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fussyonion · 15-10-2019 07:20PM

The fella voicing the Clayton Hotel ad is so annoying. What is his accent?

sweetie · 18-10-2019 02:10PM

No more appliances delivered ads seeing as they've gone into administration...

Del.Monte · 18-10-2019 06:26PM

sweetie wrote: »

No more appliances delivered ads seeing as they've gone into administration...

Buy & Sell morphed into Appliances Delivered and now oblivion - can't say that I'm surprised.Their Ads won't be missed.

18-10-2019 08:52PM

Mr E wrote: »

I'd say it was the same guy doing the 4 accents too, which kind of defeats the purpose.

It definitely is. The LImerick and Northern accents were especially atrocious. For me, it's not even ennoying, I'm embarrassed on behalf of the person responsible for that ad, who said, "That sounds good, I have done my job".

Surely it only riles people, in Limerick and Ulster, to have Darby O'Gill-standard accents purporting to represent how they speak? What a strange ad.

Atlantic Dawn · 18-10-2019 09:47PM

Del.Monte wrote: »

Buy & Sell morphed into Appliances Delivered and now oblivion - can't say that I'm surprised.Their Ads won't be missed.

A great day for Ireland.

Dan Jaman · 18-10-2019 11:11PM

"What if..."
"What if..."
"What if...

What if your unicorn could fart rainbows?

flazio · 19-10-2019 07:43AM

I hope O'Kane is still owed for those ads, and the receiver never pays her.

Pineapple1 · 19-10-2019 11:56AM

"IN GERMANY, VE DONT JUST SIMPLY VOSH OUR CARS, VE KHRANZES ZEM KHLEAN"

Welsh Megaman · 19-10-2019 02:37PM

The ad promoting the Steve Martin/Martin Short gig.

Not the actual ad itself, but the lameness of that joke...

“35 Years later, and you’re still The Jerk.”

The show could be redeemed if they perform ‘My Little Buttercup’ from ‘Three Amigos’

whisky_galore · 20-10-2019 07:05PM

sweetie wrote: »

No more appliances delivered ads seeing as they've gone into administration...

Never have I been happier that a company has gone down the sh1tter. Good riddance to crap advertising.

generalgerry · 20-10-2019 08:14PM

sweetie wrote: »

No more appliances delivered ads seeing as they've gone into administration...

"The company said trading conditions and very challenging market conditions had led to the closure"

They were set up in 2016. Surely the point is that the business model wasn't really feasible from the start. While I don't like to see any business shutting down I am also delighted that Deirdre O'Kane will no longer be on the airwaves. Well at least not on those ads anyway.

endofrainbow · 20-10-2019 08:28PM

Abhaile ads. I know its a serious matter but are you really telling a mum at the school gates that you're behind on your mortgage repayments?

Genghis · 20-10-2019 08:31PM

Appliances Delivered was owned in some way by Denis O'Brien. Guess it had not been going well but they decided to throw massive ad volumes (using sister companies) at it, but still failed.

Explains how you heard the ads so much!

Must have been literally not selling anything in the end, not as if we are in recession or property slump.

whisky_galore · 20-10-2019 10:30PM

Genghis wrote: »

Appliances Delivered was owned in some way by Denis O'Brien. Guess it had not been going well but they decided to throw massive ad volumes (using sister companies) at it, but still failed.

Explains how you heard the ads so much!

Must have been literally not selling anything in the end, not as if we are in recession or property slump.

You can polish a turd all you like, but it's still a turd.

chalkitdown1 · 21-10-2019 07:24AM

The GoMo ad; just what accent does yer wan have? It's so weird, I can't actually place it. I think it might just be someone from abroad who's lived here for a long time and has a developed a mix of accents.

mimimcmc · 21-10-2019 02:17PM

chalkitdown1 wrote: »

The GoMo ad; just what accent does yer wan have? It's so weird, I can't actually place it. I think it might just be someone from abroad who's lived here for a long time and has a developed a mix of accents.

I think I recognise the accent and i think it's the young black girl from the young offenders

Brendan Bendar · 22-10-2019 09:00AM

Who is this “Shaaare” person appearing in the Three Arena in Nov.

Never heeeeeard of the artist.

?

Grolschevik · 23-10-2019 11:17AM

Pretty sure I heard the same actor, doing the same voice, on two separate consecutive ads, with no obvious transition between them. It came across as, 'What? As well as having to put his clothes back on at the optician's, he's now asking them about energy-efficient windows?!'

generalgerry · 23-10-2019 12:32PM

You'd have to wonder about Skoda. First they have an ad telling us about how designed for the Irish market their car is................ voiced in a plummy English accent. Now they have taken to mocking the different accents from around the country.

Brendan Bendar · 23-10-2019 02:22PM

generalgerry wrote: »

You'd have to wonder about Skoda. First they have an ad telling us about how designed for the Irish market their car is................ voiced in a plummy English accent. Now they have taken to mocking the different accents from around the country.

“Mocking”

Wee bit strong there,my friend, don’t you think.

EmmetSpiceland · 23-10-2019 02:24PM

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

“Mocking”

Wee bit strong there,my friend, don’t you think.

The “Limerick” one does seem to be a bit of a joke but that could just be because of the Rubber Bandits slagging off the Limerick skanger.

generalgerry · 23-10-2019 03:16PM

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

“Mocking”

Wee bit strong there,my friend, don’t you think.

I certainly don't think that it could be described as complimentary!!

Brendan Bendar · 23-10-2019 04:59PM

generalgerry wrote: »

I certainly don't think that it could be described as complimentary!!

Why not,dude?

It’s an ad, bit of fun to it, cannot understand how buttoned - up folk come out and try to take issue with it.

Does every ad. now have to be “complimentary” can we not have a bit of fun to these ads.

Over.......!

endofrainbow · 23-10-2019 05:02PM

mimimcmc wrote: »

I think I recognise the accent and i think it's the young black girl from the young offenders

I thought it was the girl that does the entertainment news on RTE - she was in Dancing Thingie ?

whisky_galore · 23-10-2019 07:02PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

The “Limerick” one does seem to be a bit of a joke but that could just be because of the Rubber Bandits slagging off the Limerick skanger.

It's stupid, they couldn't find a small selection of people talking in their normal regional accents that could actually be cool, but no just hire a Mario Rosenstock wannabe and turn it into a silly accent joke.

EmmetSpiceland · 23-10-2019 07:50PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

It's stupid, they couldn't find a small selection of people talking in their normal regional accents that could actually be cool, but no just hire a Mario Rosenstock wannabe and turn it into a silly accent joke.

I guess it’s either that or you get Emmet Kirwan, Bernard O’Shea or Kevin McGahern.

Maybe they were trying to “shake” things up.

Nice to hear an “inner city” Dub on the radio who’s not some “sleeveen” type though.

whisky_galore · 23-10-2019 10:00PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I guess it’s either that or you get Emmet Kirwan, Bernard O’Shea or Kevin McGahern.
.

Who?

dogmatix · 24-10-2019 06:42AM

whisky_galore wrote: »

It's stupid, they couldn't find a small selection of people talking in their normal regional accents that could actually be cool, but no just hire a Mario Rosenstock wannabe and turn it into a silly accent joke.

And the overall narrator on the Skoda ad - doesn't he also do the Home Instead / Wiltshire farm pre-packaged tasteless meals for the elderly ads? Seems he is everywhere these days.

Problem is every time he trys to sell a skoda on air, I keep thinking of Jimmy shoving a load of Salmonella ready frozen tv dinners into mary's freezer and then months later reading in the papers how Jimmy is up in court on fraud charges for holding mary's and dozen's of other elderly peoples pension books.

whisky_galore · 24-10-2019 07:01AM

dogmatix wrote: »

And the overall narrator on the Skoda ad - doesn't he also do the Home Instead / Wiltshire farm pre-packaged tasteless meals for the elderly ads? Seems he is everywhere these days.

Problem is every time he trys to sell a skoda on air, I keep thinking of Jimmy shoving a load of Salmonella ready frozen tv dinners into mary's freezer and then months later reading in the papers how Jimmy is up in court on fraud charges for holding mary's and dozen's of other elderly peoples pension books.

I don't think he does the silly voices, just the opening and closing bits. But yes he is everywhere esp anything that appeals to the elderly.

EmmetSpiceland · 24-10-2019 07:31AM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Who?

Do you listen to the radio much? The guys mentioned above do an excessive amount of ad work. On tv too.

dogmatix wrote: »

And the overall narrator on the Skoda ad - doesn't he also do the Home Instead / Wiltshire farm pre-packaged tasteless meals for the elderly ads? Seems he is everywhere these days.

Problem is every time he trys to sell a skoda on air, I keep thinking of Jimmy shoving a load of Salmonella ready frozen tv dinners into mary's freezer and then months later reading in the papers how Jimmy is up in court on fraud charges for holding mary's and dozen's of other elderly peoples pension books.

Alway feel we’re left hanging when she asks him if he wants a “cup of tea”, just waiting for a sleazy saxophone to blast out.

Also, do you find that Jimmy doesn’t sound like your average delivery driver? Do “Wiltshire Farm Foods” pay their delivery drivers well? Or maybe Jimmy was done for something, most likely “white collar”, and is getting back on his feet?

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