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plodder · 12-07-2017 06:15AM

The TV license ads are bizarre, but amusing. They are almost credible, and get your attention with only a mild WTF. The new one I heard yesterday was a Ross O'Carroll Kelly type touting rugby trips.

Del.Monte · 12-07-2017 07:30AM

plodder wrote: »

The TV license ads are bizarre, but amusing. They are almost credible, and get your attention with only a mild WTF. The new one I heard yesterday was a Ross O'Carroll Kelly type touting rugby trips.

They are utterly ridiculous and amongst a myriad of similar sounding 'real' Ads only serve to confuse.

cml387 · 12-07-2017 07:53AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Words can't describe it, you just have to hear it.

Just heard it.

Can't describe it.

Useful, if sampled, as additional effects for the witches in Macbeth.

plodder · 12-07-2017 09:09AM

Del.Monte wrote: »

They are utterly ridiculous and amongst a myriad of similar sounding 'real' Ads only serve to confuse.

Well the rugby one made me smile anyway, after as I said, the brief WTF? Though it did take me a while to figure out, the Visit Amsterdam one, wasn't two separate ads. The Dutch Tourist body would have fair cause to sue them for that atrocity.

Mr E · 12-07-2017 09:13AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Q Promotions ... the pièce de résistance is the woman's laugh at the end. Words can't describe it, you just have to hear it.

I was just going to comment on that. Absolutely horrendous fake laugh.

Oops69 · 12-07-2017 12:34PM

Opel 'onstar' , you can't turn on the radio without hearing about it , whatever the hell it is ?

Birneybau · 12-07-2017 12:35PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

That "Homebird" ad for cooked chicken/ turkey.....

I eat a lot of the stuff, and it sounds delicious, but would it ever occur to them to tell us where it's available???

You want them to list all the shops?

optogirl · 12-07-2017 12:36PM

Birneybau wrote: »

You want them to list all the shops?

I was a bit confused by that one too!

HeidiHeidi · 12-07-2017 12:58PM

Birneybau wrote: »

You want them to list all the shops?

Any shops would do..... I haven't seen the product yet!

Not that I've looked particularly hard, but I might if I knew what sort of shops stocked it.....

Supermarkets? Delis? Corner spar/centra type shops?

Birneybau · 12-07-2017 12:58PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Any shops would do..... I haven't seen the product yet!

Not that I've looked particularly hard, but I might if I knew what sort of shops stocked it.....

Supermarkets? Food shops?

Do you need to know where they sell sliced ham?

Birneybau · 12-07-2017 07:01PM

Sorry Heidi, if it looks like I was getting at you, I wasn't.

jojofizzio · 12-07-2017 08:17PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Any shops would do..... I haven't seen the product yet!

Not that I've looked particularly hard, but I might if I knew what sort of shops stocked it.....

Supermarkets? Delis? Corner spar/centra type shops?

I've seen it in Dunnes

xraylady · 17-07-2017 06:45PM

plodder wrote: »

Well the rugby one made me smile anyway, after as I said, the brief WTF? Though it did take me a while to figure out, the Visit Amsterdam one, wasn't two separate ads. The Dutch Tourist body would have fair cause to sue them for that atrocity.

What Company was the rugby one for, do you remember? Trying to look up online to show someone but can't remember- not a very effective ad!

dogmatix · 18-07-2017 10:30AM

xraylady wrote: »

What Company was the rugby one for, do you remember? Trying to look up online to show someone but can't remember- not a very effective ad!

I think it was for the TV license.

happyday · 18-07-2017 10:41AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

His voice is so grating. That said he done this advert and it was good but not because of his voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMkYErL4SD0

He was Pete's son in Fair City I think.

plodder · 18-07-2017 11:09AM

xraylady wrote: »

What Company was the rugby one for, do you remember? Trying to look up online to show someone but can't remember- not a very effective ad!

Yes, they are fake, and really ads for the TV license. I think the concept has been done to death now.

Another ad that made me laugh was one for some hotel out the west side of Dublin city. It's done in the style of maybe a mediaeval band of warriors being stirred up to attack the city, except narrated by a woman, suggesting it might actually be a shopping expedition. It's quite clever.

neris · 18-07-2017 02:32PM

heard one for earlier on Nova about Dog Poo for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown council. An ad for dog poo that I cant even remember what the content of the ad was but had some really dodgy singing at the end

endofrainbow · 18-07-2017 02:35PM

Adventure Rooms: I wawna do ee agee

Ciaran_B · 18-07-2017 07:08PM

neris wrote: »

heard one for earlier on Nova about Dog Poo for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown council. An ad for dog poo that I cant even remember what the content of the ad was but had some really dodgy singing at the end

Came here to post this. I thought we'd reached a low for sh1t related ads with the 'cr4p in a box and post it to us' one. But this dog-cr4p song is mind-blowing.

fricatus · 18-07-2017 08:07PM

Heard an absolutely awful ad for Iarnród Éireann today on Newstalk... it took the form of motoring advice, such as you'd get from the AA. Make sure to pull over in a safe place if you have to stop, followed by the sound of a vomiting child, sat nav giving dodgy directions, etc. But then the final piece of advice was to make sure the car was never overloaded, and it seemed to end with people screaming, like seconds before a crash, before going to the IÉ voiceover.

Has anyone else heard this ad? Did I just mishear that part of it? Because if they really put the sound of an impending accident, it seems to me to be pretty sick...

cdeb · 18-07-2017 08:21PM

They say imitation is the best form of flattery.

In that case - thank you.

From Frank Keane Volkswagen.

Sorry - wtf? Did ye invent the car or the garage? Or am I missing something here?

Also highly irritating in that all their ads seem to be voiced by this guy -

Del.Monte · 18-07-2017 09:26PM

fricatus wrote: »

Heard an absolutely awful ad for Iarnród Éireann today on Newstalk... it took the form of motoring advice, such as you'd get from the AA. Make sure to pull over in a safe place if you have to stop, followed by the sound of a vomiting child, sat nav giving dodgy directions, etc. But then the final piece of advice was to make sure the car was never overloaded, and it seemed to end with people screaming, like seconds before a crash, before going to the IÉ voiceover.

Has anyone else heard this ad? Did I just mishear that part of it? Because if they really put the sound of an impending accident, it seems to me to be pretty sick...

At least the people in the car didn't have to put up with a nauseating stream of bilingual announcements for the duration of their journey.

Typer Monkey · 19-07-2017 06:33AM

fricatus wrote: »

Heard an absolutely awful ad for Iarnrireann today on Newstalk... it took the form of motoring advice, such as you'd get from the AA. Make sure to pull over in a safe place if you have to stop, followed by the sound of a vomiting child, sat nav giving dodgy directions, etc. But then the final piece of advice was to make sure the car was never overloaded, and it seemed to end with people screaming, like seconds before a crash, before going to the Ivoiceover.

Has anyone else heard this ad? Did I just mishear that part of it? Because if they really put the sound of an impending accident, it seems to me to be pretty sick...

There's a bee in the car and they're screaming 'bee! Bee!!'

It's actually one of the VERY few ads that makes me smile

dogmatix · 19-07-2017 06:39AM

cdeb wrote: »

They say imitation is the best form of flattery.

In that case - thank you.

From Frank Keane Volkswagen.

Sorry - wtf? Did ye invent the car or the garage? Or am I missing something here?

Also highly irritating in that all their ads seem to be voiced by this guy -

Perhaps it is a comment on the emissions scandal in that a number of other car companies are now being investigated.

Otherwise it is another addition to VW's long and ignoble tradition of truly moronic radio ads.

dogmatix · 19-07-2017 06:46AM

Anyone seen this site - http://greatirishradioads.com/ ? I get the impression this is the irish radio industry giving themselves a pat on the back for their "genius" and "creativity".

fricatus · 19-07-2017 11:47AM

Typer Monkey wrote: »

There's a bee in the car and they're screaming 'bee! Bee!!'

It's actually one of the VERY few ads that makes me smile

Oh right! Thank goodness it wasn't what I had thought it was initially!

Ol' Donie · 19-07-2017 12:04PM

dogmatix wrote: »

Anyone seen this site - http://greatirishradioads.com/ ? I get the impression this is the irish radio industry giving themselves a pat on the back for their "genius" and "creativity".

I honestly can't think of anything less worthwhile than industry awards.

From the Oscars all the way down to those marketing awards you hear ads for on the radio. Make me f*ckin sick.

Most of them require a significant fee to enter, which is why you usually only see the same names on those best-place-to-work award yokes.

I'm reasonably sure if they were best places to work, they'd give those thousands of euros to employees with mortgages etc.

Del.Monte · 19-07-2017 01:55PM

xraylady wrote: »

What Company was the rugby one for, do you remember? Trying to look up online to show someone but can't remember- not a very effective ad!

Just heard it again - "Set Piece Travel" - quite catchy.

griffin100 · 20-07-2017 06:11PM

Jesus that Dog Poo Dog Poo ad on Nova at the minute is brutal. The feckin Dog Poo song is stuck in my head.

Ol' Donie · 20-07-2017 08:15PM

There's now an ad in which a smattering of spanish words is meant to convince me to buy a Seat.

I've also heard that "everything sounds better in French" ad and some Opel ad in which "German engineering" gets mentioned.

Are you supposed to imagine you're driving around Madrid or Paris when you buy a car? What am I missing? As if I give a f*ck about any of this when I just want to be able to drive to the nearest Tesco.

(If you are supposed to do this, Opel, you're not doing yourselves any favours).

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