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    #3092
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,299 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    The Christmas ads have started... and the new Boots one is just awful

    It uses the song 'She's the One' by Robbie Williams, but rewritten as 'She's my mum'...
    The singing is bad, the acting is bad, the ending is bad... like, a gift of lipstick? And what did the mum buy the daughter? Tampons?


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    #3093
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    That hipster Diet Coke ad! And I drink Diet Coke!


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    #3094
    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Try_harder wrote: »
    That hipster Diet Coke ad! And I drink Diet Coke!


    And walks like he has a bottle of coke shoved up him.



    The dialogue in that ad.. :mad:


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    #3095
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,931 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    The Christmas ads have started... and the new Boots one is just awful

    It uses the song 'She's the One' by Robbie Williams, but rewritten as 'She's my mum'...
    The singing is bad, the acting is bad, the ending is bad... like, a gift of lipstick? And what did the mum buy the daughter? Tampons?

    Yeah it's very cringey!

    On the subject of Christmas ads, anyone see the Icelad banned ad? Strong message.


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    #3096
    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    anewme wrote: »
    Yeah it's very cringey!

    On the subject of Christmas ads, anyone see the Icelad banned ad? Strong message.
    For anyone that hasn't seen it
    https://twitter.com/IcelandFoods/status/1060774234266484737


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    #3097
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    I don't get the Christmas angle to it.


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    #3098
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Suckit wrote: »
    For anyone that hasn't seen it
    https://twitter.com/IcelandFoods/status/1060774234266484737

    Love the idea of not using palm oil but making it into a sentimental advert that is supposed to be banned so it gets more hits makes me want to avoid Iceland like the plague. Its just annoying there isn't an Iceland locally I can boycott.


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    #3099
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Patww79 wrote: »
    I don't get the Christmas angle to it.

    Sentimental?

    Or :o should that be Santimental? :o

    I should write these bad ads I'd be really good at it :D


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    #3100
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    my3cents wrote: »
    Love the idea of not using palm oil but making it into a sentimental advert that is supposed to be banned so it gets more hits makes me want to avoid Iceland like the plague. Its just annoying there isn't an Iceland locally I can boycott.

    It's got the conversation going who cares, there's way more cynical attempts of marketing out there..


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    #3101
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    It's got the conversation going who cares, there's way more cynical attempts of marketing out there..

    Be hard to beat that when not so long those ethical people at Iceland were happy enough to be selling horse meat. Even if they didn't know they didn't ask any ethical questions like how come the product is so cheap?


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    #3102
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    my3cents wrote: »
    Be hard to beat that when not so long those ethical people at Iceland were happy enough to be selling horse meat. Even if they didn't know they didn't ask any ethical questions like how come the product is so cheap?

    Fair enough, but it wasn't just Iceland that was at that.


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    #3103
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    I'm just sitting here thinking palm oil would be a bit too upmarket for Iceland's suppliers.


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    #3104
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    I'm just sitting here thinking palm oil would be a bit too upmarket for Iceland's suppliers.

    Iceland have a very good range now, you've everything for the 'loike' brigade down to the 99c chicken curries and all in between. You mustn't have been in one in years.


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    #3105
    Squatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,841 ✭✭✭Squatter


    my3cents wrote: »
    Love the idea of not using palm oil but making it into a sentimental advert that is supposed to be banned so it gets more hits makes me want to avoid Iceland like the plague. Its just annoying there isn't an Iceland locally I can boycott.




    But you could get them back by buying loads of palm oil! That would show them that you're not someone to be trifled with! Plus it would probably really annoy Eamon Ryan! :D




    Back on topic, the ads that really annoy me are the Sky Bet ones that are currently infesting every commercial break on Sky Sports. It's bad enough having to pay over the odds to watch sports without having to endure this kind of rubbish being thrown at me ten or twelve times a day.


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    #3106
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Squatter wrote: »
    But you could get them back by buying loads of palm oil! That would show them that you're not someone to be trifled with! Plus it would probably really annoy Eamon Ryan! :D




    Back on topic, the ads that really annoy me are the Sky Bet ones that are currently infesting every commercial break on Sky Sports. It's bad enough having to pay over the odds to watch sports without having to endure this kind of rubbish being thrown at me ten or twelve times a day.

    But I did say I agree with not using palm oil so why would I buy loads of it?


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    #3107
    Capt Peacock
    Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭Capt Peacock


    Just seen the Mace Sextons sandwich advert...beyond horrific.


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    #3108
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,931 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    personally I think the Iceland as is fantastic. When all families are together at Christmas, Rang Tang has been driven for her home. Feel it's an easy way to broach this subject with smaller smaller children. Love it.

    Also, as a recent veggie, Iceland do some good products. I would not have been an Iceland demographic customer. They've definitely changed tack.

    When you talk about ads you despise, only a couple of years ago, Iceland had Kerry Katona as brand ambassador and the Christmas ad was all about Kerrys Prawn Ring. Now that's an ad that should have been banned


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    #3109
    JJayoo
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    There is a diet coke advert which I have been searching for online but can't find it, driving me crazy because I'm pretty sure it's the worst thing I have ever seen. It features this guy


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    #3110
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,931 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    JJayoo wrote: »
    There is a diet coke advert which I have been searching for online but can't find it, driving me crazy because I'm pretty sure it's the worst thing I have ever seen. It features this guy

    Ahhh yeah...that's hateful

    Head on him and the price of turnips.


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    #3111
    madmaggie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    The Boots Christmas ad is making me cringe. Robbie Williams will be raking in the royalties. At the end of it the mother gets a tiny gift, looks like a lip gloss, or nail varnish. After all the hoo ha of the ad, I thought it would be something fantastic.


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    #3112
    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    madmaggie wrote: »
    The Boots Christmas ad is making me cringe. Robbie Williams will be raking in the royalties. At the end of it the mother gets a tiny gift, looks like a lip gloss, or nail varnish. After all the hoo ha of the ad, I thought it would be something fantastic.


    Thankfully, he won't earn a penny.
    https://www.songfacts.com/facts/robbie-williams/shes-the-one

    This simple piano ballad about finding a soulmate was originally recorded by the British rock band World Party for their 1997 album, Egyptology. The band's frontman Karl Wallinger told The Daily Telegraph he wrote the song in "10 minutes and recorded it in an hour."

    Despite the song winning an Ivor Novello Award in 1997, "She's The One" wasn't a hit for World Party. However, Guy Chambers, who'd played with Kurt Wallinger's outfit before becoming Robbie Williams' songwriting partner, heard the track when he was helping out on Egyptology. He suggested to Williams that he should record the tune for his I've Been Expecting You album. Featuring a restrained, almost whispered vocal from the singer it was released as the fourth single from the LP, becoming Williams' second solo #1 single in the UK.

    "It was very strange," Wallinger recalled. "Nobody phoned to say they were doing it and they used the band I'd just been on a road with to record it."

    Kurt Wallinger criticized Williams' version of his song and in annoyance the former Take That singer dropped it from his stage performances. Wallenger said that it irritated him because, "Robbie didn't sing the right words, 'cause he can't read probably. It was a weird one: you lose your friends but you make loads of money."

    The song went on to win a number of awards, including a BRIT Award for Single of the Year and Best British Video in 2000. Meanwhile, Wallinger was struggling; World Party's Dumbing Up album was released in 2000 but it failed to trouble the charts and the following year he suffered a brain aneurysm which left him unable to speak. It took him five years to recover, and the royalty checks from "She's the One" were a lifesaver as he recuperated at home.

    "The song had a much better time than me, popping off to the BRITs while I was at home eating crackers dipped in water," he said. "But it was lucky it was a hit. It's saved my ass financially for a few years while I was holding onto the handrail thinking, what happened?"


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    #3113
    madmaggie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Thank you, Suckit. I know this is the wrong thread, but that is trivially happy. I don't watch him on tv, as the look of him would make me throw the set out the window.


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    #3114
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,299 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    madmaggie wrote: »
    The Boots Christmas ad is making me cringe. Robbie Williams will be raking in the royalties. At the end of it the mother gets a tiny gift, looks like a lip gloss, or nail varnish. After all the hoo ha of the ad, I thought it would be something fantastic.

    Plus the lyrics sound like they're for the absolute single digit IQ people... like 'that was her, by the tree'...really? Really? That was her? Ya don't say! Would never have guessed.

    Idiots.


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    #3115
    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    The original

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


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    #3116
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    Heartened to see the pox in the Diet Coke advert is heavily mentioned - if him and that bird from the DC ad aslo ever breed, tis the end of days!!!


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    #3117
    newmember2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭newmember2


    Comhra wrote: »
    That infuriating ALDI advert with the smug middle-aged couple, Sean and Marie.

    Sean laughing at his crummy joke about them not losing track of each other since they started shopping at ALDI. Nauseating.


    I want to smash my TV when this comes on...I have to change channel.


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    #3118
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    What does that hideous Boots "Shes Me Mum" ad mean? I honestly dont get it, she makes the daughter take off her makeup before she goes out, daughter sings stupid song, daughter sees the mother singing in a choir and this seems to give her some insight into her mothers life so she gets her lipstick? I honestly cant figure it out, what are they getting at? Am I missing the first half in another ad or something?


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    #3119
    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    Thargor wrote: »
    What does that hideous Boots "Shes Me Mum" ad mean? I honestly dont get it, she makes the daughter take off her makeup before she goes out, daughter sings stupid song, daughter sees the mother singing in a choir and this seems to give her some insight into her mothers life so she gets her lipstick? I honestly cant figure it out, what are they getting at? Am I missing the first half in another ad or something?

    I think the subtle reasoning is that she's a single mother. The daughter only sees her as her mother, trying to stop her from having fun. When the daughter sees her mother in the choir she sees her in a different light, and perhaps feels sorry for her in that she sacrifices a more active lifestyle to look after her.

    The lipstick gift seems to be a gesture that she understands that just like her, her mother might want to have fun of her own (she was wearing lipstick while she was in the choir).

    Just my view of it anyway.

    It's getting slaughtered, and it's that awful mawkish sentimentality that is the modern Christmas ad......but it's not the worst in my opinion.


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    #3120
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,299 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    ligerdub wrote: »
    I think the subtle reasoning is that she's a single mother. The daughter only sees her as her mother, trying to stop her from having fun. When the daughter sees her mother in the choir she sees her in a different light, and perhaps feels sorry for her in that she sacrifices a more active lifestyle to look after her.

    The lipstick gift seems to be a gesture that she understands that just like her, her mother might want to have fun of her own (she was wearing lipstick while she was in the choir).

    Just my view of it anyway.

    It's getting slaughtered, and it's that awful mawkish sentimentality that is the modern Christmas ad......but it's not the worst in my opinion.

    It's a rightful slaughter, imo. It's on every god damn hour of the day too. The one from last year was far better.



    I believe Boots are deleting the comments underneath the new one-there isn't a single comment on the video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z6KIlJaACw


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    #3121
    hkjohn
    Registered Users Posts: 379 ✭✭hkjohn


    my3cents wrote: »
    Sentimental?

    Or :o should that be Santimental? :o

    I should write these bad ads I'd be really good at it :D

    VOICE OVER

    (Irish female - Late 20s and sounding as if she' wasting away from consumption or been dumped by the love of her life who stole her book of Sylvia Plath poems when leaving)

    Only if you can write trite rhymes
    And do so 99 out of 100 times.


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