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IrnBru advert

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shysal Wed 06-May-15 19:58:19

youtu.be/Yh2yZf8F-60
I laughed out loud at this, seen on More4 tonight. Hope it makes you do the same.

Ana Wed 06-May-15 20:07:14

hmm

Elegran Wed 06-May-15 20:52:39

Ah yes, Irn Bru - made in Scotland, frae girders.

Soutra Wed 06-May-15 21:30:13

Funny you should mention it, we had a surreal moment yesterday as DH and I were having a bite in one of our favourite cafes, Le Pain Quotidien opposite the Royal Free Hospital after his iron infusion and watched an enormous lorry emblazoned with Irn- Bru on its side making its way up Pond Street towards the hospital!

NanKate Wed 06-May-15 21:33:07

I had a giggle at the end. I have never tasted Irn-bru what is it like?

Ana Wed 06-May-15 21:33:55

I just don't find the advert funny. I do know what Irn Bru is! grin

NanKate Wed 06-May-15 21:40:52

Please tell me Ana is it like ginger beer ?

Ana Wed 06-May-15 22:02:17

I said I know what it is, not what it tastes like! hmm

Marmight Wed 06-May-15 22:02:55

I didn't find it funny either and I usually find most things amusing. it's not like ginger beer - It is indescribable and disgusting!! (IMO)

vampirequeen Wed 06-May-15 22:05:34

It makes me laugh. Isn't it everyone's fear on a train or in those stand alones in main streets?

Irn Bru has a taste all of it's own so I can't really describe it but I believe it's made in Scotland from girders.

merlotgran Wed 06-May-15 22:32:24

It's not funny and Billy Connolly did the 'parking your bike' joke years ago.

Tegan Wed 06-May-15 22:59:57

I'd forgotten about it; not sure where I saw it..the cinema perhaps? Thought it was horrid.

shysal Wed 06-May-15 23:06:18

Lighten up you miserable lot! grin It was the reference to Billy Connolly's joke which tickled me!

numberplease Wed 06-May-15 23:43:42

Made me laugh anyway, and I love IrnBru, always have, but it must be ice cold. It has a taste all of it`s own, the same way that Tizer has.

annodomini Wed 06-May-15 23:45:11

What po-faced reactions!

Eloethan Thu 07-May-15 00:52:14

I don't think I'm po-faced - I love Billy Connolly - but I didn't find the advert at all funny.

Marelli Thu 07-May-15 07:43:07

I can imagine this happening, and wouldn't dream of using one of these toilets unless I was absolutely desperate! Liked your pun, anno!

NfkDumpling Thu 07-May-15 07:48:09

I found myself being more concerned that he was on the floor of a doNOTtouchathing British Rail train loo and hoping he washed his hands very thoroughly! I must be getting old!

feetlebaum Thu 07-May-15 08:17:34

@numberplease - I was about to say that IrnBru tastes like Tizer but with a syrupy sweetness.

merlotgran Thu 07-May-15 09:44:08

Po faced? Lighten up? hmm

It's almost as ghastly as that Moneysupermarket ad.

vampirequeen Thu 07-May-15 10:02:39

Oh dear the Moneysupermarket ad makes me smile too until Sharon Osborne appears.

Just because you don't find something funny when someone else does doesn't make you po faced. Humour is subjective. I love slapstick but I know a lot of people find it infantile and I adore Benny Hill (well not the race based jokes but they were of their day). However I could never stand Bernard Manning even when his jokes were deemed to be acceptable.

shysal Thu 07-May-15 10:57:24

I am not too keen on slapstick unless it is clever, but love the 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' humour, very schoolboy!smile

Tegan Thu 07-May-15 11:11:52

I can't cope with any jokes about toilets or bodily functions eg the old ladies in Little Britain; even a one off line in League of Gentlemen still makes me feel queasy years after I heard it. Other than that I'm open to most kinds of humour.

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 07-May-15 11:31:11

Didn't make me laugh.

I hate that "you could park a bike up that bum" thing. hmm. It's mean.

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 07-May-15 11:32:26

I guess the ad isn't aimed at a bunch of old nannas though.