Is it the 1980s again?

[Rhiannon]

Really? In this day and age?

Still, Jack Wills couldn't dream of publicity like this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36423401/sexualised-jack-wills-catalogue-advert-is-banned-by-advertising-watchdog

[Harrowby Hall]

I think that they should just go ahead with their adverts and let the watch dog prove its case ...

[Gonnagle]

Dear Rhiannon,

And on the flip side, this is what the youngsters of today are being bombarded with, all the kids are kind of healthy looking, all fit, skinny as to near anorexia, this is the norm, this is what you should aspire to, it is all over the place, magazines, internet, telly, billboard advertisements, a kid looks at this and thinks, why am I not a skinny as a rake, why do I have fat friends, I am going on a diet, ditching my fat friends, hell I can't afford a nice holiday to get that lovely glowing tan but hey! I can use the tanning parlour in the high st, sorted.

Oh and look! it is okay to romp around half naked with my pals, it's normal, all the really cool people are doing it, wait a minute, let me have a sip of my coke, nope, my room is not suddenly filled with gorgeous young things, I must be drinking the wrong coke, the kind that rots yer teeth.

Ban it!! I would shut the company down, they have the same duty of care to our future as you and I have, no this is not the 1980's it the noughties, time to say, education is the new cool, science is the new cool, not a pair of trainers with go fast stripes on them.

Rant over, and yes I enjoyed it

Gonnagle.

[floo]

Drinking and young males and females being in bed together, is certainly not good or wise behaviour and something I certainly wouldn't wish my grandchildren to see.

[Nearly Sane]

Drinking and young males and females being in bed together, is certainly not good or wise behaviour and something I certainly wouldn't wish my grandchildren to see.

Might lead to dancing

[Rhiannon]

Dear Rhiannon,

And on the flip side, this is what the youngsters of today are being bombarded with, all the kids are kind of healthy looking, all fit, skinny as to near anorexia, this is the norm, this is what you should aspire to, it is all over the place, magazines, internet, telly, billboard advertisements, a kid looks at this and thinks, why am I not a skinny as a rake, why do I have fat friends, I am going on a diet, ditching my fat friends, hell I can't afford a nice holiday to get that lovely glowing tan but hey! I can use the tanning parlour in the high st, sorted.

Oh and look! it is okay to romp around half naked with my pals, it's normal, all the really cool people are doing it, wait a minute, let me have a sip of my coke, nope, my room is not suddenly filled with gorgeous young things, I must be drinking the wrong coke, the kind that rots yer teeth.

Ban it!! I would shut the company down, they have the same duty of care to our future as you and I have, no this is not the 1980's it the noughties, time to say, education is the new cool, science is the new cool, not a pair of trainers with go fast stripes on them.

Rant over, and yes I enjoyed it

Gonnagle.

Firstly, you'd be surprised at how conservative youngsters are now. My kids and their peers are so straight-laced; my friends and I look at them in bafflement when we remember what growing up in the 80s was like.

Secondly, you're right, it's everywhere. My comparison would be the re-runs of Friends in the mornings on Ch4. Banning these ads just looks daft and anachronistic. We're talking about a generation that has smartphones for goodness' sake.