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Minx
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4088 Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject: Most irritating advertisements on TV |
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Is it me??? How crass are those pre Coronation St adverts for Cadbury's soft centre whatevers? That policewoman is just about the pits. Matched only by the window advert with that demented bird man chucking window frames about and bellowing "yer buy one, yer get one free! Whatever happened to subtle (if subliminal) advertising? |
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MIKERAPHONE
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 301 Location: Bury..home of the World famous Black Pudding!!
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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Minx..i agree.
Those Coronation Street ads where the bloke comes in dressed in a suit saying he's been down the allotment.
Just not funny in the slightest.
Have you seen that new chewing gum ad for Trident.
Some Jamaican bloke spoting off in Rastafarian then goes on the River Thames spouting off aswell.It lasts about a minute.
What's that all about?
Finally that Virgin Money ad with the 3 blokes in the lift.
Dreadful absolutely dreadful _________________ The Voice of reason in a MAD MAD world |
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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:44 am Post subject: |
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Those MFI ads, because you just know the next sale will start the day after this one ends. |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:47 am Post subject: Re: Most irritating advertisements on TV |
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Minx wrote: | Is it me??? How crass are those pre Coronation St adverts for Cadbury's soft centre whatevers? That policewoman is just about the pits. Matched only by the window advert with that demented bird man chucking window frames about and bellowing "yer buy one, yer get one free! Whatever happened to subtle (if subliminal) advertising? |
How about the creme egg which falls on the car. Sticky situation.. |
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H
Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 42
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:17 am Post subject: |
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I like the ones with the big creme eggs but the silly policewoman is beginning to get on my nerves a bit now.
Ooh, that's so mean!
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iknewdavidjacobsmum
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 336
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:28 am Post subject: |
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CILLIT BANG!
Don't shout at me |
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MIKERAPHONE
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 301 Location: Bury..home of the World famous Black Pudding!!
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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Crunchy Nut Cornflakes where there is now a special lane on the road for drivers to get home quicker to eat them.
Please don't tell me this is funny!!!! _________________ The Voice of reason in a MAD MAD world |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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MIKERAPHONE wrote: | Crunchy Nut Cornflakes where there is now a special lane on the road for drivers to get home quicker to eat them.
Please don't tell me this is funny!!!! |
Nothing actually happens to the guy who uses the lane reserved for Crunchy Nut eaters. I was expecting the honey monster to maul him or something, but no..... _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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I like the new Halifax advert with the singing and dancing. I reckon that bald black chap should have his own tv show! a great character...
I'm easily pleased.... |
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Barkingbiker
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2313 Location: Lincolnshire
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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SantaFefan wrote: | I like the new Halifax advert with the singing and dancing. I reckon that bald black chap should have his own tv show! a great character...
I'm easily pleased.... |
Well Santa, you do admit to "liking the show Steve"
BB _________________ Old Bikers Never Die, our leathers just get tighter! |
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Ella Sailyour
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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Funny how you lot actually remember the ads you don't like. That means that they've hit their target.....
Ella _________________ This week's $64,000 question: Why am I so gorgeous, possums? |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:37 am Post subject: |
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SantaFefan wrote: | I like the new Halifax advert with the singing and dancing. I reckon that bald black chap should have his own tv show! a great character... |
I like the Halifax ads only because they use (at face value) "normal" people as the staff. I'm not sure what Natalie thinks of how she looks on television but it's good to see that they haven't used the usual over-made-up, stick-thin actresses who usually populate commercials.
Apart from the ads encouraging people to take out loans they (probably) can't afford, or go into an IVA or bankruptcy to magic away their debts, my pet hate is ads for cosmetics:- Nadine Bag-over-her-head smugly calling herself "celebrity editor", whatever that is, and Jane Fonda - if she really uses what she plugs she ought to stop 'cos she looks awful _________________ Ron |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:41 am Post subject: |
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Bring back the Cadbury's Smash martians. I used to like those ads. |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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The ones that really boil my p*ss are those 118.com shorts before and after each commercial break on More4. Once was reasonably amusing, twice was boring, every time after that I vow *never* to use 118.com's services, even if my life depends on it.
Having said that, there was a really amusing trailer for The Daily Show last night, with a chimpanzee giving a cat a wash in a sink.... Jon Stewart's face was a picture! (Can't stand the actual programme much but the trailers can be funny.) _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
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pickle
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 252 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject: Irritating Ads on TV |
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Currently the Brantano ad gets my goat, where it's alleged every woman is crazy for shoes!
And then there's the Heat one, with the silly woman saying 'we're going down to London...'. Like no other regional newsagent will stock the grotty rag! _________________ We made a land where crap is king and the good don't last for long.
'The Good Don't Last', Spock's Beard |
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seymourwhitebits
Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Birmingham
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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the really unfunny, totally annoying "fish out of water" yank cop who is on during every break of the csi trilogy and law and order.
They're the wife's favourites so I see that cretin a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! _________________ "Timpani!, Timpani!, They've all got it Timpani!"- All drummers know the pain of skin trouble. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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I hate those ads about getting loans of 25k, the woman's on the phone, the kid is looking for his scooter, dad walks by with thumbs up for 25k, then upstairs falls over scooter. Makes me feel sick. The woman seems to have a fake Sunderland accent too!
The important thing, looking at their age is that this loan will cost them hundreds of pounds a month but they don't tell you that.
There's a worse one, where a smarmy bloke wants his loans 'consolidated' and is delighted that the monthly payments are LESS. But of course they don't say he'll be paying them for an extra 10 years.
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seymourwhitebits
Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Birmingham
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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they wouldnt put their thumbs up to the loan if they bothered to look at the amount repayed. oh right I forgot that bit is really REALLY small writing. _________________ "Timpani!, Timpani!, They've all got it Timpani!"- All drummers know the pain of skin trouble. |
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seymourwhitebits
Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Birmingham
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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"The woman seems to have a fake Sunderland accent too!"
She got that for a reasonable fee from the Van Dyke linguistics college.
_________________ "Timpani!, Timpani!, They've all got it Timpani!"- All drummers know the pain of skin trouble. |
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PJ in Kent
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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There's a loan ad in a similar vein (possibly the same company?) with a guy on the phone tossing a football about as his wife videotapes him (WHY???) in conversation with the loan adviser.
"You can really talk to these people like normal human beings"
Yeah? Try missing a payment, pal... see how quickly they turn into the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse and all of Satan's minions _________________ He's not the Messiah- he's a very naughty boy! |
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PJ in Kent
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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seymourwhitebits wrote: | "The woman seems to have a fake Sunderland accent too!"
She got that for a reasonable fee from the Van Dyke linguistics college.
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Gawd bless Meeeery Poppinnns _________________ He's not the Messiah- he's a very naughty boy! |
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seymourwhitebits
Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Birmingham
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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even my daughter, who's 11, says hallow meery popeens!, every time she sees d.v.d. on tv. even in diagnosis murder ( Seymour suffers that one in dignified silence ) or scrubs.
don't know where she gets her sarcasm from _________________ "Timpani!, Timpani!, They've all got it Timpani!"- All drummers know the pain of skin trouble. |
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PJ in Kent
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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seymourwhitebits wrote: | even my daughter, who's 11, says hallow meery popeens!, every time she sees d.v.d. on tv. even in diagnosis murder ( Seymour suffers that one in dignified silence ) or scrubs.
don't know where she gets her sarcasm from |
I'd hazard a guess............... _________________ He's not the Messiah- he's a very naughty boy! |
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seymourwhitebits
Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Birmingham
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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well its big of you to take the blame.
-cough cough!- _________________ "Timpani!, Timpani!, They've all got it Timpani!"- All drummers know the pain of skin trouble. |
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PJ in Kent
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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Oh no... not another DNA test _________________ He's not the Messiah- he's a very naughty boy! |
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seymourwhitebits
Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Birmingham
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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DNA? wasnt FBG enough initials for you
Tanya denies everything especially the trip to Kent in '95
-sound of Seymours mind whirring- _________________ "Timpani!, Timpani!, They've all got it Timpani!"- All drummers know the pain of skin trouble. |
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Shaky Fan
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 628
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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That bloody policewoman!
And those adverts for sofas that seem to crop up every bank holiday weekend.... |
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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Subtle does not pay the network enough, that is why TV advertising revenues are plummeting and why ITV is having a bad time. Cadburys has pulled its £10m per year sponsorship of Corrie because it now sees more potential in online sponsorship, just like many other businesses. A 30 second network TV spot can cost a fortune (well over £100,000) in the middle of Sunday evening Corrie and almost impossible to measure, whereas online ads can be monitored precisely.
Pity about the phone-in debacle, too. Now where are they going to get programming revenues from? Maybe they will have to start making some decent programming that people will want to watch instead!!!
BTW - I hate almost all TV ads, especially those where the young eager account execs have just discovered classic sixties music and do not realise that some viewers might have known them first time round! |
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PJ in Kent
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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seymourwhitebits wrote: | DNA? wasnt FBG enough initials for you
Tanya denies everything especially the trip to Kent in '95
-sound of Seymours mind whirring- |
Hey mate, ships that pass in the night an' all that
Can you say hi to my- I mean, your, daughter _________________ He's not the Messiah- he's a very naughty boy! |
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seymourwhitebits
Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Birmingham
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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lets see now...thats 12 times £300.00 a month maintenance payments multiplied by eleven is...............
just make a cheque out to seymour whitebits for £ 39, 600 please by return of post.
-somewhere in Kent, a jaw is dropping- _________________ "Timpani!, Timpani!, They've all got it Timpani!"- All drummers know the pain of skin trouble. |
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PJ in Kent
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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seymourwhitebits wrote: | lets see now...thats 12 times £300.00 a month maintenance payments multiplied by eleven is...............
just make a cheque out to seymour whitebits for £ 39, 600 please by return of post.
-somewhere in Kent, a jaw is dropping- |
I just had to rent a fork-lift truck to pick it up off the ground _________________ He's not the Messiah- he's a very naughty boy! |
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Peter de Meteor
Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 50 Location: Bristol
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:01 am Post subject: "Transformers - robots in disguise." |
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I don't like the ones in which a car 'transforms' and then dances about / skates to some awful industrial / electro 'music'.
I'd never buy one of their cars on the strength of that. _________________ . . . From The Asteroid Belt, Peter de Meteor |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:13 am Post subject: |
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Adverts - time to make a cuppa, go to the loo, check on the defrag status of your PC,check on the footy on 5 live ( but not necessarily during the one ad Break) _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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I seem to watch more stuff via the PC than the telly nowadays, ergo, very few adverts! _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
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dottie-may
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 56
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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ALL adverts (well almost) annoy me but my current pet hate........
JEYES FLUID promo thingies....
I could cheerfully spray him all over, wipe that stupid expression off his face, flush his patronising head down the toilet, lock him in the rabbit hutch and throw him in the 'stinky' bin!!
There was another one recently - can't remember what it was for, it'll come to me later no doubt - but I do remember despairing that someone had actually thought it up, presented it as an idea and everyone said "Wow, that'll be great!" _________________ "I'm a firm believer in not having to play the hand you're dealt." |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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Not seen that one, but my memory of Jeyes Fluid is that it's the most foul smelling stuff, almost worse than whatever it is supposed to clean. _________________ Ron |
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PJ in Kent
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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RockitRon wrote: | Not seen that one, but my memory of Jeyes Fluid is that it's the most foul smelling stuff, almost worse than whatever it is supposed to clean. |
Jeyes fluid is the household cleaning equivalent of that most excellent medicinal cure-all..........TCP! Don't leave home without it folks _________________ He's not the Messiah- he's a very naughty boy! |
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Shaky Fan
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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What about those tacky adverts for magazines like the one that uses Build Me Up Buttercup (Pick Me Up?) Full of people who you'd love to hit... |
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seymourwhitebits
Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Birmingham
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:15 am Post subject: |
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I see that Frosties have kept up their "it's gonna taste great" song.
aaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh
-Seymour lines up the ad exec responsible in his crosshair- _________________ "Timpani!, Timpani!, They've all got it Timpani!"- All drummers know the pain of skin trouble. |
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PJ in Kent
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:38 am Post subject: |
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seymourwhitebits wrote: | I see that Frosties have kept up their "it's gonna taste great" song.
aaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh
-Seymour lines up the ad exec responsible in his crosshair- |
Remember now, relax, breathe slowly, stay calm..... and take the shot!
**Seymour is awarded MBE for services to Humanity** _________________ He's not the Messiah- he's a very naughty boy! |
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