Sausage innuendos a cause for concern?

[The Maddest March Hare]

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Okay, I know that "political correctness threads" have been done to death lately, but take a gander at this:

"A sexually suggestive advertising campaign for pork sausages has been criticised by the industry watchdog.
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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld complaints against innuendo-filled radio adverts for Mattesons smoked sausages.
It said the adverts, which asked listeners where they would like to "stick it", should not have aired when children were likely to be listening.
The ASA rejected 21 complaints that the advertisements were offensive.
It agreed with Kerry Foods, which makes the sausages, that the adverts were meant to be tongue-in-cheek, light hearted and were unlikely to cause serious offence.
But the ASA said although the ads were not sexually explicit, and younger children were unlikely to understand, the innuendo was not appropriate for older children.
The four adverts, broadcast on Forth One, Clyde Radio and Real Radio, must no longer be aired at times when children were likely to be listening, it ruled."

Is this just more evidence of the country taking things too far or do you see their point on this one?

I think that if the children listening were old enough to get the joke then they'd be old enough to laugh it off, and it just seems to be over protective parents getting worked up over nothing. If the child isn't old enough to get the joke it won't even cause a problem as it won't offend anyone.

The adverts aren't even that bad, and only gets a saucy chuckle if you think in a dirty way anyway. It seems to be saying more about the parents than anything else.

I hope you find this little story to be as funny as I did.

Source [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8161937.stm]

EDIT: Here is a link to the offending advert [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/audio/2009/jul/22/mattesons-sausages-asa]. I found it rather hilarious, and the dirty humour certainly has nothing on anything that appears in the Simpsons.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

What are we discussing here?
Sausage?
I'm getting hungry now.
Damnit.

I never heard the adverts saying where you could stick it though, I heard 'Think of all the things you could do with it...'

 

[Labyrinth]

There are a few levels of entendre advertising. This is one, entirely another is that Subway add which made it look like an Attractive Woman[sub]tm[/sub] was about to fellate the foot-long. That just ticked me right off. This? I'm with you on the light chuckle thing.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

What are we discussing here?
Sausage?
I'm getting hungry now.
Damnit.

I never heard the adverts saying where you could stick it though, I heard 'Think of all the things you could do with it...'

I was aiming for an "is this another knee jerk reaction that is totally unjustified or is this actually offensive" kind of discussion.

 

[Sipo]

the sausage with the cheese inside it scares me :0

 

[Ezzay]

the sausage with the cheese inside it scares me :0

Come on... make me hungry and its 10:30 at night here, damn you.

I see what you did there by the way...

 

[Kuchinawa212]

It's only as dirty and you make it.

And now I'm hungry too

 

[JanatUrlich]

omg those sausages look so good

 

[Sipo]

the sausage with the cheese inside it scares me :0

Come on... make me hungry and its 10:30 at night here, damn you.

I see what you did there by the way...

AHAHA XD

 

[Overlord SoS]

Where do I want to stick it?

My grill of course, children always make sausage jokes from 8 years old to 18, this is just censorship going to new hights, look out, it's an authoritary government!

 

[NotMePleaseIgnore]

A sexually suggestive advertising campaign for pork sausages has been criticised by the industry watchdog.

Does anyone have a link to the advert?

Edit: Oh come on that's nothing, some people need to get a sense of humour!!

 

[Jamash]

This sounds like the 2004 ****** debacle all over again.

Faggots were used as the subject of an infamous 2004 radio advert by the UK supermarket chain Somerfield.

The commercial featured a husband challenging his wife's repetitive routine of a set meal for each day of the week. While he wanted lasagne, he was told that, as it was Friday, he was to have faggots. He responded: "I've nothing against faggots, I just don't fancy them."

This advert was subsequently deemed to have breached the rules on Good Taste, Decency and Offence to Public Feeling of the Advertising and Sponsorship Code, and was banned from future re-broadcast by the industry regulator, Ofcom.

When will people learn that you have to be extra clever if you want to use innuendo and double-entendre's to advertise pork products?
Crude or childish dick and sex jokes just wont cut it and will get banned before you can say "Ooh Pardon!".

 

[Sindre1]

"But the ASA said although the ads were not sexually explicit, and younger children were unlikely to understand, the innuendo was not appropriate for older children."

If they are so old that they understand it on their own, how is it inappropriate?

 

[Darian Wulfbane]

Where do I want to stick it?

My grill of course, children always make sausage jokes from 8 years old to 18, this is just censorship going to new hights, look out, it's an authoritary government!

I full-heartedly agree, except it goes beyond 18 years, and goes from 8 to death.

 

[MasterSqueak]

This sounds like the 2004 ****** debacle all over again.

Faggots were used as the subject of an infamous 2004 radio advert by the UK supermarket chain Somerfield.

The commercial featured a husband challenging his wife's repetitive routine of a set meal for each day of the week. While he wanted lasagne, he was told that, as it was Friday, he was to have faggots. He responded: "I've nothing against faggots, I just don't fancy them."

This advert was subsequently deemed to have breached the rules on Good Taste, Decency and Offence to Public Feeling of the Advertising and Sponsorship Code, and was banned from future re-broadcast by the industry regulator, Ofcom.

When will people learn that you have to be extra clever if you want to use innuendo and double-entendre's to advertise pork products?
Crude or childish dick and sex jokes just wont cut it and will get banned before you can say "Ooh Pardon!".

I thought fag was British slang for cigar.

 

[scnj]

Stupid. The Kinder Bueno tv adverts were worse, and they were advertising chocolate based on a children's chocolate egg. Hell, Kinder means children.

 

[ShortCommings]

This sounds like the 2004 ****** debacle all over again.

Faggots were used as the subject of an infamous 2004 radio advert by the UK supermarket chain Somerfield.

The commercial featured a husband challenging his wife's repetitive routine of a set meal for each day of the week. While he wanted lasagne, he was told that, as it was Friday, he was to have faggots. He responded: "I've nothing against faggots, I just don't fancy them."

This advert was subsequently deemed to have breached the rules on Good Taste, Decency and Offence to Public Feeling of the Advertising and Sponsorship Code, and was banned from future re-broadcast by the industry regulator, Ofcom.

When will people learn that you have to be extra clever if you want to use innuendo and double-entendre's to advertise pork products?
Crude or childish dick and sex jokes just wont cut it and will get banned before you can say "Ooh Pardon!".

I thought fag was British slang for cigar.

in the UK its very very rare for someone to say the word ****** in reference to homosexuality, and its fag which means a ciggerette, we have other terms, for example bender, in futurama, funny how that gets through and ****** doesent. strange strange nuences in programming law really where killing and death is deemed fine yet sex is considored offensive... reminds me of vice city fiasco, where it was allmost pulled because of the prostitues but no complaint was made about being able to beat up passers by for their cash, at least not much of one

 

[Jamash]

This sounds like the 2004 ****** debacle all over again...

SNIP

I thought fag was British slang for cigar.

Fag is slang for cigarette and an errand/whipping boy at Public School.

****** is a proper word for a type of English pork meatball and a bundle of sticks or firewood.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

omg those sausages look so good

Mmm, smoked cawk sausages, dee-licious.

Sausages are shaped like cocks, we should be allowed to acknowledge that once in a while.

 

[tomtom94]

Oh won't somebody please think etc.

"the innuendo was not suitable for older children"
WTF? That sounds like bull.
I'm assuming by older children they mean 10-12 rather than adolescent.

Anyway, society as we know it now is broken and children need to learn about sex, just like they need to learn about adrenaline and pain.