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  • #10232
    lumphammer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭lumphammer2


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450326#Comment_121450326

    Not in general ... but the are on that song ... that was the intention ...



  • #10233
    Markus Antonius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121460225#Comment_121460225

    Just saw this RSA ad this evening. Would make me want to drive my car into a wall...



  • #10234
    z80CPU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    Th SMYTHS toys ads.

    No story at all or rhym or reason

    Dashing through fully stocked shelves.

    Not an irritable bag toting parent in sight.



  • #10235
    UsBus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭UsBus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121460468#Comment_121460468

    This 30k town ad by the RSA is insufferable with all it's woke quota characters thrown in as well. More propaganda to get rid of car drivers. You drive anywhere at 30k and you're liable to have someone fly into the back of you. I can remember having to get up over 30mph in my driving test so how does that fit in anywhere.



  • #10236
    lumphammer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭lumphammer2


    Those Christmas An Post ads are weird ... not necessarily saying I dislike them but they are weird ... what is that metal thing with flapping wings put on the top of the tree ?? ... and who is this guy supposed to be?? Iron Man/Tony Stark ?? ..



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  • #10237
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,905 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121473702#Comment_121473702

    The tin man from the Wizard of Oz.

    🎶"When a man's an empty kettle he should be on his mettle, And yet I'm torn apart.

    Just because I'm presumin' that I could be kind-a-human,If I only had a heart" 🎶

    She gave him a Christmas card heart last year, so he's sent her an Xmas tree angel this year. AAAWWWW!



  • #10238
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,863 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121472601#Comment_121472601

    Good point about people flying into the back of you. Maybe we should have some widespread advertising campaign to warn people to slow down?



  • #10239
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,905 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121474955#Comment_121474955

    The 30k is fine in a built up, dense residential, or labyrinthine town centre. The 50km limit on the approach roads can be as much as a 2km each side of these, and is perfectly fine as you approach the denser busy areas. You'll be well below 30 in most Irish towns anyway, but you should be allowed to resume the 50km limit as soon as you reach the exit roads, and not crawl like a target at 30 until your reach the town former 50km limits. That’s just namby nonsense



  • #10240
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,905 ✭✭✭deezell


    It's bad enough having to endure that 30 km ad, followed by another one that finishes with a drip bawling at a movie screen, while trying to explain to a three year old that The Grinch (on RTE 2) will resume in a minute, I can't press a Skip button, but throwing in the Lotto, in the climax of a kids movie? There was 6 minutes left.



  • #10241
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,192 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    I know I have said it beofre but I absolutely despise that snickers ad. Luckily I live alone, but with Christmas coming up imagine being sat there watching that telly, and and Granny or Auntie Mary says "I dont understand what they mean. do you know young Billy or Alice?".

    Errrrrr. No auntie I dont. (Please make it stop...).

    Or worse, sat there with your parents and everyone knows but everyone is afraid to look at each other.



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  • #10242
    oneweb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭oneweb


    That fukking Energizer ad with the toy girl mangled on the road. How abhorrently insensitive to anyone who's lost a child or had injuries to a road traffic accident.

    It is what it's.



  • #10243
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,644 ✭✭✭Archeron


    The Energizer batteries Christmas ad.

    Dark grey scene, industrial, bucketing rain. Beloved childrens toy doll found dead, grim vibe.

    Camera cuts to visibly upset detective and another making a holding in vomit gesture at the horrific scene in front of them. The corpse of the doll has the chalk outline drawn around them, proper crime scene.

    But no, suddenly a battery in a flasher coat and dodgy hat appears and brings the murder victim back from the dead. Its 1940s crime scene necromancy at its finest.

    Seriously wtf ad.



  • #10244
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,905 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121484706#Comment_121484706

    Or even 1490's necromancy. It was really popular back then. They didn't need batteries, they had Wizards and Sorcerers. Haha, I better get back to my crazy Sapkowski buke!

    Actually, a great idea for an ad. Gandalf, or Potter, or the Witcher, trying to cast a spell, then discovering the non energiser batteries in their Staff/Wand/Sword were flat. Serves them right for using cheap ones made by Gnomes.



  • #10245
    JeffreyEpspeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭JeffreyEpspeen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121473702#Comment_121473702

    Wouldn't kick the birdfaced wan from the ad out of the bed for farting all the same though.



  • #10246
    ollaetta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121472601#Comment_121472601

    Sweet holy Jebus, the disembowling of Dirty Old Town in this is close to the worst thing I've ever heard. Ewan McColl must be spinning in his grave, not to mention Shane McGowan.



  • #10247
    Isthisthingon?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭Isthisthingon?


    Its been mentioned before but EVERY perfume or aftershave ad.

    They are so up their own ars*s its actually a distraction from the product.



  • #10248
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,905 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121490129#Comment_121490129

    Appropriate comment. A primary ingredient of expensive perfume is mucus from a muskrat's arse.



  • #10249
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 92,221 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Rockshore have now got Ronan Keating in their latest ad

    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • #10250
    littlevillage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,914 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121491740#Comment_121491740

    You beat me to it. Just seen the advert.

    Ronan must be short of dosh... the little whore.



  • #10251
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,090 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121473702#Comment_121473702

    It's the song, she is not pronouncing words properly and sounds like she's got a mouth full of marbles or something. It's awful



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  • #10252
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,905 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121492388#Comment_121492388

    Talking about singing with something in your mouth, the previous post mentions Ronan Keating. What a coincidence.



  • #10253
    lumphammer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭lumphammer2


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121492388#Comment_121492388

    I don't get these modern singers at all ... I am more of an Elvis, Charlie Rich and Ray Charles person ... so cannot comment on how some of these people sing ... it is a different genre and era but not to my taste ... I prefer the older singers like those mentioned ...

    There seems to be a thing too with ads and Beatles imitations .... like that ELO song from those awful Lotto ads, that Spar Christmas ad song 'the lights are going on yeah' and that former AIB ad with 'this could be our year' ....



  • #10254
    Rikand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,662 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    That Twix ad with the bears. I feckin hate it. The two lads are ridiculous, but the accent on the bear bores a hole through my skull!



  • #10255
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,192 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121499775#Comment_121499775

    Funny how people have different opinions. That is my favourite ad on TV at the moment.



  • #10256
    sligeach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,430 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121460013#Comment_121460013

    Same here. I've mentioned these ads with her previously in this thread. She's Ireland's very own version of Kerry Katona. She's a nothing reality person, I refuse to use that word star.



  • #10257
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 92,221 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121490129#Comment_121490129

    Especially Timothée Chalamet for Chanel which Martin Scorsese was involved

    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • #10258
    Rustyman101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭Rustyman101


    Vast majority at this stage, not a big fan of social engineering strangely enough.



  • #10259
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 92,221 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Hannah Waddingham from Ted Lasso also popping up in an ad for Baileys as well as M&S ad

    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • #10260
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    That Tesco ad with the Christmas tree people and snow ladies is ready starting to grate on me. I didn’t mind it too much early on but as as we get closer to Christmas it’s really hitting me that it’s awful and that “How Bizzare” song has as much to do with Christmas as me being the new lead striker for Man U. It’s a really awful advert.



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  • #10261
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,905 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121502293#Comment_121502293

    I like to think of the costume makers who got the fun commission, and a nice little earner, and not some has been celebrity trying to demonstrate he's still a player.



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