Church bells deleted from coca cola Xmas ad

deezell

The Coca cola 'Holidays are coming" ad has been given a new modern soundtrack which has fans of the original in a rage. It's not like it was hundreds of years old or anything, I'm sure we'll get used to the new tune, But... they've deleted the Church bells ringing at the beginning. Yer man still pulls the rope, and there's a single faint, electroniky kind of boink sound, integrated with the new music, but thats it. No Christian Church bells. Is this yet more offence avoidance pc madness?

dreamers75

The muslims are coming, muslims are coming.

Salary Negotiator

Saw the ad and got a little excited about Christmas, then heard the music and they’ve ruined it.

The ad, not Christmas.

Probably just someone in Coca Cola HQ trying to justify their huge salary. Swing and a miss I’m afraid.

Buy Pepsi this year. Its nicer anyway.

ILoveYourVibes

deezell wrote: »

The Coca cola 'Holidays are coming" ad has been given a new modern soundtrack which has fans of the original in a rage. It's not like it was hundreds of years old or anything, I'm sure we'll get used to the new tune, But... they've deleted the Church bells ringing at the beginning. Yer man still pulls the rope, and there's a single faint, electroniky kind of boink sound, integrated with the new music, but thats it. No Christian Church bells. Is this yet more offence avoidance pc madness?

No ..just recognition that half the world doesn't celebrate christmass.

SmartinMartin

Hate that ad. Holidays me bollix. Say Christmas or feck off.

One eyed Jack

deezell wrote: »

The Coca cola 'Holidays are coming" ad has been given a new modern soundtrack which has fans of the original in a rage. It's not like it was hundreds of years old or anything, I'm sure we'll get used to the new tune, But... they've deleted the Church bells ringing at the beginning. Yer man still pulls the rope, and there's a single faint, electroniky kind of boink sound, integrated with the new music, but thats it. No Christian Church bells. Is this yet more offence avoidance pc madness?

It sure sounds like it.

Personally, I’m not bothered either way about the advertising. What pisses me off is the shìtty little 1.25ltr bottles they have now instead of the proper 2ltr bottles of ordinary coke, but they have the 2ltr bottles of that piss they call Coke Zero :rolleyes:

Fr_Dougal

Is it a marketing stunt?

Give us back our bells, Coke.
Publicity.
Coke gives us back the bells, and diabetes.
Harrah for Coke!
Epstein didn’t kill himself.
Profit!!!

ILoveYourVibes

I think people are missing the fact that the guy who owns coca cola Muhtar Kent is a muslim. He is the main shareholder through a lot of his funds and businesses ...he is also chairman.

And its holidays are coming ....its for everyone.

Omackeral

dreamers75 wrote: »

The muslims are coming, muslims are coming.

In a truck... oh balls I've seen this one before.

Also, why does PC always have to ''go mad'' by the way? What's going on?

Omackeral

deezell wrote: »

The Coca cola 'Holidays are coming" ad has been given a new modern soundtrack which has fans of the original in a rage. It's not like it was hundreds of years old or anything, I'm sure we'll get used to the new tune, But... they've deleted the Church bells ringing at the beginning. Yer man still pulls the rope, and there's a single faint, electroniky kind of boink sound, integrated with the new music, but thats it. No Christian Church bells. Is this yet more offence avoidance pc madness?

Well then it's ok. The minute that goes, you know PC and the SJWs have truly taken over.

alchemist33

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Buy Pepsi this year. Its nicer anyway.

No no no. Pepsi leaves that awful cloying sugary taste in your mouth for days

Who gives a toss? That Coca-Cola ad was always religiously neutral, pandering to the widest possible market. The "Holidays Are Coming" refrain has been blighting the airwaves for decades, so to highlight the cynicism only now is hollow.

ILoveYourVibes

I love diet coke

Feisar

I stopped buying Gillette after their anti man ad, now I gotta drop my roughly 20 cans of coke a year, bugger.

20Wheel

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

No ..just recognition that half the world doesn't celebrate christmass.

Then they can fck off, it doesn't concern them.

The day some part of Ramadan is changed by a marketing exec in case I might feel excluded is the day I tell them to forget me and just do their thing.

ILoveYourVibes

Plus coke is also Kosher!

MarkY91

alchemist33 wrote: »

No no no. Pepsi leaves that awful cloying sugary taste in your mouth for days

Pepsi Max

suicide_circus

#wokechristmas

super_furry

"The Coca cola 'Holidays are coming" ad has been given a new modern soundtrack which has fans of the original in a rage."

Exactly who is raging? Seems like a load of precious snowflake upset that their corporate sales pitch for liquid diabetes has changed.

JohnnyFlash

Don’t see why you’d drink coke when club orange is a thing.

Hulk Hands

deezell wrote: »

The Coca cola 'Holidays are coming" ad has been given a new modern soundtrack which has fans of the original in a rage. It's not like it was hundreds of years old or anything, I'm sure we'll get used to the new tune, But... they've deleted the Church bells ringing at the beginning. Yer man still pulls the rope, and there's a single faint, electroniky kind of boink sound, integrated with the new music, but thats it. No Christian Church bells. Is this yet more offence avoidance pc madness?

A new modern soundtrack? They've taken the music from the other half of the original ad. Search the long version of the ad on YouTube. The music/ad is about 25 years old

B.A._Baracus

Deleted User wrote: »

Buy Pepsi this year. Its nicer anyway.

I love Dave Chappelle.

is_that_so

Focus groups will be the death of anything even slightly risky to profit margins!

joe40

For me over the 20 -30 years Christmas has become two distinct things. There is the Christian feast that celebrates the birth of Jesus, and that always included dinner and gift giving, overall feel good factor and family time. All very nice and brilliant when it works out well.

Then there is the over commercialised aspect that latched onto Christmas to get everyone to buy ****e they don't need. Every year, from Christmas jumpers to elves on the shelf there was some new "festive initiative"

So I think it might be a good idea to fully separate the two. Keep the Christian feast of Christmas for those that want it, but drop the pretence that all this commercialism has anything to do with Christmas.
Coca Cola has feck all to do with a Christian Christmas celebration, is not a good idea to drop the pretence.

For me I enjoy both versions of Christmas, they can co exist.

I hate large corporations appropriating things like religious feasts to make money.

jam_mac_jam

oh no... not the imaginary war on Christmas

Cordell

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

No ..just recognition that half the world doesn't celebrate christmass.

So don't run the ad in that half of the world...

The J Stands for Jay

I've always been amazed at people saying this ad is a big party of Christmas for them. It's a ****e add, with an annoying song that's completely unchristmassy. Who cares what they do with it.

The J Stands for Jay

alchemist33 wrote: »

No no no. Pepsi leaves that awful cloying sugary taste in your mouth for days

Try adding a squeeze of like along with the rum.

The J Stands for Jay

Feisar wrote: »

I stopped buying Gillette after their anti man ad, now I gotta drop my roughly 20 cans of coke a year, bugger.

Beards and no diabetes FTW.

Mango Joe

Of course this makes sense.

Why have the archaic, abusive Church with its ignorant and horrible traditions mixed up in anything these days?

Happy Xmas everybody, enjoy the holidays.

jimgoose

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

No ..just recognition that half the world doesn't celebrate christmass.

Is there anything terribly wrong with acknowledging that the other half of the World does celebrate Christmas in a, yeah no, I'm going to have to say, "Christmas" advert?

jam_mac_jam

Its an American brand so they have always said Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. I am not sure why we are importing other people's culture wars which have no relevance to us. It was used originally as Hanukkah is around a similar time so you could be celebrating either.

jimgoose

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Its an American brand so they have always said Happy Holidays instead of Happy Christmas. I am not sure why we are importing other people's culture wars which have no relevance to us.

It's being imported for us by RTE.

jam_mac_jam

jimgoose wrote: »

Is there anything terribly wrong with acknowledging that the other half of the World does celebrate Christmas in a, yeah no, I'm going to have to say, "Christmas" advert?

Santa is in it, is that not Christmasy enough for you?

jimgoose

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Santa is in it, is that not Christmasy enough for you?

I prefer the truck.

WrenBoy

Merry Christmas Folks!! just enjoy the holidays extra hard, thats the best revenge. I've always liked Cidona more anyway,, except it usually has me piddling like a racehorse

Guy:Incognito

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

I!
Epstein didn’t kill himself.

https://www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/an-update-on-our-old-pal-jeffrey-epstein.htm

Sonics2k

I was wondering what we were all going to get pointlessly offended at this year.

Apparently the lack of bells in a corporations annual advertisement is the hot topic this year.

Guy:Incognito

20Wheel wrote: »

Then they can fck off, it doesn't concern them.

The day some part of Ramadan is changed by a marketing exec in case I might feel excluded is the day I tell them to forget me and just do their thing.

What part of christmas is changed?

Unless your christmas is about what way companys try to sell you stuff, which changes all the time anyway to suit what they reckon will sell the most stuff .

Maybe you dont really care about what christmas actually is so?

I dont either btw, its presents and time off work for me and the family, that's all.

Guy:Incognito

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Don’t see why you’d drink coke when club orange is a thing.

Has fanta stopped existing? Club orange can suck a dick.

listermint

Outrage level



11/10



success!

Hulk Hands

joe40 wrote: »

For me over the 20 -30 years Christmas has become two distinct things. There is the Christian feast that celebrates the birth of Jesus, and that always included dinner and gift giving, overall feel good factor and family time. All very nice and brilliant when it works out well.

Then there is the over commercialised aspect that latched onto Christmas to get everyone to buy ****e they don't need. Every year, from Christmas jumpers to elves on the shelf there was some new "festive initiative"

So I think it might be a good idea to fully separate the two. Keep the Christian feast of Christmas for those that want it, but drop the pretence that all this commercialism has anything to do with Christmas.
Coca Cola has feck all to do with a Christian Christmas celebration, is not a good idea to drop the pretence.

For me I enjoy both versions of Christmas, they can co exist.

I hate large corporations appropriating things like religious feasts to make money.

Well the Bible itself says Jesus was born in March so let the religious ones feck off to then and keep Santa, Coca Cola Trucks and getting pissed for late December

jammiedodgers

Jesus is gonna be so pissed, ruined his birthday the pricks.

mondeo

It's obviously a religious thing... Since the world is so cultural now. Next thing they will want to strip all the churches in the country of their bells, because they feel they shouldn't have to live in a country and feel intimidated.

It's really important that our cultural values don't get stripped because of different religious beliefs, this is my opinion. If they don't like our heritage then tough. We shouldn't have to take away our beliefs, we are Catholic country at the core.

mcmoustache

Salary Negotiator wrote: »

Probably just someone in Coca Cola HQ trying to justify their huge salary. Swing and a miss I’m afraid.

This is a more likely explanation. Plenty of professionals make stupid, misguided changes for change's sake just so that can be seen to be doing something.

whisky_galore

Fizzy dishwater I won't be buying anyhow, bells or no bells.

10000maniacs

When they start taking bangers and mash off the menus in schools and colleges, then the critical threshold would have been reached.
But I'm ok with them taking the bells off the advert, I never noticed them anyway.

nullzero

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

No ..just recognition that half the world doesn't celebrate christmass.

If they don't celebrate it why would they be offended by it?
In countries where Christmas isn't celebrated they won't have to see ads for Christmas stuff anyway, and if they're living in countries that do, well that's part of adapting to another culture.

o1s1n

mondeo wrote: »

It's obviously a religious thing... Since the world is so cultural now. Next thing they will want to strip all the churches in the country of their bells, because they feel they shouldn't have to live in a country and feel intimidated.

You do realise the people who made this decision were probably a group of Coca Cola execs and not your local Muslim minority group?

ceadaoin.

joe40 wrote: »

For me over the 20 -30 years Christmas has become two distinct things. There is the Christian feast that celebrates the birth of Jesus, and that always included dinner and gift giving, overall feel good factor and family time. All very nice and brilliant when it works out well.

Then there is the over commercialised aspect that latched onto Christmas to get everyone to buy ****e they don't need. Every year, from Christmas jumpers to elves on the shelf there was some new "festive initiative"

So I think it might be a good idea to fully separate the two. Keep the Christian feast of Christmas for those that want it, but drop the pretence that all this commercialism has anything to do with Christmas.
Coca Cola has feck all to do with a Christian Christmas celebration, is not a good idea to drop the pretence.

For me I enjoy both versions of Christmas, they can co exist.

I hate large corporations appropriating things like religious feasts to make money.

I prefer to think I'm celebrating yule or midwinter, the thing that was around well before jesus and that was appropriated to make celebrating jesus more palatable for the masses.