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    #5762
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Any ad with Lucy Kennedy in it.


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    #5763
    paddylonglegs
    Registered Users Posts: 3,540 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    Not having any issues with the Lucy Kennedy ads, I must say


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    #5764
    DerekDGoldfish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭DerekDGoldfish


    MJ23 wrote: »
    New Vodafone ad with the young wan on the phone to her friend. She's at a concert and tells her she's at home. Why?
    It's even worse than the auld lad sitting at home watching the the sons at the horse racing.

    Because even with her closest friend she doesnt want to admit she is a Kodaline fan


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    #5765
    Temaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    **** off upc lady


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    #5766
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Everytime the ad comes on the telly, I want to punch Lucy Kennedy in her stupid face. :mad:


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    #5767
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 13,151 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Stupid windscreen ad that starts by saying 'This is a safety message' and then ordering us to ALWAYS use Autoglass. Less of the aggressiveness please.


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    #5768
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭George White


    bnt wrote: »
    Another one where I forgot the product, but this time I could look it up: an ad for Galaxy chocolate. It looks like a scene from a 1950s movie, complete with a CGI version of Audrey Hepburn. It's bad enough that they're using her likeness - though I presume they got permission from her estate - but the result falls in to the "uncanny valley". It's close but not quite there, and it gives me the heebie-jeebies. I can admire the technical expertise and effort that went in to it, but it's totally unnecessary.
    Yes, her sons approved.


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    #5769
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭George White


    madmaggie wrote: »
    The ad for the new series of School Around the Corner. The kids singing the theme song have gone all Dublin 4. Years back, when it was on the radio, it was real inner city accents. It seems all ads featuring 'children' have this accent.
    because they're the only children near recording studios.


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    #5770
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    The Stena line ads, something about 'everyone will want to be your friend'...


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    #5771
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    The VW ads, 'I must have left my glasses at home'...'They're on your head, sir'.
    WTF!


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    #5772
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    The one with the girls dancing around and singing with some alcoholic beverage. Very annoying.

    'Don't stop till you something something. Something something its time to something'


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    #5773
    nicelives
    Registered Users Posts: 301 ✭✭nicelives


    LynnGrace wrote: »
    The VW ads, 'I must have left my glasses at home'...'They're on your head, sir'.
    WTF!

    Exactly, very strange approach, are VW cars for people that are a bit thick or what's their aim?


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    #5774
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    The one with the girls dancing around and singing with some alcoholic beverage. Very annoying.

    'Don't stop till you something something. Something something its time to something'

    This is a great ad.


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    #5775
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    nicelives wrote: »
    Exactly, very strange approach, are VW cars for people that are a bit thick or what's their aim?

    That's the impression the ads would give. Another VW one with the woman with lipstick all over her face, that annoys me too.


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    #5776
    D'Agger
    Registered Users Posts: 13,385 ✭✭✭✭D'Agger


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    The one with the girls dancing around and singing with some alcoholic beverage. Very annoying.

    'Don't stop till you something something. Something something its time to something'
    That ad is for West Coast Cooler, I know this as I've taken it upon myself to find the person who created the initial concept for the advert and slowly beat him to death with a teaspoon


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    #5777
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 21,044 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    We've been fibre powered


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    #5778
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,943 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    D'Agger wrote: »
    That ad is for West Coast Cooler, I know this as I've taken it upon myself to find the person who created the initial concept for the advert and slowly beat him to death with a teaspoon

    Like this?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y


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    #5779
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    I found this quite amusing.. especially the "Awesome kind of energy" Lucozade parody. :pac:


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    #5780
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Just seen two on the bounce that set my teeth on edge.
    The McVities biscuits ad where the kittens and puppies crawl out of the wrapper and the go-daddy disembodied head.


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    #5781
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Just seen two on the bounce that set my teeth on edge.
    The McVities biscuits ad where the kittens and puppies crawl out of the wrapper and the go-daddy disembodied head.

    The one with the young guy going to his room with the packed. It is more like he's going to go up and have a posh **** or something, worse still is his sexface towards the end! Its disturbing on so many levels.


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    #5782
    madmaggie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Any ad with a fake makey-uppy family. Look, ye are actors, so don't go insulting me with the "family" rubbish. Tell me about the product/service and get on with it.


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    #5783
    fricatus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    Elmo wrote: »
    It is more like he's going to go up and have a posh **** or something

    LOL, I've never heard that phrase! How does it differ from a normal one?


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    #5784
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,882 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    fricatus wrote: »
    LOL, I've never heard that phrase! How does it differ from a normal one?

    Light a few candles, maybe some incense. You know, treat yourself...


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    #5785
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    Light a few candles, maybe some incense. You know, treat yourself...

    I thought you lobbed on a johnny and did your business into it? Ive been living a lie.


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    #5786
    Nerdlingr
    Registered Users Posts: 4,385 ✭✭✭Nerdlingr


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Just seen two on the bounce that set my teeth on edge.
    The McVities biscuits ad where the kittens and puppies crawl out of the wrapper and the go-daddy disembodied head.

    That is a very weird ad and wouldnt make me buy their biscuits at all!! Strange strange ad..and a bit freaky !!


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    #5787
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,882 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    I thought you lobbed on a johnny and did your business into it? Ive been living a lie.

    Yeah there's that definition too. Never saw the reason for doing that to be honest.

    Uh, more on topic, yeah those ads are strange. I mean, I don't hate them but you're looking at people opening up a pack of biscuits only to find a little animal, alive, trying to hop out. That's more like a creepy urban myth you hear, where someone swears they know someone who once bought a packet of biscuits and there was a rat in it.


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    #5788
    jkmanc1974
    Registered Users Posts: 787 ✭✭✭jkmanc1974


    Nearly every single ad on at the races and the incessant plugging for the galway races!

    Brgds
    Johnny


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    #5789
    D'Agger
    Registered Users Posts: 13,385 ✭✭✭✭D'Agger


    Nerdlingr wrote: »
    That is a very weird ad and wouldnt make me buy their biscuits at all!! Strange strange ad..and a bit freaky !!
    Had quite a few people talking about it as it was fairly strange - mission accomplished - people talking about their product/advert, a bit like Cadburys with the drumming Gorilla a few years back


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    #5790
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    The ad for PayPal with the girl who is quite obviously American but they've dubbed her with THE most annoying British accent.
    "It's not calculus, but it is pretty smart".
    "Na na na na na..PEOPLE RULE"
    Fk. Off.


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    #5791
    Going Strong
    Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Going Strong


    fussyonion wrote: »
    The ad for PayPal with the girl who is quite obviously American but they've dubbed her with THE most annoying British accent.
    "It's not calculus, but it is pretty smart".
    "Na na na na na..PEOPLE RULE"
    Fk. Off.

    Not to mention it's all a bit:

    Isn't it terribly annoying have to go through all those security checks to buy stuff online? Why don't you just leave all your details there in one handy click? Passwords are so boring aren't they?


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