Do you think it might be deliberate on the part of M&S then?
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Marks & Spencer Christmas advert taken down
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City Hobgoblin
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No.Do you think it might be deliberate on the part of M&S then?
Then I think you're being deliberately provocative. There is clearly no link, let alone a tenuous one, so your post is mischievous.
I know right. Bunch of mard arses everywhere crying about a chopped down tree the other month.Fucking embarrassing how easily some cunts are offended these days.
Eccles Blue
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Exactly that was why I thought it was funny not cruel. Plus the way the actress or singer or whatever she is hit it and the expression on her face made me think she had the same thought. :-)If you’ve ever had to do that for multiple xmases then you’d do the same to the little annoying bastard.
gordondaviesmoustache
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There is a world of difference between sorrow and offence!I know right. Bunch of mard arses everywhere crying about a chopped down tree the other month.
Eccles Blue
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I think they took it out before releasing it to the general public, it was an outtake or trailer type thing that they were 'tempting' folk with as I understood it. I saw it because I am on their mailing list but didn't think anything of it. But then I only recognise certain flags/colours e.g. red/white/blue for us and green for Ireland, three stripes whose colours I can never remember for France and White with a Maple leaf for Canada..... I'm so ignorant. :-)Wait, THAT is the ad being referred to here? The one with Sophie Ellis-Bextor?
I didn't even notice the hats!
Those brave souls who fought and died in world wars would probably have fucked off and gone AWOL had they known that their sacrifices would end up with a country full of soft arse, gobshites cryarsing over a tv advert!! Haha! Jesus wept.Fucking embarrassing how easily some cunts are offended these days.
Man-chester copperpot
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Wait til you hear about the biggest Pro-palestinian march planned in London on remembrance day - a few more people are going to be offendedThose brave souls who fought and died in world wars would probably have fucked off and gone AWOL had they known that their sacrifices would end up with a country full of soft arse, gobshites cryarsing over a tv advert!! Haha! Jesus wept.
Ok..."hidden agenda"
Advertising is not a hidden agenda. It is a big business.
It is of course totally believable that it was an honest faux pas, done poorly but in good faith, and they then reacted appropriately to twitter responses by removing the post (note not the advert) quickly and issuing a statement. Obviously, that's the default.
I also find it equally believable that a company that spends at least couple of million pounds (based on previous years) on their biggest targeted advertising campaign for their biggest sales of the year, analyses every possible outcome of said camapign.
And that people whose job it is to do so, might have flagged that image, in the context of, if nothing else, daily public marches with those flags right across the UK. That everyone involved failed to notice it, I find borderline unbelievable.
I can believe that they would have assessed the risks, and been ok with issuing it on social media where it can be removed, while not featuring it in the actual video, accepting the limited fallout, and with it the consequential vast exposure.
That's just a take, the same as any other btw.