poxy server morelike. I think maybe I shouldnt've bothered. still, lots of nice stuff to look at on screenonline at least.
― Bocken Social Scene, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link
So I watched one episode of Star Trek TNG (the one with Max Headroom) and went to bed, as the next episode had Worf's son in it, fuck that. Anyone watch the PIF doc?
― Matt #2, Saturday, 29 March 2008 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
recorded it, but not watched it yet. hopefully get a chance today.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 March 2008 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm still kind of o_O over "Apaches".
― HI DERE, Saturday, 29 March 2008 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not bloody surprised. it was bad enough for me, and i didn't have to look at a grave with my name on it!
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 March 2008 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
documentary: it was OK, if a little short (an hour would have been nicer; maybe a little more social history and a little less of andrew collins stating the obvious). not nearly enough on "protect and survive" for my liking, or the whole banality-of-danger stuff from the late seventies and early eighties (eg your boat/chip pan/electric fire/kettle/bike/frisbee/rug/etc is going to kill you); that said, i'd also like to have seen some more of the immediate post-war ones, so i guess i'd only have been truly happy with a five-hour epic.
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 30 March 2008 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I still can't bring myself to watch these again. Especially Apaches.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 30 March 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I have been looking for this thread for a year, trying to remember the name of that horrifying death farm PSA
"Apaches", I will try not to forget your name this time
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
Next time you can just search for HUGE SHITPIT OF DEATH
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
now more than ever, can't bring myself to rescreen
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tngWMToWtCc/TTR7aHZjJyI/AAAAAAAAJho/k5vGP5K_H9Y/s1600/vlcsnap-2011-01-17-17h14m22s117.png
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tngWMToWtCc/TTR7auQyjNI/AAAAAAAAJhw/UiPgN3x4MJo/s400/vlcsnap-2011-01-17-17h14m36s11.png
Slurry seems to be the hardest word
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
jesus those pics made my skin crawl
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
In Ireland these days they have moved from existential dread to gore in public information films (or advertisements as they call them these days). So we have had a number of ones for various aspects of car safety stuff ("Fasten your seatbelt you moron!", "Turn off your mobile phone, you stupid bitch!", and "For fuck's sake what made you think that driving after a feed of pints would be a good idea?" etc.) that show people being graphically mashed by out of control vehicles. They annoy me.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
Wish I knew what some of Pashmina's broken links up there were.
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
We watched a documentary on herpes that included extreme close-ups of herpes breakouts. It was beyond gross.
I remember a lecturer talking about how gross-out public information films are not that effective at changing behaviour. He was talking about when he was in the army, they made the soldiers watch an in-your-face film about the horrors of veneral disease (as they then called it). It was very shocking, he said, and they were all talking about it on the way down to the brothel.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
No one ever posted those Canadian "prevent it" ads?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCyVku1HvI
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
They're on some other thread. I think about that one all the time.
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
God, this has been nagging me for a few days now. I can sort of remember an American PSA from the early 1980s, featuring a burnt-out building and narrated by a cartoon cricket. I don't know whether it was for smoking safety, lighter safety, or smoke alarms, but I feel like it had to be one of those. I've already scoped out the various Cricket Lighter commercials on youtube. Would be happy to just have confirmation that something like this existed.
― beachville, Friday, 2 March 2012 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
damn, came on this thread via the horror film poll and now i'm looking at horrible public safety ads. as if i didnt have a hard enough time falling asleep.
― Jibe, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'll repeat my request for info/confirmation on the PSA I mentioned above.
― beachville, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
This was always a fave - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmImMil6r3k
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
re: The Finishing Line (ps no fucking way I'm watching this tonight)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slJyhOEo-SY
― "Post-Oven" (DJP), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
The David Lynch anti-littering PSA is a thing of beauty, not least for the bikers' revel at 0:42...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSWv90msTUc
― one way street, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 08:09 (eleven years ago) link
on a marginally less bleak note: anyone remember "play it safe" with jimmy savile, a series of jolly little five-minute PIFs where the bejewelled funster pointed out how your house/garden/bike/etc was trying to kill you?
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, March 29, 2008 1:11 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the SI unit of ignorance (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 08:14 (eleven years ago) link
I love DL's anti-littering PSA. They need to start airing it again because I bet it's pretty effective.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfyfY7PI3pg
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Monday, 10 August 2020 10:19 (four years ago) link
I never saw this one, despite growing up in a semi rural environment. Jill saw it when she was seven(!!!! WTF) and recalls it vividly. We watched it last night, and it is the most grim, macabre shit I think I have ever seen. We were both really upset and depressed after watching it. Unbelievable that this was shown to young children:
What was this? Such a tantalising description for a bunch of dead links!
― chap, Monday, 10 August 2020 10:32 (four years ago) link
I assume it's Apaches, which sees kids die in a variety of farmyard accidents over the course of a week - the one everyone remembers is drowning in a slurry pit, but also crushed by a gate, run over by a tractor trailer, drank poison and crashes a tractor after accidentally letting the hand brake off. Ends with a list of children that died in farm accidents that year.
― Mud... jam... failure (aldo), Monday, 10 August 2020 10:39 (four years ago) link
That's the way to do it, scare the living shit out of the little baskets.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Monday, 10 August 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link
Grown Ups and Road Sense (it was dad in our new car, above) is one of my favourites and that I remember best*. "You'll ruin your eyes!"
* This is not true, I can still recite all of the Joe & Petunia films, remember Mike who swims like a fish (but looks like a monkey) and "excuse me sir, if I inquire, but isn't that your house on fire?" - as it turns out I said on here 15 years ago.
― Mud... jam... failure (aldo), Monday, 10 August 2020 10:46 (four years ago) link
I notice some querying of SPLINK! earlier, I once offered a ton of bonus points in a pub quiz (enough to win) to anyone who could come up with any of the rules of the acronym.
― Mud... jam... failure (aldo), Monday, 10 August 2020 10:50 (four years ago) link