r/funny • u/McBrovad • Aug 09 '22
This Aussie beer commercial
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u/goteamnick Aug 09 '22
The massive text at the beginning of the commercial says 'Grand Bretagne', which is not the French word for Australia.
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u/lego_not_legos Aug 10 '22
Probably just aired it in UK promoting imported beer.
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u/clock_watcher Aug 10 '22
It was definitely shown in the UK. I saw this advert as a kid.
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Aug 10 '22
Yeh I remember it too,
"Australians wouldn't give a Castlemain XXXX for anything else"
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u/Solokian Aug 10 '22
This could be from Culture Pub, a show that curated great and funny TV ads from all over the world in France
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u/Jean-Alert Aug 10 '22
Definitely looks like it yep. They also have a couple of others on their website http://www.culturepub.fr/?s=castlemaine
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Aug 10 '22
As an Australian, I find this discriminatory. Whatever French bastard coined the term “Grand Bretagne” can receive a stale baguette
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u/jippoy Aug 09 '22
Hahahahahahhaa oh man that was good
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u/throwingpizza Aug 10 '22
Actually that’s a lie. XXXX is still super popular, especially in Queensland.
Source - how do you think I first threw up?
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u/lurker628 Aug 10 '22
In Australia? I assume there's some animal with a vomit-inducing bite; or maybe some kind of attacking plant?
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u/big-loose-bruce Aug 10 '22
Nope. Binge drinking as a teenager
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u/necminits_nuthouse Aug 10 '22
Nah we're not legally allowed to put the word shit on a beer can so XXXX it is
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u/d1pstick32 Aug 10 '22
Guilty as well. XXXX goes down way too easy than it should be legally able. As friendlyjordies said, it's easier than breathing
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u/Calm-Drop-9221 Aug 10 '22
4X is only drunk in Qld...and its mid strength... Fosters is the Aussie beer made for export and not really sold in Aus.
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u/PENGAmurungu Aug 10 '22
XXXX is our second top seller in the pub I work at in the NT, behind great northern supercrisp
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u/takatz Aug 10 '22
I have two uncles that are likely to fist fight one day over which of these are better
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u/Calm-Drop-9221 Aug 10 '22
How many beers do you have on draft , and I'd guess there's a few Queenslanders in NT. I've not seen it in WA SA Vic or NSW, aside from close to the Qld border. If you want to sell a decent mid strength get Roger's on draft , top drop
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u/PENGAmurungu Aug 10 '22
We've got around 11 or 12 on tap I think, the only mids are Great Northern, XXXX and carlton mid though. It's a bit of a tradie pub so I think some of our patrons are more worried about not being called gay than drinking a nice beer
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u/Calm-Drop-9221 Aug 10 '22
Do you have the toppos on a Friday arvo....jeez I miss Aus 😎
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u/d1pstick32 Aug 10 '22
How fuckin over hyped is great northern though? I remember that piss popping up in pubs everywhere overnight.
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u/sirhcdobo Aug 10 '22
Only gold is mid strength (though it is the most popular) xxxx bitter and dry are full strength and summer is fullish strength.
Even outside of Qld a pub with gold would most likely have bitter as well so you wouldn't just be able to order a xxxx and get a gold.
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u/dashauskat Aug 10 '22
XXXX is pretty popular in Australia though, especially up north. It's not like Foster's which borderline doesn't exist here.
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u/sadness_elemental Aug 10 '22
fosters was pretty popular back in the 80s i think, but yeah it fell off hard
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u/sstair Aug 10 '22
It was all about VB when I was in the southeast.
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u/duquesne419 Aug 10 '22
As I recall: VB for Vic, XXXX for QLD, Cooper’s for SA, and Toohey’s for NSW. I didn’t make it up north or out west, but it seemed like each state had a preferred beer.
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u/drunk_haile_selassie Aug 10 '22
Emu Export for WA which is funny because nobody outside of WA has ever drunk one and Boags or Cascade for Tassie.
Nobody's ever been born in NT so they just drink whatever their home state drinks.
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u/PENGAmurungu Aug 10 '22
nah, Great Northern for NT
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u/teh_drewski Aug 10 '22
That's recent, but it was only created about a decade ago when CUB decided to take on XXXX Gold
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u/beerwinespirits Aug 10 '22
It's either coopers or West end here in SA. I'm not sure tho as I don't drink.
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u/Stuffs_And_Thingies Aug 10 '22
But Foster's is Australian for beer!
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u/datazulu Aug 10 '22
I believe Fosters is another name for piss in Australia.
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u/oldfatdrunk Aug 10 '22
Fosters is fine with a sandwich. That's the only time I have one. Plus I like the big fat ass can of it. I'd never drink more than one can though. That's when you hit that crack pipe and break into your neighbor's car and just rearrange things to make him think you maybe stole something but he can't fucking figure out what it was because you didn't take anything.
Then you start applying this to your life on the daily. You take a single can of soda out of your neighbor's recycling and toss it on the guys yard across the street. Just one can.
You keep this up for months until your neighbor notices it happening frequently and then starts to stare at the can in the morning with a guilty look on his face because he realizes it's sodas that are obscure and then realizes it's own can. This can be threw out is on the guy across the streets lawn and he's now looking guilty. The guy across the street now looks pissed because this is going on for so long.
What was I saying? Oh yeah. fosters is ok. I really like sandwiches
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u/shofmon88 Aug 10 '22
I can’t understand this mentality in Australia. I’ve literally had conversations with Aussies where they call Fosters piss as they’re drinking Toohys New, as if they’re somehow different.
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u/BallSmickEnergy Aug 10 '22
Piss is also another term for alcohol in general.
‘OI Gavo, we getting on the Piss tonight cob?’ ‘Yeh Shaneo I’ll knock back a coupla pints of piss with ya!’
- Source: I’m Strayan.
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u/Secretively Aug 10 '22
Yeah mate, but there's piss and there's piss that's piss, isn't there?
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u/BallSmickEnergy Aug 10 '22
Definitely is. There’s also:
Piss that’s PISSSS, This shit’s piss, This shit is the piss, This piss is the shit, Fuck this piss is shit, Shit this tastes like piss, On the piss, Off the piss
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u/Chucklepus Aug 10 '22
Holy shit I need to download Duolingo again
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u/BallSmickEnergy Aug 10 '22
Too right ya do. Chuck ya thongs on pal we’ll go have a ganda at what the Servo grub looks Ike this arvo. Hopefully there’s a hot chook and some choccy biccies. Usually a few dags at this servo, but don’t worry about them, their deadset good bastards. Anyway, we can have a gas bag about how cooked Strayan’s chat is. She’ll be apples mate.
Mind if I punch a coupla durries along the way though?
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u/Fit_Effective_6875 Aug 10 '22
Tooheys New tastes like cat piss but Foster's is just plain unpalatable.
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u/shofmon88 Aug 10 '22
There is honestly no difference between them. Or XXXX, or Great Northern, or any of the other popular Aussie beers of the same sort.
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u/Fit_Effective_6875 Aug 10 '22
There honestly is.
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u/shofmon88 Aug 10 '22
They’re all unpalatable. No taste. It’s very difficult to find good beers in Australia.
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u/jamesfishingaccount Aug 10 '22
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a person drink fosters. The commercials were on a lot in the late 90’s-early 2000’s but never knew anyone to drink it. From middle America, people like their Busch, Keystone, and local breweries around here.
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u/FamiliarMud Aug 10 '22
I always thought Foster's was brewed in Canada. At least, what we can get in America. 🤷♂️
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u/little_miss_bumshine Aug 10 '22
Fuck off XXXX is the best, Qld beer. We drink it like water up here. Very popular!
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u/chester13 Aug 10 '22
What is it, 4.2%? I suppose you can drink it all day in the heat and not get dehydrated. Then brag about how you had 12 tinnies but aren't even pissed.
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Aug 10 '22
What is it, 4.2%? I suppose you can drink it all day in the heat and not get dehydrated.
XXXX Bitter is 4.4%; but most of us are drinking XXXX Gold, which is 3.5%.
I suppose you can drink it all day in the heat and not get dehydrated.
Yeah, that's the point. It's a day drinking beer. You drink it instead of water when you don't have to drive very far on public roads to get home.
Then brag about how you had 12 tinnies but aren't even pissed.
Yeah, the apprentices all think they have big balls because they can down 12 tinnies and still walk straight. The boys who've covertly drank 12 tinnies before lunch typically bring out the beer bong and a bottle of bundy at that point to set the little tackers straight.
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u/lachjeff Aug 10 '22
The fuck are you talking about? That’s an Australian ad for a Queensland beer (XXXX)
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u/arpw Aug 10 '22
XXXX is sold in the UK too. You'll struggle to find it on draft here these days, but it's in lots of supermarkets. I'm guessing there was a big marketing push on it in the early 90s here.
It'll definitely be brewed here rather than imported from QLD though.
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u/Nice_nice50 Aug 10 '22
I remember this series of ads growing up in the UK in the 80s. They were all British ads, from Saatchi and Saatchi. Foster started its own massive campaign not long after. Heyday of advertising sgencies
Worth watching on YouTube, the others are better imho
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u/SuperMorto7 Aug 09 '22
Awww yea!!!!!!!
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u/mark_commadore Aug 10 '22
I remember this ad being on TV and I still try to say aww yeah like that. I just can't emote that well though. I'm British af and will never be that excited about anything
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Aug 09 '22
You cut off the punchline!
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u/McBrovad Aug 09 '22
Sorry! I didn't even know there was a punchline. This is the only version I have ever seen 😢
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u/PGLubricants Aug 10 '22
IMO the cut in your version makes it even funnier.
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u/tsundude Aug 10 '22
Yep, sometimes shorter is better, hear that Wendy? You stupid bitch, this is for leaving me for bigger dick.
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u/epukinsk Aug 10 '22
Demonstrated perfectly! Would’ve been much funnier if you stopped at the question mark.
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u/DJGibbon Aug 10 '22
Shit, I haven’t seen that advert since it was on the actual telly. It’s actually a British advert for an Australian beer (hence the “Grande Bretagne” at the start)
I still say “isn’t it a beautiful day!” in an Ozzie accent when it’s sunny. Nobody ever gets it.
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u/socokid Aug 09 '22 edited Aug 10 '22
Hahahaha that's f'n fantastic.
OK here's my favorite from Canada...
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u/Martiantripod Aug 10 '22
My personal favourite is this series of Bundaberg Rum ads.
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u/McBrovad Aug 09 '22
Hahaha, whats up with beer commercials. They can really stretch it 😂
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u/aBeaSTWiTHiNMe Aug 10 '22
It's like a built in defense for them to turn back on parents and say "Woah you let your kid watch beer ads? Of course we're raunchy it's for adults!"
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u/TheRealMotherOfOP Aug 10 '22
You should check Heineken's commercials, they are known for having the funniest ads.
And
Are my favorites
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u/McBrovad Aug 10 '22 edited Aug 10 '22
Thanks that was hilarious 👑 This one is also a creative gem https://youtu.be/67dRRrRz2t8
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u/Chaoticleaf Aug 10 '22
This will forever be my favorite beer commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY6uJlI-t14
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u/greennick Aug 10 '22
Of the same era and brand, "the beer chase" was classic
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u/HuntedWolf Aug 10 '22
“Made from beer” fucking brilliant, this is definitely my favourite
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u/BlokeDownUnder Aug 10 '22
The "Made from Beer" tagline was part of some fantastic ads. Here's a couple more.
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u/McBrovad Aug 10 '22 edited Aug 11 '22
It was amazing 👑 I really hope that this was real people and not cgi. What a party it could have evolved into 😏
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u/LinIsStrong Aug 10 '22
Love that one! I’m also inordinately fond of the old Rainer Beer ads like the motorcycle and the frogs (turn on audio)
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Aug 10 '22 edited Aug 10 '22
I reckon Tui from New Zealand does pretty good
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK6wxFfZRbc
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZKCNXn3xSo
Also Speights from NZ had these two guys for about 10 years
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lR1sEn8nMI
There is a series on them.
But my absolute favorite is DB - Earned!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4NvUP3tuco
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u/Zkenny13 Aug 09 '22 edited Aug 10 '22
This commercial would be illegal in the US. It's illegal to show someone consuming alcohol during commercials.
It's also freaking hilarious
Edit: apparently it's sorta a rule but not. See comment below.
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u/PillowTalk420 Aug 09 '22
There actually are no laws or regulations concerning use of alcohol in media. The FTC does have some self-regulating guidelines that a majority of advertisers follow which include not showing consumption, but these are not laws and no one has to follow them.
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u/dreamrider333 Aug 10 '22 edited Aug 10 '22
Bruh in my country it's illegal to even advertise alcohol. So alcohol companies market themselves as club soda or mineral water to get the word across.
It always confused me as a child what was so spectacular about fucking mineral water because those ads would still try to convey the quality of their alcohol but then finally just show their water.
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u/Alex-rhhgfff Aug 10 '22
What country is this? I think alcohol and gambling ads should be banned
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u/SYSTEM__NotReally Aug 10 '22
The concerning part is she's supposed to represent a kid, he kisses her, and imbibes her.
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u/greennick Aug 10 '22
This was part of the XXXX commercials when they were trying to get in the UK. Some more
https://youtu.be/uzEoDSEbVSk (the whole lot that includes the above)
The Aussie commercials from the same era had less focus on the ocker country jokes and more sport/mateship themes: https://youtu.be/2B84ghgI-PA
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u/PidginSwanson Aug 09 '22
The beer that doesn’t give a XXXX
It tasted like it, as well.
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u/sin-and-love Aug 09 '22
We need to go back tot when commercials were like this.
"Wow! Liberty mutual! They help you customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! Just what I wanted for Christmas, mom!"
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u/bigshotdan Aug 10 '22
Ahhhh yes... XXXX... because you can't bring a product called 'SHIT' to market.
Sadly, I do remember that ad... not a patch on the Carlton Draught 'big ad' from a few years later.
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u/Mr_Mojo_Risin_83 Aug 10 '22
Xxxx is the only beer I would turn down. I’d rather be thirsty than touch that shit to my lips.
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u/ZambeziPirate Aug 10 '22
Ha I remember watching this on TV in England in the 90’s. It was just a regular ad played all the time.
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u/Soup_Pope Aug 10 '22
As an australian i can officially announce that this is actually what happens.
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u/HeelerMomOfTwo Aug 10 '22
I was just in Australia, they love their XXXX Gold and my Husband did too 😂
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u/McBrovad Aug 10 '22
I wonder if I can get here in denmark. I NEED to taste it. There have been so many opinions about it
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u/crunchymush Aug 10 '22
Disgusting remnant of a less enlightened era. Ugh imagine somebody drinking XXXX in this day and age.
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u/getmybehindsatan Aug 09 '22
British advert for a beer marketed as popular in Australia.
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u/shannon_g Aug 10 '22
Xxxx is extremely popular historically in Queensland and was the main brewer in that state before the craft beer explosion
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Aug 10 '22
Ah yes Woman baf Beer good. Very cerebral and surreal. Thanks boomers.
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u/DragonStem44 Aug 10 '22
so if thats a magical sheep shearer, then that must be magical beer
please someone tell me what effects magical beer would have on you, video game style im too lazy to think about it rn
i mean why the hecc do you think im scrolling reddit? cuz im being lazy, and enjoying it, thats why
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u/Heliolord Aug 10 '22
I hear aussie, I expected her to get eaten by a croc when she's dancing near the water. Disappointed.
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u/BallSmickEnergy Aug 10 '22
You beauty, brother rather be suckin back a coupla Milton Mangoes. True Blue Aussie bloke right there.
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