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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


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

    Who?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭dogmatix


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,285 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    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?

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


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



    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?


    Jimmy is the modern day equivalent of Benny Hill (Ernie) or Pat Mustard and he's definitely delivering more than dinners to Ireland's pensioners.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


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

    Not on name terms with any of them, don't care enough to look them up to find out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,285 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Not on name terms with any of them, don't care enough to look them up to find out.

    I’m guessing you don’t watch much tv if you know neither Bernard O’Shea nor Kevin McGahern. Kirwan I can understand as he’s more “famous” for his voice over, poetry and theatre work.

    Do you never recognise the same voice doing ads for Lidl and McDonalds or Dacia and 3 Mobile? Among other things, as well.

    Do you mind me asking how old you are? I can understand an elderly person not watching tv or paying attention to “details” but I find it very strange when somebody under, say, 50 doesn’t watch tv.

    Is it computer games you’re into?

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭Comic Book Guy


    That bloody Doublebase Emollient Gel ad.

    Yeah my friend's kids is in agony with Eczema, I'm really going to burst into a "dum dum dum dum" jingle to tell her how to treat it. Worse still is the mum repeating the jingle with a laugh. Does my head in!


  • Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭tommytee


    Newstalk 106

    Poor Jimmy from Wiltshire Farm Foods who was delivering frozen dinners to dear aul' Mary, ("AHHHH Jimmy your a star" "have you time for a cuppa" who comes up with this crap???)
    He must have lost that delivery job and going under a different name as i heard him talking on another ad (also on Newstalk) about being in Mortgage arrears and that he should go and talk to Abhaile,

    That will teach ya jimmy for not having that cuppa with Mary!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I’m guessing you don’t watch much tv if you know neither Bernard O’Shea nor Kevin McGahern. Kirwan I can understand as he’s more “famous” for his voice over, poetry and theatre work.

    Do you never recognise the same voice doing ads for Lidl and McDonalds or Dacia and 3 Mobile? Among other things, as well.

    Do you mind me asking how old you are? I can understand an elderly person not watching tv or paying attention to “details” but I find it very strange when somebody under, say, 50 doesn’t watch tv.

    Is it computer games you’re into?

    Sorry none of your beeswax. You can guess all you like, I couldn't care less.
    Just not interested in so called celebrities. Recognise the voices but just zero interest in where they come from. It's like I may enjoy a glass of milk but couldn't give a fiddlers fűck whether it came from Buttercup or Daisy.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,926 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    What's the story with the latest Specsavers ad? Something about a kid going to the doctor with his hands stuck to his face.
    I can't see the reasoning behind it at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,860 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Jimmy is the modern day equivalent of Benny Hill (Ernie) or Pat Mustard and he's definitely delivering more than dinners to Ireland's pensioners.

    :eek:

    What! Not knobbing them is he?

    Surely not?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,860 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


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

    Even with a spray of glitter?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,044 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Ad on Radio about pester power and being such a big hero when your children want sweets and all the soul searching you have when you have to say no.

    One actually says, oh you can have cheese and crackers (which is probably as bad as sweets)

    Easy knowing i've no kids as Id just say, what part of NO do you just not understand?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,554 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    anewme wrote: »
    Ad on Radio about pester power and being such a big hero when your children want sweets and all the soul searching you have when you have to say no.

    One actually says, oh you can have cheese and crackers (which is probably as bad as sweets)

    Easy knowing i've no kids as Id just say, what part of NO do you just not understand?

    Yeah you would need to have kids to understand the ad. It’s aimed at parents


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,044 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Yeah you would need to have kids to understand the ad. It’s aimed at parents

    They will still put on weight if you give them cheese and crackers instead of sweets.


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    Argh,that bloody Gaiety panto advert!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    zorro2566 wrote: »
    Argh,that bloody Gaiety panto advert!!
    This is no ordinary advert


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I don't know whether this has been asked before, but does the station offer a menu of "volumes" to the potential advertiser? Ordinary volume - standard rates
    20% above usual volume - add 20%
    30% above usual volume - add 30%
    and so on?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,860 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    I don't know whether this has been asked before, but does the station offer a menu of "volumes" to the potential advertiser? Ordinary volume - standard rates
    20% above usual volume - add 20%
    30% above usual volume - add 30%
    and so on?

    That volume practice should be banned.

    However spare a thought for those who listen to US radio stations.

    They shout at the top of their voices, accompanied by blaring music and bang crash wallop stuff.

    Fifteen minutes is usually the max I can last.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    There can only be one sponsor for the upcoming Lionel Richie show... :D


    https://www.linoritchiedublin.com/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,193 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    I don't know whether this has been asked before, but does the station offer a menu of "volumes" to the potential advertiser? Ordinary volume - standard rates
    20% above usual volume - add 20%
    30% above usual volume - add 30%
    and so on?


    Bung Cormac a fiver and he'll turn up the compression for you, kind of thing?
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,183 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    I sincerely hope those Beer munch ads don't pop up on radio.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    All those ads with creepy Santas are awful
    The ho ho gives me the creeps...


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    "And we're going to keep telling ourselves that every day"

    Can you imagine the smug shít that came up with the new AIB ad, 'Yeah, the snowflakes will suck this right up". And the management of a many Billions of euro company thought, 'yeah cracking idea, lets go with it - that wont make our potential customers wish for their brains to bleed out through their ears.'

    The thing is, the actual idea behind the environmental mortgage is a good thing. Incredibly annoying ad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,810 ✭✭✭endofrainbow


    The ad for the EPIC museum where he's pretending to accept an award..


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭Akabusi


    Them Skoda ads are getting worse..... Unity, Unity, Unity, Wheres Unity?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    We do it in the toilet, we do it in the car, we do it in bed....


    Why does that hosting.ie ad woman sound like she's wearing a plastic bucket on her head?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭johnire


    I agree....it’s absolutely dreadful. What absolute rubbish.
    "And we're going to keep telling ourselves that every day"

    Can you imagine the smug shít that came up with the new AIB ad, 'Yeah, the snowflakes will suck this right up". And the management of a many Billions of euro company thought, 'yeah cracking idea, lets go with it - that wont make our potential customers wish for their brains to bleed out through their ears.'

    The thing is, the actual idea behind the environmental mortgage is a good thing. Incredibly annoying ad.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,321 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I take it the dad with the most important meeting in the world ever ...who just might go for a spin in an average car, has already been mentioned?

    You can tell the marketing people now just want to appeal to every person.

    I'm a dad
    I'm a father
    I'm a ......fill in blank.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,860 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I take it the dad with the most important meeting in the world ever ...who just might go for a spin in an average car, has already been mentioned?

    You can tell the marketing people now just want to appeal to every person.

    I'm a dad
    I'm a father
    I'm a ......fill in blank.

    Tosser?

    Have the tossers got a mention, plenty of them driving around our town, mostly in Hondas .


    “I’m a tosser on my way to the most important meeting of my life..........Fairyhouse... I’ll just tailgate a few Citizens on the way and annoy them”

    Tossers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,193 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    The Kia E-Sole?
    What eejit thought that was a good name?
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,298 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Dan Jaman wrote: »
    The Kia E-Sole?
    What eejit thought that was a good name?

    Better than the name of the Volkswagen electric version of the Up.
    Quite popular up the north of England mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,860 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Dan Jaman wrote: »
    The Kia E-Sole?
    What eejit thought that was a good name?

    Kia have a bit of form with car names Daniel.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Dan Jaman wrote: »
    The Kia E-Sole?
    What eejit thought that was a good name?

    Many car names are sh1t now.
    Juke, Fluence, Kuga, Yaris, thought Duster was one of the more stupid ones until now.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,285 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Many car names are sh1t now.
    Juke, Fluence, Kuga, Yaris, thought Duster was one of the more stupid ones until now.

    Fluence was a particularly bad name.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    Fluence was a particularly bad name.

    Always had a whiff of “effluence” about it, to my (admittedly warped) mind


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,183 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    "...who's the twat in the Suzuki Vitara ?..."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Fluence was a particularly bad name.

    VW Toerag.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,011 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Kia Sportage, because nothing says sporty like using 2.5 tons of metal to ascend that 8° incline on the school run.

    Oh, and anything by SsangYong.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,833 ✭✭✭NufcNavan


    The process of making an Irish radio ad:

    Ad-man 1: I'm struggling for an idea for this ad.

    Ad-man 2: I got it! Let's get two people with nasal South Dublin accents to have a conversation that nobody ever has ever and insert the product in the middle.

    Ad-man 1: Brilliant!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,833 ✭✭✭NufcNavan


    "And we're going to keep telling ourselves that every day"

    Can you imagine the smug shít that came up with the new AIB ad, 'Yeah, the snowflakes will suck this right up". And the management of a many Billions of euro company thought, 'yeah cracking idea, lets go with it - that wont make our potential customers wish for their brains to bleed out through their ears.'

    The thing is, the actual idea behind the environmental mortgage is a good thing. Incredibly annoying ad.

    Also the irony that banks exist and thrive primarily in a strong capitalist society which leads to pollution is lost on their smug heads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,193 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    What de f is it with that wan that's voice-overing the Chester Beatty exhibition? She sounds like she sat on somebody's hand.
    https://chesterbeatty.ie/exhibitions/thai-buddhist-tales/
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Two non-pc Ads back-to-back on Newstalk: I've the most important meeting in my life but first I will 'play' with my Suzuki Vitara followed by burn Bord na Mona briquettes. You couldn't make it up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    The Bóthar ads are coming.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭dogmatix


    Barna77 wrote: »
    The Bóthar ads are coming.....

    I know - but this year i'm prepared! I have a small ball-hammer and a handful of 2 inch nails in my glove-box for use on my ear drums when mr goat and his collection of f*ckwit animal friends make their inevitable appearance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,298 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Has the Barrys tea drinker bought his train set yet?


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,556 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    'Dog Poo Dog Poo...' just to be clear, I abhor the practice of some dog owners who ignore Fido's sh1t and leave it for others to unwittingly pick up on their shoes/ wheels/ whatever.

    But that ad :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    That Martin Short Steve Martin comedy gig ad,

    if there's ever an ad that would put you off a show its that..

    two flats jokes from two has-been comedians

    they must be short on dough


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