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Worst/Best Radio Ads rerun edition!

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whisky_galore

SpitfireIV wrote: »

Fish delivery?

Saaaawwwted!

Whats with those McCambridge adverts with that stupid kid feature at the end?! Who thinks these are clever or radio worthy? Secondly who gets paid to come up with that rubbish?!

Any ad people come on here to see their creations getting thrashed?

crazy 88

whisky_galore wrote: »

Any ad people come on here to see their creations getting thrashed?

all ads are made by bots these days

Dan Jaman

"The Opel Crossplan - Beauty Isn't Afraid of Life"

What?
WTF does that even mean? It makes no sense.

whisky_galore

Dan Jaman wrote: »

"The Opel Crossplan - Beauty Isn't Afraid of Life"

What?
WTF does that even mean? It makes no sense.

Another car interior is "made of calm".

I would have thought the interior was made of various types of plastic.

Dan Jaman

crazy 88 wrote: »

all ads are made by bots these days

I think you have something there. Either it's wonky AI or really stupid people.

Del.Monte

The current RTE Ad - with their oh so funny flatbed trucks etc. -for their virtual St.Patrick's Day is utterly cringeworthy. And while on the subject of cringeworthy , I heard a new (?) version of the really clever Brady Family Hams/Come Out You Black and Tans Ad this morning - dreadful stuff.

fussyonion

Del.Monte wrote: »

The current RTE Ad - with their oh so funny flatbed trucks etc. -for their virtual St.Patrick's Day is utterly cringeworthy. And while on the subject of cringeworthy , I heard a new (?) version of the really clever Brady Family Hams/Come Out You Black and Tans Ad this morning - dreadful stuff.

Omg there is no end to that Brady's Ham ad!

Dickie10

that AA dog with the horrible wexford accent. i absolutely hate it. the dog /person seems so smarmy and just annoying. really hate anyone that starts a sentence with "..i tell ya.." sounds like a barfly bore thats going around getting into everyones face half pissed that will listen to their "funny" story

SpitfireIV

What about the young fella asking 'how filthy are my parents?' on that young scientist advert.

Test For Echo

Dickie10 wrote: »

that AA dog with the horrible wexford accent.

Ah no, they've worn a bit thin alright but I thought they were funny at the start.

dogmatix

Dan Jaman wrote: »

"The Opel Crossplan - Beauty Isn't Afraid of Life"

What?
WTF does that even mean? It makes no sense.

Agreed – and not forgetting Peugeot with their “unboring the future”, as ugly and clunky sounding a slogan as any. I suspect what might be happening here is someone in Opel Germany asked Gunther to translate a company slogan direct from German to English, the problem being that Gunther has never been able to speak English so armed with a German-English-German dictionary he has done an exact translation from some obscure local German dialect to English. Then said slogan was passed through the hands of some dim-witted, unimaginative individual in an Irish ad agency.

depaor01

plodder wrote: »

Heard one on Newstalk today for something that cures Arthuritis.

Arthuritis is a well-known ailment caused by lack of Draught Guinness.
I'm suffering badly from it...

whisky_galore

Dickie10 wrote: »

that AA dog with the horrible wexford accent. i absolutely hate it. the dog /person seems so smarmy and just annoying. really hate anyone that starts a sentence with "..i tell ya.." sounds like a barfly bore thats going around getting into everyones face half pissed that will listen to their "funny" story

Oh good jesus that has outstayed its welcome like all 'hilarious talking animals'. Thankfully we've heard the last of the Bothar goat.

whisky_galore

The Horkan garden centre ad, sound quality is so poor it's like he's got a plastic bucket over his head.

NufcNavan

I hear that weirdo listening to his deceased mammy while cooking lamb has made its way to the radio.

Dan Jaman

whisky_galore wrote: »

Oh good jesus that has outstayed its welcome like all 'hilarious talking animals'. Thankfully we've heard the last of the Bothar goat.

Hopefully, the goat made a nice curry.

stronglikebull

NufcNavan wrote: »

I hear that weirdo listening to his deceased mammy while cooking lamb has made its way to the radio.

I am just after hearing that ad and wondered if anyone here had any idea what was going on with it? Are they supposed to be people we know? Why does he only do this once a year? Is the mammy dead, and if so why is he rewinding her recordings? Sure he'd know what she said. What the hell is it even about?

NufcNavan

stronglikebull wrote: »

I am just after hearing that ad and wondered if anyone here had any idea what was going on with it? Are they supposed to be people we know? Why does he only do this once a year? Is the mammy dead, and if so why is he rewinding her recordings? Sure he'd know what she said. What the hell is it even about?

The ad tries to strike a sentimental and a 'awh isn't that lovely' sort of tone, but it just comes across a bit creepy tbh.

StaticNoise

I'm really surprised to hear that TJ O'Mahony are using the same gloomy audio bed for their recent advert. It is the exact same gloomy audio bed as used on the AJ Products advert.

Surely someone should have picked up on this, even the studio creating it? I thought that it was the latter brand returning to the radio - but no.

Thelonious Monk

F*cking Brady family ham, I have to mute the radio/tv when it comes on it irritates me that much.

Del.Monte

It's the smug brother from the Oakpark Ad with the chip on his shoulder about his Great Granny Brett that drives me mad. Ungrateful little ****er if you ask me - if it hadn't been for Gt.Granny Brett the little bollix wouldn't have a seat in his trousers.

whisky_galore

StaticNoise wrote: »

I'm really surprised to hear that TJ O'Mahony are using the same gloomy audio bed for their recent advert. It is the exact same gloomy audio bed as used on the AJ Products advert.

Surely someone should have picked up on this, even the studio creating it? I thought that it was the latter brand returning to the radio - but no.

Thank god I'm not the only one who twigged this!

StaticNoise

Great minds think alike!

whisky_galore

Patronising ad for some sort of cure-all miracle tablet or some such referencing covid "some find this hard".

SpitfireIV

NufcNavan wrote: »

I hear that weirdo listening to his deceased mammy while cooking lamb has made its way to the radio.

I understand it's the sequel to the eircode advert.....

depaor01

Subtle. Love it!

Dickie10

yeah why is he only cooking a leg of lamb once a year? i would think irish sheep farmers were delighted with the ad until some goon put that bit in. should be til next week Mam.

Dickie10

on another note i really dont like when irish people called their mother MAM. e.g "my mam..." just say my mother

Hangdogroad

Dickie10 wrote: »

on another note i really dont like when irish people called their mother MAM. e.g "my mam..." just say my mother

Not as bad as mum. One of the most irritating words in the English language.

Del.Monte

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Not as bad as mum. One of the most irritating words in the English language.

Can't see a problem with either myself. English people (and their descendants in Ireland) tend to use mum, mummy and mother, while 'proper' Irish use words like mam, mammy etc. My own grandfather, Dublin (1881-1970), used to refer to his parents as pater and mater - that's something you don't hear every day.