Comments on: Lanacane – Anti-Chafing Gel

By: blox8312

blox8312 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:33:47 +0000

Even if you were chafing due to being ‘grossly overweight’, how exactly would you go about doing any exercise if every time you tried you experienced chafing? The poster misses the point that chafing is caused due to movement (i.e. quite the opposite of being a fat slob).

By: Dana

Dana — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:39:17 +0000

To me the commercial portrays an uncomfortable & restricted feeling (much like rubbing two balloons together). Then after using this product, you can move with ease & feel lighter than you are. I am a heavy person & I always feel heavier when I chafe. This commercial is not at all offensive to fat people, as it has thin people dancing around. I think the point is that you “feel” fatter than you are when you are chafing. Don’t be so sensitive, and find something really offensive to focus your energies on. I think these negative comments could make heavy people feel worse than they should about using this product to get relief. Chafing effects every human with skin that is active regardless of size.

By: Oliver Chettle

Oliver Chettle — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:17:18 +0000

Having looked into this a bit more (I’ve had this problem for years without being aware there are special products for it, I’ve always just used ordinary skin creams after the event), I see that one of the core markets for anti-chafing products is long distance athletes and triathletes. I really is just a matter of how the body is structured. If two opposed moving body parts are unusually close together, they will chafe, and it makes little difference whether there is fat or muscle below the skin.

By: Oliver Chettle

Oliver Chettle — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:10:09 +0000

As per the above three comments, the smart alecs don’t know what they are talking about. I started having this problem when I was seventeen, six foot one, and weighed just over ten stone. I still have it now. I may weigh a bit more, but not much, and this problem started when I was skinny, and many people who really are fat (which I am not) don’t have it.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:32:59 +0000

Here here, Holly and Ozzie! I’m size 12 and do a lot of walking/running as part of my health’n'fitness gubbins… If anyone here had run a half marathon they’d know all about chafing, oh yes. But I doubt they have, owing to the fact they’re all indoors on their computers being mean about overweight people! This stuff works wonders, and (heads up girls) is a fab makeup primer too. All that said, the ad IS awful and they do indeed seem to aim it at a ‘certain’ target audience… Loving the tipsy aunt at Christmas dancing from the lady in the ’50+ Catalogue’ skirt.
But not everyone who uses the stuff looks like that, promise

By: ozzie

ozzie — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:21:19 +0000

well said Holly. Im a size 8 and have found this product an absolute godsend whilst on holiday in hot places, down the beach and also when exercising. So im a fat slob then am i all you ignorant people out there?yes, its an awful advert, but as usual people stereotype and get vicious. my sister is bigger, size 16 and she doesnt need it, so what does that say eh? hmmm

regards, definitely not so fatty!

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:18:31 +0000

chafing isnt just a problem for overweight people though. i wear a size 12/14 (and no, thats not overweight) I’m a confident 23 year old and I have issues sometimes with chafing. its not because of fat, i’m just built in a way that means my legs touch at the top. lots of people have this, britney spears for example and beyonce. its uncomfortable and whilst the advert is amusing i think people on this thread are losing sight of what this website is all about…laughing at the funny advert not ridiculing people who need the product.

i bought this product and now i feel as beautiful as i look because i dont have to worry about any discomfort and can happily wear shorts and skirts in the summer now.

you ought to be ashamed of yourselves, if people are overweight that’s their business and i dont think that this product endorses being overweight, it simply offers a solution to the pain caused by normal everyday activities.

perhaps if people such as yourselves too more notice of ‘omega 3′ fish finger adverts or any other ‘brain foods’ then you might not be so closed minded.

regards,

(not so) fatty.

By: KP

KP — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:47:52 +0000

I suppose no one here realized that exercising itself can cause chafing. If those horrible, worthless slobs’ thighs hurt when they work out, they’ll give up. And then how will they ever be as beautiful as you.

By: Stoofdawg

Stoofdawg — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:10:30 +0000

What makes it all worse for me is with all that dancing, they’re also going to be very sweaty down there too

By: Coffee Bean

Coffee Bean — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:34:26 +0000

Probably a lot of chaffing. The Durex advert was boring.

By: Teabag

Teabag — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:59:07 +0000

If you’re going to use balloon characters at least do something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH1uo4UcPl4
No chaffing there.

By: R E Krishna

R E Krishna — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:21:35 +0000

Anti-chafing gel…hmmmm. A product which reduces friction. Same as WD40 then.
Wank Bingo, more like. (oops wrong Ad!!)

By: Phill

Phill — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:28:34 +0000

It wasn’t till I came here that I even realised there was a fat bloke in the background, because of that stupid womans gurning and crap ‘mumsy’ type ‘dancing’ and knowing nod to the viewer.

By: Lefinch

Lefinch — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:02:03 +0000

Look at it this way guys, it’s the first time the big guy in blue has probably ever got any excercise.

By: The Hedge

The Hedge — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:19:37 +0000

I remember seeing this, and just redubbing it mentally as:

“If you chafe when you walk, YOU FAT!!”

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:48:53 +0000

lol, I had forgotten this advert. wow, it really is bad…

By: this is a good ad

this is a good ad — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:13:34 +0000

My mummy says that H stands for homo.

By: H

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:42:00 +0000

You need Noob Lube,
Yes you do.

By: this is a good ad

this is a good ad — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:30:56 +0000

Me and my mummy use it.

By: Simon Breadbin

Simon Breadbin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:46:02 +0000

I’d forgotten all about this advert, it’s what it doesn’t say that makes me shudder. Not one of those people in that advert actually need the stuff (with the possible exception of the dancing prick in blue). I can think of a much more accurate pitch.

FULL SCREEN SHOT OF MAN / WOMAN SLOWLY EATING WITH MOUTH OPEN

PULL BACK TO REVEAL GROSSLY OVERWEIGHT LATE TWENTIES IN DARKENED ROOM, SURROUNDED BY DIRTY PLATES, SOUND OF CHILDREN PLAYING OUTSIDE, A FLY BUZZES AGAINST WINDOW

“Summer is just around the corner and you’ll inexplicably want to parade your pale, sweaty, ill-advisedly tattooed folds before an increasingly horrifed public. Prevent those disgusting red blotches under your arms, and probably spreading out of your arse crack like a scabrous red ivy from getting any larger by covering yourself head to toe in grease. Remember, this IS a long term solution, and so you can go on gorging yourself on deep-fried carbohydrates and sugar without having to think that if you’re getting friction burns from just fucking MOVING then you’re probably only a couple of pies from death. Actually go on, just eat them, you’d be doing us all a favour you dirty stinking pig.’