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Could be an advert for Dignitas.

For god's sake Channel 4, I have your stupid channel and watch your stupid adverts, don't block me!

Good lord. I've seen less pretentious perfume adverts.

So its kind of a hovercraft without skirts? Revolutionary.

Sorry to be so flippant, I guess I just don't care much about FREEDOM.

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I do like adverts for things I'm entertained by, though.

Umm, that I don't want entertainment to be one long series of adverts?

"What if I told you that tickling them was like torture?"

Then I'd say: "please explain why this is and how you worked it out so I can contribute meaningfully to the issue."

Genuinely had to check after watching that this wasn't a hoax/satire. I'm not sure it could have come across as much more patronising and manipulative if they had tried.

Really reminded me of G.E.F.A.F.W.I.S.P. thing from brasseye in it's style and presentation. (Poe's law etc.)

Not that I disagree with the underlying point being made (most exotic pets have massive hidden costs to the animals well being), but I think they made it very poorly indeed.

If tickling is indeed torturous to them, then maybe make the flagship advert for your campaign do more than glibly announce "they don't like it!" whilst showing a video of what, to uneducated human sensibilities, appears to be joy/pleasure.

I'm not suggesting they are wrong, but even their website provides no materials or evidence to back up what they are saying. With a term as emotive and loaded as "torture", that comes across as rather disingenuous and makes me naturally somewhat suspicious as to their motives.

i.e. that they are likely ideologically opposed to most/all animal trafficking already and will happily muddy the facts & manipulate emotions if it furthers their higher purposes.

^ I don't want the above to come across as support for the Slow Loris pet trade, their unsuitability to domestic life and the need for pretty specialised knowledge to keep them healthy is reason enough (same as the vast majority of exotics). Chris Packham is one of the supporters and I have a great deal of respect for the guy's knowlage on such subjects.

But this, if anything, makes that advert seem all the more distasteful. YOU HAD EXPERTS! Persuade me better!

I also don't want to come across as suggesting that tickling definitely isn't deeply unpleasant for them for whatever reasons, but a cursory google and inspection of their own campaign site yielded nothing of any substance on the subject either way. (maybe my search-fu was lacking today?)

Again, I'm willing to accept the premise. If it will stand on it's own merits then I would like to understand. I will even advocate for the movement myself! But I'm not going to endorse anything I either can't or don't yet properly understand myself.

For every level headed campaigner with a basic sense of discernment and empathy for other creatures, there seems to be a mob of authoritarian ideologues eager to beat us around the head until we see things exactly their way and deny and semblance of nuance (i.e. PETA).

I understand that but people are very bad at doing chest compressions and often because they are too gentle - which this video re-affirms. if it was a few years ago since you did your course this advert might make you worse at your technique.
These events don't time themselves 2 weeks after you had a CPR refresher course.

The lady on the right in this photo is a bit rusty!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-illvh8YyI8A/UfiiMTwYD9I/AAAAAAAAWrQ/pID8Iw9kbKw/s1600/cpr+with+two+women+doing+it+right+dr+heckle+funny+wtf+pictures.jpg

From Japan, perhaps the silliest ever car advert:

I feel this might've been more special if it wasn't an advert for Hyundai.

Entertaining whether or not it's an advert. I'd like to see the blooper reel!

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update this with something respectable - sans 30 second bullshit advert

trashing their lucrative careers for a crap advert. dumb.

DeNiro is the worst for selling out and doing any p.o.s. film

Meet the Fockers ?

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