No. The worst thing about them is that you'll hear people going "Wassssuuuuuuuup" in pubs/playgrounds/campuses/coroner's offices the length and breadth of the country for ages and thinking they're being amusing.

Chris Moyles, Radio 1 DJ and bully, is a case in point. The way he flogs the catchphrase to death on his show you'd think he invented it. And yesterday he was boasting on air that he'd been sent some freebies from Budweiser. I don't mean to get on my high horse, but doesn't that go against BBC guidelines. Isn't it, well, advertising?

I don't think they're funny. I think they're quite poignant - the bit at the end where the two guys are just looking at the TV going 'True, true...' It's a paean to chilling out!

The ads are alright, but anyone that mimics them even momentarily is beneath contempt.

I always flick the telly over when this moronic shite is on. They remind me why I find Americans so fucking annoying. These ads were written by wankers and only wankers will find them amusing. I don't actually drink myself, although I have tasted Budkaiser and it tastes like Arab's piss.

The chameleons were leagues better, but of course harder to imitate.

Didn't they just imitate their surroundings?

>The chameleons were leagues better, but of course harder to imitate.

I can do a passable Mark Burgess singing "In Shreds".

Budweiser is described as 'The King of Beers'.

Is this because no beer drinking electorate voted for its position and its continuing use of the title shows the fact that it has no real power in any sense?

Actually I quite like Budweiser.

I suppose now I'll have to be lectured by some Real Ale fanatic going on about hops and malt and gravity and nutty texture etc etc.

PS Why do people go on about lager tasting like piss? How do they know?

>PS Why do people go on about lager tasting like piss? How do they know?


I don't know, I wouldn't dream of tasting lager. Hysteria ensues.

According to one of Nigel Rees' books of Humourous Graffiti (readers of the Fist Of Fun book will know what I'm on about, David Baddiel did a MWE routine about them once. And they got a ref in ep6 of I'm Alan Partridge... anyway...) a genuine example of graffiti was:

On a poster reading "Budweiser Now!" someone had humourously added "I am older..."

What always made me suspicious of that is that I have no recollection of the original advert.

Note: the graffito came above the slogan... and thus the humour ensued...

>Actually I quite like Budweiser.
>
>I suppose now I'll have to be lectured by some Real Ale fanatic going on about hops and malt and gravity and nutty texture etc etc.
>
>PS Why do people go on about lager tasting like piss? How do they know?

I've got nothing against lager. Some of my best friends drink lager.

Budweiser is piss. I know this because I used to play rugby.

Is piss-drinking a post-match rugby tradition, and thence came your relevant experience? Is that what you're saying?

>Is piss-drinking a post-match rugby tradition, and thence came your relevant experience? Is that what you're saying?

Not a tradition, more of an accident I should have expected.

Are you going to Eastbourne next week Simon?

No.

I was talking more about the "Wassssuuuuuuuup" ad.

WASAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP

Al>Actually I quite like Budweiser.
>I suppose now I'll have to be lectured by some Real Ale fanatic going on about hops and malt and gravity and nutty texture etc
etc.

Since you insist...

If 'Budweiser' (so-called) was a comedian, it would be Iain Lee. The drink was originated by a lad who visited Budweis (now Ceske Budovice or something) some time last century, observed the quality of the local brew, and decided it would be an excellent idea to go back to the States, rip off the name and the reputation, and attach it to something altogether blander. I dare say he claimed he was taking what the original brewers did and "extending it". (The Budweiser produced by the Budvar brewery in CB is also sold on the world market, hence the well-known tradename dispute, the rights and wrongs of which should be apparent to an infant).

Another thing with 'Budweiser': they put rice in it. Shedloads of rice. This doesn't provide any particular taste, it just ups the alcohol content a bit and makes the beer paler, watery and insipid-tasting. And it's cheap. Your average Central European brewer would throw a screaming hissy fit if you accused him of that kind of behaviour, but the "King of Beers" people seem quite proud of it (check the label, which last time I saw it also provided an entertaining bout of protesting-too-much about the tradename). American Standard Beers in general (the big brands are pretty much interchangeable) are brewed with huge quantities of assorted crap to dilute the taste because, according to clever people with graphs, the US palate finds the taste of pure malt beer "too robust" -- this despite the fact that small-scale American indie brewers, left to their own devices, are noted for their love of knocking together incredible brews high in every statistic available. Similar people with graphs probably dictate Channel 4 commissioning policy. (Beer, comedy, it's all the same to me.)

OK, it doesn't taste of piss. But it doesn't particularly taste of anything else either. Nothing wrong with liking the stuff -- but I reckon you could get the same effect for a fraction of the price, by buying one of those 99p four-packs of weak tinned lager, and dosing the strength up with a bottle of Morrinov. Of course, you would not then be Buying The Dream. Bear in mind though that it is an American Dream and may not fit local sockets.

Oh, and while I'm here...

>>The chameleons were leagues better, but of course harder to imitate.

Sam> I can do a passable Mark Burgess singing "In Shreds".

ROTFL. Surely nowhere else on Earth but on this forum...

What? Oh, the advert. It's terrible, and it's driving me mad. I think that was the desired effect.

Just got back from the local boozer, where some geezer had his laptop with him, proudly displaying to everyone the next ad in the series, it's now 'aagh'in a restaurant. Then they all went 'aagh' as well, so I left.

That it should come to this......

wasabi.


I will go on a killing spree if one more person says it.

Just sitting at home, surfin' the net, drinking a Stella......





Hold on, that's slightly out - I meant *watching the game* - Obviously an American hunting and shooting programme.

The other day I saw 2 bus drivers saying "Waaasssuppp?!?" to each other repeatedly.

How richly they deserve their low-status jobs.

Indeed! Cigar?

What I find really annoying is that my brother proudly boasts that he was using the phrase before the advert came out, because apparently some WWF wanker uses it. "It doesn't matter what you think" -- (*^%(^^*%^&^&%^&%*&^%$%*&^!!!! (hits computer monitor violently with used pot noodle tub).

Want to know a genuinely funny thing I heard down town the other day? One Asian market stall owner returned from an errand and said to the other, "but but!" to which the other replied, "ding ding!!". Pure class...

i thought it had just been lifted from a scene in 'scary movie' which is also very, very shit indeed.