Worst/Best Radio Ads

PeterTheEighth · 09-03-2016 10:46AM

mackerski wrote: »

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.

I'd be more worried about the kids who hear it and google it to find out what it is.

cdeb · 09-03-2016 10:57AM

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

I'd be more worried about the kids who hear it and google it to find out what it is.

With respect, you sound like the kind of person who'd be surprised to see what kids are already googling.

Del.Monte · 09-03-2016 11:52AM

cdeb wrote: »

With respect, you sound like the kind of person who'd be surprised to see what kids are already googling.

Perhaps, but the onward rush to the bottom in standards will come back to bite everyone. The sexualization of everything is corrosive, unnecessary, not in the least edgy and says more about the morons who approve it than anything else.

Complaint just submitted here: http://www.asai.ie/

cdeb · 09-03-2016 12:03PM

There are Cadbury Caramel ads more sexualised than that ad.

Your post sounds like something last heard uttered by an Irish bishop circa 1962.

JustShon · 09-03-2016 12:04PM

Del.Monte wrote: »

Complaint just submitted here: http://www.asai.ie/

Let us know how that goes. Not that I particularly care one way or the other about this specific ad but I am curious as to how they respond to complaints in general.

Del.Monte · 09-03-2016 12:06PM

cdeb wrote: »

There are Cadbury Caramel ads more sexualised than that ad.

Your post sounds like something last heard uttered by an Irish bishop circa 1962.

And yours sounds like something by somebody who doesn't have children of their own, or if they do is too damn apathetic to care about how they grow up.

Discodog · 09-03-2016 12:07PM

That Opel soundtrack. Kraftwerk tribute band

mackerski · 09-03-2016 12:43PM

Discodog wrote: »

That Opel soundtrack. Kraftwerk tribute band

Put me down as a distinct unfan of Opel voiceover guy. At least they seem to have given up on having him butcher "veerrrrrrr layben ottos".

TedR · 09-03-2016 12:44PM

Jambo the Goat is back on the RTE adbreaks!! the joy of it ....

PeterTheEighth · 09-03-2016 02:22PM

cdeb wrote: »

With respect, you sound like the kind of person who'd be surprised to see what kids are already googling.

As a moderator, it's your job to make judgement on the fairness (or otherwise) of the posts, not to make judgement on me. If you think that I'm a prude, have a read through the posts and judge for yourself.

JustShon · 09-03-2016 02:32PM

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

As a moderator, it's your job to make judgement on the fairness (or otherwise) of the posts, not to make judgement on me. If you think that I'm a prude, have a read through the posts and judge for yourself.

He/she wasn't posting in their capacity as a mod. They're mod of the Chess forum and were just posting here as a normal user.

colm_mcm · 10-03-2016 12:41AM

mackerski wrote: »

Put me down as a distinct unfan of Opel voiceover guy. At least they seem to have given up on having him butcher "veerrrrrrr layben ottos".

you can thank VW and their shenanigans for Opel not wanting to seem German anymore

mackerski · 10-03-2016 01:23AM

colm_mcm wrote: »

you can thank VW and their shenanigans for Opel not wanting to seem German anymore

I'll take it. Small mercies...

sierraecho · 11-03-2016 03:28PM

Not sure if this falls under the same category but competitions on Radio that are basically ads for the product and then getting people to enter but they have to answer the phone with a phrase or do something ridiculous on the call? Does my head in!

jca · 11-03-2016 10:55PM

Jesus Christ that bookin done deal select ad is a head wrecker.... If you want to be codded to the white of your eye by some dodgy eastern European then done deal it...arrgh me nerves is jangling enough to drive me to the pub...

Dan Jaman · 12-03-2016 03:16AM

sierraecho wrote: »

Not sure if this falls under the same category but competitions on Radio that are basically ads for the product and then getting people to enter but they have to answer the phone with a phrase or do something ridiculous on the call? Does my head in!

I find those thoroughly irritating.
Otoh, I heard a phone-in quiz question a few weeks ago on Newstalk that actually required some general knowledge. A refreshing change from treating the listeners like numpties and cash cows.

L1011 · 12-03-2016 10:23PM

Dan Jaman wrote: »

I find those thoroughly irritating.
Otoh, I heard a phone-in quiz question a few weeks ago on Newstalk that actually required some general knowledge. A refreshing change from treating the listeners like numpties and cash cows.

The bigger the prize the more difficult the questions usually. Something worth a few hundreds likely didn't cost the station a cent or have any conditions attached to it; something worth a few grand will have had big conditions attached by the prize provider.

Dan Jaman · 13-03-2016 01:08AM

L1011 wrote: »

The bigger the prize the more difficult the questions usually. Something worth a few hundreds likely didn't cost the station a cent or have any conditions attached to it; something worth a few grand will have had big conditions attached by the prize provider.

Mind you, it never pays to underestimate stupidity.
You could ask the question, "What is the day immediately following Thursday?" and somebody would phone in and get it wrong.

I've come to the conclusion that, along with light, heat, gravity and chips, stupidity is one of the most powerful forces in nature.

Discodog · 13-03-2016 03:47PM

I thought that the idea is to make the question ridiculously easy so that more people will enter. The premium rate texts must really add up.

PeterTheEighth · 14-03-2016 09:31AM

Love that AJ Products advert.

Bar stools, high chairs, shopping trolleys, whiteboards .......

Hookers In Lather. :pac:

Dan Jaman · 14-03-2016 09:54AM

Discodog wrote: »

I thought that the idea is to make the question ridiculously easy so that more people will enter. The premium rate texts must really add up.

Of course, but it rapidly got to the point where it was just insulting.

Bellerstring · 14-03-2016 02:45PM

Any of those insurance ads where Kathyrn Thomas spouts her garbage, do my fukkn head in.
Oh, I dont like that woman.

Del.Monte · 14-03-2016 05:16PM

Bellerstring wrote: »

Any of those insurance ads where Kathyrn Thomas spouts her garbage, do my fukkn head in.
Oh, I dont like that woman.

Nice KH girl - what's not to like. Agree about the Ads.

Ol' Donie · 14-03-2016 05:51PM

Anything at all with anything zany.

The self twirling spaghetti fork? Grrr

Ein Kleine Nachtmusik on the banjo? I swear to jesus...

Just because you think it's "random" it doesn't make it funny, clever or good.

This applies to all radio, not just ads.

NIMAN · 15-03-2016 01:45AM

BordGais energy adverts.

"So there's Mary out with her child in the park, probably not thinking about us".

Why would any right thinking parent out in the park with their child be wasting their time thinking about household electricity?

Dan Jaman · 15-03-2016 03:00AM

NIMAN wrote: »

BordGais energy adverts.

"So there's Mary out with her child in the park, probably not thinking about us".

Why would any right thinking parent out in the park with their child be wasting their time thinking about household electricity?

I think Mary is the bubble-brained sister of the airhead Orla.

jca · 15-03-2016 09:49AM

NIMAN wrote: »

BordGais energy adverts.

"So there's Mary out with her child in the park, probably not thinking about us".

Why would any right thinking parent out in the park with their child be wasting their time thinking about household electricity?

Unless they were in arrears and were terrified today's the day I'm being cut off. It's still happening despite the pre election propaganda spread by Enda and Co about recovery etc.

Del.Monte · 15-03-2016 12:46PM

Those Bord Gais Ads drive me mental, especially as I have an image in my mind of the little prick who voices them as not being old enough to have begun shaving yet. :mad:

Anyway, there's a quite appalling one for Laya Healthcare at the moment with a heavy guitar riff in the foreground (!) throughout the entire Ad which makes it virtually impossible to make out what's being said. Then at the end we are treated to Laya Healthcare trading as Laya Healthcare.....

L1011 · 15-03-2016 01:38PM

jca wrote: »

Unless they were in arrears and were terrified today's the day I'm being cut off. It's still happening despite the pre election propaganda spread by Enda and Co about recovery etc.

There's a significant economy recovery - no propaganda there.

Not everyone benefits in a recovery just as not everyone gets impacted in a downturn. Fact of life. Trying to pretend there isn't an economic recovery because its not impacting you doesn't change facts.

Typer Monkey · 16-03-2016 09:10AM

The Monster.ie ads are really puzzling me at the moment. There's a couple of them that run along the lines of 'did you love computers at school but never followed it up because no one from your village went into computers? Well log onto monster.ie and show employers what you're made of' and 'did you love taking things apart as a child and tinkering with them but never thought engineering was for you?' etc

So do they have a load of employers waiting to hire people with no engineering or programming qualifications to work in those areas..crying out for people who gave up on their interests while at school, never bothered with college?

Become a monster indeed :mad:

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