Turned-on, furious and ultimately confused by new ball-busting Irn Bru commercial.

[jonoffen]

I don’t know about anyone else, but when I see a ball-busting scene in films or commercials, I get instantly very angry especially when it’s unrealistic. When I saw this commercial for a Scottish drink, I could hardly contain my rage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRkZZMiNEjQ

The advert is just like all the old TV shows that saw women’s clothes being ripped off in various far-fetched ways. These shows are now, quite rightly, frowned upon and yet it is now fine for the same to happen to men – with the addition of causing men severe pain in the name of comedy.
When I saw it I had to turn the TV off, yet it was only about 15 minutes later before I started to get turned-on by the advert.

I think I get angry because it’s my private fetish being aired to the general public and I feel exposed (I wonder if S&M lovers etc. feel the same way when they see it on TV). Also, I later saw this commercial in front of the Supermen film at the cinema where there were many very young children present, and I thought about the seeds this kind of advert is planting in the minds of young boys and girls:
Girls, it’s funny to cause men pain as long as it’s only ball-pain and, boys, girls are quite within their rights to rack you if you annoy them in the slightest.

What gets me, is that this commercial has received no complaints, yet a commercial by the same company showing a girl in a bikini with the line “four and a half inches is all I need” gets pulled because of outrage from female organisations.

The other thing is that this commercial is selling the diet version of Irn Bru, a drink that used to be advertised with the masculine-as-they-come line “made from Scottish girders”. Suddenly, because it’s diet it has to be aimed at women and in such a blatantly obviously way…and the advert itself is so formulaic:
Girls decide they’ve had enough of guy so do something to get rid of guy that takes very little effort (emphasising their power).
Crotch shot with crunch sound effects (watch it – the guy’s bulge barely touches the ground yet it hurts more than torn ligaments from doing splits).
Reaction shot from girls – they go “oooo” disingenuously.
Reaction shot from guy – clutches his nuts and makes mandatory cross-eyed grimace.
Reaction from girls – say cheers to each other with laughter.
And the award for originality goes to…

Finally, I realise this is all a backlash after all the years of “sex sells” and the advert was probably made by stupid men clutching at straws as to what women want, but I’m peeved none-the-less.

Here is another commercial of the same vein.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om_gqMol3hk

Rant over.

[fightfair]

It's weird isn't it, to be angry and strangely aroused by the same thing. It's like your brain has a belief and a need that don't agree with each other. I've always felt like this about the fetish, but I'm gradually letting go of the need. I think you're right about the marketing guys, they can't accept that women can find men attractive and need to express their own self-hate. This to me is a pretty good explanation for the proliferation of dyke porn and the abhorrence of fag porn. There's nothing worse for a self-hating man to discover that women may actually like him, want him sexually, want to convince him he's actually not a bad person; goes against much of our worldwide conditioning to the contrary and suggests that we should be allowed to express ourselves freely. So the best way of relating to women is to lower the perceived threat, rather than respect them as capable individuals with their own feelings and desires. At least that's one way of interpreting the thing. What's interesting is how few ads ridicule women who act like that all the time, but in the end, why worry yourself over it, you can't change people.

They recently changed a car ad in Australia too after pressure from women: a car ad for a ute - a tradesman's vehicle. The guy is telling his ultimate fantasy that involves this car, and at the end there's a chick in it too - in the passenger seat.... so they change the chick to his wife (which means re-shooting half the ad mind you). Reminds me of a similar ad with a woman dreaming about her fantasy man stripping off (whilst she's in bed with her husband) which of course ran for a full season without so much as a mouse fart to the contrary. Go figure.

But should we lower ourselves to the level of whining, nagging immature women in order to shield ourselves from reality, or perhaps it's better to take it in our stride and hopefully be an example to the poor insecure children. Or maybe we don't react because we know we are not allowed to, it's taboo for men to have problems, we're all islands, strong and steadfast against the storms of life, nothing can make us waiver from our course of ensuring the stability of our families and our society. At least that's what the packaging says.

[Trouble]

Aw, man, a guy comes here to exchange shagedelic experiences and fantasies and chew the cud, and people got to keep ruining that and brinign up the psychology and morality stuff.

Lemme go with the psychology first: Eric Blair/George Orwell did not INVENT Doubethink, he just documented it by describing it in a novel about how the world works. The brain, being a multitalented and confused thing, is easily capable of having multiple, contradictory positions and attitudes on the same subject: for a guy, it is natural and normal to despise getting kicked in the nuts, for guys into BB, it is natural and normal to want to get kicked in the nuts, and for guys into BB who think too much, it is natural and normal to realize that wanting to get kicked in the nuts really goes against the grain, since the other part of your brain is shouting, "Don't do it! Veto!" when the other part of your brain is trying to convince a chick to kick you in the nuts.

Heavy.

Morality: The idea that one wrong thing justifies another is retarded and everybody who knows anything about morality and ethics, or common sense, knows that wrong does not justify wrong. Since the ad is for an alcoholic beverage and since it contains mature content, if immaturely expressed, it is inappropriate material to show to an audience that includes children. In addition to being brainwashed that hitting nuts os okay, the message is being sent that alcohol makes you cool, which it does not: alcohol makes some of your brain cells die and loosens up your inhibitions.

[Jet]

this one is much better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZumBCsy-zqU

and what about his one: http://www.legswatcher.com/mpegs/advert.mpg

[fightfair]

Aw, man, a guy comes here to exchange shagedelic experiences and fantasies and chew the cud, and people got to keep ruining that and brinign up the psychology and morality stuff.

Lemme go with the psychology first: Eric Blair/George Orwell did not INVENT Doubethink, he just documented it by describing it in a novel about how the world works. The brain, being a multitalented and confused thing, is easily capable of having multiple, contradictory positions and attitudes on the same subject: for a guy, it is natural and normal to despise getting kicked in the nuts, for guys into BB, it is natural and normal to want to get kicked in the nuts, and for guys into BB who think too much, it is natural and normal to realize that wanting to get kicked in the nuts really goes against the grain, since the other part of your brain is shouting, "Don't do it! Veto!" when the other part of your brain is trying to convince a chick to kick you in the nuts.

Heavy.

Morality: The idea that one wrong thing justifies another is retarded and everybody who knows anything about morality and ethics, or common sense, knows that wrong does not justify wrong. Since the ad is for an alcoholic beverage and since it contains mature content, if immaturely expressed, it is inappropriate material to show to an audience that includes children. In addition to being brainwashed that hitting nuts os okay, the message is being sent that alcohol makes you cool, which it does not: alcohol makes some of your brain cells die and loosens up your inhibitions.

There's this old saying "cast your bread upon the waters and in many days it will return to you'. I created a thread especially for this reason, with the exact sentiment you expressed. If people choose not to use it, that's their perogative. But if he wants to talk and make his own thread, for fuck's sake let him talk.

[dutch]

Hi,

I'm new :)

I have to say that clip (in the first post) looks very fake indeed, this one however is much better : http://youtube.com/watch?v=zdip-85KVr4

I'm not quite familiar with the word, but I think it means something like "Sturdy shoes, sturdy prices ".

[Trouble]

There's this old saying "cast your bread upon the waters and in many days it will return to you'. I created a thread especially for this reason, with the exact sentiment you expressed. If people choose not to use it, that's their perogative. But if he wants to talk and make his own thread, for fuck's sake let him talk.
Thank goodness we have the peanut gallery to hear from.

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[msms]

Quote jonoffen
when I see a ball-busting scene in films or commercials, I get instantly very angry especially when it’s unrealistic.

I used to feel the same as a kid - I remember a Bond film where a girl says were going to have a ball, yours! and knees him.
I think it changed when I started having sex - specially in missionary, when my balls are slapping against her ass like mad. I end up with some really sore balls sometimes.
Pain and pleasure - they go together!

Maybe theres to much BB in films and ads now - maybe itll go out of fashion again.