Maes Posted April 5, 2013 Boy: Thanks! Trucker (with a macho voice): Where's our boy goin'? Boy: To Torino! Trucker: Niiiice.... trucker activates a secret "gay" mode in the truck's cabin, with red lights, pink decorations disco music and a disco ball Trucker (now with a sissy voice): We will first take a little ride to Kavala.... Narrator: You wanna travel for cheap, but end up paying up dearly? Airfast tickets! Blah blah blah... Apparently, Greek truckers felt offended by this ad. So much in fact, that 10 entire days after they threaten the authors with a lawsuit. Yeah right. Let alone that for some people, such a situation would be more like an added perk/bonus, rather than "paying up dearly" ;-) 0 Share this post Link to post
Cupboard Posted April 5, 2013 The trucking profession is practically indispensable in the modern age. It's rather "below the belt" to poke fun at the trucking profession like this. I think the common man respects a trucker's sense of direction and dedication to the route. Sexuality really shouldn't play a role here. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted April 5, 2013 TheCupboard said:Sexuality really shouldn't play a role here. AFAIK, trucker sexuality is only second to inmates/sailors, as far as the potential for horniness goes. And, if anything, the stereotype is about them being all macho, virile tops, rather than camp gay bottoms ;-) I bet that if the commercial showed the trucker as an unmistakingly toppin' hypermasculine, hirsute, virile leatherman or cowboy type , they would've probably let it pass. Even the Greek equivalent of a redneck or a "Homer Simpson" type would work well. 0 Share this post Link to post
Cupboard Posted April 5, 2013 At first, I thought this ad was just a general positive publicity advertisement for gay truckers (trying to be humorous like a beer commercial or something) but at second glance I saw it was being promoted by a competitor industry. This video is really just poking at people's brains and making them fear sexual harassment/sodomy at the hands of a trucker. If it would have been a woman being picked up by the trucker, they could insinuate the same thing; aren't you worried about losing your virtue at the hands of a lonesome heterosexual vagabond should your car break down at some point and you need to hitch a ride? 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomUK Posted April 5, 2013 You'd think people would have bigger things to worry about than stuff like this. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted April 5, 2013 They made a "Dracula" variation. Go figure. Same as before, but the boy asks to go to Vienna, and the trucker asks him if he doesn't mind a detour to the Carpathians. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted April 5, 2013 Truckers have a slightly different reputation in the UK. 0 Share this post Link to post
Clonehunter Posted April 7, 2013 I thought getting trucker fucked was one of those secret dreams of women and men alike. They won't admit they want it, but if they're in that situation, they'll go all out. That'd be a better advertisement anyways. 0 Share this post Link to post
Shaikoten Posted April 7, 2013 This video is NSFW and highlights the horniness of truckers in a 16 bit video game style. This is the French view of American truckers, apparently. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted April 7, 2013 Clonehunter said:I thought getting trucker fucked was one of those secret dreams of women and men alike. They won't admit they want it, but if they're in that situation, they'll go all out. Only that the way they portrayed the trucker actually led more to believe that the trucker's secret dream was to be fucked by random hitchhikers. As I said, they chose a way too effeminate/bottom stereotypical portrayal of gays. If instead it was pretty clear that it was the trucker that was toppin'.... 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted April 10, 2013 Update: Now they are ALSO butthurt about the "vampire" trucker ad, claiming that they are portrayed as psychopathic, murderous necrophiles(!). Geez, and to think that all it would take to make them happy would be portraying them as Mad Max-like supermacho leather-clad tops, and then everything would be fine and dandy. 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted April 10, 2013 Embrace homosexuality and Dracula, Greece; it pisses of the Ottomans. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted April 10, 2013 Technician said:Embrace homosexuality and Dracula, Greece; it pisses of the Ottomans. So we should embrace Twilight? 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted April 15, 2013 Here's a spoof of this ad, with a "racist" trucker: Blackface guy asks for a ride....usual dialogue. -Where's our boy goin'? -Bangladesh! -Niiiice... *Trucker reveals Golden Dawn banner, Golden Dawn anthem starts playing* -...but first we will stop for a while in a nearby alley...BOOO! BOOO! BOOO! Narrator: "You hoped for a free ride to Bangladesh? You're f*cked!" Then again, I think that the trucker should be more than happy to ship an illegal back to Bangladesh, "even" if alive. Usually they pay to go in the other direction. 0 Share this post Link to post