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Even more adverts you despise

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    #1322
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    madmaggie wrote: »
    The portrayal of men as useless eejits in ads. The latest Prepay Power one is a prime example. Wifey is on her smartphone, while eejit husband can't even turn on the TV. It might have been funny at one time, but it's old, stale and insulting now.

    It was never funny. If it was the other way around we'd never hear the end of it.


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    #1323
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Deleted User wrote: »
    hmmm not sure that would have got off the ground :D

    Using Jackie Stewart is a bit silly anyway. With all due respect to him, he wouldnt be widely known amongst the u30s in spite of his unbelievable sporting achievements. I suppose though they couldnt exactly use Rooney :pac:

    Are all ads aimed at under 30's now?


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    #1324
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    I don't have a TV in my house and i use adblockers.

    Haven't seen an ad in ages, so can't offer any i hate.


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    #1325
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,192 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    madmaggie wrote: »
    The portrayal of men as useless eejits in ads. The latest Prepay Power one is a prime example. Wifey is on her smartphone, while eejit husband can't even turn on the TV. It might have been funny at one time, but it's old, stale and insulting now.



    There was an ad for a phone company last christmas where the man had written what he wanted for Christmas (a phone) on his eyelids, but he had written it backwards. I thought the way the woman spoke to him and looked at him when she figured it out was appalling. And if that was the other way around, that ad would not see the light of day.


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    #1326
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    madmaggie wrote: »
    The portrayal of men as useless eejits in ads. The latest Prepay Power one is a prime example. Wifey is on her smartphone, while eejit husband can't even turn on the TV. It might have been funny at one time, but it's old, stale and insulting now.
    It doesn't say much for the wife characters either if they were stupid enough to marry someone with the mental age of a 6 year old.


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    #1327
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,140 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    the purple tin wrote: »
    It doesn't say much for the wife characters either if they were stupid enough to marry someone with the mental age of a 6 year old.

    Ah yes, it's much more insulting to women than men.


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    #1328
    EPAndlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭EPAndlee


    I actually can't handle hearing 'she's a supermarket woman' anymore


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    #1329
    [Deleted User]
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    darkdubh wrote: »
    Are all ads aimed at under 30's now?

    Well id imagine in Heinekens case they would be aiming it at that age group..ok perhaps 20-40 or thereabouts. Lads that are out at the weekend.


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    #1330
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    Fookin Eir ad is extremely annoying and it's on constantly


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    #1331
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,732 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    I don't have a TV in my house and i use adblockers.

    Haven't seen an ad in ages, so can't offer any i hate.

    What an inspiration.


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    #1332
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    lertsnim wrote: »
    What an inspiration.

    Yes, it's almost lile the post didn't add anything to the thread at all!


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    #1333
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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    #1334
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    The Three (or is Eir?) ad with the voiceover that goes "this is a baby, puking a rainbow". The girl doing the voiceover has the most irritating mid Atlantic accent I've ever heard.


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    #1335
    Shifty Shellshock
    Registered Users Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Shifty Shellshock


    Patww79 wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    I think he is trying to go VIRAL!


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    #1336
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Yes the eir ad is up there with the most annoying. That geeky girl with the guitar CAN'T SING and her tone annoys me.

    The HungryHouse ads on UK telly; in particular the fella in the satin robe and the quiff singing about "pork balls".


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    #1337
    De Bhál
    Registered Users Posts: 2,868 ✭✭✭De Bhál


    "I didn't even know Oral B made a toothpaste!"

    nhWsGsg.gif


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    #1338
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,123 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    As I think to myself when I see the acting of the models in the Oral B ads......"yes I bet you are an Oral B pro expert"

    Diggity


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    #1339
    madmaggie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Dee Aldee Fammeelee.


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    #1340
    optogirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭optogirl


    Tin Maratins in tin days - and TRUE TO DERE WORD, ALLIANZ WAS THERE. Oh wow, I wonder why Allianz selflessly and with such big hearts sponsor things? Just good people I guess.


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    #1341
    The Specialist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    optogirl wrote: »
    Tin Maratins in tin days - and TRUE TO DERE WORD, ALLIANZ WAS THERE. Oh wow, I wonder why Allianz selflessly and with such big hearts sponsor things? Just good people I guess.

    The wailing/choir music in that advert drives me ****ing mental, the whole advert is a cringefest.


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    #1342
    LithiumKid1976
    Registered Users Posts: 432 ✭✭LithiumKid1976


    that airwaves add, where your man is stuck in traffic,
    gets the chewing gum out, pops a few, and his car changes into this souped up car.... THAT IS STILL STUCK IN TRAFFIC..... ??
    (shouldn't the car have changed, and the road cleared??)

    what is the point of it? :)


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    #1343
    Gen.Zhukov
    Registered Users Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    LithiumKid1976 wrote: »
    that airwaves add, where your man is stuck in traffic,
    gets the chewing gum out, pops a few, and his car changes into this souped up car.... THAT IS STILL STUCK IN TRAFFIC..... ??
    (shouldn't the car have changed, and the road cleared??)

    what is the point of it? :)

    'Airwaves, now in a bottle so you can keep it handy'.
    The bottle is about 12 times the size of the packet ! That's pretty handy alright.


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    #1344
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Can anyone tell me how a burger can give you the taste of anything other than a burger?

    Its not a taste of a fcuking country its just a fancy burger with a fancy name !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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    #1345
    TheDavester
    Registered Users Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭TheDavester


    The slo mo Vogue Williams ads for her show are painful, it looks like her modelling rather than whatever topic she has no clue about


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    #1346
    madmaggie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Ellie Goulding and her hair.


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    #1347
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Sweet Baby Jane, the Warburton's bread ad with Peter Kay. Straight from the Krusty the Clown "they drove a dump truck full of money up to my house" school of comedy dignity.


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    #1348
    Radio5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭Radio5


    The Irish Rail ad with your man not getting off the train cos it's so fab..........

    Clearly an idea from someone who has never travelled by train in Ireland.


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    #1349
    tylercheribini
    Registered Users Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭tylercheribini


    The current Permanent TSB ad with the idyllic couple and subsequent family. She looks like she is going to jump his bones in the bank when they get mortgage approval. The father seems to shoot home movies of the family on a grainy 60's 8 mm camera instead of a smartphone too, taking hipsterdom to a new extreme.


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    #1350
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    tylercheribini wrote: »
    The current Permanent TSB ad with the idyllic couple and subsequent family. She looks like she is going to jump his bones in the bank when they get mortgage approval. The father seems to shoot home movies of the family on a grainy 60's 8 mm camera instead of a smartphone too, taking hipsterdom to a new extreme.

    Did ya see the camera? Mother of jaysus give me strength.


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    #1351
    tylercheribini
    Registered Users Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭tylercheribini


    jca wrote:
    Did ya see the camera? Mother of jaysus give me strength.


    Its like what the Zapruder film was shot on.


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