New Posts For Thread: Sainsbury's xmas adverthttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30384651/sainsburys-xmas-advertThe Guardian hates it so it gets my approval.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvMthe censored word is the common word for cigarettes.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30384651/sainsburys-xmas-advert?post_id=542295845#542295845the censored word is the common word for cigarettes.Sat, 15 Nov 2014 19:37:57 -0600the advert has nothing to do with 4 years of absolute slaughter ... but a brief time in WWI when the soldiers of both sides forgot their differences to exchange gifts and play football.I don't shop in Sainsburys and resent the way supermarkets are inhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30384651/sainsburys-xmas-advert?post_id=542295835#542295835the advert has nothing to do with 4 years of absolute slaughter ... but a brief time in WWI when the soldiers of both sides forgot their differences to exchange gifts and play football.I don't shop in Sainsburys and resent the way supermarkets are inSat, 15 Nov 2014 19:35:21 -0600if only they'd put penguins in the trenches they'd have had a winner ...https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30384651/sainsburys-xmas-advert?post_id=542295587#542295587if only they'd put penguins in the trenches they'd have had a winner ...Sat, 15 Nov 2014 18:53:45 -06004 years of absolute slaughter on battlefields and they decided on the xmas eve truce to get you to go shopping with them. EPIC fail imo. And if we did shop at Sainsbury's, they'd get boycotted. As for other adverts, the Argos rap one can fack right ohttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30384651/sainsburys-xmas-advert?post_id=542295007#5422950074 years of absolute slaughter on battlefields and they decided on the xmas eve truce to get you to go shopping with them. EPIC fail imo. And if we did shop at Sainsbury's, they'd get boycotted. As for other adverts, the Argos rap one can fack right oSat, 15 Nov 2014 17:53:57 -0600don't mention ze price war...https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30384651/sainsburys-xmas-advert?post_id=542294981#542294981don't mention ze price war...Sat, 15 Nov 2014 17:52:14 -0600Sainsbury clearly trying to lul German chains Aldi and Lidl into a false sense of securityhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30384651/sainsburys-xmas-advert?post_id=542294977#542294977Sainsbury clearly trying to lul German chains Aldi and Lidl into a false sense of securitySat, 15 Nov 2014 17:51:30 -0600I have no problem discussing these events in Dec 1914 which are probably unique in warfare, its just the way they are being portrayed in an advert such as this to promote a supermarket chain is in my opinion trying to glorify an utterly appalling cohttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30384651/sainsburys-xmas-advert?post_id=542294855#542294855I have no problem discussing these events in Dec 1914 which are probably unique in warfare, its just the way they are being portrayed in an advert such as this to promote a supermarket chain is in my opinion trying to glorify an utterly appalling coSat, 15 Nov 2014 17:39:55 -0600and they're trying to get you into their shop to buy stuffhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30384651/sainsburys-xmas-advert?post_id=542294813#542294813and they're trying to get you into their shop to buy stuffSat, 15 Nov 2014 17:36:56 -0600I don't view it as cynical, just bizarre and self indulgent. They are trying to be artistic and they just look daft.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30384651/sainsburys-xmas-advert?post_id=542294771#542294771I don't view it as cynical, just bizarre and self indulgent. They are trying to be artistic and they just look daft.Sat, 15 Nov 2014 17:32:10 -0600The advert has nothing to do with Sainsbury. How on earth you would think watching it, "oh I'll just pop down to Sainsbury for my xmas shopping" is beyond me. It's just daft.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30384651/sainsburys-xmas-advert?post_id=542294747#542294747The advert has nothing to do with Sainsbury. How on earth you would think watching it, "oh I'll just pop down to Sainsbury for my xmas shopping" is beyond me. It's just daft.Sat, 15 Nov 2014 17:30:23 -0600