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    #9272
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    The Oxendales ad.

    "Designed to fit and fladder"

    "Get your free cadalogue"


    It's enough to give Gay Byrne a conniption.


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    #9273
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    The Oxendales ad.

    "Designed to fit and fladder"

    "Get your free cadalogue"


    It's enough to give Gay Byrne a conniption.


    is that the one with the blatant rip-off music of 'no place id rather be' ?


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    #9274
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,455 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    is that the one with the blatant rip-off music of 'no place id rather be' ?

    Similar enough that you'd recognise it, but different enough to not pay royalties :)


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    #9275
    sentient_6
    Registered Users Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭sentient_6


    The fairy goodmuller one is driving me cracked. Anyone know who your man is? Must be fairly stuck to lower himself to that.


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    #9276
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    sentient_6 wrote: »
    The fairy goodmuller one is driving me cracked. Anyone know who your man is? Must be fairly stuck to lower himself to that.

    used to be a boxer... - needs money :D


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    #9277
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Similar enough that you'd recognise it, but different enough to not pay royalties :)


    Clever Barstewards, nicely played / plagiarism


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    #9278
    Cortina_MK_IV
    Registered Users Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    sentient_6 wrote: »
    The fairy goodmuller one is driving me cracked. Anyone know who your man is? Must be fairly stuck to lower himself to that.
    Kriss akabusi? Former athlete.


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    #9279
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    used to be a boxer... - needs money :D

    Nope, he was a sprinter. Kriss Akabusi. He medalled at various Olympic and World Championships, but never gold in an individual race IIRC (though he has a relay team gold I think). He was in the BA Heathrow Lounge when I was there last. Looks like the only thing he'd sprint for now would be a pie or away from a salad. ;)


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    #9280
    Mike Guide 69
    Registered Users Posts: 6,519 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    Oh here, i've just seen one of the "official" and I use that term loosely UEFAs ads for next months Euro Finals in France. Cant post a link to it, but it shows a group of people and kids walking wearing their country's colours down a street in Paris, but the "Irish Fan", who I believe it is meant to depict is in the group resembles a cross between an extra out of "Lord of The Rings" and generally a stereotypical, "begoraahh" view of how the rest of the world sees us. Yep, a red headed, red bearded, fat jolly bloke, wearing green and wobbling with the rest of the group. Jesus wept!!!!


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    #9281
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Nope, he was a sprinter. Kriss Akabusi. He medalled at various Olympic and World Championships, but never gold in an individual race IIRC (though he has a relay team gold I think). He was in the BA Heathrow Lounge when I was there last. Looks like the only thing he'd sprint for now would be a pie or away from a salad. ;)

    ah yeah - i getting him mixed up with that boxer who wears a monocle sometimes - he went into the jungle


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    #9282
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,174 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    What in the name of god is this new aldi ad where your man can't pronounce his r's?


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    #9283
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    ah yeah - i getting him mixed up with that boxer who wears a monocle sometimes - he went into the jungle

    I have never watched any of those jungle programmes but the monocle suggests Chris Eubanks.


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    #9284
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    I have never watched any of those jungle programmes but the monocle suggests Chris Eubanks.

    thats the fella - thanks


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    #9285
    Graigmanliam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 206 ✭✭Graigmanliam


    The Philadelphia ad is weird, just look at the blond one's eyes and the black circles around them, they look like they belong on a girl twenty years older.


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    #9286
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    I have never watched any of those jungle programmes but the monocle suggests Chris Eubanks.

    Why do people do this? It's Eubank. Why the extra S!?


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    #9287
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,498 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Why do people do this? It's Eubank. Why the extra S!?

    Don't go there!!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Eubank

    :D


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    #9288
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,877 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Don't go there!!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Eubank

    :D
    That article is a great example of why grammar matters... "Eubank also has a son Nathanael Wilson, stemming from a 6 month relationship with his mother Cynthia Wilson". Ugh.


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    #9289
    PopePalpatine
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    I blame Peep Show for forever associating Chris Eubank with youth hostels in my mind. :o


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    #9290
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    I blame Peep Show for forever associating Chris Eubank with youth hostels in my mind. :o

    Alan Partridge?


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    #9291
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    the family pushing a box of Toffifee across the screen .... whats all that about? :rolleyes: - there apparently is so much fun in Toffifee .....


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    #9292
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,888 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    fussyonion wrote: »
    The Muller ads.
    A girl is on the beach and she's eating a yogurt.
    Or a girl is in the park eating a yogurt.

    Sorry, but I don't know anyone who decides they fancy a yogurt when they're at the beach and I certainly don't know anyone who's in Stephen's Green on a sunny Saturday thinking: "I really fancy a yogurt."
    I certainly wouldn't consider carrying a yogurt around in my bag on a hot day.
    Bloody stupid.

    God, I'd love a yogurt now.


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    #9293
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,941 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    Alan Partridge?

    Now that you've said it, yeah, it was Alan Partridge. :o


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    #9294
    Shemale
    Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Shemale


    Every Heineken ad.

    The Azera on the go ads, she gets up at 5am, peels a lid off a disposable cup, boils the kettle and then has a coffee on the go, a four pack is €6.59.

    Designed for people too important to wash their own thermos and too cheap to go to a coffee shop


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    #9295
    madmaggie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    The D4 farmer in the Green Isle ad. Why not use a real farmer, or are the culchies not good enough?


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    #9296
    squonk
    Registered Users Posts: 9,223 ✭✭✭squonk


    Shemale wrote: »
    Every Heineken ad.

    The Azera on the go ads, she gets up at 5am, peels a lid off a disposable cup, boils the kettle and then has a coffee on the go, a four pack is €6.59.

    Designed for people too important to wash their own thermos and too cheap to go to a coffee shop

    Agreed! I don't get that at all. I know the product is there but I'm not sure who it's aimed at! Let's be honest, if you like your coffee that much you'll have either a machine or a plunger and a carry mug. Azera is nicer than instant coffee but not as nice as real coffee. If I was that girl I'd be boiling the kettle, getting dressed and then lashing a teaspoon of Azera into a mug and wolfing it down before I headed out. She'd have fared better stopping at a coffee shop really!


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    #9297
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    mind you, I am glad we have moved on from ads like this :D


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    #9298
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,877 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    mind you, I am glad we have moved on from ads like this :D

    The minstrels lasted a lot later than I thought actually (or that they should have). Well into the nineties at least.


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    #9299
    hearmehearye
    Registered Users Posts: 348 ✭✭hearmehearye


    I just realized the fish fingers one is bad too. Probably because my sex toy collection is way too vast...


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    #9300
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    mind you, I am glad we have moved on from ads like this :D

    Does anybody know who did the voiceover in this advert? He seems to be on EVERY advert from the 80's!


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    #9301
    Wilberto
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 8,575 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wilberto


    hearmehearye wrote: »
    I just realized the fish fingers one is bad too. Probably because my sex toy collection is way too vast...

    Definitely tmi. :D :pac:


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