Adverts you despise

cashback · 17-02-2008 07:39PM

Decided I'd bump this instead of starting a new one.

That new 02 ad is embarrassingly pretentious. "We are o2." Nobody smiling and some fairly foreboding music in the background.
Is it a social movement or a multinational telecommunications company?

JBoyle4eva · 17-02-2008 07:44PM

Ya, that o2 ad is incredibly infuriating.

Another one that gets on my nerve is the Eircom Broadband one with the grandson being hip, introducing his grandad into the BB generation, then playing virtual chess......

I don't know why, but gets on my last whenever it comes on.

zuutroy · 17-02-2008 07:53PM

JBoyle4eva wrote: »

Another one that gets on my nerve is the Eircom Broadband one with the grandson being hip, introducing his grandad into the BB generation, then playing virtual chess......

Yeah I cant stand that...he's just spouting random phrases...:mad:

VERYinterested · 17-02-2008 11:16PM

Betty Crocker's Chocolate Brownie's Mix is back on. You know the one where a young wan with a mouthful of teeth like a broken fence, is asked to a sleepover and declines until later as she's helping 'Mummy' to bake some brownies. Get an Orthodontist on the case fast!

Pierce_1991 · 20-02-2008 05:26PM

that budweiser ad with the guy on the train. im sure wen his friend told him about the tunnel he expected a quick 'I'll call you back in a minute' rather then his mate running u the train to get an address.

Hopefully the tunnel caves in and kills the annoying wanker!!

Crazy Christ · 20-02-2008 10:46PM

That stupid Coke Zero ad where the two tongues are making fun of the eyeball, saying he can't drink Coke because he doesn't have a mouth... they don't have bloody mouths either.. who comes up with this shi.te?

phasers · 21-02-2008 10:47AM

that McDonalds add for the chicken and beef deluxes where the stupid bint takes massive bites from their sandwiches and says with a big smug look on her face "it's a toughie"

if that were me I would have smacked her hand away

and the McDonalds ad where the guy is hanging out with his foreign friends from McDonalds

Mangy_Cat · 21-02-2008 12:49PM

Love them or hate them.. Barry's tea ads will affect you for the betthar or worse..

My favourite has to be the old woman sits down with her daughter and shows her an old photo album.. The young wan is happy out flicking through the pics until SHOCK SHOCK HORROR HORROR, she spots a photo of her ma back in her hay day with a man she doesn't recognise... HER REAL FATHER :eek:
:eek:

The young wan enquires as to who he is, and the mother, with a filthy glint in her beady eyes says " Ah.... Twas somewan else!"

What a trollop. It send out wan message and wan message only - the postman is more than likely to be your real father.. No reference to tea whatsoever!

panda100 · 22-02-2008 04:34PM

cashback wrote: »

Decided I'd bump this instead of starting a new one.

That new 02 ad is embarrassingly pretentious. "We are o2." Nobody smiling and some fairly foreboding music in the background.
Is it a social movement or a multinational telecommunications company?

'We are one,we are O2'. ahhhhhhh!!! The most annoying advert ever!

Toto Wolfcastle · 22-02-2008 05:24PM

panda100 wrote: »

'We are one,we are O2'. ahhhhhhh!!! The most annoying advert ever!

My brother loves that ad but he's slightly slow. It doesn't bother me either way, I just hate that ad for the gym.....jackie something or whatever it is.

Really, just shut up.

Our man in Havana · 22-02-2008 05:34PM

The Lynx chocolate man is quite disturbing tbh. I see they have edited it heavily since it came out but I still hate it with a passion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZ-6y2UEfM

Mr E · 22-02-2008 05:42PM

Anyone notice that the aquatech ad has vanished from www.tvads.ie?

jb91 · 22-02-2008 06:27PM

Crazy Christ wrote: »

That stupid Coke Zero ad where the two tongues are making fun of the eyeball, saying he can't drink Coke because he doesn't have a mouth... they don't have bloody mouths either.. who comes up with this shi.te?

That's the stupidest ad I've ever seen. What's the point?

lizzyd66 · 23-02-2008 11:03PM

My worst ad at the moment is one for Lenor/Comfort/some fabric softener where they try to tell us if we buy their product we are helping to save the planet as it is now concentrate so they are using half the packaging , half the trucks etc etc. ARRRRRGGGGHHHHH.

kerash · 24-02-2008 02:56AM

Hate any ad with penelope cruz, especially the one where she says "No ammonia" so irritating!
Also the comfort ad - do the moves song-with the fabric characters-Hate it...

25-02-2008 08:43PM

The coke zero ad wrecks my head.

January · 25-02-2008 09:33PM

The new MacDonalds eurosaver ad's...

"In the 80's this was a good hair day, nowadays we've got it sorted with a €1 hamburger from MacDonalds Eurosaver Menu!"

WTF???

BurnsCarpenter · 26-02-2008 12:05PM

There's one at the moment for some health drink or something.
Various members of the public 'spontaneously' singing and dancing.
<shudder>

VERYinterested · 26-02-2008 12:46PM

You will think all the above ads are works of art, including Aquatech, if you get NTL Digital and watch the City Channel. I think it's available on the net, but wait until you see the ads on there. Good grief, the UTV cheapos are bad but some of these are unbelievable. There is an ad for Slushie and it looks like a 10 year old did it on a PC and Daddy (Mr. Slushie) liked it so much it found its way on air. There are other commercials for places like Brambles, Coffee Shops in Molesworth Street, Delis in Waterford, 3 minute long Merlin Motor City ads that are ghastly and Jimmy Greely reviewing 'Restaurants' (he's so hip, about 40 yeras ago). http://www.city.ie/

Ciaran B · 26-02-2008 01:00PM

I’m a reasonably tolerant man but the Eircom ‘bundle’ ads put the needle on my anger-gauge right into the red-zone. The one with the ‘girly getaway for me and me sis’ is the worst offender. ‘That’s us booked…….’ and now you die.

In Eircoms defence I do like the one with the girl explaining why she chose Eircom Broadband, ‘because this is my hobby’ etc. Her voice is super-sexy.

Skinfull · 26-02-2008 01:13PM

I hate with a deep and all consuming burning passion the car ad. I'm not sure what car. The freaky teddy yokes!!! "C'mon!!!!!!" that one in all its many forms drives me insane!

Our man in Havana · 26-02-2008 01:29PM

Eircom phonewatch ad with the phone jockey and the "buuuhhhhhhrglerss". Annoying to say the least. Cops would never be there that fast ever.

Davedubh · 26-02-2008 04:44PM

Skinfull wrote: »

I hate with a deep and all consuming burning passion the car ad. I'm not sure what car. The freaky teddy yokes!!! "C'mon!!!!!!" that one in all its many forms drives me insane!

And the songs really annoying too.

strawberryb0y · 26-02-2008 04:52PM

The ulster bank ad with the old woman standing in the queue.
"150 euro there givin away 150 euro"

Toto Wolfcastle · 26-02-2008 05:26PM

VERYinterested wrote: »

You will think all the above ads are works of art, including Aquatech, if you get NTL Digital and watch the City Channel. I think it's available on the net, but wait until you see the ads on there. Good grief, the UTV cheapos are bad but some of these are unbelievable. There is an ad for Slushie and it looks like a 10 year old did it on a PC and Daddy (Mr. Slushie) liked it so much it found its way on air. There are other commercials for places like Brambles, Coffee Shops in Molesworth Street, Delis in Waterford, 3 minute long Merlin Motor City ads that are ghastly and Jimmy Greely reviewing 'Restaurants' (he's so hip, about 40 yeras ago). http://www.city.ie/

I watched a full 20 minutes of advertising for Merlin today on the City Channel because I was in so much shock that I couldn't move to get the remote. Hilarious stuff. The camera work is appalling!

Droxol · 10-03-2008 12:21PM

The 'D-Hotel' radio ads are so annoying, no idea what they are trying to say in their pretend supposedly posh accents.. 'D-ashing?.. ' They are 'D-uummb' in my opinion - always change channel when they are on.

FearDark · 10-03-2008 02:17PM

Insure dot ie, insure dot ie, just be sure to be insured with insure dot ieeeeee! As heard on Today FM, I swear the radio nearly went out the window yesterday.

Borderfox · 10-03-2008 02:24PM

FearDark wrote: »

Insure dot ie, insure dot ie, just be sure to be insured with insure dot ieeeeee! As heard on Today FM, I swear the radio nearly went out the window yesterday.

lol

Pigman II · 12-03-2008 08:01PM

The one for Dublin Bus with the welder banging on about how good the "quality bus corridors" are and how thanks to them he now gets a few 'extra minutes in the scratcher'.

Total bullshít!

If they just came right out and made an ad saying "we're rubbish, we can't improve the service and we're really sorry for taking longer to get you to/from work everyday than you'd have spent walking" I'd have been less annoyed.

Baby4 · 13-03-2008 09:17AM

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