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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    So many atm. The ads with women saying 'I am delighted with my new kitchen' apart from tiny differences they all got the exact same kitchen.

    The one with the posh female muppet newsreader, I think they based it on Maura Derrane and are taking the mick out of her.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,215 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    Disney + Brother ad, I know it is from the Lion King, but is just such a **** song. I have never heard anything so far up its own arse before. There is a certain sound to musicals that I don't get (not often used in Disney Film) that is trying to morbidly tell a story.


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

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,215 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    "Never mind catholic Ireland" come on now, I don't think Mars even consider Ireland, your putting us well above our place in the world, for that matter "Never mind protestant Northern Ireland".

    Knickers IMO are generally use for female underwear, more so than men's.

    As the joke goes.

    Knock Knock

    Who's there

    Siobhan

    Siobhan Who?

    Shuve on your knickers your mother is coming.

    Quaint old catholic Irish joke!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,650 ✭✭✭deezell


    They might in 1967, this was Archbishop McQuaids Ireland, with a clergy who were obsessed with morality and suppression of thoughts of even a remotely sexual nature. A book could be banned for the inclusion of a single word.

    The Siobhan joke was a fairly pathetic barfly joke in it's day, shouted out by drunken celibates mostly. I much preffered the one about the boy who was worried about the profanity of saying the word under discussion, and asked his father, 'is Knickers a sin?' 'No' replied the oul lad,' but tights is a curse!'.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,269 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Don't watch that much TV but have come to hate all adverts where people dance.

    But worse than that wtf were they thinking about with the KFC ad?

    https://www.marketing-beat.co.uk/2025/03/14/kfc-believe-mother-gravy/

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭BP_RS3813


    Cadburys hide a egg for someone special.

    What feckin cnut is looking for an easter egg in god knows where when I can run to the shops in 5 mins up and back to get an egg for a few quid.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,215 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    As I say I don't think Presbyterian Northern Ireland was all that much better.

    They made the choice because potential they didn't want the chocolate bar to sound like a pair of pants, for English consumers. If that is even the real reason.


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

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,650 ✭✭✭deezell


    We'll probably never know, but it's as good a reason in 1967 as any. Oddly, anything went in London around then, the swinging sixties and all that, you could probably have sold a 'Durex' bar, while at the same time you would have had lot of puritanical influence away from the big smoke. Should have called it a Mickey bar here. That would have been such fun.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,215 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    Not sure about, I think Durex might have an issue with that branding in fairness. Disney got away with Mickey Mouse, should really have been called Marathon Mouse.

    Will use Marathon from now for any unacceptable words I may use.

    Now I will Marathon off.


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

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,650 ✭✭✭deezell


    Yes, it's an interesting debate, but no point in getting our Marathons in a twist over it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,592 ✭✭✭forumdedum


    I have just seen this. Well actually heard the dialogue and couldn't believe my ears. There is absolutely no need for this detail on an advert. Has it boosted sales? Ah, just attention seeking. That's not to even mention the amount of adverts that put you off your food, they always appear when I'm about to eat or just eaten.

    What Andrex claim:

    "The topic of our new advert & the purpose of our brand is to champion a healthy relationship with toileting, in this case 'going when you need to go' rather than holding it in at work which can have a negative impact on your health. We want to be real & show a better way for our consumers, and that there's no need to be embarrassed or feel shame around going to the toilet, which is what this ad is trying to convey in a light-hearted way."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,650 ✭✭✭deezell


    Now I've just seen a deodorant ad in which the various protagonists are all moving about while graphic text is overlaid on their nether regions with 'Bum' and 'Balls' and 'Marbles' and a few other slang words for areas of the body that the ad contends are emissive of foul odours, hence the need for their product. Is this also in the Andrex vein, that we should not be embarrassed of the smell of our unwashed arse, while at the same time, pile on the lynx or whatever the product brand was. I've only seen this ad once, it was really tasteless, but probably not odourless.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,054 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    VM really pushing the Stephen Graham boxsets given how well Adolescence has done



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Stupid re-turn advert with groups of laughing young people all off to return their plastic bottles like it is a big social event.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,650 ✭✭✭deezell


    Next thing we'll have an Andrex ad where everyone goes off for a communal shyte, carrying a roll of the stuff, dog included.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭Sid 1984


    Have only heard it on Newstalk so far:

    Execrably irritating young wan ringing her Mammy to give her the big news:

    "We're switchers!!"

    "Ah that's great news love" in her best Irish Mammy voice.

    Just shoot me now….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,122 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,215 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    Beige flag ffs youtube and marathon off fresh


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

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭The Moist Buddha


    the new Didley Eye Smithwicks's one



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,650 ✭✭✭deezell


    Not seen that yet, but the Keelings fruit one with the 4 denim clads doing that awful 90s girl band song with the didley eye dance steps. I hated it then, and the 4 wagons. Makey uppy bands



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,329 ✭✭✭trashcan


    That reminds me of the time when someone swapped all the wrappers in the box of Cadbury’s Heroes, and some people got their Snickers in a Twix.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    The woman who eats the strawberries at her desk is one of the original wagons from the girl group.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,650 ✭✭✭deezell




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭Dan Steely


    You'd think Aldi with all their money would insist on actors that can act a bit. They should sack whoever signed off on the thing.

    "Oh look, a tractor". I keep hoping for the tractor to do a u-turn and run them over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭BP_RS3813


    Aldi have also been pumping out a lot of their 'good food, good mood' ads which drives me nuts.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,650 ✭✭✭deezell


    Oh yes, please, anything to shut up double chin and her 'there's nothing we can do' squeaking.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    That is another thing that irks me about that ad: the tractor is an antique which wouldn't be travelling far from the farm, farmers have petrol on their farms. Why didn't they flag him down and ask for help? Somebody put forward a theory that they are faking the breakdown to get out of going to the party which if true is a horrible thing to do. There will be no food at the 80 year olds (granny or granda?) party because they are busy stuffing their faces with it!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,650 ✭✭✭deezell


    The tractor is illegal as it doesn't have a safety cab, or roll frame at the minimum. Death trap if it slips into a ditch or flips backwards if attempting to pull with too high a hitch point, or climbing a very steep hill. Odd thing is, these quads that are now so popular in the farming community are cabless and roll bar less, and have already killed a few people, just like the little antique tractors used to do.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    They were lethal. I saw somebody accidentally wheelying one of them ones with no rollbar up a steep grade when I was a child. He was very lucky it didn't fall the whole way back on him.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,215 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    @deezell and @Bogey Lowenstein I was at home and first thing my Dad point out to me "Do you notice anything about that tractor" … he's from D4 he should have been a Farmer!


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

    Yesterday



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