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colm_mcm · 04-03-2016 12:23PM

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

It's not that hard to comprehend, it's just an awful ad;

Girl comes home to her parents house with her new boyfriend. Her boyfriend's name is Frank. Frank has never met the girls parents previously. When girl introduces Frank as her boyfriend, Frank uproariously mistakes his girlfriend's mother for her father. The girls mother is frosty and indignant, correcting poor Frank's mistake. Hilarity ensues.

That's how you sell mortgages.

Capri · 04-03-2016 05:00PM

'Bosco' voiceover for Laura Lynn foundation - back to your box or cave Bosco :mad:

Muff Richardson · 05-03-2016 08:44PM

is that Leo Vradkar doing the voice over for the new dry cleaners ad where the person in the ad is trying to describe a gimp mast with ball gag he left in for dry cleaning? certainly sounds like him.

Discodog · 05-03-2016 08:51PM

So an Irish lad talks about pewgeot.

French bird comes on & it's Purrrgeot.

Irish lad is having none of that. Back to pewgeot :pac:

thalia_13 · 05-03-2016 09:34PM

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

I came onto this thread explicitly to vent at this ad. It drives me mad!
"Finance by GMBH" "GMBH no less!"
"check out our website" "oh i will, don't you worry!"

It is absolutely awful

What I'd like to know is what accent is the fella aiming for? It's part scandi/Part D4/part tipp moved to Dublin trying to sound posh....

Dreadful advert

mackerski · 06-03-2016 02:51PM

Discodog wrote: »

So an Irish lad talks about pewgeot.

French bird comes on & it's Purrrgeot.

Irish lad is having none of that. Back to pewgeot :pac:

No, the French voice pronounces it correctly, with no R whatsoever.

We have a very bad record here for pronouncing the names of foreign cars:

Renn-alt
Voaks-wagon
Aw-dee

And I've got this strong suspicion that High-un-die might not be what the makers had in mind either.

Discodog · 06-03-2016 05:52PM

mackerski wrote: »

No, the French voice pronounces it correctly, with no R whatsoever.

We have a very bad record here for pronouncing the names of foreign cars:

Renn-alt
Voaks-wagon
Aw-dee

And I've got this strong suspicion that High-un-die might not be what the makers had in mind either.

I wasn't suggesting that the French girl was wrong

You forgot Mer see days :pac:

PS How can Toyota be "the best built car in the World" ?

Dan Jaman · 07-03-2016 01:22AM

Discodog wrote: »

PS How can Toyota be "the best built car in the World" ?

Better than a lot of others, at least. Not sure about the best.
Mine's 30 years old and doesn't rattle or squeak, leak or fray wires. Attention to detail when it was built and not bodged by so-called 'mechanics' since.

jca · 07-03-2016 03:00AM

Dan Jaman wrote: »

Better than a lot of others, at least. Not sure about the best.
Mine's 30 years old and doesn't rattle or squeak, leak or fray wires. Attention to detail when it was built and not bodged by so-called 'mechanics' since.

Exactly. Good grade plastics is the main difference. I had to delve deep into the dash of a 94 starlet a few years ago ( to repair bodged wiring done by a so called mechanic) I couldn't believe how easily the various pieces of trim came apart and more importantly went back together again. The wiring and connectors when I made my way back to the original loom was top quality.

cml387 · 07-03-2016 09:01AM

There's an ad for some hotel and spa in Castleknock, done by that deep voiced girl,that makes Absolutely No Sense Whatsoever.

Something about not lying awake at night worrying that you worked too hard.

mackerski · 07-03-2016 09:42AM

Dan Jaman wrote: »

Better than a lot of others, at least. Not sure about the best.
Mine's 30 years old and doesn't rattle or squeak, leak or fray wires. Attention to detail when it was built and not bodged by so-called 'mechanics' since.

That's all grand, but do you not think Bentley or Morgan or Aston Martin might have an edge on them?

Discodog · 07-03-2016 10:28AM

In the UK you can't make a claim unless you can back it up. So Toyota couldn't use that tagline. It makes a mockery of advertising if you can just make any claim.

jca · 07-03-2016 12:46PM

mackerski wrote: »

That's all grand, but do you not think Bentley or Morgan or Aston Martin might have an edge on them?

Morgan?? Seriously? Probably the worst built car in the world.... Fair enough on Bentley (at a stretch) or definitely A.M. ( slightly higher price bracket than any Toyota) but I'm sure most car drivers/buyers know the difference between these cars.

jca · 07-03-2016 12:50PM

Discodog wrote: »

In the UK you can't make a claim unless you can back it up. So Toyota couldn't use that tagline. It makes a mockery of advertising if you can just make any claim.

Great Britain conquering the world with the Austin Metro, that ad must have been made before that rule came in....sure isn't the uk a great place...so well regulated n'all...

cdeb · 07-03-2016 06:43PM

Capri wrote: »

'Bosco' voiceover for Laura Lynn foundation - back to your box or cave Bosco :mad:

Heretic!

Always great to hear Bosco.

Dan Jaman · 08-03-2016 05:56AM

jca wrote: »

Great Britain conquering the world with the Austin Metro, that ad must have been made before that rule came in....sure isn't the uk a great place...so well regulated n'all...

"The Austin Mini - The Most Thrown-Together Car in the World"

"Morris Marina - Hand Built by Rowboats."

spurious · 08-03-2016 06:46AM

It's probably been mentioned already, 'Mary!!!!' and her offer to go with you to get your choppers fixed somewhere foreign.

Discodog · 08-03-2016 09:19AM

jca wrote: »

Morgan?? Seriously? Probably the worst built car in the world.... Fair enough on Bentley (at a stretch) or definitely A.M. ( slightly higher price bracket than any Toyota) but I'm sure most car drivers/buyers know the difference between these cars.

Very seriously. Morgans are hand built to a superb standard.

Discodog · 08-03-2016 09:21AM

jca wrote: »

Great Britain conquering the world with the Austin Metro, that ad must have been made before that rule came in....sure isn't the uk a great place...so well regulated n'all...

So you think that an advert should be able to lie.

mackerski · 08-03-2016 09:55AM

Dan Jaman wrote: »

"The Austin Mini - The Most Thrown-Together Car in the World"

"Morris Marina - Hand Built by Rowboats."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU-tuY0Z7nQ

PeterTheEighth · 08-03-2016 10:26PM

"People think that coal, oil and gas will be around forever. They realise this may not be the case".

Well they either believe one f**king thing or the other. Does anybody even read back the scripts of these mindnumbingly stupid adverts any more?

colm_mcm · 08-03-2016 10:28PM

spurious wrote: »

It's probably been mentioned already, 'Mary!!!!' and her offer to go with you to get your choppers fixed somewhere foreign.

She sounds like she's been at the helium!

colm_mcm · 08-03-2016 10:37PM

Discodog wrote: »

PS How can Toyota be "the best built car in the World" ?

Back 20 odd years ago. MIT did a big study into car manufacturing techniques across manufacturers, and found that toyotas manufacturing system was the best in the world. They are synonymous with Just In Time production, (where you don't carry any buffer stock and only carry parts as you need them) having brought it to the car industry in the 70s, but like most things, they didn't invent it, just took it from the Japanese shipbuilding industry and made it better,
Toyota Ireland took that and went with it.
To be fair back then they were an awful way ahead of domestic American manufacturers in terms of productivity and not carrying inventory unless absolutely nespcessary. That doesn't have any bearing on how good the cars are, especially today.

Del.Monte · 08-03-2016 11:26PM

The Laundry ball gag Ad was back tonight at 5pm - complaint going in tomorrow. :mad:

cdeb · 09-03-2016 01:01AM

That's a good ad I think. Well delivered by both voiceovers too.

Granted, the app sounds silly.

Del.Monte · 09-03-2016 01:53AM

cdeb wrote: »

That's a good ad I think. Well delivered by both voiceovers too.

Granted, the app sounds silly.

It's a daft Ad and it's utterly inappropriate to broadcast at a time when kids are likely to hear it.

PeterTheEighth · 09-03-2016 09:35AM

Del.Monte wrote: »

It's a daft Ad and it's utterly inappropriate to broadcast at a time when kids are likely to hear it.

For what it's worth I agree. I really cant understand how it's allowed.

cdeb · 09-03-2016 10:11AM

Bit of excessive PC there I think.

It's just a film reference - or something suitably randomly weird. Kids'll either not get it or have already googled far worse.

mackerski · 09-03-2016 10:21AM

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

For what it's worth I agree. I really cant understand how it's allowed.

Although I think the ad is poor on every level, I reckon anybody who gets the reference is not going to be corrupted any further than they already have been.

dogmatix · 09-03-2016 10:45AM

The god-awful blackrock clinic A&E ad is back again! Where the matronly women extols the virtue of their wonderful A&E (that is only open during daytime hours so better make sure you only have an accident during these times).

Followed by their meaningless slogan “when your experience needs ours”. What marketing 'genius' came up with that one?

So we should start to hear the equally awful Mater A&E ad very soon so.

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