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Worst/Best Radio Ads rerun edition!

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  • #272
    HildaOgdenx
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    Lloyds Pharmacy ad, 'to borrow a famous phrase, Winter is coming' .
    Eh? :confused:


  • #273
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,025 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    ford fiesta wrote: »
    "Dont you forget about me"
    Ad for music industry ireland Covid 19...any time I hear the start of the ad... I think its the current Heineken Covid 19 ad or an ad for an upcoming Simple Minds concert.

    Maybe a different track could have been used?

    What is the point of this ad? Is it give money to starving musicians or what?


  • #274
    Dan Jaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,829 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    HildaOgdenx wrote: »
    Lloyds Pharmacy ad, 'to borrow a famous phrase, Winter is coming' .
    Eh? :confused:


    Painkillers for the Same Ol' Groans.


  • #275
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,788 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Lidl baby promotion for your "babbies" :mad:


  • #276
    chalkitdown1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭chalkitdown1


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    Lidl baby promotion for your "babbies" :mad:

    Oh god, this one. He says it so many times as well.


    In other news, I quite like the return of the Supermac's jingle. :D


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  • #277
    The Mighty Quinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭The Mighty Quinn


    chalkitdown1 wrote: »
    In other news, I quite like the return of the Supermac's jingle. :D

    It does have that nostalgic 80s feel! :D


  • #278
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,817 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    The Mighty Quinn wrote: »
    It does have that nostalgic 80s feel! :D

    If only ‘Homestead‘ would follow suit, even the version as gaelige was class.

    EmmetSpiceland: Oft imitated but never bettered.

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



  • #279
    paddylonglegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,603 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    chalkitdown1 wrote: »
    Oh god, this one. He says it so many times as well.


    In other news, I quite like the return of the Supermac's jingle. :D

    And hats off to Pat McD for getting uillean pipes into a radio ad


  • #280
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Another Ad that beats me is a rare one, exclusively in Irish, on RTE in which the only recognisable word - to me - is Brexit which appears once near the end. What's that about? :confused:

    ****



  • #281
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,025 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The Mighty Quinn wrote: »
    It does have that nostalgic 80s feel! :D

    Did Supermacs staff still have to pay for their own uniforms back then too?


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  • #282
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Is that craig doyle in the male/female dublin accents, Covid ads?


  • #283
    paddylonglegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,603 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    Tuirleach and the peddle bin on his head? What is going on? Why is that ad not just clear and concise? boggles the mind - its not funny


  • #284
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Covid ad:
    Dublin accent:
    "In the miiiaaaan time"


  • #285
    Cole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Cole


    Home Instead Senior Care - the most stomach churningly patronising and cynical ads on radio.

    "Home Instead Senior Care to us it's personal"...yeah personal profit.


  • #286
    Zak Flaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Zak Flaps


    I hate that quote devil insurance ad. It's the f*cking jingle i hate. The voices mainly.
    I don't even know what they're singing.


  • #287
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That Bank of Ireland Mortgages ad is back..................."we'll meet you in a coffee shop or that little slice of Ireland you call home".....but that's the whole point of the meeting - if I need a mortgage its because I don't have a home!!!

    Apparently Bank of Ireland will apparently meet you "Annie where, Annie time" ???? Who's she?


  • #288
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    And you can just imagine ringing up the bank - assuming the branch has somebody to answer the phone and that you're not put through to a call centre - and suggesting that they send somebody down to O'Reilly's bar to discuss a mortgage with you. :rolleyes:

    ****



  • #289
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    There's another homemade, steam powered, Ad running at the moment for de facto shaving oil https://www.defactoshave.com/ The Ad is very worthy - the product name off the wall and then the poor fool (owner?) spells out de facto in case the great unwashed can't understand such a catchy name.

    ****



  • #290
    The Mighty Quinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭The Mighty Quinn


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    There's another homemade, steam powered, Ad running at the moment for de facto shaving oil https://www.defactoshave.com/ The Ad is very worthy - the product name off the wall and then the poor fool (owner?) spells out de facto in case the great unwashed can't understand such a catchy name.

    Wordy? :D


  • #291
    Barna77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    And you can just imagine ringing up the bank - assuming the branch has somebody to answer the phone and that you're not put through to a call centre - and suggesting that they send somebody down to O'Reilly's bar to discuss a mortgage with you. :rolleyes:
    The banker would probably order the priciest thing in the bar and make you pay for it, to top up their new fees policy


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  • #292
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,025 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    That Bank of Ireland Mortgages ad is back..................."we'll meet you in a coffee shop or that little slice of Ireland you call home".....but that's the whole point of the meeting - if I need a mortgage its because I don't have a home!!!

    Apparently Bank of Ireland will apparently meet you "Annie where, Annie time" ???? Who's she?

    The saccharine sweetness and repeated use of Bank of ARR-land grates.


  • #293
    Dickie10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    its that awful, awful creature "comedian" Maeve Higgins. shes very annoying. one of theses 40 year olds that acts and as if shes still 24 in college or something, all daft and giggly and throwing in the word "random" every few mins.


  • #294
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,025 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    ............"we'll meet you in a coffee shop or that little slice of Ireland you call home".....but that's the whole point of the meeting - if I need a mortgage its because I don't have a home!!!

    Doesn't make any sense unless a BOI manager will come out to meet you in your parents' house or some small time landlord's mouldy shoebox.


  • #295
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The idiot in his “crevasse” trying to find his Tax accountant as his Tax returns are due. FFS...what an eejit !
    (What advertising company creates these stupid ads? They’re not funny or smart...its a tired formula)


  • #296
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,788 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    The red cow hotel and their 'you can social distance comfortably' line.


  • #297
    lolie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭lolie


    The one for the OTB sport app is really grating on me now.
    I like Kevin kilbane but there's only some many times i can hear him say he's gonna slap Cesc Fabregras.
    Also the Now tv ads with Robert Webb as the tv are really annoying.


  • #298
    StaticNoise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,446 ✭✭✭StaticNoise


    EZ Living furniture are using an audio track that is very similar to the old Sean O'Rourke theme/'Black Magic' by Little Mix.
    Not to mention the overused stock audio of children laughing.

    NO.


  • #299
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,746 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Smyths UK copy ads.

    Most UK companies wouldn't use such a dissonant clanging UK VO in Ireland; but an Irish firm seems to think its fine!


  • #300
    chalkitdown1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭chalkitdown1


    Hate those KFC ads with the Dublin girl. Is "stop the lights" a thing people say in Dublin? I've never heard it in my life.


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  • #301
    Barna77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    L1011 wrote: »
    Smyths UK copy ads.

    Most UK companies wouldn't use such a dissonant clanging UK VO in Ireland; but an Irish firm seems to think its fine!

    A thousand times yes. Hate those ads made in / for the UK and aired here. Top of my list is Now Tv :mad:


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