National Lottery - Flaming Hot Bingo Scratchcard

14 July 2008 by Silky

This is the first in a new series of adverts called “Scorn in the ASA” - adverts that have been banned by the ASA (only the one’s that I can find on YouTube though).

Give yourself a minute to recover from the hilarity of the series name before watching the first of the banned adverts:

The Bingo Association (that’s right I said “Bingo Association”) objected to this National Lottery advert because it was “misleading and denigratory” and because the advert implied that “bingo clubs generally were closed and that bingo clubs were a ‘dying’ industry”.

It didn’t complain however that advert also implied that bingo is played by scrubby old cripple women who clearly have absolutely no taste whatsoever.

I’ll never understand some people, I really wont.

3Responses:

PCWB

July 14th, 2008 4:16 pm

One of my guilty pleasures is reading the ASA adjudications every week, to see what feeble minded people complain about, also the ofcom adjudications are usually a good read too. Thanks Silky - another quality subject area ripe for ridicule.
Bex (the chav)

July 23rd, 2008 7:56 pm

What are you saying about my Granny, Silky? I’ll give you no taste! That’s a 8 karat gold chain she’s wearing and I pimped her ride myself! Top speed of 3 miles an hour now! Though I am quite concerned that she was about to run that man over befor it changed- or was that part of the story line? Win the lottery and you won’t get life?
Cathryn

August 12th, 2008 10:45 am

come on, you know you wana she an old lady on one of them!