Is any one else bugged with the quality of swimming shown in commercials. It is very rare to see any one who is at all smooth in the water. It especially bugs me in health club ads as they are showing what people are striving for & the swimmers are flailers.(There is a lite beer ad where a man & a women are racing & they are clearly swimmers) Surely there must be some actors who really swim.
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Yeah, the cholesterol commercial is a hoot. Matt, didja see that the guy also does a nice belly-flop into the pool? But then, notice the women ogling the man before he gets into the pool. They aren't there, obviously, to judge his stroke.
On the humorous side, there's the commerical about the Dad who tries and tries to get his son into some type of sports. (Pardon me if I am in the Department of Redundancy in Redundancy.) There are several scenes where the kid is abysmal in sports. In football, he gets bowled over, just standing there. In baseball, the ball whizzes past him about 5 minutes before he swings at it. In swimming, it shows the kid on a starting block waiting for something to happen after the rest have long departed. (Maybe that sounds like some of us. :D )
On the serious side, don't forget the Olympic dreams-type commercial Speedo has produced. I think you can still view it by clicking here. Now, this one's, IMHO, a keeper, especially with the CLASSICAL music in the background. :rolleyes:
'Nuff out of me.
Originally posted by knelson
IMO, the problem is they aren't realistic at all. I think to most kids they would be laughably stupid, but obviously others may see them differently.
OK, enough about this. Definitely getting off topic! :)
Seems quite realistic to me. You do drugs, you ge thrown off your team. Most high schools drug test student-athletes so, as a matter of fact, you are quite wrong.
There is a commercial playing in Tallahassee for the FSU Credit Union, (I wonder if it is FSU swimmers?) that goes something like, Its not the start but the finish. Shows a full heat of women going off the blocks then plays it backwards, the swimmers come out of the water and back onto the blocks and the voice over says something like no matter how you've styarted we will help you finish strong. I'm not terribly fond of it, so stupid looking.
Much as we would all like to think that the drug commercials are directed at the children imperiled by the easy acquisition of controlled substances, they are not. They are a stark and graphic reminder of what we, as parents, will witness if we abrogate our duties to our children and society in raising those children.
Public school systems have become a joke, acting little more than a child care system, rewarding children for feeling good about themselves, rather than actually learning something that will matter for the rest of their lives. And this has come to pass because we, the parents, have not lived up to our jobs to provide the atmosphere at home that rewards thinking and creation with challenges and hard won praise. Maybe we are too busy tracking practice times or rushing off to the next meet.
I know this is kind of a downer, and I have traveled off topic, but how critical is it to stay focused on this one?
Originally posted by lefty
Do you have any other Urban Legends to share?
www.snopes.com/.../nike.asp
Maybe that should have been your name instead of Bill Gates.
How about that anti-drug commercial where the relay swimmer doesn't show so her team misses their event? The implication is that the fourth swimmer is outside getting stoned. Yeah, that happens all the time:rolleyes:
Originally posted by kaelonj
Has anyone else noticed in that Anti-drug commercial with the relay swimmers, that it is a medley relay (so why are the swimmers up on the blocks ?)
I didn't catch that! Everything else in the commercial looks fairly accurate (starter's commands and horn start). Everything except the whole premise of the commercial, that is, which I think is silly.
Swimr4life mentioned the Nike commercial and reminded me of something Nike did a while back. They ran a commercial using Samburu tribesmen in Kenya wearing their shoes. At the end, one of the guys looked at the camera and rattled off something in his native language. Nike subtitled what he said as "Just do it."
A college professor here in the US who teaches that language saw it and called his local media. The guy didn't say "Just do it." He said, "I don't want these. Give me big shoes." Nike admitted that they took liberties with the translation, believing that no one in the US would know what he said.
Hey Shaky, on the orignal version of MS Word, if you typed in "A**hole" and used then looked in the MS WORD thesaurus "Bill Gates" would be listed.
Do you have any other Urban Legends to share?
Well, at least the commercials are showing adults doing some swimming and believe me different people have different abilities. When you are swimming during laps, there is one younger woman that probably did high school swimming that does good form in all four strokes and their are others that can barely do freestyle.
