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What adverts leave you saying wha???

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭BettePorter


    There's an advert at the minute about coffee. ..but I only know this cause it says so at the end . It's a guy standing in like a lecture hall saying ....sit down if we've lost touch ...or some such ****e. I have no clue what the point is supposed to be. I often wonder when these ideas are mooted initially ....what idiot says .....jesus that's genius!


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


    There's an advert at the minute about coffee. ..but I only know this cause it says so at the end . It's a guy standing in like a lecture hall saying ....sit down if we've lost touch ...or some such ****e. I have no clue what the point is supposed to be. I often wonder when these ideas are mooted initially ....what idiot says .....jesus that's genius!

    That was what we said here about that advert. The guy who sold it to whatever coffee company deserved a medal for hard neck, or the guy who bought the idea should have been sacked. Like so many ads it could have been for anything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,783 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    There's an advert at the minute about coffee. ..but I only know this cause it says so at the end . It's a guy standing in like a lecture hall saying ....sit down if we've lost touch ...or some such ****e. I have no clue what the point is supposed to be. I often wonder when these ideas are mooted initially ....what idiot says .....jesus that's genius!

    The way you explained it, I haven't a clue either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    Some car ad full of chavvy wans in pjs with a crappy rap effort in the background repeating "pyjama mamas". How that's supposed to make you want to buy the car I'll never know.

    Also ads on Eurosport are hilariously bad, with Peter Sagan trying to sell you a steam extractor by telling you "I love this cooking" in a heavy accent or Marcel Kittel encouraging you to get some caffeine shampoo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    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!

    Sure.

    The marathon symbolises life, and how we change roles and become the carers and help our parents as they grow old.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    played across the intercom of Super-Value

    'Super-Value, real food real people'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,983 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    played across the intercom of Super-Value

    'Super-Value, real food real people'
    Ah yea..that's simple..
    It's to discourage Zombie Thursdays.

    To thine own self be true



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


    played across the intercom of Super-Value

    'Super-Value, real food real people'

    Not those fake people you’d get in Aldi


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


    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.
    sightband wrote: »
    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.

    I do hope that your inspired post (a copy and paste of mine) attracts the same yellow card treatment i got :)


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


    I do hope that your inspired post (a copy and paste of mine) attracts the same yellow card treatment i got :)

    you'll notice one key difference, the difference being enough to warrant a card apparently :)


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  • Posts: 17,847 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The kids screaming Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah........


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    The energia ads with stupid little annoying hamster thinking he's James bond.

    "The robin in the garden,

    That was me,

    I'm still here, Loving you..

    Until we meet again. "



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


    sightband wrote: »
    you'll notice one key difference, the difference being enough to warrant a card apparently :)

    Ahhh politically collect plagiarism - thats ok so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Where does it say he's the kids step father? I always assumed he was just the mothers boyfriend and the last scene was the mother delighted because now she could ring up the childs biological dad (her ex-boyfriend) who she now hates and brag to him that his kid now calls her new piece of fluff 'Dad' or am I reading too much into this?

    On a more serious note, I have seen that ad hundreds of times at this stage but if you had asked me 2 minutes before reading this thread what the ad was about, I couldn't tell you. The power of advertising ...eh???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Sure.

    The marathon symbolises life, and how we change roles and become the carers and help our parents as they grow old.

    That still doesn't explain how the mans father managed to be ahead of him at the line and completely fúcked with exhaustion?


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


    There's an advert at the minute about coffee. ..but I only know this cause it says so at the end . It's a guy standing in like a lecture hall saying ....sit down if we've lost touch ...or some such ****e. I have no clue what the point is supposed to be. I often wonder when these ideas are mooted initially ....what idiot says .....jesus that's genius!

    Not only that, beyond the brain storming of marketers, it's the whole effort put into producing it as well, with camera crew, extras and production staff and not a one of them stating the obvious about how rubbish it all is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    there is one on at the moment an overdubbed european one where the woman is spending all the partners money on frocks and when he asks her about it he gets pushed violently to the ground and laughed at

    if the makers of this switched the roles they would be jailed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭Marty Bird


    The extra chewing gum ad with the bride chewing extra and leaves the groom chasing the limo. I mean WTF is that about..

    🌞6.02kWp⚡️3.01kWp South/East⚡️3.01kWp West



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


    Marty Bird wrote: »
    The extra chewing gum ad with the bride chewing extra and leaves the groom chasing the limo. I mean WTF is that about..

    I was told by a 10 year old that that particular ad is, and I quote, "spasticated".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    That AIB ad with the people who went and borrowed money to buy a treehouse for the kids. I've 2 fundamental problems with it - 1. f@ck right off and stop trying to guilt people into going into debt to be 'better' parents. 2. Its the epitome of what got us into trouble the last time we had a boom - borrowing money to buy sh1t we don't need.


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


    That AIB ad with the people who went and borrowed money to buy a treehouse for the kids. I've 2 fundamental problems with it - 1. f@ck right off and stop trying to guilt people into going into debt to be 'better' parents. 2. Its the epitome of what got us into trouble the last time we had a boom - borrowing money to buy sh1t we don't need.

    Also the ad where the dad and the family are doing home improvement and he casually drops in the line "...when you're spending three quarters of your wages on the mortgage....".

    Definitely a whaatf advert.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Those Auld Mr Brennan ads on the radio. He sounds like a right pain in the hole, and that Dublin accent would make you vomit. The bread isn’t nice either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,977 ✭✭✭minikin


    Did his dad die or did he shag off with Mary from Number 32?
    Or did she shack up with the yellow-pack Domhnall Gleeson and kick his dad out? :)

    As a separated Dad, hate that vodafone ad with a fupping passion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,143 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    This ad from a few months back that was shown in cinemas. It didn't have the Nissan watercolour at first.



    Don't know why the embed won't work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef6rDlRQtio


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Marty Bird wrote:
    The extra chewing gum ad with the bride chewing extra and leaves the groom chasing the limo. I mean WTF is that about..

    BattleCorp wrote:
    I was told by a 10 year old that that particular ad is, and I quote, "spasticated".


    From a similar campaign, they had a girl taking a penalty in football while chewing gum (health hazard). They didn't even show her scoring it. I bet she missed and they couldn't do a re-take because she choked on the gum while taking the first.


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


    This ad from a few months back that was shown in cinemas. It didn't have the Nissan ...]

    Now, that is just pathetic


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


    That AIB ad with the people who went and borrowed money to buy a treehouse for the kids. I've 2 fundamental problems with it - 1. f@ck right off and stop trying to guilt people into going into debt to be 'better' parents. 2. Its the epitome of what got us into trouble the last time we had a boom - borrowing money to buy sh1t we don't need.

    Yeah, but they can get €900 a month for it on Daft.


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