Boots Speedo Suncream add

[Torchwatch]

They have put this add on again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y248Z8kSps

The typical embarrassed young daughter and the younger yet more tolerant son.

[PSDave]

didn't get the daughter as embarrassed by the suit but the lack of color and need for sun block. The guy should have been embarrassed that he hasn't used his gym membership in a long long time.

[Crail]

Unfortunately, it seems to me, that this another example of disparaging speedos. Might it have worked just as well with a more toned guy; adding some comment like "you're looking good; but let's provide some suntan lotion to avoid burning".

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

Mocking brief swimwear, mocking a pale, out of shape, middle aged guy who appears somewhat "nerdy." Guess the drafters have never been to a swim meet, watched the Olympics, or checked out a triathlon. Actually, the mocking like this just makes it more cool that most of us actually look great in our swimwear, whatever our ages! Truthfully, despite the pale body, the guy in this ad really isn't awful, either!

[Lap Counter]

All parents are clueless idiots in the eyes of their teenagers, so I don't see any anti-Speedo bias in this ad. He'd get the same reaction no matter what he wore.

[Lap Counter]

...this another example of disparaging speedos.

It's against the law in my state to disparage a vegetable! (true - passed as an over reaction to the Apple Alar scare. No sure if President Bush's comment about broccoli was a violation).

Maybe we could lobby for a similar Speedo law? :D

[Byron]

Bureaucratic nonsense in the European Union here which filled many newspaper column inches for general amusement. No Banana Rights exist if you are bent it seems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_No_2257/94#Bent_bananas

[CalifFitnessSwimmer]

Immaterial Speedo - Pun Intended

This is a health driven message about protecting your skin from dangerous rays that cause high rates of lethal melanoma in Australia.

Even US teenaged girls are being warned about using tanning salons to get ready for bikini wearing season.

Melanoma is rising at an alarming rate - some women are starting to getit in their 20's. Melanoma used to be almost unheard of unless you were an "old salt type" like a fisherman who had been exposed to a lifetime of reflected rays from the ocean.

No one listens to these messages about melanoma until someone you know gets a diagnosis.

[Byron]

I had read about the ever-increasing rates of melanoma in Oz and must say it came as a bit of a shock in contrast to perceptions of a country where all those active and healthy people were enjoying family life and their sports in the outdoors along miles of beatiful beaches and under a cloudless sky
(something not discouraged by Australia Tourism).


Btw, as it was from Boots I didn't know it was an Aussie ad.