Bold Advert

[gina32]

just watched the bold 2 in 1 advert and am surprised at the dialogue, young girl playing with her phone says, mum i need some money for my phone, mum says go and get me some wash detergent then, no please or thank you or kiss my backside, maybe im getting old but surely manners should be shown????

[tonyav]

It's not about age, gina. It's about manners in general imo.

[gina32]

i totally agree.

[Caribeing]

Manners have gone out the window nowadays, very rarely do you hear people say thank you, please or excuse me. I stand behind people in shopping queues and rarely hear them say thank you and they just let the assistant pack their shopping as if it is the normal thing to do!

[Tuvok]

She say the phone wastes money.


Em.....No.......the girl wastes the money.

[Kathyan]

I think manners have declined over the years. I still use them and so do my children and grandchildren. I suppose it comes down to how you were brought up, but I think the ads should use them. My personal hate is showing people on ads, and on TV generally, who talk whilst eating. We were always taught never to speak with your mouth full!

[ummmm]

I don't manners have declined. I live near a boys school and they use our local shop. I have never seen bad manners.

My son walked out the shop door not letting an older lady in. He walked back in the shop and apologised.

[ummmm]

Lol. Or parents should include 'no' in their vocabulary.

[Retrochic]

There are no barriers to good or bad manners. I can perhaps excuse young people bad manners as they may never have been taught -but pension age people who have the most dreadful manners , no excuse as they come from a generation where manners were instilled into you. In my retail unit I see all sorts. Recently I served a well-heeled couple who had the most dreadful manners (how much is this? then shove item on counter, pay and leave without further eye contact or dialogue) and then a lovely young couple with little children who had manners to die for, it was lovely to see. It seems to be getting worse, not saying please and thank you so something must be to blame and its probably TV.

[RATTER15]

I remember my daughter was going to town for the day, she was about 14, I dropped her and her friend into town, as they got out of the car I held out £50 for her, saying do you want some spending money. She replied "whatever" I said "Ok" and I put it back in my pocket and drove off.

Manners will get you a long way.

[Retrochic]

Totally agree with colinandjess -the older ones are the worse and if you complain they come out with the most foul language sometimes.

[RATTER15]

I hasten to add, when I picked her up again later that day she was crying, not about the money, she said she didn't care about that but she knew she had upset me.

[Svejk]

that was a good, expensive lesson, ratter. ;)

[merylpeep]

please post a link to this advert

[Mamyalynne]

I think using that advert as a premise that manners have declined is a poor choice, they have less than 30 seconds to get the product message across.

Within the home,do we really all use our manners to the full? No one else shout 'Stick the kettle on' or similar without the whole please and thank you?

Teaching children how to act politely is a must and in the main I meet polite people everyday.

[sandyRoe]

Do Bold target their adverts at dysfunctional families? Was it their advert where a father mocked his son's attempts to work on a car and sent him off with a flea in his ear to buy the cleaning stuff?

[merylpeep]

in the posted ad I can't see the girl saying "mum i need some money for my phone", nor mum saying "go and get me some wash detergent then". is that the right ad?