Even more adverts you despise

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optogirl wrote: »

I know it's been oft quoted in here but seriously that M&M ad has to be one of the worst piles of shi*e ever to crawl out of an ad company portfolio. The biting doesn't make sense. Why is yellow in the wardrobe? Isn't he supposed to be keeping sketch? Is yer wan straight out of the Dynasty reject list riding the M&M? I hate it. I hate it with a passion that makes me question my own sanity.

Totally agree.

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fryup wrote: »

The latest covid 19 one - talk about OTT - we're all in it together/you'll never beat the irish/we're a resilient race/we've been through tougher times ...load a bollix

we've been asked to stay indoors & watch TV, not go to war ffs!

There's also an ad about Covid 19 whenever I go into Dunnes that is cringy as ****.

Ye probably know it. Starts off something like "in Ireland we're friendly... So keeping apart doesn't feel very "us"....But, now we need to keep apart etc etc". I cringe every time it comes on.

Hangdogroad

take everything wrote: »

There's also an ad about Covid 19 whenever I go into Dunnes that is cringy as ****.

Ye probably know it. Starts off something like "in Ireland we're friendly... So keeping apart doesn't feel very "us"....But, now we need to keep apart etc etc". I cringe every time it comes on.

Is that Leo speaking in it? It didn't bother me at first but now I'm sick of it.

Nigel Fairservice

take everything wrote: »

There's also an ad about Covid 19 whenever I go into Dunnes that is cringy as ****.

Ye probably know it. Starts off something like "in Ireland we're friendly... So keeping apart doesn't feel very "us"....But, now we need to keep apart etc etc". I cringe every time it comes on.

I find that one a bit unnerving.

I hate they the other one they have too. The girl going on about keeping the bread fresh and the chips frozen. I like chips as much as the next person but there's probably more important food stuffs to focus on :pac:

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take everything wrote: »

There's also an ad about Covid 19 whenever I go into Dunnes that is cringy as ****.

Ye probably know it. Starts off something like "in Ireland we're friendly... So keeping apart doesn't feel very "us"....But, now we need to keep apart etc etc". I cringe every time it comes on.

One of the lads at work timed it, it was on every four minutes when they started playing it first. They have other ones playing in addition now so it's not as often, but I'm sick to death of it.

Sam Hain

Catch bar series of ads with 2 eejits on a couch in a garage or a shed or something.

RabbleRouser2k

I'm going to get shot for saying this, but this comes from someone who's got his own mental health issues...

The advert for Darkness into Light is kind of bothering me. We hear the voice of this father, talking about his son, and then he says 'he enjoyed life'...

Then we learn his son committed suicide.
This is going to sound callous, but if someone commits suicide, they obviously didn't enjoy life. (Therapy, treatments, medication and so on is obviously needed to allow someone to realise life is worth living. I've been thru it, you still have low days, but understanding what's up with ya helps to combat it.)

I don't know if whoever was over the advert thought this through.

trashcan

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I find that one a bit unnerving.

I hate they the other one they have too. The girl going on about keeping the bread fresh and the chips frozen. I like chips as much as the next person but there's probably more important food stuffs to focus on :pac:

Wot ? More important than chips you say ? Not possible surely ?

Nigel Fairservice

trashcan wrote: »

Wot ? More important than chips you say ? Not possible surely ?

I'm more interested in Dunnes keeping the Party Rings rolling!

PieOhMy

Just thinking about the M&M ad there, and what actually is happening in it.

So the human characters have agreed between themselves to eat the red M&M, but while the man is away the woman decides to trick the M&M into bed to eat it herself under the pretense of having sex with it?
Meanwhile the two M&Ms have arranged a situation where the red M&M will try and have sex with the woman while the man is away and the yellow one will watch this while hidden in a wardrobe?
Like what kind of mind thinks this up and pitches it to their manager as a good idea ?!?!?!

Immortal Starlight

PieOhMy wrote: »

Just thinking about the M&M ad there, and what actually is happening in it.

So the human characters have agreed between themselves to eat the red M&M, but while the man is away the woman decides to trick the M&M into bed to eat it herself under the pretense of having sex with it?
Meanwhile the two M&Ms have arranged a situation where the red M&M will try and have sex with the woman while the man is away and the yellow one will watch this while hidden in a wardrobe?
Like what kind of mind thinks this up and pitches it to their manager as a good idea ?!?!?!

From the very first time I saw it (which seems like years ago) I thought it was disgusting. In fact I think all the M&M ads are horrible. Sex and cannibalism:eek:

lertsnim

I wish to god that tampax ad would **** off.

CoBo55

PieOhMy wrote: »

Just thinking about the M&M ad there, and what actually is happening in it.

So the human characters have agreed between themselves to eat the red M&M, but while the man is away the woman decides to trick the M&M into bed to eat it herself under the pretense of having sex with it?
Meanwhile the two M&Ms have arranged a situation where the red M&M will try and have sex with the woman while the man is away and the yellow one will watch this while hidden in a wardrobe?
Like what kind of mind thinks this up and pitches it to their manager as a good idea ?!?!?!

Your man walking in from the wardrobe is the bit that gets me:mad: The editor must have been as blind as a bat..

Thargor

PieOhMy wrote: »

Just thinking about the M&M ad there, and what actually is happening in it.

So the human characters have agreed between themselves to eat the red M&M, but while the man is away the woman decides to trick the M&M into bed to eat it herself under the pretense of having sex with it?
Meanwhile the two M&Ms have arranged a situation where the red M&M will try and have sex with the woman while the man is away and the yellow one will watch this while hidden in a wardrobe?
Like what kind of mind thinks this up and pitches it to their manager as a good idea ?!?!?!

And then decides to subject us to it every ad break for years...

Like, you either eat M and Ms or you dont, people pick these habits up as kids, does paying to run the same horrible thing for 5 years until it becomes headwrecking white noise really justify the cost? Why not divert the money into different lower budget ads so people arent just tuning it out after seeing the same thing for the 1000X time?

Autosport

Perf with surf :rolleyes:

CK22

I wet myself

Get em up there girls

And 2 Erictile Dysfunction ads on British television

Like there are children here. At least have them post watershed,

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take everything wrote: »

There's also an ad about Covid 19 whenever I go into Dunnes that is cringy as ****.

Ye probably know it. Starts off something like "in Ireland we're friendly... So keeping apart doesn't feel very "us"....But, now we need to keep apart etc etc". I cringe every time it comes on.

Couldnt agree more. The smarminess in yermans voice is absolutely unbearable.
This type of stuff in a supermarket is just ott and very Orwellian universe be honest.

the purple tin

The one with the bald smug hipster walking along the top of the tour bus with a selfie stick talking about 'top cashback'.
Seems like it's been on for years now.

Hangdogroad

Lucozade Sport with a guy shouting YES! YES at a telly. Very annoying.

the purple tin

Autosport wrote: »

Perf with surf :rolleyes:

I think that ad is hilarious. Especially the laugh she does at the end, if she is acting and taking the mickey then she could be a good comedian.

corcaigh07

The Nationwide ads on British telly at the moment are insufferable. Trying to be heartwarming but instead feels shallow and insincere.

Sam Hain

Autosport wrote: »

Perf with surf :rolleyes:

Dire with Dyer.

the purple tin

Finchey from the Office seems to be doing voice-overs on half the ads on the telly lately.

Snorlaxx

Really dont know how to feel about the new JustEat add with Snoop Dog.............. WORD!!!!!!!!!

Tim76

Scott was home early during every single ad break last night. I've made the decision to boycott M&Ms until this advert is taken off the air.

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Tim76 wrote: »

Scott was home early during every single ad break last night. I've made the decision to boycott M&Ms until this advert is taken off the air.

Wait till you see the next one where Scott and Mrs Scott throw caution to the wind and decide to have a four-way with Red and Yellow :eek:

mistersifter

the purple tin wrote: »

Wait till you see the next one where Scott and Mrs Scott throw caution to the wind and decide to have a four-way with Red and Yellow :eek:

I'll be complaining if they don't have a brown M&M involved.

Terrible lack of diversity in these ads.

flazio

mistersifter wrote: »

I'll be complaining if they don't have a brown M&M involved.

Terrible lack of diversity in these ads.

They all end up brown in the end. I'm intelligent enough to know this because I eat Smarties instead. :cool:

madmaggie

There's an ad on UTV where an "investigator" goes into a house and lectures the family about all the water they're wasting. Awful rubbish.

All that fandango

Autosport wrote:

Perf with surf

She has such a strong accent, or was that the piss taking point of the ad?

All that fandango

castletownman wrote:

Those chaps refusing to come in for their dinner and fluttering around in a battlefield need a good kick up the hole.

If I shouted back 'NO!' to the mother when she was calling me for a dinner I didnt approve of I would have gotten some clip!

RabbleRouser2k

madmaggie wrote: »

There's an ad on UTV where an "investigator" goes into a house and lectures the family about all the water they're wasting. Awful rubbish.

Jesus... aren't we meant to be washing at the moment-all this Corona prevention stuff? Make up your flipping mind TV channels.

All that fandango wrote: »

She has such a strong accent, or was that the piss taking point of the ad?

It's probably intended to be her 'mocking' herself... but it backfires, it backfires spectacularly.

It's sort of like those adverts with Anthea Turner, Totally Money. They are absolutely awful adverts for a dodgy service. But they're 'meant' to be funny...

They're just painfully unfunny.

Santan

Any one know, in the fbd insurance ad, the island where the two are fencing, where is that in Ireland, cheers

Muahahaha

lertsnim wrote: »

I wish to god that tampax ad would **** off.

Saw it on tv the other day at 5pm. I pity the mothers out there whose young daughters see it and are asking them what it is that girls have to get up there and where there is. Awkward.

Blaze420

Muahahaha wrote: »

Saw it on tv the other day at 5pm. I pity the mothers out there whose young daughters see it and are asking them what it is that girls have to get up there and where there is. Awkward.

Well on the flip side of that those ads have been too vague for too long - blue water dripping on to a pad, senile pensioners showing up in some young woman’s world to represent a period etc. You can’t get more direct than the current ones apart from a blatant tag line saying “you bleed monthly - sort it with these”.

trashcan

Sam Hain wrote: »

Catch bar series of ads with 2 eejits on a couch in a garage or a shed or something.

The "sell me this catch bar" one ? I actually thought that was quite good.

All that fandango

Head and Shoulders getting some mileage out of Claudia Winkleman.

Muahahaha

Claudia Winkelman is an annoying personality vacuum

Blaze420

Muahahaha wrote: »

Claudia Winkelman is an annoying personality vacuum

Are you her husband?

Immortal Starlight

I think the tampon ad is grand. It’s a fact of life women have periods and when you first use tampons they can be tricky to fit properly. It’s nice to see a humorous take on what can be a real problem for young girls.

RabbleRouser2k

Immortal Starlight wrote: »

I think the tampon ad is grand. It’s a fact of life women have periods and when you first use tampons they can be tricky to fit properly. It’s nice to see a humorous take on what can be a real problem for young girls.

I don't have an issue with the message. (And some people's issues with the advert is either periods in general, or having to explain 'periods' to their children. I grew up on a farm, knew all that stuff when I was still a single digit of age).
Adverts about 'peeing yourself' as adults... if anything, those adverts should be a clear message to kids that accidents happen.

To me the issue is just the sheer cringe of it. It launched on April Fools Day, and some people thought it was a joke.

deise08

Perf with surf.

A aaagh.

Tim76

deise08 wrote: »

Perf with surf.

A aaagh.

Dyer stuff.

Seamai

Heard an ad on the radio yesterday being voiced by Emmet Kirwan, I find his voice really irritating. It's not one that would sell something to me.

Acosta

All that fandango wrote: »

Head and Shoulders getting some mileage out of Claudia Winkleman.

She used head and shoulders once so technically she's not lying

RabbleRouser2k

Muahahaha wrote: »

Claudia Winkelman is an annoying personality vacuum

I used to not like her, Winkleman I mean.

But she's grown on me. Not in the 'secret crush way', but I can tolerate her.

The idea of reading messages where people hate you is kind of clever. Because many others wouldn't do it because 'it would affect their brand'. (Imagine Vogue doing the same thing for that 'Liquitabs' advert).

blueser

Tim76 wrote: »

Dyer stuff.

Danny or Dani?

lapua20grain

blueser wrote: »

Danny or Dani?

Both

the purple tin

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

I used to not like her, Winkleman I mean.

But she's grown on me. Not in the 'secret crush way', but I can tolerate her.

The idea of reading messages where people hate you is kind of clever. Because many others wouldn't do it because 'it would affect their brand'. (Imagine Vogue doing the same thing for that 'Liquitabs' advert).

rubadub

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

I used to not like her, Winkleman I mean.

But she's grown on me. Not in the 'secret crush way', but I can tolerate her.

off topic but her black eyeliner is 10 times better than Clarke Kents glasses. Totally unrecognizable without it.