43 thoughts on “Showing Everywhere

    1. Undertow

      Have to agree. Thankfully, I don’t need a ‘campaign’ to tell me how much I can drink.

    2. Mister Mister

      Absolutely. The definition of what binge drinking makes this all the more laughable.

      1. Ploika

        Do you also believe in homeopathy?

        It annoys me that the people who scoff at those who ignore doctors and scientists and say that homeopathy works, can turn around and ignore doctors and scientists themselves and claim that the definition of binge drinking is all wrong.

        What makes you think that the people who spent their entire lives studying the human body don’t know how much alcohol a liver can take? I’m sure you know better than the experts because sure you’ve been drinkin’ with years.

          1. Ploika

            Homeopathy is literally water and nothing else, and alcohol is a poison that’s only healthy in smallish doses. When it comes to knowing what damages the body and what doesn’t, any lay person who decides that they know better than qualified doctors is just being arrogant and stupid. I’m not going to humour them.

  1. Ploika

    I’m all for making binge drinking socially unacceptable but I can’t really relate to Irish “traditional values”.

    Better than doing nothing though. Fair play in fairness etc

    1. ahjayzis

      I know right?

      I can’t get wed in Myland thanks to the community working together in harmony, and now I’ll be made a social pariah for having the audacity to enjoy three pints in a sitting? Myland’s a bit of a joyless s**thole, if you ask me.

      But kudos for them for targetting the real problem drinkers – everyone who goes to the pub at the weekend and isn’t driving or on antibiotics. We MUST stamp out this innocuous, normal drinking NOW.

      I for one look forward to when the term ‘binge’ means a half pint every other Christmas.

      1. All the good ones fly south for winter

        In fairness they’d already had a few when knocking that up.

    1. Selfie Sensation

      This has campaign pitch placeholder all over it. And its shite. Its my land? I’m part of the family? WTF are you on about.

      A campaign to reduce the prevalence of binge drinking is worthy and sorely needed but this is not it.

  2. Bertie Blenkinsop

    Fair play to him for balancing a kid on his shoulders while he’s locked all the same.

    1. ahjayzis

      Smells a bit Iona-institutey to me.

      The whole “traditional values” is just an insane term to use if you’re trying to get someone under 40 or with a vagina to row in behind your campaign for abstinence.

  3. Conski

    there’s certainly an issue there that does need to be addressed… pretty awkward no matter which way its broached

  4. Crank

    ‘ALCOHOL PRODUCER’ down the end.

    Is it possible that this something that was sent as a suggestion to an ‘alcohol producer’ to use as in an anti-binging campaing? If so I can imagine they sent it back marked “D-minus. Must be less sh1t.”

    1. scottser

      true for ya. the ‘drinkaware’ site is funded by diageo and its sole purpose is to deflect all problems associated with alcohol back to the consumer. its message is that alcohol is not addictive and despite its mood altering nature, you’ve got no-one but yourself to blame if you end up affected by it.

  5. Drogg

    That is the worst piece of marketing I have ever seen, whatever idiot or committee of idiots came up with that need to be sacked and promptly.

  6. anon

    If were going to tolerate binge bankers then piss off and leave me to enjoy my beer at n peace.

  7. edalicious

    “But a movie poster? This is our reality…”

    I don’t get what this is supposed to mean.

    1. All the good ones fly south for winter

      It’s aimed at that generation that found Where the wild things are deep and edgy.

  8. Chris

    Hah bingers! What fools, I drink a little every day and I feel great, those same tools who have massive binges look at me like a complete alcoholic when I say I drink every day. Seriously the false piety from them, the amount of times I have heard someone say ‘I’m not drinking all week’ then there they are straight after work on Friday, red faced, filled
    to the gills and vomiting on the street. Well I had a drink yesterday, I am having a drink today and I will have one tomorrow but you won’t see me puking on my shoes and being a public nuisance.

  9. YourNan

    because Irish people don’t understand anything unless it’s in a fillum or a video game,

  10. DaveM

    Its nearly as good as the one that makes you feel like you will be hip and cool if ya’ feck yer’ chewin’ gum over yer shoulder and in to the bin while doin’ a back flip and pretendin’ your not a gobshite. Brilliant,you see the kids doin’ it all over Ireland.

    1. Drogg

      They have even got those running on the playstation network at the moment, i almost fired mine out the f**king window when i seen them.

          1. Samuel

            Nice :)

            [Caps Lock] broken?

            Had she scuttled off to Syria, she’d have been shot down.

  11. Hilary

    Lovely copy ruined by illiterate spelling – ‘your (sic) going to keep paying for me’

  12. tim

    I think that in Ireland drinking twice a week, say 3 – 6 pints a go, would be considered normal enough for a working person (i.e. not counting university students). It certainly wouldn’t raise any eye-brows or have anybody worried about your health. In the last 4/5 years where I’ve been working in continental europe (mostly Germany) though, I’ve gotten the impression that many people would consider that to be a pretty heavy intake. Not intervention heavy, but definitely enough to get yourself a rep. Normal in what I’ve seen so far (not counting Sweden or UK) is 1 or 2 drinks. Not very scientific I know, but my feeling is that what is considered normal in Ireland is not in line with many other places, and I think it’s hard not to let that effect you. If I moved back to Ireland today, I think I probably would start drinking slightly more again just because it’s normal?

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