Jaysus, lads, are you all watching real time tv?
Hmmm, I need a pause button for the radio too.
Like you I don't have to watch many ads on TV anymore, however I was in the cinema this evening and saw this ridiculous ad for the lotto... Grrrrr! Not sure if it's shown on TV as well so here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/user/IrishNationalLottery
We see a variety of scenes where somebody had just obviously upped and left in the middle of something...
A groom, sprinting down a street, while the bride and a churchful of people are being stood up,
A guy sitting alone at a bar, while a pint of guinness overflows with the tap left on because the barman has gone,
A small child sitting on a toilet calling for their Mam - but we hear the front door slam shut as she buggers off,
A surgeon in an operating theatre calling for a scalpel - but the theatre nurse is gone,
A newsreader saying "and now for the weather with Diane.... Diane?" (Diane is gone too!),
A couple more too but you get the idea... apparently something so incredibly profound and important has happened that has caused all these people to risk losing family, friends, jobs etc - what could be THAT important?!
Cut to the end and it transpires that some gobsh1te has won the Lotto and called them all to come join him immediately at the airport for.... "The Bahamas. Two weeks. On me!"
The tagline is "
What's the first thing you'd do?"
And according to the Lotto, an appropriate thing to do would be to call a random assortment of your acquaintances and tell them they have to literally drop everything and go with you if they want to share in your good fortune...
The moral of the story, it seems, is that winning the Lotto makes you an egocentric inconsiderate clown who throws money around, and even being associated with someone who has won the Lotto makes you likely to be willing to risk losing your job, your spouse, or have your children taken away for the sake of a bit of fun in the sun..!
The one with the Groom baffles me most (unless he was looking for an excuse to bolt anyway!) - surely yerman who won the Lotto would have been invited to the wedding if they're good enough mates for him to call the groom to come to the Bahamas... and in any event surely he's got a honeymoon already paid for, departing within a couple of days..!! OK now I know I'm overthinking it, but it's a mind-bogglingly stupid ad to come up with...
