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Does anybody know this ad?

  • 22-06-2010 8:16pm
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭


    I can't think what it is for, but it among the weirdest and most jaw droppingly stupid ads I have ever seen for anything. As far as I know it is for some sort of phone company or something along those lines.

    Basically what the ad comprises of is a big bald guy sitting on a stool playing a guitar and singing the lyrics to a completely stupid song promoting the company, as they pop up on the screen like a karaoke machine, actually it is somewhere between singing and rapping, really really strange. I was utterly bemused when I first saw it, I know there are plenty of stupid ads, and this one was so innocuous that I barely noticed how bizzare it is at first, but it really is odd. It looks something like a performance by a Lenny from "Of Mice and Men" type character at a 2nd year talent show trying to impress his parents. Anybody know what this ad is for, I want to go look for it on youtube or something to make sure I wasn't on acid.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    sounds like a "we buy any car" ad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭Sugar Free


    I can't think what it is for, but it among the weirdest and most jaw droppingly stupid ads I have ever seen for anything. As far as I know it is for some sort of phone company or something along those lines.

    WIMAX!

    "I'm talking about Wimax, coming across the nation
    Imagine Wimax, the new sensation
    Wimax, next generation
    Faster, better, cheaper no line rental fee..."

    I'm trying to find it on youtube.

    Edit:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Television? Ewwwwwwww!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    MediumWell wrote: »
    WIMAX!

    "I'm talking about Wimax, coming across the nation
    Imagine Wimax, the new sensation
    Wimax, next generation
    Faster, better, cheaper no line rental fee..."

    I'm trying to find it on youtube.

    Edit:


    Thank you good sir.

    Now is it just me or is this a weird weird weird ad?


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,351 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    That guy's a dead ringer for trout :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭Sugar Free


    Thank you good sir.

    Now is it just me or is this a weird weird weird ad?

    Annoyingly weird but I've only heard it two or three times and the words are stuck in my head.

    Catchy jingles should be banned!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭E0inz


    Best ad evar


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭reprazant


    The billboards with his head on it make more sense now.

    I kept seeing them around and presuming he was somebody famous but I had no idea who he was.

    Now I know he isn't famous.

    I feel better.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    reprazant wrote: »
    The billboards with his head on it make more sense now.

    I kept seeing them around and presuming he was somebody famous but I had no idea who he was.

    Now I know he isn't famous.

    I feel better.

    He definitely isn't famous? The ad gets weirder so.

    I was thinking that there was an outside chance that I was berating some dude with cult status while I typed the question. He is Gomer Pyle's brother.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    I hate that stupid ad. I actually had a rep call me the other day about their broadband. I said no because all i could think about was that ejet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭00112984


    Love the ad. Love him, he's hot. He could a-come across my nation any day. Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Well it cost about a euro to make, i'd imagine; which is probably the sole reason for its existence.
    The guy on it is no worse than Jack Johnson and i find it considerably less annoying than many other mobile phone ads.

    Edit: Oh, it's for broadband. Anyway, damn and blast those infernal mobile phone ads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Sisko


    Jaysus theres loads of 'em






    ffs





    omg





    on the last one there the description says : "All our ads are on TV3 and 3e, let us know what you think!"

    Let us know what you think? Hahahaha these guys must be new to youtube (or editing out comments)

    Get 'em lads


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,321 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Why does he go from his normal voice to a bloody Jamacian accent?

    I wanna punch that guy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Oh, there's more than one? They're pushing it then, in fairness. And not just in the sense they should be pushing it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    ascanbe wrote: »
    Oh, there's more than one? They're pushing it then, in fairness. And not just in the sense they should be pushing it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCadcBR95oU


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Mick Daly


    Sisko wrote: »




    "All our ads are on TV3 and 3e, let us know what you think!"

    Let us know what you think? Hahahaha these guys must be new to youtube (or editing out comments)

    Get 'em lads

    They're never on RTÉ. Why?

    Typical of TV3 to promote such tripe. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,816 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Saw an Ad for the first time today. It went on and on and I was saying to myself, I can't wait to see what this is advertising. Flake!! Weird!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    Why does he go from his normal voice to a bloody Jamacian accent?

    I wanna punch that guy!


    I wish to distance myself from any comment relating to a physical confrontation with the man in this ad, he looks like a brick sh1thouse, if I ever met him the conversation would go something like this:

    Me: Hey, you're the guy from that ad aren't you?

    Him: (getting ready for another insult) Yeah I am, what's your point?

    Me: Nothing, it is a fine ad sir, a fine ad, do you wish for me to service you orally?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭Firefox11


    yes but is imagine wimax any good? anybody got it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,321 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Firefox11 wrote: »
    yes but is imagine wimax any good? anybody got it?

    Dunno, but it's a-coming across the nation!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭Pedro K


    I love the ad, and the jingle... more creative and certainly more enjoyable than that "cheeky volvic" bollox..

    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,378 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    I can't imagine what all the fuss is about.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    Pedro K wrote: »
    I love the ad, and the jingle... more creative and certainly more enjoyable than that "cheeky volvic" bollox..

    :)

    A question, if I may, Pedro K?

    Do you think the guy in the "cheeky volvic" ads could get both of his testicles through the nozzle of a standard volvic bottle?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Fete


    Hadn't seen the video but heard it on the radio literally every morning on the way to a leaving cert exam. Couldn't get it out of my head during them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭KingKenny77


    crap ad, stupid song, most annoying thing on tv.

    I'd listen to "go Harvey go" a thousand times before that ridiculous tune in a semi Jamaican accent that doesnt suit white guys never mind white Irish guys (presume he's Irish?).

    And I'm not buying it PURELY because of the ad.


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