[Closed] The Ad on here "1 tip for a sexy stomach" with the girl in the red bikini

Where?

You only get to see it if you have bladder problems.

Keeps appearing down the right of the forums. And another one. What is the person doing with that banana in the "Foods to never eat" advert?

You know what this thread is....?

"1 tip for a sexy stomach"?

I can give you that for free: Stop eating so much.

Not rocket surgery is it?

There's advertising here?

If the ad shows a girl in anything less than a Burka then it should be reported to the mods so they can close it down like they did with the 'Gorgeous and Talented' thread yesterday which was full of pictures of female singers wearing the type of clothing you'd see on any street on a warm day. Abhorrant it was.

rocket surgery

??!

ads?

No advertising here 🙂

Tesco
Honda
Luxury Chalets
Some magazine called Singletrack World which I have never heard of
SKY
Amazon

No Saddle bag abs here.

Hypocritical that the forum close each thread about attractive women, whilst half the advertising contains NSFW semi naked young women advertising t-shirts.

🙄

All I get is a middle aged bloke with a slight paunch in an STW T shirt.

Oh, hold on... I hate this intelligent target marketing!

I have no ads and am not a Premier user. In fact i have no ads on any website anymore. Its like driving on christmas day every day!

Im sworn to secrecy though after a stern talking to from the powers to be at STW towers for revealing how

[i]Im sworn to secrecy though after a stern talking to from the powers to be at STW towers for revealing how [/i]

not stern enough, clearly 😉

me too..... an STW swat-team is on my roof as I speak 😯

I've got anti smoking and kindle ads

I reported the talented and gorgeous thread. Do your perving on reddit like everyone else

I reported the talented and gorgeous thread. Do your perving [s]on reddit[/s] by looking at the ads like [s]everyone else[/s] you're supposed to

I reported the talented and gorgeous thread. Do your perving on reddit like everyone else

Maybe I need it spelling out to me but I fail to see how that thread was offensive. It was a selection of (mostly musicians) that people here personally find attractive and contributions from the female members of this site would have been perfectly welcome. The subject is a debate my wife and I have quite regularly at home, over both male and female figures. None of the pictures that were posted were in my opinion, not work-safe and a lot of them presumably came from album covers or publitity shots that would have been displayed in music stores nationwide.
In Monday's episode of 'Miranda' both Miranda and Stevie were lusting over Gary Barlow. Should I take offence at that because I will never have Gary Barlow's voice or looks?

Mostly Balanced - Member
Maybe I need it spelling out to me but I fail to see how that thread was offensive. It was a selection of (mostly musicians) that people here personally find attractive and contributions from the female members of this site would have been perfectly welcome. The subject is a debate my wife and I have quite regularly at home, over both male and female figures. None of the pictures that were posted were in my opinion, not work-safe and a lot of them presumably came from album covers or publitity shots that would have been displayed in music stores nationwide.
In Monday's episode of 'Miranda' both Miranda and Stevie were lusting over Gary Barlow. Should I take offence at that because I will never have Gary Barlow's voice or looks?

I totally agree, but this is unfortunately in the forum rules (albeit specifically about the A&A/Kylie threads but near enough I think?):

[b]As long as no one is offended by this ‘tradition’ we see no problem with letting it continue as long as all other guidelines and rules are strictly adhered to. If you do find this tradition to be offensive or distasteful then please email us at moderator@singletrackworld.com (or just click the ‘report this post’ link on the post in question).[/b] The Kylie Clause is only allowed as we assume that it is considered harmless by the majority of users of the forum. We will not know any different unless you make us aware of your feelings.

Well it is Friday and tradition must be upheld.

What annoys me about threads like that is that they pretend to be about liking a particular female performer, but its never about their skill at melodies ( wow, her use of dim7 on the 2nd verse really brings out the tone of the whole song!!) but about whether her bum is actually eating her shorts.

Perv by all means, but at least be honest about it.

Edit: kylie started before I joined nothing I can do about it, and at least CFH is honest about his perving when he celebrates the athletic threads, and puts up piccies of boys as well as girls

I'll concede that one or two of the posts were perhaps thinly veiled, but I don't really want to get into an arguement over where 'tounge in cheek' stops and offence starts as that's very much a personal thing.

The word 'perv' is a hard one to pin down. Does it only apply to visual stimuli? I posted a picture of Justine Frischmann and I can honestly say that the sound of her voice gives me more of an internal glow than any pictures of bum eating shorts.

emsz has a point, she found it offensive, end of.

She could post a "poster boys" thread if she wants on the basis of dental aptitude, and if us gents found it offensive, we could report it.

All's fair etc...

us gents found it offensive, we could report it.

Would you though?

See the beer belly thread, not only are there naked pictures of men but they're being openly mocked for being overweight.

'spoon, I wrote a spooof objection on that thread then decided not to post it.

To answer your question, I'n not offended by it. If I was offended enough, I'd report it.

I'm not emsz, her levels of offensivness are different from mine its not for me or anyone else to judge or put measures on her tolerance.

I'm not emsz, her levels of offensivness are different from mine its [s]not for me or anyone else[/s] up to the mods to judge or put measures on her tolerance.

you never hear good looking people complaining about threads on other peoples looks.

you never hear fat munters complaining about threads talking about cake.

just observations.

Do the mods take into account the type of people who's hobby seems to be finding things to be offended by, and therefore ignoring them when they report a post for being 'offensive'?

To quote Steve Hughes;

Now you have adults going “I was offended, I was offended and I have rights!” Well so what, be offended, nothing happened. You’re an adult, grow up, and deal with it. I was offended! Well, I don’t care! Nothing happens when you’re offended. “I went to the comedy show and the comedian said something about the lord, and I was offended, and when I woke up in the morning, I had leprosy."

Nothing Happens. [b]“I want to live in a democracy but I never want to be offended again.” Well you’re an idiot.[/b]

How do you make a law about offending people? How do you make it an offense to offend people? Being offended is subjective. It has everything to do with you as an individual or a collective, or a group or a society or a community. Your moral conditioning, your religious beliefs. What offends me may not offend you. And you want to make laws about this? I’m offended when I see boy bands for god sake.

It’s a valid offense, I’m offended.

😈 😉

[i]just observations. [/i]

you've mellowed in the last year.

you never hear good looking people complaining about threads on other peoples looks.

you never hear fat munters complaining about threads talking about cake.

just observations.

In this day and age, you're supposed to be massively faux-offended on their behalf, then loudly tell everyone that they could be offenced so they'd best stop the thread.

🙄 I'm not offended by nudity, I'm offended by hypocrisy

Although objectifying women isn't cool, but whatever.

Everyone objectifies each other. Women objectify men just as much as we objectify women.

Women objectify men just as much as we objectify women.

Some women objectify women as well, just as some men objectify men. It's all gravy! 🙂

Having this discussion with that T-shirt ad over there ->

Is funny.

Anyhow, the problem isn't admiring good-looking people. That's normal. The problem is treating people as objects, and especially online there is a big problem with attitudes towards women, especially women who aren't supermodels and who have views of their own. Mary Beard suffered some particularly vile abuse online recently for daring to have opinions on TV.

I guess the mods what to cut out any possibility of that kind of thing happening.

Perhaps, but women are seen more in our society as objects, not people. Yes I know men are used on adverts too, but nowhere near as much, and that Kyle thread shows it. Will the agent provocateur ad be banned by the mods? Yes because it's more or less porno. It's a fine line, swimwear...lap dance... Sex industry

Can I stop it? No I can't, am i just as guilty, looking occasionally? Hell yeah,

doesn't make it right or ok though does it?

i think you probably just need to lighten up a bit emsz.

Emz, have you ever thought women are used in adverts most...because they drive the vast majority of purchasing choices?

How is a bikini more or less porno? There's a big difference between a woman standing in a bikini and a woman spreading her legs in one with an inviting look. One is sexualized and the other is likely not to make me bat an eye lid.

The only reason why partial-nudity with no other context is sexualized sometimes...is due to the fact that some people still have victorian attitudes towards the human body.

doesn't make it right or ok though does it?

What, so we should all become like religious folk? Have guilty pleasures and **** ourselves up mentally? Or should we view sexuality as normal and healthy.

And before anyone says...."but but these aren't normal women....bad examples blahdyblahblah".... anyone that can't distinguish between the fantasy we see presented by the media and reality needs their head examined.

are you saying that Catholics are ****ed up mentally?

i'm pretty sure that's what you said, but i'd like you to confirm it.

what about Muslims? or is it just Catholics?

are you saying that Catholics are ****ed up mentally?

Yup, I'd say the latter are as well. In fact most religions.

Why else do southerners in the states watch more porn than the democratic states....maybe...just maybe.....it's because they have weird attitudes towards the body and sex.

Oh no, the Catholic church's attitude to women is completely normal and not at all swivel-eyed, oh no.

[i]How is a bikini more or less porno[/i]

Didn't say it was. I said the agent provocateur advert of her riding the bucking bronco more or less is.

I have no problem with nudity I have issues with the 'use' of women in advertising and the use of images of us in society Like I said, the talented and gorgeous thread wasn't about their talent it was about tits.

I am a woman. I would far rather see a picture of a naked woman on my STW sidebar than a picture of a naked man, in all his saggy scrotal glory....

This^^^^ At least naked women are nice to look at!

Besides, it ain't exactly as if the women were "forced" to model now were they, and i'm guessing the male to female ratio of users on here is at least 10:1. So after every 10th girl, we need to show a nekked bloke pic. Fairs Fair!

(and as to religion, don't even get me started. They just want to kill anyone who doesn't believe in the same (made up) god! Now i might like 26 inch wheels and you might preffer to worship at the altar of the 29er, but i ain't going to come a murder you and your entire family for that view............ (probably 😉

Strange that some people are happy to post intimate details of their private lives on a public forum but are offended pretty pictures of adequately dressed people paid to pose for pretty pictures.

I certainly have problems with some sort of aesthetic us blokes are meant to achive. I've got enough about me to know and realise those images are impossible unattainable images though. And that's that, just do healthy stuff like cycling. bollocks to some sort of image(or job/life) you are supposed to attain. get a grip! Same for women!

This is nothing. A (female) friend put an article on FB regarding a procedure known as 'The Barbie'.

A misandrist feminist took vast (and lengthy) offence that I had an opinion, given that as a man I am, by extension, a rapist (there is a whole realm of this stuff out there believe me).

Apart from providing me with some entertainment it has also confirmed my support of Stephen Fry's views on being offended;

'It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so ****ing what?' —Stephen Fry

What annoys me about threads like that is that they pretend to be about liking a particular female performer

The kylie (recent) thread wasn't about her music at all.

[B]And nobody was pretending it was either. [/b]

Otherwise there would have been links to Audio files or YouTube videos of performances.

But there wasnt, just loads of photos.

Perv by all means, but at least be honest about it.

Seemed perfectly honest to me.

Nothing to be annoyed about then eh ?

Not that I really understand the logic in saying its fine to perv over women and objectify them as long as you own up to it.

But getting annoyed if people pretend they are just interested in the songs or whatever.

It's either wrong to objectify women, or it isn't.

Being honest about it shouldn't make any difference.

The kylie (recent) thread wasn't about her music at all.

Not bad so far.

The sexualisation and objectifying of women in the media.
Religion.
Hand wringing political correctness.
Lady garden cosmetic surgery.

Not bad, STW, not bad.

🙄

I get adverts for mountain biking holidays, sheds, cameras and Kindles. No ladies...

Mrs Toast - Member
I get adverts for mountain biking holidays, sheds, cameras and Kindles. No ladies...

All I get is sheds. WTF?

bigblackshed - Member
All I get is sheds. WTF?

Lets all get offended about everything! Yay

getonyourbike - Member

Read the quote and think about it...

Do I need a 😉 ?

bigblackshed - Member
getonyourbike - Member
Read the quote and think about it...

Do I need a ?

Sorry to digress, but an earlier poster mentioned the 7 foods (or is it 5?) advert. I clicked on it once and got to three (eventually) but got bored. So after concentrated fruit juice, bread and margarine.....what's next?

Just wiggle and sheds for me at the moment. V dull!!

have no problem with nudity I have issues with the 'use' of women in advertising and the use of images of us in society

*Goes back to looking for the "Sexy Stomach Ad". Still haven't seen it. Will I be offended?

There's a lot of bollocks being talked on this thread and not by emsz.

So I take it you will not be coming on the STW forum again in protest at the proliferation of ads that appear that fall into the categories you describe?

I would have thought the best course of action would be to report the ad, rather than just avoiding the problem. No?

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I don't see a problem with men admiring women, women admiring men, or for that matter men admiring men and women admiring women, if they're so disposed, and discussing it in a civil manner. It's all perfectly natural.

What I think is unacceptable is a big bunch of blokes all braying "waay, look at the knockers on that, she can grease my pole anytime" and other such Wildean witticisms. It's uncomfortable, and it's not a million miles removed from bullying.

So yes, there's a degree of "stop being offended" certainly, but that doesn't give us all carte blanche to act like inconsiderate pricks.

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There's a lot of bollocks being talked on this thread and not by emsz.

You could be making a valid point.

But you are being so vague, it difficult to say.

I'm not being vague at all. I would have thought my point was obvious. I cannot be ****ed to expand on something that a teenager should understand, let alone middle aged men.

Oh, and,

It's a fine line, swimwear...lap dance... Sex industry

Sorry Emsz, but that's not fair. The same argument reversed reads swimwear... one-piece... ankle-length dresses... burkha.

http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slope

would have thought the best course of action would be to report the ad, rather than just avoiding the problem. No?

I'm not being vague at all. I would have thought my point was obvious. I cannot be **** to expand on something that a teenager should understand, let alone middle aged men

Your point is that you disagree with someone or some people ?

We know one person,who isn't one of those people.

Not vague at all no.

It's entirely up to the mods, of course, because this is their space, but the world needs another forum with t&a threads like the classifieds forums needs more Paypal gift payments...

Otherwise, +1 on what emsz said.

Although objectifying women isn't cool, but whatever.

Talking about bikes on the internet with strangers is probably seen as a lot less cool by the majority of the population. I suggest we close the site down just to be safe.

I do find it odd that people advertise tee's on a site that is mainly inhabited by blokes using a girl with massive boobs, altho I admit that sometimes I do stare at it cos they are ridiculous. How do I know if the tee will fit me properly unless a bloke's modelling it?

I wondered what happened to that "talented and gorgeous to boot" thread?, as far as i could tell there was nowt wrong wi it in the slightest, no pictures of girls in their underwear, no posed pictures or overtly sexual comments that i could find - Fair enough.... if you were offended by it then don't look at it but to report it to the mods is taking the "I'm offended, ban it now" stance in my opinion. So you were offended?, bully for you!, I consider Stephen Fry has the correct response for this situation which has been posted earlier in this thread but i'm not going to repeat it for fear of getting reported 🙄 and finally? ...in what way was the entire thread about "perving" or "tits", not one person made a comment regarding "tits" of any kind, many posts regarding fantastic singer etc but not one making reference to breasts or an arse.

Get over it,

I am trying to reconcile the deleting of posts/threads that include pictures of women with the constant adverts on here that are blatantly using women to sell things. Provocative pictures to market menswear is encouraged, it would seem. Not the most consistent policy?

So has no-one else managed to listen to the whole foods you shouldn't eat thread? Damn, I will have to endure the whole thing!

I am trying to reconcile the deleting of posts/threads that include pictures of women with the constant adverts on here that are blatantly using women to sell things. Provocative pictures to market menswear is encouraged, it would seem. Not the most consistent policy?

The consistency of the policy is probably fairly sturdy.

If you want to post pictures of a scantily clad woman, feel free to pay for it as an advert, and then start a thread without the picture included but mention that is what the thread is about 🙂

Money talks 😉

STW has limited control on what adverts appear some are based on a users history which is why when I log out I see sheds and other boring offers, however if anyone finds them offensive then please report them and the name of the company to us and we will look into it.

STW has limited control on what adverts appear

But presumably is ultimately responsible for them? I thought this was the line usually trotted out for controversial posts on the forum being deleted.

I find all the shed adverts I get shown offensive to be honest.

Am I really that bloody boring that even [b]the Internet[/b] doesn't want to show me some lady bits !!!!

STW has limited control on what adverts appear

Assuming that someone sat in a meeting then signed a contract, I would say that while there is no control over the ads that appear there is a responsibility and acceptance that this lack of control could cause problems.

We ask for them to be reported if anyone spots any problems as it's often the fastest way as the forum is on 24/7 where as staff don't work 24/7. They're has been blocked adverts before and there will again. If there was a lack of control there'd be far worse ones I'd have said.

I don't find them offensive particularly just a little odd/inconsistent. Compared with the male/female Pwoor threads on another (relatively conservative) sports website the moderation of photos on here seems strict IMO. But they are your rules and the (possible) inconsistency is only matching the same for society as a whole - much nicer to look at than sheds I agree!!!

Its a bit like religion - open playing field for all sorts of abuse on here that isn't tolerated with other topics. Including almost 1000 pages with an insulting title and OP!!! Again probably a fair reflection of society at large.

Any raises on concentrated juice, bread and margarine BTW?