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Worst/Best Radio Ads rerun edition!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,446 ✭✭✭StaticNoise


    Patronising ad for some sort of cure-all miracle tablet or some such referencing covid "some find this hard".

    "COVID-19 is still stubbornly high"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Cole


    Dickie10 wrote: »
    on another note i really dont like when irish people called their mother MAM. e.g "my mam..." just say my mother
    Not as bad as mum. One of the most irritating words in the English language.

    Ah here, save the irritation for Irish people who say "mom" (US style). I know mom is pretty standard in Cork and Kerry and that's grand, but I'm talking about the ones who use it with an American twang. Kids can't really help it when they're so influenced by Youtube, social media etc. but when you hear a middle aged woman from Carlow using it ...ah will ye stop Kathryn Thomas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    NufcNavan wrote: »
    I hear that weirdo listening to his deceased mammy while cooking lamb has made its way to the radio.

    "Baste your lamb, like a good man" she says to her son.

    Can you imagine if the ad roles were reversed and a deceased father was saying to his daughter "Baste your lamb, like a good woman".

    there would be uproar. the ad would be axed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭dogmatix


    Heard on the radio just this morning : "Future is an attitude". From Audi. So goodbye to the iconic "Vorsprung durch Technik" and hello to another clunky meaning less slogan, as Audi join Peugeot and Opel with crappy slogans. See the following link to see why Audi are dumbing down (warning: article is filled with corporate speak and business buzz-words) - https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/press-releases/re-orientation-of-the-brand-takes-shape-audi-starts-a-new-brand-campaign-13249.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭Test For Echo


    dogmatix wrote: »
    Heard on the radio just this morning : "Future is an attitude". From Audi...[/url].

    "Audi is redefining “Vorsprung” and putting people with their values and needs at the heart of the refined brand strategy. Sustainability, digitalization and design continue to be the core themes. The transformation towards sustainable and digital premium mobility is emphasized in the new global brand campaign with the slogan “Future is an Attitude”. Blah blah blah"


    Who buys into this sort of crap? Gives me a headache. It's a fxxking car!!

    If I see or hear any of this type of garbage at work that person is immediately written off as an asshat.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,764 ✭✭✭plodder


    "Baste your lamb, like a good man" she says to her son.
    That line is just weird.


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mary McEvoy on Newstalk's "Mindful Moments" ad, telling us to go deep into our minds, take "the road to serenity". Sounds like the time she rounded a bend and met a tractor.

    Don't find these ads mindful at all tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    The ridiculous erectile disfunction Ad for some Viagra product which is dropped in at all sorts of inappropriate times during the day. I'm glad my kids are past the stage where they would ask what it's about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Just about to have dinner and the Ad for turning pee to gel comes on...:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,028 ✭✭✭De Bhál


    "Baste your lamb, like a good man"

    "until next year mam"

    useless fecker makes dinner once a year and thinks he's a great lad, can picture his wife in the background cleaning up the massive mess he makes, teeth grating listening to the mother-in-law she never got on with...as he continues hitting rewind - stop - play 500 times on a Sunday morning. Might be the reason she leaves him.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭crazy 88


    I'm really surprised to hear that TJ O'Mahony are using the same gloomy audio bed for their recent advert. It is the exact same gloomy audio bed as used on the AJ Products advert.

    Where are they going with the background music :confused: they're furniture/hardware companies....not funeral homes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭crazy 88


    F*cking Brady family ham, I have to mute the radio/tv when it comes on it irritates me that much.

    I thought they had killed this ad for good. Next thing they'll start doing the dreadful "I HAM some ham for one ham" ads again


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 331 ✭✭All that fandango


    "Oh Amy..."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Cole


    Trocaire ad - until love conquers fear.
    female v/o with a out of breath voice, as if she is getting stuck in to the dirty work in Kenya

    Keep hearing this recently. It's one thing having 'correct' diction, but this woman sounds like she's overdone the elocution lessons...trocaire.ooooorg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,868 ✭✭✭RINO87


    Theres some ad on for arthritis medication on at the moment. It drives me nuts because the VO keeps calling it arth-A-ritis!!

    I'm pretty sure it's the same lady that did the "you can't read the mind of a cyc-A-list" ad, that they actually had to re-record too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,026 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    "Nice hands".
    Said no female gym instructor to a guy ever.

    "Arthur-itis"

    Mindfulness rubbish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 478 ✭✭stronglikebull


    "Here are some everyday white lies... It's called the Dulux promise".

    Refreshing to see such truth in advertisements. Might be a really bad strategy though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭crazy 88


    Jonathan Healy's over enthusiastic voice in the carphone warehouse AND curry's ads which are on constantly. The curry's one is also on TV


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭crazy 88


    The supervalu ad with awful cover of "I'm a believer" as background music. Why was that song even chosen....zero imagination


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    That D4 kid asking rapid-fire questions is painful.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    "How filthy are or or parents?" why do producers put such strange lines in ads now? again another line from an ad where you ask , wtf does it mean?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    and yet again irish society banging on about STEM subjects , anything nerdy or science is seen as brilliant and the way forward, but lets get rid of poets and historians


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dickie10 wrote: »
    and yet again irish society banging on about STEM subjects , anything nerdy or science is seen as brilliant and the way forward, but lets get rid of poets and historians
    Time to resurrect my geocities page about William Rowan Hamilton I see.

    We can do STEM (horrible acronym) and poems, and history. We can chew gum and walk straight. Nobody is "banging on" about one pursuit to the exclusion of another hobby, I suggest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Typer Monkey


    "Oh Amy..."

    "My little one"....absolute puke. The way she says it gives me the heebie jeebies


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,042 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    "Baste your lamb, like a good man" she says to her son.

    Can you imagine if the ad roles were reversed and a deceased father was saying to his daughter "Baste your lamb, like a good woman".

    there would be uproar. the ad would be axed.

    I don’t even know what baste it like a good man means???

    Also - she advises to use loads of garlic

    Most women of that generation ran scared of garlic or any strong herb.

    Everything was plain plain plain.

    Boil or roast the sh1te out of meat and veg

    Terrible ad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    I don’t even know what baste it like a good man means???

    Also - she advises to use loads of garlic

    Most women of that generation ran scared of garlic or any strong herb.

    Everything was plain plain plain.

    Boil or roast the sh1te out of meat and veg

    Terrible ad.

    yeah that sprung to mind defintley the garlic thing, "..you can never have enough" said no irish mother of the 70s or 80s ever. more likely to say "oh bless us and save us where would you be going with that stuff, sure i dont think you can buy it around here anyway" they cook steak , like hammer the s****e out of it then fry it slowly for about 40 mins til good and black and dry and you might be eating any type of meat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,026 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Upside down downward facing dog yoga woman is back. Ridiculous ad.
    Who is so busy they have to make a phone call in the middle of yoga?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,540 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    Dickie10 wrote: »
    yeah that sprung to mind defintley the garlic thing, "..you can never have enough" said no irish mother of the 70s or 80s ever. more likely to say "oh bless us and save us where would you be going with that stuff, sure i dont think you can buy it around here anyway" they cook steak , like hammer the s****e out of it then fry it slowly for about 40 mins til good and black and dry and you might be eating any type of meat.

    Ah in fairness now on the TV advert the tape is labeled as 'Mammys roast lamb '95' or something to that effect, maybe she was developing notions! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 875 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    "Audi is redefining “Vorsprung” and putting people with their values and needs at the heart of the refined brand strategy. Sustainability, digitalization and design continue to be the core themes. The transformation towards sustainable and digital premium mobility is emphasized in the new global brand campaign with the slogan “Future is an Attitude”. Blah blah blah"


    Who buys into this sort of crap? Gives me a headache. It's a fxxking car!!

    If I see or hear any of this type of garbage at work that person is immediately written off as an asshat.

    Couldnt agree more .
    Theres a bunch of these car ads where we are told ( usually in a hushed or breathless voice ) how this latest piece of Japanese / Korean scrap metal is going to " Change your life " :mad:


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,148 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    The ad for Trin a dee (Trinity) College. Or just any ad where a 'd' is inserted where it doesn't belong. Loddo etc.

    Oh no, it's back with a vengeance with Trin-a-dee mentioned over and over again.

    Make it stop.


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