Hilarious!

[dancerjodi]

I love the Bud Light radio commercials that were pre 9/11 called "Real American Heroes" and are now called "Real Men of Genius". They just played a new one: Mr. Over-the-Top Carb Counter.

It goes on about how they ignore family and friends to get exact carb counts, and he's the "Count of Monte Carbo", eats 2 packs of bacon, and that meat and meat (versus meat and potatoes) is the best meal.

I wish these things were online! I don't drink (and when I did, thought beer tasted like piss), but I love these commercials :)

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[deadwinter.livejournal.com]

I found them online once...I'll look for them again. There was one about the supermatket free sample guy which just cracked me up.

[lachesis.livejournal.com]

My favorite was the Roller Skating Disco Guy (or something like that) - it was GREAT.

[fingerpicking.livejournal.com]

You must have been drinking piss quite often, if your rare and small sips of beer made you at once think of it...
Not that I myself ever had tried to drink piss, but as I am a brew-master, I dare say, that beer never can taste LIKE piss, due to significant chemical differences ;-)
But I agree, that some beers look like and taste AS BAD AS piss. And I agree moreover, that Bud and Bud Light are among them for sure.
One of our bavarian bobsleigh cracks said, after his first sip of Bud during Calgary winter olympics: "This must have been the first successful experiment of diluting water even more thinner."
I tried Bud and Bud Light myself once or twice and I could not understand why exactly these brands are the best selling -- errr, "beers" -- in the world. I also saw some few Bud Light TV commercials. Is is a shame, that the product is not half as good as the commercials for it.
If you'd ever like to try real beer, drop me a line and I might supply you with some fine ones, that might you change your mind.
Of course, there are some good brewers in the US as well! Fort Collins (near Denver, Colorado) brewery is one of them, which I know myself (and they bought brewing equipment from my company, they must be very clever guys...).
So, better support small local breweries than Anheuser-Busch. And please do not support anybody else, who has something like "Busch" or even worse "Bush" in his name...
If you promised to do so, I might even forgive your offending words against beer!

Beer

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"But I agree, that some beers look like and taste AS BAD AS piss. And I agree moreover, that Bud and Bud Light are among them for sure."

Well, the last time I was actively drinking I was underage, and thus drank what I could get. Beer most often was something cheap from a keg or was Bud - all we could afford if we had someone to buy for us. I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 10 years.

"If you'd ever like to try real beer, drop me a line and I might supply you with some fine ones, that might you change your mind."

I'm straight-edge, so this isn't really an issue for me. :)

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[fingerpicking.livejournal.com]

"I'm straight-edge, so this isn't really an issue for me. :)"

Thank god, not everybody has this attitude. bc I would loose my job ;-)). Anyway, it is much better drinking never alcohol than abusing it.

"I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 10 years"

If I were you, I wouldn't be so sure about this. You surely have had some fruit juices during the last 10 years, haven't you? Average fruit juices may contain up to 0,5% alcohol. If they were freshly squeezed from very ripe fruits, alcohol content may rise up to 1% and more.
There's no need to be concerned: you'll never get drunk from un-fermented fruit juices. Your enzymes will decompose this small amount of alcohol even before it comes into your arteries.
The same is true for alcohol free beers which actually must not content more than 0,5%.
Unfortunately, I hardly can recommend any alcohol free beer (with the exception of Beck's perhaps). Most of them are even worse than Bud Light:-((

So keep on not drinking alcohol, I admire this!

[denonymous.livejournal.com]

I'm almost certain BudLight.com would have them, but they appear to have recently redesigned their site and it completely takes over your desktop with a Flash application in efforts to be "cool" and "stylish."

If you can stand it, though, I'm pretty sure I saw them there a few weeks back when I was looking for the guitar tab to "Wingman."

[deadwinter.livejournal.com]

dude, someone had a website somewhere with a whole bunch of them...I need to get off my ass and find it again.

[ggirl.livejournal.com]

OMG every time i hear one of those commercials while driving in my car I just cringe in horror - they annoy me so much. It's funny to hear someone saying they actually like them. I take issue with them for numerous reasons, not the least of which has to do with the very sexist bent they take. But then I guess all beer commercials are sexist in some way, no?

[fingerpicking.livejournal.com]

Yep: Sex sells! That's the only reason why barely dressed girls so often appear in tire commercials etc. On the other hand, I think, that not every commercial that has sexual contents must be automatically sexist. And there are loads of beer commercials that do not appeal to sexual instincts at all.
An example for sexist TV beer commercials, I saw once: A guy is snuggling with his girl on the couch. After a few seconds she asks him for sth to drink. He gets into the kitchen (next room), opens the fridge, catches a bottle of Bud Light, shakes it heavily, returns to girl and opens the bottle. Of course, the beer gushes as mad and pours all over the girl, so that she all wet and covered in cream, hahahahaha.... (probably the best thing one can do with Bud Light, anyway)

[ggirl.livejournal.com]

Typical phallic advertising. it's everywhere! Those red bull commercials are the absolute worst though.

The Bud Light Commercials

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"I take issue with them for numerous reasons, not the least of which has to do with the very sexist bent they take. But then I guess all beer commercials are sexist in some way, no?"

I've always taken them to be very sarcastic, making fun of the people that they are "paying tribute" to. That's why I've found them pretty funny (and in that way, kind of anti-sexist).

Re: The Bud Light Commercials

[ggirl.livejournal.com]

I think it's cool that you perceive them that way but the sad reality is that they are created to tempt the minds of men and the majority of men out there in middle america and even big cities are horny buffoons..so these commercials totally play into their needs and wants. Such is the genius of most advertising.