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  • #13412
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,184 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124401276#Comment_124401276

    That ad is probably one of the most annoying ones on at the moment. Up there with the Tui ad.



  • #13413
    hibble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭hibble


    The 2 gobs*#tes that introduce the weather on Sky news wreck my head. The woman is particularly painful. My 2 little dogs could act more convincingly.



  • #13414
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,431 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    the woman was in the 1980's pop group Tight Fit who sung 'the lion sleeps tonight' and 'fantasy island' and starred as one of the benny hill girls regularly - but yeah, cheesy!



  • #13415
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,316 ✭✭✭George White


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124412820#Comment_124412820

    Was she the one who married Pete Waterman? Denise Gyngell IIRC?



  • #13416
    uggybear2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭uggybear2


    The Irish Independent ad with the Kingfishr song 'Flowers-Fire'. It's on so often that it's ruined the song for me, to be honest. 😥 I do like the band, other than that.



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  • #13417
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,145 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    There is some banking ad set in the 1980s Limerick… I will just leave it at that.

    ______

    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



  • #13418
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,431 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124412905#Comment_124412905

    oh yeah so she was. I didnt realise she was married to him, but yeah



  • #13419
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,310 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124413767#Comment_124413767

    Yeah. There's a few versions of it. I've seen Galway and Greystones as well.



  • #13420
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,145 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124416522#Comment_124416522

    The galway one with the computer from 1996 in 1992, when you know a advertising campaign was devised by a 28 year old!

    ______

    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



  • #13421
    pnott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭pnott


    An ad that does my head in is the Bord Gais ad with the daft woman and the tarrot cards. Higher power is generating energy from the sun! As if solar panels are some wonderous exotic notion 😑



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  • #13422
    Killinator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,527 ✭✭✭Killinator


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124407994#Comment_124407994

    It's ripping on the Succession TV series, music and all!



  • #13423
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,310 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124416609#Comment_124416609

    They've added Athlone now as well.



  • #13424
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    The Sky ad with the dancing clothes.



  • #13425
    Radio5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,162 ✭✭✭Radio5


    The lady snogging the boyfriend in the train station. It's pouring rain and yet her phone doesn't seem to get wet while she's ordering from Amazon or whoever.



  • #13426
    jacool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,819 ✭✭✭jacool


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124403736#Comment_124403736

    "A Steven Seagal script" - hmm, yes I'm sure!



  • #13427
    mrslancaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭mrslancaster


    The granny and the Irish birds lullaby song. The daughter says nobody sings it like the mother, she’s so right, it’s awful 😤. No way that banshee wailing would put any of ours to sleep.



  • #13428
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,421 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124428813#Comment_124428813

    …And would you think she'd send a recording rather than doing a live performance each time?



  • #13429
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,177 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    The Vodafone ad where the father is telling the kid to put her shoes on.



  • #13430
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    Probably mentioned already but these deserve many places in the hall of shame.

    That one for Amazon where the two of them are slobbering all over each other in the rain, I can't even remember what product it's for because every time it comes on I change the channel.

    And that one for Holland and Barrett where all the different body parts start singing.....I find that another level of freakish.

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • #13431
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124428813#Comment_124428813

    I'll bet you a pound that the scrawny looking granny on the phone is not the actual singer. Aside from the fact that the sound coming from the daughter's phone is of recording studio monitor fidelity and quality, not a squeaky hand held mobile phone speaker, and phone microphone at the other end, the voice sounds just too bright and young for the oul wan supposed to be singing it on her holliers in Alicante, or wherever those multiple sun parasols and brolly are. If it sounded like a barfly who smokes 40 Major daily, I'd find it authentic, but this effort shouts contrived and fake. I'm not pressing the big red button anyway.



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  • #13432
    CoBo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,805 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124439061#Comment_124439061

    I thought it was the emigrant daughter in Aus, or wherever getting mammy to squak down the phone, either way it's a dreadful Ad, as for the young one in the wellies... It that was my Ma back in the day, she'd let a roar out of her body and everyone within a mile radius would put their shoes on😉



  • #13433
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,431 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124428813#Comment_124428813

    what is she singing about Pasta Shells for 😁



  • #13434
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    The one for some of those parasitic betting companies with some gimp defiling 'My Favourite Things' is the worst I've seen in a long time.

    Post edited by Say Your Number on


  • #13435
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,781 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    There is an info-mercial i regularly here on the radio from a government agency i never heard of before, talking about the importance of the "consent talk". Maybe this is your first date after getting divorced six months ago or maybe you are in a taxi with a guy you just met in the niteclub... Etc ad nauseum.

    It just feels like its trying to be in touch and failing.



  • #13436
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,431 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    I hate the Magners Cider advert where the feet are all dancing on the pub floor - makes me want to throw a piece of my footwear at the TV screen when it comes on! - its stupid and pointless and would not make me want to order a Magners cider at all



  • #13437
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,145 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    Woman beside the sea, eating batter fish and put a gob of mayonnaise on every bit, surrounded by seagulls

    puke

    ______

    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



  • #13438
    deezell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭deezell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124448587#Comment_124448587

    Woman?



  • #13439
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,145 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124449441#Comment_124449441

    Will have to take a closer look, I hate mayonnaise.

    ______

    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



  • #13440
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Has Sean Burke given up on comedy to concentrate on narrating ads, it's hard to escape him during ad breaks.



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  • #13441
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,898 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124448587#Comment_124448587

    Whoever came up with these ads needs to have Heinz chargeback their fees. There was another one last year with some dose at a tennis match putting sauce on a sausage. Not great but the current one is so much worse. Yer man looks like he’s wearing a sports bra and the whole thing is fairly suggestive and crass and then there’s the poor dog looking on.



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