This new "Volvic Challenge" ad.

jayteecork

Anyone see that new Volvic ad -it's fúcking wrecking my head.

Basically some English twat is given a challenge to drink 1.5 litres of Volvic a day.

That's what got me annoyed first - wtf, like 3 pints of water in a whole day. Doesn't everyone drink at least that much daily?

Then he says "I know it's a lot"
Then at the end he's performing somersaults and whatnot after doing this for a week.

Well call the World Health Organization - seems like Volvic have a miracle cure, everyone can renew lost health and vigour by drinking 1.5 litres of Volvic per day.

Fúcking crap sh1t. ****e ad by a scam artist bottled water company.
I drink tap water anyway and if I'm out and dying of thirst I'm buying sprite.

SV

" a little cheeky volvic "


yeah it's pretty bloody annoying alright.
and bottled water is far nicer than tap water btw.

Havermeyer

The people in these adverts should be shot to death with balls of their own shoite.

F**k you volvic.

Keogg

I completely agree, I hate that ad so much. Its so pointless!

Its doesnt make me want to go do that stupid challenge, it just makes me fcuking thirtsy. And don't think I'm going down to the shop to BUY water when there's tap water in my house for free!

I have a feeling this thread will turn into a 'stupidest ad' competition. ...:eek:... That would be an amazing thread!

dublintuition

" a cheeky volvic" :rolleyes: Jesus Christ Almighty!!

What a poor marketing plan, ripped straight off from the special K challenge.

Gawbean 1: "How can we up our sales?"
Gawbean 2: "Lets start a 'volvic challenge' and convince people into buying litres of our water every day for 14 days"
Gawbean 1: "Genius"

Keogg

dublintuition wrote: »

" a cheeky volvic" :rolleyes: Jesus Christ Almighty!!

What a poor marketing plan, ripped straight off from the special K challenge.

Gawbean 1: "How can we up our sales?"
Gawbean 2: "Lets start a 'volvic challenge' and convince people into buying litres of our water every day for 14 days"
Gawbean 1: "Genius"

That Special K challenge is utter bull too.
3 meals a day: two bowls of cereal and a Well-Balanced dinner and no snacks.
It isn't special K that's making you lose weight if you're on that, its the fact that cereal is healthy and you're not eating a load of crap.
It'd work much better with bran flakes or cheerios really.

well horse

Agree with the OP. What an twat in that ad.

And you're right. When I saw the ad I couldn't believe it said that 1.5 litres of water was a lot

If I didnt drink 4 pints of water in a day I'd have a banging headache and I'd feel sleepy. The only thing I'd find "challenging" about drinking 1.5 litres of water a day is that I'd find myself swooning for a draught of water from the tap 2 hours later. That chap must have been chronically dehydrated before taking up the "challenge", typical western-world human :rolleyes:

Pop's Diner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqJQJj5UE6Q

Volvic : Guarenteed to make you feel 300% more camp after 14 days.

Check out his little sissy run at the end of the ad :rolleyes:

joey54

The guy in the ad is a fe*king eejit! Pity he doesn't drown in the bloody volvic!

Basq

Pop's Diner wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqJQJj5UE6Q

Volvic : Guarenteed to make you feel 300% more camp after 14 days.

Check out his little sissy run at the end of the ad :rolleyes:

"Watch out boys!.."









.. as you never do know what body cavity he's gonna try and place that baseball mitt in!

dublintuition

Keogg wrote: »

That Special K challenge is utter bull too.
3 meals a day: two bowls of cereal and a Well-Balanced dinner and no snacks.
It isn't special K that's making you lose weight if you're on that, its the fact that cereal is healthy and you're not eating a load of crap.
It'd work much better with bran flakes or cheerios really.

You're dead right, no arguments here, its crap too. But there's no doubt that it has raised the sales of special K. Volvic unoriginally thought they would copy this. Well they should fail....FAIL

Cianos

I drink medium fizzy water, I get 9 litres of it for about a euro and it's nice

Sir Gallagher

SV wrote: »

" a little cheeky volvic "


yeah it's pretty bloody annoying alright.
and bottled water is far nicer than tap water btw.

First thing that sprang to mind when i seen this thread.

"a cheeky little volvic" Ooh goo wan you little rebel!!

seimi

I was so pissed off with this advertisement I reported them to advertising standards. It's the first time I made a complaint. Drinking too much water can cause hyper hydration and 1 litre consumed in a few minutes can even be fatal! Don't even get me started on the whole volcano crap.

Senna

Wasn't Volvic that used the line "There's. something in the water"? always though that was pretty stupid marketing line, i dont want something else in the water, just water please.

Keogg

dublintuition wrote: »

You're dead right, no arguments here, its crap too. But there's no doubt that it has raised the sales of special K. Volvic unoriginally thought they would copy this. Well they should fail....FAIL

Thanks, and you're right too, Special K is far too popular. It used to be the only cereal my sister ever ate. Unfortunately (and evilly) its playing off womens insecurities about thinking they'r fat, when they're not. The women on those ads and IN NO WAY needing to lose weight whatsoever.

bronte

Cheeky Volvic my arse..it's not feckin vodka ffs!!!!

Keogg

bronte wrote: »

Cheeky Volvic my arse..it's not feckin vodka ffs!!!!

That'd be brilliant.
Lets get that little Twat to drink a litre and a half of Vodka a day. Won't be so fcuking cheeky then will he...:pac:

Pop's Diner

I wonder does carrying that bottle around all day give him a limp wrist?

Fr Martin

Im already on the pantene proV 14 day challenge, which is really interfering with my weetabix week - maybe after Iv chosen my dolmio day Ill take up volvics challenge

Riamfada

He must piss like a trooper

yerayeah

All ye haters on here dissing Volvic, conveniently forgetting to mention that it is of course filled with volcanicity and thus can be expected to cure cancer, sort out this recession business, walk the dog...




Which can hardly be said of tap water *spits*...

Keogg

Fr Martin wrote: »

Im already on the pantene proV 14 day challenge, which is really interfering with my weetabix week - maybe after Iv chosen my dolmio day Ill take up volvics challenge

those dolmio puppets are creepy. You know that ad where they're all ringing each other saying 'todays the day'... don't they already know which day is their fcuking dolmio day?! Argh bad bad ads!:mad::pac:

Pop's Diner

Of course Volvic are laughing their arses off now because we're talking about their product (albeit indirectly). It's just too much fun taking the p out of clarabel there.

SoupyNorman

When this ad comes on I find myself shouting 'Who plays ****ing Base ball in Europe!!!'

Christ it's tough to display my frustration in Binary.

yerayeah

seimi wrote: »

I was so pissed off with this advertisement I reported them to advertising standards. It's the first time I made a complaint. Drinking too much water can cause hyper hydration and 1 litre consumed in a few minutes can even be fatal! Don't even get me started on the whole volcano crap.

WHAT are you on about?!

You'd need to drinking waaaaaay more water than the volvic challenge to cause hyperhydration.

And please enlighten me regarding the physiology of how a litre of water drank relatively quickly can be fatal!

Local-womanizer

Keogg wrote: »

That Special K challenge is utter bull too.
3 meals a day: two bowls of cereal and a Well-Balanced dinner and no snacks.
It isn't special K that's making you lose weight if you're on that, its the fact that cereal is healthy and you're not eating a load of crap.
It'd work much better with bran flakes or cheerios really.

These ones that live beside me have been walking for as long as I can remember and havent got any smaller!Most likely cos they eat a loaf of bread when they get home:mad:

eat less move more fatties:mad:

dublintuition

Fr Martin wrote: »

Im already on the pantene proV 14 day challenge, which is really interfering with my weetabix week - maybe after Iv chosen my dolmio day Ill take up volvics challenge

You're going about this all wrong. Put the pantene on your weetabix, and cook your pasta in the volvic. That way you'll have plenty of time to train your brain with Dr Kawashima's newest set of challenges

Keogg

Local-womanizer wrote: »

eat less move more fatties:mad:

I think you'd make an excellent manager/coach/psychologist type person:D
Honestly though, you're right. Maybe someday some crappy new fad diet will steal that phrase. It'd work, too.

entropi

Senna wrote: »

Wasn't Volvic that used the line "There's. something in the water"?

That "something" is probably piss anyway...

entropi

Pop's Diner wrote: »

I wonder does carrying that bottle around all day give him a limp wrist?

Sure he seems like a stupid wanker in the first place:P

phantom_lord

seimi wrote: »

I was so pissed off with this advertisement I reported them to advertising standards. It's the first time I made a complaint. Drinking too much water can cause hyper hydration and 1 litre consumed in a few minutes can even be fatal! Don't even get me started on the whole volcano crap.

damn we were gonna have a prob bet on how long it would take to drink 5 litres. i guess that's out.

seimi

In fairness, the special K challenge worked. I dropped a dress size. I was going to leave my cross-dressing days behind but now I wonder... I had special K for breakfast, again for lunch, and a coco-pop in the evening. Ended up with an hourglass figure. Well the bottom half anyway.

dublintuition

seimi wrote: »

In fairness, the special K challenge worked. I dropped a dress size. I was going to leave my cross-dressing days behind but now I wonder... I had special K for breakfast, again for lunch, and a coco-pop in the evening. Ended up with an hourglass figure. Well the bottom half anyway.

Of course you did. You were starving yourself.

jumpguy

Oh I definetly agree. It's ridiculous - bottled water is a ****ing joke itself. This is just taking it a step further. I'd refuse to associate myself with anyone who would take a challenge to drink water (1.5L...most of us drink that in a day anyway). The market heads at Volvic must be delighted with themselves at this new stroke of genious.

As for the Special K challenge, well, it's something new every season. Getting slim for a summer bikini, getting slimmer after Christmas dinner, getting slimmer before Christmas dinner, getting slimmer for Halloween, getting slimmer for Easter, getting slimmer of Good Friday, getting slimmer for the summer solstice, getting slimmer for the winter solstice, getting slimmer for the next solar eclipse, getting slimmer to fit in a dress, getting slimmer for Mickey Mouse's birthday, getting slimmer for a foreign trip abroad, getting slimmer to look like a model on TV, getting slimmer for St. Paddy's Day, getting slimmer for Oxegen, getting slimmer to be able to go through your own letterbox, getting slimmer for the Simpson's Appreciation Day.
There's no reason to get fatter there though, funnily enough.

Fr Martin

seimi wrote: »

In fairness, the special K challenge worked. I dropped a dress size. I was going to leave my cross-dressing days behind but now I wonder... I had special K for breakfast, again for lunch, and a coco-pop in the evening. Ended up with an hourglass figure. Well the bottom half anyway.

What sort of character you developing - An angry tranny? whats your hook?

SV

phantom_lord wrote: »

damn we were gonna have a prob bet on how long it would take to drink 5 litres. i guess that's out.

About an hour and a half.

Keogg

jumpguy wrote: »

getting slimmer for Oxegen.

Ah crap I knew there was something i had to do...

seimi

yerayeah wrote: »

WHAT are you on about?!

You'd need to drinking waaaaaay more water than the volvic challenge to cause hyperhydration.

And please enlighten me regarding the physiology of how a litre of water drank relatively quickly can be fatal!

It's on wikipedia so it must be true.

Fizman

You know what the guy in that ad is the definition of?

A complete and utter douche.

seimi

Fr Martin wrote: »

What sort of character you developing - An angry tranny? whats your hook?

I was going more grumpy old man. Like the series but grumpier.

dublintuition

jumpguy wrote: »

There's no reason to get fatter there though, funnily enough.

Which would actually increase their sales even more .....

Oh the idiots never thought of that one, did they?

markok84

I saw this ad for the first time tonight, I threw my shoe at the telly it pissed me off so much. You know what other ad really iritates me? That Barry's ad with all those bitches going off to Thailand and one of them manages to nearly leave without her fúcking passport but it's all ok because Mammy packed the Barry's.......... Wise up to fúck, all they need to do to sell Barry's is a mug with Barry's written on it getting filled with tea (making that beautiful sound that only hot tea being poured can make) Job done, I just saved ye millions of euros on advertising... no more horney architects running around the place, no more stupid bitches circumnavigating the world to see tranny double adaptors. [/rant]

yerayeah

seimi wrote: »

It's on wikipedia so it must be true.

Well, that showed me!:pac:

jumpguy

dublintuition wrote: »

Which would actually increase their sales even more .....

Oh the idiots never thought of that one, did they?

Yeah, if being fat became as popular as being slim, the food market would have the most unprecedented boom in any economic sector (greater than the one they're already having). Special K would disappear altogether, and would be replaced by a box of microwaveable hamburgers.

We're clearly onto something here. I'm on my way to the patent office.

dublintuition

jumpguy wrote: »

Yeah, if being fat became as popular as being slim, the food market would have the most unprecedented boom in any economic sector (greater than the one they're already having). Special K would disappear altogether, and would be replaced by a box of microwaveable hamburgers.

We're clearly onto something here. I'm on my way to the patent office.

Wait!! *grabs coat because it looks a wee bit nippy out there*

phantom_lord

jumpguy wrote: »

It's ridiculous - bottled water is a ****ing joke itself.

um no. tap water is pretty awful imo.

Keogg

phantom_lord wrote: »

um no. tap water is pretty awful imo.

I prefer tap water, but one of friends acts like shes allergic to it, she'd probably refuse it if she was dying of thirst

c4cat

joey54 wrote: »

The guy in the ad is a fe*king eejit! Pity he doesn't drown in the bloody volvic!

He is a feckin clever eejit cos he gets paid much better for doing that ad then we get paid for whatever we are doing for a livin, well then, better then most of us i'd say

markok84

phantom_lord wrote: »

um no. tap water is pretty awful imo.

Thats depends on your source. I get my water from a well at home and keep a large bottle of it in the fridge all the time, and it taste delicious. Far nicer that any of the bottled waters on the market. But I've lived in places where the tap water tasted like swimming pool water.

c4cat

phantom_lord wrote: »

um no. tap water is pretty awful imo.

I am lucky I got crystal clear spring/well water that taste better then volvic