Water's Gotta Lotta Bottle

Another pre-privatisation "water awareness" advert, again originally sourced by adarchive (#68).

This one, featuring a parade of jolly watermen, was broadcast in January 1989, fully eight or nine months before the selling of shares began in earnest. If anything, this one's even more whimsical than the "INVISIBLE PIEPLINEZ" one, albeit somewhat heavy-handed and actually saying very little, despite being impressive enough to seem like it's saying a lot. Best strategy in advertising, that.

The watermen whistle Handel's Water Music while they go about their extraordinarily pointless and endless job, which is a bit like milkmen humming - is there any classical music about milk? Hell with it.

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Entertainment

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• advert
• commercial
• PIF
• public
• information
• film
• water
• music
• handel
• sewage
• poisoning
• of
• camelford
• privatisation
• fuckers

[neonatalpenguin]

Britain looks weirdly mutilated without Scotland

[Applemask]

@DreadwindsGhost It is pretty pointless though.

[Applemask]

@DreadwindsGhost ARE YOU AWARE OF WATER NOW

[Applemask]

@DreadwindsGhost It's not a PIF, it's an "awareness campaign". To make you "aware" of the business of water distribution.

[hotelmario510]

In a world...

...without sewage disposal or plumbing in any form...

...Only one man is man enough...

...to rehydrate the earth...

WATERMAN!