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Is this the most despicable ad on tv?

  • 10-06-2011 11:02AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard







    Everytime I see this ad on tv, or hear its equivalent on the radio, I get angry. I understand that such companies have to sell their products, but this is really a new low. It's blatantly using death to sell a product; using the death of a loved one as a marketing ploy. Makes me a little sick to be honest. I'll just have to remember Irish Life and not take out any policies with them in future.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    No

    two words

    "Go compare"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Einhard wrote: »


    Everytime I see this ad on tv, or hear its equivalent on the radio, I get angry. I understand that such companies have to sell their products, but this is really a new low. It's blatantly using death to sell a product; using the death of a loved one as a marketing ploy. Makes me a little sick to be honest. I'll just have to remember Irish Life and not take out any policies with them in future.

    I wonder what he says to him before the Debs:

    "Pack a vest for your Jimmy in the City of Sex"

    That'd be my guess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    Despicable? No. Shameful emotional manipulation? Yes. Advertising is one of the worst industries on the planet. This is a prime example of why it's so bad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭annacanna


    your angry that some people take out life insurance to support their children/family incase they die?:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Sanjuro wrote: »
    Despicable? No. Shameful emotional manipulation? Yes. Advertising is one of the worst industries on the planet. This is a prime example of why it's so bad.

    Despicable =/= shameful emotional manipulation?
    annacanna wrote: »
    your angry that some people take out life insurance to support their children/family incase they die?:rolleyes:

    No. No I'm not. Read my post. You're the reason :rolleyes: should be banned.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


    No

    two words

    "Go compare"

    Ha! I actually like those ads!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Einhard wrote: »
    Ha! I actually like those ads!

    Get.out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭GSI


    That girl is a roide:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭Opelfruit


    I turn down the radio for a minute when that ad comes on!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Einhard wrote: »
    Ha! I actually like those ads!



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    GSI wrote: »
    That girl is a roide:D:D

    a what? as in hemor-roids?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    (penny) Dreadful advert. The sort of thing that one imagines cable TV is chock full of in the USA


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 302 ✭✭thehairyelbow


    Einhard wrote: »
    Ha! I actually like those ads!

    Ahh no, they're rabbit ****.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭optogirl




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    Einhard wrote: »
    Despicable =/= shameful emotional manipulation?
    Despicable suggests something sinister or evil. IMHO.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭annacanna


    the ad shows reality, i dont see why you have a problem with a company that sells life insurance just showing a situation that happens to alot of people


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    optogirl wrote: »
    Adam & Joe fan?
    Lookin' forward to the Taffin Songwars!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭Opelfruit


    mike65 wrote: »
    (penny) Dreadful advert. The sort of thing that one imagines cable TV is chock full of in the USA
    Oddly enough it's not!

    Cable TV in the States is full of two catagories of commercials.

    1. Ads for processed food, fast food, restaurant chains.
    2. Ads for weight loss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    optogirl wrote: »
    Adam & Joe fan?

    Pierce Brosnan fan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭optogirl


    annacanna wrote: »
    the ad shows reality, i dont see why you have a problem with a company that sells life insurance just showing a situation that happens to alot of people


    It's pretty sickening to be honest - apart from the fact that it is schmalzy manipulative tripe, it is also highly offensive to people who have gone through such a thing. Not at all surprising though - a hell of a lot of advertising is of the 'Buy our product or you are a bad parent' variety.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Fran1985


    I think its a case of showing you the inevitable, and saying look, it'll happen but don't forget the world will carry on, as will your legacy so help those you leave behind by planning some life assurance.
    I think its done very tastefully actually, showing that while the lad obviously misses his dad, at least he can lead a good life and afford college etc. I certainly dont think something should be banned just because it talks about something so sad, yet totally unavoidable.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    No.

    The one for Disney really pisses me off.
    Talk about using kids to make adults feel guilty and make other kids not going or not able to go due to money, etc, left out!



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    I hate ads. Just fwd through the blasted things, most of the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    It is a life insurance/assurance ad. It will sadly have to touch on the topic of death. It is a upsetting ad, but to be honest with you there are far worse out there. I think it is done quite tastefully tbh.

    The Disney channel has Trocaire ads on at 3 in the day! I am sorry but that is emotionally upsetting for a 5 year old who cannot comprehend political corruption, Western greed and famine?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I detest that ad OP.

    In fact the radio or TV station is turned off when it comes on.

    I was sitting here with my son, who has just finished his first year in college and the ad came on the radio - his first reaction was to turn off the station and tell me he hates the ad too.

    Then I came here and found this thread!.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    If I could thank more than once I would. That's the first time I have ever seen anyone reference that movie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    It's a ****e ad but it is a life assurance ad, that is what life assurance is.
    They could show some happy family in the park having an awesome day, but it isn't exactly representative of what they are selling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    Is it just me who finds the Halifax ads the most infuriating things that have ever been vomited out of a box? The ones in the fictional radio station. They're so anger inducing, they make me want to kill everyone involved, their families, friends, close associates, distant acquaintances, pets, colleagues and strangers. Fuck those ads. Fuck everything about them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Taffin plays by his own rules imo.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    They obviously bumped off the dad to claim the insurance to send the kid to college. The black widdow there is totally in on it. For example, the dad was fine before the kids debs, he looked well and fit. Then only a few weeks later, before the kid goes to college the dad is dead and the insurance has paid out, meaning that the father died shortly after the son went to his debs.


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