Adverts you despise

iDave

Barry Scott still hasn't gone away!

DerekDGoldfish

iDave wrote: »

Barry Scott still hasn't gone away!

Someone needs to use some cilit bang on him

denlaw

That opel ad where he's going to
O'Connell street in his office seat and somehow ends up in a swish European capital...
who gets paid for such ****E

Allyall

"Did ya hear that lads? *Anto Shaves his chest!"

Extra goon.
"Ya do not.."


I get it, Men are no longer Men, etc.... Some people like the ad.

I don't care about the rest of the ad.. (I'd probably hate it if I did notice it)

But.... the stupid face on the guy that says "Ya do not.." ... Grrrrrr!! :mad:








*Anto may not be the name.

LynnGrace

The ad, where the guy is telling the child ( I think they are twins)one of them has to leave. I don't even know what it's for.

Johnny31

pointless so they are

dee_mc

Similar one where 'Grandad' is replaced by an Indian fella. I don't know what they're for either, the tagline is something like 'you don't need to run your family like a business'. Stupid ads.

fibix

The Groke-like, head-wrecking Surf ad monster. God it's annoying, and the stupid stupid sound it makes blowing bubbles

MonkstownHoop

iDave wrote: »

Barry Scott still hasn't gone away!

Ha, was just reading this thread and he came on the tv, he doesn't shout anymore thankfully

An Riabhach

That Staysure health cover ad on British TV,where me wan says something like:

"I'm never gonna be a golf widow-I'm going to Venice with the girls..."

Ffs he is going playing golf and she whinges as if he's doin somethin terrible.
Yeah-I know tis only an ad but she sounds like a right pain in the hole.

uggybear

Hotels4u ad, your man's "accent" is so irritating!

sunbabe08

LynnGrace wrote: »

The ad, where the guy is telling the child ( I think they are twins)one of them has to leave. I don't even know what it's for.

:mad::mad: that pissed me off. grrrrr

fricatus

My wife is gas sometimes. I had just gone to bed last night and was still reading a book before lights out. She goes into the ensuite, closes the door, and then after a couple of minutes, she calls:

"Emmaaa...?!"

P155ed my hole laughing!

Thundercats Ho

KFC ads.
Apparently, as a man, you're not allowed to worry about your health, or the consequences of eating junk food.
The latest one has one of the muppets turn up in a pink jumper and he panics when one of the other muppets diverts his phone call. This is because he has a GF and obviously women will emasculate and control you.

Cue muppet no.3 who hands him a poxy burger, and he feels more like himself after eating it (like the snickers ad). Finishes up with some manly manly death metal music 'BARGAIN BUCKET'.

I'd imagine it's aimed at young impressionable fellas.
You could be looking at the (good) advert urging young lads to speak about their problems rather than bottle it up (the one that goes, basically he's sound but sometimes he wrecks my head), next thing you have these gimps giving a completely different message.

Fúck KFC

Hippo

The Connacht Gold ad with the cows in the field spotting the humans approaching. As with so many ads it was someone else's idea - directly lifted from a Gary Larson Far Side cartoon.

Realt Dearg Sec

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

KFC ads.
Apparently, as a man, you're not allowed to worry about your health, or the consequences of eating junk food.
The latest one has one of the muppets turn up in a pink jumper and he panics when one of the other muppets diverts his phone call. This is because he has a GF and obviously women will emasculate and control you.

Cue muppet no.3 who hands him a poxy burger, and he feels more like himself after eating it (like the snickers ad). Finishes up with some manly manly death metal music 'BARGAIN BUCKET'.

I'd imagine it's aimed at young impressionable fellas.
You could be looking at the (good) advert urging young lads to speak about their problems rather than bottle it up (the one that goes, basically he's sound but sometimes he wrecks my head), next thing you have these gimps giving a completely different message.

Fúck KFC

Yeah I hate that ad too. The thing about who it appeals to is interesting though. It's common enough on this thread for people to say, especially about ****ty perfume ads or whatever, that they'd never look at an ad as bad as that and decide to buy it. But of course advertising isn't really about making a conscious decision at all, and it always (except in, say a Harvey Norman ad or something) appeals to your emotions rather than your rational mind. So yeah, you're right, the ad is awful and it appeals to a really pathetic strawman version of masculinity that's totally insecure about the possibility that the wimminz might be taking away our balls. And as you pointed out, the Snickers ad (which I actually quite like, relatively) appeals to the same thing. Yorkie ads do the same. McCoy's crisps too (MAN FOOD). McDonald's have one at the moment about shaving chests or some **** that's nearly indistinguishable from the KFC one. In America last year there were beer ads (for fcuking LIGHT beer, bear in mind) that were about men doing unmanly things (like caring about their girlfriend or whatever) and having their "man card" taken from them (again, LIGHT beer, the epitome of American manliness).

But while we can identify the stupidity of these things, obviously the individual ad is less important than the general feeling (masculine insecurity) that they tap into. Female insecurity is much more effectively tapped with the never-ending parade of ads featuring a clever woman (usually a mother) and the dumb-as-a-brick man. The point is that those ads play upon and contribute to a broad cultural insecurity through which your consumption is encouraged and moulded. Picking the ads apart is fun, but I doubt any of us are as immune to their effect as we'd like to think. Otherwise why is that ad about depression you mentioned such an oddity? Openness to one's vulnerabilities and the painfulness of everyday life just don't sell ****ty burgers.

(Sorry, I've been thinking about this thread a fair bit lately, wondering what exactly it is attracts me to it)

On topic: my girlfriend actually finds that Emma! ad very effective. I argued with her about how annoying it is. Aside from the fact that it's obvious that he's MEANT to be annoying, that doesn't make it less annoying to me. I personally just think the woman doesn't just look annoyed, she looks downtrodden, patronised, almost like she regrets her life choices profoundly. Every time it gets to the end of the ad, I kind of hope that THIS time, she'll slip some fcuking divorce papers under that door, followed by the sound of her car screeching out of the driveway.

sunbabe08

actually what would be very satisfying her opening the door as well with a smug look on her face. poor woman doesn't needs to be thrown technology in her direction. poor woman obviously prefers what she has.

Blushing Pixie

That new ad for Car Buyers Guide.

Those cringy photos they post online to sell the car and your man's face at the end of the ad when he's supposedly looking at his girlfriend/wife's "sexy" pictures. The whole thing makes me want to kick the telly.

whynothey

wonga.com

Jeju

delw wrote: »

That god awful Alliance ad,what sort of idiot knocks over a bit of paint & has to ring an insurance company

The same sort of idiot who leaves a 10 ltr bucket of paint on top of a shakey makeshift table while rolling a wall without a dustsheet or a few newspapers to stop the splatters.
I was told by a person once she kept getting refused flood insurance because of her address and the town keeps flooding; she lives on a large hill overlooking the town.

fricatus

whynothey wrote: »

wonga.com

+100

Not sure if it's those bloody annoying puppets that I find objectionably (as patronising and insulting to older folk as those Dolmio ones are to Italians), or just the whole concept of payday loans and the way people (particularly in the UK, but increasingly here too) are suckered in by easy access to quick loans at usurious rates.

Horrible, horrible ads for a horrible, horrible company. :mad:

Thundercats Ho

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Yorkie ads do the same. McCoy's crisps too (MAN FOOD). McDonald's have one at the moment about shaving chests or some **** that's nearly indistinguishable from the KFC one. In America last year there were beer ads (for fcuking LIGHT beer, bear in mind) that were about men doing unmanly things (like caring about their girlfriend or whatever) and having their "man card" taken from them (again, LIGHT beer, the epitome of American manliness).

Yeah, these are all in the same vein. The Yorkie one at least has some humour to it. The McCoy's one is up there with the KFC ad. I haven't seen the McDonalds ad, just the billboards for MAN FOOD.
The reason i hate this type of ad is that it suggests if you are not manly enough, you deserve derision.
I'd be on the 'blokey' end of the scale, so i don't think it's me they're singling out as unmanly. Perhaps i think they're patronising, in that they insinuate i'm impressionable or i can't form my own opinions.
Like you said there are plenty of ads that do similar things, but these 'tabloid adverts' are too lazy to even get me to engage, so i end up actively disliking them. I don't buy food from places like this in any case.

I actually like the ad for Toyota? where the pick-up rolls off the cliff, and the man stops caring for himself, and grows a beard, won't eat, throws the bicycle on the ground etc. There's at least humour and thought in this advert. While he feels less manly by losing his truck off a cliff, the simple action prompts him to become even more manly (subconsciously) by doing the things i've mentioned above. He shows emotion while displaying manly qualities, and is rewarded at the end of the ad by being reunited with his indestructible truck.

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

On topic: my girlfriend actually finds that Emma! ad very effective. I argued with her about how annoying it is. Aside from the fact that it's obvious that he's MEANT to be annoying, that doesn't make it less annoying to me. I personally just think the woman doesn't just look annoyed, she looks downtrodden, patronised, almost like she regrets her life choices profoundly. Every time it gets to the end of the ad, I kind of hope that THIS time, she'll slip some fcuking divorce papers under that door, followed by the sound of her car screeching out of the driveway.

I don't even know the name of the toilet paper in the Emma advert, and just end up disliking the guy, and how he seems to be controlling. Having said that, Emma quietly trumps him at the end with her simple action.

I really read too much into ads tbh!

Realt Dearg Sec

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

I really read too much into ads tbh!

I think you're in good company on this thread, chief!

washiskin

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

KFC ads.
Apparently, as a man, you're not allowed to worry about your health, or the consequences of eating junk food.
The latest one has one of the muppets turn up in a pink jumper and he panics when one of the other muppets diverts his phone call. This is because he has a GF and obviously women will emasculate and control you.

Cue muppet no.3 who hands him a poxy burger, and he feels more like himself after eating it (like the snickers ad). Finishes up with some manly manly death metal music 'BARGAIN BUCKET'.

I'd imagine it's aimed at young impressionable fellas.
You could be looking at the (good) advert urging young lads to speak about their problems rather than bottle it up (the one that goes, basically he's sound but sometimes he wrecks my head), next thing you have these gimps giving a completely different message.

Fúck KFC

The latest one with the Dad suggesting fun things to do to his 2 brats who are stuck in their phones, roundly ignoring him until Mum returns with the grub, suggests the same things and they agree.
I don't know what maddens me more, their complete lack of social etiquette or the cheek they give the Dad for checking his own phone.

Either way they'd have forgotten what KFC looked like by the time their grounding had finished if that was me. :mad:

donegal_man

whynothey wrote: »

wonga.com

All the payday lenders ads are deeply deeply repellent.
As well as their exorbitant rates (1,400% apr!) they also f*** up your credit rating.

lila1

All household cleaning adds where they just spray the liquid on the sink which has about 2 foot of dirt on it ( who the hell would have a sink in their house like that anyway) and as if by magic the dirt disappears with just one rub

Gru

There's one at the moment for some butter (i think) where the kids are making breakfast and walk in on the parents going at it. They fob it off as being funny but just seems pointless when they're trying to sell butter. Stupid add!

Mick55

The Alliance add..


Aahhh....aaahhhh...aaaaahhh-liance Insurance... No one elongates their fcuking words like that!!!!!

darkdubh

Gru wrote: »

There's one at the moment for some butter (i think) where the kids are making breakfast and walk in on the parents going at it. They fob it off as being funny but just seems pointless when they're trying to sell butter. Stupid add!

Maybe the parents were reenacting the butter scene from Last Tango In Paris.

ollaetta

One I hated first time round is back again. That Lotto ad with all the goons abandoning their jobs to join that pr*ck on a plane to the Bahamas.
Can't stand it. :mad: