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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭deezell


    That fkng Tesco ad with the idiot woman whose face turns into a plastic smiling mask (why?) after she checks out, to the tune of 'I've got the power'. Typical UK 'thass hilarious mate, innit?'. No. Its not.

    Just as you think its finally gone, it's morphed, and back, this time with a little fat guy who stands at the checkout, miming the chorus lines of said song, (which we hear, but its uncertain if the characters in the ad can). He does this several times, then waits embarrassedly at the 'huh?' reaction of the dumb faced checkout girl, before finally fkng off out the door. What does the ad even mean?



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,337 ✭✭✭Acosta


    Jeff? I have enough of that Three ad and yer mans gormless looking head.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    No annoying song, or almost as bad, murdering a much loved song. Simple, and gets its message across.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    Rockshore every single person on that ad. You can tell they've never laugh a day in their lives. the song. the singer. and at the very end the boat horn and the sea wind.


    Fup off, 2005... 1985 more like!


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Another ad that took a terrific song and ruined it by showing it over and over.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭deezell


    Is that what that buzzing noise is meant to be when 'Rocko' raises his glass? It sounds like someone pulled a microphone cable half out, classic PA system mains buzz. Boat horn my a..



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,314 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    The badly dubbed Viagra ad is back 🤥



  • Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭giseva


    Those "Cribs" type IKEA ads are killing me.....every second ad.....its like my TV knows I hate them!



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    I have got into the habit now of changing channels or hitting mute when an ad break comes on. (both TV and Radio) just can't be dealing with the louder volume in the ad segments. Think it's a nasty little trick that they pull. (it's to do with Sound compression or some such, that make the adverts seem much louder than the regular programmes)



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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    So sick of that little bastard in the Eir ad.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    Rose of Tralee ad, never seen something so badly produced even for RTÉ standards.


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,004 ✭✭✭squonk


    Yes! Looks like it was done by an amateur local video production outfit. Back in the 80s I remember an ad for Mosney with a man superimposed on video of their water slide coming down it. It looked naff even at the time but I kind of liked it. This ad reminds me of that.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭deezell


    Why did they need a co presenter? PC gone mad. It's a 'Lovely Girls' competition. We know it's quaint and cringey. Now it will be the Dotty and Catty show. And the frock?




  • Registered Users Posts: 9,004 ✭✭✭squonk


    Yes. Thought that too. I think you’ve two choices at this stage. 1. Call time on the Loveky Girls and consign it to history (my preferred option) or 2. Lean into its old hat cringeyness and hype it up. I just don’t get what Kathryn Thomas will add. It might have been bolder to let Thomas host, or get Mrs Daithi to host. Didn’t she win one year or was she just a contestant?



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius


    It's the opposite. They put the programs you watch at a dumbed-down volume so that you have turn it up. Then for the ads, they just play them at the normal volume, which you now have set too high! They do it on the radio as well.

    It's very clear though that it's the music that is annoying. Only those of a certain intelligence like listening to the same music over and over. In fairness, it's this cohort the ads target as they are more suggestible. So in a sense, the more annoying the ad the better.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    They are trying to move with the times I suppose. A few of the Roses will be gay soo, they're could be some flirting with Kathryn 😍

    In reality though it's a show from a different era. Some of the contestants are wise enough to use it for promotion/publicity eg. Maria Walsh became an MEP. She didn't even tell them she was gay until after she won ✌️



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭deezell


    "... .A few of the Roses will be gay soo, they're could be some flirting with Kathryn"

    So the frock is for their benefit? Haha. I guess for full PC compliance, selection of Roses should extend to men, and the alphabet of alternatives. Daithi would have to dress like the village people, or a tux with kilt might send the right message, (what does a Kerryman wear under his kilt?).



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    The weather on Sky News is spnsored by Qatar Airlines. The song yer wan sings, I think its meant to sound like "To fly, to fly, to fly". But the way she sings it, it sounds like "To flay, to flay, to flay".

    I dont know why bu it irritates me everytime it comes on.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭deezell


    Is Quatar one of these sh****les places where they flog or 'flay' people for crimes and misdemeanours? Just asking.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,757 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Those Temu "shop like a billionaire" ads.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Claire booked her hotel via her usual booking site and got it for 160. Jess booked via Trivago and paid a lot less (130).

    I'm not sure I would call a 30 euro difference on a hotel room of 160, "a lot less".



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭deezell


    Jess got the room with only a skylight halfway up the wall for a window, a 4' bed pretending to be a double, a badly sealed party door to the room beside it (with the hen/stag party in it,) and a disabled use bathroom with a sit down invalide shower, a handbasin you have to kneel down to use, and a jax you need steps to reach over the bowel edge. All the above (and more) happened me over my life when getting rooms cheap on sites, and some hotels would sneer when you said it was unsuitable, and refuse you a proper room. Buyer beware.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Im not unfamiliar with the cheap hotel room off the dodgy site myself.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    'Lovely Peoples' competition... it has moved on.... so ..... should.... you! 😂


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭I says


    The M and M add with the marcel morceau impersonator



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,252 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Money supermarket, lets save britain money.

    Well you certainly arent saving yourselves money when your agents are out randomly leaving expensive tablet computers all over the place in order to show somebody a web address. Ever heard of flyers?

    Not sure id be trusting you to save me money at all at all.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭deezell


    The one with the complete fkwit with plant tattoos all over his face is way worse. He gets invited by the resident gardener(?) in the scene to do some, er, WEEDing?. I've no idea what's going in this alien world with various cartoon sweets looking on. Ad writers were definitely high writing this one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,004 ✭✭✭squonk


    That Vodafone one with the rugby manager as a kid showing up at his school team room before a match and talking shîte at them. Then it flicks to present day with him spouting absolutely dire cringey shîte about family or some such bs to the Irish rugger buggers. Nauseating stuff. Who writes this crap.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭JeffreyEpspeen


    The Rockshore ad with the "wallet from 2005" satirising a song from the mid-90's with no sense of irony.

    The Woodies ad with Larry.

    The new Tesco ad with the cloying child and the father with the face of someone whose resting face is that of someone who has just sharted.

    The Aviva ad with the impatient father constantly correcting his daughter with a disturbing hint of irritation that worries me about how he parents her behind closed doors.

    The Eir "gigglybit" broadband ad with the annoying girl and the lad who looks like Richie Towell. Still have no idea what she's saying at the end despite being subjected to the ad thousands of times. "Mrs. Murphy's on the internet, is she seen?" The mother with the big Irish arse on her at the end is safely the only redeeming part of it.



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