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    #1862
    madmaggie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    What is this "boom" word I keep hearing in ads? Is it something ye smart people up in Dublin say, because I've never heard it down here amongst the culchies. That chap in the AXA, I really want to slap him.


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    #1863
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,328 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    madmaggie wrote: »
    What is this "boom" word I keep hearing in ads? Is it something ye smart people up in Dublin say, because I've never heard it down here amongst the culchies. That chap in the AXA, I really want to slap him.

    Really? I hear it all the time in places like Kerry and Limerick. Fairly common.


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    #1864
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    madmaggie wrote: »
    What is this "boom" word I keep hearing in ads? Is it something ye smart people up in Dublin say, because I've never heard it down here amongst the culchies. That chap in the AXA, I really want to slap him.

    He'll hardly get a quote for that Passat this year now that it's over 10. Small wonder the the driver of the 02 punto did a runner he probably couldn't get a quote at all.


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    #1865
    duridian
    Registered Users Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭duridian


    madmaggie wrote: »
    What is this "boom" word I keep hearing in ads? Is it something ye smort people up in Dublin say, because I've never heard it down here amongst the culchies. That chap in the AXA, I really want to slap him.

    Fixed it for you so that target demographic will understand your question better. :razz:


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    #1866
    madmaggie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Really? I hear it all the time in places like Kerry and Limerick. Fairly common.

    That accounts for it. Poor old Carlow, we're always the last.


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    #1867
    duridian
    Registered Users Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭duridian


    Personally, I much prefer the use of "bang".


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    #1868
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,479 ✭✭✭valoren


    Doctor Nick wrote: »
    Literally as I read this that ad comes on the telly. Mute button. Vodafone really do the worse ads. I cannot remember then ever having a good one and each new ad seems worse than the last.

    I still intermittently shudder thinking about their Christmas ad a few years ago with a 'Terence & Phillip' like Joe Duffy saying "Oive a Man from Clontarf...."

    Unforgiveable.


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    #1869
    Valentina
    Registered Users Posts: 4,281 ✭✭✭Valentina


    The ad for Electric Ireland grinds my gears for so many reasons...

    - The gormless way the woman says, "I'll get the heating on"
    - The looks the mother & father give each other
    - The way the dad pats the kid's shoulders after wrapping him up in the coat again, like he was sending him off to war
    - The smart alec kid saying he can't feel his insides

    Jesus!


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    #1870
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    duridian wrote: »
    I've just seen the ad for Ireland's Got "Talent", with Lucy Kennedy in a convertible, loud screaming noise :confused: and the rest of the nonsense.
    What the......
    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

    Saw it late last night. Awful. It's an homage :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: to Baby Driver's opening scene btw.


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    #1871
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    An ad for Spar last night with Claudine Keane in it doing.....basically nothing. Yes Claudine, we believe you shop in Spar. It starts off like a l'Oreal ad or a fashion shoot then morphs into her at home with the kids. They don't even use her doing a tag line at the end of some sort of sign-off, she just walks out of the shop with 2 kids (I assume are her own) and that's it.

    Poor thing must need the money. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


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    #1872
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents




    Boom

    :o


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    #1873
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,135 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Valentina wrote: »
    The ad for Electric Ireland grinds my gears for so many reasons...

    - The gormless way the woman says, "I'll get the heating on"
    - The looks the mother & father give each other
    - The way the dad pats the kid's shoulders after wrapping him up in the coat again, like he was sending him off to war
    - The smart alec kid saying he can't feel his insides

    Jesus!

    Its not like we live in Siberia or northern Alaska in - 50 degrees . No house in Ireland that hasn't been heated for a few hours is that bloody cold anyway


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    #1874
    duridian
    Registered Users Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭duridian


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Saw it late last night. Awful. It's an homage :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: to Baby Driver's opening scene btw.

    Aha! Cheers for that. Found it on Youtube. :)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ARFyrM6gVs


    I see Jon "The Punisher/Shane Walsh" Bernthal is in it. Based on that and the robbery & chase in the Subaru, I might even be tempted to watch the entire movie if it was on poxy half baked Irish Netflix. :(

    Still think the IGT ad is dreadful though, and the choice of judges/presenters looks abysmal. Chucking that lot into a show together and expecting success is like throwing half a pound of mince and some grass into a blender in the hope of getting some milk. What are TV3 thinking?


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    #1875
    alchemist33
    Registered Users Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Valentina wrote: »
    The ad for Electric Ireland grinds my gears for so many reasons...

    - The gormless way the woman says, "I'll get the heating on"
    - The looks the mother & father give each other
    - The way the dad pats the kid's shoulders after wrapping him up in the coat again, like he was sending him off to war
    - The smart alec kid saying he can't feel his insides

    Jesus!

    I love that ad!


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    #1876
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,328 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Saw it late last night. Awful. It's an homage :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: to Baby Driver's opening scene btw.
    duridian wrote: »
    Aha! Cheers for that. Found it on Youtube. :)

    I see Jon "The Punisher/Shane Walsh" Bernthal is in it. Based on that and the robbery & chase in the Subaru, I might even be tempted to watch the entire movie if it was on poxy half baked Irish Netflix. :(

    Still think the IGT ad is dreadful though, and the choice of judges/presenters looks abysmal. Chucking that lot into a show together and expecting success is like throwing half a pound of mince and some grass into a blender in the hope of getting some milk. What are TV3 thinking?

    Baby Driver also starred notorious groper Kevin Spacey...which I would have thought TV3 wouldn't want to reference in light of the Al Porter scandal.


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    #1877
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 18,367 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    prepay power is on my radar now, another idiot dad who cant use a remote control and looks like a confused ape

    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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    #1878
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,054 ✭✭✭✭neris


    watching bloomberg this morning had to have a good laugh at an ad for Zimbabwe trying to advertise the country as a place for businesses to invest in


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    #1879
    plodder
    Registered Users Posts: 7,232 ✭✭✭plodder


    Valentina wrote: »
    The ad for Electric Ireland grinds my gears for so many reasons...

    - The gormless way the woman says, "I'll get the heating on"
    - The looks the mother & father give each other
    - The way the dad pats the kid's shoulders after wrapping him up in the coat again, like he was sending him off to war
    - The smart alec kid saying he can't feel his insides

    Jesus!
    I'd say the ad agency don't care too much that people don't like the ad (only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about etc...) .

    But, it probably grinds their gears that you got the company it was for, wrong ;)


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    #1880
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Those ads during emmerdale with a bunch of dum dum scriptwriters brainstorming. They go for ironic humour, ends up just annoying as fcuk. The wise old guru cleaning lady grinds my gears too.

    Lay off the slow motion ad writers. I counted 7 ads in a row last night all using slow mo. Govt should start taxing them for using it.


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    #1881
    optogirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭optogirl


    The Kerrygold ad with the man reminiscing about NOT helping his mother as her ghost rips the pi**. Then his angelic child comes in to gaze adoringly at him ensuring another generation of Kerrygold memories are made. Jebus grant me patience.


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    #1882
    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    http://nordic.businessinsider.com/apple-whats-a-computer-ad-sparks-anger-2018-1


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    #1883
    EICVD
    Registered Users Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭EICVD


    That new Vodafone ad, jaysus Christ it does my head in!


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    #1884
    EICVD
    Registered Users Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭EICVD


    madmaggie wrote: »
    That accounts for it. Poor old Carlow, we're always the last.

    Carlow? Where’s that?


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    #1885
    PeterParker957
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭PeterParker957


    A few are making me homicidal at present:

    1. The f**king Head and Shoulders one where the wagons are squealing with delight having WASHED THEIR HAIR!!!

    2. The one for the adult nappy like things "I've found something that not only stops me pissing myself ... but is pretty!!!!

    Add to that the ads for thrush treatment that appear at tea time and I may not be responsible for my actions!!!


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    #1886
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    PeterParker957 wrote: »
    A few are making me homicidal at present:

    1. The f**king Head and Shoulders one where the wagons are squealing with delight having WASHED THEIR HAIR!!!

    2. The one for the adult nappy like things "I've found something that not only stops me pissing myself ... but is pretty!!!!

    Add to that the ads for thrush treatment that appear at tea time and I may not be responsible for my actions!!!

    Just make sure you've washed you hair and are wearing a clean pretty nappy first :)


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    #1887
    PeterParker957
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭PeterParker957


    my3cents wrote: »
    Just make sure you've washed you hair and are wearing a clean pretty nappy first :)

    You can add one more - that fupping Olay advert with "Jane".

    "Is it DNA or Olay that keeps her young ?"

    Neither. It's botox.


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    #1888
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    Just witnessed the new TV3 ad for Ireland's got talent.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q01lfQcSMoA


    Would it be classified as plagiarism?

    It's basically just Edgar Wright's video for Mint Royale (below)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHbndkcLM6A


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    #1889
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    me_irl wrote: »
    Just witnessed the new TV3 ad for Ireland's got talent.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q01lfQcSMoA


    Would it be classified as plagiarism?

    It's basically just Edgar Wright's video for Mint Royale (below)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHbndkcLM6A


    Read back a few pages/posts.....Wright also directed Baby Driver.....


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    #1890
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,771 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Valentina wrote: »
    The ad for Electric Ireland grinds my gears for so many reasons...

    - The gormless way the woman says, "I'll get the heating on"
    - The looks the mother & father give each other
    - The way the dad pats the kid's shoulders after wrapping him up in the coat again, like he was sending him off to war
    - The smart alec kid saying he can't feel his insides

    Jesus!

    I'd be asking them to leave if they behaved like that in my home.


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    #1891
    Valentina
    Registered Users Posts: 4,281 ✭✭✭Valentina


    plodder wrote: »
    I'd say the ad agency don't care too much that people don't like the ad (only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about etc...) .

    But, it probably grinds their gears that you got the company it was for, wrong ;)

    I guess it shows how ineffective the ad is that all I can remember is the obnoxious characters, rather than the brand itself ;)


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