Adverts you despise

Realt Dearg Sec

Andybobandy wrote: »

Couple all that with the attention span of folk today, and it's no surprise the quality of TV ads made has gone down the toilet.

You seem to have a rosy picture of ads and TV in the eighties. They were **** then, and they're **** now, there hasn't been some sort of lamentable decline, and there was never some wonderful Golden Age of TV advertising, except in the wet dreams of ad execs.

AndyBoBandy

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

You seem to have a rosy picture of ads and TV in the eighties. They were **** then, and they're **** now, there hasn't been some sort of lamentable decline, and there was never some wonderful Golden Age of TV advertising, except in the wet dreams of ad execs.

I do remember funny ads back in the day, there are tons of videos of them on YouTube

Maybe it's just while we are younger, we have a more captive imagination, and the ads seem to stick around in our minds.

I say all this while eating a Marathon bar, drinking a superman of Fanta while smoking a Hamlet cigar!!

LynnGrace

I think there is a thread somewhere about which features old ads.
I used to love the kitkat ads and some of the Guinness ads. Some of them were 90s, I think.

amdublin

De da deh. De da deh.

I wonder if that dancing Guinness ad was on now would we be all on here saying it wrecks our head??

Being completely honest I don't think so... good ads are good. Lot of bad ones around these days (as evidenced by this thread)

Cricket fan

I'm going to risk death here and say....

I actually dont mind the UPC add

The song is too catchy for me to hate it lol

LiamKK1982

The ad for those Yollies yogurt things is very weird, gives me the creeps!

jojofizzio

Supervalu ad and in particular the return of the high pitched squeaky yellow-macked woman insisting if you want to save that's the best place to shop....irritating beyond words...

Mr. RED

Do you want to go blah blah ****-ing blah; I'm blah-ing blah blah blah ****-ing blah blah blahblahblah!

Realt Dearg Sec

jojofizzio wrote: »

Supervalu ad and in particular the return of the high pitched squeaky yellow-macked woman insisting if you want to save that's the best place to shop....irritating beyond words...

I'd actually make her my wife. Just lose the kid and the jacket.

jojofizzio

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

I'd actually make her my wife. Just lose the kid and the jacket.

And turn down the sound???:pac:

Thargor

Oh God Cadbury are going to run these "Yes Sir, I can boogie" ads for every ad break for months again aren't they?

No wonder they're chocolate is going to sh1t with all the outsourcing if they spend every spare cent on advertising...

BettePorter

The new version of aldi 'we tried it for 8 weeks add'.......they take it so seriously! Hadn't they seen the previous ads?? They act like it was 2003 and aldi was a new concept! We all know aldi/lidl is the cheaper option.....don't try make out ur shocked at the savings!!!

darkdubh

Billy86 wrote: »

You confuse me.

I'm confused as to why youre confused.

is mise spartacus

"I want to go to... Venice." Trivago
So annoying.

Ralf and Florian

We're all sick of the UPC busker ad now but why does yer man go down on bended knee?Is he supposed to be proposing to her and changes his mind.And why does she show no reaction when he goes off with the Euro?Just shows the amount of thought that went into it.

Shiraz 4.99

That dweeb in the red line insurance ad. This is what a PC emancipated male looks like people. It should be a lesson to us all.

Shiraz 4.99

That dweeb in the red line insurance ad. This is what a PC emancipated male looks like people. It should be a lesson to us all.

Billy86

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

That dweeb in the red line insurance ad. This is what a PC emancipated male looks like people. It should be a lesson to us all.

What do Police Constable males have to do with any of this?

sunbabe08

the McDonalds with your man roaming through the fields. it's driving me mad

donegal_man

Not really an advert but every Universal Channel break seems to include the trailer for "Major Case" featuring some of the hammiest acting ever seen.

Elmo

donegal_man wrote: »

Not really an advert but every Universal Channel break seems to include the trailer for "Major Case" featuring some of the hammiest acting ever seen.

Ah pity really looks like its gone downhill since The Closer finished.

Griever931

The Chill Insurance ad with Jennifer Maguire.

Gadgetman496

Bad as some of our adverts are? Look at what they have to put up with across the pond!

BuilderPlumber

duridian wrote: »

This is more of a recycled ad. It (along with the "I Can Boogie" guy) first appeared 6 months ago, but they seemed to disappear for a while, and now are back for some reason. (It may have been UK channels that had them earlier, I can't remember that with certainty.)

See this comment regarding the same bearded annoyance, posted in this thread last March: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=89442738&postcount=5609

Don't know why Cadbury have pulled this piece of sh** advertising campaign out of the bin again, but I'll be buying Galaxy bars exclusively from now on if they keep it up.

I think these chocolate ads are very very silly too. If I acted like this at work, I'd be out the same day: I can't boogie!! These are all variants of an older ad from a few years back that was using different songs but still annoying. Nothing wrong with any of the songs btw it is the stupid idiot in the ad!

BuilderPlumber

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

That dweeb in the red line insurance ad. This is what a PC emancipated male looks like people. It should be a lesson to us all.

Insurance ads are the worst. That No-Nonsense ad really annoys me like no other ad would.

BuilderPlumber

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

We're all sick of the UPC busker ad now but why does yer man go down on bended knee?Is he supposed to be proposing to her and changes his mind.And why does she show no reaction when he goes off with the Euro?Just shows the amount of thought that went into it.

I hope this ad does not give criminals ideas!!

What is this song she is singing? It sounds like a rewrite of one of Johnny Cash's?

Realt Dearg Sec

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

It sounds like a rewrite of one of Johnny Cash's?

It most certainly does not!!!

LaGlisse

Rice Krispies dinosaur tv ad and innocent kids radio ad. Latest incredibly annoying entries into the cutesy kids talking ****e genre of ads

BuilderPlumber

Griever931 wrote: »

The Chill Insurance ad with Jennifer Maguire.

Another insurance classic! The only kind thing I can say is it is marginally better than that No Nonsense ad!

Go Harvey Go

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

I think these chocolate ads are very very silly too. If I acted like this at work, I'd be out the same day: I can't boogie!! These are all variants of an older ad from a few years back that was using different songs but still annoying. Nothing wrong with any of the songs btw it is the stupid idiot in the ad!

How can you find fault with this ad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

Insurance ads are the worst. That No-Nonsense ad really annoys me like no other ad would.

The Admiral "Russian Dolls" ads aren't the best ads in the world - but they're certainly better than any insurance ad on this side of the Irish Sea (and better than anything with Gio Compario in it, too).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu9z36itZtY

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

I hope [the UPC busker] ad does not give criminals ideas!!

Well, the people who came up with this ad are criminals themselves...

(Not literally, of course, but let's not spoil the fun.)

sunbabe08

metoer are around ucc at the moment, i'm refusing to engage with them because of that annoying rocket man advert :mad::mad:and they have a poster up n all with his face. grrrrr

AndyBoBandy

Those ladbrokes ads, portraying all 'the lads' as being gamblers

hey guys, it's cool to gamble, the lads are doing it, see, they like beers and the clubs and the weekends too, don't worry if you get addicted to it,
just give us all your money.

darkdubh

Andybobandy wrote: »

Those ladbrokes ads, portraying all 'the lads' as being gamblers

hey guys, it's cool to gamble, the lads are doing it, see, they like beers and the clubs and the weekends too, don't worry if you get addicted to it,
just give us all your money.

The lads in reality.

paulthom8

McDonalds ads.

I'd love to know who makes those "burgers" that are bigger than the buns.

Griever931

Eastenders ad with them crying and singing Everybody Hurts.

handbagmad

I've another one.
The always add for incontinence pads with all the women dancing...

Oh look a bunch of middle aged women leaping around the place whilst privately peeing themselves in comfort.

Cringe worthy

Birneybau

handbagmad wrote: »

I've another one.
The always add for incontinence pads with all the women dancing...

Oh look a bunch of middle aged women leaping around the place whilst privately peeing themselves in comfort.

Cringe worthy

Well, without the pads they'd be splashing all over the place.

RosieJoe

Mother Nature ads, just fúck off!

whavin

That hotelscombined.com advert drives me spare. That tw*t going insane staying up all night on multiply laptops and computers checking for the best hotel deal, spouting hotels combined .com like a drivelling gimp. His girlfriend then to come down in the morning looking at him lovingly as he's swinging upside down.. aaaarrrrhhh going daft thinking of it now

PopePalpatine

I switched off AdBlock for Boards.ie, and now those stupid UPC ads with that wanker and his €1 are showing up.

Someone tell me when that ad fucks off and dies, so I can switch off AdBlock for Boards.ie again.

D'Agger

Griever931 wrote: »

Eastenders ad with them crying and singing Everybody Hurts.

Are you talking about an ad here or every episode of Eastenders

Gadgetman496

PopePalpatine wrote: »

I switched off AdBlock for Boards.ie, and now those stupid UPC ads with that wanker and his €1 are showing up.

Someone tell me when that ad fucks off and dies, so I can switch off AdBlock for Boards.ie again.

It's scheduled for a 26 week run I think

franer1970

Vodafone "Race Day" advert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rWVMEj9ESk

Elderly man hasn't missed the big horse race in 63 years, but now he's just too old, how sad.
But wait! Thanks to Vodafone 4G and his (surprisingly young) son he can watch it on his phone!!

Any reason the deadbeat son couldn't take him? He's not exactly at death's door - evidently able to live independently in his own home, wash, dress, feed himself, get up and down the stairs etc.

Just seems like ageist crap to me.

Billy86

It's an attempt to show "older people, you can into and benefit from this stuff too!" and they really messed it up in my opinion. I think it is BT who have a far better ad where some older lad in his 70s is trying to get Skype set up for the first time with two women who I assume are his daughters (and more fittingly are in their 40s/50s) and gives a kind of youthful, energetic shout when they show up on his laptop screen. Much better ad because it avoids all of the negative "I'm too old" nonsense that kind of runs against the message they are trying to send.

Gadgetman496

Billy86 wrote: »

It's an attempt to show "older people, you can into and benefit from this stuff too!" and they really messed it up in my opinion. I think it is BT who have a far better ad where some older lad in his 70s is trying to get Skype set up for the first time with two women who I assume are his daughters (and more fittingly are in their 40s/50s) and gives a kind of youthful, energetic shout when they show up on his laptop screen. Much better ad because it avoids all of the negative "I'm too old" nonsense that kind of runs against the message they are trying to send.

Is this the advert you mean?

Billy86

That's the one! Hadn't seen the full length ad and it comes over a bit patronising, prefer the 30ish second one that usually on TV. Still while both are about elderly men learning to use modern technology, the message is much better - about gaining confidence, never being too old, etc while Vodafone's ad is about some old guy sat along because at home because his thinking he is too old has sapped his confidence to go out to things like the races.

Ballfro

The new Hunky Dory's ad with the guy in the bath being fed them and ends with 'satisfy yourself'.

darkdubh

franer1970 wrote: »

Vodafone "Race Day" advert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rWVMEj9ESk

Elderly man hasn't missed the big horse race in 63 years, but now he's just too old, how sad.
But wait! Thanks to Vodafone 4G and his (surprisingly young) son he can watch it on his phone!!

Any reason the deadbeat son couldn't take him? He's not exactly at death's door - evidently able to live independently in his own home, wash, dress, feed himself, get up and down the stairs etc.

Just seems like ageist crap to me.

Maybe its not his son,he could be his twink toyboy and Dad is the lads nickname for him.

Aglomerado

Not a TV or radio ad, but the recent Tommy Hilfiger bus shelter ads. Featuring a hipster man in furry hood, "gilet" and beard. He makes me angry, the smug twat.

Aglomerado

Aglomerado wrote: »

Not a TV or radio ad, but the recent Tommy Hilfiger bus shelter ads. Featuring a hipster man in furry hood, "gilet" and beard. He makes me angry, the smug twat.

Do I detect just the teensiest waft of envy?