UK Anti-Binge Drinking PSA Tells Us More Than We Really Want To Know About Brits
The UK's National Health Service has a new PSA that attempts to combat the apparent scourge of binge drinking by showing behaviors associated with drunkenness and how silly they are and how nobody would ever do such silly things while sober. A country's Public Service Announcements are a totally arbitrary, yet totally fascinating way to characterize an entire group of people, so this is fun. I had no idea the UK had such a huge problem with drunken people using traffic cones to shout insults to strangers.
The US, of course, has its fair share of shockingly necessary PSAs ("Never shake a baby, for example), but what's funniest about this one is that, like New Zealand's anti-binge drinking baby-swinging PSA, it doesn't seem to be particularly aimed at young people! (Via AdRants.)
Posted by Lindsay at 1:15 PM in PSAs
Tags: Drunk
Uh. I thought almost everything he did was hysterical and I would like to have a drunk friend exactly like that.
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HEY, some people have problems OKAY?! It's not FUNNY cause someone could get superhurt!!
And this is fuckin disgusting, UK. I hope you at least paid this drunken asshat for making a fool out of himself on the international stage!
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I stand corrected.
He remains a fucking idiot.
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PIPE DOWN, RUFFIAN.
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awww hell no, you redcoat son of a bitch
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Why, you recalcitrant backwoodsman! The sole reason Her Imperial Majesty does not reclaim your itinerant clodhopping backside is sheer ignominy at having so generously provided your boorish existence to begin with, you wretched blackguard!
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Hey, I've got an IDEA. Why don't you get the fuck off BABLEFISH, and speak God's language the way God intended.
There's a FUCKIN reason we left your country asshat, and it's cause you fucked up the English and you assholes can't handle your booze.
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You refer to THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, perchance? At least, good sir, we were able to rule the earth precisely in the manner that God intended, which is something I cannot say for your sordid and poltroonish endeavours to subjugate those who dare disoblige you.
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Rule the world, huh? Why the fuck couldn't you guys handle 13 little colonies huh? OH WAIT, maybe it was because you had your heads to far up your asses fucking up God's language by filling it with your GODDAMNED USELESS 5 dollar words! Using words like that ONLY MAKES YOU SOUND LIKE MORE OF A CHODEMASTER.
How about I show a real Empire that never sets? The Empire of ME KICKING YOUR GODDAMNED ASS ALL DAY. That shit NEVER STOPS.
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Five-dollar words trump a half-penny argument, dear boy!
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I ain't trumping nothin you son of a bitch. I'm saying I'll kick your goddamned ass for the third time, just like we did in the AMERICAN REVOLUTION and in the WAR OF 1912. You want some? I don't think you can handle some of the ol' American MUSCLE, BITCH.
WE CAN DO IT.
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I think you mean the war of 1812 which i believe even the most patriotic American would call a tie as your goal was to take Canada and you failed.
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you COMMIES blah blah NO WAY blah blah TAKING THINGS TOO SERIOUS blah blah
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Guess what DUMBASS? NEITHER OF US ARE COMMIES. Get the fuck out of here and learn what a Democracy and a Constitutional Monarchy are douchechill!
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LOL sry i jist wunted to try dat y3llin 2!!!
my b sexxxies
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hahaha whoops indeed! check and mate mr patriot..
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hahahhahaah so the hot girl is the shitty patriot guy... or the patriot guy is a fake hot girl....
either way, LAME. get a life and quit trying to stir up shit on a message board you douche.
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WHOOPS!
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I cannot handle three of this fucking guy. I cannot do it.
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This comment's even better if you imagine the popcorn saying it.
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Russel Brand's new haircut is funny looking.
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That PSA is pretty funny, but seriously England, when I have to avoid stepping in fresh vomit at 9pm on a Tuesday you've got a problem. Put down the Magner's and get some help.
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So, the next time you are drunk and you want to do something stupid, as yourself this one simple question, "Would you do this if you were sober?"
This should solve all of our problems.
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The british exchange student in college once went on a rampage upending picnic tables and trashcans. This sounds pretty mild but at a hippie school, this is quite offensive.
Plus he was obsessed with the idea of forcing other men to drink his urine.
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Barelling down a parking lot in a shopping cart screaming "YOU LOVE IT" is frighteningly accurate to my drunken life. And if you remove the garbage can through a window bit, and replace the "Ole ole ole" song with "Can't Tell Me Nothin'" then this commercial is almost a documentary.
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For me it's Can't Take My Eyes Off of You.
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you can get to know him ;)
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I used to work at a club in a provincial English town, and yeah, this happens every single night.
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I grew up in a very similar town to this in England and confirm and can confirm this behaviour is pretty accurate apart from the sick in the hair thing, which is mainly just rugby fans.
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Um, this weekend my friends and I are getting UK drunk!
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Actually "Yobbish" behaviour is a problem....though this PSA just made me miss England and makes me want to plan another visit.
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I don't recall licensing this footage of my boyfriend.
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At first I thought this reminded me so much of the year I lived in England simply because yeah, this is what every night out was like. Then I noticed the familiar layout of shops and the market stalls and finally I noticed the three fish logo on the ground - that's the exact borough of London I lived in. Spooky.
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The place in the video is Kingston just outside London. I go there to buy my trousers.
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If the point of this video was to show me that I'm not nearly enough fun and adventurous when drunk and that I should be trying harder: SUCCESS.
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It's like a checklist, isn't it? I think I've probably done everything on this list therefore I am British. Ashamed but still British.
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What's all this then?
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I know some people who do a lot of these while sober. I guess that means they're free to do it while drunk, too!
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Is anyone else still able to see the video? I tried three different browsers, and they all just get a blank white space instead of a video. Maybe it's been taken down?
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I'll see your bet and raise you drunk history.
Drunk History Vol. 1 - Featuring Michael Cera from Michael Cera
educational!
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I don't see how this is any more effective than going down my town centre and filming everyone you see on a Saturday night.
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