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!
We don’t, alcohol adverts are just as illegal as tobacco. Of course; that might not be the case everywhere on the planet :P
I appreciate you being friendly with it. I just wasn’t thinking about savages.
Z”that’s a joke by the way.
Our education is American centric. “We arrived to this empty land and these hundreds of tribes had a stick up for here butt so we generously held lad on thier behalf in a trust they have no control over. There were treaties.‘don’t look them up but it wasntotallynlegit broh
Theres actually a joke here “we learn geography based on what war we’re in”
If I moved to your country you probably list me as mentally disabled “the usSr can’t hurt you it been gone-
“WE NEED THIRTY NUCLEAR LAND MINES!”
I appreciate you taking it easy on me
That’s a pretty distasteful and unfunny joke, by the way.
Comedy is how I cope with things. That and drinking. They don’t always combine well.
All jokes are dark. There is no joke that doesn’t Involve pain. Jokes are the way we address Hard realities in a safe way.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the “joke” being bad, and that had no humour in it at all. You were just being a dick. Granted, there’s a fine line between “dark” humour and being a dick, but you most certainly crossed it.
That’s where you are completely wrong
“Joke” doesn’t need to be in quotes. It’s not an opinion or grey area. If something is told as a joke it is a joke.
Your opinion of the joke doesn’t stop it from being a joke. Buy a dictionary .
“No humor at all “ it was sarcastic ghoulish humor by definition. It’s a specific classification
Dark humor doesn’t need to be in quotes all humor is dark humor. That’s what humor is.
You clearly have opinions if I want to hear them I’ll ask for them. Until then just be about your way.
You’re very confused buddy. If you post crappy “jokes” on the internet, be prepared to receive feedback on them. Hopefully next time you’ll actually have something funny to say. Otherwise, “just be about your way”.
Again jokes doesn’t need to be in quotes. Buy a dictionary. Jokes don’t have to personally funny to you to be a joke by definition. A crappy joke is still a joke.
So Id your plan is for me not to say anything you personally don’t like… my answers no.
Feel free to repeat you don’t like it until you are blue in the face, just buy a dictionary so you know what words mean.
There is also a block function . no one Is holding you here. You are choosing to not like my joke and I’m choosing to not care About your opinion. I’m not ashamed of my joke at all. I apologize if you felt offended by that’s the end of my giving a fuck about this matter.
Unfortunately for you I can write a novel Faster than you could name chapter so I have no problem responding to you forever. But you should probably know you won’t ever win.
All jokes are dark. Laughing and crying serve the same function. Knock knock?
Who’s there?
To To who?
It’s to whom actually.
Onoxk Not Jokes Are Based on the pain of appearing foolish im public.
For ten years no one’s ever shown me A joke that isn’t pain.
Closest anyone ever got was “puns Don’t involve pain” how do we as a society react to puns? With anger like Just hearing it hurt us.
Every joke ever told is about pain. places “prove me wrong” In front of my tent
If something was intend as a joke it meets the qualifications for “a joke”. If one person laughs it’s not categorized as unfunny. Someone found it funny.
It’s unfunny to you. That’s it. You are too self absorbed to see that your don’t control what is and isn’t comedy based on your feelings. Buy a dictionary.
OP is talking about the US
Weird, I see no mention of this “US”, how are we supposed to know?
That big ol brain of yours
Aka “the default place”.
US allows all drugs to be advertised. Ask your doctor if Martinis are right for you.
That’s not true
Direct to Consumer drug advertising is 100% legal in the USA, unlike most countries. WTF…it’s most of late night TV, selling meds to Boomers.
Only legal in USA and New Zealand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising
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.
The proof that there is only Texas as promised.
(For those that didn’t see the comments about assuming everyone is American. This explains the Texas education system.
Btw no one in Texas calls it “the gulf of America “ we thinks that’s stupid to.
That’s… not at all where the asteroid belt is. This tracks for Texas hahahaha
I was waiting so long for someone to say that. I had a joke prepared for it but I forgot now.
Thank i like when people notice the subtle jokes.
I thought of putting Pluto in there too.
And Texas is bigger than Jupiter lol as it should be lol.
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.
I hear its not really a thing there, Guinness is huge here still. Its overpriced and sales go abroad. The two biggest competitors are bought out by a different oarent company too.
r/USdefaultism
is what I’d say if this were reddit lol
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.
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
I believe it’s legal in Canada too. I know I’ve seen a disturbing increase in gambling ads here, at least.
You know when you see an advertisement for a casino, and they have a picture of a guy winning money? That’s false advertising, because that happens the least. That’s like if you’re advertising a hamburger, they could show a guy choking. “This is what happened once.”
Mitch Hedberg
all advertisement is bad. best to avoid all of it. use the fediverse, don’t use commercial internet platforms.
How exactly are new companies supposed to find clients if all advertising is bad?
there should obviously be indexes which tell you what stuff exists. stuff like amazon where you search for “desk” and it shows you the 10 desk providers that can be delivered to your location.
Advertising is weaponized pollution. All of it. In any shape or form. It is littering and spreading garbage for profit.
Bill Hicks had an excellent suggestion for those in that industry.
I don’t even see ads for drinking online, that’s how banned they are in my country.
It is always so weird traveling outside of Norway and see commercials for alcohol.
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
Big Booze
Srsly. Bring back cigarette ads
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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
I don’t disagree about the education. (Technically I can’t agree too vehemently since I don’t know that much and I don’t live there nor do I know anyone in person who lives in U.S. but I hear about the problems all the time and, fingers crossed, all power to you if you can improve it).
My point was just that, as someone who had a love-hate relationship with alcohol that lasted too long and had a bad break-up, I was really excited about this question and then disappointed about the discussion being derailed, and even more disappointed that OP is contributing to that derailment.
And I guess I overreacted a bit, sorry.
None of that was meant to invalidate your concerns about U.S. centrism and education issues, it’s just a different topic, that’s all.
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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.
