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Adverts you despise

Royale with Cheese · 2007-06-03 17:14:48

My god. Every time that Vauxhall Zafira ad comes on with those two stupid fat English kids pretending they're all grown up + talking shíte in general, I just have to scramble around looking for the remote to turn the tv off or hit mute or something. Every time. If I ever somehow meet these kids in real life I'm going to…

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#6452 05-09-2014 3:34pm
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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.

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#6453 05-09-2014 3:38pm
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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!!

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#6454 05-09-2014 5:42pm
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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.

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#6455 05-09-2014 7:12pm
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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)

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#6456 05-09-2014 7:43pm
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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

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#6457 05-09-2014 8:00pm
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The ad for those Yollies yogurt things is very weird, gives me the creeps!

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#6458 05-09-2014 8:21pm
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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...

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#6459 05-09-2014 8:27pm
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Do you want to go blah blah ****-ing blah; I'm blah-ing blah blah blah ****-ing blah blah blahblahblah!

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#6460 05-09-2014 9:08pm
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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.

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#6461 05-09-2014 10:03pm
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Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

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

And turn down the sound???:pac:

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#6462 05-09-2014 10:10pm
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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...

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#6463 05-09-2014 11:07pm
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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!!!

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#6464 05-09-2014 11:17pm
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Billy86 wrote: »

You confuse me.

I'm confused as to why youre confused.

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#6465 05-09-2014 11:22pm
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"I want to go to... Venice." Trivago
So annoying.

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#6466 06-09-2014 9:50am
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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.

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#6467 06-09-2014 12:35pm
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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.

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#6468 06-09-2014 12:36pm
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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.

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#6469 06-09-2014 1:02pm
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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?

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#6470 06-09-2014 1:59pm
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the McDonalds with your man roaming through the fields. it's driving me mad

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#6471 08-09-2014 2:39am
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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.

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#6472 08-09-2014 4:04pm
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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.

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#6473 08-09-2014 6:49pm
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The Chill Insurance ad with Jennifer Maguire.

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#6474 08-09-2014 6:53pm
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Bad as some of our adverts are? Look at what they have to put up with across the pond!

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

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#6475 08-09-2014 7:30pm
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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!

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#6476 08-09-2014 7:34pm
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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.

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#6477 08-09-2014 7:36pm
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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?

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#6478 08-09-2014 7:41pm
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BuilderPlumber wrote: »

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

It most certainly does not!!!

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#6479 08-09-2014 10:26pm
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Rice Krispies dinosaur tv ad and innocent kids radio ad. Latest incredibly annoying entries into the cutesy kids talking ****e genre of ads

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#6480 08-09-2014 10:49pm
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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!

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#6481 09-09-2014 1:15am
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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.)

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