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Worst/Best Radio Ads rerun edition!

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    #362
    endofrainbow
    Registered Users Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭endofrainbow


    chalkitdown1 wrote: »
    Is it not yer wan from The Young Offenders doing the voice?

    Think it's yer wan that did the kiddies news on RTE.


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    #363
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,046 ✭✭✭✭neris


    wtf is the one about some lad spinning sausages?? ive heard bits of it a few times but have to turn it off


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    #364
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,614 ✭ [Deleted User]


    neris wrote: »
    wtf is the one about some lad spinning sausages?? ive heard bits of it a few times but have to turn it off

    I came to this thread to post about that exact ad. It drives me INSANE!

    Its too long by about 5 minutes.


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    #365
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,614 ✭ [Deleted User]


    My dad just turned to me and said "We should have crab meat sometime. Then maybe they'll stop playing that ad".


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    #366
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Another one that has me reaching for a gun.


    Avantcard - "stupid man" (there's a novelty) doing home DIY.

    Harridan wife starts off with a shouty scouse accent "what are you doink?" before lapsing back to Irish accent. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!! :mad:

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    #367
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,903 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Stupid man/nagging wife trope, he (Dermot) is knocking a hole in the wall for his home office. Is that the one?


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    #368
    Test For Echo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭Test For Echo


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Stupid man/nagging wife trope, he (Dermot) is knocking a hole in the wall for his home office. Is that the one?

    Yeah, she's trying to stop Dermot before he does any more "Dermage" :rolleyes:

    I nearly crashed the car the first time I heard the singing & dancing ad for TJ O'Mahony. Some fella singing off key. Christ :mad:


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    #369
    Dickie10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    awful ad for GOMO mobile phones i think , horrible noisey ad music and voiced by a very strange accent on the girl i cant make it out at all, she sounds like she had something in her mouth while trying to speak, like some words are almost forced pigeon english, her accent is almost too strong to pronounce or speak english well, why on earth do they have these people doing radio ads, accent sounds Dutch/S.African english like very heavy and hard to get words out clearly.


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    #370
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,188 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Dickie10 wrote: »
    awful ad for GOMO mobile phones i think , horrible noisey ad music and voiced by a very strange accent on the girl i cant make it out at all, she sounds like she had something in her mouth while trying to speak, like some words are almost forced pigeon english, her accent is almost too strong to pronounce or speak english well, why on earth do they have these people doing radio ads, accent sounds Dutch/S.African english like very heavy and hard to get words out clearly.

    Its called diversity.

    And fear of casting a white Irish person doing the voiceover, for fear of 'the mob' calling you racist.


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    #371
    Dickie10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Its called diversity.

    And fear of casting a white Irish person doing the voiceover, for fear of 'the mob' calling you racist.

    how do we know whos voicing the ad? are they irish or foregin? and why on earth would you be racist for getting an irish person to advertise a product on irish radio?


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    #372
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,903 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Test For Echo wrote: »
    I nearly crashed the car the first time I heard the singing & dancing ad for TJ O'Mahony. Some fella singing off key. Christ :mad:

    That is one shıt ad. Someone was actually paid to come up with that.


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    #373
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    National Lottery Ad. - just heard it again "you're in a kayak in the Midlands, how did you get talked into this, you would prefer not to venture west of Lucan, gondolier etc.etc. Accent all over the place and she sounds like she is so unfit that she has more chance of expiring than winning the lottery. Yet another knocking of stay at home holidaying. :rolleyes:

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    #374
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,903 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    National Lottery Ad. - just heard it again "you're in a kayak in the Midlands, how did you get talked into this, you would prefer not to venture west of Lucan, gondolier etc.etc. Accent all over the place and she sounds like she is so unfit that she has more chance of expiring than winning the lottery. Yet another knocking of stay at home holidaying. :rolleyes:

    Deirdre O'Kane, but in a normal-ish speaking voice. i.e. not the exaggerated squawking of the Appliances Delivered ad.


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    #375
    thejuggler
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭thejuggler


    For the day that’s in it a few Halloween related adverts from yesteryear.
    Equip your witch at News at 10 Galway. Used to hear it a lot in 2fm in the 90s. I think Andy Ruane did the VO.
    Also Spooky Specials from Xtravision. Jonathan Ryan in his best scary voice.

    Happy Halloween!


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    #376
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,463 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    The guy thinking he is a local hero, doing the Electric Ireland GAA Minor Championships:

    "T-H-I-S
    I-S
    M-A-J-O-R"

    F**k off back to your Mammy.


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    #377
    Kalimah
    Registered Users Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Kalimah


    I CANNOT stand Deirdre O'Kane's voice.
    And the latest govt covid ad does my head in - that flat accent ala Saoirse Ronan - makes my ears bleed.


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    #378
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,614 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Everytime I turn over to Newstalk that Virgin media ad about making sausages is on.

    Now, I love sausages and I love high speed broadband, but for some reason I HATE this ad.


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    #379
    doublejobbing 2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭doublejobbing 2


    A new one for Virgin Broaband interviewing some yank pianist.

    I swear it goes on at least 3 minutes. Will be straight switch over next time.


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    #380
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,463 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    New Covid public announcement ad on this week

    Didn't know it was also referred to as " COVIT "


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    #381
    fricatus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    ford fiesta wrote: »
    New Covid public announcement ad on this week

    Didn't know it was also referred to as " COVIT "

    Could be someone from Waterford doing the voiceover. After all, if you order a burger here in a pub or restaurant, it will usually be offered with chips and "SALIT" :D


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    #382
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users Posts: 6,295 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    fricatus wrote: »
    Could be someone from Waterford doing the voiceover. After all, if you order a burger here in a pub or restaurant, it will usually be offered with chips and "SALIT" :D

    I've a bigger problem with the condescending tone in one of the newer ads. Excerise is beneficial, "even a brief walk is good". Thanks for that.


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    #383
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,463 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    ford fiesta wrote: »
    The guy thinking he is a local hero, doing the Electric Ireland GAA Minor Championships:

    "T-H-I-S
    I-S
    M-A-J-O-R"

    F**k off back to your Mammy.

    what 17 year old talks like that?


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    #384
    dvcireland
    Registered Users Posts: 13,574 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    **** off AIG will ya

    the ad for radio advertising and the great bake off tosser

    "...no Joe, you rang me !..." A.Caller.



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    #385
    dogmatix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭dogmatix


    Those GAA ads are irritating - not hugely so but a little irritating. I don't like the patronising slogan at the end "GAA - where we all belong". It sounds a slogan for a cult or a far left/right political party. I have no interest in the GAA, never had and never will.


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    #386
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,903 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    We ate plain food BUT GOOD FOOD.

    (But now happy to eat frozen processed food)


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    #387
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,903 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    dogmatix wrote: »
    Those GAA ads are irritating - not hugely so but a little irritating. I don't like the patronising slogan at the end "GAA - where we all belong". It sounds a slogan for a cult or a far left/right political party. I have no interest in the GAA, never had and never will.

    It does sound like an Irish Hitlerjugend.


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    #388
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users Posts: 6,295 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    dogmatix wrote: »
    Those GAA ads are irritating - not hugely so but a little irritating. I don't like the patronising slogan at the end "GAA - where we all belong". It sounds a slogan for a cult or a far left/right political party. I have no interest in the GAA, never had and never will.

    I like the GAA and that slogan bugs me. I'll decide where I belong, thank you very much!


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    #389
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Yeah that VM ad is just starting to take the piss, with every iteration it seems to get longer and more convoluted.


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    #390
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    The infantile one with Sonia O'Sullivan and the GAA head about mental health where one says a sentence followed by the other and repeat ad nauseum - gives me mental health problems just listening to it. :mad:

    ****



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    #391
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,903 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Less of an ad, more a running theme every Fri 13th. The tired old "are you superstitious" vox pop or phone in. Walking under ladders, yadda yadda...


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