Swearing Encouraged
June 8, 2007 6:47 AM   Subscribe

Can I Borrow Your Fucking Pen? A fucking single link fucking YouTube post about some motherfucking viral ad for some really shitty beer. Swearing encouraged - let's get fucking drunk today.
posted by robocop is bleeding (70 comments total) 6 users marked this as a favorite
 
Could this theoretically go on network TV, and what would be the result?
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 6:50 AM on June 8, 2007


Fucking funny.
posted by Totally Zanzibarin' Ya at 6:51 AM on June 8, 2007


I actually quite like the ad (it's a really funny spot), but I wish it were advertising, like, actual beer.
posted by chuckdarwin at 6:51 AM on June 8, 2007 [1 favorite]


ik, m waay ajead ogf yoiu

TGIF moetherfucjkerssss!!
posted by Ljubljana at 6:51 AM on June 8, 2007


poop.
posted by piratebowling at 6:54 AM on June 8, 2007


*bleep* this, this is so *bleep*ing funny I'm going to *bleep* a *bleep* into the *bleep*.
posted by Pope Guilty at 6:55 AM on June 8, 2007


Yes, if Bud Light tasted as good as the ads, I'd be drunk on it all the time.
posted by birdherder at 6:56 AM on June 8, 2007


I hope that's a real (er, commissioned?) commercial, it's pretty good esp for a beer company.

And My <3 to robocop, I would not have clicked this link had I not seen him post it!

Happy Fuckin' Friday, y'all!
(US filter, it's not friday somewhere, :()
posted by cavalier at 6:57 AM on June 8, 2007


Pope Guilty: "*bleep* this, this is so *bleep*ing funny I'm going to *bleep* a *bleep* into the *bleep*."

If you are going to █████ ███, you might as well ████ have the ███ in the ████ at █████.
posted by Plutor at 7:00 AM on June 8, 2007 [6 favorites]


Personally I think that Bud Light is a sorry excuse of a beer, but Bud light have some great ads and this is one of the best that I've seen. Fuck you everyone.
posted by ob at 7:00 AM on June 8, 2007


Beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore.
*burp
posted by caddis at 7:00 AM on June 8, 2007


Okay, profanity for profanity's sake isn't really all that amusing, but I finally laughed at the bit where the gal at the copier says "Poop." Two fucks up for this one.

----

Could this theoretically go on network TV, and what would be the result?

Well, it's not really inadvertent, so I guess this won't be on broadcast TV anytime soon, but I could easily see it on, say, Spike or the Comedy Channel.
posted by pax digita at 7:03 AM on June 8, 2007


Jesus Christ, what gave you people the idea that we want to see MORE ADS on the fucking front page?!? This shit is getting ridiculous. Flagged 100 times as noise. Get your own fucking corporate whore weblog, you fucking jellyfish hipster wannabe fucks.
posted by BeerFilter at 7:04 AM on June 8, 2007


Forget the pen, Let me borrow that top!
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:14 AM on June 8, 2007


Flagged 100 times as noise.

Does that qualify as "eponysterical"?
posted by pax digita at 7:22 AM on June 8, 2007


So, the only person who flagged this post was Beerfilter? eponys... oh, you know what I mean.
posted by miss lynnster at 7:23 AM on June 8, 2007


Jesus Christ, what gave you people the idea that we want to see MORE ADS on the fucking front page?!? This shit is getting ridiculous. Flagged 100 times as noise. Get your own fucking corporate whore weblog, you fucking jellyfish hipster wannabe fucks.
posted by BeerFilter at 9:04 AM on June 8 [+] [!]


Eponysterical!
posted by evilcolonel at 7:23 AM on June 8, 2007


Personally, I'm super disappointed that BeerFilter sauntered in at comment #13. Hey Sleepyhead, too much beer last night?
posted by maryh at 7:25 AM on June 8, 2007


Crumbs, evilcolonel. I guess I had too much beer too!
posted by maryh at 7:26 AM on June 8, 2007


ZOMG! we can say fuck now! LOL!11!!ROFL!!11! I can't wait to post this on my blog, Mefi. amirite?

Lame. Juvenile. Flagged.
posted by oddman at 7:54 AM on June 8, 2007


I want to work in the kind of office that buys beer for itself. That would be sweet. Normally when people say "Something fun for the office" they mean something "totally dorky" for the office. Like a pizza. LAME.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 8:04 AM on June 8, 2007


I thought it was hilarious, I had to stop chewing my cereal so I could laugh harder.

I do have a question though, what is a "fucking jellyfish hipster"? Specifically what does the word "jellyfish" connote in this context? I have never heard this before.
posted by crackingdes at 8:15 AM on June 8, 2007


Ow my freakin' ears!!
posted by samsara at 8:15 AM on June 8, 2007


I want to work in the kind of office that buys beer for itself.

I worked at a company that bought the beer for us and we had "beer-thirty" every Friday at 4:30. We also had free sodas, snacks, yoga, evening dinner for people working late, concierge service, and shitloads of free money. It was pretty cool.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:18 AM on June 8, 2007 [2 favorites]


I want to work in the kind of office that buys beer for itself.

s/beer/a Gimp/g
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:22 AM on June 8, 2007


Hey guys, did any of you notice that one of the posters is called Beerfilter? As in Beer? And, like, the post had beer in it? And we're on Metafilter? And the poster was called Beerfilter? Is it just me, or is that kind of... eponysterical?!

On preview:

Aw fuckchrist.
posted by RokkitNite at 8:24 AM on June 8, 2007


ahh, heck..

I have to chime in here... I can't watch the link, I'm at work, but I gotta say, it's posts like this on the front page that keep me from sending some good people to metafilter to read specific links, I don't want to send a member of my Board of Directors to Meta to read something intelligent and useful 'cuz I'm afraid he or she might hit a post on the front page that uses the fuck five times....

I'm not saying the target of the post is bad (haven't seen it yet), but how about putting a NSFW tag on the front page and all the fucks you want in a "more inside"....
posted by HuronBob at 8:25 AM on June 8, 2007


The place I'm freelancing at right now has "Wine & Cheese Fridays" at 4:30 every week. Doesn't suck.
posted by miss lynnster at 8:42 AM on June 8, 2007


Clients have such delicate, soft little ears. So adorable. Squeee!
posted by miss lynnster at 8:45 AM on June 8, 2007


Still not as good as Nutrigrain's "I Feel Great"
posted by jeffmik at 8:45 AM on June 8, 2007


I used to have an office with beer-thirty. Man, I miss that office /tear.
posted by cavalier at 8:46 AM on June 8, 2007


[soapbox]. The "I Feel Great" ad was not actually by Nutrigrain, though I bet they don't mind the publicity from the Internet demo. [/soapbox]
posted by cavalier at 8:47 AM on June 8, 2007


Wow, if HuronBob's directors aren't coming along, I guess we'll all just wither on the vine.

Fuck's sake.

I don't send my girlfriend's kids to Mefi either. Same as when I have a party, they don't come. And neither do HuronBob's Board of Directors.
posted by imperium at 8:47 AM on June 8, 2007


HuronBob - all the child fucking keeps me from recommending nabokov to my parents. Would you do me the kind service of contacting the publisher and asking for a version that I can send to a member of my board of directors?

can you and your ilk please leave off and let us have at least one solitary corner that isn't filtered (nyuck) and white washed for those of delicate sensibilities? If its really that big of a deal, link your friends to a specific article rather than the front page.
posted by nihlton at 8:49 AM on June 8, 2007


HuronBob: I remember at one FPP that linked to flat-out pornography. I can't find it right now, unfortunately. (although mathowie will probably be amused by the search strings in the log).

Oh wait, here's one, although not the one I was thinking of.

Anyway, point being, there are more obscene things on MeFi than a few stray f-bombs, so I don't think [more inside] is going to help you here...

Also, yeah -- Nutrigrain's "I feel great" remains one of the greatest commercials I've ever seen.
posted by danb at 8:49 AM on June 8, 2007


I worked at a company that bought the beer for us and we had "beer-thirty" every Friday at 4:30. We also had free sodas, snacks, yoga, evening dinner for people working late, concierge service, and shitloads of free money. It was pretty cool.

A friend of mine worked in HR at a startup where they had beer every friday. At first everyone joined in and it was pretty cool. But then fewer people showed up and after it a while it was the same four guys getting hammered on enough beer for the entire office. So the company stopped providing beer.
posted by Mayor Curley at 8:56 AM on June 8, 2007


Ok, sorry folks, I get it now... I really didn't understand what this was all about...


MetaFilter...no, wait, MetaFuck...no, wait...MetaFark..

I'll do better next time...
posted by HuronBob at 8:57 AM on June 8, 2007


Isn't the point of flagging that we don't have to make a big show about flagging? Does the flagging system not work without performative "I FLAG YOU" utterances?
posted by middleclasstool at 8:58 AM on June 8, 2007


Mr Show wants its joke back!

Swears for cares!
posted by tittergrrl at 9:00 AM on June 8, 2007


Our CEO's assistant actually sent this out to everyone.

I'm very puzzled, but awaiting the arrival of a large jar at the reception desk to make it all make sense.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:02 AM on June 8, 2007


middleclasstool: Does the flagging system not work without performative "I FLAG YOU" utterances?

It works just fine without the performatives, but a MeFite can't achieve orgasm without posting "I FLAG YOU" first.
posted by LMGM at 9:06 AM on June 8, 2007


Nevermind the video, I'm so happy reading this horrible thread. i never knew what fucking potty mouth mother fuckers you guys were??! sometimes i feel i'm the only half-intelligent asshole in the world that swears anymore, I was afraid puritanical anti-fuck church-police locked up the profane masses in Guantanamo and I was next.

I'd like to think most of us are big boys and girls and not trapped in some delusional world where the word "shit" is a gateway into a life of hustling, heroin-dealing, suicide, and sex crimes. Thanks to this I'll sleep well tonight, after i get done drinking a few fucking beers and throwing bricks at some cops.
posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo at 9:09 AM on June 8, 2007 [1 favorite]


O.K., which one of you fuckers broke YouTube.
posted by Otis at 9:12 AM on June 8, 2007


Dear HuronBob,

Welcome to the fucking internet.

Have a nice fucking day.

Hate,

eyeballfuckingkid
posted by eyeballkid at 9:14 AM on June 8, 2007 [1 favorite]


It was just cute until the;

Poop

Doesn't count

Shut the [bleep] up!


Which was an honest to god, laugh out loud moment. Then it became brilliant.
posted by quin at 9:32 AM on June 8, 2007


Lalochezia, beer, and sex are great stress relievers.
Especially in fucking combination.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:33 AM on June 8, 2007


I feel compelled to link to The Big Lebowski - the fucking short version (youtube)
posted by Glow Bucket at 9:40 AM on June 8, 2007 [1 favorite]


Which was an honest to god, laugh out loud moment. Then it became brilliant.

Yeah, it actually was brilliant because the acting and/or directing decision to make the delivery of that line angry and vicious rather than casual or jokey made all the difference.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 9:41 AM on June 8, 2007


I was a staff reporter for the Kaiserslautern American one summer in the early 1990s. We worked out of the office of 86 Wing Public Affairs on Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

On Fridays starting at 1400 hours, we met in the conference room for what I think was called "staff training" - some winking euphemism, anyway. The officer in charge brought in cases of quart bottles of top-drawer local beer. If it was a sunny day, sometimes it started at noon at the barbecue pit. The office - like the US military generally - was disproportionately southern. Goddamn those boys could barbecue. Real southern bbq ribs and a quart of cold German pils - now that's working.

Bud Light, on the other hand, could produce a 60-second cinematic masterpiece of Kubrickian genius, and I still wouldn't use that fucking swill to clean the grill afterward.
posted by gompa at 9:42 AM on June 8, 2007 [1 favorite]


I'll see your big lebowski and raise you one Scarface
posted by criticalbill at 9:57 AM on June 8, 2007


Mr Show wants its joke back!

And not just Swears for Cares. Don't forget GloboChem.
posted by BoatMeme at 10:29 AM on June 8, 2007 [1 favorite]




Funny. Very funny actually.

A great idea executed well. A rarity on TV at all, but exceptionally rare in commercials.

But, like those above, no matter how good their commercials are, I'll never buy their product, because it is terrible.
posted by Ynoxas at 10:33 AM on June 8, 2007


My English is not too good, but, your beer... is like swill to us. Do I have that right? I am trying to say that only a swine would drink your beer.

Good ad, though.
posted by Navelgazer at 10:40 AM on June 8, 2007


... I could easily see it on, say, Spike or the Comedy Channel.

Not in the U.S. No way. Even WITH the bleeps.

In the U.S., not only do they bleep evrything, they even blur out the mouth when someone curses, so people who read lips won't be "offended".

I wish I were joking.
posted by wfc123 at 10:55 AM on June 8, 2007


The "poop" -> STFU really did have more meaning because of the hostility, notice out of everyone they are the only two to build a relationship, seeing how the first run at the conference room is her asking him for a pen. That one had some aggression too.
posted by cavalier at 11:14 AM on June 8, 2007


Is it superbowl time already?
posted by lysdexic at 11:40 AM on June 8, 2007


In the U.S., not only do they bleep evrything, they even blur out the mouth when someone curses, so people who read lips won't be "offended".

wfc123, your comment reminded me of a dubbed version of Raging Bull I saw on WGN years ago. All of the swearing was replaced by piratey sounding like-a-curses; I'm guessing Scorsese must've recorded almost an entire new movie's worth of dialog just to accomodate the networks. Anyhoo, it was gosh durn hilarious.
posted by maryh at 11:56 AM on June 8, 2007


fanfuckingtabulous!
posted by Mijo Bijo at 12:03 PM on June 8, 2007


I can't believe this hasn't been deleted yet. There's nothing even marginally clever or funny to redeem this tedious ad. The least it could have done for the sake of mercy would be to have ended after the first "fuck."
posted by washburn at 12:19 PM on June 8, 2007


In the U.S., not only do they bleep evrything, they even blur out the mouth when someone curses, so people who read lips won't be "offended".

You must mean "Upper Slobovia" or "Ultra Suede." Because I watch a lot of television in the United States, and can't recall seeing any blurred-out mouths.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:25 PM on June 8, 2007


There's nothing even marginally clever or funny to redeem this tedious ad.

I don't know about clever, but by definition something is funny if people think it's funny. Just the small sample in this MetaFilter thread shows a good portion of people think it's funny. Therefore, it's funny. It's just not funny to you. That's okay: anyone who claims it's a funny ad shouldn't think that means it is, or should be, funny to everyone.

At any rate, these weird proclamations from some people that something isn't scary that quite obviously is scaring people or that something isn't funny that quite obviously is making people laugh...that's just bizarrely egocentric. What, you think that all these people are pretending just to fuck with you?

You must mean ‘Upper Slobovia’ or ‘Ultra Suede.’ Because I watch a lot of television in the United States, and can't recall seeing any blurred-out mouths.

Me, either. In fact, I recall asking my deaf aunt about this recently and she told me that she can occasionally read the mouths of people on television saying naughty words that are either censored or where there isn't audio. Unless I hallucinated this conversation while in an opium stupor, which is entirely possible.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:29 PM on June 8, 2007


You must mean ‘Upper Slobovia’ or ‘Ultra Suede.’ Because I watch a lot of television in the United States, and can't recall seeing any blurred-out mouths.

I did see this happen once on a local newscast. My husband and I laughed ourselves silly over it. But most of the times I've seen those 'blur censors' they were obscuring a naughty word on a placard or a flipped bird, and then only on newcasts, never on anything scripted.
posted by maryh at 12:42 PM on June 8, 2007


you fucking jellyfish hipster wannabe fucks

Defs filing that one away for later.
posted by chlorus at 1:16 PM on June 8, 2007



Not in the U.S. No way. Even WITH the bleeps.


I take it you don't watch South Park, The Shield, The Riches or Dirt.
posted by eyeballkid at 1:35 PM on June 8, 2007 [1 favorite]


$$$$$$$ £££££££
posted by algreer at 2:16 PM on June 8, 2007


Jesus Christ, what gave you people the idea that we want to see MORE ADS on the fucking front page?!? This shit is getting ridiculous....

Beerfilter , dude have a drink and shut up.
posted by nola at 3:29 PM on June 8, 2007


washburn I can't believe this hasn't been deleted yet. There's nothing even marginally clever or funny to redeem this tedious ad. The least it could have done for the sake of mercy would be to have ended after the first "fuck."

- it's meta filter.

We talk about people (not) saying fuck (all).

Still - silly beer commercial. These things are obviously targeted towards younger audiences (say, highschool-aged citizens) - so that when they're in college, underaged at a bar, when confronted with what beer they would like to purchase...

They'll say: "Bud Light!"
posted by porpoise at 10:33 PM on June 8, 2007


Tee hee.
posted by ikkyu2 at 1:44 PM on June 9, 2007




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