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Unsuitable Advertisements In The Magazine (Fortean Times)

Are some of the adverts in FT unsuitable, and are you offended by them ?

  • Yes, I find a lot of the adverts offensive/in bad taste.

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  • Most are OK, but 'Faces of Death' takes the biscuit.

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  • They are all OK.

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  • I don't care about the content of the Ads.

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  • The ads are mainly crud but 'F.O.D.' is also vilely offensive, possibly to the point of illegality

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  • Total voters
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  • Poll closed .
I do keep waiting for the Homicidal Maniacs Megastore to advertise in there. I need it to because I'm planning a mass murder on the 14th of January next year and would like to buy all my weapons in advance.

It's just a necessity for the modern maniac on the go.



Guns don't kill people. Rappers do.

I mean people do.
 
escargot1 said:
Far better for the mag to attract advertisers of quality goods, to which the readers will look forward to browsing as part of the overall experience.

I've a fealing that things like the sad bastard tshirts actully put many more serious advertizers off advertizeing in fortean times.
 
oll_lewis said:
escargot1 said:
Far better for the mag to attract advertisers of quality goods, to which the readers will look forward to browsing as part of the overall experience.

I've a fealing that things like the sad bastard tshirts actully put many more serious advertizers off advertizeing in fortean times.

Dunno - i suspect its just that they have better profit margins on the T shirts than say book publishers (where all profits are cut to the bare minimum esp. with price wars with supermarkets).
 
The Fortean Times must be a difficult magazine to target the advertising for. Forteana is not a highly commercial area of interest. Unlike sci-fi fans or computer gamers or most other subcultures, Forteans are not defined by what they purchase.

In a SF magazine, SF DVDs and collectibles are advertised.
Video gaming magazines: Video games adverts.
Women's glossy magazines: Makeup and fashion adverts.
... and so on.

But there is no obvious correlation between being interested in paranormal things and particular consumer items. The biggest thing the advertisers seem to have picked up on is that they seem to be convinced that the readers of the Fortean Times are all potheads. Personally, I've never touched the stuff and never will. Even if it was true, cannabis is illegal, so only the paraphenalia can be advertised in the magazine, and I don't suppose that is a huge market.
 
Surely the readers' survey tells them what sort of people we are? OK- WHO DID'NT RETURN THEIR SURVEY???
I must admit I find the ads totally off the mark, especially as i don't smoke (anything) im perfectly capable of designing & printing my own (tasteful) t-shirts and im no sci-fi fan.
I would like to see more books/dvds/paranormal events etc advertised.
 
Even if it was true, cannabis is illegal, so only the paraphenalia can be advertised in the magazine, and I don't suppose that is a huge market.

I think you'd be surprised ;)

Try walking down Camden High Street at a weekend - half the shops seem to be supported entirely through the sale of bad t-shirts and pothead paraphenalia!
 
I say: "More adverts for swords"

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I saw a very serious looking goth girl parading around the city centre with a replica sword strapped to her back the other day.

Then this ninja dropped down from a tree, sliced off her head in a single fluid motion, did a couple of back-flips, and vanished into thin air.

True story, that. Apart from the bit about the ninja.
 
graylien said:
Then this ninja dropped down from a tree, sliced off her head in a single fluid motion, did a couple of back-flips, and vanished into thin air.

It wasn't Chuck Norris was it?

If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.
 
"Bite suck fuck"

I thought this was a masterly deconstruction of the whole wampyre mythos. Spare and frugal, this statement artfully strips away the lacquered semiotic layers of Victorian romantisicm. Refreshingly unadorned, the juxtaposition of saxon old-english buttresses the florid prose found in the original Dracula novels.

Adds T-shirt above to shopping list, for his next bookclub roundtable.
 
Mighty_Emperor said:
I'm usually not that bothered about the ads (they keep the price down and all) and most of us are grown ups and all but I do worry this is just a step too far and gives a bad impression:

I haven't got Tourettes, its just that you're a fucking cunt

FT204:43

I know deja vu is a Fortean phenomena but the advert on the inside back page is the same as the last issue. :roll:
 
Is that really so unusual? Lots of periodicals have repeated adverts. I'd say it's a *good* sign that someone's paid a bunch upfront.
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My view of advertisments in FT has always been "advertise whatever you want as long as FT gets published."

But I'm shocked by a small number of advertisments in April's edition, what is the magzines view of the Fortean male. A full page advertisment for a 'Fine Corduroy Shirt' which is all very well if you work in IT. An advertisment for the Aesthetic Clinic offering their 'Follicular Unit Transaction'

"is a revolutionary advancement in the way that individual hair follicles are harvested for hair transplants"

And finally an advertisement from 'shytobuy', crikey! Two bottles of viagra and something called a JES Extender - surely a technology developed in the cruel fertile minds of the Taliban!

Is this really you Fortean Male: a corduroy wearing, balding sexual inadiquate? Fortean Female, do you recognise your lover, partner or husband in this description?

I say bring back the knives, porn and bongs - I may be sexualy inadiquate but at least I'm high and dangerous with it.


It's hat and coat time isn't it? Don't worry I can see myself out!
 
I wear corduroy trousers sometimes. But this is the first I've ever heard about corduroy shirts. To think, what I've been missing!
 
But I'm shocked by a small number of advertisments in April's edition, what is the magzines view of the Fortean male. A full page advertisment for a 'Fine Corduroy Shirt' which is all very well if you work in IT. An advertisment for the Aesthetic Clinic offering their 'Follicular Unit Transaction'

The shirts are poor, but let's not be too hasty in dismissing the hair replacement...
 
I rather like the shirts...but then I've never been accused of having taste.
 
advertisement

Fortean Times has a marvelously wide readership, and it is impossible to predict all their requirements and likes and dislikes. The selling of advertising must, of course, help to keep production costs down and therefore be encouraged. I do not therefore wish to discourage any of the advertisers, but I do not think it likely that myself, or any of the cryptozoologists who read the magazine will be needing to buy a "JES Extender" or any other of the "male enhancements" currently advertised.

Perhaps the UFO people may find this advert of interest.....

Chris Moiser
 
river_styx said:
I do keep waiting for the Homicidal Maniacs Megastore to advertise in there. I need it to because I'm planning a mass murder on the 14th of January next year and would like to buy all my weapons in advance.

How did you get on with that?
 
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chrism72 said:
Fortean Times has a marvelously wide readership, and it is impossible to predict all their requirements and likes and dislikes. The selling of advertising must, of course, help to keep production costs down and therefore be encouraged. I do not therefore wish to discourage any of the advertisers, but I do not think it likely that myself, or any of the cryptozoologists who read the magazine will be needing to buy a "JES Extender" or any other of the "male enhancements" currently advertised.

Perhaps the UFO people may find this advert of interest.....

Aren't they saucer nuts?
 
I had to chuckle when I saw the shirts. Several years of shirts that say "c*nt" on them just to shock your mam, and within the space of one month we've all grown into tasteful courdoroy.
 
graylien said:
Yes, but tasteful corduroy-wearing baldies who have learned the secrets of casting Powerful Voodoo Spells from a Real Voodoo Master.

And, apparently, we have small flacid cocks. ;)
 
I thought the ads were quite humorous for all of the reasons above.

At least it's not adverts for thrush medication, Bath Knights, Sanotogen or for Tenalady. If I ever start buying mags with adverts for those products, then I'll start worrying. ;)
 
evilsprout said:
I had to chuckle when I saw the shirts. Several years of shirts that say "c*nt" on them just to shock your mam, and within the space of one month we've all grown into tasteful courdoroy.
That's scary.
 
No Pietro_Mercurios! This is scary:

And, apparently, we have small flacid cocks.

Especially so for the lady Forteans out there . . . . . . . . . :shock:
 
Hey, Fortean ladies gave up on their menfolk and settled down with their Omax massager for many a year now...
 
Tha ads in FT have never bothered me, but what about the banner ads on this site?

IMHO Promoting on-line gambling is more tacky than advertising rude tee shirts.
 
Well, I guess it beats having to pay to log in - which is probably the only alternative. (It's also very easy to dismiss the lurid banner if you're using Firefox.)
 
graylien said:
Well, I guess it beats having to pay to log in - which is probably the only alternative. (It's also very easy to dismiss the lurid banner if you're using Firefox.)
Ssshh! Don't tell everybody, they'll all want one. :yeay:
 
The ads can be really bad , but I guess it could be worse:

Website's Glitter advert rapped
Lastminute.com breached decency rules by mentioning sex offender Gary Glitter in an advert for children's theatre tickets, the industry watchdog said.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled the advert was likely to cause serious or widespread offence.

Showing two young boys, it stated: "Like Gary Glitter in a sweet shop, you too can have your pick of kiddy treats in London's theatre world".

The online firm apologised and said the advert had now been withdrawn.

A spokesman for the website said: "We aim to create advertising which makes us stand out. However, on this occasion we realise that there has been an error in our judgment."

'Tasteless humour'

Gary Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was jailed in Vietnam earlier this month for molesting two young girls.

In 1999 he was handed a four-month jail sentence in the UK after being convicted of possessing indecent images of children. He left the country after his release.

One complainant claimed that linking children's leisure activities with a sex offender was offensive.

The ASA found the online travel and leisure firm's advert was in breach of the advertising code's decency clause.

The watchdog noted that the advert played on "contemporary, tasteless humour" based on Glitter's UK conviction.

"We considered the reference to a registered sex offender in conjunction with images of children in an ad for children's theatre was likely to cause serious or widespread offence," the ASA said.


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Published: 2006/03/15 06:24:38 GMT

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