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Even more adverts you despise

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  • Posts: 11,614 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The TV advertising ad, an ad about ads, with a smug prick.

    What is the point of that ad?


  • Registered Users Posts: 48 GCIREL


    The TV advertising ad, an ad about ads, with a smug prick.

    He's such a gowl. I hate how he does the accent for the fishermen (filinggg cabinettee) I'm embarrassed on his behalf. The mind boggles! People in an office somewhere all agreed that ad was brilliant and prob got bonuses


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The Dublin Mint ad, I'm surprised a high profile artist like Jim Fitzpatrick got involved with this elaborate data collection scam.

    Coin is "free" but not free.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Lord Glentoran


    Suckit wrote: »
    The Peloton advert. I cannot stand that guys accent.

    The previous one’s catchphrase “You’ve smashed it!” became a euphemism for a green fog stink out in my house


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    What is the point of that ad?

    To encourage companies to prop up RTEs declining revenue by having their ads on tv.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    The Dublin Mint ad, I'm surprised a high profile artist like Jim Fitzpatrick got involved with this elaborate data collection scam.

    Coin is "free" but not free.
    He's quite modest too "I'm delighted to offer my iconic masterpiece to the public" sez he


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,805 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    I'm going to murder someone if I hear the Smyth's if i was a toy ad again


  • Posts: 11,614 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Dublin Mint ad, I'm surprised a high profile artist like Jim Fitzpatrick got involved with this elaborate data collection scam.

    Coin is "free" but not free.

    I posted somewhere, maybe here about the Dublin mint. I signed up for the free Michael Collins coin. They sent me four other coins too and then sent me threatening letters for not paying for them, and rang me in work to ask if i wanted to put a deposit down for the 450 euro gold coin.

    Never again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭Radio5


    Any motor ad which suggests that SUV's of any kind are driven on mucky roads/tracks or mountain roads, in short anywhere that's off road. That's not where they are driven in Ireland so they need to make the ads more specific to our Irish driving styles!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,261 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    GCIREL wrote: »
    He's such a gowl. I hate how he does the accent for the fishermen (filinggg cabinettee) I'm embarrassed on his behalf. The mind boggles! People in an office somewhere all agreed that ad was brilliant and prob got bonuses

    The Donegal Catch ad?


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,964 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Radio5 wrote: »
    Any motor ad which suggests that SUV's of any kind are driven on mucky roads/tracks or mountain roads, in short anywhere that's off road. That's not where they are driven in Ireland so they need to make the ads more specific to our Irish driving styles!

    "Spend your hours in traffic in comfort."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,254 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    I don't care enough to be bothered by ads but I figured folks posting here are the best to ask.

    The McDonald's ad with the two girls coming home from a holiday - waiting for luggage, looking for car in the rain, etc.

    The girl with the hat looks very familiar. Anyone know if she is a TV series or does she just look like another actress?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 48 GCIREL


    The Donegal Catch ad?

    No, the donegal catch ad I actually like. This is the 'I'm TV advertising' ad where a little annoyance tries to imitate some of the popular ads over the years. He ruins them all!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I posted somewhere, maybe here about the Dublin mint. I signed up for the free Michael Collins coin. They sent me four other coins too and then sent me threatening letters for not paying for them, and rang me in work to ask if i wanted to put a deposit down for the 450 euro gold coin.

    Never again.

    There's been complaints about them from when they set up here. People thinking they're an official state mint when they're nothing of the sort.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    There's been complaints about them from when they set up here. People thinking they're an official state mint when they're nothing of the sort.

    Yeah, there’s a ring of .co.uk, 0898 to the whole thing.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Tim76


    I don't care enough to be bothered by ads but I figured folks posting here are the best to ask.

    The McDonald's ad with the two girls coming home from a holiday - waiting for luggage, looking for car in the rain, etc.

    The girl with the hat looks very familiar. Anyone know if she is a TV series or does she just look like another actress?

    [Removed Image]

    She's the head off Emily Atack (present day), who would do serious damage at a Maccy D's


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,254 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    Tim76 wrote: »
    She's the head off Emily Atack (present day), who would do serious damage at a Maccy D's

    Until your post I was not aware of Emily Atack so she is not the person that makes the McDonalds girl look familiar.

    And I don’t see the similarity to be honest in picture of Atack online.


  • Registered Users Posts: 48 GCIREL


    I know it's been mentioned before but that elf lidl ad. It's pathetic. The ad actually is so ridiculous. The dad looks like he'll be ringing samaritans before dessert. The mam is treating the idiot dad like he is invisible. It's a terrible ad shows nothing positive whatsoever and looks like primary school kids designed the set and little elf figures.


  • Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Tim76


    GCIREL wrote: »
    I know it's been mentioned before but that elf lidl ad. It's pathetic. The ad actually is so ridiculous. The dad looks like he'll be ringing samaritans before dessert. The mam is treating the idiot dad like he is invisible. It's a terrible ad shows nothing positive whatsoever and looks like primary school kids designed the set and little elf figures.

    It looks like an failed ad for LSD.


  • Posts: 11,614 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    GCIREL wrote: »
    I know it's been mentioned before but that elf lidl ad. It's pathetic. The ad actually is so ridiculous. The dad looks like he'll be ringing samaritans before dessert. The mam is treating the idiot dad like he is invisible. It's a terrible ad shows nothing positive whatsoever and looks like primary school kids designed the set and little elf figures.

    I said this somewhere else, but it's not helped by the fact the Dad killed Donna Burke in Red Rock.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    I said this somewhere else, but it's not helped by the fact the Dad killed Donna Burke in Red Rock.

    The other guy from Red Rock is in the TAM Ireland add, Filing cabinet etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,317 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    I said this somewhere else, but it's not helped by the fact the Dad killed Donna Burke in Red Rock.

    Somebody actually watched red rock? I tried an episode but God it was dreadful..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Somebody actually watched red rock? I tried an episode but God it was dreadful..

    Wasn't that bad.


  • Posts: 11,614 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Somebody actually watched red rock? I tried an episode but God it was dreadful..

    I for one loved it.

    Can't have been that bad if Amazon bought the rights to it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 48 GCIREL


    I said this somewhere else, but it's not helped by the fact the Dad killed Donna Burke in Red Rock.

    Haha and he was a dick in Dublin murders! Couldn't take him seriously as an actor after seeing that ad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,673 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    im hating the lidl xmas advert, if i have somehow seen the advert during the week, my next visit is to the Aldi across the road

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,805 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Is that Vodafone ad with the old lad diving into the water supposed to make us all weep and video call people abroad. Another ****e Vodafone ad
    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Somebody actually watched red rock? I tried an episode but God it was dreadful..

    Fairly popular with some people I know


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,261 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    GCIREL wrote: »
    No, the donegal catch ad I actually like. This is the 'I'm TV advertising' ad where a little annoyance tries to imitate some of the popular ads over the years. He ruins them all!

    Just saw it a while ago. Awful, he reminds me of that "nice ghost" twerp.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,627 ✭✭✭tedpan


    The Guinness Christmas ad.

    Purely because my old boss is the lad that says "Don't forget to turn the lights out"

    His voice gives me shivers every time I hear it..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    A certain feelgood song made popular in the Blues Brothers has forever been ruined for me by a certain online retailer that treats its employees very badly.

    Whenever I hear it now, I feel the Hate...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Shakyfan


    lertsnim wrote: »
    Is that Vodafone ad with the old lad diving into the water supposed to make us all weep and video call people abroad. Another ****e Vodafone ad

    Fairly popular with some people I know

    If he puts his phone in that pouch the camera won't be pointing in a way that you could see him - it would be either pointing away from him or at his stomach.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    tedpan wrote: »
    The Guinness Christmas ad.

    Purely because my old boss is the lad that says "Don't forget to turn the lights out"

    His voice gives me shivers every time I hear it..
    Would you prefer to go back to the Japanese rugby players?:D
    That's a Christmas keeper in my eyes. More so then the Coca Cola Holidays are coming


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    To encourage companies to prop up RTEs declining revenue by having their ads on tv.

    I noticed that ad and thought to myself when do you ever see advertisers actually advertising themselves. RTE must be really desperate for cash if they are putting ads on like that which are aimed at what, maybe less than 200 people whose job it is to commission TV ads?

    There's been complaints about them from when they set up here. People thinking they're an official state mint when they're nothing of the sort.

    Yeah thats their whole scam, they try to convince people that they are an offical mint and that the coins have some sort of intrinsic value when they're not worth a jot.Insert a few phrases like 'limited edition' and 'dont miss this amazing opportunity' and the scam is complete. The UK has a burgeoning industry along those lines with commemorative medals with royal figures on them and Id guess there are some links with Dublin Mint back to the UK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    I noticed that ad and thought to myself when do you ever see advertisers actually advertising themselves.

    Well these ran on UK TV a few years ago.


    and


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭Acosta


    lertsnim wrote: »
    Is that Vodafone ad with the old lad diving into the water supposed to make us all weep and video call people abroad. Another ****e Vodafone ad



    Fairly popular with some people I know

    I'll always prefer ads like that silly Lidl one, even if it is a bit irritating, than these bloody you won't believe they're actually actors Barry's Tea type ads that try so hard to get to the heart of the Irish family.

    At least they didn't have someone write a poem for it like the annoying Aviva ad which is another favourite with advertisers and RTE etc for the start of major sporting events on TV. And it's so bloody lame.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,500 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    All these sentimental christmas ads, with the theme of people coming home/not coming for Christmas have reached saturation point. Two current ones that spring to mind are the 3 ad (I think) where your one is skyping her family back home because she has a little baby and can't make it, and the fella "skinny-dipping" while on the phone to who I assume is his grand-daughter.

    The Irish have been emigrating for generations- why is it such a big deal now? And besides, never have we been more connected than now with technology. I nearly hear more local news off my brother abroad than from anyone else! What about those who emigrated maybe fifty years ago and never touched back to home ever again?

    Totes emosh Over-sentimental bull****e.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,534 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Bah humbug. :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,813 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    That Amazon 'Somebody To Love' abomination is driving me spare these days. Hopefully it'll be gone by Christmas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,805 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    That Amazon 'Somebody To Love' abomination is driving me spare these days. Hopefully it'll be gone by Christmas.

    I was hoping it would be gone after Black Friday but no :mad:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    That Doireann Project ad doesn't encourage me to tune in at all, it looks sh1t.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,078 ✭✭✭trashcan


    All these sentimental christmas ads, with the theme of people coming home/not coming for Christmas have reached saturation point. Two current ones that spring to mind are the 3 ad (I think) where your one is skyping her family back home because she has a little baby and can't make it, and the fella "skinny-dipping" while on the phone to who I assume is his grand-daughter.

    The Irish have been emigrating for generations- why is it such a big deal now? And besides, never have we been more connected than now with technology. I nearly hear more local news off my brother abroad than from anyone else! What about those who emigrated maybe fifty years ago and never touched back to home ever again?

    Totes emosh Over-sentimental bull****e.

    I agree with you in principle, but I actually don't mind the one with the aul lad jumping into the water, mainly for the terrified face he pulls just before he hits the water.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭MrKingsley


    trashcan wrote: »
    I agree with you in principle, but I actually don't mind the one with the aul lad jumping into the water, mainly for the terrified face he pulls just before he hits the water.

    I’d agree here. I don’t mind it because at least it’s well made and well acted I think. I find it amazing that the same people are behind this and the dermot Bannon ads


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,359 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    That Doireann Project ad doesn't encourage me to tune in at all, it looks sh1t.

    It's a transplant from the RTE player, to RTE 2. RTE 2 is now seen as worth less than the RTE player.
    Or worthless-you can decide.

    And it is awful-I tried ten minutes of the show, and gave up after that. I've had funnier nosebleeds.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,787 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Shakyfan wrote: »
    If he puts his phone in that pouch the camera won't be pointing in a way that you could see him - it would be either pointing away from him or at his stomach.

    I've noticed he puts it in facing away from his body, also the phone seems to be magically floating above the pouch after he enters the water.

    The Lidl nonsense with those crap paper elves featuring Harry Kane's older brother can't end soon enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,359 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    I've noticed he puts it in facing away from his body, also the phone seems to be magically floating above the pouch after he enters the water.

    The Lidl nonsense with those crap paper elves featuring Harry Kane's older brother can't end soon enough.

    Most modern phones have two cameras-so that 'could' excuse it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,477 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    This ad does my head in

    https://youtu.be/aHHlZ7cZfVg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    is that 40 foot/sandycove one with the christmas day bathers genuine?? or is it all actors?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    lertsnim wrote: »
    Is that Vodafone ad with the old lad diving into the water supposed to make us all weep and video call people abroad. Another ****e Vodafone ad

    Agreed. But does anyone know what the aul lad in that ad is known for? I thought it was the actor who played Fargo Boyle at first but he is deceased, was he a priest or an extra in Father Ted at one point? Seem to remember him being in something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭JimmyAlfonso


    It's a transplant from the RTE player, to RTE 2. RTE 2 is now seen as worth less than the RTE player.
    Or worthless-you can decide.

    And it is awful-I tried ten minutes of the show, and gave up after that. I've had funnier nosebleeds.

    I've just now lost the same 10 minutes. My god it's awful. She can take off some people well but the dialogue and sketch storylines are amateurish. To be honest I'm almost glued to it as I can't believe how bad it is


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,359 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    I've just now lost the same 10 minutes. My god it's awful. She can take off some people well but the dialogue and sketch storylines are amateurish. To be honest I'm almost glued to it as I can't believe how bad it is

    And this is its second season....it's not gotten better.:mad:


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