Most annoying advertisement?

Spudman_20000

Pabzzz wrote: »

YouTube ads are generally annoying, but that Discover Northern Ireland ad is the WORST.

Ditto for this and that bloody Lynx ad with the "worldwide emergency" that pops up before every YouTube video. :mad:

I'm actually hoping for a real world catastrophe to hit some country that might shame them into not showing this ad.

what a day

Has to be the go compair adds they should be band!!!

Oh and Barry Scott and his twin Brother!!!:mad::mad:

du Maurier

looksee wrote: »

Those horrible dogs with the false teeth ... I may have mentioned them in another thread

Jumbone, I think. It's not right.

That new Eircom ad has started to irk me, especially that little brat that's 'bunking into a festival'. She deserves a slap.

dazzlemoo

Yeah, the Go Compare ads really are annoying.
I also hate the Compare the Meerkat ones; not funny at all.
The latest one to irk me is the Santander one.
"You win, you save, you sleep, you save, you bite your bottom lip, you save"..It goes on for ages!
Oh, and the Alpecin caffeine shampoo ad too-purely for the way the voice-over woman pronounces "hair" (for your HAAAAIR)

Pippy1976

wilkie2006 wrote: »

Jesus, this thread does nothing to dispel the idea that Irish people love being miserable...

So, what're all the ads you really hate? Let's all talk about them, post links from Youtube and then talk about them a bit more. God, they're awful aren't they?!! I hate watching these... but I will, just so I can go on about them...

Get over it! I'm sure there are threads like this in plenty of the world's chat sites... adverts are annoying, it's not an Irish phenomenon.

Being miserable isn't an Irish trait... it's a people trait. Deal with it.

pips

Squ

"we buy any car dot com, sponsors motoring on dave" with all the doors clicking and lights flashing.. urgh.....


bring back the sexy little pink minx singing it, 10 sec speed wánk ftw.

FutureGuy

I'm a very refined gentleman who doesn't get his feathers ruffled about much but this guy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uvp9Hq60qw

...grrr...I just want to beat the **** out of him. Some of the ads here on boards has him celebrating something with a fist pump.

du Maurier

Just recalled another bastard of an Eircom ad - the phonewatch one. This level of smugness is just uncalled for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA6R1TqFL1g

take everything

Vernon Kay and his mother in those Flora Cuisine ads. That woman sets my teeth on edge.
Agree about those "Brad in Albequerque" eircom ads. Fcuk off with your faux-american twang.

take everything

Flancrest wrote: »

Apache Pizza radio ad has stopped me buying thier pizza it's so annoying.

Aggggh.
I got that prick's voice in my head now.

Gmol

Anything that says it's regulated by the central bank I mean wtf is the point

SuperGrover

Apache Pizza, happy days... Apache Pizza, happy days.

Edit - mentioned above... sorry

hightower1

Those damned board bia ads for milk where some idiot has a spaz attack to the loudest most innane dance music that instantly turns my TV set into a fcuking Polish house party. You just know some ad man thought up of the loudest most irritating noise to grab peoples attention and used it....wnaker.


Close second would be the McDonalds ads with the pastey faced sprog "I wouldnt want you to be an astronaught dad, cause you'd be ages coming home at night" .... GAG.... are they fcuking for real? Honestly, what kind of attached at the hip / future daddy issues attitude is that. Makes me wretch.

fishy fishy

du Maurier wrote: »

Just recalled another bastard of an Eircom ad - the phonewatch one. This level of smugness is just uncalled for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA6R1TqFL1g

drives me mad.

fishy fishy

hightower1 wrote: »

Those damned board bia ads for milk where some idiot has a spaz attack to the loudest most innane dance music that instantly turns my TV set into a fcuking Polish house party. You just know some ad man thought up of the loudest most irritating noise to grab peoples attention and used it....wnaker.


Close second would be the McDonalds ads with the pastey faced sprog "I wouldnt want you to be an astronaught dad, cause you'd be ages coming home at night" .... GAG.... are they fcuking for real? Honestly, what kind of attached at the hip / future daddy issues attitude is that. Makes me wretch.

is he the same child that does his poo at Pauls?

hightower1

fishy fishy wrote: »

is he the same child that does his poo at Pauls?

Havent a clue, looking at the irritation scale.... yup, probably is. Hope he gets IBS from holding his ****e in.

Squ

hightower1 wrote: »

Hope he gets IBS from holding his ****e in.

deadly.

counterlock

Gmol wrote: »

Anything that says it's regulated by the central bank I mean wtf is the point

Better than being regulated by the financial regulator i guess!

2ndcoming

Hate those FBD ads myself. Even that twinkly smug music does my head in.

I think it's very deliberate by advertisers to make the voice artist say something in a weird annoying way just so it sticks in your head more. Eg. Finish.. The Dy-a-mund Standard. I'm sure there's loads more examples, thankfully they haven't stuck in my head anyway!!

fishy fishy

on of my most laughable ads was one I only saw maybe a dozen times. It was for sausages.

a guy brings a girl home and puts the sausages in the pan. The dog is there - I forget how the guy and the dog ends up in the bathroom, but when the girl opens the door the guy is on all fours and the dog is lashing him with the towel.

It's hilarious.

wilkie2006

wilkie2006 wrote: »

Jesus, this thread does nothing to dispel the idea that Irish people love being miserable...

So, what're all the ads you really hate? Let's all talk about them, post links from Youtube and then talk about them a bit more. God, they're awful aren't they?!! I hate watching these... but I will, just so I can go on about them...

Pippy1976 wrote: »

Get over it! I'm sure there are threads like this in plenty of the world's chat sites... adverts are annoying, it's not an Irish phenomenon.

Hey girlfriend, I am SO over it! To be honest, it doesn't bother me that there's a thread dedicated to this. I have zero issues with it and my post was meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek.

Pippy1976 wrote: »

Being miserable isn't an Irish trait... it's a people trait. Deal with it.

pips

Eh... I like the way you don't disagree that you love being miserable, you just say that everyone else does too!

foxyboxer

fishy fishy wrote: »

on of my most laughable ads was one I only saw maybe a dozen times. It was for sausages.

a guy brings a girl home and puts the sausages in the pan. The dog is there - I forget how the guy and the dog ends up in the bathroom, but when the girl opens the door the guy is on all fours and the dog is lashing him with the towel.

It's hilarious.

Walls Sausages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa5XlWWPSmU

Coriolanus

Probably the ones for fame on dublin bus at the moment. Faces is love to play for five minutes with a hammer.

Giselle

The smug looking one who advertises her 'deliciously creamy Activia' and loves her tummy.

Nobody is that happy to eat yoghurt.

FanadMan

Any ad on TV3 - whatever is wrong with them, have to turn up the volume a lot during the progs (same on UPC and Sky) and then as soon as the ads come on, would nearly burst your eardrums! Do they think that a higher volume will make people wake up and take notice? Rather than turning the vol down during their ads I just change the channel :rolleyes:

languagenerd

There's one for Dove (?) deodorant that claims it helps heal cuts from shaving "in just seven days" and shows pictures of a sore red underarm and then a healed one, claiming that using Dove made it heal. IT'S A SMALL CUT THAT WOULD HEAL IN 7 DAYS ANYWAY!

Flancrest

NRC Taxis radio ad

If you're headin to your mas or out on the Raz

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If you're going to Clonsilla or your south side villa

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Get off the bus ride with us
Get off the dart ride with us
Get of the Luas ride with us

Autumn Moon

That bleedin' Barclays ad......with yer woman bouncin' around. ??:mad:??

fishy fishy

foxyboxer wrote: »

Walls Sausages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa5XlWWPSmU

ya thats it. It's hilarious.

du Maurier

Those VHI ads are terrible too. Here's a good pisstake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9atUuf5ItYQ

Allianz ads are pretty poor too. My advice to you: "Wear a seatbelt whilst driving!". Oh okay, thanks for that one.

Salt001

Any of the adds that say have a happy period.
Uggghhh had to have been written by a man :eek:

toexpress

Anyone heard that annoying IKEA one with Uncle Ralph and the food fight?

I makes me want to cut my ears off

Dudess

Or the freaky sounding kid in the Ikea party-proof kitchens radio ad. Or the kid who sounds like the "red rum" lad in The Shining ("Mommy... I need a durrink").


Those 48 ads.

Nope, in college in Ireland, you WON'T look like a bunch of European models in their 20s/early 30s - and sex WON'T be that seamless and grown-up. Plus, you won't be having parties in lavish apartments. Because you're 18 and a kid and unlikely to be that rich.

A bunch of far less polished younglings drinking cheap cans in a grotty shared house, and brief hints of awkward fumbly sex... THAT'S college party life in Ireland.

the purple tin

Those wow-cher women can really get on your wick.

LLU

Those bloody kildare village ads, which I think are supposed to be based on Sex and the City. Makes the place sound dated and a relic of the celtic tiger.

Batsy

I hate the ones that are anti-men. There are loads of those on British telly at the moment. They usually show (always white, never black) men as being gormless, dim, a bit weird and a bit of a nuisance to their woman.

One that springs to mind is an advert from a furniture store (I can't remember its name) and it shows a middle-aged (white) man with his wife in the store kneeling down at the side of a wooden table. He knocks on the table as though testing its strength and then swivels his eyes from side to in a disturbing way. His wife just looks at him and tuts. He then goes to another table with a vase and a few other objects on it and starts knocking on that and he almost knocks the vase over. He grabs it just before it falls over and then look sorrowful in a childish way, before holding his hand out for his wife who grabs it and leads him away as though he was a naughty kid.

And I won't even go into the Boots adverts.

It just seems quite disturbing the amount of anti-(white)men adverts there are on British TV which portray them as gormless and dim.

And then you get the annoying "girls just wanna have fun" type adverts, such as the Harveys furniture store one in which two annoying girls are bouncing on sofas and sliding across a table.

I also used to detest the Sheilas' Wheels adverts, adverts about a women-only car insurance company (you wouldn't get away with a men-only one) which tried to tell us that women got cheaper car insurance than men because women were better drivers yet the dopey women in the advert used to sing the Sheilas' Wheel song whilst in the car and, whilst doing so, the woman driving the car never had her eyes on the road.

Mickey Dazzler

The "We buy any car" ad makes me want to take my own life.

pragmatic1

Those discover Northern Ireland ads before youtube videos.

DEFTLEFTHAND

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Those discover Northern Ireland ads before youtube videos.

The bane of my life.

Volovo

Say hello to liberty insurance. Say hello to .... F**K off.

toexpress

LLU wrote: »

Those bloody kildare village ads, which I think are supposed to be based on Sex and the City. Makes the place sound dated and a relic of the celtic tiger.

to be fair that's just complying with the whole advertising standards thing because that's what it is ... I live 5 minutes from it

ElishaR86

Worst ads are those santander ones. Thay are so annoying. "You smile, you save, you shower, you save, you sh*t, you save, you have sex, you save....." something along those lines. Seriously just shut up.

Joko

ElishaR86 wrote: »

Worst ads are those santander ones. Thay are so annoying. "You smile, you save, you shower, you save, you sh*t, you save, you have sex, you save....." something along those lines. Seriously just shut up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5NjgCycV5w

You Save

ToddyDoody

I find the current 123.ie ads a bit annoying.. 'meet francis he's just football mad, and ellen 'hi ellen' she and her wife love the cinema and tim here he is does the DIY and they're all covered by 123.ie' bit like the old eircom ads with yer wan who spills the pissin wine everywhere.. Didnt like them either

bnt

The current ad for Galaxy chocolate annoys me no end for a couple of reasons - enough for me to find and resurrect this thread. Firstly, because it uses the usual slow, lingering camera shots and throaty voiceover to try to make chocolate sexy to the female audience. The subtext is "you don't want a man, you want chocolate". I went looking for a video of the ad, and could only find an edited version made by someone who picked up on this too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXr7KhL-nc

Secondly: that model in the ad is not representative of the target audience. At least, I hope it's not. Your average chocolate-eating woman does not look like that, she looks like a woman who eats chocolate: a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips, and there's nothing wrong with that.

No, that model doesn't eat chocolate - at least, not for long. If she accidentally swallowed any during the shoot, she was in the toilets with a finger down her throat ten seconds after the director shouted "Cut!" Look at that drawn skin and those bulging eyes that the makeup can't hide: she's a bona fide anorexic, which is why I got the annoying feeling that the ad was aimed at the teenage binge-and-purge audience, rather than healthy chocolate lovers. :mad: (Not that there's much actual chocolate in one of those bars, anyway!)

Lisha

there seems to be a resurrection of that stupid Kerrygold ad with the Irish gormless son taking a sod of earth home to Germany so the child's feet will touch Irish soil first.
I hate this ad for so many reasons, stupid overdone example of Irish male, not talking, practically walking with knuckles dragging floor. HTF does hot German babymomma prevent herself from kicking or at the very least dumping his ass. Also in our current fiscal conditions, i reckons the Germans would piss themselves watching this. In reality it's more like he taking back to germany what it already owns. (I hate being reminded of our curent issues.)

And FFS where did they get that stupid looking shamrock tin:mad:

I want this ad banned.

Shybookwormy

Admittedly I love the first compare the market.com advert- I thought it was cute- but somewhere along the line (I don't know maybe after they rehashed the same advert for the fifth or sixth time!!!) it just got annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcAUIukbQg8

That whole "simples" thing is no longer cute. Now it just seems as though they're trying to hard....
I also cant stand this particular ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPR6IRny0Ao

... I have no further comments

the purple tin

That ad for the new google circles thing is really annoying me.
I hate it when companies use overly sentimental ads with newborn babies, families,grandparents etc to sell their product.

Omackeral

That poxy Sony Xperia ad...

'As imagined by Jack Ryan, aged 8'

Some whiney sounding little pre-pubescent prick going on about little robots running riot inside a phone. I hate him and his visions. He's not even fully convinced of his own scenario.

''Hmmm maybe there's 3 little robots... tiny, tiny little robots. There job is to make the phone work...''

Yeah?!?! Well maybe there's not you little smug sh1t!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnlfPvd5AI

the purple tin

Is that Laura Woods in the bottom right corner of boards?
She's wearing a t-shirt with a big stab wound on it.