Why are these lying adverts on TV?

[ilaya]

UK tv ofc...

the ones with 8 year old kids saying.. in 4 years time i'll be at parties where my friends will be drinking alchohol and offering me things i should say no to...

HANG ON?? 12 year old having a party? no parents about to keep an eye out? theres BOOZE at the party? what kinda party is this? what kinda parents would allow it?

its nothing more than scaremongering and all its gonna achieve is parents being so scared to let their kids out to kids parties, they wont let em

12?!!! its a shocking these ads are allowed to be shown. tar all out of control kids with the same brush. may as well say.. all brown-ish peeps are potential suicide bombers.

utter disgrace.

 

[Wij]

Yes. Enrol your kids in the NuLab thought-camps now for protection

 

[Ch3tan]

Erm.... do you not understand the point of the advert, or are you auditioning for as an editor for the daily mail?

The ad is to encourage parents to educate their kids about drink, not just tell them not to. The hope being that the kids don't turn into binge drinking alchies.

 

[ilaya]

at that age they shouldnt need to be told, let them have their childhood, rather than convince their parents they are gonna be potential teenage bastards.

the VAST majority of kids are not out of control.. this advert just reinforces the fact that a minority are off the rails.

 

[Sparx]

i was first pissed in a field with mates at 13, not that far off

 

[Ch3tan]

yep 13 for me too, but my parents DID talk about alcohol and never banned it.

 

[00dave]

I was a late starter then, 14. Got pissed on a regular basis until I turned 17 when driving stopped me, now I'm 28 and hardly touch the stuff.

 

[Billargh]

First drink I ever had was at 10 on the turn of the millenium and I was fucking smashed, was chucking my guts up all night. Never drank again until near my 18th birthday.

Morale of the story, get your kids crazy pissed at a very young age and they'll prolly not want to do it again!

 

[Jeros]

UK tv ofc...

the ones with 8 year old kids saying.. in 4 years time i'll be at parties where my friends will be drinking alchohol and offering me things i should say no to...

HANG ON?? 12 year old having a party? no parents about to keep an eye out? theres BOOZE at the party? what kinda party is this? what kinda parents would allow it?

its nothing more than scaremongering and all its gonna achieve is parents being so scared to let their kids out to kids parties, they wont let em

12?!!! its a shocking these ads are allowed to be shown. tar all out of control kids with the same brush. may as well say.. all brown-ish peeps are potential suicide bombers.

utter disgrace.

Erm there was a girl at my school who has sex at 11, and loads of kids were drinking....just the way it is

 

[Bugz]

22 underage females fall pregnant in the UK every day.

That is 8030 underage pregnancies every year.

That is all.

 

[Jeros]

22 underage females fall pregnant in the UK every day.

That is 8030 underage pregnancies every year.

That is all.

What?

Im can rattle off 5 examples of underage pregnancy from my small circle of friends alone. I assume you misstyped

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

UK tv ofc...

the ones with 8 year old kids saying.. in 4 years time i'll be at parties where my friends will be drinking alchohol and offering me things i should say no to...

HANG ON?? 12 year old having a party? no parents about to keep an eye out? theres BOOZE at the party? what kinda party is this? what kinda parents would allow it?

its nothing more than scaremongering and all its gonna achieve is parents being so scared to let their kids out to kids parties, they wont let em

12?!!! its a shocking these ads are allowed to be shown. tar all out of control kids with the same brush. may as well say.. all brown-ish peeps are potential suicide bombers.

utter disgrace.

This appears to have been a rude awakening for you into modern times. Of course its not the norm. However, awareness is a key factor in combating these things.

 

[Zenith.UK]

at that age they shouldnt need to be told, let them have their childhood, rather than convince their parents they are gonna be potential teenage bastards.

the VAST majority of kids are not out of control.. this advert just reinforces the fact that a minority are off the rails.

Do you have a daughter of that sort of age?
I do, and it's clear to me that her childhood innocence is steadily eroding away just attending school. You're right that the vast majority of children don't go off the rails, but being a parent means that you can only do your best with them at the beginning and end of the day. For the 6 hours they're in school, they're being social and peer pressure is a much larger influence on behaviour than parent pressure.

Something my mum told me...
"Children learn behaviour from other children,
they learn character from their parents."

 

[DaGaffer]

My entire class got pissed on a school trip aged 13. I knew two underage fathers at my - all boys - school. I remember sitting on a bus a couple of years ago listening to two girls who can't have been more than 13, having a graphic conversation about a sex and a trip to the doctors for the morning after pill. So I don't find the ad alarmist at all. Depressing slightly, but not really alarmist, and I hate nuLab and all their ways.

 

[Ctuchik]

For the 6 hours they're in school, they're being social and peer pressure is a much larger influence on behaviour than parent pressure.

then obviously the schools arent doing THEIR part.

 

[Kryten]

I hear some terribly graphic conversations going on in my line of work. And I work in Primary schools.

Things are changing, not necessarily for the better; it appears to be the norm for kids to be staying up till around 10:30, watching films meant for far more mature audiences, being exposed to sex, drugs and drink far earlier than they are able to make a proper judgement as to why they should or shouldn't be doing it. Peer pressure, "modern parenting", an education system that can't keep up with it, and the biggest problem blighting modern times is the lack of discipline from schools and parents; not that it's easy to discipline effectively when you're not ALLOWED to discipline effectively.
Viscous circle that's not about to be broken any time soon.

 

[Wij]

Erm there was a girl at my school who has sex at 11,

fit ?
























sorry

 

[Raven]

Early for me too, my mum would give me a bottle of beer every now and again as a treat, or a wine with lemonade. Can't say i got shit faced that much in my early teens really, probably 15/16ish when I started drinking, never been a fan of "getting hammered" and I usually stop long before my limit.

Though this is usual scare scaremongering which won't work one bit.

 

[Sparx]

ive never really abused alcohol. I get pissed but not as much as i used to and then never really done shots or anything like that

 

[chipper]

i actually agree with original poster, what, are parents all suddenly naieve fools? this is just more nannying from the fucking nanny state that we currently live in. some parents simply dont give a fuck and they are typically the ones with the kids who run wild and are a menace to society.

if they would actually let us discipline our children at an early age, they wouldnt be such little bastards and so hard to control at an older age. a smack on the ass stays with you alot longer than a 5 minute session on a fucking step.

gonna assume everyone here is an avg age of 20-30+. hands up who didnt get pissed? wont be many of you. think i first got pissed at about 15 my mum even let me go out with much older people i worked with clubbing. long story short i made a mess of myself and i learnt a lesson ive never forgotten, still gotten pissed plenty of times but never to the extent i did that day.

my point is the government should allow parents to actually bring up their children without sticking their noses in. the majority of parents are good people with their heads screwed on and doing a damn good job of bringing up their kids.

 

[Zenith.UK]

I was a late starter on the getting pissed bit. I was 17.

If you find the advert objectionable, contact the Advertising Standards Authority.
ASA - Home

 

[Bugz]

How is an advert 'sticking their noses in?'.

Do those adverts about drink driving 'stick their noses in' too? How dare you tell me not to drink-drive mr.government - my mum told me that when I first passed.

Get a fuckin grip. It's a fuckin advert. If it doesn't apply to you; ignore it. If it applies or makes some parents think about the situation more, than it has achieved its job.

Oh and PLEASE stop using the nanny state or 'government controlling our brains' scenario for every little thing that pops up.

 

[nath]

Do those adverts about drink driving 'stick their noses in' too? How dare you tell me not to drink-drive mr.government - my mum told me that when I first passed.

Actually yes, I fucking hate that drink driving advert "so... what's it going to be". It's so fucking patronising and holier than thou. I don't have a problem with them making adverts to try and prevent drink driving but just not like that.

Then again, the chances of me drink-driving are about <1% so I guess I'm not exactly the target audience. Maybe it had a really big effect on morons.

 

[old.Tohtori]

On a completely different notion, i'd target drink driving by a mandatory ban on car keys in bars.

Hey, smoking ban is for health, why not ban car keys(by giving breathalizers to those wanting to keep theirs upon leaving)

 

[nath]

On a completely different notion, i'd target drink driving by a mandatory ban on car keys in bars.

Hey, smoking ban is for health, why not ban car keys(by giving breathalizers to those wanting to keep theirs upon leaving)

Which would inevitably mean full body-searches on entry to bars? Call me crazy but I don't see it working .

 

[old.Tohtori]

Which would inevitably mean full body-searches on entry to bars? Call me crazy but I don't see it working .

You wouldn't see a potential career change in your future if it meant stripsearching ample bodied young females?

Nah, ofcourse a few would slip by, but peer pressure, advertising, people knowing it's polite..could very well cause a positive effect on it's own.

When you're sober, you might think 'Well i know i won't drive drunk, but just in case.'

 

[nath]

Then what happens when you leave the bar and you're absolutely shit-faced. You have to come back the next day to get your keys and trust the bar hasn't just nicked your car and/or given the keys to the wrong person?

Sodddddddd that.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Then what happens when you leave the bar and you're absolutely shit-faced. You have to come back the next day to get your keys and trust the bar hasn't just nicked your car and/or given the keys to the wrong person?

Sodddddddd that.

Well i was mroe thinking that you leave the keys at home or indeed get them in the morning.

With proper ID and storage system, well, don't know about your parts, but here bars tend to avoid the whole criminal activity

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Some people go to bars and don't drink, they are often the designated drivers. So by removing any chance of having a designated driver at a bar, more are likely to drive home themselves.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Some people go to bars and don't drink, they are often the designated drivers. So by removing any chance of having a designated driver at a bar, more are likely to drive home themselves.

That's why i said "(by giving breathalizers to those wanting to keep theirs upon leaving", or some other mean.

Best way it would work if there was no leaving of keys, unless you want. Peer pressure, GF, wife, etc would already mandate leaving keys at home.