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FourWheelDrift
56,434 posts
153 months
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Irritating Lloyds TSB advert that starts with "London 2012 is almost with us".
How difficult is it to do a 2nd voice over changing the opening line.
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Cupramax
2,945 posts
121 months
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The latest EDF advert that proudly proclaims "Supplying low carbon electricity to the London Olympics", then you notice the small print at the bottom that states that the games get their electricity from the grid and not necessarily from Low carbon sources. What an utter bunch of  s! How do they get away with this? 
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hidetheelephants
5,591 posts
62 months
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Teethwhitening toothpaste from OralB:
Apparently having white teeth(and 2 days stubble) lets you get away with rapey stalker behaviour with nubile commuters.
Then Holly Whatsherboobs comes on and witters on about how white teeth cure cancer or something.
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GTIR
19,077 posts
135 months
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hidetheelephants said: Teethwhitening toothpaste from OralB:
Apparently having white teeth(and 2 days stubble) lets you get away with rapey stalker behaviour with nubile commuters.
Then Holly Whatsherboobs comes on and witters on about how white teeth cure cancer or something. And the other toothpaste advert. The one where they're all sitting around the table and the bint with floss says "oh look blood!" and the smug t t says "Look at mine, it's clean" and they go "ooohh, ahh" Reading that back it sounds like a scene from a porn film. BUT SADLY IT'S f kING NOT!!!!
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Ganglandboss
6,664 posts
72 months
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The one with the band trying to perform a really soppy cover of Ever Fallen in Love in a f king Kia and then arriving at an enormous sell-out stadium gig with tens of thousands cheering the drips! Not a TV advert (I suppose we need an 'adverts that make you want to stab your car stereo with a Phillips screwdriver' thread. There's one they play on my local radio station advertising a website that allows you to compare online bingo sites as if they're saving you money. How about turning off the computer and getting some housework done rather than wasting money on online gambling?
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Blown2CV
6,500 posts
72 months
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toothpaste ad with katie hill looking like a man in drag and licking her teeth like a sexless robot - makes my genitalia withdraw into my abdomen.
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Arun_D
1,667 posts
64 months
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Ganglandboss said: Not a TV advert (I suppose we need an 'adverts that make you want to stab your car stereo with a Phillips screwdriver' thread. There's one they play on my local radio station advertising a website that allows you to compare online bingo sites as if they're saving you money. How about turning off the computer and getting some housework done rather than wasting money on online gambling? While we're on the subject of radio adverts, the latest VW (I think) van advert that's doing the rounds on a DAB station I listen to, where the voiceover man telling us about the great features and price of course is playing a 'Proppa Cockney Geezer' because of course they're the only people that drive vans, so need an accent they can relate to. Much how the Strongbow TV advert has to appeal to removal men and satellite dish installers.
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fathomfive
6,883 posts
59 months
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Blown2CV said: toothpaste ad with katie hill looking like a man in drag and licking her teeth like a sexless robot - makes my genitalia withdraw into my abdomen. "Feel rough?" 
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The Hypno-Toad
6,998 posts
74 months
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hidetheelephants said: Teethwhitening toothpaste from OralB:
Apparently having white teeth(and 2 days stubble) lets you get away with rapey stalker behaviour with nubile commuters.
Then Holly Whatsherboobs comes on and witters on about how white teeth cure cancer or something. +1. Its also nice to see the Halifax choir have decided to balls up another song too. 
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The Hypno-Toad
6,998 posts
74 months
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Oh and Holly Willoughby you say?  Any excuse......
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Conian
7,522 posts
70 months
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chop chop chop chop chopping.... f k OOOOOOOOOOFF!
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over_the_hill
1,553 posts
115 months
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Enterprise Car Hire
The yank say "Aluminum" and the Brit says "it's Aluminium - it's got a 'U' in"
No you twonk its got an "I" in.
How the f*** did that manage to get passed everyone
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Blown2CV
6,500 posts
72 months
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over_the_hill said: Enterprise Car Hire
The yank say "Aluminum" and the Brit says "it's Aluminium - it's got a 'U' in"
No you twonk its got an "I" in.
How the f*** did that manage to get passed everyone i thought the same when i saw that last night. Also, IIRC the original word as coined by the Brit who discovered it was "Aluminum" so both the UK and US used the same word until we decided to complicate it with the extra "I". I am sure wikipedia says I am wrong but I am sure I heard that somewhere.
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Rostfritt
801 posts
20 months
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Blown2CV said: i thought the same when i saw that last night. Also, IIRC the original word as coined by the Brit who discovered it was "Aluminum" so both the UK and US used the same word until we decided to complicate it with the extra "I". I am sure wikipedia says I am wrong but I am sure I heard that somewhere. Some things in the periodic table end in -um and some in -ium. An American thought it should be the same as Platinum, Molybdenum and Tantalum. Europeans thought it should end like about half the other metals do.
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FiF
18,379 posts
120 months
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Rostfritt said: Blown2CV said: i thought the same when i saw that last night. Also, IIRC the original word as coined by the Brit who discovered it was "Aluminum" so both the UK and US used the same word until we decided to complicate it with the extra "I". I am sure wikipedia says I am wrong but I am sure I heard that somewhere. Some things in the periodic table end in -um and some in -ium. An American thought it should be the same as Platinum, Molybdenum and Tantalum. Europeans thought it should end like about half the other metals do. http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm HTH, all Sir Humphrey Davy's fault.
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nogsk
347 posts
37 months
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All adverts where they use capitals where they shouldn't:
Prevents Wear and Decay
UK only, Rules and Conditions Apply
Once you start noticing it's an epidemic of grammar abuse, no wonder kids can't spell.
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Doogs
66 posts
39 months
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The Relentless energy drink advert. Some feral scum bloke walking over car roofs and bonnets singing a s t song, whilst failing to look hard and angry. As the camera zooms in on him he looks like some kind of pig/rat hybrid, Annoying as fook. Certainly looks like a t t!
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Arun_D
1,667 posts
64 months
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That new advert for The Sun newspaper. Some annoying beardy man spouting some inane b ks about stuff. wayyyyy footballll etc.
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Blown2CV
6,500 posts
72 months
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Arun_D said: That new advert for The Sun newspaper. Some annoying beardy man spouting some inane b ks about stuff. wayyyyy footballll etc. Perfect for their readership though.
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Arun_D
1,667 posts
64 months
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Indeed, as advertising goes it probably works rather well.
Still annoying as hell, though.
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