Adverts you despise

EdgarAllenPoo · 14-07-2007 7:34pm

The insurance and ambulance chaser ads on digital bug me as do the meteor ads. The Bud ad with the screaming muppet really annoys me.

I think the new MFI ad with the grumpy teen is quite clever though.

muletide · 14-07-2007 7:40pm

"Cool down lads its there for the taking, cool down"

Sit down before I deck you, you fuppin twat

EdgarAllenPoo · 14-07-2007 7:47pm

The new RTE ads where you have the presenters "interacting" with people from different show gets to me. Not that it's a bad idea but a dog with a hammer up his arse could have written better lines for the presenters.

BANZAI_RUNNER · 14-07-2007 7:52pm

any of those Fruice ads, i cant stand them....aaaaarrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhh,
but just off topic, i do like the coke ad based on grand theft auto, shown at the cinema, worth a look, do a search on youtube if you want to see it..

EdgarAllenPoo · 14-07-2007 7:55pm

Yeah but to counteract that you have the Coke Zero ad with the annoying Aussie(at least my tv comes with a mute button,plank).

BANZAI_RUNNER · 14-07-2007 8:20pm

surprised you know how to use it , turnip.

aidan_walsh · 14-07-2007 8:23pm

lukin wrote:

Also the McDonalds one where that guy has the piss taken out of him by his friends for getting a job there. Surely a disincentive to work for them if anything, what are the guys who come up with these ads thinking of?

Self deprecation?

mcauley · 14-07-2007 8:34pm

That f**kin radio ad....

"Hiiiiiii I'm Neville Knott......We'll have the kettle on and some lollipops for the kids..."

What the f**k is that about?!

Oh who the f**k is called Neville Knott!!!!

EdgarAllenPoo · 14-07-2007 8:46pm

BANZAI_RUNNER wrote:

surprised you know how to use it , turnip.

You do realise I wasn't calling you a plank?

Wertz · 21-07-2007 9:57pm

That one ad for coke doing the TV just now....the bollocks with the bottle pretending it's a Nokia and then handing it to his giggly co-star. Now if it had have been the crazy frog ringtone then that might have been funny....at least the first few times, this is just annoying.

Benny-c · 21-07-2007 10:19pm

The Diet Coke Radio ad with the chick in the annoying american accent 'do you feel bad, do you feel good.........' bla...bla...

Tastes like crap anyway:D

jos28 · 22-07-2007 10:48am

The Heineken ad where your man is roaring his name at the idiot at the reception desk. Does my head in !

cashback · 22-07-2007 1:28pm

jos28 wrote:

The Heineken ad where your man is roaring his name at the idiot at the reception desk. Does my head in !

That ad really annoys me. The receptionist is such a knob! Why does he pretend he can't hear him?

aequinoctium · 22-07-2007 1:29pm

heineken can do so much better than that

Davedubh · 22-07-2007 1:51pm

The most annoying at the moment is the beer ad with a scummy south american guy repeatedly shouting his name in a hotel lobby.

Duiske · 22-07-2007 1:58pm

That damn Harvey Norman ad !!! That flam'in tune dickens my sollocks !!!

Davedubh · 22-07-2007 7:17pm

GDM wrote:

Yeah but to counteract that you have the Coke Zero ad with the annoying Aussie(at least my tv comes with a mute button,plank).

Yeah,hes the most annoying tv ad aussie after harvey norman.

o1s1n · 22-07-2007 7:25pm

jos28 wrote:

The Heineken ad where your man is roaring his name at the idiot at the reception desk. Does my head in !

That ad annoys me so much I either mute the television or turn over when it comes on. Like nails on a blackboard.

Myrddin · 22-07-2007 7:42pm

I despise most if not all adds currently showing. Has anybody noticed that the volume of the adds (the sound level) is always a fair bit higher than the show your currently watching...ya have to lower them down constantly then back up when your show comes back on argh!

EdgarAllenPoo · 22-07-2007 9:20pm

Most of the UK car insurance are pathetic, it's the same with the majority of Irish radio(national radio cabs and the Dublin Pub ad with Lucy Keneddy being the most annoying) ads. Just because you can make an ad cheaply by using brainless actors and a script devised while drunk doesn't mean you should.

TEH REAL CDP · 22-07-2007 9:23pm

not sure if this has been mentioned but that "ring ring ring ring bannanaphone" advert is probably the most irksome thing I have heard in months....

AND I HATE "LAND OF LEATHER" ADS.

Mikosyko · 22-07-2007 9:59pm

I hate those Glomobi ads! who the fuck would want a screaming brat as their ringtone? :mad:

Wertz · 22-07-2007 10:21pm

Mikosyko wrote:

I hate those Glomobi ads! who the fuck would want a screaming brat as their ringtone? :mad:

What's always scared me about those ads is their frequency; at the rates TV adverts must cost, that means that these company must be stinging a whole lot of unsuspecting kids for their phone credit to pay the bills.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-07-2007 10:48pm

EnterNow wrote:

I despise most if not all adds currently showing. Has anybody noticed that the volume of the adds (the sound level) is always a fair bit higher than the show your currently watching...ya have to lower them down constantly then back up when your show comes back on argh!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Must complain to the http://asai.ie could try http://www.iapi.ie/ too for all the good it will do

The lifestyle ads, where they show a lifestyle or situation that people would like, AND HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PRODUCT but they hope people will subconciously link them. Like the AIB ad a while back with yer man waiting at the cinema. WTF has that got to do with a bunch of overcharging *ankers ?

EdgarAllenPoo · 22-07-2007 11:07pm

On a related note( I think) am I the only one who is annoyed by the Centra ad showing all those nice looking happy people doing their shopping and then relaxing on the balcony of an apartment in the sun. Are we meant to think that that represents something you can actually do in Ireland? Where's the rain, umbrellas and drenched bystanders? Rubbish.

Mrs. MacGyver · 22-07-2007 11:35pm

The Sheilas Wheels ad on the BBC 'for bonza car insurance deals youve got to shop at sheilas wheels' or any ads with annoying Jingles like that.

The Mc Donalds ads with Johnny Logan (need i say more?)

Linda Martin and the Money penny ads (i cant watch her on the telly...she irratates me ) or any ad of a financial nature to be honest bugs the **** out of me.

Zaph · 22-07-2007 11:42pm

Mrs. MacGyver wrote:

The Sheilas Wheels ad on the BBC 'for bonza car insurance deals youve got to shop at sheilas wheels' or any ads with annoying Jingles like that.

Would it be overly picky of me to point out that the BBC don't have ads?

But you're right, it's bloody annoying.

Capt'n Midnight · 23-07-2007 1:36am

zaph wrote:

Would it be overly picky of me to point out that the BBC don't have ads?

But you're right, it's bloody annoying.

Don't BBC World have them on satellite ?

But yeah all those adds on satellite channels are in a race to the bottom. Anything that mentions CCJ's or credit rating or re-financing ( Shame on Carol Volderman appearing in one ). Has anyone mentioned those car finance deals where you can drive away in a clapped out ex-fleet car today.

Those ring tone adds are shameful, they are obviously aimed at people too young to legally subscribe to them.

What about the Irish Psysics ads ?

Mr E · 23-07-2007 10:09am

No, the worst satellite ads are the ones for "Picture" loans. Xylophone music in the background, happy smiley people getting into more debt, people tripping hilariously over scooters or walking around the house with a football in hand. Oh ho ho... cracks me up every time.

maniac101 · 23-07-2007 10:51am

Ads for furniture shops!
They seem to have sales constantly. Their discounts on 'beautiful' leather sofas will always be in excess of an 'amazing' 60 or 70% – and they'll throw in an additional patio set worth €1599 for free!
If you believed them, it would make you feel sorry for the poor suckers who paid the full price.

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