Even more adverts you despise

CoBo55 · 23-03-2025 03:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123289500#Comment_123289500

Standard practice with Ryan air...

TheRiverman · 23-03-2025 05:46PM

I think it has been highlighted here already, but I've seen that Switchers.ie ad on TG4 during a break in the GAA. It is dire.

deezell · 23-03-2025 06:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123290260#Comment_123290260

Is it meant to be a word association play on "We're Swingers!" ? Pathetic, 0 out of 10 for creativity.

CoBo55 · 24-03-2025 01:10AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123290470#Comment_123290470

I doubt it, it would be a strange family dynamic if you're arriving home and announcing to the Ma and Da you're swingers.

I like the Citroen Ad where E.T. throws your one up into the space ship and nicks the car😊😊

AMTE_21 · 24-03-2025 04:57PM

The ad for all over body deodorant - disgusting. Just have a shower!!!

Archeron · 24-03-2025 09:38PM

I read the comments about the new KFC ad with the golden egg gravy baptism forest dancing ewok people a few pages back, and thought maybe that was just a fever dream somebody had, but I've just seen it for the first time.

Fooking hell how that kind of ad for a fast food got signed off is truly beyond me.

When I think of KFC in Ireland, my immediate thoughts are normally about how their restaurants are always manky dirty and sticky, the food is disgusting and how generally unpleasant the whole experience is.

Last time I decided to risk it a couple of years ago (Blanchardstown shopping centre branch) I genuinely returned the inedible meal twice before giving up and putting it into the bin.

The raw Pineapple slice was nice in fairness.

So now they've decided to advertise using a dirty looking gravy lake with bonus drowning and cannibalism, sweaty tracksuit clad cult members and a very annoying dance and slogan.

Not one thing about that ad would make me want to ever step foot in one of their dirty stained sticky rude shtholes again.

Wow. I think that might be the worst ad I've ever seen, and not in a so bad it's good way, just really, really, really bad.

LambshankRedemption · 24-03-2025 09:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123293270#Comment_123293270

I dont know if thats the one I saw, but there is an ad for a deoderant that says it lasts 72 hours. If thats in anyway accurate, I don't know if I want that kind of battery acid on my body.

Bogey Lowenstein · 24-03-2025 10:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123294140#Comment_123294140

Their whole recent ad campaign has a weird and off-putting satanist feel going on.

ollaetta · 25-03-2025 06:41PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123290260#Comment_123290260

Holy Jebus, this is one of the worst in a good while. I can't reach for the mute button quick enough.

Hangdogroad · 26-03-2025 10:57AM

That Aldi "three eggs, two kids" one. Your ones voice does my head in.

Kalimah · 26-03-2025 09:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123293270#Comment_123293270

I came on to complain about that. Yuck. And it can’t be healthy spraying that around your nether regions.

ollaetta · 29-03-2025 04:59PM

Apache Pizza used to have an annoying over the top country accent voiceover in their ads. The fecker must have joined RTE as he's now on almost all ads for their own programmes. Still find his voice very irritating.

RoTelly · 29-03-2025 06:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123309439#Comment_123309439

He is a stand for Radio 1's Late Date (He might be one of the main presenter), Rising Time and John Creadon, and also does some promo work, he was one of the Teacher on Home School Hub. (Ray Cuddihy I think is who your talking about.)

Bord Gais ad with the therapist and the switcher ad with the two switchers (Might be funny if they were call swingers).

Bonkers should do an ad with Ryan Tubridy, now that would break the internet!

thesandeman · 29-03-2025 07:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123309726#Comment_123309726

Nobody would believe the figures in the Bonkers ad though.

LambshankRedemption · 30-03-2025 07:23PM

That 3 ad with the guy on the jackhammer. He says "What if we throw in a landline, it's wireless".

A landline can't be wireless. You would think considering the ad is for a wireless broadband they would not want to be confusing people by saying a landline could be wireless.

Bogey Lowenstein · 30-03-2025 07:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123312010#Comment_123312010

I thought he said 'it works' 🤔

LambshankRedemption · 30-03-2025 08:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123312055#Comment_123312055

I'll have to listen out for it and listen more carefully. Though as has been highlighted in this thread numerous times, poor diction in ads is not uncommon. It took me about a month of watching that petrol station cadbury's ad to figure out what the girl said. I'm not actually convinced they didn't re-record it, because I wasn't the only one who had difficulty with it.

ollaetta · 30-03-2025 08:18PM

OK, this is doing my head in and apologies if it's been asked before. On that bank mortgage ad with your man and his daughter in the car, what does he say right at the very start before "12 or 13 viewings, I think"? Must have heard it dozens of times at this stage but just can't make out what he says.

LambshankRedemption · 30-03-2025 08:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123312113#Comment_123312113

I have no idea and thats another one that does my head in.

brian_t · 30-03-2025 08:38PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123312055#Comment_123312055

No, he says it's wireless.

And of course Specsavers now have free hearing tests.

LambshankRedemption · 30-03-2025 09:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123312159#Comment_123312159

Me: Should have gone to Specsavers, Bogey.

@Bogey Lowenstein: Pardon?

Bogey Lowenstein · 30-03-2025 09:20PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123312113#Comment_123312113

I was going to ask that too, he says something that sounds like 'toon' 🤷

Bogey Lowenstein · 30-03-2025 09:32PM

Carlsberg 0 ad with 4 taps of it at the bar. Go away, you are lucky to even see one tap of it.

That annoying 'high four, babe' one.

deezell · 30-03-2025 09:55PM

Not viewing, not toon, he sez 'queueing'. For a viewing. While humming a tu-in.

And you can have a 'wireless' landline phone, just say "cordless' instead of 'wireless', and it doesn't sound so senseless. Today's routers have DECT transceivers built in, so if you opt for a 'landline' on your broadband wired or fibre connection, it's just enabled in software in the router, and you cordlessly connect your your old DECT handsets as... handsets. Their base stations are just used as chargers. I've a couple of 25 year old Eircom ones working away. Also have the ancient 35 year old wired telephone ☎️ plugged into the routers's wired telephone socket. Grand.

LambshankRedemption · 30-03-2025 11:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123312355#Comment_123312355

Well yeah of course, cordless phones, we all have them or used to have them. But no-one calls them wireless phones. Your man in the ad says landline and then says it's wireless, presumably meaning you use a cordless phone with them, but it's annoying. An attempt to get the word wireless in one more time because the thing they are selling is wireless broadband.

At the end of the day it's just a lazy, crap advert.

Bogey Lowenstein · 31-03-2025 04:19PM

I have finally seen the Aldi ad with the family sitting eating in the car and it is awful. You would think they are all on cocaine or something!

ollaetta · 31-03-2025 06:04PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123312289#Comment_123312289

All the drinks companies have cottoned on that you can freely advertise your brand before the watershed simply by adding the zero. There's another one with a pile of lads watching a match in the pub and having a great time, all of them drinking the 0.0 pish. Very likely, yeah.