So I am 83 and remember that a lot of these were "tongue-in-cheek" in that they knew that they were making fun of a possibly embarrassing subject, but with humor. Possibly not funny today, but gave some smiles in the yesteryear.
The fact that the ads had been used had shown just how men and society including many women at the time too had seen things. I know you say that it is "tongue in cheek", BUT, had a man been shown negatively in ads, there would have been a BIG problem. Joking or not. But, men had been in charge of the advertising businesses back then, so, NO way would that happen. Women had also judged other women harshly back then. Even jokingly, showing a woman being spanked by her husband for using instant coffee really was REALLY a fouler than hell image to joke about. If you can't see my point, just imagine a woman spanking a man for anything. laughing at it makes it all okay to make a grown woman get reduced to shame for something so stupid. i guess that if you are 83, you will NEVER see my point anyway. And they are OLD ads, made back when most men had no respect for women anyway.
@@juliegogola4647 Your point is moot. For a bevy of reasons. But we both know it boils down to modern sensibilities. And for someone crying so much about discrimination you sure seem mighty proud of yourself to discriminate. Or did you not know that "age" is also a protected status?
@@doyoulikeduckmeat I brought up the guys AGE to say that back when HE was young, women were NOT respected, NOT to put him down for being old. Can you NOT see that? If I HAD said, "Hey, old man, you don't know anything" or something like that, THAT would be age descrimination. Before you accuse somebody of doing something, make sure that YOU KNOW what the hell you are talking about first. Damn....
In high school in the early eighties, my English teacher, just before retiring told us, "An essay is like a skirt. Make it long enough to cover the required material and short enough to be interesting."
had worse, my organic chemistry prof in uni told our class - men and women - that women were designed to carry things; babies, laundry, garbage. but this was before "the early eighties"
6:10 The "cordless massager" ad was crazy. That one was a full page ad that ran in a bunch of women's decorating magazines back in the late 60's/early 70's. The picture was hot and the text of the ad was pretty crazy too pretending to be completely innocent, lol
@@thomasfoss9963 I'm sure you're right 😁 It seems funny now. But back then it was a real diagnosis, and women were forcibly subjected to hysterectomies, to cure their _hysteria._ My friend and I found a medical book from 1887, and you should see some things they did to women back then. I'll take the "massager"!
On the one about "what I do not like so much in a woman", today they could add: The first thing she tells you is that she is a vegan and keeps going on about it 😂 Radioactive water....for health 😂 Beer for babies 😂
Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard We have a hysterical female patient in Room 222....... Moe: Let's cure her boys--- For Duty, and Humanity!!!!!!!!!
@@michaelterrell Early Honda motorcycles used fish oil as a damping fluid in the front (fork) suspension. It made for a true olfactory experience in bike repair shops.
The funny thing is, a lot of women around age 40 now have no problem with any of that, in fact they think it's right and proper. My ex used to beg me to tell her what to say and how to dress. My brother's gf is begging him to marry her.
The when to give coke to child one reminds of my childhood as learned from my childhood doctor and my parents. I was very young, less than two. I developed a high fever and could not hold down food. The doctor said he never did figure out what I had but that I was very ill. He told my parents that I would need to be hospitalized. He told my parents, though, to try and give me a few drops of Coke and see if perhaps that would stay down. It did and I started crying for more. I was well enough within two hours that I was not admitted. I did get quite hooked on coke quite quickly.
Carbonation has long been known as a cure for upset stomachs. In fact it is still a very common remedy. Alka-Seltzer comes to mind every time I have an upset stomach.
Coco-Cola was first developed as a stomachache remedy. As was Pepsi. Depends upon how old you are, but the earliest version of Coca-Cola had cocaine in it.
The Lysol advertisements cracked me up. Not because they are funny to me, but due to the fact that my wife uses LISTERINE for the same purpose! I asked her, doesn't that set you on fire 🔥 down there??? She said no it's Ph balanced and it doesn't burn. She buys unscented baby wipes and pours a cup of listerine in them to make intimate feminine hygiene wipes! I can attest that it works! She is always "fresh," so to say! She is a registered nurse (RN) and said some of her older nurse colleagues shared this with her in her younger days! Of course being the smartass I am, I came up with the jingle "get your 🐱 clean using listerine!"😂🤣😂🤣 First time I sang that to her she spewed what she was drinking across the table and howled with laughter.
@@paulaward2075 No. She swears by it too. Mind you that she doesn't douche with it! She just wipes it down with a baby wipe moistened with it, but that does include wiping down the mucosal areas!
I remember those bust size ads. As a young boy growing up in the 60s, I thought those were the greatest ads ever. Now all women could have large bust. But eventually, we all must grow up, and I realized that the stuff just didn't work.
I wanted to see more on that topic. My wife could use another ironing board. Do you suppose that there are instructions to fit wives for other housekeeping tools and accessories?
_Remember, if you're offended nothing will happen, you don't have to worry or go the hospital. In fact you can just carry on with your day as normal_ 🐢💨
Oh, the days when people weren't so sensitive. The ad was an ad and you tried it. It failed and you got rooked. Learning moment then you were wiser snd moved on.
Brilliant. Before the World lost its Sence of humour,and became the cotton wool covered brainless mess it is now . . . Great bit of film Sir !! Well done 😤
@@stephendacey8761 Everyone else is too sensitive except when something offends you personally. How about Black Lives Matter? You OK with that? How about calling the team the Washington White Trash?
I knew about the beer and mothers knowing best but I had no idea it was an advert because it came from my granny who fully believed in it...bless the old gal, but instead of beer I grew up on whiskey because it was what she preferred to drink.🤣🍻
Jokes aside my kids are mid twenties now...we had/have? a product called gripe water in Canada to help babies calm down n sleep....it was fruit flavoured with 5% a!cohol..a beer for dad a bottle of gripe for the infant...smh
Wow…just, wow! On the history side, back in a previous century (18th or 19th), everyone of all ages drank beer, but it was very watered down. Speaking of water, there’s a (reenactment) village in Nova Scotia that was originally inhabited by the British, who all died out because they drank the water, which was downhill from the “sewage system” (the street run-off…everyone’s pee and poop was tossed out windows). When the French came in, they survived by drinking wine.
The Telly Savalas add wasn't too bad and frankly some of the "sliming" adds today are as bad as those shown, but the ones for radioactive "health" blow me away. Reminds me of the poor women one hundred years ago who painted the "glow in the dark" watches and flight instruments using radium and a very thin brush they kept fine by wetting it with their mouths
The phrase mad hatter was because of all the mercury they breathed in while making hats. It literally fried their brain, usually causing an early death too.
Artoo - Deetoo Enema Set! Ha hah hah ah hah ha hahah That is the best.The fine print is awesome I can't believe I never saw that one growing up. Had a girlfriend who would have loved it. She identified with Princes Leia!
@ AlexKx ,My lawyer needs to see this! ! always had my wife wear a bag over her head during sex,But It was HER idea to use the plastic one!!!! I knew I was innoccent this whole time!
Great video... amazing to see all the ones that portray women as second-class citizens and all they can do is be a housewife... 50 years from now I wonder which ads from today will have people shaking their heads and laughing...
I'm a postman in Shropshire England and there is a company here called Lovehoney that send rather a lot of their personal massagers to their customers through the post. It's easy to tell the boxes they come in even though they are different sizes. Quite often when the lady of the house answers the door they'll say " oh, I don't know what that is." At that point I pause for a second and say " I do ".
@@misssarahwinterbottom7773 Hi Sarah, only fools and horses was set in Peckham, London. The spin off series the green green grass was set in Shropshire after the writer John Sullivan visited it for a wedding and fell in love with it. Actor John Challis who played Boycie still lives in Ludlow where it was set and filmed. Shropshire is a beautiful place and I'm very lucky to have lived here all my life.
Some are known or obvious fakes, others are cute, many unfashionable, others obsolete...but I don't find any of them offensive. I'm sure they did their advertising job pretty well. Look, they're still getting attention all this time later!
No wonder anyone in their right mind (and who enjoy a healthy sense of humor) finds political incorrectness so damn funny! Why? Perhaps because being “politically incorrect” is simply being a human being-and NOT spending their lives pretending to tip-toe through egg shells for fear of offending someone-gasp!
Grandpa always told me no such things as "Good old Days", beloved through the 1940s nostalgia for the "Gay '90s" and pre Great War times in general. I've seen various framed nostalgia, even for the 1990s.
I know a few people that could benefit from the Asthma Cigarettes. Perhaps, had those caught on, the anti-smoking scum wouldn't have made such headway.
Taking " heroin" ...real heroin for aches and pains? If doctors sold that legally back in the day...it explains why my grandpa seemed sort of strung out sometimes lol
The problem with the world is putting politics into all aspects of life. Back then politics pretty much stayed at the White House. Today it’s let it go all the way down to how to politically correct the way one ties their shoelaces. It’s just lunacy. There was a time to where you could literally put an AD in for any newspaper company. It’s a shame tons of freedoms are gone.
@@michaelpogrant7982That ad was meant tongue in cheek. They were saying put blunders on your wife so as to prevent her from seeing the fabulous new refrigerator. They didn’t mean to PHYSICALLY put blinders on her! Geez! You proved his point!
@@karlhaber1904 As usual in RU-vid comments, an assertion without any evidence to back it up, like the claim George Carlin was a conservative (he wasn't). I believe you're referring to his assertion that "Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners." He was against "political correctness" coming from both sides of the political aisle. My original comment referred to the fact that you can't look at the comments section for any RU-vid video that remotely touches on offensiveness without having some alt-tight troll moan about how political correctness is destroying the home, our government, the Boy Scouts, the Flag, apple pie and every other American institution that has ever existed. Yes, political correctness and cancel culture can be annoying, but Jeez, give it a rest.
Make sure they put out their cigarettes also before sleeping so they don't burn the house down or the wife will have to clean it all up with the Christmas presents she got!
I don't get it , the people around the 1950's or " the greatest generation " as they're called smoked, drank, ate red meat,etc. and yet they all seem to live into their nineties! Today people are so health conscious and they're dropping like flies! With few exceptions the men of the the 1940s and 50s were " real men" who would probably be horrified at whats going on the world today !
@@paulbats6996 I wasn't equating drinking or smoking with " manliness" I meant that despite their bad habits they lived a long time, case in point- I was in a diner years ago and this woman who was in her late 80's was smoking at the counter,( back when you could do that), she told me she's been smoking a pack a day for the past 50 years! My goodness, and look at the strength and longevity of actors like Burt Lancaster and that other dude,( forgot his name), etc.
A fascinating video showing the evolution of advertising. Many of these ads were in the back of magazines and periodicals of the past. Some were not very subtle but had some truth to them. I liked the husband leaving with his bags packed due to feminine hygiene issues. Hysterical!
It's not what you think. Back then "feminine hygiene" was a euphemism for birth control, which they couldn't mention. Lysol was used as a de facto spermicide.
@@KreemieNewgatt So was any bottled cola. Put your thumb over the top, give it a shake, remove the thumb while inserting the neck, and instant spermacide. Probably the carbonic acid that dealt the death blow. Edit: love the Devil’s Pumpkin! 👍
But if the woman buys a man a power tool it's fine, but buy her a kitchen appliance and it's sexist. Jeeez. Why does a bride wear white? Because most kitchen appliances are white.😜
Now most young people wouldnt know what a cake mixer was for or any other cooking utencils as they havent a clue how to cook/bake.Maccies has seen to that .
People weren’t offended back in the day like they are today. It was no big deal back in the 50s and 60s. Now, you have to be so careful not to hurt anyone’s feelings. It’s fucking absurd!
I choked on my smashed avocado on toast and spilled my latte watching this. I couldn't finish it I was so offended. I'm scared to leave the cafe now because it's a little warm outside and I'm scared I'll melt like a snowflake!
Dr Batty's Asthma Cigarettes are not recommended for children under six. (4:49) Good advice Dr Batty. Children shouldn't start smoking until age six. 🤣
When I was in highschool, I was the woman in wood shop class. I had a great teacher, that didn't say I couldn't do it. The boys in the class said a girl is to stupid for that class. I taught them how to use saws, and work with wood. They told me sorry. I was the only one to pass with a perfect score.
I was part of an experimental all boys cooking class in fifth grade. We made everything from scratch then had to eat it. It sure came in handy over the decades since, sure impressed a lot of dates. (along with what I learned from reading my ex's Cosmo magazines)
5:24 I can't believe stuffed girls heads were selling for $2.98 back then. They've hardly gone up in price after all these years. Wallmart had some on sale last week for $3.49. Must be hard making money in the stuffed girls heads business.
Ya think THESE are offensive (by today's weak, whiny, PC standards 🤣)? An ad from the 1860s said, "Winchester Rifles Make BAD Indians GOOD!" True story.
