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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Ryaller wrote:
    "Today we just took a big dump on a bowl of weetabix and ate it all up"

    :D:D

    I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but anyone remeber those Kellog's Fruit & Fibre ads from a few months ago? - the one where your man is wandering around naked singing "Breakfast come and me got some fun".

    Jesus, that gave me the rage - I haven't seen it on much at the moment, and long may it stay that way!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭J.R.HARTLEY


    "ye know, you can really have an adult conversation with those people at picture"
    "about football?"
    "noooo!"
    terrible ad, that man seems like an inept gob****e.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭Mikosyko


    "ye know, you can really have an adult conversation with those people at picture"
    "about football?"
    "noooo!"
    terrible ad, that man seems like an inept gob****e.


    That ad isn't the worst, the following ad with "Mum where's my scooter?" uuuugh that ****ing winds me up does that! :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭imeddyhobbs


    Any Ad That You Can Remember Is Not Stupid,its Actually Very Clever Because It Made You Remember It


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    Any Ad That You Can Remember Is Not Stupid,its Actually Very Clever Because It Made You Remember It
    Not when you make a decision never to buy the product based on how annoying their ads are.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 481 ✭✭Ryaller


    Any Ad That You Can Remember Is Not Stupid,its Actually Very Clever Because It Made You Remember It

    STOP MESSING WITH MY HEAD!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭eamon234


    shane86 wrote:

    Anyway, if anyone can tell me where exactly the humour is located in the Pat Shortt Pat the Baker ads, answers on a postcard (Im not sure if its the drag, the guy in the warrior outfit or the sight of a Limerick man in his 40s dressed like a homeboy, but i dont get any of it)

    That's not Shortt it's the other b0llix Kenny and I agree I f****despise those ads I can't believe someone paid that moron a fortune for that crap Irish marketing companies haven't a clue they'll throw any old sh1te at punters and hope that it sticks

    Oh sweet Jesus I just saw the new Halifax ad with the fat bird from the X factor murdering Think by Aretha Franklin. That's just not right.
    Conversely I love their new Irish ad with the other "Bankers" trashing the new Halifax branch it's great - but I will never bank with them because of the other ads.

    Feck - just noticed my Bank Of Scotland credit card has changed to Halifax - Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Another ad I cannot stand is the new one for Channel 6.

    It has irish music on in the background while it shows us different pictures of "celebrities" at different Irish landmarks - the whole thing stinks of an Oirish gimmick that would be shown on American television.

    Pure tacky, IMO.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭mickd


    That Nissan Qashqai ad with the foot on top of the car is bloody annoying. **** name for a car , **** ad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭J.R.HARTLEY


    zuutroy wrote:
    Not when you make a decision never to buy the product based on how annoying their ads are.
    bingo, the entire point of this thread, the ad acheives its anti-thesis by being annoying, making you deliberately avoid the product and decreasing revenue.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭Mikosyko


    I hate that ad with the old git sitting in his sitting room when the bath falls through the ceiling!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    All those new banking ads where they think they're clever using psuedo-swears like "you bankers".

    Actually, pretty much all those new banking ads period. Halifax really get on my nerves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭cashback


    As someone has already mentioned, it's almost impossible to figure out why anyone thought that new 11890 ad would be funny.
    It's absolutely rubbish and now there's a version with the guy speaking on the phone in a womans voice. "My phone voice."
    What.. why? I don't know...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭sofireland


    :mad: Them Danone Activia Adverts wreck my head, who talks to their parents about bowel movements!
    Also the Vauxhall/Opel ads where the kids act like adults! :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭Mikosyko


    Muller Crunch Corners.........that song (which seems to be sung by a million different artists) is just the sour cream of annoying music! :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    That new Eddie Rocket's ad does my head in :mad:

    Its exactly what you'd expect to see on American TV, not on Irish. The song is seriously annoying and with all the screeching (or whining) of the theme song and the tacky layout of the "diner". Not to mention the fact that it reminds me of the one and only time I went into Eddie Rockets - what a rip-off. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭Mikosyko


    Kojak wrote:
    That new Eddie Rocket's ad does my head in :mad:

    Its exactly what you'd expect to see on American TV, not on Irish. The song is seriously annoying and with all the screeching (or whining) of the theme song and the tacky layout of the "diner". Not to mention the fact that it reminds me of the one and only time I went into Eddie Rockets - what a rip-off. :mad:

    Rip-off is not the word......

    €11 for a bag of chips and burger! :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    Kojak wrote:
    That new Eddie Rocket's ad does my head in :mad:

    Its exactly what you'd expect to see on American TV, not on Irish. The song is seriously annoying and with all the screeching (or whining) of the theme song and the tacky layout of the "diner". Not to mention the fact that it reminds me of the one and only time I went into Eddie Rockets - what a rip-off. :mad:

    New! They've been using that song since the 80's. Its annoying but it really sticks in the mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Another ad that annoys the hell out of me (There seems to be many of them :D ) is that TallaghFord ad with Mark Cagney in it.

    The singing in it reminds me of a strangled cat, and regards Mark Cagney ..... :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,088 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    mcdonalds ad with johnny logan
    what were they thinking, does look a bit like a meteor ad


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    I hate that advert telling motorists to take more time to look out for motorcyclists.

    It tries to make you feel stupid for not spotting the biker coming up the road.... but the biker isn't there... he's only there when they replay the clip.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,232 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Ad from last year from Nicorette, with that horrible annoying cow, think she was called Sue, I'd say she had no friends and everyone hated her in Work as she seemed like a real pain. Also has anyone noticed that this years Nicorette ads have the TV Licence inspector doing them!
    Also hate the 11890 ad with the old hippy guy, I just don't get it? Maybe they want to make it look like a You Tube type homemade video, but just don't see how it would make you ring the number if you've dodgy looking blokes like your man answering the phone

    Snake ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    I hate the Drink adverts from the UK... The one where the guy is supposed to be robocop and is swinging out of the scaffolding, then falls off and breaks his face. So stupidly done... "Too much drink turns you into a fvcking gymnast"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Ohohohooo I HATE the ad with the asian kid on the can saying 'its all gone its all gone' needs to learn to like his own brew. And I ESPECIALLY hate the Suzuki singing one :mad: . In Fact Ipod and any ads that have young 'hip' people trying to act cool. All Budwieser ads are as weak as the beer itself. The baby talking ones and acting like adults and trying to tell me about life deserve boycotting of products. The Pizza one with the really annoying girl and the pizza landing on her. How come whenever I complain, a pizza doesn't land on me? Like now for instance, I'm hungry...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Anyone seen that new ad for the "banana phone" ringtone?? :mad:

    It has an annoying song "ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, banana phone" and has a load of retarted looking banana's jumping around like idiots - god its feckin annoyin :mad: :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,342 ✭✭✭OfflerCrocGod


    Kojak wrote:
    Anyone seen that new ad for the "banana phone" ringtone?? :mad:

    It has an annoying song "ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, banana phone" and has a load of retarted looking banana's jumping around like idiots - god its feckin annoyin :mad: :mad:
    What the hell do you take? Where can I get some?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    I haven't seen the advert.... but is this the song your talking about? It's a brilliant song.

    Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring banana phone!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Madge


    That ad for that old el paso stuff where the man tells the ginger kid he'll put him in a zoo like a monkey or something.. then the lad recounts it at the dinner table and everyone laffs?! including the kid!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    that child deserves a beating. i really do hate him


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭niamh1975


    I too despise the tallaght ford ads. as soon as the screeching begins I reach for the off button.


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