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THE MANAGER OF a family-run bar in Northern Ireland has said it feels “so lovely” to see a Christmas advert they created go viral on social media.
Charlie’s Bar in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, unveiled its festive advert on Friday, which shows an elderly man with a sad expression on his face, walking through town alone until he enters the bar and is joined by a couple who sit, drink and talk with him.
Una Burns, the manager of Charlie’s Bar, told the PA news agency that they wanted to provide a Christmas advert that would hopefully “resonate with people”.
This Christmas ad for a pub in Enniskillen is better than anything John Lewis has ever put out pic.twitter.com/GFlkhDgyuj
— Greg Murphy 🤓 (@TheGregMurphy) November 25, 2023
When asked about the viral reaction to the advert online, which has racked up over six million views on X, formerly Twitter, she said: “I feel completely overwhelmed to be honest.
“We’re just a small, local pub and we just wanted to provide a Christmas advert that hopefully resonated with people and for us, it became apparent over the years that Christmas can be a really lonely, tough time for some people.
“We see that more than others as on Christmas morning – when we’re open – there are some people coming in with maybe nowhere else to be and need people to speak to.
“We were not expecting the reaction that it’s received – it’s just blown up, and it’s been so lovely to read the comments underneath the posts as well.”
She added that Charlie’s Bar was “more than just a business, it’s part of our family”.
“My dad is the owner and my granddad was the previous owner,” she said.
Many people on social media commented that the bar’s advert was “better” than John Lewis’s festive offering, with others left emotional, including one user who said: “Brilliant … if this doesn’t bring a tear to your eye, you need a heart transplant!”
Burns said: “People have been comparing it to the John Lewis advert, which we could have never expected – that’s brilliant.”
She said the advert was the first proper one the pub had made, but that it may need to become an annual occurrence.
“We were actually talking about 2024 and maybe releasing a Christmas advert then, but we have set the bar really high for that after the reaction this one’s got,” she said.
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So none of the users are under 18?!
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
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Probably a large number of people clustered around the “just turned 18″ group, representing all of those aged 12 and upwards.
The “18 yr olds” (ahem!) are finished after 20 secs
A lot of that 9 minute 16 seconds must be made up of looking for the ‘one’ to watch. Or else we’re quick and greedy and going for a sneaky second!
“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us”
I knew I forgot to do something today !
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I was cracking one off over PornHub the other day and all of a sudden my Mum walks in.
Not the best way to find out she’s a porn star.
How do they know the ages? Is it not a free site.
Worried?
“Is it not a free site?”
As if you don’t already know!
Does that guy in the picture have a third arm or something????
I believe the the computer device is an interactive model.
An USB dildo I think lol.
Xhamster is much better.
I’ve never heard of this site!!!!!!
I shall research it in detail and report my findings post haste!
Post haste? You must be 18 then
18′s an all too distant memory Dermot
The average user spends 9 minutes and 16 seconds per visit, yeap, that sounds about right in the following steps, surf around, select 2-3 videos, browse quickly, select “the video”, if no suitable video is found, search a favourite, engage, pause, go to journal.ie.
My thumbs feel dirty now that I am replying to commenters who recently visited pornhub before “coming” here
Sounds like a sticky situation.
Phew! I’m 47 and they seem to have omitted me from their stats.
“The over-65 group spend the longest, over 10 minutes”
Well, they gotta wait for the tablet to kick in, innit?
Tablet? The ipad or the Viagra?
Neither, it takes them 10 mins to figure out they have logged on to the wrong site and its not the daniel o’donnell fanclub , or the joe duffy page on the rte website !
Why do they have twitter and Facebook share options…
I’m quite sure you wouldn’t want to broadcast that your having a one in the bed sex romp..
Mind you though,what a frape :)
Half the age plus seven …
9 mins 16secs eh? i bet sasha grey could do it in under 5 mins..easy.
It’s a wonder that the Immigrant Council and “Turn off the red light”, aren’t trying to stop us from watching porn.
Saying ‘us’ makes me a little uncomfortable.
@The Raven,
Do you really expect me to believe that you’ve never watched porn?
Some adult porn is still illegal here amongst adults, sounds bad me saying that…
Someone please hit me for saying that, bad joke lol.
that survey is a load of w*nk
At least the viris they catch on them site’s, won’t kill them
Cant complain , pornhub has a decent gay section. But there are better sites for all mwahaha Xhamster Myvidster
Lol 9min on AVERAGE for a wank not bad!!
I have invented a computer screen wiper for watchers of any porn site, you just clip it on and let it work away and USB vibrators lol.
9 minutes and 16 seconds? What are the at for the nine minutes?!
Wxxkers
Pornhub is nowhere as good as mushroom tube
apparently lots of lads cant deal with the presence of gay porn near their sacred straight porn so maybe they’d be glad of the tip
it just takes the over 60s a few more seconds, almost a minute, to prepare and release the one eyed monster
The one eyed monster with the dribbly eye
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