Reply to: Anyone seen the sainsbury's christmas advert yet

[RSoles]

Friend of mine posted on fb that her daughter is in tears because she can't have a real penguin for Christmas.

Nah, stick to turkey or goose.

[SantaClaus]

All publicity is good publicity as they say.

[mudskipper]

Complaints flood in over Sainsbury's Christmas in the trenches advert: Viewers' anger over use of WWI to promote supermarket | Daily Mail Online

John Lewis has had one complaint for penguin ad from viewer worried it will encourage people to buy the animals

Friend of mine posted on fb that her daughter is in tears because she can't have a real penguin for Christmas.

[vetran]

Complaints flood in over Sainsbury's Christmas in the trenches advert: Viewers' anger over use of WWI to promote supermarket | Daily Mail Online

Complaints flood in over Sainsbury's Christmas in the trenches advert: Viewers' anger over use of WWI to promote supermarket
Advert has received 137 complaints since Wednesday with many objecting to use of WWI imagery to promote firm
While some think it's 'brilliant' others have called it 'cynical' and disrespectful to those who fought in the conflict
Three-minute clip shows famous meeting of First World War soldiers in no man's land on Christmas Day in 1914
Soldiers put down their guns and climbed from the trenches and exchanged gifts with each other
In the advert two young men meet halfway across no man's land, shake hands and play a game of football
Sainsbury's says 'Christmas is for sharing' and in advert British soldier gives his German adversary chocolate
Chocolate bars will be sold in Sainsbury's up until Christmas to raise money for Royal British Legion
Paul McCartney fans say advert is remarkably similar to his 1983 pop video for number one single Pipes of Peace
John Lewis has had one complaint for penguin ad from viewer worried it will encourage people to buy the animals

[minestrone]

Sadly I think it really just comes down to a matter of taste and in this day and age it is tellingly lacking in a great many people.

[d000hg]

Again, you seem not to understand the difference between make believe and real life events, but you base your life around telling yourself a work of fiction really did happen.

Oh do give it a rest. You're like a stuck record, playing a record nobody liked to begin with.

[d000hg]

I'm torn its effective and thought provoking but advertising for primarily commercial profit based on one of the most tragic events of the last century somehow seems wrong.


Yes Blackadder & Allo,Allo were for profit but they also were in part educational & reverent.

Isn't the whole point in favour of the advert that it IS done in a reverent way?

[vetran]

I'm torn its effective and thought provoking but advertising for primarily commercial profit based on one of the most tragic events of the last century somehow seems wrong.


Yes Blackadder & Allo,Allo were for profit but they also were in part educational & reverent.

[darmstadt]

Blackadder was a complete work of fiction, as was Das Boot. I am sure Saving Private Ryan had input from the Ryan family.

Again, you seem not to understand the difference between make believe and real life events, but you base your life around telling yourself a work of fiction really did happen.

Das Boot was based on U-96 which actually existed and although it is a work of fiction does have its base in fact...The techno remix was tulip though

[minestrone]

I bet Blackadder had historical researchers too. As did Saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, etc, etc.

You're full of it. Sainsbury's are of course using WW1 to make money but that's been happening for decades and is nothing to single out.

Blackadder was a complete work of fiction, as was Das Boot. I am sure Saving Private Ryan had input from the Ryan family.

Again, you seem not to understand the difference between make believe and real life events, but you base your life around telling yourself a work of fiction really did happen.

[d000hg]

It is a real event and they know which soldiers were involved and where it took place. So on that you clearly don't have a clue about what you are talking about.

I bet Blackadder had historical researchers too. As did Saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, etc, etc.

You're full of it. Sainsbury's are of course using WW1 to make money but that's been happening for decades and is nothing to single out.

[d000hg]

Also, many (maybe even most) of the British soldiers in WW1 would have read the bible and/or attended church, and believed they were serving God by giving their lives for chumps like you. That's partly why there were so many volunteers, they believed in a greater cause beyond their own lives - a concept you'd sneer at.

Get your facts straight, you classless hypocritical bore. You're complaining about people using WW1 for their own purposes, while using WW1 as a way to belittle and insult others. I bet most of the WW1 soldiers would have given you a smack, you bitter jumped up little man.

edit: added tag, we haven't had a good spat for a while and it used to be every Friday. You'd think everyone would be most grumpy on Mondays!

[minestrone]

I don't remember the advert telling me exactly which soldiers it featured - the specific real German and English soldiers, which exact area of the front.

If it didn't, it is every bit as fictional, merely the tone is different. They are actors playing fictional soldiers in a fictional trench, in the context of a real event.

But anyway there are LOTS of films and TV shows - documentaries even - which DO try to tell true stories from the war. They were all created for commercial purposes one way or the other - whether to make money directly or to attract viewing figures.

It is a real event and they know which soldiers were involved and where it took place. So on that you clearly don't have a clue about what you are talking about.

So knowing that now are you still saying you don't think that this advert released on the 12th of November on the centenary of the start of the war by a major supermarket in the run up to the biggest retail period of the year is cynical and crass. Or are you still a complete fudnut?

[d000hg]

I don't remember the advert telling me exactly which soldiers it featured - the specific real German and English soldiers, which exact area of the front.

If it didn't, it is every bit as fictional, merely the tone is different. They are actors playing fictional soldiers in a fictional trench, in the context of a real event.

But anyway there are LOTS of films and TV shows - documentaries even - which DO try to tell true stories from the war. They were all created for commercial purposes one way or the other - whether to make money directly or to attract viewing figures.

[minestrone]

So you're not a fan of BlackAdder, Dads' Army or Allo Allo either then, which were all created for commercial reasons and continue to create income to this day?

Also why are you only worried about youngsters' deaths?

These TV shows were works of fiction created with fictional characters. This advert depicts a real event with actors depicting real people who later went on to die and who have surviving relatives.

I can see why someone who reads the bible too much cannot understand the difference,