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    #152
    Spudman_20000
    Registered Users Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭Spudman_20000


    Pabzzz wrote: »
    YouTube ads are generally annoying, but that Discover Northern Ireland ad is the WORST.

    Ditto for this and that bloody Lynx ad with the "worldwide emergency" that pops up before every YouTube video. :mad:

    I'm actually hoping for a real world catastrophe to hit some country that might shame them into not showing this ad.


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    #153
    what a day
    Registered Users Posts: 1,247 ✭✭✭what a day


    Has to be the go compair adds they should be band!!!

    Oh and Barry Scott and his twin Brother!!!:mad::mad:


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    #154
    du Maurier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    looksee wrote: »
    Those horrible dogs with the false teeth ... I may have mentioned them in another thread

    Jumbone, I think. It's not right.

    That new Eircom ad has started to irk me, especially that little brat that's 'bunking into a festival'. She deserves a slap.


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    #155
    dazzlemoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭dazzlemoo


    Yeah, the Go Compare ads really are annoying.
    I also hate the Compare the Meerkat ones; not funny at all.
    The latest one to irk me is the Santander one.
    "You win, you save, you sleep, you save, you bite your bottom lip, you save"..It goes on for ages!
    Oh, and the Alpecin caffeine shampoo ad too-purely for the way the voice-over woman pronounces "hair" (for your HAAAAIR)


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    #156
    Pippy1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Pippy1976


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    Jesus, this thread does nothing to dispel the idea that Irish people love being miserable...

    So, what're all the ads you really hate? Let's all talk about them, post links from Youtube and then talk about them a bit more. God, they're awful aren't they?!! I hate watching these... but I will, just so I can go on about them...

    Get over it! I'm sure there are threads like this in plenty of the world's chat sites... adverts are annoying, it's not an Irish phenomenon.

    Being miserable isn't an Irish trait... it's a people trait. Deal with it.

    pips


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    #157
    Squ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Squ


    "we buy any car dot com, sponsors motoring on dave" with all the doors clicking and lights flashing.. urgh.....


    bring back the sexy little pink minx singing it, 10 sec speed wánk ftw.


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    #158
    FutureGuy
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    I'm a very refined gentleman who doesn't get his feathers ruffled about much but this guy...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uvp9Hq60qw

    ...grrr...I just want to beat the **** out of him. Some of the ads here on boards has him celebrating something with a fist pump.


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    #159
    du Maurier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    Just recalled another bastard of an Eircom ad - the phonewatch one. This level of smugness is just uncalled for.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA6R1TqFL1g


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    #160
    take everything
    Registered Users Posts: 9,804 ✭✭✭take everything


    Vernon Kay and his mother in those Flora Cuisine ads. That woman sets my teeth on edge.
    Agree about those "Brad in Albequerque" eircom ads. Fcuk off with your faux-american twang.


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    #161
    take everything
    Registered Users Posts: 9,804 ✭✭✭take everything


    Flancrest wrote: »
    Apache Pizza radio ad has stopped me buying thier pizza it's so annoying.

    Aggggh.
    I got that prick's voice in my head now.


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    #162
    Gmol
    Registered Users Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    Anything that says it's regulated by the central bank I mean wtf is the point


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    #163
    SuperGrover
    Registered Users Posts: 990 ✭✭✭SuperGrover


    Apache Pizza, happy days... Apache Pizza, happy days.

    Edit - mentioned above... sorry


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    #164
    hightower1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭hightower1


    Those damned board bia ads for milk where some idiot has a spaz attack to the loudest most innane dance music that instantly turns my TV set into a fcuking Polish house party. You just know some ad man thought up of the loudest most irritating noise to grab peoples attention and used it....wnaker.


    Close second would be the McDonalds ads with the pastey faced sprog "I wouldnt want you to be an astronaught dad, cause you'd be ages coming home at night" .... GAG.... are they fcuking for real? Honestly, what kind of attached at the hip / future daddy issues attitude is that. Makes me wretch.


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    #165
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    du Maurier wrote: »
    Just recalled another bastard of an Eircom ad - the phonewatch one. This level of smugness is just uncalled for.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA6R1TqFL1g

    drives me mad.


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    #166
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    hightower1 wrote: »
    Those damned board bia ads for milk where some idiot has a spaz attack to the loudest most innane dance music that instantly turns my TV set into a fcuking Polish house party. You just know some ad man thought up of the loudest most irritating noise to grab peoples attention and used it....wnaker.


    Close second would be the McDonalds ads with the pastey faced sprog "I wouldnt want you to be an astronaught dad, cause you'd be ages coming home at night" .... GAG.... are they fcuking for real? Honestly, what kind of attached at the hip / future daddy issues attitude is that. Makes me wretch.

    is he the same child that does his poo at Pauls?


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    #167
    hightower1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭hightower1


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    is he the same child that does his poo at Pauls?

    Havent a clue, looking at the irritation scale.... yup, probably is. Hope he gets IBS from holding his ****e in.


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    #168
    Squ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Squ


    hightower1 wrote: »
    Hope he gets IBS from holding his ****e in.

    deadly.


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    #169
    counterlock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭counterlock


    Gmol wrote: »
    Anything that says it's regulated by the central bank I mean wtf is the point

    Better than being regulated by the financial regulator i guess!


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    #170
    2ndcoming
    Registered Users Posts: 3,569 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    Hate those FBD ads myself. Even that twinkly smug music does my head in.

    I think it's very deliberate by advertisers to make the voice artist say something in a weird annoying way just so it sticks in your head more. Eg. Finish.. The Dy-a-mund Standard. I'm sure there's loads more examples, thankfully they haven't stuck in my head anyway!!


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    #171
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    on of my most laughable ads was one I only saw maybe a dozen times. It was for sausages.

    a guy brings a girl home and puts the sausages in the pan. The dog is there - I forget how the guy and the dog ends up in the bathroom, but when the girl opens the door the guy is on all fours and the dog is lashing him with the towel.

    It's hilarious.


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    #172
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    Jesus, this thread does nothing to dispel the idea that Irish people love being miserable...

    So, what're all the ads you really hate? Let's all talk about them, post links from Youtube and then talk about them a bit more. God, they're awful aren't they?!! I hate watching these... but I will, just so I can go on about them...
    Pippy1976 wrote: »
    Get over it! I'm sure there are threads like this in plenty of the world's chat sites... adverts are annoying, it's not an Irish phenomenon.

    Hey girlfriend, I am SO over it! To be honest, it doesn't bother me that there's a thread dedicated to this. I have zero issues with it and my post was meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek. ;)
    Pippy1976 wrote: »
    Being miserable isn't an Irish trait... it's a people trait. Deal with it.

    pips

    Eh... I like the way you don't disagree that you love being miserable, you just say that everyone else does too!


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    #173
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    on of my most laughable ads was one I only saw maybe a dozen times. It was for sausages.

    a guy brings a girl home and puts the sausages in the pan. The dog is there - I forget how the guy and the dog ends up in the bathroom, but when the girl opens the door the guy is on all fours and the dog is lashing him with the towel.

    It's hilarious.

    Walls Sausages.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa5XlWWPSmU


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    #174
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Probably the ones for fame on dublin bus at the moment. Faces is love to play for five minutes with a hammer.


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    #175
    Giselle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    The smug looking one who advertises her 'deliciously creamy Activia' and loves her tummy.

    Nobody is that happy to eat yoghurt.


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    #176
    FanadMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Any ad on TV3 - whatever is wrong with them, have to turn up the volume a lot during the progs (same on UPC and Sky) and then as soon as the ads come on, would nearly burst your eardrums! Do they think that a higher volume will make people wake up and take notice? Rather than turning the vol down during their ads I just change the channel :rolleyes:


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    #177
    languagenerd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    There's one for Dove (?) deodorant that claims it helps heal cuts from shaving "in just seven days" and shows pictures of a sore red underarm and then a healed one, claiming that using Dove made it heal. IT'S A SMALL CUT THAT WOULD HEAL IN 7 DAYS ANYWAY!


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    #178
    Flancrest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭Flancrest


    NRC Taxis radio ad

    If you're headin to your mas or out on the Raz

    6772222

    If you're going to Clonsilla or your south side villa

    6772222

    Get off the bus ride with us
    Get off the dart ride with us
    Get of the Luas ride with us


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    #179
    Autumn Moon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,006 ✭✭✭Autumn Moon


    That bleedin' Barclays ad......with yer woman bouncin' around. ??:mad:??


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    #180
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    Walls Sausages.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa5XlWWPSmU


    ya thats it. It's hilarious. :D


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    #181
    du Maurier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    Those VHI ads are terrible too. Here's a good pisstake:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9atUuf5ItYQ



    Allianz ads are pretty poor too. My advice to you: "Wear a seatbelt whilst driving!". Oh okay, thanks for that one.


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