I don't really understand who would be fool enough to pay for ringtones, etc, but the latest JAMSTER ad is hawking ringtones featuring an American ventriloquist whose doll is a skeletal middle-east terrorist in a turban who shouts things like "I kill you!". It's pretty disturbing, not least because a) well, it seems pretty offensive and b) the ventriloquist, AFAIK, has exactly 0% presence in UK media. My little brother complain to the ASA about it, and they responded that they'd ultimately decided that the ad wasn't racist, though they'd had complaint about it.
Anyone else seen it? I was trying to explain the phenom to my girlfriend, but as she has a proper job she's never around when the commercials run during Please Shoot Me reruns on Channel 4 in the AM.
― slap bass: the ungentle art (stevie), Monday, 1 December 2008 12:19 (sixteen years ago)
the ventriloquist, AFAIK, has exactly 0% presence in UK media
This might change v quickly if this ad doesn't get shitcanned tho? I mean it's established as a lgit marketing device now isn't it. NB I have no idea who the ventriloquist either but still. I never find myself watching bad music channels these days but Jamster used to do their top 10 ringtones and you could always bet on a few Curry & Chips-type voices in there IIRC
― The Biggest Event In The History Of Ethnic Comedy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 1 December 2008 12:29 (sixteen years ago)
You might say this is the biggest event in the history of ethnic comedy, in fact
― The Biggest Event In The History Of Ethnic Comedy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 1 December 2008 12:30 (sixteen years ago)
i already voted in that poll...
― slap bass: the ungentle art (stevie), Monday, 1 December 2008 12:36 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,431866,00.html
^^^dude got banned in Safrica already
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 1 December 2008 12:37 (sixteen years ago)
Imagine, then, how very weird it was to see this ringtone advertized on Swiss tv ("d'r Buuchrednr uus d'r USA..") as I did last night.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 1 December 2008 13:08 (sixteen years ago)
I've just had it with itv altogether now. I saw this atrocious rip-off ring tone ad last night. I turned the tv off after a second advert break during Return of the Jedi before they'd even gotten out of Jabbas palace.
Also on itv (granada) news last night, they reported a story on a house explosion. The newscaster on the scene delighted in telling us how the neighbours had been watching X Factor. Fuck you ITV seriously. forever.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 1 December 2008 13:36 (sixteen years ago)