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14-03-2019 12:34pm

Del.Monte wrote: »

I timed it this morning at approx. 3 minutes. Either they got a great deal or they have seriously lost the plot.

………..the latter! Its only ham FFS!

[Deleted User] · 14-03-2019 12:45pm

Have we heard this extended campaign before?

I have somehow avoided its latest incarnation, but I'm almost certain they've bombarded us in this way before.

I may however be thinking of the McDonnells' curry ad. I think McDonnells have done something very similar on TV, taking over entire ad-breaks.

whisky_galore · 14-03-2019 8:29pm

Del.Monte wrote: »

Brady's Family Ham to the tune of "Come out ye Black and Tans" - who thought that was a clever idea?

It's as awful as the tune they're attempting to parody.

Del.Monte · 14-03-2019 8:38pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

It's as awful as the tune they're attempting to parody.

The lyrics in the original are far superior.

whisky_galore · 14-03-2019 8:46pm

Del.Monte wrote: »

The lyrics in the original are far superior.

There's not much in it.

Pussyhands · 14-03-2019 9:21pm

Skoda ad and other stupid company ads - english old man voice: "there's a 0% chance". Smug git.

withless · 15-03-2019 1:21am

I will never buy anything featured in a Deirdre o'kane ad. The current one is so bad and they must have let her write the jingle too.

15-03-2019 7:16am

withless wrote: »

I will never buy anything featured in a Deirdre o'kane ad. The current one is so bad and they must have let her write the jingle too.

her nasally voice really grates on me

plodder · 15-03-2019 9:47am

Deleted User wrote: »

her nasally voice really grates on me

I quite like her voice. Some of the things she is asked to read though ....

Mr E · 15-03-2019 9:52am

Yeah I like her voice too. The ads are awful sh*te though. Who pronounces lingerie "linger-ee"?

Pussyhands · 15-03-2019 9:54am

Mr E wrote: »

Yeah I like her voice too. The ads are awful sh*te though. Who pronounces lingerie "linger-ee"?

Think it's supposed to be funny, it's not.

Her voice is grating. Would break glass.

Barna77 · 15-03-2019 10:41am

Del.Monte wrote: »

I timed it this morning at approx. 3 minutes. Either they got a great deal or they have seriously lost the plot.

They must have blown their budget, there's the reduced version now.

whisky_galore · 17-03-2019 11:33pm

Wall to wall Deirdre O Kane last few Newstalk ad breaks, she's as funny as a hernia. Pushing the quirky button a bit too hard.

George White · 19-03-2019 10:44am

Does anyonewho the Skoda voiceover is?
AFAIK it's the same guy who doesall of East Coast FM.

MortGoldman · 21-03-2019 9:51am

George White wrote: »

Does anyonewho the Skoda voiceover is?
AFAIK it's the same guy who doesall of East Coast FM.

Skoda is Brian de Salvo.

George White · 21-03-2019 1:34pm

That makes sense, with the Wicklow connection.

NIMAN · 22-03-2019 10:00pm

There's one of the voice over guys sounds like Leo.

Del.Monte · 23-03-2019 1:58pm

"You won't remember unblocking the sink but you will remember the Titanic sinking" - Ad for Titanic Visitor Centre in Cobh which has been moved by Failte Ireland to Ireland's Ancient East. :rolleyes:

L1011 · 23-03-2019 8:50pm

Sunday World ad - which I've never heard advertising on radio before, but it was on another DOB property - managed in one ad to both be utter ghouls about those Northern Irish kids killed at the disco and vaguely imply that Kathyrn Thomas and Blathnaid Treacy were marrying each other (when they are in fact both marrying men). All in 30 seconds!

whisky_galore · 23-03-2019 11:18pm

Chronically unfunny ad for Newstalk's comedy slot.

Happened to catch the show, it is indeed as rubbish as the ad suggests.

Maurice Yeltsin · 26-03-2019 7:33pm

George White wrote: »

Does anyonewho the Skoda voiceover is?
AFAIK it's the same guy who doesall of East Coast FM.

His posh plummy waffling has me reaching for the switch every time.

He advertises something else now.

Still, nothing beats the posho Dub for (Renaut?) "SOM PROVIDERS OFFER SOMETHING PERCENT FOYNANCE" Awful awful ad. Do they seriously not play them to 10 staff for opinions before signing off on them?

Another one, "yes, and the online shopper of the month is.....". It's nearly as if the ad is implying she truly is using her insurance saving to buy utter ****e off the net. Like, a few quid for the holidays, two nights out with her girlos, it'd be a bit more pallatable.

jeremyj1968 · 31-03-2019 5:41pm

"Hi, Ray D'Arcy here, make sure and a get a donor card".

"Hi Ray, why don't you mind your own f**king business".

woejus · 02-04-2019 1:01pm

Meadows & Byrne "spring into summer" cavalcade of bollocks ad is back on.

Surely this is the thing that will push me over the edge

Discodog · 02-04-2019 5:55pm

The Tayto Park ad that refers to "Alexia" rather than Alexa - How the hell that every got broadcast :pac:

Del.Monte · 02-04-2019 6:45pm

Just heard Alexia - as if proof were needed that are no standards in the advertising industry.

The Elephant Self Storage Ad with Rory's replacement is almost worse than the original as the girl (obviously his daughter) reads the Ad from a script - with no pauses - and starts with Elephant Self Storage but twice during the Ad refers to Elephant Storage (no Self). At least she sticks to Rory's nought nought, nought nought.

Brendan Bendar · 03-04-2019 12:58am

Discodog wrote: »

The Tayto Park ad that refers to "Alexia" rather than Alexa - How the hell that every got broadcast :pac:

Stops every echo dot in the country reacting doesn’t it?

flazio · 03-04-2019 5:55am

That's what I was thinking. Imagine if every ad on the radio was "Alexa add 'our product' to the shopping list", it would get pretty annoying very quickly.

Discodog · 03-04-2019 7:49am

flazio wrote: »

That's what I was thinking. Imagine if every ad on the radio was "Alexa add 'our product' to the shopping list", it would get pretty annoying very quickly.

Then why make an ad that has to use the word ?

03-04-2019 12:53pm

Jesus - Teresa Mannion doing a safety ad now for driving in hailstones!

"Drive in a high gear to maintain contact with the road, drive slowly over the pellets, use your hazard lights"

FFS! lots of slow moving hazard flashing cars all over the country now - for the sake of a shower or two! How on earth have we all survived until now without these daily warnings on how to survive our catastrophically ordinary weather? (we barely had a Winter this year!)

Hal3000 · 03-04-2019 12:58pm

I can't get enough of that mobile tire fitting ad by Keith Duffy.

Or my absolute favourite: Northside, ( drum sound) Northside (drum sound), the great big shopping centre. Northside !!

Ben Dunnes stuff is class too.

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