very cool.

Difference between drinking guiness and stagnant water, tho.

Taristin wrote:Heh, no not Tessa.

Hehehe, got a few on the ropes then eh?