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Even more adverts you despise

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 542 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 542 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    The bizarre Hyundai ad where a man pops out of a portal with a huge beard and long hair, dressed like he came straight from a 00s rave. He is looking at a car when a man comes charging out of the house at him screaming his head off, ready to brain him with a golf club. What is the story with it? I feel like this is a sequel to an earlier ad I haven't seen, otherwise it makes absolutely no sense! Who are these people and how do they know each other?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 836 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    A portal with “ a huge beard and long hair “ you say. Strange portal that 😁. Apologies posted but I am jesting. Reminds me of the gag about the lady who opened the door in her nightdress. “ Strange place to have a door “ Happy Christmas.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭thereiver


    If ads come on i press mute or change the channel .I watch ads for a few seconds at most.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,496 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    Same as that. I have gotten allergic to adverts. I think it was internet adverts and YouTube etc. that pushed me over the edge. I now use various adfree browsers and like yourself will mute the TV or change channels if adverts come on.

    Happy Christmas



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭deezell


    The Hidden hearing ad offering 'two thousand euro off! . Off what, a hearing aid? So how much is it? €5000? €50,000? What ever it is, it's a meaningless amount if any % of the price is €2000, for a fkng heating aid. Go away, and stop putting those leaflets through my door.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    That "Shake Your Booty" advert.

    It's so cringeworthy it's almost embarrassing.

    Post edited by An Riabhach on

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭thereiver


    At least ads on YouTube offer you a skip option after about 5 seconds .the ads I hate are the ones for gambling apps on mobile phones . I read the latest iphone earbuds have a hearing aid function .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭glenfieldman


    All the government ads in Irish . DV, anti smoking

    Anybody who wants to speak Irish also knows how to understand English

    There is no need for an Irish language ad



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭deezell


    Wyb I was thinking that after I heard the Hidden hearing nonsense ad yet again. I thought, surely these super smart new buds could have a little mic built in, to take voice commands, and act as a selective hearing device. As well as boosting hearing, It could be trained to mute certain ads, and a certain nagging tone of voice from SHMBO. Instructions such as ' sweep the driveway', 'Bring out the bins' etc. would go completely unheard. Alternative sound could be substituted, like 'get a can from the fridge' or 'go to the pub'. I'm buying a pair.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,636 ✭✭✭Acosta


    I pay for an ad blocker for my phone and computer. Well worth it, as I also can't stand the cookie notifications, along with the ads.

    The Irish Independent ad with that god awful music was wrecking my head yesterday. On Premier Sports during every ad break with the other same 3 or 4 ads.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,637 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Think yer man was abducted by a UFO, a woman who presume is his ex then comes out of the house and says its been thirty years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,344 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    What's more bizarre is that Hyundai are spending all that money ensuring their name is pronounced properly?!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,551 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    And to confuse things they are obviously using two different advertising agencies for the UK and ROI.

    The UK ads are telling people how to pronounce it correctly while the Irish ads continue to pronounce it phonetically.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,473 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Creepy electricity granny gets creepier every time I see it.

    So little kids huge bedroom window just happens to face into the street and her living room window. Okay, possibly. Grow a hedge maybe, or close your blinds.

    But is she really sitting there staring into his room all day so within five seconds of him appearing into the room, she starts flashing lights at him? Her chair is facing the window (and his room) , and not the telly or fireplace like most people. Very odd ad.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Bit of a thowback seeing the Power City ads, all they need to do is bring back the shouty lad in the red jumper.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭deezell


    I like Power city. Got some great deals there over their lifetime, and mine. Never a quibble with warranty, i even got a retrospective free power tool on a deal that was introduced a week after I'd purchased a qualifying item, just because I moaned to the sales guy.

    Iirc, they came about as an inspired idea by one of the McKenna electrical family, who had a hugely successful chain of high st stores in the 80s, and it wiped out that original business.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭DebDynamite


    The AIB one with the college friends dancing in a club to Two Door Cinema Club. Fast forward a few years and they’re now settled in their 30s with kids and they’re dancing in their home to the same song… They’re the same smug, annoying twats who bring their kids to festivals or day raves. They’re soo urban and cool.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    Now that Christmas is over I thought we'd be seeing less of that miserable Amazon Prime advert and hearing less of that Janitor's pathetic whining.

    But no....I was wrong.

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,792 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    I hate that Ad with a passion. Any aul one I know wouldn't turn on a light until they started bumping into things, terrified they'd exceed the free money they get.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭thereiver


    Government ads should be understood by everyone 90 per cent of people cannot understand spoken Irish unless it's a few basic sentences.and we have 1000s of immigrants who never went to school here



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭WishUWereHere


    Apologies if this has been mentioned before:

    That blonde woman ( don’t know her name, nor am I interested to find out ) doing the fairy ads. Her voice is so off-putting it’s ‘grab the remote time’ every time that ad appears.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,040 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    You never see them doing an ad like them for bowel incontinence. That whoosh effect when you stand up with all the sound effects to go with it. How they block smells. The nappy poonami is tame. 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    that’s mad that such an accent is there, I have literally never heard it so the area around aviva people sound like they are from the country? Yea everywhere from south of duleek in Meath to airport in dublin has a similar accent, skryne, stsmullan Ashbourne garristown, naul rush . Daragh McCullough off rte or Keogh crisp brothers accent



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭deezell


    A new Skoda ad which equates the cars headlights with the passage tomb at Newgrange? Wtf?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,780 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    I see Trivago have enlisted Klopp for the best hotel deals



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,057 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    There is an ad on the radio encouraging people to stop buying new clothes and instead swap clothes with their friends. Theres an Irish language version and en English version. It honestly feels like it was written by Transition Year students.

    Girl 1 in a public or pub toilet: Wow, you look really amazing in that outfit!

    Girl 2: Oh thank you so much! I swapped it with my friend!

    Girl 1: Well you look really amazing in it. I love swapping clothes with my friends.

    Girl 2: Yeah I just started swapping clothes with my housemate.

    Girl 1: Well you look really gorgeous.

    It is really super cringe and creepy. If it was a guy saying it to a girl, you'd expect it to come with the number for the rape crisis hotline or something.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,883 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    So you are upset immigrants can't understand an advert in our native language, an advert they probably don't even see as they likely just watch Netflix.

    Cry me a river.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    The rockshore ad with that cùnt Ronan Keating....

    That ginger twat with him is also a fùcking prìck aswell....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭mrslancaster


    IMO we should have more ads in Irish but that’s just me. There are numerous ads in English.

    Post edited by mrslancaster on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 989 ✭✭✭lumphammer2


    They are among the only ads that make me laugh …. especially the wallet from 2005 one!! ….. I know they are silly and stupid but they make me laugh …..

    Seriously for Ronan …. things must not be working out too well with his regular music career …. should have stuck with Boyzone or replaced yer man in Westlife maybe ?? …



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,057 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    I do actually like those ones to be honest.

    I did have a wallet like that around 2001.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,849 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Don't need an ad like that aimed towards men anyway because they can go out with clothes they've worn before and don't need a new rigout for every social occasion (that will inevitably be returned after one wear).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 836 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    Three items in that add with very close connections . Two prycks and a pint of physs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 542 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    The Amazon singing cleaner ad is about to become the second most despised ad I think. The new Flaghavans 'wouldn't it be lovely' ad will be number one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,551 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Programme about adverts over the years on TG4 at 9 tonight. Could be interesting.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭deezell


    Well spotted. I've watched worse. I laughed when none of the panel could get the meaning of the 'Who's taking the horse to France?' question in the old 1994 Kerrygold ad. It was obvious the French tart wanted to ride the poor innocent (widowed?) paddy (and vice versa), but our younger pundits didn't realise that it wasn't going to happen under his mother in laws gaze. Consensual relations in them day's required your mother's/mil's permission, which of course didn't happen in holy Ireland 30 years ago. Plenty of time on the Rosslare ferry though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,551 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Even the older ones didn't recognise Yvette from 'Allo 'Allo either 🤣.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,057 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭deezell


    Emmerdale also, and recently Eastenders as 'Jo Cotton' according to Wiki. Still a fine bird at 74 yo. Alan Hughes in the ESB ad said it took a week to shoot ads compared to a day these days, but who'd begrudge them the nice little earner back then.

    Least believable part was Enda Oates as a farmer in '94, even a middle class horsey one, who knew what hollandaise sauce was, or how to make it. 'You cook like a French man' she gushes. More like an alien in them days, but, I suppose we were getting more sophisticated back then, in those 'Beef or Salmon' times.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,883 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Skoda radio advert, a guy talking about Irish place names translated from Irish to English, he is saying that some of them don't translate too well, Gowl for example. The thing I hate about the advert is the guy is talking in a posh English accent, can they not get an Irish person to use in an advert slagging Irish place names? lets employee and English guy to mock our towns and villages.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    I hate that accent, but I hate it because I believe it to be an affectation.

    It sounds to me like some Irish guy who has perfected the "ascendancy" accent.

    If you watch any episodes of Nationwide where they visit any of the remaining big houses of Ireland, you'll often hear this accent. At least for these people there's the family history, coupled with periods in England to explain their accent. Whereas Skodaman , I believe, is a pure fake.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Peter Dragon


    That ad is absolutely appalling on a number of levels. The creativity of it is about as poor as I’ve seen, it looks like it was shot on a crappy mobile phone, the acting is atrociously bad…..it really goes to show they’re a tech and not a marketing/creative company. It’s everywhere though on tv and YouTube. I instantly hit mute when it comes on.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Peter Dragon


    No, that’s a real person and his real voice/accent. I can’t think of his name at the moment, but it’s on the tip of my tongue…..he’s often confused with Donald Helme who used to host Jazz Alley on Lyric FM, but it’s an actor.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Peter Dragon


    I would have liked to have seen that. I wonder if it’s being repeated? Does anyone know if the RTE Player shows TG4 stuff?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,551 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Peter Dragon


    genuinely didn’t know there was a TG4 player - thanks for the heads up!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,551 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    There can be some great stuff on that. It's not the easiest to navigate though so it takes patience to find things.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭deezell


    Xmas is over, everyone's bloated and moribund, let's get healthy! Roll out a new ad for a heath drink, a nauseating green gloop, made from a scoop of green powder which looks like dried grass power, or the green powder stuff we used to mix for dosing cattle against worms back in the 70s. Ugh!! It's called AG1, (Argicultural Grass?). I swear one of the actors in the ad winces as he picks up the trendy dosing bottle and necks it. BLAAAHHHHH! 🤢



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,637 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad




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