Peter Bradshaw on the new Milk Tray advert.
Each Milk Tray ad was basically a psychological horror film, and the idea of any modern young woman being simperingly grateful for a box of chocolates feels like something that went out with the first episodes of Coronation Street. We need to see Milk Tray Woman breaking into the Milk Tray Man’s apartment, leaving an injunction on his bedside table, cutting up his black polo-neck and finally giving the chocolates to the woman he lives with – his mum.
Like any normal person reading this self-loathing hand wringing bullshit, my eyes rolled. Is there nothing in which the Guardianista cannot misread and find offence?
The pleasure is seeing that below the line he is getting a well deserved roasting. This seems to be a common theme these days. So, perhaps, these vile people have jumped the shark to the point where their self loathing and their determination to see a political point in something as simple as an advertisement has put off even their natural allies.
I do hope so.
Likewise in a similar vein, an attempt to ban the use of Delilah from Welsh rugby matches. As the commentariat remind the killjoys, it’s just a song.
“I know that some people will say, ‘Oh, here we go, he’s a terrible spoilsport,’ but the truth is that that song is about the murder of a prostitute.”
Yes, you are and how, precisely do you plan to stop people singing it? Arrest them? And what will you have them charged with? You vile little twat. And where, precisely does the song mention prostitution? Take your time.
My phone ring tone, because I love the song, is “Hey Joe.” I abhor domestic violence and would not justify murder because someone “caught her messin’ ’round with another man.” Though, if MrsBud caught me messin’ ’round with another woman, I’d consider simply getting shot as getting off lightly, she’s seen Mercy.
Dear Mr Longrider
I thought it was quite an amusing little piece.
Are you suggesting that the Gaurdian doesn’t do ‘amusing’?
DP
DP, The Grauniad does amusing with every issue: it’s just that it’s rarely intentional.
Generally, no, they don’t. If it was intended as satire, it missed the mark.
I have been thinking about the words to Delilah since reading this. Unfortunately Alex Harvey isn’t around to ask, but the song does not appear to be about a prostitute. If she was, why would it have been an issue that she was with another man when it was her job? So it is a song about a guy who murdered his girlfriend in a jealous rage. It would be nice to live in a world were such things never happen but we don’t. Maybe not singing songs about it will make it all better.
I reckon Peter Bradshaw has got a point ….. look at the case of Mark Pearson …
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12144963/Commuter-who-walked-past-actress-at-Waterloo-station-cleared-of-bizarre-sex-assault-claim.html
Who’d have thought walking past a woman would have you up in court …. there is no hope for the male of the species …..
Perhaps if Mark Pearson had been carrying a box of Milk Tray, it could have turned out ever so much more romantic ….. who knows a sliding door moment ….
meks ya wonder ….