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What adverts leave you saying wha???

  • 05-01-2018 10:02PM
    #1
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭


    So what adverts confuse you, you don't get or in general make you wonder what they're on about.

    For the past few weeks I've seen a Vodafone advert that ends in "Thanks Dad" with the mother looking shocked at this statement. I've yet to twig what this is all about and only ever realise it's the ad the confuses me at the end of it so without boards I'll be forever in the dark


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


    A lot here.


  • #3
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Ads that lack cleavage.

    We all know that if you want to shift something fast just put a pair of tits on it


  • #4
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭valoren


    He is his step dad. His biological dad is gone.

    They bond over the course of the ad until the kid says 'Thanks Dad' as a sort of acceptance to both their delight.


  • #5
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    valoren wrote: »
    He is his step dad. His biological dad is gone.

    They bond over the course of the ad until the kid says 'Thanks Dad' as a sort of acceptance.

    Like Liam Neeson in Love Actually. He and the son go through the ignominy of being in a Richard Curtis film to 'get' each other kind of thing.

    Did his dad die or did he shag off with Mary from Number 32? I'm not quite sure his mother should be validating the use of the Dad title in either case or that it would be mainstream acceptable to do so?

    Yer Da's gone - here's the new fella he's your new Dad. Seems wrong.


  • #6
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭valoren


    vectorvictor wrote: »
    valoren wrote: »
    He is his step dad. His biological dad is gone.

    They bond over the course of the ad until the kid says 'Thanks Dad' as a sort of acceptance.

    Like Liam Neeson in Love Actually. He and the son go through the ignominy of being in a Richard Curtis film to 'get' each other kind of thing.

    Did his dad die or did he shag off with Mary from Number 32? I'm not quite sure his mother should be validating the use of the Dad title in either case or that it would be mainstream acceptable to do so?

    Yer Da's gone - here's the new fella he's your new Dad. Seems wrong.

    It's keeping in tune with the trope in modern advertising that men in adverts must be lazy/stupid/cowardly (delete as appropriate.)


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  • #7
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,784 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    me_irl wrote: »
    A lot here.

    And here.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055173575


  • #8
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    valoren wrote: »
    It's keeping in tune with the trope in modern advertising that men in adverts must be lazy/stupid/cowardly (delete as appropriate.)

    Does seem a little like advertising agencies have decided that Gay and Pride everything is "old" and that it's time to move on to target the deserted wives club.

    Across the nations advertising agencies scratch their heads for the next big attempt at minority inclusiveness and by association them being a "forward thinking brand" ... awaiting the Vodafone ad of two trannys bringing little johnny to his first day of school wearing a dress.


  • #9
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    valoren wrote: »
    He is his step dad. His biological dad is gone.

    They bond over the course of the ad until the kid says 'Thanks Dad' as a sort of acceptance to both their delight.

    Anybody know who the Mammy is in this ad? She looks yummy enough.


  • #10
    antonolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭antonolan


    This Vodafone ad is great and deserves a couple of spin off adverts...

    Maybe one that deleves into the "Dad's" background.. such as the wife and kids that he deserted so he could shack up with his latest squeeze and her kid...

    Or maybe, an advert that follows up on the kid in c. 10-15 years time, as he shots up and overdoses in a cold wet and dark laneway in a soulless city because of the psychological damage that was done to him by his Mum and all of his "Dads"...

    Finally, a Vodafone advert that shows the biological Dad of the kid chaining himself to Leinster house dressed at Batman whilst protesting about fathers' rights!

    I should be working in advertising!


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The latest McDonalds Ad's cant make out what they are about.


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  • #12
    ziggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ziggy


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  • #13
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    They have shown that stupid annoying ad about the kid and his new stepdad bonding about 100.000 times now since Christmas, why the fcuk would they keep on showing it over and over again?? Its at the stage now when if I hear that soul crushing "Getting to know you....." music ill switch off straight away I cant listen to it anymore. Its beyond played out by now.


  • #14
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Most ads, these days. I can't think of a single current ad where the "story" shown has anything at all to do with what they're trying to flog.

    And special mention has to be made of perfume ads.


  • #15
    antonolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭antonolan


    This Vodafone ad is great and deserves a couple of spin off adverts...

    Maybe one that deleves into the "Dad's" background.. such as the wife and kids that he deserted so he could shack up with his latest squeeze and her kid...

    Or maybe, an advert that follows up on the kid in c. 10-15 years time, as he shots up and overdoses in a cold wet and dark laneway in a soulless city because of the psychological damage that was done to him by his Mum and all of his "Dads"...

    Finally, a Vodafone advert that shows the biological Dad of the kid chaining himself to Leinster house dressed at Batman whilst protesting about fathers' rights!

    I should be working in advertising!


  • #16
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    antonolan wrote: »
    This Vodafone ad is great and deserves a couple of spin off adverts...

    Maybe one that deleves into the "Dad's" background.. such as the wife and kids that he deserted so he could shack up with his latest squeeze and her kid...

    Or maybe, an advert that follows up on the kid in c. 10-15 years time, as he shots up and overdoses in a cold wet and dark laneway in a soulless city because of the psychological damage that was done to him by his Mum and all of his "Dads"...

    Finally, a Vodafone advert that shows the biological Dad of the kid chaining himself to Leinster house dressed at Batman whilst protesting about fathers' rights!

    I should be working in advertising!

    Please! Spare us. It's like most adverts today. It could be for anything. It purports to be the magic elixir for modern life yet does nothing to really show how they are any different to any other supplier.
    It's as though advert makers are enjoying themselves with their 'Creativity' but forget there's a product or service to promote and a customer to woo.


  • #17
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Guinness deserve a mention. Anything from the last 20 years.


  • #18
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    The now infamous TUI adverts, everything is off about it. Poor lip syncing, another crap slowed down acoustic cover of a classic, lazy acting, poorly choreographed dancing, really bad amateur stuff.


  • #19
    antonolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭antonolan


    Skye Jolly Man wrote: »
    Please! Spare us. It's like most adverts today. It could be for anything. It purports to be the magic elixir for modern life yet does nothing to really show how they are any different to any other supplier.
    It's as though advert makers are enjoying themselves with their 'Creativity' but forget there's a product or service to promote and a customer to woo.

    I keeping thinking of The Simpsons for some reason....

    Mr Plow Man commercial...


  • #20
    facehugger99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,545 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    It’s toasted.


  • #21
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    razorblunt wrote: »
    The now infamous TUI adverts, everything is off about it. Poor lip syncing, another crap slowed down acoustic cover of a classic, lazy acting, poorly choreographed dancing, really bad amateur stuff.

    I switch channel the instant it starts.


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  • #22
    sightband
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 670 ✭✭✭sightband


    Does seem a little like advertising agencies have decided that Gay and Pride everything is "old" and that it's time to move on to target the deserted wives club.

    Across the nations advertising agencies scratch their heads for the next big attempt at minority inclusiveness and by association them being a "forward-thinking brand" ... awaiting the Vodafone ad of two transvestites bringing little johnny to his first day of school wearing a dress.


  • #23
    Salvation Tambourine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Salvation Tambourine


    Surely companies create ads that are annoying rather than good?

    "I hate that *company* ad, it's so annoying!".

    IT may be annoying but ask someone for an insurance comparison website and most people will have the same answer.


  • #24
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    That fcukin Mace Face ad is woeful sh1te altogether.


  • #25
    Uranium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭Uranium


    Those ads for Joom
    Terrible voice dubbing


  • #26
    Wildsurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Wildsurfer


    Could someone explain that ad where the son and Dad are running marathon, can't remember what it's for. But the son is running along not a bother on him and only catches up on his old man near the finish line who is shagged and they cross the finish line together. But no way the ould fella could have been ahead of the son. I just can't figure it out!


  • #27
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Wildsurfer wrote: »
    Could someone explain that ad where the son and Dad are running marathon, can't remember what it's for. But the son is running along not a bother on him and only catches up on his old man near the finish line who is shagged and they cross the finish line together. But no way the ould fella could have been ahead of the son. I just can't figure it out!

    Same here. It made no sense to me either. I can't remember what it was for.


  • #28
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    I'd imagine the son was just keeping pace with his father, just staying slightly behind him. I get the impression from the ad that the Dad was the one who wanted to do the marathon and the son was supporting him.


  • #29
    Wildsurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Wildsurfer


    DoozerT6 wrote: »
    I'd imagine the son was just keeping pace with his father, just staying slightly behind him. I get the impression from the ad that the Dad was the one who wanted to do the marathon and the son was supporting him.
    Hmmm maybe, but the son looked to be tipping along at a decent pace, what did he do stop off for a coffee to kill the time. And only catch up for the last few hundred meters instead of supporting him all the way?


  • #30
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Dunno what car it is, but has 'lane assist'. If you need lane assist, you shouldn't be driving a car.


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  • #31
    Postgrad10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭Postgrad10


    The advert where the mother with the pram keeps apologising to everyone in the coffee shop. It's very unrealistic , in this day and age mothers have no reason to keep apologising like that. I deliberately mute it every time it comes on.


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