Even more adverts you despise

Ah, he's only a little boy. Some plank from "morketing" probably told him the answer is "strawberry tree".

The Honda radio ad with that “Lucky, lucky, lucky me I’m a lucky son of a gun” song with all the whistling holy fûck it’d go right through your skull

LOL they totally failed in their advertising. Hyundai not Honda ;-0. Even worse it you live in France you get the same lyrics that are in English

In fact they use the same song and lyrics the world over there is even a version in Tamil.

All Red Bull ads annoy me, and the product itself is unhealthy, but the one with the fox and rabbit, where she simpers, "No foxing tonight" is such a feeble attempt at salacious wordplay, it makes me cringe, for Fox ache! They should replace their punchline with, 'Red Bull Gives You… Diabetes!'

The Lidl ad on about ending discrimination in women's GAA. It's not discrimination, it's indifference by the vast majority of the population.

You couldn't buy a ticket for the Clare v Cork men's hurling final yesterday in Croke Park for love nor money. They were like gold dust, and priced at €100(stand) and €55(terrace), it didn't matter if you were man, woman, child, OAP or student. And it was the only game on. It will be the same story for the men's football final.

Contrast that with the upcoming women's finals. There's 3 finals in Croke Park on the same day, Junior, Intermediate and Senior. Tickets are €30 for adults and €15 for juveniles, students and OAPs. And it still won't sell out.

If anyone is being discriminated against, it's the supporters of the men's hurling and football.

Aldi - That woman's voice is like nails on a chalkboard.

It's Franco. But it is stupid.

They've always had a chip on their shoulder, what with the "foreign" games ban, the anthem playing, the exclusive use of Irish on programmes, jerseys, scoreboards. It felt really discriminatory to me and my pals as kids in the 60s, the local Gaa club was years closed due to emigration, the pitch locked up and overgrown. We'd kick a game of soccer or even a kind of touch rugby with a handball in the local town park, which had two large pitches with some broken posts. It was publicly owned, and the grass mowed by locals. but the 'trustee', an old bollix who claimed to have been in the GPO in 1916, would chase us off screaming it was only for Gaelic games. I detested the GAA from that day on, and by the 70s our town had two seperate soccer clubs, but the Gaa ground was still derelict.

An older former work colleague of mine who was a tricky midfielder in Shels schoolboys in the 50s tells how the Brothers enticed him to play a Gaa game for the school team, such was his prowess, a blind eye turned to the ban. On his first fixture, playing as well with ball in hand or not, he made a run into the opposition box, rose majestically to receive a cross, and drove the ball into the net.... with his head. There was nearly a riot by the old brigade and opposition, he'd been rumbled, and I think a header is not allowed? I honestly don't know.

No no no. It's the patriarchy. And the glass ceiling. Not indifference to a rather low quality product on par with an U14 boys match.

Ahh now. I think that's a good advert.

Great tune.

Boney M - Daddy Cool

Featuring a man in a supermarket advert who isn't being depicted as an utter moron - quelle surprise!!!!

Its sort of witty too. Tipping the concierge at the country club with an egg 🥚 is pretty funny.

And there's even an Oirish angle where he goes to Dublin Zoo

Only downside is that its played very often... soo maybe in another month it'll be an advert that I despise.

Great tune. And as you said, for a change, the males are depicted as fuppin eejits, so to be honest, I like that ad.

Yer wan whinging because she was knocked off her bike 'on a training run in Spain'. I see, not after a jug of Sangria on a hen party. They played an extended version of this ad the other night, it was practically a documentary. The only message I take from it is .

1. Don't go solo bike racing in a drive-on-the-right country with hot and possibly hot headed drivers who currently are sick to their back teeth with tourists, never mind self declared and self absorbed 'athletes'
2. Don't expect us back home to give a flying fk about your privileged misadventure, or listen to your judgemental lecture.

That’s the one I’m talking about.
It’s a woeful add.

😂

If the mother is as old as she sounds what age are we guessing Kate’s granny is?

AH KATE!

Its about time they did away with the archaic "parade" of players before the game. These guys are superb athletes and the last thing they need it a doddle walk behind the band and dont get me started on the delay in recent games before "extra time". Last game I think it was 25 minutes or similar, the players need a full warm again at that rate….its just ridiculous.

The whole thing with the parade and brass band are like something you’d see in Peaky Blinders. It might as well be 1924 looking at the whole thing. Definitely it’s a bit disrespectful to the players nowadays who are as fit and well trained as professional players in other sports. I think it actually looks embarrassing. It’s all a bit ultra Irish and uktra traditional overall. Just in case any change would affect the “purity” of the whole thing or something.

embarrassing the the players. Embarrassed for us all now that the BBC are carrying the gages and it’s being shown in other parts of the world.

Like they parade the horses before a race, around the ring. It really is naff. All we need to bring back on Sunday is the Bishop of Galway throwing in his balls. Oh, wait...…

What is it specifically I need to know to understand the GAA? I’m Irish and you can’t get away from them here so I feel I have an understanding of them thanks. To be fair you don’t need to “understand the GAA” to see that a quaint little parade behind a marching band looks naff and I’d fairly say the lad in Bedford certainly never heard of the GAA let alone understands them so will certainly wonder why it all looks so old hat.

Good lord.

During COVID, the GAA announced that their senior players would be bringing groceries to elderly people in the area who couldn't or didn't want to go to the shop any more. My elderly father, 83, not driving anymore, 4 miles to nearest shop decided to avail of the service. You know how long they continued doing it? A week. Big grand announcement they'd be doing it, not even a whisper saying they weren't any more.

Yes, but the older brother is a proper jock-rugger-bugger type straight from the pages of Paul Howard. Great D4 male role model. The parents on the other hand ooze bohemian artshole creds, (they live in a lighthouse ffs, no wonder the boy is socially awkward). Actually, speaking of Jocks, the lighthouse is located in Scotland, 40 miles east of Edinburgh, right next to a Nuclear power station, so no wonder our dweeb is anxious.

It's always interesting to see how ad industry creatives paint social and domestic tableaus to try and get under your skin with "oh, I wish my circumstances were so novel" sentiment. I don't think signing up to a phone plan is going to reduce the shittiness of anyone's life, but, thats the ad trade for ye. It's fun, poking same at them here!