Worst/Best Radio Ads

Lapin

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Bang restuarant and Alan Stanford. Man what's going on.

She'd admit to shagging around rather than be seen in the restaurant with him.
Can't say I blame the oul bint.


One thing I am certain of though - I will never set foot in Bang restaurant.

Not if the clientele there consists of the type of poncy **** that ad suggests it does.

C14N

allanb49 wrote: »

The arnie one, the guy been told 50% off then seems to vibrate and explode

Yeah only just heard that one. What's going on there? Why is Arnie there? Why is he shooting the place up because of this offer? Why doesn't the guy who owns the shop give a crap?

cml387

Kildare Village. Again.

"..You complete me."

Same mid-atlantic SJP wannabee airhead doing the voice.

neris

Heard two very annoying ones yesterday on dublin stations.

One sounds like that gobdaw pat courtney on nova trying to do an american western accent for some bar or venue in clondalkin

2nd was one for bills bargains at the local renault dealer. bill cullen desperatly flogging renaults by offering a bbq. And the botoxed jackie also features at the end. This must be tough if theyve to do the voice over themselves or else their heads are still over inflated

Gophur

Radio Nova "National Radio Cabs" some lass sounding about 4 years old

Some Rap for another (or maybe the same) taxi company

xxyyzz

I will never buy a car off beepbeep.ie because of that ad.

neris

Just heard a new heinz ad with two dodgy cork accents waffling on about how great cork is even when its raining

DuckStab

Maybe I'm just easily irritated in my old age but I find myself more incensed by the "actors" than the content of the ads.
When Quinn Insurance went into receivership I rejoiced as I assumed that would mean an end to their advertising using that horrible man who talks in a throaty voice with a lisp, makes my skin crawl. But I'm after hearing another one today, and woe is me.
In similar categories are Phelim Drew (advertising DTHAHBLINAAR CHEESE as though it were some kind of lactose based pheromone), Jerry Fish and Don Wycherley (I actually like him but that working class accent in the Rightclick ad is fooling no one).
There's another chap whose voice doesn't particularly irritate me but he appears to be the voice of every quango going, as well as being in every second ad which requires "30something Dublin male". Recently there's been another goon with a horribly nasal voice (Eurocycles, DID Electrical, DEEEFFFF LEEPPPEERRRRRRRD) that drives me up the wall.

At the other end of the speculum spectrum is that indescribably bad Sayth Sayd media studies graduate who has once again taken to informing me that I'll never get that "premewshun" because I didn't do chawrturd akayntansee (or in English, Chartered Accountancy), and then rubs it in my face by regaling me with tales of the Yurro Saver menu at McD's.
And his female counterpart Louise Moloney. Probably only applicable to people who listen to Nova (although I've heard National Radio Cabs elsewhere) but if I hear "Hai this is Leese Mlewney on Reydio Newva with a luke at whot's gewing on araynd tayn" followed inevitably by namedropping some painfully hip places in Temple Boar.

Call me old fashioned but surely one of the very few requirements necessary for a job in radio is a tolerable voice and the ability to enunciate?

Rant over, I apologise

cml387

No need to apologise.
You nailed that appalling accent,spot on.

snubbleste

"Penneys, got a whole lotta things for Christmas.."
I like that ad, only another five months to go :cool:

stannis

neris wrote: »

Just heard a new heinz ad with two dodgy cork accents waffling on about how great cork is even when its raining

I love that ad, it pokes gentle fun at Cork people's ever-so-slightly high regard of their city. That's a Cork umbrella biy!

JonathanAnon

When Quinn Insurance went into receivership I rejoiced as I assumed that would mean an end to their advertising using that horrible man who talks in a throaty voice with a lisp, makes my skin crawl. But I'm after hearing another one today, and woe is me.

I think that's Gerard Byrne, who was in Fair City.. I've said this before but I dont understand why someone with a speech impediment becomes a voiceover artist, OR how they get work at it.. Similar is that guy with a similar lisp on the Spar ads.. drives me crazy..

Speaking of Fair City.. The wan who plays Niamh (and usually ironically tells us about what to when we feel bloated) is on an ad for Allianz at the moment.. She pronounces differently three times, once with a soft A, once with a more french sounding, and finally with a rolling 'L' sound... I mean did nobody hear this before broadcasting..

Gophur

I winder what is the impression of any German listeners to the cringe-worthy efforts of the actor doing the LIDL ads?


Any ad with Ed Byrne, dreadful.

Also Patrick McDonnell, the actor/comedian from Louth, doing something about Garden Gnomes.

xxyyzz

stannis wrote: »

I love that ad, it pokes gentle fun at Cork people's ever-so-slightly high regard of their city. That's a Cork umbrella biy!

Yeah, I think its pretty funny - Best umbrellas in the world

BuzzFish

xxyyzz wrote: »

Yeah, I think its pretty funny - Best umbrellas in the world

Anyone know a link to this online? Haven't heard it yet and it's not up on youtube.

C14N

neris wrote: »

One sounds like that gobdaw pat courtney on nova trying to do an american western accent for some bar or venue in clondalkin

Yeah when I heard that I thought it was him too. I don't really mind American accents, just the awful put-on caricatures on the radio.

fricatus

Brilliant Irish Times GAA championship ad is back... the one based on Beethoven's 9th Symphony where they sing all the names of the counties.

Makes me feel like it's finally summer, despite the weather!

Slidey

The fecking Flip flop ad for iarnrod eireann is dreadful.

So annoying and seems to run for a long time

neris

Slidey wrote: »

The fecking Flip flop ad for iarnrod eireann is dreadful.

So annoying and seems to run for a long time

I dont get that ad at all. it doesnt seem to be promoting anything.

Lapin

fricatus wrote: »

Brilliant Irish Times GAA championship ad is back... the one based on Beethoven's 9th Symphony where they sing all the names of the counties.

Makes me feel like it's finally summer, despite the weather!

You took the words out of my mouth.

Brilliant ad.

neris

Slidey wrote: »

The fecking Flip flop ad for iarnrod eireann is dreadful.

So annoying and seems to run for a long time

And now theres a new one out just heard it on the last word and its even stupider then the 1st one

fricatus

Lapin wrote: »

You took the words out of my mouth.

Brilliant ad.

When they sing "Dublin, Derry, Wicklow, the Déise..." I always do a little fist-pump, à la Dan Shanahan!

Ciaran_B

I think the woman in the 'wiley women of Ireland' ad has met her match in the contest for 'The Most Annoying Accent on Radio'. Take a bow annoying student from the UCC ad. The one that's a back and forth between a college academic and a student - man alive, that kid has one head-wrecking accent.

cml387

fricatus wrote: »

When they sing "Dublin, Derry, Wicklow, the Déise..." I always do a little fist-pump, à la Dan Shanahan!

A boring pedant writes:
It's Beethoven's ninth symphony where he (in modern parlence) "sampled" Schiller's Ode To Joy at the end.

Does anyone not cringe at the ad for NUI Maynooth where the lecturer never bothered to get his lock fixed?

Nothing sadder than universities begging for students.

fricatus

cml387 wrote: »

A boring pedant writes:
It's Beethoven's ninth symphony where he (in modern parlence) "sampled" Schiller's Ode To Joy at the end.

Pedantic maybe, but also interesting... it's always good to learn new stuff!

cml387 wrote: »

Does anyone not cringe at the ad for NUI Maynooth where the lecturer never bothered to get his lock fixed?

Nothing sadder than universities begging for students.

Well I certainly cringe. It's almost like one of those "folksy" tales that the likes of George Dubya Bush would tell about "folks lookin' out for one 'nuther" in small town America. Sepia tones and all...

Terrible that, the idea that lecturers (in other universities) would actually lock their offices. What is the world coming to? Next they'll be locking their cars!

Lapin

cml387 wrote: »

Does anyone not cringe at the ad for NUI Maynooth where the lecturer never bothered to get his lock fixed?

Nope, I cringe too.

Apart from the fact the the broken lock spiel is a load of tripe, there is nothing about the ad that makes me sit up and say "Yeah, fuggit I wanna go to Maynooth". A boring ad for a boring university town.

The ad for UCC on the other hand, has a touch of cleverness about it. The University Don highlights the academic features of the college, while in turn, a prospective student waxes lyrical about the social scene surrounding college life there. More realistic than a yarn about a broken lock.

A concise and (relatively) bullshít free ad.

squonk

I don't believe the ad for UCG! A cork girl saying she went to UCG and had a great time. Definitely one for the Advertising Standards Authority! Sure, we know Corkonians never move from De County and, even if they do, wherever they go to is never as good as Cork!

DuckStab

Lapin wrote: »

The ad for UCC on the other hand, has a touch of cleverness about it. The University Don highlights the academic features of the college, while in turn, a prospective student waxes lyrical about the social scene surrounding college life there. More realistic than a yarn about a broken lock.

A concise and (relatively) bullshít free ad.

Yup, in that it screams "We don't care if you're here for a PhD in Astrophysics or spend the year projectile vomiting after nights on the piss, so long as we get the tuition fees in!"

tommytee

kinda silly why Borat is advertising for the ITICA,

""ahh luukouuutta for da Logooo" soooooo Borat-ish and not Italian,
ok you have to hear it to appreciate what i mean
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coonecb1

neris wrote: »

ive heard that ad twice in the last hour on newtalk and its the crapest ad so far this year. why do they always give taxi drivers a dodgy dublin accent aswell

Have to disagree with. I think they deliberately made it cr*p and cringeworthy. The result is a "so bad it's good" type of ad.

One of the few ads I applaud and give the benefit of the doubt to.

ttenneb

One of the cleverest campaigns over the last couple of years is the one advertising Husqvarna. What better way to draw people's attention to the name than to have the script read by a well-known personality with a lisp. And the script had a more than usual number of words containing the letter "s". Lovely.

squonk

Anyone heard the ad for Hi-Ho-Hotels.com? Some squeaky voiced dub going on about his missus wanting him to book a hotel for (i believe he means holidays but can't figure out what he says) and his mate, who sounds an awful lot like the Gift Grub Glenda Gilson, tells him to look up this site. It's trully awful.

That_Guy

"Dad, what does 'Is Feidir Linn' mean?"

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Skid

cml387 wrote: »

A boring pedant writes:

Does anyone not cringe at the ad for NUI Maynooth where the lecturer never bothered to get his lock fixed?

Nothing sadder than universities begging for students.

Judging by the amount of violence on the Streets of Maynooth, which they had on Liveline last week, he would be well advised to get that lock fixed fairly lively.


Ridiculous advert, trying to make Maynooth sound like Sesame Street.

DuckStab

SkidMark wrote: »

Ridiculous advert, trying to make Maynooth sound like Sesame Street.

In fairness a bunch of muppets living in cloud cuckoo land isn't too far off the mark!

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to book a weekend in the Clurryon Hotel based on the recommendation of some spoilt little madam for whom a 4* hotel would undoubtedly be a downgrade.

Kojak

Probably mentioned already but those Phoenix magazine ads from a few weeks ago with the narrator with a very strange accent. They seem to have changed the narrator, which can only be an improvement I guess.

allanb49

Is feidir lin! i heard that from barry o'bama...... o god

I do like the one where the guy has the cross bow and is shooting something off his friends head though. no idea what its for, but i always think he's gonna hit him this time

*Ahhhh, whatcha think your doing!* is the line in it. could be for entertainment.ie

neris

The ads for the leopardstown inn really do my head in. Sounds like a place where pretentious southsiders still living in the celtic tiger days go along with indiana jones and marco polo. Who gives a crap if youve a revolving bar? is it a few hundred up at the top of a very tall tower with panoramic views of the city? NO so big deal.

neris

those train ads with the flip flops are getting more annoying everytime i hear them. whats the point of the flip flop aswell? free flip flops with every train ticket?

Poochie05

I was actually close to putting my fist through the radio this morning with those Euromillions introductions to the ad where VO recommends you hold on to something! They played it every ad break on Breakfast show on Today FM this morning.

barneygumble

There seem to be a slew of new ads for various forms of insurance (pet, etc) featuring Craig Doyle.

I'll make a point of not purchasing any service or product from any company that puts money into the pocket of that talentless non-entity.

barneygumble

There seem to be a slew of new ads for various forms of insurance (pet, etc) featuring Craig Doyle.

I'm going to make a point of not purchasing any service or product from any company that puts money into the pocket of that talentless non-entity.

HellishHeat

That_Guy wrote: »

"Dad, what does 'Is Feidir Linn' mean?"

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

+1

When that little dweeb whispers it at the end of the ad - I nearly fall off my bike with irritation. EVERY TIME.

neris

That shouty fecker from goal is back making us all feel guilty again and telling us to sort out africas problems. I hate those ads

squonk

neris wrote: »

That shouty fecker from goal is back making us all feel guilty again and telling us to sort out africas problems. I hate those ads

I don't think they're currently on but the ads i found highly offensive were the charity ones where they said "Have you been supporting charity X this year? If so, thank you, now here's how you can support us again AND IT WON'T COST YOU A PENNY'. It feckin will! Basically you get a form, fill it out and claim back your overpaid tax but assign it to them. You overpaid your tax so the money you overpaid could be paid back into your bank account for your personal use. It's not free money the government is giving out, so it actually does cost you a penny, and a pretty one at that. Did whoever thought up of this scam not get that it'd make most charities look like disgusting, greedy feckers?

neris

neris wrote: »

That shouty fecker from goal is back making us all feel guilty again and telling us to sort out africas problems. I hate those ads

just heard one for trocaire now putting us on a guilt trip. Maybe charities could save some money for themeslves by not advertising and annoying us

Poochie05

Poochie05 wrote: »

I was actually close to putting my fist through the radio this morning with those Euromillions introductions to the ad where VO recommends you hold on to something! They played it every ad break on Breakfast show on Today FM this morning.

Aaghhh! It's back today. Can someone please win Euromillions and stop the agony!

coonecb1

neris wrote: »

The ads for the leopardstown inn really do my head in. Sounds like a place where pretentious southsiders still living in the celtic tiger days go along with indiana jones and marco polo. Who gives a crap if youve a revolving bar? is it a few hundred up at the top of a very tall tower with panoramic views of the city? NO so big deal.

That's us southsiders getting revenge for all the "Tamangos - where the gang still goes" ads of the 90's

Nightwish

The ad that features that mad talentless bint Joanna Newsome's harpsichord is becoming the new Neil Diamond ad. Its on 3-4 times an hour on Radio 1 (may be an exaggeration).

spdmrphy

paddylonglegs wrote: »

Voiceover for Bulmers cider, Irish/English accent promoting the leopardstown festival. not really a voice for radio

Can't stand the sound of that irritating c.unt with with wet rubber flappy lipped "B's". Drives me insane.