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Maurice Yeltsin

George White wrote: »

Does anyonewho the Skoda voiceover is?
AFAIK it's the same guy who doesall of East Coast FM.

His posh plummy waffling has me reaching for the switch every time.

He advertises something else now.


Still, nothing beats the posho Dub for (Renaut?) "SOM PROVIDERS OFFER SOMETHING PERCENT FOYNANCE" Awful awful ad. Do they seriously not play them to 10 staff for opinions before signing off on them?

Another one, "yes, and the online shopper of the month is.....". It's nearly as if the ad is implying she truly is using her insurance saving to buy utter ****e off the net. Like, a few quid for the holidays, two nights out with her girlos, it'd be a bit more pallatable.

jeremyj1968

"Hi, Ray D'Arcy here, make sure and a get a donor card".

"Hi Ray, why don't you mind your own f**king business".

woejus

Meadows & Byrne "spring into summer" cavalcade of bollocks ad is back on.

Surely this is the thing that will push me over the edge

Discodog

The Tayto Park ad that refers to "Alexia" rather than Alexa - How the hell that every got broadcast :pac:

Del.Monte

Just heard Alexia - as if proof were needed that are no standards in the advertising industry.

The Elephant Self Storage Ad with Rory's replacement is almost worse than the original as the girl (obviously his daughter) reads the Ad from a script - with no pauses - and starts with Elephant Self Storage but twice during the Ad refers to Elephant Storage (no Self). At least she sticks to Rory's nought nought, nought nought.

Brendan Bendar

Discodog wrote: »

The Tayto Park ad that refers to "Alexia" rather than Alexa - How the hell that every got broadcast :pac:

Stops every echo dot in the country reacting doesn’t it?

flazio

That's what I was thinking. Imagine if every ad on the radio was "Alexa add 'our product' to the shopping list", it would get pretty annoying very quickly.

Discodog

flazio wrote: »

That's what I was thinking. Imagine if every ad on the radio was "Alexa add 'our product' to the shopping list", it would get pretty annoying very quickly.

Then why make an ad that has to use the word ?

Jesus - Teresa Mannion doing a safety ad now for driving in hailstones!

"Drive in a high gear to maintain contact with the road, drive slowly over the pellets, use your hazard lights"

FFS! lots of slow moving hazard flashing cars all over the country now - for the sake of a shower or two! How on earth have we all survived until now without these daily warnings on how to survive our catastrophically ordinary weather? (we barely had a Winter this year!)

Hal3000

I can't get enough of that mobile tire fitting ad by Keith Duffy.

Or my absolute favourite: Northside, ( drum sound) Northside (drum sound), the great big shopping centre. Northside !!

Ben Dunnes stuff is class too.

jeremyj1968

Deirdre O'Kane. You know I didn't think it was possible to hate her more than I already did.

Brendan Bendar

Deleted User wrote: »

Jesus - Teresa Mannion doing a safety ad now for driving in hailstones!

"Drive in a high gear to maintain contact with the road, drive slowly over the pellets, use your hazard lights"

FFS! lots of slow moving hazard flashing cars all over the country now - for the sake of a shower or two! How on earth have we all survived until now without these daily warnings on how to survive our catastrophically ordinary weather? (we barely had a Winter this year!)

Are you serious .

The way Paddy drives in bad weather is to shut off all lights and put the shoe down as hard as he or she can, drive up the tailpipe of the car ahead, and then come the ‘auld soldier’ when the inevitable crash happens.



“ Aaaahhh Jaysus ,never seen the car love, bleeding snow”


Would you go way outa dat.

Brendan Bendar

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Are you serious .

The way Paddy drives in bad weather is to shut off all lights and put the shoe down as hard as he or she can, drive up the tailpipe of the car ahead, and then come the ‘auld soldier’ when the inevitable crash happens.



“ Aaaahhh Jaysus ,never seen the car love, bleeding snow”


Would you go way outa dat.

there's a happy medium
I hate being told how to do something I've been doing all my life- safely too (but I take your point!). We're living in a bit of a nanny state at times.

plodder

Hal3000 wrote: »

Or my absolute favourite: Northside, ( drum sound) Northside (drum sound), the great big shopping centre. Northside !!

That jingle could easily be 40 years old. If the composer and performers are dead does that mean they don't have to pay royalties any more?

5555555555

Petrona flexivan - WTF ?? LOL

Discodog

flazio wrote: »

That's what I was thinking. Imagine if every ad on the radio was "Alexa add 'our product' to the shopping list", it would get pretty annoying very quickly.

Ads on Sky News are using the word Alexa.

Brendan Bendar

Deleted User wrote: »

there's a happy medium
I hate being told how to do something I've been doing all my life- safely too (but I take your point!). We're living in a bit of a nanny state at times.

We are Maggie, but it’s not us it’s aimed at.

How many times have you seen spongs driving on Mways in misty drizzlie conditions with spray flying from lorries,tooling along as if it was CAVU(clearance and visibility unlimited)conditions.

Maggie, Paddy will do anything on the roads he/she thinks they can get away with.I have seen it all,Maggie,as you probably have.

How many times have you seen a tool driving in almost dark conditions with no lights?

No, you don’t need the lights to see, you spong, you need them to be seen.


Sorry for the rant, but these stults annoy me big time.

Hal3000

plodder wrote: »

That jingle could easily be 40 years old. If the composer and performers are dead does that mean they don't have to pay royalties any more?

I don't think that jingle gets played anymore. Last time I heard it I was buying some Cookeen in Dunnes in 86 !

Dan Jaman

5555555555 wrote: »

Petrona flexivan - WTF ?? LOL

Is she not a Bulgarian politician?

plodder

Hal3000 wrote: »

I don't think that jingle gets played anymore. Last time I heard it I was buying some Cookeen in Dunnes in 86 !

It sure does. I only heard it again a few months ago. Couldn't believe it.

Apparently, cookeen still exists too

http://www.princesgroup.com/brands/cookeen/

Hal3000

plodder wrote: »

It sure does. I only heard it again a few months ago. Couldn't believe it.

Apparently, cookeen still exists too

http://www.princesgroup.com/brands/cookeen/

Get out of town !!! That's incredible ...

Macdarack

plodder wrote: »

It sure does. I only heard it again a few months ago. Couldn't believe it.

Apparently, cookeen still exists too

http://www.princesgroup.com/brands/cookeen/

Give it a lift, give it a lift, give it a lift emmmm with cookeen.

NIMAN

Who is the girl who does a lot of the advert voice overs on RTE2 FM?

She gets wil' excited about everything, too excited!

I hear her voice on loads of adverts (Heinz soup being my current bugbear), and there is also her counterpart on TodayFM, but that one is slightly less shrill.

Dan Jaman

plodder wrote: »

It sure does. I only heard it again a few months ago. Couldn't believe it.

Apparently, cookeen still exists too

http://www.princesgroup.com/brands/cookeen/

Good gawd. They also made a margarine.
It was bloody awful.
Had the consistency of a half-brick of clay and guaranteed to rip the bread to bits except on a baking hot summer's day. Then it would just melt in the dish. Hopeless stuff and tasted yuck.

Brendan Bendar

Who is that stult who does the Phoenix ads.

That voice breaks my balls, heard him today and was close to canting the thranny out into the far haggard.

Terrible.

Del.Monte

Mattresses-Delivered.ie - the guy doing it either has a serious speech impediment, loose dentures or some other problem. It took me several attempts to figure out what was being sold - don't forget the hyphen. :rolleyes:

paddylonglegs

Imagine Su-fast broadband.

This voiceover is not unique or unusual, it’s terrible diction.

Is it not a prerequisite that voiceover actors can speak correctly?

plodder

paddylonglegs wrote: »

Imagine Su-fast broadband.

This voiceover is not unique or unusual, it’s terrible diction.

Is it not a prerequisite that voiceover actors can speak correctly?

I was going to mention that one too. I heard it as 'soup fast' broadband. What flavour soup I was wondering.

Brendan Bendar

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Who is that stult who does the Phoenix ads.

That voice breaks my balls, heard him today and was close to canting the thranny out into the far haggard.

Terrible.

quite possibly the all-time worst. I hate it.

Is he trying to impersonate Haughey or does he really speak like that, whoever he is?

L1011

He's trying to impersonate the former owner of the magazine who was trying to impersonate Haughey and gradually got worse at it as time passed, as far as I know.

Barna77

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Who is that stult who does the Phoenix ads.

That voice breaks my balls, heard him today and was close to canting the thranny out into the far haggard.

Terrible.

It's their CEO. Why bother hiring someone else if you can voice it yourself

Mr E

So their CEO does a bad CJH impersonation? Has nobody told him?

Mr E

Mr E wrote: »

So their CEO does a bad CJH impersonation? Has nobody told him?

it seems to be an ego thing when management do their own ads (unless they're celebrities in their own right, like Ben Dunne or Niall Quinn)

So they're probably not the kind of person who can sit down and say 'Look, this is total crap'.

Mr E

Mr E wrote: »

So their CEO does a bad CJH impersonation? Has nobody told him?

it seems to be an ego thing when management do their own ads (unless they're celebrities in their own right, like Ben Dunne or Niall Quinn)

So they're probably not the kind of person who can sit down and say 'Look, this is total crap'.

It's not even bad in a 'all publicity is good' kind of way. The voice portrays (to me anyway) a certain type of middle-class penpushing civil servant who loves to get a mention in the social pages of the Phoenix.

depaor01

I'm worried about the Oul' Mr. Brennan ad. Oul' Mr. Brennan's unnamed wingman has always been voiced by actor Bill Golding. Either he has really bad flu, or Bill has been retired. We should be told!

Grolschevik

L1011 wrote: »

He's trying to impersonate the former owner of the magazine who was trying to impersonate Haughey and gradually got worse at it as time passed, as far as I know.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

i The voice portrays (to me anyway) a certain type of middle-class penpushing civil servant who loves to get a mention in the social pages of the Phoenix.

They've been doing it since the '80s. Is was crap back then and has only gotten worse.

Grolschevik

depaor01 wrote: »

I'm worried about the Oul' Mr. Brennan ad. Oul' Mr. Brennan's unnamed wingman has always been voiced by actor Bill Golding. Either he has really bad flu, or Bill has been retired. We should be told!

Speaking of the '80s, this went the viral of its time, on copied c90s!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr5FjLlW-7M

Sorry about that

There’s an ad on either RTÉ or Newstalk, I think it’s for the AA, but not sure, because it’s so bad I immediately switch it off when it comes on.

It’s a dog talking about his owners going away, and then “the dog” talks about the neighbour’s dog Fifi in a wink-wink nudge-nudge way. It just sounds like a creepy human who fancies a dog, and now I feel sick.

Doctor Jimbob

Sorry about that wrote: »

There’s an ad on either RTÉ or Newstalk, I think it’s for the AA, but not sure, because it’s so bad I immediately switch it off when it comes on.

It’s a dog talking about his owners going away, and then “the dog” talks about the neighbour’s dog Fifi in a wink-wink nudge-nudge way. It just sounds like a creepy human who fancies a dog, and now I feel sick.

There's a load of them with that fúcking dog and each one is worse than the last.

chalkitdown1

depaor01 wrote: »

I'm worried about the Oul' Mr. Brennan ad. Oul' Mr. Brennan's unnamed wingman has always been voiced by actor Bill Golding. Either he has really bad flu, or Bill has been retired. We should be told!

It's definitely a new actor, doesn't sound like the usual fella at all. I don't like it!

Brendan Bendar

chalkitdown1 wrote: »

It's definitely a new actor, doesn't sound like the usual fella at all. I don't like it!

‘
Much too refined, where’s the aul lad talking’ our of de back of his troat’

Oops69

'The IrishJ Chimes weekenJ, You canJ Affordj cho miss jit.'... make it stop.

Macdarack

There's an ad for a movie at the moment about a dog called Bailey or something, it sucks the life out of me it's so long.

ofcork

Appliances delivered being voiced now by Deirdre o kane brutal ads.

jeremyj1968

ofcork wrote: »

Appliances delivered being voiced now by Deirdre o kane brutal ads.

The woman is a professional irritant. People might say "oh but she has to earn a few quid", but she knows when she is voicing that ad that she is deliberately doing it to annoy people and get attention for the product. Like I read on here before, the only place that anybody should hear Deirdre O'Kane's voice doing the announcements is in a Prisoner Of War camp.

jeremyj1968

jeremyj1968 wrote: »

The woman is a professional irritant. People might say "oh but she has to earn a few quid", but she knows when she is voicing that ad that she is deliberately doing it to annoy people and get attention for the product. Like I read on here before, the only place that anybody should hear Deirdre O'Kane's voice doing the announcements is in a Prisoner Of War camp.

I don’t get that ad. It starts off serious, then quickly it goes into full “Deirdre OKane” mode. The nasally stupid “ one hundred and ninety nine, ninety nine “ ****e over and over, then it ends serious again. Are we meant to find this funny ? It’s dreadful , literally cannot stand her ....or her voice. :mad:

Macdarack

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I don’t get that ad. It starts off serious, then quickly it goes into full “Deirdre OKane” mode. The nasally stupid “ one hundred and ninety nine, ninety nine “ ****e over and over, then it ends serious again. Are we meant to find this funny ? It’s dreadful , literally cannot stand her ....or her voice. :mad:

Anyone who says yo yos for euros should be kneecapped, that gimp Paul Williams was particularly bad for it.

Del.Monte

The Energlaze Ads where two dickheads have a surreal conversation about the benefits of some type of replacement windows - and there's even a 'witty' reprise at the end about points made rather than point. God help us but this stuff is such drivel and wouldn't in anyway encourage one to buy the products.

Radio5

Every ad about buying a new van for work seems to feature a gormless BJH Dub and his exasperated boss.

Maria Doyle-Kennedy (at least I think it's her ) wasted in a car insurance ad.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Who keeps paying Diedre O Kane for voice overs.

NAYNTE NAYNE NAYNTE NAYNE.

Absolutely brutal ad.