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    #6602
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,398 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    Any and every advert with this excuse for an entertainer in it...

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    "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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    #6603
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,942 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Griever931 wrote: »
    "That girl's a genius a woah oh woah oh"
    How much have they spent on that campaign, both to film it and the length of time/frequency it runs on primetime slots? Could it still be effective years after it was launched and does the Lotto really need to advertise that much? That ad really pisses me off :mad:


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    #6604
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Whats the craic with the new Loreal ad? 'Because everythings better when your naked'. What?! Fùckin stupid.


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    #6605
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    All the Rimmel ads.

    They always star Georgia Jagger, big gappy rabbit toothed bint, and EVERY ad starts with "Ready to..(insert word: once it was "Ready to go glam?". Another was "Ready to wake up?".
    Every ad starts with "Ready to...?"
    NO I'M NOT READY.

    And anyway, why are you advertising new mascaras all the time?
    Are you trying to say that your previous products are no good anymore, that we should ditch them and buy your new ones?!

    Gtfo.


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    #6606
    dunners1984
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭dunners1984


    Anyone seen that ad on Setanta Sports, Kreativ Dental Clinic? Jaysus, your one in that gives me the heeby jeebys. Rubbish ad as well :-)


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    #6607
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,346 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Griever931 wrote: »
    "That girl's a genius a woah oh woah oh"


    And yet spends her fortune on a fast car and a private jet just for going down to the local shops/post box.

    More money than sense.


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    #6608
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Oh that stupid ad is back, 'Donal...'. I don't know or care what it is for.


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    #6609
    TheEnigma
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 41 ✭TheEnigma


    Hughes insurance ads on utv, they make me ashamed to be from Northern Ireland


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    #6610
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,629 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    LynnGrace wrote: »
    Oh that stupid ad is back, 'Donal...'. I don't know or care what it is for.

    Hate that ad!


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    #6611
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    TheEnigma wrote: »
    Hughes insurance ads on utv, they make me ashamed to be from Northern Ireland

    You should be.
    I hate ALL Northern Ireland ads, especially the Alliance Insurance one with the screeching Chinese bint and the advisor at the end saying "Aaaaaa-lliance Insurace, that's right".
    Her accent makes me want to punch myself in the head.

    I also despise the road safety ads, too.
    It's why I watch ITV all the time now, but no such luck at my parents' who watch UTV.
    It's such a depressing TV channel.

    Sorry for ranting and my anger is not directed at you.


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    #6612
    ivytwine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭ivytwine


    fussyonion wrote: »
    You should be.
    I hate ALL Northern Ireland ads, especially the Alliance Insurance one with the screeching Chinese bint and the advisor at the end saying "Aaaaaa-lliance Insurace, that's right".
    Her accent makes me want to punch myself in the head.

    I also despise the road safety ads, too.
    It's why I watch ITV all the time now, but no such luck at my parents' who watch UTV.
    It's such a depressing TV channel.

    Sorry for ranting and my anger is not directed at you.

    I try to watch BBC London and ITV whenever I can, I dunno I find BBC NI and UTV depressing (I'm from Cork) :P


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    #6613
    Green Giant
    Registered Users Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Green Giant


    dunners1984 wrote: »
    Anyone seen that ad on Setanta Sports, Kreativ Dental Clinic? Jaysus, your one in that gives me the heeby jeebys. Rubbish ad as well :-)

    Speaking of Setanta ads, do they still run the woeful Tec7 one?


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    #6614
    McBain11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭McBain11


    The Paul O'Connell ad is just awful. The Pepsi ad during the World Cup was painful sh*te.

    The meteor ads are bad, but the blonde genius gamer girl is a cracker! Anyone know who she is?


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    #6615
    Dub Ste
    Registered Users Posts: 479 ✭✭Dub Ste


    Not sure if these have been mentioned,but there is a series of ads on The Food Network channel for various Samsung products.

    The actor who plays the dad in these,well,he just really really REALLY annoys me.

    There is just something really irritating about the way he speaks,just does my head in...sorry:mad:


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    #6616
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    The new radio ad on farm safety the dead farmers son who supposedly farmed the land with his father. The son has such a pansie annoying voice that he wouldn't have a hope in hell of convincing people that he was a farmer :rolleyes:


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    #6617
    2ndcoming
    Registered Users Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    I can't believe that's Fiona O'Shaughnessy on the AIB ad. I knew the voice was ringing a bell somewhere but I thought she was great in Utopia.

    I know she's probably being told to stress the whispery monotone but this is the first ad I've come across that literally makes me dive across the room to the remote to change the channel. It's like an allergic reaction, it makes my skin crawl!

    I don't know why we're so bad at advertising in Ireland. Or maybe if the objective is just to annoy people into submission we're actually good at it, I don't know.


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    #6618
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,882 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    2ndcoming wrote: »
    I don't know why we're so bad at advertising in Ireland. Or maybe if the objective is just to annoy people into submission we're actually good at it, I don't know.

    There's nothing particularly Irish about it. As someone who watches American sport and is therefore exposed to a truly vast amount of American advertising, I can say with absolute confidence that our ads are no more or less annoying than theirs. We just have a different KIND of annoying.


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    #6619
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    There's nothing particularly Irish about it. As someone who watches American sport and is therefore exposed to a truly vast amount of American advertising, I can say with absolute confidence that our ads are no more or less annoying than theirs. We just have a different KIND of annoying.


    Watch American sport?
    Be prepared to watch a Geiko ad 600 times during the broadcast!


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    #6620
    2ndcoming
    Registered Users Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    There's nothing particularly Irish about it. As someone who watches American sport and is therefore exposed to a truly vast amount of American advertising, I can say with absolute confidence that our ads are no more or less annoying than theirs. We just have a different KIND of annoying.

    Americans are generally subtle as a lump hammer though. We're usually a lot closer to the Brits in terms of the output we try and have on TV in general, but it's something that they seem to be able to do fairly well. Take that Muller "Rice, rice, baby" ad for example. It's stupid, yes, but somehow manages to be bearable. It's a fine line obviously. The No Nonsense ones usually get away with it, but they're a bit of a rarity in Irish advertising in that the original concept was at least funny at some stage of development.

    I think there's a ploy here, particularly in radio ads, where the voice actor is actually told to mispronounce things or say them in a deliberately annoying way so that it will stick in your head more. Every time I notice it I do make it stick in my head, to actively avoid the company being advertised because of it.


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    #6621
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,882 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    2ndcoming wrote: »
    that Muller "Rice, rice, baby" ad ...manages to be... *puts on sunglasses*...bearable...YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    FYP.


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    #6622
    2ndcoming
    Registered Users Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    Haha excellent


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    #6623
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,193 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    That one thats currently running for the Borstal boy play. Every time it describes Brendan Behan as a 'revolutionary' I feel like puking. Even when he was sober he wasn't revolutionary.


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    #6624
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    BoJack Horseman wrote: »
    Watch American sport?
    Be prepared to watch a Geiko ad 600 times during the broadcast!

    That pig was quite messed up.


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    #6625
    Griever931
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭Griever931


    The McDonald's curry ad.


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    #6626
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,882 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Griever931 wrote: »
    The McDonald's curry ad.

    I love that ad, although like anything that's on before every single youtube video, it gets annoying. But it's a great pisstake of the Board Bia ads with that guy rambling on about eggs. Somebody give that guy an egg so he'll shut up.


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    #6627
    Allyall
    Registered Users Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    The two guys asleep on the train... :mad:

    And the one with all the Women "dancing" or whatever the feck they're supposed to be doing ♫ ♪ "shake it groovy, shake it groovy.." ♫ ♪ :mad:


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    #6628
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Allyall wrote: »
    The two guys asleep on the train... :mad:

    Yes, the guys on the train annoy me, they look more like they are being overcome by fumes, than relaxing and sleeping-which I presume is what the ad is supposed to portray.


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    #6629
    amdublin
    Registered Users Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Tesco Mobile. Mother seems unsure that son will do well in violin recital. Turns out he is a genius.
    Does she just zone out every day when he's practising or something :confused:


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    #6630
    pmasterson95
    Registered Users Posts: 3,074 ✭✭✭pmasterson95


    McBain11 wrote: »
    The Paul O'Connell ad is just awful. The Pepsi ad during the World Cup was painful sh*te.

    The meteor ads are bad, but the blonde genius gamer girl is a cracker! Anyone know who she is?

    Anyone know her name?


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    #6631
    Allyall
    Registered Users Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    pmasterson95 wrote: »
    Anyone know her name?

    You get some info here - http://vimeo.com/101392354


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