Guiness Ad

[Cantwait2no]

I dont really get that Guiness advert and wot its about, the one with the guy that goes swimming and hugs the guy at the end, can anybody enlighten me?

[patiodors]

Do you mean the one some time ago, where the guy swims the same race every year and his brother has the starting gun? If so, and you watched it carefully, you would see that his brother actually fires the starting gun AFTER he has already started swimming, thus ensuring that his brother beats the time every year as he gets older.

It took me a while to understand this one too. If this is not the ad you mean, apologies!

[DodgyAnkle]

The way I see it is... Perhaps the guy had an argument with his brother some years before, his brother then does the typical Irish thing and moves to New York... So he has to swim to New York to make amends... Too expensive to fly?

[Joe Shmoe]

Or are you thinking of the Tick Follows Tock,Surfing Ad? If so the man in this ad has been waiting his whole life for the perfect wave. When he finds that wait he feels it was worth every second of that wait. To pour the perfect pint of Guiness takes a certain amount of time.Also apperently worth the wait hence the catchphrase Good Things Come To Those Who Wait.

[Whickerman]

It's the one where it's so important to him to make up with his brother that he walks across Ireland, leaps into the Atlantic from the Cliffs of Moher, swims to New York, and meets the brother in a bar. The brother then does the typical thing, and looks at him before smiling and giving him a pint - as if he'd just crossed the road. It's supposed to make you feel that people who drink Guiness are pretty ok types.

There's a clever play on it in the latest ad, where the guy actually does just cross the road (splashing in a puddle as he goes...)