ITV Night Time Ad Break

[tokutom]

I take it this was the darker and edgier era of public information films?

[loneshewolf74]

That first PSA was like something out my worst dreams. What is it about cars that gives drivers the delusion that not only are they invincible, but people out walking must be too? :(

[Lazyguy22]

Got to wear ear defenders when you're shooting air guns, them springs are loud!

[Sati1979]

I remember the animated ad; it's really quite disturbing.

[robthemod58]

Was that Roger Moore on the telly at 0:59?

[happinesscounts]

No a Newsreader

[LOOPYMOOCOW]

that kid must be pissed off at that news presenter!

[hotelmario510]

The first one is clever how it transforms a regular car alarm into the Psycho theme. Whenever little kids are involved in PIFs you know it'll be an effective one.

[BML8384]

Forget the Guns- That animated one was a NIGHTMARE! Never seen it before either. Happy to never see it again.

[slyboy78]

0:58 i guess that kid really hates the news to shoot the tv XD but still it's true about the gunseither keep it out of children or take the older kids to shooting clubs to learn about them

[MsBkirk]

@slyboy78 the kid must also have read the story about Elvis Presley shooting the TV whenever something came on he didn't like!

[TigerWalrus26980]

0.55 - yeah, and learn to shoot someone right through the eye - idiots!

[Applemask]

That first one is apparently an animated version of an older live action one, at least partly drawn over the original, hence the eerie effect.

[Malcos68]

which makes it more spooky - they used to give me nightmares as a kid

[TigerWalrus26980]

You're not the only one - I only saw that first one once, but it haunted me for ages! I think it was the boy's scream that did it.

[YukiTheLaughingMan]

Who's the driver, Norman Bates?

[Applemask]

"GRIGORIO MORODER'S PSYCHO."

[Malcos68]

Wonder what Charlie would have said about that?

[ahd2006]

"Mowwoweeyowowmmwowyowmwaaaow"­, probably :D

[Malcos68]

LOL - OR piss my little panties

[thecheesepriest]

"Air weapons should be used safely?!"  Jeez! It's lucky this PIF is not being broadcast now isn't it? It'll give the knife hoodie yobs ideas! Mike S.

[Malcos68]

Did you ever see the one "Giving a gun for Christmas?"

[Applemask]

I should have thought of this sooner. More PIFs!

[RobinCarmody]

Two entirely different eras of PIF here ... although the second one would be superceded by the post-Dunblane restrictions.

[Guncriminal]

True. Sadly, we now live in the age of the spineless poof where even mentioning guns results in hysteria and litigation.

[keiko909]

thats true, the days of shock advertising has gone cos society has turned poncey

[thecheesepriest]

Does that mean then to not be "poncey" you have to be a gun toting maniac?

[thecheesepriest]

Well Guncriminal, in these times it's better to be a spineless "poof" than a dead one.

[Guncriminal]

Yeah, because we all know that evil people only go after armed victims, right? Hah!

Being spinless gets you killed anyway. At least having the means to defend yourself gives you a chance. Ultimately, if we want to resort to bi-polar rhetoric, then the choice isn't between being spineless and being alive, it's between prefering to die in a pool of blood or a puddle of piss.

[Applemask]

Some of us would rather not live in a Joseph Conrad novel.

[Guncriminal]

Which one, exactly?

[Applemask]

The ones where man is only fooling himself into being detached from nature and more than one step from the abyss. So most of them. Particularly Heart of Darkness.

[Guncriminal]

And how's that relevent to what I've posted?

[Applemask]

Well, if you have to ask...