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Dan Jaman · 03-06-2016 10:14AM

NIMAN wrote: »

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

Dunno, but it sounds like she's a swallower.
Oh wait, is zat a proper Fronce accent, or somebody's back-street drama school version of one?

thesandeman · 06-06-2016 04:20AM

Slightly off topic, but best 'in house' jingle ever!! -: The lesbian show on WXPN.
Brilliant nighttime music btw. It takes a lot to stop me flicking stations during the night but just found this tonight.

thesandeman · 06-06-2016 07:41AM

I think I just heard an ad for Peig The Musical.
I hope I'm wrong.

ArthurG · 06-06-2016 07:45AM

thesandeman wrote: »

I think I just heard an ad for Peig The Musical.
I hope I'm wrong.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

delaad · 08-06-2016 09:38PM

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

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.

Well, that's a terruhr, hi!

Hillybilly4 · 13-06-2016 09:14AM

TBH no radio adverts are presently plumbing the same depths as the father/son Skoda ads for me but the latest Harvey Norman Big Sale advert (Today FM I think), in the format of a quiz show question/answer session is unbelievably unimaginative and dated.

HeidiHeidi · 13-06-2016 09:19AM

What is it about car companies (I think they're the only offenders) and ads where they have to repeat everything / ads where they have to repeat everything.

There's another one now, for Renault this time.

Lads, the joke is old at this stage (and it was never funny in the first place).

I know irritating grabs attention, but they're seriously overdoing it :mad:

neris · 13-06-2016 01:52PM

heard 1 laughable one of non stop 90s this morning for "Ireland newest tanning chain" with a whole 2 branches.

13-06-2016 08:09PM

What about those cloying ads for the television licence, featuring the wreath-laying ceremony at the Garden of Remembrance by the Queen of England?

"She bows her head"

The guy's mawkish voice is utterly nauseating.

"We were there. You were there"

Oh fuck off.

Ol' Donie · 13-06-2016 10:57PM

Hillybilly4 wrote: »

TBH no radio adverts are presently plumbing the same depths as the father/son Skoda ads for me but the latest Harvey Norman Big Sale advert (Today FM I think), in the format of a quiz show question/answer session is unbelievably unimaginative and dated.

Oh, I f****** hate quiz show ads. Almost as much as the whisper-cos-these-offers-are-so-secret ads, and David Attenburogh take off ads.

Dan Jaman · 14-06-2016 02:39AM

"Wouldn't you rather pay your TV licence than a fine of E1000?"

Frankly, I rather blow it on coke and hookers, if it's all the same to you, matey.

El Reich · 14-06-2016 04:06PM

Am I the only one who finds the VO from the Skoda ads even more irritating than Barry and his deadly son?

paddylonglegs · 14-06-2016 10:15PM

"Is your life worth more than 10 euro?" Check your car hasn't been written off by cartel for 10 euro today.

Oh the drama!!!

Gen.Zhukov · 14-06-2016 11:33PM

El Reich wrote: »

Am I the only one who finds the VO from the Skoda ads even more irritating than Barry and his deadly son?

Possibly-

Nothing, not even a touch of the Ebola virus, is more irritating than Barry and the wooden lad, so it isn't.

colm_mcm · 16-06-2016 10:28PM

There's an awful one for Fiat doing the rounds at the moment too.

Something like

Mary that's a lovely car you have etc etc

Well you know me, I simply traded in my old car and got €4000 off a new fiat
Blah blah quote press release, blah, give out website details

paddylonglegs · 17-06-2016 07:14AM

colm_mcm wrote: »

There's an awful one for Fiat doing the rounds at the moment too.

Something like

Mary that's a lovely car you have etc etc

Well you know me, I simply traded in my old car and got €4000 off a new fiat
Blah blah quote press release, blah, give out website details

It's awful. The 2 women nattering are pointless.

billy the squid · 17-06-2016 11:43PM

has anyone mentioned the "home instead senior care" ads.

Have to keep a pack of motillium handy for when those ads come on. all that crap about how Orla was my elderly mothers friend when the reality is some poorly paid sop who couldnt give a fiddlers fart about who they are caring for

Del.Monte · 17-06-2016 11:46PM

billy the squid wrote: »

has anyone mentioned the "home instead senior care" ads.

Have to keep a pack of motillium handy for when those ads come on. all that crap about how Orla was my elderly mothers friend when the reality is some poorly paid sop who couldnt give a fiddlers fart about who they are caring for

I have posted on these Ads before. "When I arrived I could hear Orla cooking up a storm helping Mum to alter her will" .......I know.

AdolfEngland · 18-06-2016 10:35AM

C'MON THE CLUBS!!

PeterTheEighth · 19-06-2016 03:15PM

That stupid SSE Aertricity ad with the emotive piano playing "óle, óle, óle", with the soft voice saying "who know what memories will be created at this year tournament". As well as being annoying, this ad was fairly poorly judged, as it really wasnt probable that we would come away from these Euros with any positive memories (given the group that we were put in). But I guess when the fans come home they can always use the SSE provided electricity to perform ECT on themselves to help them forget.

Ol' Donie · 19-06-2016 03:29PM

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

That stupid SSE Aertricity ad with the emotive piano playing "óle, óle, óle", with the soft voice saying "who know what memories will be created at this year tournament". As well as being annoying, this ad was fairly poorly judged, as it really wasnt probable that we would come away from these Euros with any positive memories (given the group that we were put in). But I guess when the fans come home they can always use the SSE provided electricity to perform ECT on themselves to help them forget.

Hate that ad.

19-06-2016 05:43PM

AIB's ridiculous "Brave knows the challenges that come with running your own business"

"We're backing brave"

I noticed someone else on here called it, 'the cult of the entrepreneur', which I think is a great description for the current economic climate.

Of course there are plenty of brave people setting-out alone in business. But there are also plenty of people founding their business on transfers from the Exchequer in the form of grants and tax breaks, or abusing job-bridge schemes and similar programmes.

And plenty of lads, too, who inherited a corner-shop in the back-arse of Cavan who think they're entitled to public adulation, as though it were an altruistic service.

People do it for profit. (There's absolutely nothing wrong with that)

Brave is diving into a violent river to rescue a photogenic child. Not running the local Spar.

denishurley · 19-06-2016 05:54PM

Del.Monte wrote: »

I have posted on these Ads before. "When I arrived I could hear Orla cooking up a storm helping Mum to alter her will" .......I know.

They'd be a lot more bearable if *actual* carers and clients were talking rather than actors

PeterTheEighth · 19-06-2016 07:38PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

AIB's ridiculous "Brave knows the challenges that come with running your own business". "We're backing brave"

This ad makes my blood boil for a number of reasons.

1) "We're backing brave". Well AIB, brave doesnt ask to be rescued by the taxpayers every ten years. If you look through their record, I have no idea how they have been allowed to continue to operate.

2) The cute kids in the ads, and the narrative that "we're supporting GAA clubs all across the country"... eh, hang on a f**king minute, how many 10s of thousands of euros are each of those kids (per head) gonna have to pay back to pay off the losses of AIB alone never mind the other banks. The bank is the net benefactor here and it really annoys me that they are allowed to portray it as being the other way round.

3) The meek little woman's voice on the voice over.. "Bwave knows".. The company can hide behind this more palatable voices all they want, but they are not run by caring, empathetic women.. It's run by the same crowd of male fat cats that ran it on to the rocks a few times already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2nA2szz8dY

paddylonglegs · 19-06-2016 10:13PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

AIB's ridiculous "Brave knows the challenges that come with running your own business"

"We're backing brave"

I noticed someone else on here called it, 'the cult of the entrepreneur', which I think is a great description for the current economic climate.

Of course there are plenty of brave people setting-out alone in business. But there are also plenty of people founding their business on transfers from the Exchequer in the form of grants and tax breaks, or abusing job-bridge schemes and similar programmes.

And plenty of lads, too, who inherited a corner-shop in the back-arse of Cavan who think they're entitled to public adulation, as though it were an altruistic service.

People do it for profit. (There's absolutely nothing wrong with that)

Brave is diving into a violent river to rescue a photogenic child. Not running the local Spar.

Awful patronising ****e, including the crap in their branches. They couldn't be kissing more arse if they tried

19-06-2016 10:41PM

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

2) The cute kids in the ads, and the narrative that "we're supporting GAA clubs all across the country"... eh, hang on a f**king minute, how many 10s of thousands of euros are each of those kids (per head) gonna have to pay back to pay off the losses of AIB alone never mind the other banks.

That's actually an excellent point.

AIB pay the GAA 1.5 million per annum.

So, even taking into account the amount that AIB has repaid to the Exchequer, they will need to fund the GAA for another 9,200 years before their corporate-welfare payment is repaid to society. (Or at least, to the GAA)

And that's only the upfront cash cost.

The cost to the Irish state in terms of reputational damage, resulting in unemployment and government bond yields, runs to tens of billions over again.

Absolute cheek of the fuckers, when you think about it.

Technique · 19-06-2016 11:37PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I noticed someone else on here called it, 'the cult of the entrepreneur', which I think is a great description for the current economic climate.

Cult leader - Bobby Kerr

wnolan1992 · 19-06-2016 11:48PM

Has that AJ Products ad been mentioned here before?

That horrific ad where they sing various office products?

"Pallet trucks, laddeeerrrrs, filing cabinets folders!"

It used to be on at the same time every morning on NT, and I die a little inside every time I hear it...

ButtersSuki · 19-06-2016 11:52PM

Technique wrote: »

Cult leader - Bobby Kerr

I think you have a typo in the first word there.....;)

It's probably been mentioned but to my horror I found there's more than one Skowda ad. with a Dundalk accent hi.

Grolschevik · 20-06-2016 12:03AM

wnolan1992 wrote:

Has that AJ Products ad been mentioned here before?

I like that a lot. Nice melodies!

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