Adverts you despise

prospect · 31-08-2007 9:21am

Its not really an ad,

But those little graphical things RTE2 do with the green background, just before each program starts. They really really really annoy me.

humanji · 31-08-2007 10:15am

I hate the new "Act on Impulse" ads, where some guy sees a girl and then places an classified ad looking for her. That's not acting on impulse. If he was acting on impulse he would of pulled his finger out and gone up to the girl in the first place!

DarkJager · 31-08-2007 10:19am

toothie wrote:

The ad that drives me absolutely crazy has to be that air freshener one with the little boy in the toilet saying "It's all gone, it's all gone..." Makes me really mad, I hate it! :eek:

That advert is just so ****ed up. How does the kid know that an air freshener that is at least 6 feet away from him, is empty?? And why is he talking to himself inside the jacks??

fricatus · 31-08-2007 8:35pm

missingtime wrote:

The comfort or lenor ads with the characters looking like clothes or whatever. Really really annoy me - especially the regge one

Yeah, they're desperate. The puppets are called Darren and Lisa. How middle England.

The lamest thing about it is that if you save up like 50,000 tokens and 50p, you can send off for one of those dolls. Who in their right mind...? :rolleyes:

watna · 05-09-2007 12:59pm

Pigman II wrote:

Is that a real pub at the end of the ad?

The outside of it, where they all meet the weird screaming guy is a pub in Wellington, not sure about the inside. I presume it's in NZ somewhere though as the whole ad was filmed here. I read a news article about it, it's only shown in Ireland. That's why some of them have Irish accents. The guy on the horse though is a kiwi, as far as I remember.

cashback · 06-09-2007 9:59pm

watna wrote:

The outside of it, where they all meet the weird screaming guy is a pub in Wellington, not sure about the inside. I presume it's in NZ somewhere though as the whole ad was filmed here. I read a news article about it, it's only shown in Ireland. That's why some of them have Irish accents. The guy on the horse though is a kiwi, as far as I remember.

But I don't think there's any Irish accents in that ad. Are you thinking of the other bud ad where they're going to the bbq and dragging stuff behind them?
They just end up at a barbeque.

Anyway they're crap!

lbourkey · 07-09-2007 11:08am

For a laugh check out this - a group of lads on the nitelink doing the Financial Regulator ad - magic

[http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdJSrldXtc4

Tampon ads are pretty crap but in fairness 50% of the adult population have to use them so fair enough.

Worst ads: Glomobi - how about this annoying baby? Why? Why? Why?

Have to admit that Banana Phone ad does make me laugh every time though.

Ads on Paramount for Lee fookin Evans - he's on every night anyway - why advertise. And he's pi*s.

Diet coke - patronising wankrs

'You'd never clean your sink with a dirty sponge' - yes I would

Any Northern Irish ads in particular the fire safety ones where the dead child has managed to scrawl something horrific like 'You didn't turn the cooker off Mammy' in the charred remains of their cot before choking to death. Irresponsible and just plain crap ads

More will come to me I'm sure.

lbourkey · 07-09-2007 11:11am

Oh yeah - Welcome to the Memory Hotel. Makes me so angry!!!

Enrico Cordozo - bugger off

lbourkey · 07-09-2007 11:22am

You don't use Calgon do you?

Mikosyko · 08-09-2007 12:52am

lbourkey wrote:

You don't use Calgon do you?

"No, why?"

duh its f*ckin obvious!! :mad: :rolleyes:

Davedubh · 25-09-2007 11:35am

That carlsberg ad out at the moment with the brother and sister in the bar.Why does yer man start out with an irish accent and then start doing this really bad noo yawk impression as he goes along.

Degsy · 25-09-2007 11:48am

I hate that head n shoulders ad with that mullet-headed scrote called Nicky or whatever.He apparantly has "a look for every occasion" ie he looks like a wanker in every single one of them,the greasy haired ratbag."windswept and interesting,the intellectual..or just plain gorgeous.."AAArgh!!He wants a good kicking so they have to shave his head to put the stitches in!

Ryaller · 25-09-2007 12:10pm

"What's my Stenaline? Take as many xtreme ironing phwotos as possible.
How could I resist? I'm a complete f*cking twit".

Anyone mentioned the stupefyingly nonsensical norn iron road safety ad with the Billie Barry types singing "Another Brick In the Wall"?

"Stop. Look. Listen. HOORAY!!!"
*cue scumbag sitting on car bonnet looking confused/bewildered*
"What's going on... these kids are krayzee!!!"

And my current favourite is that fat little piece of sh1t gurning his way through the cheese string ad.

"GOTTA DANCE!!!!" Yeah, and? What? Why? What's that got to do with cheese? "Thanks mate". F*ck off.

prospect · 25-09-2007 3:28pm

Davedubh wrote:

That carlsberg ad out at the moment with the brother and sister in the bar.Why does yer man start out with an irish accent and then start doing this really bad noo yawk impression as he goes along.

That is the whole idea.
An Irish guy (complete with Irish Accent) is chatting up an American girl. Her fella arrives in and he pretends to be her brother to avoid a clobbering. He would not be a very convincing brother if he spoke in a big thick monaghan accent, so he puts on a Nue Yoike accent.

Lizzykins · 25-09-2007 3:35pm

Two I really feel sick at are the one for the nail infection and the antiperspirant one with the guy that has streams of water flowing out from under his arms. I feel absolutely like throwing up when I see either. The other ones I hate are the ones on daytime tv for loan consolidation companies and they have poor unfortunate creatures on saying how their lives have been changed by rolling all their debts into one and paying off the balance over the next thousand years!

Lizzykins · 25-09-2007 3:43pm

Forgot the Centra ones with the woman walking around in her knickers and the one with the shot of the girls backside as she carries the shopping home. Grrrhhh! Turned me into a raving feminist!

prospect · 25-09-2007 4:52pm

Lizzykins wrote:

Forgot the Centra ones with the woman walking around in her knickers and the one with the shot of the girls backside as she carries the shopping home. Grrrhhh! Turned me into a raving feminist!

:eek:

I never saw them :mad:

anotherlostie · 25-09-2007 5:23pm

The Coca Cola add with the guy giving the bottle of Coke to the girl after pretending to voice the Nokia tone.

Obviously whoever in Coca Cola saw the pitch did not watch the Christmas episode of Little Britain where 'Jilly Cooper, dahling' was phoning Bubbles de Vere.

Creative agency? More like Copying agency.

EdgarAllenPoo · 25-09-2007 7:14pm

prospect wrote:

That is the whole idea.
An Irish guy (complete with Irish Accent) is chatting up an American girl. Her fella arrives in and he pretends to be her brother to avoid a clobbering.

The bit I don't get about that ad is why the girl goes along with the Irish guy. That doesn't make sense.

Wertz · 25-09-2007 7:33pm

obviously it's his oirish charm coupled with the smell of stale lager on his breath....and that dude she's going out with probably beats her

That_Guy · 25-09-2007 7:58pm

"I don't know what a tracker mortgage is"

fricatus · 25-09-2007 8:00pm

Degsy wrote:

I hate that head n shoulders ad with that mullet-headed scrote called Nicky or whatever.He apparantly has "a look for every occasion" ie he looks like a wanker in every single one of them,the greasy haired ratbag."windswept and interesting,the intellectual..or just plain gorgeous.."AAArgh!!He wants a good kicking so they have to shave his head to put the stitches in!

Yeah, Micky... if that's what women want, then I don't want women any more. Please, some woman, post on this forum and tell us that Micky is a nob and you wouldn't be seen dead with such a gimp face.

I swear, the only time I would want to be in the same county as Micky is if we were both down a dark alleyway, and I was wearing a hood, and standing over him with a baseball bat - one with a few nails driven into it. I'd give him a look for that particular occasion, I tell ya!

fricatus · 25-09-2007 8:01pm

That_Guy wrote:

"I don't know what a tracker mortgage is"

I'm dying to stand up on a bus and shout that out.

That_Guy · 25-09-2007 8:05pm

That'd be excellent. It's tempting. Oh so tempting.

Spades · 25-09-2007 8:26pm

those Daft Dave and the monkey ads do my f****ing head in:mad:

fly_agaric · 25-09-2007 8:39pm

The "happy" fibre supplement ad with the smiling drowning people.
"You could be happy" when you use our product and finally drop the captains log, release the beast etc (childish, I know...). Until then it's tough s***!:)

That_Guy · 25-09-2007 9:14pm

Oh I thought of another one. I'm sure somebody's mentioned it before but I'm just not bothered going through pages and pages of stuff....

CILLIT BANG.........BANG AND THE DIRT IS GONE

_Kaiser_ · 25-09-2007 9:32pm

fricatus wrote:

I'm dying to stand up on a bus and shout that out.

It's been done

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=IdJSrldXtc4

That_Guy · 25-09-2007 9:37pm

Brilliant.

fricatus · 25-09-2007 10:03pm

Kaiser2000 wrote:

It's been done

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=IdJSrldXtc4

Aw, total class... legends!

fricatus · 25-09-2007 10:07pm

That_Guy wrote:

Oh I thought of another one. I'm sure somebody's mentioned it before but I'm just not bothered going through pages and pages of stuff....

CILLIT BANG.........BANG AND THE DIRT IS GONE

HI, I'M BARRY SCOTT!

He says it like he's a household name, like Elvis Presley or Nelson Mandela. Like who the fcuk is Barry Scott?

On the subject of shouters... MICROWAVES, PLASMAS, DVDS... PRICES SLASHED! HARVEY NORMAN SUPERSTORES, GO HARVEY GO!!!

Our man in Havana · 25-09-2007 10:41pm

All those TV Licence enforcement ads. So unrealistic. How many of them speak fluent Chinese? Or polish, Russian etc etc. A total waste of money imho.

Green Giant · 26-09-2007 10:26am

Bond-007 wrote:

All those TV Licence enforcement ads. So unrealistic. How many of them speak fluent Chinese? Or polish, Russian etc etc. A total waste of money imho.

Watch enough of them and you'd think that failure to pay your TV licence is a bigger crime than mass homicide

podge018 · 26-09-2007 10:45am

Probably been mentioned but those Heinken memory bank ads, especially the one where he keeps shouting his name, so annoying.

My latest is the one where the guy on the mobile on the train has to keep running to stay out of the tunnel. At one point he's running in the same spot waving at girls on the outside (i.e. running as fast as a train doing about 40 mph)

pnag · 26-09-2007 10:50am

AAAAAAARRRGH!

I hate those Heineken "Memory Hotel" ads too, especially the one with the guy shouting, but FFS he's not shouting his name!

Kerrrrist, he's asking for a beer - I think it's in Portugese or Brazilian Portugese - as bad as the ad is, why would he shout his name?!? The guy even says at the end of the ad, "Oh, you want a beer!"

So, please, can we leave the 'Rodrigo Cardozo' comments out, cause that's definitely not what he's saying.

Yes, the ad is like watching old people eat though!

faceman · 26-09-2007 11:01am

even though i drink beer and have a mobile phone, i DESPISE beer ads and mobile operator ads. Especially mobile operators.

Pretentious and they always act like they're so cool and have a god like status. Drives me mad.

Beer ads are just dumb. They are almost always set in some foreign country and some all beer drinkers are young college bums too cool for school.

johnny_adidas · 26-09-2007 11:22am

that f'n axa ad with that smug pr!ck saying be sure, not just insured! you'd want to be insured for 4 times the f'n price from anyone else

or that ad with the guy and his 'dad' who looks about 3 years older than him sharing a bathroom, get him the best razor or something along those lines

the sponsor this child with flies crawlin up his nose ad just in the middle of dinner hour between the news and home and away.

or those ba..ba...ba..ba..baby bell ads

junior_apollo · 26-09-2007 11:56am

The pug-faced hab saying "Oh we just go out with the girls for a few drinks"... then it shows her having one too many then shows her falling around the place... fkucing slut - was hopin shed get rohypnolled or hit by a passin car or somethin.. tramp... Drink Responsibly... ya right... should be - Die happy - kill a dumb blonde...

zuutroy · 26-09-2007 11:58am

pnag wrote:

Kerrrrist, he's asking for a beer - I think it's in Portugese or Brazilian Portugese - as bad as the ad is, why would he shout his name?!? The guy even says at the end of the ad, "Oh, you want a beer!"

So, please, can we leave the 'Rodrigo Cardozo' comments out, cause that's definitely not what he's saying.

Are you nuts!? "JOHN MURPHY"....Oh he wants a beer obviously.

fricatus · 26-09-2007 12:46pm

pnag wrote:

So, please, can we leave the 'Rodrigo Cardozo' comments out, cause that's definitely not what he's saying.

Ehhhh... yes it is.... how much bloody Portuguese do you know?

I shared an apartment with Brazilians in Madrid, so I understand a lot of Portuguese, though I can only talk back in Spanish.

If he was asking for a beer, he'd say "queria uma cerveja" or "uma cerveja, faz favor". He's saying "Rodrigo Cardozo" and what's more, he's saying it in a Brazilian accent. Their R is practically a H, which is why it sounds like "hodrigo cahdozo".

podge018 · 26-09-2007 1:57pm

so there pnag, don't contradict me.

That_Guy · 26-09-2007 4:44pm

Anoyone remeber that mobile phone ad for Tweety I think the bird was singing that damn annoying song.

Cabaal · 26-09-2007 5:52pm

lbourkey wrote:

Oh yeah - Welcome to the Memory Hotel. Makes me so angry!!!

Enrico Cordozo - bugger off

The advertising has clearly worked like a dream on you, you remember the name.

Now go and buy some Heineken!

faceman · 27-09-2007 8:24am

Cabaal wrote:

The advertising has clearly worked like a dream on you, you remember the name.

Now go and buy some Heineken!

Its Hein-O!

Green Giant · 27-09-2007 9:44am

Heineken - a sh!t drink with sh!t ads

Davedubh · 03-10-2007 12:50pm

How came that mother with the kids in the pension ads is chinese and her kids are white?

Mossy Monk · 03-10-2007 1:27pm

White father?

humanji · 03-10-2007 1:58pm

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but I can't stand those new impulse ads. The ones with some guy pissing about, a girl walks by, tries on some impules, the guy notices her and then puts out a classified ad. And the slogan is "Act on Impulse". Acting on impulse would be going up to the girl straight away, not going home and ringing up a newspaper to place an ad she quite likely won't see!

prospect · 03-10-2007 2:12pm

Don't know why, but the new Vodafone mobile broadband ads really bug me. You know the one with the Wan in the red outfit...

Davedubh · 03-10-2007 2:26pm

Mossy Monk wrote:

White father?

Then theyd be half caste,but theyre not.

Adverts you despise

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