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Ads in Ireland you find offensive?

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  • #32
    Mariasofia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Mariasofia


    God.........men get very offended by ads! :-D


  • #33
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,705 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    This cheesy "yay for water charges" shoite...

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



  • #34
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    I find them all offensive. Trying to push crisps by using a pair of tits is just the veil slipping. I don't find their emotional button-pushing any more ethical or appealing than using subliminal messaging or hypnotic suggestion to flog their shit.


  • #35
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    Thats what abortion looks like

    I don't give a flying fock if it looks like a chewed up mars bar I still don't want to see it.


  • #36
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    Any ad's that aren't for Bacon or Mustard or both together are very offensive

    22/25



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  • #37
    Rubat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭Rubat


    I find 90% of ads on any medium offensive, as in infuriating ****e.


  • #38
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    You know when the kids are at home and they're always on the telephone.

    Wi-max coming across the nation, wi max a new sensation.

    I'd live to smash that guitar across his face, honkey tonk man style. The kunt.


  • #39
    Sigourney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭Sigourney


    90% of the ads on the UTV: shops that sell cheap leatherette sofas on tick; ads for shopping centres that rent out shops that sell cheap leatherette sofas on tick; ads that tell you that it's wrong not to play with a misshapen computer-generated kid with an eyepatch and a Norn accent that would strip paint. Aye.


  • #40
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,187 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HT4Om6JT4


  • #41
    liam7831
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭liam7831


    Morgan..............Turn on the heating


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  • #42
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Ten of Swords wrote: »
    This cheesy "yay for water charges" shoite...


    Those **** trying to endear us to another tax.


  • #43
    madrabui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭madrabui




    Instead of car-cation, I keep on hearing 'take a Caucasian'.


  • #44
    Cosmicfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭Cosmicfox


    The only ads I've ever actually found offensive are all the Youth defence/life institute ones but I really hate that ad on the radio at the minute with the woman yelling at the electricity bills


  • #45
    Mariasofia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Mariasofia


    Red21 wrote: »
    Guinness wheelchair ad especially the line at the end, "the choices we make...hop hop hop"

    Oh this ad is one that really gets a lump in my throat.......so sad....but then Ive worked in a rehabilitation center and know the benefits of inclusion.
    Offensive that its used to promote alcohol *indirectly* though.


  • #46
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    I remember ads which used to sign off with "Anglo Irish Bank is regulated by the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority"... Looking back, this was highly obnoxious.


  • #47
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    liam7831 wrote: »
    Morgan..............Turn on the heating

    Oh Daddy!

    *manbearpig hug*


  • #48
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Ads for foot fungus on in the middle of the main evening news at a time when a lot of people are eating dinner/tea or whatever you call it. It's across RTE and TV3 and they even have disgusting little animations of little fungus men crawling out from under toenails. Absolutely disgusting.


  • #49
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Mariasofia wrote: »
    Oh this ad is one that really gets a lump in my throat.......so sad....but then Ive worked in a rehabilitation center and know the benefits of inclusion.
    Offensive that its used to promote alcohol *indirectly* though.

    Excuse me Ellen DeGeneres but this is Ireland, where we don't pander to cheap sentimental crap.

    *waves miniature tricolour*


  • #50
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    That Flora wrestling ad:mad:. Mammy doesn't allow us watch wrestling but she leaves the door open so we can catch mammy and daddy f*cking.:mad:


  • #51
    Mariasofia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Mariasofia


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    Excuse me Ellen DeGeneres but this is Ireland, where we don't pander to cheap sentimental crap.

    *waves miniature tricolour*

    Wow......the meanies are out tonight. Will never eat a mint aero again :-D


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  • #52
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Mariasofia wrote: »
    Wow......the meanies are out tonight. Will never eat a mint aero again :-D


    Great to see I'm such a fine ambassador for Mint Aero.

    *expects to be sued any minute now*


  • #53
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    Excuse me Ellen DeGeneres but this is Ireland, where we don't pander to cheap sentimental crap.

    *waves miniature tricolour*

    Or michelle obama saying "it's good to be home" .... Cringe


  • #54
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes, saying J-Os, Jacob's J-Os..." :mad: :mad: :mad:

    One does not simply wreck an epic dance anthem with this kind of sh!te


  • #55
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    "are you ready for your steak love?"
    "100%"


    She looks like a right gee bag.


  • #56
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Right now it's the bingo one where some bint hires a company to kidnap her husband so she can gamble.


  • #57
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,827 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    The anti-drink driving ads.
    I know WHY they're on telly but Jesus, do they have to be so graphic?
    We GET IT, don't drink and drive--stop showing these ads and making people uncomfortable.

    I also find any ads where men OR women are objectified as sexual objects offensive; i.e Diet Coke/Lynx.


  • #58
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    SureYWouldntYa wrote: »
    That ad where yer wan shouts "Donal" every 5 seconds, offends me no end

    Think how I feel!!


  • #59
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Starving kids somewhere on at dinner time.. and the lies .. there are no famines that I'm aware of people are either to poor to buy food or made to live in a place they cant grow it. like the whole live aid thing there was no famine in Ethiopia it was a group of people made to go to a part of the country that they could not grow food on the government was trying to kill them off. Yet it’s sold to us as if there starving because of a a natural disaster.. And not of a war or government trying to kill off a group of people.


  • #60
    FueledbyCoffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 265 ✭✭FueledbyCoffee


    That feckin one on Universal the pedi yoke - it's absolutely vile. Someone with manky feet shaving all the **** off - turns my stomach - can't even watch it on fast forward - some things you just can't unsee :mad:


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  • #61
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    That one for the Christmas catalogue. The kid at the start of that bragging that he's going to get lots of presents this Christmas. It must be a nightmare for parents who are struggling to make ends meet, without having to cope with Christmas too. A bit of sensitivity wouldn't go amiss.


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