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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭Kalimah


    That Aldi ad with the battle axe in the grey kimono is back. Women like her went out with the ark. Or the 1950s possibly!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭bcklschaps


    Why do adverts insist that people eat at their desk. Aldi with yer woman having a bowl of cereal at her desk and various other assorted Shiite food sitting on the desk too. The McDonald's advert with the oriental girl sitting at her desk spilling the dressing from a burger onto her lap and then wiping it with her finger and licking it.

    Any office I ever worked in, if you did that at your desk you'd be getting a written warning from HR to get da fook down to the kitchen/canteen for your eating, ya durty Clint. Can you imagine the smell in the office if someone brought in a McDonald's, or the state of the desks/floor if everybody had their breakfast al desko.

    Don't even start on the ludicrous Andrex toilet roll advert where the lady let's off a massive fart and this is her cue to meekly head off to the Jack's and the other staff knowingly approve because she has a roll of Andrex and a (possibly communal) book under her arm.

    Is this office culture in some other part of the world, that I've never been to? If any of the women (or even roughest lads) in my office did that there would be hysterical laughter followed by about a year of acidic slagging from the staff and crippling shame for the culprit



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,054 ✭✭✭optogirl




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    Monday .com and any other CRM.


    ______

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

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Am I right in calling that get up a pinnafore?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,908 ✭✭✭deezell


    I agree heartily, except the classification of the Fart. On the Higgins-Connolly scale¹, this Fart would be graded in terms of the main three measures of the scale (character, volume, composition) as Rounded, Moderate and Dry. This was no Cracker, Rasper, Splitter, not Loud, Massive or Apocalyptic, and entirely gaseous in composition, no Splutter, Cascade or Torrent. A Nun's Fart really, (suppressed, timid, apologetic).

    ¹ For academic reference, the Higgins-Connolly scale is an unpublished research project conducted many years ago (mostly in the pub) by the casual observation of the subjects named in the title, and other anecdotal evidence as presented, remembered or experimentally derived



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,193 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    I was working as IT Security Manager in a well known Internet Service Provider and I was under a huge amount of pressure to get Monday.com reviewed, approved and integrated into our workflows. For about a year practically every meeting I had started with someone asking "Whats the latest on Monday.com?". Not a fun question to get on any day, especially not fun to get it first thing on a Monday.

    I stand by my two opinions on Monday.com.

    1. It's a stupid name
    2. Considering it's a cloud based system, and any competent Security Manager is going to have concerns, they should make the review process super simple, instead it felt like smoke and mirrors.

    I despise it even more any time I see their ad.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,221 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,257 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    that RSA ‘don’t let your friends drink and drive’ add. implication and tone of the add is that anyone out with a potential drink driver is partly responsible . Bollôcks. I knew one and we were all blue in the face saying…” would you not get the bus down and get a taxi home ? “…Bus stop a five minute walk from his front door which left him directly at the door of the pub but he often drove….taxi home would have been around 8-9 euros max.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    So Sally. Why Bus Eireann?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,193 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Idiotic Bus Eireann ad where this mad woman and her husband park in the long stay carpark at Dublin Airport and after screeching orders at him like a banshee they both run all the way to the terminal (this is impossible, you would be arrested for your own safety for walking on a flipping road which does not allow pedestrians and it would take absolutely ages) instead of just taking the shuttle bus.

    The hook being that it is so much easier and more relaxing to get to the airport with Bus Eireann.

    What I don't understand is why DAA allowed this ad to be filmed on their property, an ad which basically says DA long stay carparks are terrible, do not use them! 🤯



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,760 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    I has to have been mentioned before but the Lynx lower body spray.

    Forever in my mind I will think of it as bollock spray.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Dan Steely


    Outsurance. Opposite of insurance. Geddit? So clever. What genius thought that up. Probably took a dozen meetings, a dozen staff and a few hundred grand.

    And Joe and Jane bloggs on the couch extolling the virtues of the company for cheaper insurance. How come there's never anyone on extolling these virtues after making a claim?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,908 ✭✭✭deezell


    What is the plural of Bollock? Is it Bollox or Bollocks?. It"s the latter on my cherished Sex Pistols Album, 'Never Mind the B....'. I brought it 48 years ago. Where does the tempus fugit off to? I was watching Peppa Pig with the granddaughters, and in the episode, the teenage characters deejaying at the kiddies roller disco were itching to play their own faves instead of the nursery rhymes favoured by Peppa+friends. The forlorn disco teen looks longingly at the personal favourites he'd love to impose on the lil 'uns. It's only the above mentioned punk classic. Brilliant.

    Screenshot_20250701_202004_YouTube.jpg

    Pinko Floyd's Dark side of the Moon also make an appearance.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,908 ✭✭✭deezell


    Never_Mind_the_Bollocks,_Here's_the_Sex_Pistols.png

    Great times they were.



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


    The Aldi ad where they run out of petrol ….. broke down in the middle of nowhere ??? …. no actually broke down outside someone's house !!!! ……

    FBD doesn't stand for ……. FBD stands for support …… overdone at this stage ……

    Vodafone bike ad …… on too much …..

    That Bulmers ad ……



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭The Moist Buddha


    both Appache Pizza adverts



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,054 ✭✭✭optogirl


    the cash back really resonated with me. Resonated with you? What?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,221 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭pnott


    Specsavers ad. He is seeing Jane, Joan, Anne from down the road. I have 30 minutes with him this afternoon 🤮



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Hiscox golf ad. The girl says Hiscox always gets me out of trouble. Hiscox usually gets girls into trouble!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,760 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Never seen the ad but if I was commissioning the ad you've just sold it to me.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,908 ✭✭✭deezell


    Never heard of them, they're an insurance company? I never knew a girl could take out insurance against 'that sort of thing'. I suppose it's a new meaning for 'cover'.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,193 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Not an ad but there is a promo for a TV program on Virgin Media that I absolutely hate. It's a promo for I dunno Horrible Houses or something. At one point in the promo a guy holds up a dead mouse.

    Last night, enjoying my steak(striploin, medium rare), watching something on Virgin Media, that promo came up and I nearly vomitted.

    I am emailing them to ask them to remove it from their feeds. It's unnecessary.

    Does anyone have the email address of complaints at virgin media?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 ✭✭✭BP_RS3813


    Its best that I don't get that email. The amount of time I'd end up spending complaining would ruin me.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,030 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    That Nissan Juke ad is using AI.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,908 ✭✭✭deezell


    Nah, someone really drives it off a building onto a dangling platform, where it dramatically stops without swinging like a pendulum. Yea right.

    I detest movie or ad special effects which completely ignore the laws of physics. Worst example was Sandra Bullock in the movie Speed driving the bus uphill at a miserable 55 mph on a motorway ramp with a 30m section missing. She floors the accelerator for, I guess, an extra 3 or 4 mph, and the 4 ton bus magically becomes airborne, not only does it not fall into the gap, but actually gains altitude and lands safely over and on the far side. 3 stooges physics.

    At that point in the movie I changed channels. Absolute insult to anyone's intelligence. That Nissan also manages to fly upwards iirc. It's strange, when you drive a real car at 120 kph over a shore with a missing lid, it rips your wheel and suspension off. Gravity and the compressed wheel spring acts instantly. It's a car, not a ballistic missile.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 92,229 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    McDonalds have yet another ad with people eating burgers at their desks over their computers. 🙄 If anyone who works in an open plan office is allowed to eat messy, smelly food like this at their desk could you say so here, I would be suprised if it is allowed anywhere.



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