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    #992
    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 4,028 ✭✭✭trashcan


    Blues_Rock wrote: »
    One ad that absolutely annoys me is the latest Muller yogurt. To be specific, while all their ads are stupid, this one seems to annoy me the most. In the ad, the woman exclaims "fat-free" upon hearing the narrator, which causes a ripped guy to hit a row of guys behind him with a pole in surprise upon hearing the woman........woman makes another exclamation....only this time he hits a different guy on the bottom with the pole in another surprised reaction to her exclamation ....which causes the guy who was hit to fall on the aforementioned bunch of felled athletes

    It is just completely stupid, not that those ads were renowned for being anything but

    What was he supposed to be doing with the bloody pole in the first place ?


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    #993
    Blues_Rock
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭Blues_Rock


    Been mentioned already but it deserves another mention as it seriously grates on my when I hear it

    The new Eir ad with the song "Anything You Can Do". The song is bad enough as it is, the that ad makes it even worse. I seriously can't stand it


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    #994
    applehunter
    Registered Users Posts: 6,046 ✭✭✭applehunter


    Eir ad ticking all the diversity boxes to make a real terrible ad.


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    #995
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Nat West "We've already thought about that"

    So did they think that the advert supports giving money to street beggars (probably on the streets as a result of having a Nat West bank account) and that it is OK to give your bank card to a random stranger you just picked up in a club?


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    #996
    Helenmcgeir
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭Helenmcgeir


    inthehat wrote: »
    I hope it's ok in this thread to mention an ad that I love, - it's the one for Pampers with the premature babies to the music of "Tell the world I'm comin'home". It really tugs at the heartstrings :) An example of good marketing and happy associations with the product.

    My daughter from Donegal sings it chanele mc guinness x


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    #997
    [Deleted User]
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    Helenmcgeir wrote: »
    My daughter from Donegal sings it chanele mc guinness x
    Aww Helen - that's brilliant. I was wondering who the singer was - I knew it wasn't Skylar Grey's version. Chanele has a gorgeous voice - I'd say we'll be hearing a lot more of her :).


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    #998
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,322 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Just thinking of those AIB ads, with the insufferable Kate and Mick and now Maire. What are they trying to say? The above have just finished their mortgages, yes, but they got them fecking 30 to 40 years ago. Absolutely no relevance to the modern issue.

    So, what's the point? Aspiration, sure. But unattainable for the vast majority.


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    #999
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Just thinking of those AIB ads, with the insufferable Kate and Mick and now Maire. What are they trying to say? The above have just finished their mortgages, yes, but they got them fecking 30 to 40 years ago. Absolutely no relevance to the modern issue.

    So, what's the point? Aspiration, sure. But unattainable for the vast majority.

    I concur..now they have one about getting a loan for a piano for a kid:rolleyes:.....here's an idea AIB...instead of paying out God knows how much of (taxpayers)money to fund this rubbish,how about putting it towards lowering interest rates for yer customers????


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    #1000
    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    Been a while since I checked, but AIB (and KBC) have the lowest variable rate mortgage in the market.


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    #1001
    Autosport
    Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Bord Gáis energy ads with the son in law and father in law, yer man has no interest in sport but is going to get tickets to get in the father in laws good books.

    Get off my screen!!!!!!!


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    #1002
    Auld Jim Halpin
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭Auld Jim Halpin


    1. That cow from the Trivago ad is back tallking crap about hotels again.

    2. Another ad with a little girl singing in the back of a car, can't remember what this one or the other was for as it's never on for very long.

    3. Nappies ad with the premature babies, it's humbling to see them so small and vulnerable but despicable manipulation in the name of selling nappies by one of the worlds largest corporations.

    4. That Virgin Media ad with the cable guy "listening" to the cable and inside is a load of TV people having a race in various old cars. Get over yourselves, for all the channels on offer there is usually nothing but rubbish and ads on.

    So many more, but that ought to hold me for a bit.


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    #1003
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,322 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Autosport wrote: »
    Bord Gáis energy ads with the son in law and father in law, yer man has no interest in sport but is going to get tickets to get in the father in laws good books.

    Get off my screen!!!!!!!

    That's actually the only Bord Gais energy ad I can stand.


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    #1004
    woejus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭woejus


    Auld Jim Halpin wrote: »
    1. That cow from the Trivago ad is back tallking crap about hotels again.

    I won't have you malign her... terrible ads, but she's lovely :pac:


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    #1005
    Go Harvey Go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    Auld Jim Halpin wrote: »
    1. That cow from the Trivago ad is back tallking crap about hotels again.

    If you hate her... then you'll absolutely despite Flo from the Progressive ads in the US. :o:D;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uiqNW1f404


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    #1006
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,322 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Go Harvey Go wrote: »
    If you hate her... then you'll absolutely despite Flo from the Progressive ads in the US. :o:D;)

    An unusual fancy for me :o


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    #1007
    Autosport
    Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Birneybau wrote: »
    That's actually the only Bord Gais energy ad I can stand.

    Oh god no


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    #1008
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Auld Jim Halpin wrote: »
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    2. Another ad with a little girl singing in the back of a car, can't remember what this one or the other was for as it's never on for very long.

    ...

    First time around I thought that was quite a clever advert, by the forth or fifth time I hated it.


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    #1009
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,789 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Auld Jim Halpin wrote: »
    ...................................................................

    3. Nappies ad with the premature babies, it's humbling to see them so small and vulnerable but despicable manipulation in the name of selling nappies by one of the worlds largest corporations.

    4. That Virgin Media ad with the cable guy "listening" to the cable and inside is a load of TV people having a race in various old cars. Get over yourselves, for all the channels on offer there is usually nothing but rubbish and ads on...................................................

    Only just saw both of these for the first time tonight / this morning (working weird hours so not sure which it is). Couldn't agree more, especially about the nappy ad. Emotional manipulation of the worst kind. Shameful stuff.


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    #1010
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,942 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Autosport wrote: »
    Bord Gáis energy ads with the son in law and father in law, yer man has no interest in sport but is going to get tickets to get in the father in laws good books.

    Get off my screen!!!!!!!
    Birneybau wrote: »
    That's actually the only Bord Gais energy ad I can stand.
    Because the girlfriend who doesnt say anything is stunning, Id just buy the tickets from a scalper to keep her auld lad happy.


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    #1011
    laylag
    Registered Users Posts: 840 ✭✭✭laylag


    The new Eir ad ends with "let's make possible"...... whaaat???!? What does that even mean!!!? Or have I imagined it?!


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    #1012
    optogirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭optogirl


    laylag wrote: »
    The new Eir ad ends with "let's make possible"...... whaaat???!? What does that even mean!!!? Or have I imagined it?!

    all of that nonsense really grinds my gears

    Backing Brave...etc, usually delivered by a voiceover artist who sounds like they're squeezing out a poo whilst saying it


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    #1013
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 18,372 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    I have to switch channel now when I see the, "did you get those tickets?" advert

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #1014
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,346 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    That Lotto ad of the lad who buys an island for Ireland that seems to be on constant loop, albeit with different iterations now and again.

    Imagine winning 17m in the lotto and deciding to spend your money on that? I go on holiday to get AWAY from Ireland and our "hilarious idiosyncrasies". A paradise resort for the Irish would literally be living hell.

    And the worst investment since Springfield stumped up for the Monorail that time


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    #1015
    alchemist33
    Registered Users Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Autosport wrote: »
    Bord Gáis energy ads with the son in law and father in law, yer man has no interest in sport but is going to get tickets to get in the father in laws good books.

    Get off my screen!!!!!!!

    I love that one. The look on the mother's face as dad sticks the knife in is priceless.


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    #1016
    [Deleted User]
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    I have to say I think we are going through a really bad patch ad wise. There are so many irritating ads on at the moment.

    I long for the days when Eir's ad was that Irish song. Their current ad is rage inducing.

    "I wish it could be summer all the time" is another one which really annoys me. You know that bit at the start of Love Actually, where yer man keeps missinging the words of "Christmas is all around you" because as he puts it, "Its just because I know the original so well". I walked into Aldi the other day and caught myself singing "I wish it could be Christmas everyday" to myself. In feckin july.

    Every morning when I open my twitter feed, the third tweet down is a promoted ad from AIB telling me today is the day Marie paid off her mortgage. I then look in my piggybank and think, great, only another 19,999 euros to go before I can get the deposit for my mortgage. When that day finally comes along, I won't be going to visit AIB.

    The subway ad annoys me as well. Get up, shower, tame frizzy hair, fake laugh, SALAD! Shock horror shes having a salad for her lunch. Its a slight improvement on their previous ad, with the gombeen who is trying to get the guts together to order something different.


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    #1017
    Go Harvey Go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    castletownman wrote: »
    That Lotto ad of the lad who buys an island for Ireland that seems to be on constant loop, albeit with different iterations now and again.

    Imagine winning 17m in the lotto and deciding to spend your money on that? I go on holiday to get AWAY from Ireland and our "hilarious idiosyncrasies". A paradise resort for the Irish would literally be living hell.

    And the worst investment since Springfield stumped up for the Monorail that time

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcU95OeY48I


    :o:D:);)

    Here's another rotten Andrex ad. Seriously, the puppy is supposed to be the star of the show, not these brats... :rolleyes:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXOBN1egbSo


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    #1018
    Auld Jim Halpin
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭Auld Jim Halpin


    That ad with the security guard turning off the lights, feckin' infuriating.


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    #1019
    fricatus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    Does anyone else find the guy's voice on the Three ads very annoying? He has this sort of high-toned, slightly sing-song delivery that's hard to describe but which sounds totally put on. And he pronounces numbers with that put-on vaguely American pronunciation, e.g "thirdy euros".

    I haven't laid eyes on him, but I just know he has an annoying hiptster beard! :pac:


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    #1020
    SNNUS
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭SNNUS


    Does anyone know how Trivago works?.... 😡


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    #1021
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Go Harvey Go wrote: »
    ...
    Here's another rotten Andrex ad. Seriously, the puppy is supposed to be the star of the show, not these brats... :rolleyes:
    ..

    Whenever I see that add I think to myself "As daft as wiping you bum with a puppy" - maybe thats why the puppy isn't the star?


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