Americans React to Top 10 Most Effective British Adverts
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
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As an ex-firefighter serving in Essex, UK, I cannot agree more regarding the first advert....testing your smoke alarms should be a part of your regular household routine. I've watched colleagues come out of house fires carrying dead infants, I've attended so many house fires where we had to do rescues of persons within the house.....only to find out none of these households had working smoke alarms or worse still, none at all! Before I left the service, I was actively involved in a initiative to install free smoke alarms to local households, but you'd be shocked at how many people don't have them because they "think" it would never happen to them 😢☹
Thanks for your service buddy 👍🏻❤️🏴
Gday Neil, greetings from Australia. My father was a career fireman and retired as assistant commissioner for our state. I spent my teenage years living at A fire station. When dad was a probationary firemen he went to his first serious house fire and he was told they thought there was still someone inside. He was searching in the dark and smoke down on his knees searching by hand with gloves on under a bed. He felt a body and his heart sank. All of the sudden the body moved and got up and took off. It turned out to be the family dog taking off and it managed to get out safely,all be it with smoke inhalation. Dad said it frightened the hell out of him.When we moved to the firestation dad was on call 24/7 with an emergency response car. We'd often be out and dad would get called to a fire or a MVA and mum and i would have to go with him. None of it is pleasant and i understand why the firemen were such practical jokers on their downtime. I guess the difference between where you were and here is dad attending a lot of bush and grass fires. Thanks for what you did mate. Its a tough job at times and no where near as glamorous as people sometimes think. Have a great weekend mate😊
Respect to you my friend,I also live in Essex,and I would just like to say thank you for your service ❤God bless ❤️
How many have "working" alarms.. the alarm goes off for burnt toast and they remove the battery.
I'm always testing mine. the old "Fire Kills", and other PSA's in 70's and the 80's stuck with me.
I still unplug everything non-essential at night and when I go out.
The uk doesn’t sugarcoat things like this
We do now unfortunately, they wouldn't risk anything like that these days, too many snowflakes
@@Jamie_D*sigh*
For fuck's sake, it's not even remotely true and there's still plenty of hard hitting campaigns. The watershed is still a thing. BBFC classifications are a thing.
Stop with this culture war shite
@@MarkPentler ok smart ass where are they hiding then, try googling most effective uk or British adds 2024, or 2023, literally fuck all
@@MarkPentler name one hard hitting campaign recently then?
@@Jamie_D Most of these were only 10 or 11 years ago. The rules haven't changed since then. Society is no more snowflake now than it was in the noughties.
If anything things are more graphic now than in the past and in the 1970s or 80s most of these would never have made it to TV at all.
TV generally has become progressively more free to show realism over the 50+ years I've been watching it and if you saw what stood for reality back in the 1970s you would realise how far we've come .
You wouldn't call St John Ambulance in an emergency, you'd call the regular Ambulance Service, St John volunteers cover festivals, auto and racehorse meetings and many other large public gatherings. It's double Oscar winning actress Emma Thomson, well done Jess for recognising her, and well done to you both, your reactions were exactly what the film makers were aiming for.
Together with the British Red Cross my late father was a member of both services at different times, they do a great job especially through the blitz in the second world war.
St. John Ambulance also do first aid training, which is what these adverts are mainly for.
Really you tried to get an Ambulance?
@@norwoodboy6048they still try, but after years of underfunding and Brexit…
@bAlBarzUK 😂
These adverts are all about getting people to have empathy and you both showed that in abundance
Hi. Your reaction to the Motor Neurone Disease was very important to me. My mum had MND and passed away in the 1980’s at the age of 50. None of us three boys, her sons, have suffered from the disease. Luckily it isn’t hereditary. Mum was a twin, here sister was so identical that we as kids had difficulty telling them apart! My Aunty lived a long life and just died of old age at 99. She requested that instead of flowers at her cremation could donations be made to MND instead. Aunties ashes were later interred with my mum’s 2 years ago. This horrible disease needs all the help we can give to try and find the cause and possibly a cure. Ads like these, though shocking are effective.
i’m the exact same my grandfather died of MND in 2014,,, it’s truly devastating to see
I lost my mum 14 years ago, to ALS, a form of MND. She went from being perfectly healthy, to being completely paralysed within 12 months, and passed away 6 months later, which is exactly what the doctors predicted. Its a horribly cruel disease and I hope one day we can find a cure.
@carpii That's tough friend.
The St. John's Ambulance ones are less about calling 999 and every second counts but also about how if people learned basic first aid it makes a difference in the outcome, like the guy choking on the food would have a much higher survival rate if people knew how to do the Heimlich maneuver instead of waiting for an ambulance to arrive which will take time ..
yea the kid falling one is a bad example of that, he has clearly taken internal damage so standard crp wouldn't have helped much, and perhaps damaged him further
@@Jamie_DI thought that one was more about being vigilant since the dad was chatting away on the phone. Lots of kids accidents are die to them not being watched properly. So you can prevent them if you do.
@@Jamie_Das a first aider, we wouldn’t know what was going on in the body so if there’s no sign of breathing or circulation we would do cpr and continue it until an ambulance crew/ paramedic took over or if we were physically unable to continue. It’s probably been deactivated now but if you texted the number shown it would have given you the steps needed to save the boy.
More importantly you wouldn't pick him up and shake him about. Falls from height have a significant possibility of spinal damage, and if the child survived the ordeal then may be left with unrepairable paralysis as a result of that.
@@TheMightyHams the way the parent did it is definitely incorrect, the way we are taught as the response part of the primary survey is to place your hands on the shoulders and give a quick jostle or to pinch the lobe of the ear whilst giving a command like ‘open your eyes’ if he was breathing then we’d put him into the recovery position but making sure the spine is kept in line as much as possible.
First thing I did when my wife was pregnant for the first time was book a full St. John's ambulance first aid course and get my certification - so yes, these ads are effective, every parent should do it! The trafficking gets me everytime, can't help but think how horrific it would be to lose my daughter to traffickers....
The ad made me tear up.
I don’t have kids.
2 Dame Emma Thompson you nearly had it.
Known for Love Actually, Harry Potter, Men in Black International.
More importantly she is the President of The Helen Bamber Association.
She insisted on making this commercial, it raised awareness and money.
Emma is a national treasure.
Her being in the add would bring global attention it. Which was a perfect decision
Emma Thompson is one of our best. A great actress, a humanitarian and as far as I know, a lovely woman too. Nothing but good things to say about her.
Don't forget Nanny McFee
The choking guy ad was suggesting we all take time to do a first aid course rather than depend upon an ambulance to get their in time, sometimes you just can’t wait. I’ve had to perform the heindlick manoeuvre
More than three times. (Just can’t spell it) successfully performed .
It's Heimlich, but, if you've done it successfully and saved lives, it doesn't matter one bit if you can spell it. Thank you for what you've done.
Just to add a little levity. I remember an episode of Quantum Leap where Sam performs the manoeuvre on a man who's choking. Immediately afterwards someone says to the man "Are you ok Dr Heimlich?"
@@richardrussell7082 Haha Sam learnt it off Dr Heimlich.. But Heimlich learnt it off Sam! How could that be possible
I was about to say the same. No matter how fast and ambulance is, there are certain incidents that need a fast response and as such rudimentary first aid can literally save a life
@@hammerhorrible It's a play on the 'bootstrap paradox'. Another popular example: If you go back in time and give the complete works of Mozart to a young Mozart, instead of him having to write them, when he publishes them.... who wrote them?
Jess, Mike: I've not been following you for long, and had primarily sought you out for comedy reactions. BUT I have even greater respect for you after this. I've seen many CZcamsrs react to this compilation, but rarely with such pathos, intelligence and advocacy. I'm especially impressed that Mike was good to his word and linked to every single organisation in the description. You're both exceptionally warm and loving people.
We greatly appreciate that you found us friend. You are the type of person we love connecting with. Thank you for your kind comment.
🔎🖱💻 "adverts from the troubles" on youtube ? @@RNTV
What I love about you two is your caring nature. I am British and I am used to seeing these public service adverts, but they still touch your soul. They certainly make you think about things.
It's only in America where people worry about calling for an ambulance. St Johns Ambulance is a Charity that promotes First Aid and offer courses and training. They also attend events with First aid stations, and go into schools, they are a Great charity.
Something many people have forgotten, or perhaps never knew, is that St John Ambulance is the last remnant of the Crusading Order, the Knights of St John of Jerusalem. They survived the purge of the Knights Templar in the C12, and still carry the same blazon: Sable, a cross Maltese argent.
@@annalieff-saxby568 Last remnant......have you read "The Da Vinci Code" :)
@@hannahreynolds7611 Very interesting. Thanks!
St Johns were just starting a cadet training session in the church hall when my ex was knocked off his motorcycle right outside.
He said the looks on the faces of three young cadets as he skated by on his back was priceless.
They were only about 14 or 15, but they rushed to help him without hesitation, although they did argue about what they should be doing first.
Kudos to them.
I was in St John's ambulance when I was in my early teens in the 80s. Not only was I trained in 1st Aid from an early age, but I played Bugle for the band.
The advert about the fire hit home and made me cry. In 89 I woke my parents up at 6.30am, because I saw flashing and heard explosions behind my roller blind. A well known neighbour had a massive fire. The explosions were aerosols in the bathroom. I called the fire dept immediately. Woke up my parents. By the time they turned up the stairs to the 1st floor were already gone. They lost a daughter and her 2 young children through smoke inhalation. I can never forget it.
Btw, although I've had a Roller-coaster of a life you are my favourite reactors by far.
1970s for me
@@Snarnler it was a great time 👌
BTW that is Emma Thomson. Several stars gave their time for the trafficking ads.
I believe she is actually a founder
@@DPYROAXIS That would not surprise me.
@@kenglasson2920
Yes one of the founders and now the president of the Helen Bamber Foundation... The Human Rights campaigner, Helen Bamber sadly died in 2014 (at the age of 89). She and Emma Thompson were great friends.
The Helen Bamber Foundation is notorious for biased and spurious research done by SWERFs.
You commented about the motorcyclist not wearing a helmet.
Emergency services had removed it. Wearing a crash helmet was made compulsory throughout the uk in 1973.
Unlike usa, where each state make their own rules.
True true true. The only time you ever see people without a helmet, it's SO noticeable that it attracts attention, and it is usually street gangs involved in snatch/grab theft etc. A regular motorcyclist wouldn't leave the house without their lid.
If these adverts open up a forum for discussion, exactly like you have, they've done their job. Even if it's a tiny thought that stays with you for a few days, they've done their job. They're emotionally draining but, I think, necessary. I was tearing up for most of these!
Thank you for showing the Barnardos one, that was basically me growing up. I’m 68 now and I am still the little boy lost in my head.
Barnardos is a wonderful charity, they found my mother in a basket out side the home gates with a note in it saying “we only wanted the boy”
how awful, I do hope she found some happiness
I'm so sorry you had to endure that growing up. Tell that little boy in your head that there are people who care.
Alas my mother suffered with 5 part Schizophrenia. I never really knew her as her.
@anthonycragg451 you poor woman if u ever want to chat let me know . I am a good listener and as a doctor used to say to patients a professional hand holder x
A friend of my mum's is married to a man who grew up in a Barnardo's home.
His mum died and his dad took him and his brother from Ireland to London age 5 and 7 and left them there, and went back to Ireland.
Years later, he found out their dad remarried and had a new family.
A butterfly flaps its wings... never underestimate the affect the world of positive channels like yours have on the world.
You may feel insignificant... but you're not
Doing more than nothing, is doing something. Even if it's just bringing a smile to others
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
We need more postive thinking like this because all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
That was a touching and moving reaction to watching our ads. I really felt for you both during that, we're brought up with these hyper-realistic commercials that we kinda forget how hard hitting they are, especially for guys like yourself who aren't privy to such raw and explicit scenarios shown on tv.
I'll tell you what though as a parent of kids all in their 20's I'm a pretty good judge of character and with all honesty your kids are lucky to have you as parents.
And to watch one after the other!
The first advert was a little bit triggering for me, saw it in the movie theatre and got very emotional - when I was a kid my house burned down with me and my parents inside, incredibly we were all fine, and my stepdad saved my mom's life by carrying her downstairs, even though a huge hole had burned through their bedroom floor. I remember walking through the aftermath and moving the debris like that, seeing everything I knew sit in ash
In Sweden we'er told to test the smoke alarm on december 1 because the date 1/12 writes the the national emergency number 112
Best reaction to these ads from Americans I’ve seen. You are good people ❤
The actress in #2 is Emma Thompson, very well known in UK.
Worldwide really, massively famous actor.
First saw her in Shakespeare's Henry V
Nanny McPhee
Emma Thopmson is the president of the Helen Bamber Foundation. She was a great friend of Helen Bamber (who died in 2014 at the age of 89). The foundation provides care for victims of torture, cruelty and similar atrocities. The words used in the advert were actual words spoken by the people mentioned... 😢
@@alexburrows3710
Professor Trelawney in the Harry Potter films (and totally underused...) 😮
Hugs and love all around…to Mike and Jess,to all who watched this and especially,to all who live it.❤️❤️❤️
This is what we don’t do anymore. We used to but I don’t believe we do that anymore. These adverts I remember but they don’t do this anymore. Which makes me so angry.
Thank you for your honesty and emotion. These kind of adverts work. They send a message.
One thing the UK does really well, our adverts are shocking but need to be. I remember as a young child really tough to watch adverts being shown in school - road safety-stranger danger- Electrical safety - the danger of train tracks
Apaches - how not to play at a Farm. The slurry death was the worst.
Legit, although only 1 from school I can remember is the electric safety ones with the kid getting fried trying to get the frisbee, or the kid having his own future self showing him the dangers all Darth Sidious hooded cloak like "I am you, after you touched the toaster" after he'd stuck a knife in there. Been 20 years n it's stuck there 😂
@@maxbrown7719I remember this weird one where a kid ended up being able to see electricity but that's all I seem to remember about it 😂
Does anyone else remember the one with the girl holding a pair of frozen burgers stuck together? She uses a knife to separate them and it goes right through her hand. She runs out of the house and to a neighbour with the knife stuck through the palm of her hand. It was another one for first aid training.
As a Brit, I grew up with these types of adverts. When I was 13, one of my assignments in school was to make an advert for the NSPCC which we were learning about in citizenship. It’s interesting to hear from people who didn’t watch these kinds of adverts growing up
I recall in the 1970' when the compulsory wareing of car seat belts was introduced. The UK Goverment faced alot of opposition at the time, so they showed adverts of injuries caused to children who had gone through car windscreens. This changed public opinion completely around. I witnessed a child going through a windscreen in the 1960's, thank God I haven't witness this since.
Was a bit of a mockery being told about safety by Jimmy Saville. He did those clunk click seatbelt TV ads.
It was an ad in the 90's with shock value like these that made me train first aid the first chance I got.
Saved 5 people's lives and my sister's twice, the last time she was having a brain aneurysm, had to revive her 7 times waiting for an ambulance who winched a paramedic into our cul-de-sac from the helicopter within 4 minutes of calling.
Rushed into surgery to have a 3 inch clot removed from her brain.
Left paralysed and brain damaged after waking up from a 9 month induced coma.
Given 1 year to live but survived for 13 more.
She finally lost her battle a couple of weeks ago at 39 but I know she's joined the rest of my family so she's not alone.
I'm now on a mission to take a paramedic course annually, always carry a full trauma kit and oxygen, teach if I can and try to help as many people as I can.
Hi Mike and Jess , I've watched this programme several times and each time it brings me to tears .It does what it's meant to do , to provoke thought . Your quite right Jess , the actress was Emma Thompson 🇬🇧
I work for barnardos and they do some great work.
I grew up with these adverts and it's what we are used to. It's effective advertising and helps save lives.
i'm a Brit and i was born in 75. i remember these ads but most were on after the watershed (9pm). i remember the Charlie says adverts which was a cartoon with a cat called Charlie. "Charlie say's never go off with people you don't know" the adverts are still stuck in my head
I think you missed the point in the St John ad, it was to encourage people to do basic first aid training, not just to call an ambulance 🇬🇧
As much as I'm shocked and/or disgusted to see anyone of these adverts:
I feel privileged to live in a culture that shows things as they really are.👴🥺
Bless both of you, You beautiful people x
The aim is to increase awareness about the people and situations around us to try and make us more tolerant or at least aware of them. In light of the riots that happened 2 weeks ago, mostly targeting the Muslim population, I'd like to thank you for reshowing all of these, but especially the last one.
Every reactor I have watched react to this video has without exception said that they will immediately check their smoke alarms!!! Job done 👍❤❤❤
As someone mentioned earlier-watch the UK 🇬🇧 Christmas adverts. Happy tears these time 🤗 to you both xx
* this time! 🙄
In all these adverts the acting was powerful. It conveys very serious messages. The adverts will appear after the ‘watershed’ so after 9pm aimed at the older audience.
Happy you took this suggestion for a reaction, and sorry if it wasn’t a fun one, but this one helps us think all…
St John's Ambulance run first aid courses, and those films, rather than being about their ambulance service, were more to encourage people to enrol in their first aid courses, because being first aid trained could save a life when an ambulance can't get their fast enough.
All of those films are hard-hitting, and all the more effective because of that, as borne out by your discussion afterwards.
If only all humanity were like you two...
Half of these I've never seen but I'm glad they're still creating them. I will never forget the "Always wear a seatbealt - Julia knew her killer" crash ad. It absolutely traumatised me as a child but it was bloody effective.
Yep that's one I will always remember!
Adding on to what a few people already said, the St John's ambulance ads are more about learning first aid rather than a number to call in an emergency. The follow-up that they advertise at the end of Tree (save the boy) was available via phone or on their website and allowed you to walk the father through first aid to ensure the boy would have a higher chance of survival before the ambulance arrives. St John's does some really effective ads with interactivity to encourage the idea that you can take action (I'll never forget the live cinema one they did where a girl in a popcorn ad starts choking and a nurse runs out of the audience into the screen to save her).
I'm glad I found your channel. You both come across as lovely people. All the best🇬🇧✌
You are such lovely people! Thank you very much for considering contributing to some of these charities 👏👍🙏❤️
OMG , Im a man and i cry ! strong impact !
Holy crapy you guys. I'm sitting here not knowing how to feel. Video 3 hit me hardest. I work with people who live with severe psychiatric illnesses. They are incredible human beings despite the media portraying most as evil murderers. A lot of the reason for these illnesses is the trauma they went through. They respond based on a part of them that recalls the. horror on a daily basis and if you don't get that, it only serves to scare the trauma survivor more. There needs to be so much education on trauma and how to help others. I certainly feel sick from these, especially that sex trafficking one....Thank you for putting this out there. Your reactions are genuine and your words are comforting to me, to know there are others who care who want to make a difference. I need a happy video now too. I'm going to go watch Sydnie Christmas again....nice work. My favorite reactionists.
A tie-in to the Motor Neuron Disease ad is a couple of videos of Rugby League player Rob Burrow who sadly died earlier in the year of the disease. I will try and post the links if I can. First is from the tribute at the end of the match soon after his death and the second is his last message he gave.
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I've seen endless reactions to this video, and I have to say this is the best one I've seen by far. Such a heartfelt reaction, well done to you both!
We don’t mess around here in the UK 🇬🇧 I’d forgotten about some of these, was interesting seeing them again.
As a child I attended St John Ambulance Badgers which was a kids club where you learned first aid. We did everything from cuts to CPR at the age of 8!
I watched these adds when they aired in the UK and I cry everytime. In this world where things have become worse in my opinion these adds should be shown even more.
Bless you both for sticking with these - I've seen this compilation several times now, and I knew that you would struggle with many of these ads/PSA's, as US tv would likely not show anything remotely this graphic! I remember so many of them growing up in the 70's and 80's, they certainly do stick with you for a long time - and therefore they do work! I especially appreciate the St. John's/Red Cross ones, as I was a Red Cross cadet from the age of 13, joining the adult branch when I turned 18. I also received my regular First Aid training for work from the St. John's Ambulance - and have used it on many occasions! Thank you for your heartfelt and honest reactions, take care and best wishes from the UK, love you guys!
Across most of the UK if you don’t have a fire alarm or have concerns about your existing fire alarm.
The local ‘fire department’ will come to your house.
Test your alarm or fit a smoke alarm for you.
They'll also give you a free 5 year battery if your smoke alarm can replace batteries.
I worked alongside police in custody for a few years as a nurse (where you go when you're arrested and processed), and my role was to interview anyone that asked to see me to signpost them to services upon their release. Of all the crimes that genuinely made me hate a person, was not the crimes the people i saw committed, more the crimes that they themselves had suffered. Murder, kidnapping, radicalisation, drug dealers, all unpleasant to deal with, but for me the traffickers and other exploitative crimes, the ones that didn't see a person, but were so callous as to use others for their financial profit, treat them like a disposable assets, they were the ones I wanted to find a dark corner and make sure they never walked again.
Loved your reaction. You are both good people, regardless of past mistakes, plain and simple. These are technically not adverts (not correcting. I know the original video calls them that), but rather Public Information Films, or PIFs, what you guys would call PSAs. They've been around since the 40s, started touching on these kinds of subjects in the 60s and stopped holding punches In the 70s. I'm kind of obsessed with them, have been compiling a fairly comprehensive list of videos, and will soon be giving a University lecture on them and their effect.
I am British and can remember the public service ads that were shown to kids and warning them not to play on the railway, not to climb onto trains or up electricity pylons. Another was warning about climbing into electricity substations to retrieve balls and another about the dangers of playing with fireworks.
There is one advert which was shown in cinemas that was created by a police force in Wales to highlight the dangers of texting whilst driving and that was quite graphic.
As a kid in the 70s we used to get shown ones like these - the one that always scared me was the one about not playing on train lines
The one that sticks in my mind even now is the kiddie climbing the electricity pylon and getting electrocuted 🥺
That one stuck with me so much level crossings scare the crap out of me to this day!
I strongly remember decades ago in the 90’s of a Fire warning advert. It actually showed fire rescue personnel walking though a burnt residence and on the burnt ground what appears to be charred human remains. I’ve never found that video again, that impact of that image stuck with me.
No sugar coating, keeping it real... and you'll never forget them.
Emma Thompson is the actress in the Trafficking ad. 22:23 She waived her fee for doing it too.
Your channel has become one of my favourites to watch. Your deep love for eachother and family shines through every time. Like you, I watched these adverts and started to think about what I could do to make, at least, a small difference.
You guys do a lot thru your channel - keep going in spreading positivity.
You are showing your humanity.
Adverts like these in the UK are very common but only showed after 9pm when children are in bed
A lot of them like the sex trafficking one would have been but loads of the traffic ones were on earlier because I remember watching them when I was young and I wouldn't have been allowed to watch TV after 9
Greetings from the UK. You two are more beautiful than words can express. X
1st time watcher, liked and subscribed. Being born in the UK I've seen all these before, thought provoking and terrifying. They slam home the message and make you stop and take note, I may have seen all these before but they still make me cry, they don't lose their power with repeat watching, unfortunately we see less and less of these type of docuadvert these days, people get upset and offended, I say good, you should be upset, you should be offended...that's the point, the world isn't all pink paint and flowers, we need this sort of thing to wake us up, make us think, make us act.
Thank you for your great reaction to this video, I look forward to your other 'lighter' videos
Thank you for posting this. 👌 I hadn't seen a couple before. The Bernados videos really hit home 😱. You should have a look at the government's public information adverts. We tell it like it is in the UK 💪🇬🇧
awesome empathy guys. Love you are able to show your real feelings. For those of us who are so lucky to not have to go through these things in life, we have to fight to stop it happening to others. Love from Australia
Did you emigrate from The UK,please,Melvyn?
@@Isleofskye parents were ten pound poms, proudly aussie born
I had a work colleague who last week passed away from Motor Neuron Disease, he was such a friendly, happy and cheerful man who would do anything to help anyone. he deteriorated rapidly during the covid lockdowns and had huge trouble getting a NHS appointment at the time (over the phone appointment when he was unable to speak.....>.
Thankyou guys from 🇬🇧 these adverts stay wiv you. Education and awareness are the key.
Motor Neurone Disease is also known in the US as ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease.
You are both a positive force for good!
Just wow. UK resident, don’t really watch much telly and some of this passed me by. You guys really earned your dough today and is a very based day for me. Well done for doing this video. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 ❤️
You are a UK kid who knows nothing. You are young and gullible. online has destroyed our kids. Don't let you, as a younster, not wake up.
Want to say it’s good to see reactions where it’s genuine and it’s not put on for the sake of views or for the content itself - you can see you guys genuinely were affected by the messages in these adverts and as weird as it sounds it was good to see.
St. John's ambulance is volunteer staffed, and they always need donations and volunteers. Really, for that organisation, any support is support that's needed. This particularly was a call for more volunteers.
ETA. These issues of deliberate malignance in the world take ALL of us to combat, 24/7, constantly alert for the reality of them in our lives. People prefer to live in the fantasy that the world is structured and orderly when in fact if you get the luxury of enjoying that fantasy, then you're living in a part of the world where it's either hidden or somewhere else. The war against the people who enact these awful crimes, whether nations or criminal organisations, is a constant war, and it's been going on throughout history, and it is only the unrelenting pressure of the every society on the planet to oppose them that will have even the slightest effect on their prevalence.
These are more public service announcements rather than actual advertisements. I think the one 'Torture By Any Other Name' is the one that hits the hardest as it is still going on today all around the world. The actress in this one is Emma Thompson who played 'Nanny McPhee'.
I grew up in Suffolk and we used to see lots of films set in farms; they were pretty gory but got the message across: farmyards are dangerous.
@@geoffpoole483I grew up in suffolk too, your likely older than me because the psa’s were not very rural from my memory
You know, that second one with the child falling from the tree hits me so mich harder now than when it first aired. I have a 3 year old autistic boy and last December he got tonsillitis and an ear infection. His temperature hit 41 degrees (not sure of the equivalent temp for the US) and he had a seizure, but because he had a lot of phlegm he ended up choking and stopped breathing, was limp in my arms. I screamed for help just like the dad did in that advert. I was fortunate that I managed to get him to be sick and cleared his airway, paramedics told me that based on his blood oxygen levels I saved him just in time, so that ad hits me so different now.
These aren’t advertisements, these are Public Information Films. That’s why they are so hard hitting.
I've watched many people react to this video, but your insight is so relatable. Thanks for setting up the fundraiser, I've added a small donation and I hope many others do. 😢
Thank you for your honesty. You two are very decent human beings. So glad I subscribed to your channel. We need more people like you in the world.
I love your channel, and appreciate the positivity but the empathy you both showed on this reaction took my respect for you to a new level , overused comment but you are good people.
The actress on Number Two was :Emma Thompson
She’s also the president of the charity
That’s great, thanks… didn’t know that! Good for her!
Both the St John Ambulance adverts were trying to persuade more people to learn basic first aid.
I was a volunteer with St John for 28 years, retiring recently, and it was always worth while as a member, but even a few years later I still remember all the basic first aid I was taught, and in an emergency I do know what to do. More people need to learn, even if they don't become a St John volunteer.
This is one of the overwhelming reasons Britain is GREAT Britain ❤❤
Was.
@@norwoodboy6048 I live in the UK and life's still great today. Which country do you live in?
@@Derry_Aire In the UK you obviously do not live in a City.
@@norwoodboy6048 I live in Wolverhampton mate (which is, these days, a city) and things are much better here than they were 40 years ago, not just for me but for everyone (apart from the miserable gits of course)
@@norwoodboy6048 I live in Southampton, lifes pretty amazing, now what?
If you want to change things, the adverts work. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Hello from Scotland in the UK. I enjoyed you reacting to these PSA’s (Public Service Announcements) most of these would be shown after 9pm the watershed when kids are in bed and adult tv starts. St. John’s Ambulance is to push you to take first aid classes in case of an emergency like in the tree ad. Take care 😘🏴
EMMA THOMPSON. she works with the charity directly to help promote it and stop the horrible human trafficking of women
The tree advert was a warning to learn basic first aid, showing that a person who is trained might not be anywhere near, showing the father and son outside but no one near them.
Your reaction to this video is so honest, so glad i subscribed to your channel ❤
My old man died of Motor Neurone Disease in 2005. He was a soldier and a boxer, the strongest, toughest person I have ever known. Within about 14 months he was a bag of bones that could only move his eyes. It is a horrific disease, and there is no cure and no way of knowing why it chooses you.
The adverts for St John’s have nothing to do with emergency service attendance - they’re informing people that it’s a volunteer service and anybody can join it - it’s about training ordinary people for emergency situations so that in the event of a life-threatening incident, you could literally be that one person giving CPR or performing the Heimlich Manoeuvre etc and saving a life. Also, as a trained first-aider you get to attend on site as first-response to concerts, festivals, race meetings, large air-shows etc and not only get free admission but also be on-hand to react if needed whilst awaiting emergency response - although they have emergency vehicles too so they can even transport patients to hospital themselves. Essentially though the message is: you could be the one difference between someone living or dying. I’ve saved 1 life, 30 years ago as a young soldier - there’s no greater feeling of achievement or satisfaction than having saved the life of someone - it’s very surreal to be honest. 😉👍
Can we give props to the engineering of the wheel bearings on that motorbike wheel? He crashed, services arrived and started work and it's still spinning.
First I love this channel!! Yes, commercials can be confronting in Europe because there is a " leveling what hits people ", a numbness so to really reach people you search it further than the normal
Who remembers the cat Charlie says and the Green cross code man from the 70's and 80's. ; )
We go hard and deep in the UK when it comes to facing up to the realities of life. I will add that most of these adverts are shown after 9pm. I always feel shock value has a real place in understanding the vast and sometimes tragic circumstances we can face. These organisations are absolutely vital, and I think as a nation, we are open to understanding some people's reality and incredible struggles they have to go through.
Thank you so much for sharing, and I have say both of you are very compassionate and insightful and really understand the messages. So thank you to you both.
Watching this adverts again especially in the late 70s and the years that are recent sticks with me thank you for showing them still to this day I am still scared off fire check everything I am now 60 and would like to thank the fighfights who see horrific things in there life time god bless
It's Emma Thompson, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. She's a brilliant actor. Did stand up in her earlier days..
Americans need to grow up and realise these things happen everyday. I am thankful that I live in a country where these adverts are shown…real life! 🏴
You could see how affected she was by the second Barnardos appeal, I remember this one when it was a current advert in the UK and watching it again bought a tear to my eyes, but I think she was ready to burst into tears
we still test our fire alarms every time we change the clock since that advert