Billboards stating "It's illegal to use a legal name".

[kabbes]

My walk-by photography skills are poor I missed the full panoply of nonsense.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Shouldn't that be yourtube?

YoreTube:

 

[DotCommunist]

go out there with a marker pen and draw some masonic symbols on it for the lols. Eye n pyramid ftw

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

One has appeared just today outside the Home of Football (Recreation Park, Alloa). I doubt that billboard will have cost too much though.

 

[8ball]

go out there with a marker pen and draw some masonic symbols on it for the lols. Eye n pyramid ftw

I like to doodle these symbols in boring work meetings. Get odd looks sometimes.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Well, when I was a kid I used to ponder over the big, sweeping desert vistas that turned out to be cigarette adverts.
They were a little nefarious too.

Maybe these should have a health warning to make everyone happy.

"May make you think you know magic spells that can help you evade parking tickets" or some such...

Those "big sweeping desert vistas" were an award-winning advertising campaign and yes they were for cigarettes. You only way you knew that they were cigarette adverts was because of the health warning. They were superb surrealist images that made you work to guess which brand was being advertised. It was Benson and Hedges I liked them, despite not being a smoker.

 

[DotCommunist]

Silk Cut had some great adverts. It was so long ago I can't remember if that wanker blair ever succeded in getting fag ads banned from F1

 

[Pickman's model]

Silk Cut had some great adverts. It was so long ago I can't remember if that wanker blair ever succeded in getting fag ads banned from F1

he was only shaking whatsisname down for some cash.

 

[DotCommunist]

bernie ecclestone. Wow born 1930 and still going!

 

[DaveCinzano]

bernie ecclestone. Wow born 1930 and still going!

Outlived the NSDAP government of Germany for whatever that's worth

 

[mojo pixy]

Two new ones in Bristol, Avonvale Rd in Barton Hill and another near Tescos at Eastgate. I'm still mystified as from the FMOTL shit I've read (due to variously conspiranoid mates) this poster doesn't make sense even in its own context...

 

[mojo pixy]

I think I might understand it if it read ''It's unlawful to use a legal name'' or ''It's illegal to use a lawful name'' or something, I know how their word-magic works.

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever. Just that little turn about.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

There's one in my town which has been confusing me. Glad I found this thread but still don't understand tbh.

 

[bimble]

There's one in my town which has been confusing me. Glad I found this thread but still don't understand tbh.

OVERstand.

 

[DaveCinzano]

understand

OVERstand

Wombling freemen

 

[mojo pixy]

Jeez, Bristol's awash with the bastard things. Stapleton Rd, Muller Rd and Totterdown. What does it all mean? Is it a slow-burn yogurt promotion? Some new coffee on the way? Are they fucking with me, subliminally?

 

[pinkychukkles]

Ones popped up on Woodgrange Road under the Overground bridge next to Wanstead Park Station in E7, Forest Gate in London.

 

[ska invita]

Saw one off the Holloway Road//london a couple of days ago

 

[bimble]

Is it just this country (and Scotland ) that they're spamming with posters?

 

[SpookyFrank]

The website has been jazzzed up a bit (see what I did there) and now contains this wondrfully bizarre video:



Still absolutely nothing coherent on there of course.

 

[Dogsauce]

There's the opportunity for someone to capitalise on this campaign by fiddling google to become the top result when people search for this shit. If I was capable of this I'd just promote a page that said in a large font 'JUST PAY YOUR FUCKING PARKING TICKET LIKE EVERYONE ELSE AND FUCK OFF WITH THIS NONSENSE'.

 

[nogojones]

Another one has popped up round the corner now. What are they getting out of it apart from some lulz? I wonder what the Advertising Standards people think of these boards

 

[DaveCinzano]

I wonder what the Advertising Standards people think of these boards

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) confirmed to me that it had received seven complaints about the posters on the basis that they were ambiguous or misleading.

"Some questioned whether it would lead law-abiding people into thinking they've committed fraud or a crime by having a name," a spokesman said.

However, the ASA said it did not consider there were grounds for further investigation. While it acknowledged the advert "may appear somewhat confusing to consumers and it wasn't initially clear what it was for or what it means", its message "was not particularly harmful, misleading or likely to cause widespread offence, and unlikely to cause consumers confusion regarding their own name".

For this reason, the ASA had not made contact with the advertiser and cannot shed any light on their identity.

The mystery of the 'legal name fraud' billboards - BBC News

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I Really want to subvert these billboards with some sort of witty and offensive message, however I can't think of anything good enough at the moment, mainly cos I'm at work and therefore not drunk.

Any ideas?

 

[nogojones]

The mystery of the 'legal name fraud' billboards - BBC News

and why would someone spunk "£100,000-ish" on doing it

 

[DaveCinzano]

and why would someone spunk "£100,000-ish" on doing it

 

[Plumdaff]

Another one has popped up round the corner now. What are they getting out of it apart from some lulz? I wonder what the Advertising Standards people think of these boards

There's another one in Cardiff? Where? It cheers up my commute to detour past the ridiculousness.

 

[DotCommunist]

There's the opportunity for someone to capitalise on this campaign by fiddling google to become the top result when people search for this shit. If I was capable of this I'd just promote a page that said in a large font 'JUST PAY YOUR FUCKING PARKING TICKET LIKE EVERYONE ELSE AND FUCK OFF WITH THIS NONSENSE'.

blatantly what magistrates wish they could say

 

[Saul Goodman]

I Really want to subvert these billboards with some sort of witty and offensive message, however I can't think of anything good enough at the moment, mainly cos I'm at work and therefore not drunk.

Any ideas?

 

[frogwoman]

there's one on my road as well.