Dr Mumbo’s favourite ‘whingy’ ASB complaints
Dr Mumbo always loves a good laugh and the Ad Standards Board monthly release of complaints it has adjudicated on always provide at least one…or a few.
While most of the serious coverage goes to the stuff that’s been banned, the comments of ‘ordinary’ members of the public make for far more entertaining reading.
For instance, who could think Presto’s dancing dad is “sexually suggestive”?
“This team building promotes loss of life by war fare”. War fare? I was unaware that you had to pay for your own travel to war. .
I’ve had a few jobs I’ve worked on complained about too – it is entertaining AFTER the fact. In the moment the client’s well spent money in jeopardy isn’t fun.
The most ridiculous I had was with a Holden Ute crossing a railway line with chickens in cages on the back – it was something about the suspension over a bump with the chickens still ok (something like that). It seems there is actually such a thing as a Railway Crossing Standards Union (something like that) and they claimed the speed of the crossing was too fast. Just one complaint got this off air. I have to say that’s something we couldn’t anticipate.
Sometimes we do something edgy on purpose.. nah, who said that?!