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I used to travel a lot for work, and consequently watched a lot of CNN in hotel rooms. In the early 90s it was usually just the US version piped in, so got to see the US ads. They do tend to be rather more hysterical than UK ads - by which I mean desperation to sell the product, rather than humour.

I seem to remember most of them were for medicines. At the time, there were still a few taboos on British TV, so seeing an ad in which some 55 year old woman told us how good her piles felt after using Farmer Giles special blend was actually quite entertaining, at least the first 50 times or so.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 10:37, 1 reply)

Aye.
The sale and advertising of medicines is highly restricted over here; not so in the States.

EDIT: There's still something odd about watching BBC worldwide - it's obviously targeted at US business travellers, and probably some Asian ones as well, so there're a lot of fairly one-dimensional ads with soft-focus shots of golf courses. They're very strange.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 10:47, closed)

Not wrong.
It's either "come to Malaysia to play on our golf course (and maybe get sucked off by one of the ladies i our advert, you busines-class stud)" or "invest in DPS - world leaders in aggressive vulture funds*"



*Dubai Pyramid Scheme investments may disappear, but not as fast as this small print, eh?
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 16 Apr 2010, 11:42, closed)