Protein World

[PunkInDrublic]

http://www.businessinsider.com/prot...the-beach-body-ready-campaign-backlash-2015-4

Awesome/entertaining/hilarious story. Yall been following this? Opinions?

Bonus lol

 

[THE MOLLIE MARIE]

Well that tumblr exchange sure went off the deep end quickly... :?

 

[zippypinhead]

Are people in Britain less inundated with that sort of diet product advertising than in the US? Because I have to say, that ad and its language seems pretty standard to the sorts of stuff I see everywhere, every day.

 

[MFCGod]

If you look at other peoples bodies and feel bad about yourself I think it's more a mental hang up you need to address within yourself.

Happiness comes inside out, not outside in.

Western culture is definitely too obsessed with aesthetics, I don't think anyone on their death bed is ever thinking "my biggest regret is that I wish id been slimmer and better looking.."

Looks are pretty trivial in the big scheme of things as long as you're healthy.

 

[JickyJuly]

Craziness. I get being annoyed with beauty magazines, but a fitness magazine is a completely different animal. What are they supposed to write about in a fitness magazine? :lol:

Edited to add: I totally clicked this expecting "protein world" to be something porny.

 

[Sky_Smith]

Oh England. My old home. THE home of way too much over the top political correctness and whinging.
:violin:

 

[PunkInDrublic]

Are people in Britain less inundated with that sort of diet product advertising than in the US?

Curious about this as well, I don't know shit about that place. Been to the UK a few times but I'm not one of those people that pretends to know everything about a place after being there for about a month. Oh yeah? You went to Dubai for the weekend? Well you must be an expert on the area now, please educate me on the culture and people. Man I dislike those people.

So yeah, one of you Britishy people should fill us in on the difference between ads there as opposed to here.

 

[glight116]

i was cracking up during the twitter part. i love when peoples buttons are pushed. just read the second part too...hilarious..

 

[MFCGod]

So yeah, one of you Britishy people should fill us in on the difference between ads there as opposed to here.

I would help answer but I don't really watch tv, I don't buy magazines, I have adblock and if I do see an advert I think I subconsciously ignore it

I would guess it's much the same though

Apart from one thing I notice is America seems to love pills for everything, I don't think there are as many adverts for those in Britain and as a whole I would guess we're less medicated.

 

[PunkInDrublic]

Apart from one thing I notice is America seems to love pills for everything, I don't think there are as many adverts for those in Britain and as a whole I would guess we're less medicated.

We do love our pills. Commercials for some of them are hilarious. Have a headache or lack energy or something else trivial? Try our new pill!! Dude then gets all quiet and quickly reads a list of horrible sounding possible side effects. Like no thanks fella, just gonna ride this headache out the old fashioned way. Not sure my lack of energy on a monday morning is annoying enough to risk death my dude.

 

[PunkInDrublic]

lmao I'm not sure what these people were protesting and I guess one of them was bullied by the ad. Weird story man. Seems some people just can't accept that most people consider beach body ready to mean fit/in shape. These people aren't complaining about all the free advertising I'm sure.