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swine · 01-06-2016 04:40PM

Skoda ad with child has a follow-up. Make it stop!

ButtersSuki · 01-06-2016 04:42PM

swine wrote: »

Skoda ad with child has a follow-up. Make it stop!

Oh Jesus no....

thesandeman · 01-06-2016 04:48PM

Skoda kid and his father going to be on with D'Arcy tomorrow. That will be a riveting interview.

ButtersSuki · 01-06-2016 05:29PM

thesandeman wrote: »

Skoda kid and his father going to be on with D'Arcy tomorrow. That will be a riveting interview.

Missed opportunity there. If they had kept them for the tv show it would be a step up in the calibrate of guest D'Arcy gets AND we could have had subtitles.

That kid will regret this by the time he gets to secondary school..

UsedToWait · 01-06-2016 06:22PM

swine wrote: »

Skoda ad with child has a follow-up. Make it stop!

They must not have had a good outcome in the latest NCAP safety tests..

Apparently, 'dere deadly'..

thunderdog · 01-06-2016 06:40PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Missed opportunity there. If they had kept them for the tv show it would be a step up in the calibrate of guest D'Arcy gets AND we could have had subtitles.

That kid will regret this by the time he gets to secondary school..

The kid is actually 21 and in college

van_beano · 01-06-2016 06:43PM

Hate the Des Kelly ads with the "common" Dublin woman threatening her fella unless he forks out for new carpets and furniture.

Not too fond of the Bonkers.ie with their "lashing the money right back at ya".

Say Your Number · 01-06-2016 07:18PM

Those Skoda ads are typical sh1te radio ads, the accents don't bother me at all, would have thought ye'd be happy to hear an alternative to all the D4 accents to that are all over radio ads.

01-06-2016 07:41PM

thesandeman wrote: »

Skoda kid and his father going to be on with D'Arcy tomorrow. That will be a riveting interview.

If ever I had an excuse not to listen in, that's one for tomorrow.
I HATE those ads, and that accent....Skooowda. And that unbearable kid.

thesandeman · 01-06-2016 10:28PM

I've been listening to Manx Radio during the night lately while the repeats of D'Arcy, Duffy etc are on RTE.
The ads are so different. Clear and to the point. Their in house ads are hilarious.
RTE should take a listen.

jooksavage · 02-06-2016 07:12AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If ever I had an excuse not to listen in, that's one for tomorrow.
I HATE those ads, and that accent....Skooowda. And that unbearable kid.

Same. D'arcy literally couldn't have found a more off-putting segment unless he gave Twink and June Rogers a weekly slot where they promoted their latest attempts at career resuscitation. Barry Sheridan and his appalling progeny have no place on the airwaves. Or the bus. Or anyplace really.

PeterTheEighth · 02-06-2016 08:04AM

I find it a bit unusual that Skoda, who's cars used to be seen as cheap and Eastern European, have decided to corner the market of people with special needs.

anewme · 02-06-2016 08:22AM

I don't really get the hate for the Skoda ad either. There's worse on the radio, though I will say I haven't heard it much. It has not got into my head like some of the other hateful ads. Thank god for that.

I'd like to remind people though, this is not a paid actor, but a little boy whose Dad works in one of the garages who obviously thought it was a bit of skit to do this.

Some of the comments here are unnecessarily cruel.

Does it mention special needs in the ad? Are they targeting special needs customers.

Or is that a smart comment. I hope it's the former.

PeterTheEighth · 02-06-2016 10:52AM

anewme wrote: »

I'd like to remind people though, this is not a paid actor, but a little boy whose Dad works in one of the garages who obviously thought it was a bit of skit to do this. Some of the comments here are unnecessarily cruel.

Barry Sheridan is no doubt profiting from his involvement in the ad and he his CHOOSING to involve his son in this commercial enterprise. The ad also seems like it deliberately designed to be irritating so as to gain publicity from that alone. So they are both fair game for the criticism, so they are.

cdeb · 02-06-2016 11:03AM

"When he reversed into my car, I told my insurance companyn I wanted to use Trimtech"

"When he reversed into my car, I told my insurance companyn I wanted to use Trimtech"

"When he reversed into my car, I told my insurance companyn I wanted to use Trimtech"

What the hell is that extra "n" in there for?!

anewme · 02-06-2016 11:12AM

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

Barry Sheridan is no doubt profiting from his involvement in the ad and he his CHOOSING to involve his son in this commercial enterprise. The ad also seems like it deliberately designed to be irritating so as to gain publicity from that alone. So they are both fair game for the criticism, so they are.

Criticism is one thing but taking a swipe at special needs is another.

I'd stop digging if I were you. Your comment is outside the spirit of the thread.

First you say it must be aimed at special needs people, then you say its deliberately designed to be irritating? Why? Are you insinutating that (a) the little boy must have special needs and/or
(b) children with special needs are irritating.

Edited to add: I've listened to the ad and no where does it reference special needs, so your comment must be a low blow at the child and also at special needs people. Those kind of comments upset people involved with special needs and that attitude needs to be stamped out pronto, so it does.

Muff Richardson · 02-06-2016 12:34PM

anewme wrote: »

Are you insinutating that (a) the little boy must have special needs and/or
(b) children with special needs are irritating.

I believe he said the ad was designed to be irritating in general...theres a fair bit of that going on, seems to be quite an effective yet rather pathetic method of advertising, it is very irritating and here we all are discussing it.

on (b) children with special needs can indeed be irritating, just like children without special needs can also be. that ok with you?

anewme · 02-06-2016 12:47PM

Muff Richardson wrote: »

I believe he said the ad was designed to be irritating in general...theres a fair bit of that going on, seems to be quite an effective yet rather pathetic method of advertising, it is very irritating and here we all are discussing it.

on (b) children with special needs can indeed be irritating, just like children without special needs can also be. that ok with you?

We are all discussing the ad (and others) being annoying and irritating. This comment goes a bit deeper than that.

I believe what he said initially is that the ad has "decided to corner the market of people with special needs"

I have asked the poster to explain that commment, but that has not happened.

Perhaps you can explain why this ad must be targeting special needs customers as I'm obviously missing something?

I dont believe special needs should be mocked for a cheap laugh, irritating or not.

gimmick · 02-06-2016 02:23PM

Technique wrote: »

"Best payday ever, c'mon ya little......dog".

:mad:

I actually find that part of the ad quite funny.

SEPT 23 1989 · 02-06-2016 02:47PM

he hasn't got special needs he is from Cavan

anewme · 02-06-2016 03:06PM

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

I find it a bit unusual that Skoda, who's cars used to be seen as cheap and Eastern European, have decided to corner the market of people with special needs.

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

he hasn't got special needs he is from Cavan

Families of children with special needs should be helped, not made little of.

SEPT 23 1989 · 02-06-2016 03:07PM

anewme wrote: »

Families of children with special needs should be helped, not made little of.

I wasn't slagging special needs children

anewme · 02-06-2016 03:19PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I wasn't slagging special needs children

The original post said the ad was aimed at people with special needs, yet that still has not been explained.

As someone with a special needs child in the family, I find this throwaway comment insulting and I would like to see what is behind it.

Replace the words special needs with downs syndrome and re-read the comment.

There's too much discrimination and "slagging" against people with special needs, so I have no problem in asking people to explain what they meant, just in case I am taking them up wrong.

I don't mean to take this thread off kilter - it is about head wrecking ads, however, people should think before putting things in writing - there are no excuses for taking pot shots at people with disabilities or special needs.

Rant over....apologies for disrupting the thread, I am sure there are plenty more ads to comment on.

snotboogie · 02-06-2016 04:11PM

The woman with the "voice of wonder" who started off advertising for staff in the Beacon Hospital and now does every second ad on the radio

soc160 · 02-06-2016 06:42PM

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

I find it a bit unusual that Skoda, who's cars used to be seen as cheap and Eastern European, have decided to corner the market of people with special needs.

On the other side of this...aren't Skoda Swedish? I always saw them as a reliably Scandinavian brand?

Ol' Donie · 02-06-2016 06:52PM

soc160 wrote: »

On the other side of this...aren't Skoda Swedish? I always saw them as a reliably Scandinavian brand?

They're Czech, no?

Anyway, this ad is so annoying it has it's own thread in after hours.

PeterTheEighth · 02-06-2016 06:57PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

They're Czech, no?

Anyway, this ad is so annoying it has it's own thread in after hours.

Thanks Donie, I feel I may be able to make some important contributions to that thread, so I can.

NIMAN · 03-06-2016 12:31AM

Is it the same doll who says "Citroen" in the fancy French accent and "Affordable Qual I Tee" in the Peugeot adverts?

delaad · 03-06-2016 03:08AM

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

Thanks Donie, I feel I may be able to make some important contributions to that thread, so I can.

Re Cavan dialect, you're not even close, so you're not, so you're not:D

PeterTheEighth · 03-06-2016 07:08AM

delaad wrote: »

Re Cavan dialect, you're not even close, so you're not, so you're not:D

Listen there you, hai. I wont take direction from a Cavan man on what car I buy or what way I should speak, so I wont.

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