Even more adverts you despise

What think ye of the ad with the pair sitting each side of an infant in an incubator, muttering, in a darkened featureless room like a morgue. It's brutally scripted, directed and acted. Yer wan seems happy though, as I think she finally found somewhere to live, from that other ad she's in.

Webuyanycar.com. Just saw an absolute atrocity from them with this grossly obese chav woman doing some sort of twerking thing.

Yo bruv dem car ads be super annoying innit?

If its as bad as you say, then no way am I clicking on it. I'm not a masochist.

I have never ever seen an event being shilled so much by anyone let alone RTE. There is at least one 30 second promo during every single ad break on all their stations, sometimes twice. That's lost revenue, and this has been going on for over a month and is ongoing. It's been rammed down our throats. That's woke RTE for you, no wonder they're broke.

Over 1 million people tuned in for Limerick v Kilkenny in the hurling on Sunday. I do wonder about the Nielsen system though. It's a calculation based on a small sample size they use. 360,000 people used the RTE app for the women's football, while only 113,000 watched the hurling on the app. The difference there is likely down to people being at work when the football was on and not near a TV.

RTE said the attendance was 75,000 for Australia v Ireland. But it's like comparing apples and oranges, when looking at the price of the tickets for the mens and womens world cup.

A ticket for the men's World Cup final category 1 cost roughly €1,440. A ticket for the women's world cup final category 1 costs roughly €74, a child's ticket is half price. So you can imagine how much all the other stages below that cost by comparison. A category 1 women's group game costs €25, a child's ticket costs half that. A men's group game cost roughly €200, there's no child option.

The tickets for the women's final are 20 times cheaper than the men's. 40 times if you include the children and from the pictures I seen on the news, there's at least as many children there as there are adults attending. Category 1 by the way is the most expensive option. Category 3 women's group game tickets are €18 for an adult and €9 for children. The cheapest Category 3 group game ticket for the men's World Cup was €62.

75,000 for the opener. But today's game had a capacity of 20,000. I'm not watching the tournament but I'd wager there are even lower attendances in other matches. I don't hear anyone talking about the tournament besides the media, and the little pockets where RTE go to try and portray interest countrywide, like Dalymount Park. I don't see any flags or bunting up. I seen a solitary tricolour on one house, that's it. I went in to a few pubs today during the Ireland game, they were empty. I seen one young girl wearing an Irish jersey in a pub, that was all. It was horrible weather earlier, I don't know if that might have influenced some people. But the men's team have played at tournaments earlier than 1pm, on a weekday and the pubs were jammed. The Irish women's team are out now. I would say interest will fall off, but fall off from what?

Edit: HBF Park where the match was played today has a capacity of 20,500, I checked the attendance, it was 17,065. And this is in Australia where there is interest in the tournament. New Zealand had to give away tickets as there is less interest there, so I'm sure they won't have sellouts either.

And I checked the official attendance for Australia v Ireland, it was 75,784. Stadium Australia has a capacity of 83,500.

Yea, I gave it the treatment on the 23rd June. Have a read back. I'm now being punished as the fkng thing keeps popping up in my youtube favorites. I'd love a button on the remote that displayed a virtual boot going through the screen, replacing these ads with an image of broken glass, smoke and dangling bootlaces for the ad duration. Might make a nice android TV app.

The Aldi ad, swap smug faced 'Shove-on' and her ridiculed husband with the paddle board. Have a MAN sneering at his dopey wife's personal purchases. Sit back and watch the Woke feminists wading in.

"epilepsy inducing flashing montage of people in GAA jerseys with some sort of humming going on in the background"

That sounds exactly like Coppers, or maybe a nightclub on the Playa del Ingles in the nineties.

Speaking of slurping and other liquidy sounds, these were advertised to rehydrate and replace electrolyte (after a nasty dose of the runs). Note they're called ORS. As in the D4 pronunciation of Arse. Appropriate. "If you've a runny Ors, run out and get some ORS!"

The sugar loaded bright pink drink ad with da yoofs in da car "bopping" along to No Scrubs (1999, I'll save ye the time it's not worth looking up) on da stereo. What the actual, it's like an ad exec found the video tape down the back of the couch and thought shur why the hell nawt, Nigel, throw it on the telly for a stint.

Billboard ad for extra-length lighters with who I presume is a famous American home-maker housewife type and her candles and famous American Snoop Dogg and his not shown drugs. Ad companies are just getting lazier when it comes to localising by country (also see my "Out July Twenty Nine"-style movie ad gripe).

So then, a new moronic lotto ad campaign has kicked off. I wonder how many followups we'll have to endure 😞

I'd say its getting pretty difficult to come up with "good" adverts for Alcohol. Soon they will be purposefully vague with loads of warnings (like what happened to Tobacco advertising in the 80's/90's, where the product isn't even mentioned directly or the financial regulator blurb at the end of financial ads) .

Eg. Alcohol causes false euphoria followed by confusion, impaired dexterity skills, sudden mood swings and possible amnesia. Prolonged use of alcohol will require a Liver transplant

It’s drunken slagging which is common. The reality would often be a lot worse.