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    #11762
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123331153#Comment_123331153

    Is that the Vodafone "sure you know your self" ad?



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    #11763
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭deezell


    It's a Three ad, but interesting you recall it as Vodafone. 'Brand Bleed' is a real thing in the advertising game, especially if someone likes the ad, only to associate the fuzzy feeling with the wrong brand. If, otoh, the ad pisses you off, then at least you're taking it out on the wrong business.



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    #11764
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,018 ✭✭✭✭take everything


    That Three "ah shur you know yourself" shite.

    That "Geneva/Aviva" kid.

    Vogue and her kids.

    Literally any "edgy" or "knowing" Paddy Power ad. With that Paddywhackery and the British accent voiceover.



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    #11765
    CoBo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,834 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123331153#Comment_123331153

    I'm in your camp, I like it.



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    #11766
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    I don't mind sure you know yourself ad for which ever mobile network it for, I know older relatives and farmers like the dad

    I like this ad, which wasn't even for the Superbowl

    https://youtu.be/ykyvHVqKHQg?si=-bZ6cI7fK4Q-rEkv


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    #11767
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,205 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123331517#Comment_123331517

    Have to say its not the first time that ad has been confused with a Vodafone ad.

    The mobile operators ads are very similar. Teary eye'd so ever ad will be about someone calling someone or helping some or giving some one something to make them happy.

    https://youtu.be/7Nzj2ijAbtw?si=ecbUvWzIgr-hQeU7

    https://youtu.be/q5m5bwhDEQ8?si=Q0-3G3bLlpNxF_hC

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    In the end they were just greedy, they all knew one another and knew what to expect more money for no return, it was a secure cash flow, but in fairness they looked for what they wanted and fair dues to them for that, and wouldn't you be doing the same!

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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    #11768
    Bogey Lowenstein
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,641 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    These moronic clickbait ads that are all over the site now.

    Screenshot_20250406_161451_DuckDuckGo.jpg


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    #11769
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,110 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123331517#Comment_123331517

    I thought it was a three d, but when they said "the vodafone ad" I wasn't confident in my convictions any more.

    Funnily enough, (I may have shared this anecdote before), my mother was doing market research going door to door asking people what adverts they like. She said it was amazing how many people said their favourite ad on at the time was the Heineken Frogs. (Hint: they were the Budweiser frogs!).



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    #11770
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭deezell


    Bud is red. Frogs and Heineken green. Brand bleed.



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    #11771
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,205 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123332149#Comment_123332149
    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123332141#Comment_123332141

    😂 But they say BUD-WEIS-ER

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    In the end they were just greedy, they all knew one another and knew what to expect more money for no return, it was a secure cash flow, but in fairness they looked for what they wanted and fair dues to them for that, and wouldn't you be doing the same!

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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    #11772
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,110 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123332163#Comment_123332163

    That fact went right over the head of many inhabitants of rural galway, back in the late 90s or whenever it was. TBH I'm surprised they even made the connection to it being a beer.



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    #11773
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123332299#Comment_123332299

    Ouch. That's definitely a culchie slight! Seriously though, here's a fact; 'People remember roughly 10% of what they hear, 35% of what they see, and 65% of what they see and hear'. I used to teach this type of stuff to teachers/lecturers over 40 years ago. You are 3½ times more likely to remember the colour of the frog than what he croaked, even if you're from the Whest. (Did you know 'culchie' is a corruption of Kilti, as in Kiltimagh. So only Mayo people can claim that moniker. If they want.)

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    #11774
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,110 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123332377#Comment_123332377

    Are you saying people from Mayo are corrupt?



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    #11775
    Mattyonthepatty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭Mattyonthepatty


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123331153#Comment_123331153

    How could anyone hate such a wholesome relatable advert?



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    #11776
    blackvalley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123332550#Comment_123332550

    🤷‍♂️



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    #11777
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123332541#Comment_123332541

    Never! Just look at the pedigree of their esteemed politicians, like that paragon of virtue, Pádraig Flynn....



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    #11778
    Bogey Lowenstein
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,641 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    The swinger lady in the stupid 'We're swingers!' ad reminds me so much of Wynona Ryder in Stranger Things.



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    #11779
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Woman farts in busy office, sounds slightly wet and draws attention from everybody around her.

    She then stands up and for some reason picks up a toilet roll from her desk and begins to walk, green mile style, towards the toilet.

    She picks up a large book on the way to show how long she's gonna be in there having a bowel evacuation while every single person in the office stares at her in judgey disgust.

    Remember a simpler time when the word Andrex made you think of beautiful little fluffy puppies running through fields and not wet farts and judgement?



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    #11780
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭deezell


    🤢🤮



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    #11781
    jippo nolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭jippo nolan


    a Shart?



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    #11782
    Bogey Lowenstein
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,641 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Those annoying ads with the people lying in the bed in the middle of the park 'WHAT IS IT?!!!' just will not die. They must have been on for about 10 years by now.



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    #11783
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,110 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Just saw the Andrex ad. Jeez that is rank!

    It's a while since I was in the office but I've never seen anyone bring their own loo paper. Teabags, yes, but not paper.

    43% of people are afraid to poop in work.

    I've always known some of the people I work with are full of sh*t. I didn't know there was statistics data available.



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    #11784
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,383 ✭✭✭✭The Continental Op


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123338693#Comment_123338693

    Always had to laugh my son used to drive home from work (~3 miles) to use the toilet.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #11785
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 33,400 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123338693#Comment_123338693

    I have seen a colleague bringing his own wipes to the loo. Awful things can clog up drains, but in fairness, these particular drains don't generally clog up.



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    #11786
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭deezell


    Wipes have non soluble synthetic materials, they're basically polyester cloth. They cause havoc to septic tanks as they don't dissolve or digest, eventually floating out with the clear effluent and totally blocking the percolation and soakaway pits and trenches. Major job, but you won't get anyone in your household to admit they're wiping their arse on the sly with a hidden stash of these things. They certainly won't volunteer to dig and unblock the drains. There should be a ban on advertising them, or a levy on them to pay for the environmental damage they cause with non functioning septic tanks.



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    #11787
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,110 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123338981#Comment_123338981

    My sister had a housemate who went through a pack of wipes a week. She told him over and over, they were bad for the septic tank.

    I don't know exactly what happened. A bit of localised flooding perhaps, I just saw the pictures of the back garden afterwards.

    They were talking about putting pictures of cancerous tumours on bottles of alcohol. They should put the pictures from my sisters garden on packs of wipes. It would certainly make people think twice before buying them.



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    #11788
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123339062#Comment_123339062

    And have you noticed that it's blokes who are implicated in these anecdotes, when you'd think real men would use the roughest grade of splintery paper.



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    #11789
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,110 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    #AdsYouDoActuallyLike

    Have to say I really enjoy the new Tesco Mobile ad with the cats.

    And have you noticed that it's blokes who are implicated in these anecdotes, when you'd think real men would use the roughest grade of splintery paper.

    Well I know the housemate in question, because at one point he was my housemate. You couldn't call him a snowflake because he is terrified of the cold.



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    #11790
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭deezell


    I like that cats ad. I don't get it, not yet anyway, but it's cats, what's not to like?



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    #11791
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,110 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123339527#Comment_123339527

    They are talking about their owners taking pictures of them.

    Cat1: So she points the red rectangle at me, and then she looks at it, and then points it at me again, and does it over and over. There's Ted, howerya ted?

    Ted(dressed as a wizard): Not good.

    Cat1: Nice hat.

    Ted: Don't.

    Ted's owner has dressed him as a wizard and has been taking pictures of him.



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