Hey Gary, Jason and all,
I realise this is a marketing thing for Guinness. BUT over here in Ireland
you are fed Guinness from the day you were born :))
I admire - yes admire GUINNESS'es Marketing as - being a Guinness drinker -
one receives alot of interesting stuff in the post from them on a semi
regular basis. Calendars, beer mats, Guinness xmas cards, free beer
vouchers, competitions etc. What I find good about the marketing is the
solid thread and tie's through out all media. The web, TV, posted
literature etc. The quality is very good, nothing cheap about it. Being
into Web design as I am - I keep an eye on Marketing things and Guinness
are one of the better ones.
This ad link was not meant as a ploy on my behalf to spread the Guinness
word, more to take it as it is - a little Christmassy Flash thing to kick
the season off. Christmas over here in Eire is taken very seriously as most
people have 2 weeks off to celebrate the season of giving. Families come
together from far and near. It is the only time of the year I see alot of
my long time / long lost friends who come back from Australia, Europe, the
States, Canada at Christmas time. They are abroad due to the fact that up
as far as the early 90's everybody [ except me ] had to leave Ireland to
get work elsewhere in the world and stayed away and not out of choice
either in most cases. So it can be an emotional time - This is very
traditional here as Ireland over the last 2/300 years suffered from massive
emigration which has only reversed in the last 10/15 years due to the
"Celtic Tiger" thing. So now you know why you will meet a Paddy in every
pub in the world AND particularly at Christmas time - crying into his/her
pint with the pull of the ould sod whistling in his/her ears :))
So there now - early Christmas Cheer please. Some RS 3D Christmas Pictures
would be nice :)
Aidan
At 12:00 30/11/2005, you wrote:
:) ok I gotta jump in here Gary. You may not drink Guinness mate, but you
must have been on the Bud tonight.
I understand you may not see too much snow where you are, but I need to draw
your attention to your apparent observation of a woman assaulting a man in
the Guinness ad. On reading your uproar and disapproval of Aidan's ad link,
I thought I had better check out what all the fuss was about.
Expecting to see some disturbing footage I logged in... did I see an
assault..?...nope.... its called a snow balling :) You know when people
pack tiny little snow balls in their hands and chuck them at their friends
for fun... it doesn't hurt. Its and age old European tradition when snow
falls (probably many other parts of the globe too)
So while you cynical eyes see something completely wrong, this is a family
sport played without malice everywhere there is snow in winter time.
Hope that has cleared up the confusion.
Cheers
Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: An early Christmas greet from us REALSOFT Paddies - get ye in
the mood, AIDAN!
> Ya , that's what we need to be looking at for Christmas ... the
> handywork of these lowlife marketing bastards . No offence to you
> Aidan , but the marketing video is pure shite .
>
> Turn the sound off and you will see a girl assaulting a man for
> no reason ... bizzare , but that's the whole idea of video imagery .
> Get some kind of base reaction out of the viewer ... primitive , sad
> whatever , just get some kind of a jolt out of the poor bitchslapped
> buttfucked nitwit's while we still can .
>
> Seriously , in typical industrialized societies like the USA or
> Canada the average Joe is numbed to sleep by endless bombardments
> of stress carriers . It takes ridiculous video's (like the one I
> just viewed) to even register a single millivolt of a response from
> the walking dead .
>
> Hey , by all means link us to Christmas cheer , but maybe take
> the time to think about the 'quality' of the content first .
>
> I mean , for Christ sake's , they needed to know my age-group
> before they let me see the piece of shit (no , it had nothing to do
> with being under-age ).
>
> I appreciate your thought , and I lift a Budwieser in your dir-
> ection , but seriously, Guinness marketing bullshit has absolutely
> nothing to do with Christmas .
>
> Just my 2 cents worth , so take it with a grain of salt ... and
> a lemon wedge !
>
> studio
> www.niagara.com/~studio
> www.studiodynamics.net
>
> > Hey Lads,
> >
> > Shur being a Paddy what can I say. Its an early Christmas Card type
thing
> > to get ye in the mood:
> >
> > http://www.happychristmasfromguinness.ie/default.asp?docookie=0
> >
> > A Guinness Flash Movie to tug at your heart strings. Just select a
country
> > and add your date of birth. then ENTER SITE - fake it all if you wish -
and
> > watch. This filmed in Dublin :) No I don't work for Guinness, but I
drink
> > enough of the stuff I should be eligible for shares in the company :))
> >
> > Enjoy,
> > Cheers
> > Aidan
> >
> > PS - I get regular stuff from GUINNESS in the post and via email. Good
> > quality stuff. I have to say they have the marketing thing down big
time.
> > www.guiness.ie
> >
> >
> >
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