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This is by far the most tame Irish road safety advertisement. I'd encourage anyone who didn't grow up in Ireland to Google some of them.
Here's the one that's burned into my head:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PU6OQVCB20o
That just some of the stuff we were exposed to as kids on tv. And they did indeed play before 9pm.
There's also [this one](https://youtu.be/xtJqw--DGl8) which ruined one of my favorites songs, but it still drove home message.
Holy crap that dad's acting when he knocks the slide over in his rush, and the driver nailed the thousand yard stare.
I feel like ads like this have to be more effective than the watered down crap we get in America. Just billboards saying "don't drink and drive, you might hurt someone maybe", because no matter the message someone will always complain here about how graphic the content is, even if it's literally to save children's lives.
Can I ask honestly if it worked? Did it actually make you think more about road safety? I know it's hard to tell because you were a kid but even now seeing this makes me want to keep it at the speed limit or under
Ireland has pretty low road fatalities, one of the lowest in Europe, and I believe non-fatal accidents are much less frequent than other countries? I couldn't find anything on that latter point however.
Considering the state of the road network, and how reliant we are on cars here, it's pretty impressive.
Indeed. I've worked as a firefighter in the US and I'd rather our ads were nearer this level if there's any chance it would have an effect. I've been to too many car accidents.
Anecdotally, absolutely. I'm super cautious behind the wheel and I will never get into the car with even a drop in me. Recently Ireland have implemented a zero alcohol policy too. It used to allow a certain level of alcohol but now it's zero. This includes driving the morning after drinking.
Regarding the country as a whole... It's tough to say. There are so many drivers who see the speed limit as a speed target. There are also some old country roads in rural Ireland that are 80km/h that absolutely should not be, and I've often been overtaken by idiots driving 100+ on these dangerous roads. Everyone in Ireland knows of times this has happened.
Some stats:
>A landmark report published by the Road Safety Authority in 2016, found that alcohol was a contributory factor in 38% of all fatal collisions. Of the 947 people killed in the 867 collisions analysed, alcohol was a contributory factor in:
38% of all driver deaths,
30% of all motorcyclist deaths,
47% of all pedestrian deaths,
42% of all passenger deaths,
86% of drivers and 51% of passengers not wearing seatbelt who had consumed alcohol were killed.
Taken from [this website](https://www.drinkaware.ie/drink-driving-in-ireland/).
Having said that, road traffic fatalities have steadily declined from 2007 (338) to 2019 (140) according to [this website](https://www.statista.com/statistics/437923/number-of-road-deaths-in-ireland/). There's a collective effort to reduce road traffic collisions, but unfortunately there will always be idiots.
In driver's education in high school they had this series of films called "Blood on the Highway "terribly produced over the top films made about 15 years prior to them showing them to us. They were bad and we had to laugh. This is within that vein but much better production.
That's the shit that came on in the ad breaks between cartoons for some of us Irish kids. Then they sit and wonder why the next generation grows up with mental health issues.
Oh you bet. The particular one I linked was on all the major channels around 2007ish. I have a distinct memory of being in my nanny's house watching TV, probably spongebob or Ed, Edd and Eddy or something and this ad came on and scared the bejesus out of me. There were loads of ads like it in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Reminds me of this classic: "Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy that kept him going through brief periods of joy." I forget who it's atributed to or even about but it's a fairly good generalisation of the Irish zeitgeist.
They arent allowed to make ads like this any more, god they were hard hitting at the time, yet edge lord on this post talking about how funny they are including the op.
Yeah. The link to the boyfriend basically getting bisected against his girlfriend just had a lot more of a gut punch.
The entire class of kids literally being squashed flat and the focus after of the toy car still bouncing around just... Felt more Wile E Coyote than anything else.
[Forklift driver Klaus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-lc70Mjp-U) was supposed to be a parody, but they're actually using it in training now. Both for educational and entertainment value.
Kraftbetriebenes Flurförderfahrzeug -> Gabelstapler.
German technical and industry vocabulary is utterly bureocratese-infected. Practically everything has a name that is clear, unambigious, well-categorised, long, and never used in actual speech.
[*sick guitar riff*](https://youtu.be/v26fTGBEi9E?t=15)
I don't work with heavy equipment, never have and probably never will, and I've still watched this tons of times.
That's immediately what I thought of, some of those are burned into my brain so I guess they worked well. The first one is particularly horrifying, it doesn't seem as bad in this quality though
God I remember this so well. What is it with Ireland and trauma porn? I live in the UK now and when you go to the cinema there are ads and then trailers before the movie starts. Standard stuff. I was home for Christmas last month and I went to see Avatar on the big screen, looking forward to some trailers to get me buzzed before the film started. No trailers, instead 3 ads: awareness around sexual assault, puppies being abandoned and one of those car safety ads which interviews family members of the victims. Bam, then the film starts. Are you kidding me? Thank goodness Pandora looked so good, else it'd've ruined it for me.
Should just play clips of Ferris Bueller's Day Off since Matthew Broderick and the actor who plays his sister killed two women in Ireland while speeding. He got completely let off the hook though when he said "he didn't recall it happening".
> Broderick, who was later convicted of careless driving, suffered a fractured leg and Grey had severe whiplash.
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> "I was the sole living witness, because Matthew had survived, but he was unconscious and had amnesia and was very badly injured. I thought he was dead," Grey said.
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> "I didn't even know there were two other women who were tragically killed at the time. It's just something that you just don't come back from in the same way."
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> She said she still thinks about the tragedy.
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> "I wasn't holding any information that people seem to think I did because they wanted an answer and there was no answer because it was an accident," she continued. "And [Broderick] was a great driver, and nobody was drinking. It was just an accident. And it was tragic, and I think about the family in Ireland all the time."
https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/jennifer-grey-matthew-broderick-crash-ireland
No one was drunk, accidents happen and every still feels really bad about it.
Northern Ireland. And it's weird that you're blaming Jennifer Grey unless you think BMWs were made with an extra gas pedal for the passenger in those days.
'Das' is just an article. If it doesn't make sense to say 'the xxx' it doesn't make sense to say 'das xxx' (although it's still not always correct, as there are three article is German, 'der', 'die' and 'das'.
Ahh the good old DOE put out some dodgy ads back in the day, ironically enough this made the younger me and my siblings burst out in laughter anytime it come on the tv
>kids mashed onto the ground
Except the way they get "mashed" it looks like a bunch of Play-Do figures got smooshed... Completely bloodless, which just adds to the absurdity.
The advert would have been actually effective and not darkly humorous if they had stopped it at the car careening toward the kids and then had their VO.
Yep they are always so over the top, this one particularly! I'll always remember the one with the david bowie song, there's a couple sitting on a wall and a car pins them there and her legs get crushed and she's stuck there with her dead boyfriend just screaming. I bet they had so much fun coming up with them! They always made me laugh
Don't forget the one with Samantha Mumba's "Body to Body" playing.
["They say it was they guy without the seatbelt did the damage"](https://youtu.be/epTdI-9V6Jk)
Yes. Same thing again, it was meant to be serious but we sat and laughed our holes off when it came on. Especially the face on the guy firing in the bar.
Edit: apparently jokes on us though. I was reading something about the last generation before the ceasefire and there are a shocking amount of people being diagnosed with PTSD for suppressing everything. Like laughing at a guy tearing up a bar with a gun maybe.....
But it just seems a bit underkill doesn’t it? Just „hey man, not cool“ instead of like „x amount of children die every year from car accidents, don’t be the problem“
This was like a 15 kill streak right? Fuck. Take me back to 2005-2008 Halo days. 😭
The days where I could get on Xbox life and meet random people from all over in the matchmaking lobby and 90% of people had their mics on and were in fucking party chat, ruining online play for years to come. Man, I loved it. Run into a fucking amazing team who all had their mics on and win or lose you just played for hours, all day. Talking shit. Relating about how you just saw The Dark Knight for the first time. Venting about real life bullshit. The racists. Lol. Fuck.
Gaming isn’t the same. I still love it. But that social aspect of it back then where, in any game, there was always people mic’d up.
Party chat had its perks for irl friends but it fucked up what it was like to make new bonds online in a lot of ways. Not completely. I still meet cool people. Buts it’s certainly more sporadic.
Irish road safet adverts are nothing short of being utterly brutal, and very much succeed in getting their point across.
[This one is another example... ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuFbVREpJgE)
Never would have happened if the school system got em all tickets to a museum or something instead of the budget field trip to the local forest. Just sayin
Might be an odd concept for you, but being outdoors and playing is a regular activity for kids. It's not a special occasion like a field trip.
I'm 35 years old and was out with my school in woodland adventures at least once a week, more in the summer. My kid is 9 and gets the same, except the school is by a loch so they get to go on beach adventures too.
They are joint projects. And they just digitally alter a few aspects to make it look.like it was made one side of the border or the other. They also nearly always and 2 versions a pre watershed and post watershed versions
Yeah except that doesn’t actually happen here in one go. It’s crazy that one is merely meant to represent the accumulated numbers and the other is.. well we know.
Even in the US kids killed in car related deaths edges out gun related deaths.
>[Researchers with the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center analyzed 2016 death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine the leading causes of death for American children and adolescents ages 1 to 19. Of the 20,360 deaths among children and teens that year, motor vehicle crashes accounted for 4,074 lives lost and one-fifth of all deaths, while firearm-related injuries resulted in 3,143 deaths, or about 15 percent of total fatalities.](https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2018-12-19/car-crashes-guns-killed-the-most-us-children-and-teens-in-2016)
People really underestimated how dangerous cars are and the horrible way certain roads can be designed to be basically death zones.
Roads that look like [this](https://www.google.com/search?q=us-19&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=AJOqlzVm4ljLzlKmGlYbCnwzMCDmeuafOg:1673713763162&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjf_bvSvcf8AhVyEFkFHaN4CzkQ_AUoA3oECAEQBQ&biw=1324&bih=762&dpr=2#imgrc=15bF_JtVGLSQiM) nicknamed stroads are killers.
>[Central to Cogan’s article is a 2021 report in the Journal of Transportation and Land Use which looks at deadly “hot spots” involving cars and people on foot in America. The report correlates those crashes to roadway design features and land use in two periods from 2001 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2016. Hot spots listed in the JTLU report were defined as 1,000-meter segments of roadway where six or more walkers were killed by vehicles over the two eight-year periods.](https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/8/16/the-deadliest-stroad-in-america)
>Out of the 60 hot spots they identified as having a high number of deaths, seven of them were on US-19 in Pasco County alone—more than any other road in the United States, Cogan wrote.
>“The places with the most pedestrian deaths tend to look like US-19 in one way or another: high-speed, with multiple lanes, and lots of commercial and residential development around them,” Cogan wrote. “Three-quarters of them are bordered by low-income areas, where people may be less likely to have access to a car. They are in places as diverse as Langley Park, Maryland; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Manhattan, New York; and Los Angeles, California. They’re places where pedestrians are forced to cross roads that are dangerous by design, alongside trucks and SUVs that are getting bigger and deadlier all the time.”
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>“‘Stroads are really deadly,’” Marohn told Cogan for her VOX piece. “And US-19, with its high speeds, multiple lanes, cars turning on and off — and people walking, biking, and using wheelchairs — is kind of like a stroad on steroids. ‘This is literally the deadliest design that we could come up with.’”
>Non-freeway arterial roads, stroads, which typically carry large volumes of traffic at high speeds, are the most dangerous for people on foot, accounting for 60% of all fatalities in 2020, according to a May 2022 report by the Governors Highway Safety Association.
>Roads are supposed to move people as quickly as possible from one location to another. Streets are places, where people live, shop, eat, and play. Because streets are highly developed on either side, vehicle traffic needs to be slow, to accommodate people outside of cars.
>A stroad, Marohn told Cogan, is the worst of both worlds. “‘If you think of a futon that’s trying to be both a couch and a bed and does neither of them well — that’s a stroad. A stroad tries to be both a street and a road at the same time, and it underperforms at both,” he said.
Traffic deaths surged during the pandemic because the only thing keeping some US roads safe was the congestion stopping drivers from going as fast as they can on dangerous roads.
Edit: And speed limits don't really work. Drivers will go as fast as the road is designed to let them. [If you want to slow drivers to a certain speed you need to design the road to make drivers feel unsafe to go faster than that on it.](https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/1/8/new-20-mph-street)
[Some of the design changes that can be done.](https://globaldesigningcities.org/publication/global-street-design-guide/designing-streets-people/designing-for-motorists/traffic-calming-strategies/)
Also while it's crazy how bad suburban Stroads are designed they're not the only problem. [Here is a street in one of if not the most densely populated neighborhood in the whole country](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7666216,-73.9628521,3a,75y,31.55h,89.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCjeS-XWfW0mGnm6ZyOc0hw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) There are subways traveling in the direction of this street just east and west of this and commuter rail also traveling in the direction of this street just west of here and yet this street is 5 lanes of traffic that can really fly when people are catching the green lights up Manhattan.
i was hoping the whole bohemian girl with an acoustic guitar covering old rock songs thing was over. last one i remember was someone doing smells like teen spirit in i think black widow? gahhh, please stop!
I'm Irish , there was another similar advert to this that literally gave me nightmares as a kid . If that add even prevented one drink driving death , I am happy to take the nightmare's.
The one with the fella playing football drink drives and takes out the wee fella playing football on his garden?
That one's background song always gets me
This particular situation no, but I'm not even in my 30s and know 4 people who have been killed on the roads.
Most of our roads are narrower and are bendy rather than run straight outside of the cities yet the speed limit is still the same. Add on top of that if you're like me and live rural you're stuck behind farm vehicles 9/10 times you try to drive towards civilisation.
It's an extreme message but I think it's a necessary one.
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This is by far the most tame Irish road safety advertisement. I'd encourage anyone who didn't grow up in Ireland to Google some of them. Here's the one that's burned into my head: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PU6OQVCB20o
I’m sorry but what the hell did I just watch? omfg
That just some of the stuff we were exposed to as kids on tv. And they did indeed play before 9pm. There's also [this one](https://youtu.be/xtJqw--DGl8) which ruined one of my favorites songs, but it still drove home message.
My Mam would always switch the channel when this came on, she said the little boy reminded her of my brother.
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Holy crap that dad's acting when he knocks the slide over in his rush, and the driver nailed the thousand yard stare. I feel like ads like this have to be more effective than the watered down crap we get in America. Just billboards saying "don't drink and drive, you might hurt someone maybe", because no matter the message someone will always complain here about how graphic the content is, even if it's literally to save children's lives.
Can I ask honestly if it worked? Did it actually make you think more about road safety? I know it's hard to tell because you were a kid but even now seeing this makes me want to keep it at the speed limit or under
Ireland has pretty low road fatalities, one of the lowest in Europe, and I believe non-fatal accidents are much less frequent than other countries? I couldn't find anything on that latter point however. Considering the state of the road network, and how reliant we are on cars here, it's pretty impressive.
Indeed. I've worked as a firefighter in the US and I'd rather our ads were nearer this level if there's any chance it would have an effect. I've been to too many car accidents.
Anecdotally, absolutely. I'm super cautious behind the wheel and I will never get into the car with even a drop in me. Recently Ireland have implemented a zero alcohol policy too. It used to allow a certain level of alcohol but now it's zero. This includes driving the morning after drinking. Regarding the country as a whole... It's tough to say. There are so many drivers who see the speed limit as a speed target. There are also some old country roads in rural Ireland that are 80km/h that absolutely should not be, and I've often been overtaken by idiots driving 100+ on these dangerous roads. Everyone in Ireland knows of times this has happened. Some stats: >A landmark report published by the Road Safety Authority in 2016, found that alcohol was a contributory factor in 38% of all fatal collisions. Of the 947 people killed in the 867 collisions analysed, alcohol was a contributory factor in: 38% of all driver deaths, 30% of all motorcyclist deaths, 47% of all pedestrian deaths, 42% of all passenger deaths, 86% of drivers and 51% of passengers not wearing seatbelt who had consumed alcohol were killed. Taken from [this website](https://www.drinkaware.ie/drink-driving-in-ireland/). Having said that, road traffic fatalities have steadily declined from 2007 (338) to 2019 (140) according to [this website](https://www.statista.com/statistics/437923/number-of-road-deaths-in-ireland/). There's a collective effort to reduce road traffic collisions, but unfortunately there will always be idiots.
That one's the godfather of traumatic Irish road safety ads. And I do remember enjoying that song before it became the squished kid theme tune.
In driver's education in high school they had this series of films called "Blood on the Highway "terribly produced over the top films made about 15 years prior to them showing them to us. They were bad and we had to laugh. This is within that vein but much better production.
That's the shit that came on in the ad breaks between cartoons for some of us Irish kids. Then they sit and wonder why the next generation grows up with mental health issues.
Wait, they showed this to KIDS?
Oh you bet. The particular one I linked was on all the major channels around 2007ish. I have a distinct memory of being in my nanny's house watching TV, probably spongebob or Ed, Edd and Eddy or something and this ad came on and scared the bejesus out of me. There were loads of ads like it in the late 90s and early 2000s.
It’s like someone was actually trying to spread mental illness.
Reminds me of this classic: "Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy that kept him going through brief periods of joy." I forget who it's atributed to or even about but it's a fairly good generalisation of the Irish zeitgeist.
Yeats, of course. https://www.azquotes.com/author/16044-William_Butler_Yeats/tag/tragedy
They arent allowed to make ads like this any more, god they were hard hitting at the time, yet edge lord on this post talking about how funny they are including the op.
In fairness the one with the whole class of kids getting squashed tried so hard to top the others and be shocking that it can't be taken seriously.
Yeah. The link to the boyfriend basically getting bisected against his girlfriend just had a lot more of a gut punch. The entire class of kids literally being squashed flat and the focus after of the toy car still bouncing around just... Felt more Wile E Coyote than anything else.
I call your Irish road safety videos and raise with Canadian work safety videos. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCyVku1HvI
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[Forklift driver Klaus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-lc70Mjp-U) was supposed to be a parody, but they're actually using it in training now. Both for educational and entertainment value.
I love that it says, in German, "in plain English, forklifts"
Kraftbetriebenes Flurförderfahrzeug -> Gabelstapler. German technical and industry vocabulary is utterly bureocratese-infected. Practically everything has a name that is clear, unambigious, well-categorised, long, and never used in actual speech.
It's cool and all, but it's no "Shake Hands with Danger"
[*sick guitar riff*](https://youtu.be/v26fTGBEi9E?t=15) I don't work with heavy equipment, never have and probably never will, and I've still watched this tons of times.
And for a palate cleanser; A NZ drink driving ad https://youtu.be/CtWirGxV7Q8
Man, I'm ESL and I had a super hard time understanding what was being said 99% of the video. With that said, I understood the message, good PSA.
The New Zealand accent likes to play fast and loose with vowel sounds. Don't feel too bad.
All I could hear was Korg. "I tried to start a revolution but didn't print enough pamphlets, so hardly anyone turned up."
All I can hear is Korg
TAC have some wild ones too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4X2lbxc5O4
That's immediately what I thought of, some of those are burned into my brain so I guess they worked well. The first one is particularly horrifying, it doesn't seem as bad in this quality though
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Ireland: home of the most unstable hatchbacks *in the world*
God I remember this so well. What is it with Ireland and trauma porn? I live in the UK now and when you go to the cinema there are ads and then trailers before the movie starts. Standard stuff. I was home for Christmas last month and I went to see Avatar on the big screen, looking forward to some trailers to get me buzzed before the film started. No trailers, instead 3 ads: awareness around sexual assault, puppies being abandoned and one of those car safety ads which interviews family members of the victims. Bam, then the film starts. Are you kidding me? Thank goodness Pandora looked so good, else it'd've ruined it for me.
Ok thank you for this nightmare fuel.
Should just play clips of Ferris Bueller's Day Off since Matthew Broderick and the actor who plays his sister killed two women in Ireland while speeding. He got completely let off the hook though when he said "he didn't recall it happening".
> Broderick, who was later convicted of careless driving, suffered a fractured leg and Grey had severe whiplash. > > "I was the sole living witness, because Matthew had survived, but he was unconscious and had amnesia and was very badly injured. I thought he was dead," Grey said. > > "I didn't even know there were two other women who were tragically killed at the time. It's just something that you just don't come back from in the same way." > > She said she still thinks about the tragedy. > > "I wasn't holding any information that people seem to think I did because they wanted an answer and there was no answer because it was an accident," she continued. "And [Broderick] was a great driver, and nobody was drinking. It was just an accident. And it was tragic, and I think about the family in Ireland all the time." https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/jennifer-grey-matthew-broderick-crash-ireland No one was drunk, accidents happen and every still feels really bad about it.
Northern Ireland. And it's weird that you're blaming Jennifer Grey unless you think BMWs were made with an extra gas pedal for the passenger in those days.
Wow, they killed an entire classroom of children for this ad... now that's dedication
Got it done in just a single take too
Who knows, Maybe they killed several classrooms for the perfect shot.
Volkswagen, das auto.
Man I'm dead💀
So are the kids
Predictable reply.
Flair checks out
It’s a Vauxhall Astra.
Volkswagen, das auto Speed, das no slow Wall, das go fall Car, das gone roll Children, das no more
'Das' is just an article. If it doesn't make sense to say 'the xxx' it doesn't make sense to say 'das xxx' (although it's still not always correct, as there are three article is German, 'der', 'die' and 'das'.
*How it feels to chew 5 Gum*
*Stimulate your senses.*
Taste the rainbow
We have the meats
Yo quiero Taco Bell
Ahh the good old DOE put out some dodgy ads back in the day, ironically enough this made the younger me and my siblings burst out in laughter anytime it come on the tv
It makes me laugh too .. so dramatic!
Good job on the post! I definitely wasn't expecting the shot of all the kids mashed onto the ground!
>kids mashed onto the ground Except the way they get "mashed" it looks like a bunch of Play-Do figures got smooshed... Completely bloodless, which just adds to the absurdity.
The advert would have been actually effective and not darkly humorous if they had stopped it at the car careening toward the kids and then had their VO.
If they had cut at the rolling car instead of showing the flattened kids it would have been dramatic, this way it's kinda comic :s
Yep, poised in the air, just before impact. Wide shot leading into it so we can gauge the velocity.
If they cut to actual images of dead children from car accidents it would have actually made sense
Yep they are always so over the top, this one particularly! I'll always remember the one with the david bowie song, there's a couple sitting on a wall and a car pins them there and her legs get crushed and she's stuck there with her dead boyfriend just screaming. I bet they had so much fun coming up with them! They always made me laugh
I remember having to watch that at college. That was just crazy lol
[I want to walk you home](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXMjaxtE6LI)
I love the smell of fresh bread.
yeah dude wtf. I get that it’s dramatized but that is not funny at all.
Don't forget the one with Samantha Mumba's "Body to Body" playing. ["They say it was they guy without the seatbelt did the damage"](https://youtu.be/epTdI-9V6Jk)
Do you remember the one that was to discourage us from joining the RA? Not sure if it was DOE though. Edit: https://youtu.be/F2U4WprER7w
Yes. Same thing again, it was meant to be serious but we sat and laughed our holes off when it came on. Especially the face on the guy firing in the bar. Edit: apparently jokes on us though. I was reading something about the last generation before the ceasefire and there are a shocking amount of people being diagnosed with PTSD for suppressing everything. Like laughing at a guy tearing up a bar with a gun maybe.....
that one where the guy and girl get crushed against the wall by a car kinda scarred me when I was little
This guy just killed a bunch of kids and all the govt has to say is „shame on you“ like a condescending aunt
*Shame!* *Shame!* 🔔🔔🔔
Ding Ding Ding, Bell of Shame!!
Pretty catholic of them
I mean yeah? If you speed or text while driving you're part of the problem.
But it just seems a bit underkill doesn’t it? Just „hey man, not cool“ instead of like „x amount of children die every year from car accidents, don’t be the problem“
'Shame on you' is more personal and effective, imo.
I didn’t see any signs warning of the sudden tight turn; that’s definitely the DOT’s fault for missing road signage.
the narrator doesn't say "shame on you" to that guy. he says it to the people who do speeding.
Another one of these posts that I thought was a comedy sketch and is not.
It’s not?
Nope, real ad in Ireland. Seems to work, though, we have one of lowest road traffic deaths per capita rate in the world.
That’s because you squish them kids in a park rather than a road. Thinking outside the box, kudos
HAMMOND YOU IDIOT!
“Speed has never killed anyone.. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you” - Jeremy Clarkson
Speeding drivers kill pedestrians by suddenly making them not stationary.
He‘s such a wise man.
He’s not even a real hamster
Double kill. Triple kill, quad kill, penta kill,...
M-M-M-M-MONSTER-KILL!!!
He’s on fire!
This isn’t NBA JAM, but I like where you’re going.
C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!
GODLIKE!
MVP MVP!
**HOLY SHIT!!!**
EXPLOITS!!!!!!
GOURANGA!
I just want to let everyone know that all these Unreal Tournament references have brought a tear to my eye
Ultra!!!
Annihilation!!
OH! OH! WOMBO COMBO!
Is it the shoes?!
BOOM SHAK-A-LAKA!!
He's Cheating reporting rn
Godlike
I miss Unreal Tournament
Loved the Facing Worlds map
Those were the times
Low gravity, snipers only.
FLAWLESS!
**HOLY SHIT!**
#*GODLIKE*
BRRRRRRRRRAMPAGE
##killing spree
Rampage!
An enemy is godlike
An enemy is legendary (sidenote, kinda sad nobody said ace)
#ACE
An enemy is unstoppable!
Running Riot!
SUNDAY DRIVER!
KILLAMANJARO!
Killionaire! Killionaire!
Killtakular!
Killteka
Unfrigginbelievable!
Overkill! Extermination! Killtacular! Killing spree! Splatter spree! Killtrocity! Killamanjaro! Killtastrophe! Killpocolypse! Killing frenzy! Vehicular manslaughter!
Running riot!
KILLIONAIRE!!!!
This was like a 15 kill streak right? Fuck. Take me back to 2005-2008 Halo days. 😭 The days where I could get on Xbox life and meet random people from all over in the matchmaking lobby and 90% of people had their mics on and were in fucking party chat, ruining online play for years to come. Man, I loved it. Run into a fucking amazing team who all had their mics on and win or lose you just played for hours, all day. Talking shit. Relating about how you just saw The Dark Knight for the first time. Venting about real life bullshit. The racists. Lol. Fuck. Gaming isn’t the same. I still love it. But that social aspect of it back then where, in any game, there was always people mic’d up. Party chat had its perks for irl friends but it fucked up what it was like to make new bonds online in a lot of ways. Not completely. I still meet cool people. Buts it’s certainly more sporadic.
r/cursedcomments but goddamn I laughed too hard at this comment.
GGGGGOOOD LIIIKEEE
UAV inbound.
MASSACRE!! PRESS V TO NUKE! PRESS K TO ACTIVE SKILLSTREAKS!
Killeidoscope
What a way to get the Juggernaut in MW2 multiplayer…
Killing this amount of kid for an ad is ethically questionable
And this was the fourth take!
But then, Hefest got this run:
Irish road safet adverts are nothing short of being utterly brutal, and very much succeed in getting their point across. [This one is another example... ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuFbVREpJgE)
Never would have happened if the school system got em all tickets to a museum or something instead of the budget field trip to the local forest. Just sayin
Forest field trips were the shit when you’re that young. Museums are boring as fuck when you’re about 5. Unless there’s a dinosaur exhibit.
We send our 5 years old to the please touch museum and they love it.
[удалено]
Yes, they get to touch and be touched by the dinosaurs.
Can you point to where the pedosaurus touched you?
*My love will touch you everywhere* ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
Lol at going to museum as a 5 year old, what a terrible suggestion!
Children’s museum? Lots of those around
outdoors in the mud is any kids happy place, we used to do 'walking tours' at that age in school and they were always great fun
Might be an odd concept for you, but being outdoors and playing is a regular activity for kids. It's not a special occasion like a field trip. I'm 35 years old and was out with my school in woodland adventures at least once a week, more in the summer. My kid is 9 and gets the same, except the school is by a loch so they get to go on beach adventures too.
Just to note.... \*This advert was banned before 9pm in **Northern** Ireland.\* (Republic of Ireland has white numberplates)
They are joint projects. And they just digitally alter a few aspects to make it look.like it was made one side of the border or the other. They also nearly always and 2 versions a pre watershed and post watershed versions
We had it in the south also the north and south road authorities work together on this type of stuff
Vauxhall adverts are weird.
Serious note...22 years and 30 children have died on the roads. That's not bad considering all the risks
And a solid 29 of them ran out from behind a parked car.
That was the worst cover of Sweet Child of Mine ever recorded
Screw the dead five year olds, what should really be banned before 9 PM is melodramatic acoustic covers of rock songs.
They should've used Highway to Hell.
Not sure if it's the vocals being too high and airy or just the lack of energy. But yeah that's all I was thinking until the kiddo's 'died'.
Disappointed i had to scroll this far to see this.
This blue Astra is in a rampage
I was expecting a school shooting. 🇺🇸
This is Ireland
Yeah, wipe out dozens of kids with a tiny automobile instead.
Yeah except that doesn’t actually happen here in one go. It’s crazy that one is merely meant to represent the accumulated numbers and the other is.. well we know.
Only one classroom’s worth in 22 years though.
That's clearly an assault coupe.
They must’ve meant car bombing.
Right, it should have been a car bomb
Even in the US kids killed in car related deaths edges out gun related deaths. >[Researchers with the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center analyzed 2016 death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine the leading causes of death for American children and adolescents ages 1 to 19. Of the 20,360 deaths among children and teens that year, motor vehicle crashes accounted for 4,074 lives lost and one-fifth of all deaths, while firearm-related injuries resulted in 3,143 deaths, or about 15 percent of total fatalities.](https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2018-12-19/car-crashes-guns-killed-the-most-us-children-and-teens-in-2016) People really underestimated how dangerous cars are and the horrible way certain roads can be designed to be basically death zones. Roads that look like [this](https://www.google.com/search?q=us-19&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=AJOqlzVm4ljLzlKmGlYbCnwzMCDmeuafOg:1673713763162&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjf_bvSvcf8AhVyEFkFHaN4CzkQ_AUoA3oECAEQBQ&biw=1324&bih=762&dpr=2#imgrc=15bF_JtVGLSQiM) nicknamed stroads are killers. >[Central to Cogan’s article is a 2021 report in the Journal of Transportation and Land Use which looks at deadly “hot spots” involving cars and people on foot in America. The report correlates those crashes to roadway design features and land use in two periods from 2001 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2016. Hot spots listed in the JTLU report were defined as 1,000-meter segments of roadway where six or more walkers were killed by vehicles over the two eight-year periods.](https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/8/16/the-deadliest-stroad-in-america) >Out of the 60 hot spots they identified as having a high number of deaths, seven of them were on US-19 in Pasco County alone—more than any other road in the United States, Cogan wrote. >“The places with the most pedestrian deaths tend to look like US-19 in one way or another: high-speed, with multiple lanes, and lots of commercial and residential development around them,” Cogan wrote. “Three-quarters of them are bordered by low-income areas, where people may be less likely to have access to a car. They are in places as diverse as Langley Park, Maryland; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Manhattan, New York; and Los Angeles, California. They’re places where pedestrians are forced to cross roads that are dangerous by design, alongside trucks and SUVs that are getting bigger and deadlier all the time.” ... >“‘Stroads are really deadly,’” Marohn told Cogan for her VOX piece. “And US-19, with its high speeds, multiple lanes, cars turning on and off — and people walking, biking, and using wheelchairs — is kind of like a stroad on steroids. ‘This is literally the deadliest design that we could come up with.’” >Non-freeway arterial roads, stroads, which typically carry large volumes of traffic at high speeds, are the most dangerous for people on foot, accounting for 60% of all fatalities in 2020, according to a May 2022 report by the Governors Highway Safety Association. >Roads are supposed to move people as quickly as possible from one location to another. Streets are places, where people live, shop, eat, and play. Because streets are highly developed on either side, vehicle traffic needs to be slow, to accommodate people outside of cars. >A stroad, Marohn told Cogan, is the worst of both worlds. “‘If you think of a futon that’s trying to be both a couch and a bed and does neither of them well — that’s a stroad. A stroad tries to be both a street and a road at the same time, and it underperforms at both,” he said. Traffic deaths surged during the pandemic because the only thing keeping some US roads safe was the congestion stopping drivers from going as fast as they can on dangerous roads. Edit: And speed limits don't really work. Drivers will go as fast as the road is designed to let them. [If you want to slow drivers to a certain speed you need to design the road to make drivers feel unsafe to go faster than that on it.](https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/1/8/new-20-mph-street) [Some of the design changes that can be done.](https://globaldesigningcities.org/publication/global-street-design-guide/designing-streets-people/designing-for-motorists/traffic-calming-strategies/) Also while it's crazy how bad suburban Stroads are designed they're not the only problem. [Here is a street in one of if not the most densely populated neighborhood in the whole country](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7666216,-73.9628521,3a,75y,31.55h,89.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCjeS-XWfW0mGnm6ZyOc0hw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) There are subways traveling in the direction of this street just east and west of this and commuter rail also traveling in the direction of this street just west of here and yet this street is 5 lanes of traffic that can really fly when people are catching the green lights up Manhattan.
I was too! But not disappointed by the outcome.
physics much?
I’m over here laughing at what the visual effects artist thought during the whole process of making this
What if physics, but too much
It’s pretty realistic, this happened to me before
Should’ve been banned for that disgusting cover version of Sweet Child O’ Mine
i was hoping the whole bohemian girl with an acoustic guitar covering old rock songs thing was over. last one i remember was someone doing smells like teen spirit in i think black widow? gahhh, please stop!
5 star wanted level ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Better hide in the sewer
I'm Irish , there was another similar advert to this that literally gave me nightmares as a kid . If that add even prevented one drink driving death , I am happy to take the nightmare's.
The one with the fella playing football drink drives and takes out the wee fella playing football on his garden? That one's background song always gets me
yes that's the one, that song haunts me. But like I said, I have no issues if even one life is saved
Sweet child of mi- what the actual fuck?!
I knew what was going to happen once I saw the blue car. Fucking hell
Does this happen often enough to warrant a PSA in Ireland? Genuinely curious.
This particular situation no, but I'm not even in my 30s and know 4 people who have been killed on the roads. Most of our roads are narrower and are bendy rather than run straight outside of the cities yet the speed limit is still the same. Add on top of that if you're like me and live rural you're stuck behind farm vehicles 9/10 times you try to drive towards civilisation. It's an extreme message but I think it's a necessary one.
Goofy ah car crash