Comments on: Adverts Made In Scotland From Girders

Adverts Made In Scotland From Girders

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:54:19 -0800

Take Britain's favourite poem and add it to Scotland's other national drink and here's the result (mildly NSFW).

From the Leith Agency, also responsible for 'Goth Holiday' and 'Snowman'. And here's some other classics from the past. (Previously)

By: parmanparman

parmanparman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:07:48 -0800

The snowman ad is the best, though my Welsh ex will say otherwise. That is a very funny ad though.

By: Nick Verstayne

Nick Verstayne — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:20:58 -0800

Irn-Blue! However, let me say that is really really good. I take it the NSFW part was the Celtic girl kissing the Rangers lad.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:24:00 -0800

I think the "result" link is broken. It takes me to a different ad to the one parmanparman and Nick Verstayne are seeing.

By: Jofus

Jofus — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:28:55 -0800

That "Made In Scotland. From Grrrrdrrrrs" phrase in the older ads is as much of a fixture of my childhood as the smell of cut grass and grazed knees. Great post, thanks.

By: Happy Dave

Happy Dave — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:39:31 -0800

Och, now I'm homesick. Pass the Bru.

By: Helga-woo

Helga-woo — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:51:59 -0800

Kamikaze midges indeed, I love you Scotland.

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:29:49 -0800

It's flavour'd with girders, mon.

By: elmono

elmono — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:15:07 -0800

I miss Scotland, I really do. Someday I'll make it back. Great post, tks

By: Sam.Burdick

Sam.Burdick — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:26:15 -0800

how does Irn-Bru stack up against Firebrick? I like the poem.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:31:25 -0800

Mmm, an entire nation's strength of character summed up. Canned beer.

By: SteveInMaine

SteveInMaine — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:01:16 -0800

I'm afraid this post is just another case of Pepsi-Bru.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:17:41 -0800

Mmm, mmm, girder.

By: electricinca

electricinca — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:03:25 -0800

I love the Snowman one.

By: scruss

scruss — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:08:42 -0800

It's not beer, Nelson. Wish the Irn Bru that was sold in Canada had caffeine. Now that there are other drinks flouting the "only cola can be caffeinated" rule, Irn Bru should be the way it's meant to be.

By: vbfg

vbfg — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:09:58 -0800

If you want to see an actual goth holiday go to Whitby rather than Blackpool. One of those things that shouldn't be hilarious is a bunch of lanky kids in trench coats building sandcastles with brightly coloured buckets.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:17:32 -0800

Ack! Sacrilege to defile the Snowman! Although it was funny. French & Saunders did it even better.

By: Artw

Artw — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:25:56 -0800

They should bring back Quatro, the UKs first, and only, 80s cyberpunk themed drink.

By: Artw

Artw — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:29:27 -0800

The grim retro-future of soft drinks

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:09:31 -0800

Huh, I had no idea a friend of mine was currently starring as Walks-home-in-bare-feet-after-a-gig Girl #2 in an Irn Bru ad. The Snowman one is still my fave by far, though. Nick Verstayne wrote: I take it the NSFW part was the Celtic girl kissing the Rangers lad. Must be, but even in Glasgow I doubt viewing inter-Old Firm snogging would get you sacked, and surely there are no workplaces so prudish that just seeing people kissing is verboten? Or was it the implication of cock when the bloke in the kilt crosses his legs? I'm really puzzled as to what fearfulsymmetry thought was NSFW...

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:09:31 -0800

They should bring back Quatro They only problem being, it tasted utterly vile.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:15:34 -0800

I'm really puzzled as to what fearfulsymmetry thought was NSFW... The bare arses at the 'seeing in the New Year in the scud'... Not so prudish myself, or the UK in general (I mean I've just watched a television report on nudists, bare arses and all, at 7pm on national television) but I've heard that for some Americans any nudity at all is totally out.

By: Nick Verstayne

Nick Verstayne — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:21:52 -0800

I hear you fearfulsymmetry, but I've also heard that there are some parts out there in the western islands that aren't exactly hotbeds of radicalism. I can hear the tut tutting now... Great post by the way - if that wasn't clear from my earlier enthusiasm.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:48:23 -0800

Ah, thanks for the explanation fearfulsymmetry - it didn't even occur to me that some old bare bums could be the reason. Thank you, constantly naked hippie parents.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:57:06 -0800

Bare bums definitely NSFW in the US. Curiously, the anthropomorphized furry symbolic sex Orangina ads are probably SFW in the US. Not that I care either way, as my office door closes.

By: Phire

Phire — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:15:24 -0800

That is awesome. My favourite poem as well, and a rather clever parody.

By: brautigan

brautigan — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:49:27 -0800

Hell of a hangover this morning. Only one thing for it: Irn Bru from a glass bottle.