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  • #12572
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭deezell


    Vomit inducing, not a bloated bare shirtless stomach in sight. Real rabid fans at the Liverpool match last night though, beer fuelled singing and chanting.



  • #12573
    CoBo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,218 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55


    Your one in the commentary box with the fake smile 😡😡😡



  • #12574
    ollaetta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    The two latest additions to the Outsurance money back ads, some auld lad and a woman called Kerry, both have really odd accents. Bring back Mike from Ballybunion!



  • #12575
    SaxySaxSolo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭SaxySaxSolo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123728886#Comment_123728886

    The outsurance ads don't even make sense. They rave about the 10% cashback but if I understand correctly you only get that after being with them for 3 years so how can all these "real people" be so happy about something they haven't received yet as outsurance hasn't even been fully in the irish market more then 2 years.



  • #12576
    ollaetta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123730024#Comment_123730024

    So true. And what they don't tell you is that they don't offer a standard No Claims Bonus so I don't know what you're supposed to present to a different company if you change.



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  • #12577
    cleanfarmer2025
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭cleanfarmer2025


    The Axa ad is a pain in the hole.

    The crappy ballad version of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and the pregnant woman standing up at work.

    Once she has the baby, she'll be nowhere to be seen for at least 9 months while the men will still be there doing their work.



  • #12578
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123730196#Comment_123730196

    Thats sounds like a really sneaky method of entrapment, making it uneconomical to switch providers.



  • #12579
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,863 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123732611#Comment_123732611

    Because all the others in the organisation are men?



  • #12580
    CoBo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,218 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123732832#Comment_123732832

    Must be hangover Monday Andrew is back looking for a fight with someone...



  • #12581
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,863 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123733723#Comment_123733723

    Someone is trying to rollback hard fought rights to maternity leave but I'm the one looking for a fight?



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  • #12582
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭deezell


    I was waiting for this to kick off after I read @cleanfarmer2025's closing comment! I'm struggling to decipher AXA's message. The affluent Asian mom makes the daughter set the table, while the son sits on his hole. That's their culture, and it's a woman imposing this. The girl in university, so? The one running away from domestic abuse, whats that message? The woman in the boardroom, there's 5 woman out of 15 at this board meeting (though they might just be having a 'team' meeting of lower ranks, using the board room). Either way, she's in charge. Just the chair? The Ceo? HR welcoming new recruits? Fk knows, nor do we know what maternity rights are in Hong Kong/Singapore/Seoul or wherever this is. So nothing in this ad that implies female empowering translates to here, except maybe the girl running away from the beating. Is the ad subliminally trying to coax female customers to AXA? Answers on the back of a career break application form.

    Post edited by deezell on


  • #12583
    cleanfarmer2025
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭cleanfarmer2025


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123735042#Comment_123735042

    I watched the ad on youtube also. There's segments in the youtube ad for Hong Kong, not included on the Irish ad.

    One of the clips on youtube shows a woman giving birth. The messaging on the ad is that being a woman shouldn't be a risk. That women are disproportionally impacted by risks, either by being over exposed or under protected.

    I'd like to see the evidence that women are at risk more or what criteria they use. It's a very broad term, 'at risk'.

    Men of the world have it easy, it seems.



  • #12584
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123739149#Comment_123739149

    A blatant gender play for business, by highlighting imagined and contrived inequalities. There's always an inverse to this approach in that it implies there's another group in society who don't 'suffer' this 'inequality' and of course, as you correctly deduced, it's… Men.

    They're wrong of course. I'd have been more than happy to do my share of child birthing, and a bit of maternity leave would have been great in the '80s as I scurried from childminders to work to Holles st and the reverse for a number of days.

    Axa can fk off, inciting division when it's just real life. Where were they when the survivors of Magdalene Laundries (run by religious fundamentalist women) needed a voice. It's all Corporate virtue signalling. Fine. Another company that I won't entertain a renewal email from.

    Post edited by deezell on


  • #12585
    littlevillage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    I have AXA insurance... because its good value and they have a physical branch near me…which I appreciate. But I might mention their sickening and devisive advertisements when asked for feedback next time…and how I feel underappreciated as a man who buys their product.



  • #12586
    cleanfarmer2025
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭cleanfarmer2025


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123740878#Comment_123740878

    Yeah and if they were going to do a segment on 'at risk' people, you'd think they'd have a damn good idea based on the fact they are in the insurance industry.

    Around 75% of road deaths are men.

    90% of workplace deaths are men.

    Around 75% of suicides are men.

    75% of murder victims are men.



  • #12587
    optogirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,054 ✭✭✭optogirl


    The Red Bull one where he's cutting the wire - his advisor says 'Usually it's always the red one'. It absolutely grinds my gears.USUALLY and ALWAYS should not be together in that sentence. Either it's usually the red one or it's always the red one. Gaaaaaaaaaaaah



  • #12588
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123741631#Comment_123741631

    I've been meaning to write about this for ages. It's SOOOO stupid. He's trying to defuse this bomb, fails and when it goes off, it doesn't kill him (pity!) and it doesn't seem to damage anything much, so what was the point? What was the point of the bomb, and what was the point in him trying to defuse it, and does the ad even say anything positive about Red Bull?

    [But it's only an ad. It's only an ad…]



  • #12589
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭deezell


    Advertising agency copy writers would have always been university graduates, arts, media or journalism. These are multi million companies, wirh muti billion clients. You would expect them to have a grasp of grammar at the very least. Maybe today's bunch were recruited from thick tok.



  • #12590
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,593 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123741631#Comment_123741631

    I hate all the Red Bull ads.

    The lidl or Aldi one (What, no growth Spurt this year?). The incipit little smile on the kids face. It act looks like an AI0generated image (The limited camera and head movement).



  • #12591
    I Cant Believe Its Not Butter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 ✭I Cant Believe Its Not Butter


    The advert where there is a mouth screaming on some guys forehead.I think its for chewing gum..The advert annoys me so much,that I am not even sure what its for...It drives me mental..



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  • #12592
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,155 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    Chewing Gum.



  • #12593
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,795 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    The one with the tiny dog 'They call me the Duke because I'm King of the ring" What? Why don't they call him the King?



  • #12594
    Kalimah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭Kalimah


    The one for Tesco with the pineapple. There’s a kid in it who screams “ give me the pineapple”. I want to kick the Tv out the window.



  • #12595
    Vittu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭Vittu


    I wonder are ad makers going with "any reaction is better than no reaction" when making ads? A lot of ads are really annoying and people remember them for this reason more than bland unprovoking ads. The mute button on the tv is the best answer to them.



  • #12596
    SaxySaxSolo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭SaxySaxSolo


    Those "HHC is now illegal" adverts on the advertisement televisions in the big shopping centers.

    I despise all drugs for the damage they do especially with how underplayed alcohol is but these ads come comes across as so draconian to me.

    All drug problems are medical not criminal issues. On the taker side not the suppliers, they are criminals.



  • #12597
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123743199#Comment_123743199

    When the kid screams, dub your own words over it, and shout, ,' Give me the Fking Pineapple, motherfkr! Now you have a Tarantino version, quite bearable.



  • #12598
    Bogey Lowenstein
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,187 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123743698#Comment_123743698

    I think you have hit the nail on the head. Advertising exec goes into a meeting with the board of directors and says look at all this internet buzz from our new ad campaign.

    He conveniently neglects to add that most of the buzz is from people saying they will never buy this product again because of the horrible ads.



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