@zakalon123. People ignore simple messages. This was MEANT to shock. The comparison with dementia is stupid. You can't control if you get dementia or not and can't take precautions. These adverts saved lives and the concept spread through the West with the result that, although growing, Western infection rates are relatively low. They had to be hard-hitting to scare people off reckless behaviour.
@cavanuk you don't read the Guardian, do you? Research shows that scary adverts are actually counter-productive. People were scared without knowing why?
As a kid growing up in the 80's they showed gruesome PIFS on DAYTIME TELEVISION, car crashes, drowning etc.etc. So like a lot of people I grew up with irrational fears and phobia's without really knowing why. Education can/should be done with humour as they are the ads that pepole remember with affection. Most of PIFS are common sense.
I recall some of these ads from my childhood I was always deathly scared of HIV/AIDs - I've just had to go through an HIV test for the first time in my life (due to my own carelessness and stupidity) thankfully it was NEGATIVE, but I know I can't always be that lucky. Shame they don't have these campaigns now.
THESE SO-CALLED PUBLIC INFORMATION FILMS. SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME WHEN I WAS A KID. ADVERTS SHOULD BE THERE TO EDUCATE, NOT TRAUMATIZE PEOPLE. I ESPECIALLY HATED THE ONES THAT THEY DID IN 1988.
YOU CAN MAKE A GOOD POINT WITHOUT GIVING PEOPLE NIGHTMARES FOR YEARS TO COME. THESE SO-CALLED " PUBLIC INFORMATION FILMS" WERE A FORM OF CHILD ABUSE, NO WONDER WE SEE, SO FEW OF THEM NOW.
@utdfan85 stick in my head!!!! These ******* adverts put me off sex. They were psychological warfare, not education. As a normal heterosexual male, these " adverts" would make it out that anyone that you tried to pick up or meet at a bar etc etc, were evil B'strds deliberately out to infect you with a killer disease???? WTF
I mean the govt was using a H-bomb to crack a nut, there are loads of health issues.
Dementia kills far more people than AIDS, no scary campaigns about that.
@DoveLady unfortunately these " adverts" were narrated by John Hurt.
Unfortuntely for me, it has put me right off John Hurt now as everytime I hear his voice I immediately think of these " adverts" Apparently Nic Roeg directed them as well. ( he keeps that one quiet, doesn't he? )
And now they are talking about a new campaign. I just hope to God that it is not as frightening or depressing as the " campaigns" they did in the late 1980's.
These used to scare the shit out of me right before bed time when i was 6 years old.Back then there was only 4 television channels,they were aired at 8pm this one on bbc1&2,and the tombstone aids advert on itv and channel 4.so there was no getting away by channel switching.they were then broadcast at hourly intervals upto 12pm if i remember but i as in bed by then pissing the bedsheets.
That was weird when does a hummer make a demonic chruch sound???
Ashyblubear 1 month ago
@zakalon123. People ignore simple messages. This was MEANT to shock. The comparison with dementia is stupid. You can't control if you get dementia or not and can't take precautions. These adverts saved lives and the concept spread through the West with the result that, although growing, Western infection rates are relatively low. They had to be hard-hitting to scare people off reckless behaviour.
cavanuk 3 months ago
@cavanuk you don't read the Guardian, do you? Research shows that scary adverts are actually counter-productive. People were scared without knowing why?
As a kid growing up in the 80's they showed gruesome PIFS on DAYTIME TELEVISION, car crashes, drowning etc.etc. So like a lot of people I grew up with irrational fears and phobia's without really knowing why. Education can/should be done with humour as they are the ads that pepole remember with affection. Most of PIFS are common sense.
zakalon123 3 months ago
i remember this ad, frightening. i had nightmares that aids were gonna get me
vanpablo79 3 months ago
Simple, effective, terrifying and to the point.
Works much better than those retarded "Talk To Frank" clips that were fucking bewildering.
DarthCipient 3 months ago
I recall some of these ads from my childhood I was always deathly scared of HIV/AIDs - I've just had to go through an HIV test for the first time in my life (due to my own carelessness and stupidity) thankfully it was NEGATIVE, but I know I can't always be that lucky. Shame they don't have these campaigns now.
AbsintheGirl27 5 months ago
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TheGodParticle 5 months ago
THESE SO-CALLED PUBLIC INFORMATION FILMS. SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME WHEN I WAS A KID. ADVERTS SHOULD BE THERE TO EDUCATE, NOT TRAUMATIZE PEOPLE. I ESPECIALLY HATED THE ONES THAT THEY DID IN 1988.
YOU CAN MAKE A GOOD POINT WITHOUT GIVING PEOPLE NIGHTMARES FOR YEARS TO COME. THESE SO-CALLED " PUBLIC INFORMATION FILMS" WERE A FORM OF CHILD ABUSE, NO WONDER WE SEE, SO FEW OF THEM NOW.
zakalon123 6 months ago
@zakalon123 Yup they used to shit me up too! bye the way your caps lock is on! :)
Bosschilli 6 months ago 3
@zakalon123 By God though it'll stick in your head when you're about to have sex without a condom! AIDS meant almost certain death back then
utdfan85 5 months ago
@utdfan85 stick in my head!!!! These ******* adverts put me off sex. They were psychological warfare, not education. As a normal heterosexual male, these " adverts" would make it out that anyone that you tried to pick up or meet at a bar etc etc, were evil B'strds deliberately out to infect you with a killer disease???? WTF
I mean the govt was using a H-bomb to crack a nut, there are loads of health issues.
Dementia kills far more people than AIDS, no scary campaigns about that.
zakalon123 5 months ago
umm....is this narrated by john hurt?
DoveLady 7 months ago
@DoveLady as far as I know it is (:
BrokenWarrior92 7 months ago
@BrokenWarrior92 then in my mind this is the beginning of cutler's rise to power through propaganda.
DoveLady 7 months ago
@DoveLady unfortunately these " adverts" were narrated by John Hurt.
Unfortuntely for me, it has put me right off John Hurt now as everytime I hear his voice I immediately think of these " adverts" Apparently Nic Roeg directed them as well. ( he keeps that one quiet, doesn't he? )
And now they are talking about a new campaign. I just hope to God that it is not as frightening or depressing as the " campaigns" they did in the late 1980's.
Puts you off watching T.V.
zakalon123 5 months ago
@zakalon123 it's true. his voice is damn near recognizable lol "1984" will never be the same for me now.
DoveLady 5 months ago
Spooky.
wikichris 8 months ago
I know lots of ignorant people I want dead....
UKBToo 1 year ago 10
These used to scare the shit out of me right before bed time when i was 6 years old.Back then there was only 4 television channels,they were aired at 8pm this one on bbc1&2,and the tombstone aids advert on itv and channel 4.so there was no getting away by channel switching.they were then broadcast at hourly intervals upto 12pm if i remember but i as in bed by then pissing the bedsheets.
killerbundy 1 year ago 2
Pool's Closed.
IronWaffles 1 year ago 12