-Eric
This kind of nanny state BS could drive a man to drink.
Oh, fer cryin' out loud! Of all the things in the world which are wrong and need to be changed, to go after beer ads on TV!
There's a reason Budweiser uses horses in their commercials.
I didn't think it was possible to get drunk drinking Bud Light.
Cr@pSPIttle offends me. I want to sue it into oblivion and help fund my college education so I could become a FReeper politico. Any takers? :P
I find most beer commercials fairly sophomoric. I just don't buy those products. Most mass-produced American beer is pisswater anyway.
Next CSPI will be telling me that drinking beer doesn't get me chicks.
One of the AB employees was in trouble for drinking on the job. It seemed he fell into the brewery vat and could not help but swallow a little of the product. His wife was called but by the time she got there he had drowned.
"Was it quick, or long and painful", she wanted to know.
Well his co-workers said, "It seemed pretty painless, you see he got out of the vat twice to relieve himself".
You mean their union does not negotiate beer breaks for them any more???
Whenever you see CSPI, run up a red flag. These are the "don't eat popcorn" and "don't eat Mexican food" wackos.
While I usually don't agree with anything CSPI says ( I love meat and fois gras), on this ad I have to agree. Both my husband and I are recovering alcoholics and have 15 years sobriety. 15 years ago, he was drinking in his office with the doors closed and we had long lunches at a local restaurant. I was a news reporter then so worked nights. He almost lost his job running a good company until he was intervened on. Now, we are both happy, sober and free, and the company is doing better than ever with him still at the helm. The point is that these kinds of ads make alcohol abuse seem casually chic and promote a culture of denial. Beer was not our booze of choice though--it was fine wines, scotch and gin. Other than that, I despise the nanny state, I still smoke, love good food, good shoes, good travel, good pets and the substantial means to afford them all. But without being sober, we would have lost everything. I used to think those beer ads validated our lifestyle. It took some real spiritual rearrangments to get to where we are today, and I go to AA and see many sad young men and women who are prey to these kind of media messages that drinking is cool. To all those who can handle it, God bless you, but there is a slippery slope between problem drinking and alcoholism, and frequently people fall into it.
Any organization that uses "Center for..." anything in its name should be ignored.
Well, anyone who becomes an alcoholic on light beer never had a chance in life, anyway.