Even more adverts you despise

The Northern Irish tourism ad where the guy is sneering at our lack of interest in NI's cultural offerings 'you wouldn't like the walled geeeardens'.

Aye, I wouldn't, surely, but a visit to the wee Titanic would be dead on.

I really wish to fk they'd cut that ad with the slovenly house bound befuddled first time mother who rings her oul wan in her Tenerife gaff to pretend to sing a lullaby which is playing on the ad soundtrack with concert hall quality and reverberation, and the voice of someone half the age of the expat wrinkly. Its strange, as when the ould bitch speaks, the audio reverts to typical muffled squawky mobile phone quality. Have they a special Albert Hall performance mode button on their phones? The whole thing is bollox, and of audio mute/change channel levels of annoyance

You know, if it means the end of a decade of the Mr. Blue Sky ads and the likes of your man with his big slide in the flats, I'll put up with this one.

The Heineken ad where your man turns his house into a pub for all and sundry to walk in. Silly ad, might not have annoyed me, but the stupid punchlines, "strangers at the start, friends by the end", and even worse, "Fans have more friends". Er, no they don't. More burglars and pickpockets maybe. Who exactly are they trying to entice, Billy Nomates?

088 was analogue, the first Digital or GSM was early 90s. Analogue only cost 32p/minute to call, but ir£35 a month for the connection., thats €1.13/min in today's money and €124/month connection rental! GSM brought in greater access and ready to go around '93, but it cost 80p/min daytime to make calls , €2/min in today's money. I recall clearly being in the now gone Eircom shop/public office on the corner of O'Connell st/Catholic Brugha st, and an oul wan was complaining that she'd only just put £20 credit in her new phone and made a few calls, then it stopped working. She'd ploughed through the equivalent of €40 today in 25 minutes yakking.