Christmas Ads

Xtrail14

Is there not an Xmas forum for this dose of diarrhoea?

Hyperbollix

As if Lidl/Aldi ads weren't bad enough, they had to employ Bernard O' Shea to do the voiceover.

Xtrail14

He is a top class tool

up for anything

Surreptitious wrote: »

This one is happy

Let's rip the happy out of it.

Poor Kevin. Racing home for Christmas skewered on the tines of a horrifying hedgehog hurtling helter-skelter through the darkening frozen landscape, rescued by a seemingly jovial gent, Kevin's fear allayed by Santa's red raiment, and failing to realise thanks to his colour blindness that his rescuer is none other than the Jolly Green Giant of lurid legume legend, helping him reach his warm and usually welcoming sanctuary but where now a ravening violent vegetarian lying in wait grabs him, circumcises him at both ends, flays him alive, his pain-wracked body sliced into matchsticks and while there's still a breath of life in his tortured tuber plunged into boiling salted water to tenderise his fibrous filaments.

Kevin never gets to sit down with his loving family to enjoy Terence, the delicious crispy golden-brown turkey around whom they were gathering when the vengeful vegan struck. Poor Kevin, or maybe served him right.

Graces7

Just seen the supervalu ad! Love it1 ... sorry; cannot post links.

bladespin

Surreptitious wrote: »

If anyone is feeling a bit low, you should avoid this one

That's pretty rubbish on many fronts, is it genuine or did some amateur have a go?

whisky_galore

Graces7 wrote: »

Just seen the supervalu ad! Love it1 ... sorry; cannot post links.

Good.

freshpopcorn

saabsaab wrote: »

They care about selling alright but does over advertising too early put people off? Many seem to think it does.

I doubt it to be honest.
Take Brown Thomas for example they started opening their Christmas Shop in mid August about a decade ago and they kept on doing it because they were selling stuff.(Apart from this year because of Covid.)
Similar with shops selling sweets.
Even when ads air. Normally in the first week of November the retails are watching to see do their online or in store sales rise once they air.
If they found it was putting people off airing ads in early November I doubt they’d bother.

Graces7

Xtrail14 wrote: »

Is there not an Xmas forum for this dose of diarrhoea?

yay but enter at your peril.... ! I fled therefrom weeks ago....,,

rickis tache

Graces7 wrote: »

Just seen the supervalu ad! Love it1 ... sorry; cannot post links.

Just seen it. Lost my dad this year so can't make it through the full ad without blubbing.

Jim_Hodge

Surreptitious wrote: »

This one is happy

When I saw it my First thoughts were if Jacqueline Wilson will sue for ripping off Stickman.

ChikiChiki

Crimbo tree en route. It is going up early this year. May begin to stockpile the drinks cabinet.

anewme

John Lewis ad is out. Very meh.

touts

John Lewis Ad is absolute rubbish.

But the McDonalds Ad. Now that's the winner hands down.

Kylta

Surreptitious wrote: »

If anyone is feeling a bit low, you should avoid this one

Actually thats a very funny video. Is the moral of that story, is he should've got a cat or a hamster. And I don't think he died of a broken heart over the dog, I think he died from eating all the chocolate, it's no wonder the dog Fu¢k off

Edgware

Has anyone noticed a bit of a stretch in the evenings?

DvB

Graces7 wrote: »

yay but enter at your peril.... ! I fled therefrom weeks ago....,,

I have no idea why Graces, not one person on that forum ever gave you anything but respect.

eviltwin

I’m in a minority but I like seeing the Christmas ads. This year has been quite a bad one for various readers and the ads remind me that soon it will be a new year, a fresh start and hopefully a more positive twelve months. It’s been a miserable year and if a bit of Christmas brings some joy to people work away.

In saying that I imagine by early December I will be sick of it all too

Hector Savage

This was always my favourite one

Kids face just breaks my heart at the end ... it shouldn't it's a nice happy moment ... but man .... can't watch it now.

Surreptitious

Disney Christmas ad

Potential-Monke

Graces7 wrote: »

Just seen the supervalu ad! Love it1 ... sorry; cannot post links.

I saw it today and I thought it was bad form. "Is he coming", "He's definitely coming", and with no guarantee that it will even be possible this year. Sending out the wrong message I reckon.

Then again, I dislike most of these ads anyway. Actually, I dislike the vast majority of ads in general.

To answer the OP, it is way too early. I would 100% be behind some law stopping retailers from advertising so early. But it won't happen, because money. I personally think having all this Xmas stuff so soon after (and sometimes before) Halloween takes away from the holiday season. I do be sick of everything Xmas by December these years.

Pinch Flat

Just saw the coca cola "holidays are coming" ad. That's a sign it's on the way for me.

Jim_Hodge

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I saw it today and I thought it was bad form. "Is he coming", "He's definitely coming", and with no guarantee that it will even be possible this year. Sending out the wrong message I reckon.

Then again, I dislike most of these ads anyway. Actually, I dislike the vast majority of ads in general.

To answer the OP, it is way too early. I would 100% be behind some law stopping retailers from advertising so early. But it won't happen, because money. I personally think having all this Xmas stuff so soon after (and sometimes before) Halloween takes away from the holiday season. I do be sick of everything Xmas by December these years.

I just came on to post how much I thought the Supervalu ad was bad form and saw your post. As grandparents who used to see our grandchildren several times a week, we are aching to be able to hug them again and even to just share a day with them over Christmas . This advert is just unfair and cheap cashing in on the situation to boost their sales.

As for the ads in general, it's still too early to show them.

Omackeral

anewme wrote: »

John Lewis ad is out. Very meh.

Why do people care about this particular ad so much? Genuinely? We don’t even have that shop here as far as I’m aware.

freshpopcorn

Omackeral wrote: »

Why do people care about this particular ad so much? Genuinely? We don’t even have that shop here as far as I’m aware.

A few years ago they did started off with some emotional/story telling ads and they sort off stood out compared to lots of places just having ads with food/cloths/etc in them.

whisky_galore

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Just saw the coca cola "holidays are coming" ad. That's a sign it's on the way for me.

Edgware

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I saw it today and I thought it was bad form. "Is he coming", "He's definitely coming", and with no guarantee that it will even be possible this year. Sending out the wrong message I reckon.

Then again, I dislike most of these ads anyway. Actually, I dislike the vast majority of ads in general.

To answer the OP, it is way too early. I would 100% be behind some law stopping retailers from advertising so early. But it won't happen, because money. I personally think having all this Xmas stuff so soon after (and sometimes before) Halloween takes away from the holiday season. I do be sick of everything Xmas by December these years.

"Is he coming, is he definitely coming?" Sounds like a porn theesome

Woodies- 'Mrs Higgins' is cute.

Cant post the link 😔

Jim_Hodge

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Woodies- 'Mrs Higgins' is cute.

Cant post the link ��

KungPao

I'm just hoping the Budwieser ad with the horses makes a come back. Classic.