Virgin Trains – ‘Booty Train’
18 May 2009 by SilkyVirgin Trains have always traded on the sniggering schoolboy-ish thought that you’ll be “riding a virgin to Chipping Norton and back” but I’ve just sat open-mouthed watching an edited version of this advert for Virgin Trains – with that Robyn Addison from Survivors in it – in which the 3 scenes of “Becky” ogling the men in the field, the bottled water turning into gushing champagne and the train enters the “tunnel of love” are shown back-to-back that left me… well, speechless.
Is that..?
Did that just…?
Is that a euphemism for…?
Sadly, in the longer version, not only aren’t these scenes played one after the other but we’re also treated to a glimpse of Stoke-on-Trent which really underplays just how much of a sexagasmic experience riding on a Virgin train actually is.
Shame.
Just How Bad is this Ad?
(46 votes, average: 3.13 out of 5)
35Responses:
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 18 May 2009
So she’s looking at the shaved apes in a field, the ones that look like their mums breastfed them steak, then when she get to the station, her boyfriend is a lanky streak of piss. Does that mean that Virgin are saying the idea is far better than reality?
Silky
Said on the 18 May 2009
The boyfriend’s got lovely hair though, Jellyfish, if not a tad too much product in it…
“Does that mean that Virgin are saying the idea is far better than reality?”
It’s the same with water/champagne sequence. Plus normally on the platform at Stoke-on-Trent rather than being a horde of beautiful women cheering there’s a mob of Neanderthals jeering.
That’s advertising for you though.
HolaCow
Said on the 19 May 2009
I personally like the scene where she applies makeup to herself and turns into a tart.
If that train’s a rockin’, don’t come a knockin’
Archer
Said on the 19 May 2009
In my home county of Lancashire, the BNP are gaining a stronghold. Is it just me or do “trains” have a scary connotation for those of us who had relatives who lived through the 40s/50s? Surely well-run trains = facists?? Very well-run trains = part of European history that makes us all shamed.
Despite the mainstream sleaze… shouldn’t we all be voting on June 4th for crappy running trains and badly managed MPs’ expenses?
Viva la crappy-trains and les crappy-train-adverts.
Another Ad Hater
Said on the 19 May 2009
“This video is not available in your country.”
Are you fucking serious, YouTube?! Last time I looked, Virgin Trains was and STILL IS A UK COMPANY! Why the hell are you blocking this?!
Also, this is a goddamn ADVERT, not a music video!
sarah
Said on the 19 May 2009
Well where does one start. It’s terrible.
But HOW is it terrible? I’m honestly not sure
.It’s a dream sequence which clearly has no basis in reality, (hence the androgynous boyfriend she’s meeting, and not one of the muscle-bound chimps).
It’s Stoke, not Malibu.
. It’s full of somewhat immature childish sexual symbolism and innuendo. Clearly train journeys don’t usually provide any sort of sexual satisfaction.(shame on you, blushing at the back there).
So basically it’s saying ‘ it’s fantasy ok?We know it’s not like this, it’s dire.There will be delays.You will pass through grey, sad landscapes, your boyfriend is a nerd, and, well, it’s just a train,ok?’
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 19 May 2009
Has anyone else had a “sandwich” from the buffet car? I have. It was different. Not getting kissed upside down different, but having a finger put….
(The rest of this post has been deleted for being a bit shit.)
HolaCow
Said on the 19 May 2009
I haven’t had a sandwich from the buffet car, though I was part of a sandwich in the…..
No, wait…. sorry, that was a dream I had.
The majority of train experiences I’ve had have been far from the way Virgin advertises, they didn’t include the rude, thick, chavs blaring crap music at inhuman levels and talking on their mobiles about how they abuse benefits and still don’t get enough handed to them for being lazy scum, the great unwashed masses, being forced to stand because there is no room to even breath.
Yes, even on Virgin I’ve had those experiences and let us not forget the drunk football fans….
sarah
Said on the 19 May 2009
The most interesting and (sort of) sexual experience I’ve had on a train was some years ago, travelling from York to London, as I recall.
The carriages were chocca, necessitating being pressed up against one’s fellow travellers in a semi-intimate fashion, (giving new meaning to the phrase ‘standing room only’).
A bearded but not entirely unattractive foreign gentleman was forced to invade my space when some other passengers had to pass him to get off the train.
Turned out his name was George, which he pronounced yee-orj-je (he was Greek). We got chatting when he spotted a gold scorpion pendant I was wearing, showing me that he too had a scorpion charm around his neck, after retrieving it from amongst a forest of jet black chest fur.
.Having established that we were both scorpios (mad, bad,and dangerous to know…..oh and over-sexed) he suggested that I abandon my plans and travel with him to his little island in the Aegean Sea.
He was most persuasive. I was tempted, but remembered just in time the sorry saga of a friend who sold everything and went to Cyprus, to join her tall dark boyfriend whom she had met on holiday,and who had promised her the known world and all the gold she could eat.
She ended up herding goats, fetching water from a well three miles away, and cooking for her bloke, his mother, and fourteen younger brothers.
My Greek admirer had visible tears in his eyes as we parted company. (Cue Brief Encounter music).
But it wasn’t on a Virgin train though………
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 20 May 2009
You know, whilst reading your story Sarah I had had the theme tune from the incredible hulk tv show playing in my head.
sarah
Said on the 21 May 2009
How strange, jellyfish, come to think of it George did resemble the Hulk somewhat. He wasn’t green though…….
CheekyBandit
Said on the 23 May 2009
Anyone noticed the clock showing 3 minutes past the hour when it arrives at Manchester Piccadilly? The advert has us believe that the woman is catching the 1920 ex-London Euston (despite there clearly being shown a departure leaving 20 minutes earlier). This service is timetabled to arrive at 2128 – the time therefore being very likely 2203 thus the train arriving 35 minutes late. Pretty much what I expect from Virgin Trains – never on time.
James
Said on the 2 June 2009
this train tart is the same girl who left a bloke to die in a supermarket warehouse in that semi awful tv programme “survivors”
it wouldn’t surprise me if this new boyfriend with the hair ends up falling off platform 2 just after signing his flat away to her.
inssey
Said on the 2 June 2009
It’s the pole being erected and the fire ready to be stoked in the field that crack me up…or do I just need to get out more?
Ian
Said on the 3 June 2009
I actually liked this advert… yes it’s craptastic but it’s not “bad”
It is better than the one that encourages Ed onto success.
And you also have to winder what she whispers to him at the end of the advert that gives him that smile…
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 5 June 2009
She whispers that the sex change op was a complete success.
Noel
Said on the 7 June 2009
Looks like the poor bloke is having a stroke in the last bit of the advert – someone ought to get him to hospital
frankie smales
Said on the 17 June 2009
the song the look of love was used for an
car tv advert in the 80s the second song to be used
in tv advertising a long side ride of the valkyries the popular
tune from apocalypse now but a classy advert though.
frankie smales
(tv advert fan)
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 18 June 2009
Did I miss the point there?
Offended
Said on the 22 June 2009
So, I ask….you dislike an advert as it shows Stoke-on-Trent??
You jumped up little shit! I would love to know in which exotic UK location you reside!
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 25 June 2009
It’s as good a reason as any. Stoke on Trent has been known as the damp armpit of the universe.
Littlefishey
Said on the 30 June 2009
Virgin?
Very unlikely.
Martin Morris
Said on the 8 July 2009
After watching that ad, I would rather give my children away to some gypsy’s than travel on a Virgin train.
GARY
Said on the 8 July 2009
everytime i go on a virgin train the carriages smell of poo. its really quite nasty. i prefer to travel in my mercedes.
GARY
Said on the 8 July 2009
yeah.. stoke is bad.. its funny really because i like everywhere north of stoke, cheshire etc, pretty much everything east and west of stoke, and even south of stoke. but stoke itself… crap nightclubs in the early 90′s, pottery, the M6 and robbie bastard williams.
GARY
Said on the 8 July 2009
..
Gary Glitter
Said on the 8 July 2009
Gary, you should stop Stoke-ing the whole ‘Stoke is shit’ fire.
Could you kill Robbie Williams for me, though?
si
Said on the 6 August 2009
My only, and last ever, trip on a virgin train was nothing like this unfortunately.
No (fairly) attractive women applying loads of make-up, waitresses showering me in champagne or sexual innuendo of any sort…
On the trip down to London another train had been cancelled, meaning that the train I was on had twice as many passengers on it. Standing room only. For about 3 hours.
The return journey was not quite so packed, but I was surrounded by a group of old women, and one ladies blatantly homosexual grandson. The entire journey was filled with him talking loud, and often, about how marvellous he was, and the various things he got up to in his mind-numbingly boring life. And his grandmother occasionally chiming in about how wonderful he was.
Virgin trains are bloody awful.
I find it really funny that the sponsor at the top-right of this page, at the time of writing, is Virgin media heheheee
robert
Said on the 29 August 2009
Archer
Said on the 19 May 2009
In my home county of Lancashire, the BNP are gaining a stronghold. Is it just me or do “trains” have a scary connotation for those of us who had relatives who lived through the 40s/50s? Surely well-run trains = facists?? Very well-run trains = part of European history that makes us all shamed.
Despite the mainstream sleaze… shouldn’t we all be voting on June 4th for crappy running trains and badly managed MPs’ expenses?
Viva la crappy-trains and les crappy-train-adverts.
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So let see you add some new train’s m8 than saying virgin tranis are rubbish
Richard
Said on the 21 September 2009
Virgin Trains are rubbish. So are all the rest. So that’s that argument defused. The bit that gets me is the tagline ‘where do you want to go’? I’d like to go from Liverpool to, say, Bristol… but oh, wait, the Government made VT drop the only North West – South West routes back sometime in 2002… so I had to go via Central Trains and then get on a Virgin at Birmingham(!). And then you lost the Cross Country franchise… so ultimately, Virgin, I can’t go anywhere with you from Liverpool, except to London. And I don’t want to go there. Whoop-de-bloody-do.
owen
Said on the 23 September 2009
this isnt that bad! people can relate to it. how many uni students, young professionals and even the older generation can think back to a time, when they had to travel to see a loved one.
thats what i have to do everytime i visit my girlfriend in birmingham form south wales.
in all fairness what the ad doesnt show is the wet toilet papered automatic cupicles that stink up the the whole train and the over crowded carridges!
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 23 September 2009
Well the “older generation” do have difficulty remembering things….
GastricExplosion
Said on the 25 September 2009
haha its a train.
Bad News
Said on the 30 October 2009
Rest in Peace. You’ll be missed.
Matt
Said on the 13 June 2010
like the advert, don’t know why a train from London to Manchester is heading south at Stoke-on-Trent, might explain this:
“Anyone noticed the clock showing 3 minutes past the hour when it arrives at Manchester Piccadilly? The advert has us believe that the woman is catching the 1920 ex-London Euston (despite there clearly being shown a departure leaving 20 minutes earlier). This service is timetabled to arrive at 2128 – the time therefore being very likely 2203 thus the train arriving 35 minutes late. Pretty much what I expect from Virgin Trains – never on time.”
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