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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭Isthisthingon?


    The homestore and more ad where the actors 100% genuine shoppers who are able to let us know how long they've been shopping in homestore and more since ( 2008!! - christ on a bike if you are that sad to even know this let alone tell someone… anyway ) waxing lyrical about how great it is . ' I love the vibe' ….. of a department store …. Jesus wept.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 captainfeeney


    What irks me about it so much is just something about the fact that we're all supposed to know who these people are and find them hilarious or something



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 captainfeeney


    I deliberately logged in this evening to mention the one for RTE Player with that God awful sounding Limerick dude. He's had some annoying voiceovers over the last few years but think this is his greatest hit 'DOIve into the programmes that MADE THEM FAAAHMOUS', 🤢🤢 I've never heard more forced crap in all my life, as if they think including an annoyingly over the top midlands accent will win themselves over to the unwashed masses or something



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    The one with that young one playing Blur on the supermarket speakers is one of the worst ads I've seen in a long time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,914 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    That's the last supermarket I would shop in. It reminds me of being in Topshop or one of those fancy boutiques.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,454 ✭✭✭deezell


    'You need Rock and Roll!'. Plays Britpop. But what would a 12 year old know?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55


    This trend of children choosing the music in the car is giving me the gawks, not a hope of any child in my car ever deciding what's being played 😡😡



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭ollaetta




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55


    If you're the driver you're in charge of what's listened to.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭The Subliminal Verses


    New Brennans Bread one, inexplicably, irresistibly squeezy



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭Messi19


    Bank of Ireland rugby D4 unsubscribe rubbish. Wtf are they teaching in morkeshing degrees nowadays



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,327 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    Gambling ads I can't stand them , it's a hidden addiction and alot of people can hide it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55


    I honestly haven't a clue what that Ad is about 🥴



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,454 ✭✭✭deezell


    Your man is not even making the 4th team, he's more or less retired, and he's trying to tell the daughter, who he's pushing to play but obviously is not that interested, to 'keep showing up'. Lo and behold, Porter or someone is out injured, and the chain reaction of subs gets him 'called out of retirement'. It's every late 40s semi retired players wet dream. Does happen sometimes, Lads could show up to watch a 3rds match and be asked, ' have you your boots in the car?' I often played on teams a man short.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭Messi19




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,454 ✭✭✭deezell


    Oh, wrong ad. That's the one with 4 knobs in a cafe, something about not paying subscriptions in order to have the price of a pizza? Yea, I haven't the foggiest either. The other ad is sometimes categorised as a 'D4 ad' also, rugby dad's and all that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,316 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Yeah, especially since just before the first time I saw it, I was in Aldi about to buy bread when I saw a man squeezing the bread. Why would you damage bread that you're about to buy? I suppose he could get an unsqueezed one from the same batch.

    Anyway, I go home and that evening saw the bread people themselves advocating this behaviour!! Brennan's can keep their doughy stodge!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,782 ✭✭✭Archeron


    The new Guinness ad for zero with the under pressure song, indicating that anybody not drinking will be stared at and frowned upon by society as a whole.

    Guess what Diageo, I'm not a big drinker and for years have spent many nights out drinking coke, water, blackcurrant and what have you and not once has anybody tried to put "pressure" on me to fit in.

    Just because you want to sell more of your overpriced zero alcohol crap you're trying to reintroduce something that (for me) hasn't been a thing for donkeys.

    Fuuuuuuuck off.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    I think selling their zero products is only part of it. All the drinks companies have cottoned on that you can broadcast all the ads you want before the watershed once it's supposedly for their alcohol free range. It's like that massive Guinness logo in the centre of rugby pitches where you'd nearly have to squint to see the 0.0 bit.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55


    That's the sickening thing, stick on 0.0 and you can advertise it all day long.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,454 ✭✭✭deezell


    0.0 is to drink what vapes are to ciggies. A stepping stone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,467 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    I dont think so. you wont find teenagers drinking 0.0 in a field, it is drank by drinkers who are driving or just dont want a hangover.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,327 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    I have to correct you here , vapes are to get off the smokes 🚬 yet most people just stay on them long term , in my eyes it's still smoking , does more damage as well as vaping adds moisture into your lungs where as smoking dries them out , I've had Guinness 0.0 it's alright but I see no point on drinking it , it's more expensive than normal Guinness



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,454 ✭✭✭deezell


    Vapes loaded with nicotine. Get the kids addicted to nicotine makes it easier to progress them to smokes. Who do you think is bankrolling and stocking all these vape startup shops.

    On drink, kids can legally buy zero drinks, and sit up and consume them in a restaurant bar. I watched a kid drinking a pint of zero in a hotel on Monday, maybe 14 -15 yo, in the restaurant at his grandads 70th. Completely legal. It normalises drinking. But the drinks companies would prefer you to stay on zero, the profits are enormous, with no alcohol excise.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭Isthisthingon?


    The 'zero' drinks are not 0.0% but 0.0005 or whatever so technically its not legal for a child to drink it.

    That being said, as a late teen I was often bought bottles of ….deep breath …. kaliber.

    I dont have a problem with it in the grand scale of things - 14 year olds in germany can sup away on helles or weissebeer with mam or dad .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,454 ✭✭✭deezell


    I've no problem either, except with the opportunity afforded to kids to 'drink' socially. Afaik, premises can make their own rules about this, and also, I think the legal percentage of alcohol that makes a product exempt is far higher than 0.0005%, such as liquer confectionary. I recall long time ago the shops used to sell cans of Shandy, not the 2.5% or thereabouts strength of a pub 50-50 mix of ale and red lemonade, but something like 0.1 or 0.2%. Wouldn't harm a fly but had the nice beery taste of shandy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,454 ✭✭✭deezell


    Here you go, 0.5%, it was exempt.

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