Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.
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JonRB said:
On that subject, the advert that is guaranteed to get me foaming at the mouth, thankfully no longer shown on telly but I had to endure again at a Speed Awareness Course recently, is the Road Safety advert where the car is under heavy braking with its front wheels locked and rear wheels still rotating and which then hits a pedestrian. There's just so much wrong with it. Firstly the car clearly hasn't got ABS (and what mainstream cars don't these days?), the driver should be Cadence Braking, and almost certainly the car's brakes, brake balance, tyres and dampers aren't in good condition otherwise it wouldn't be locked up at the front and not the rear. The whole thing stinks of being more scripted to an agenda than a Top Gear Special.
Before ABS and stability systems cars brakes were designed to lock the fronts before the rears. It keeps the car stable and prevents the rear of the car from swinging round.AlexS said:
JonRB said:
On that subject, the advert that is guaranteed to get me foaming at the mouth, thankfully no longer shown on telly but I had to endure again at a Speed Awareness Course recently, is the Road Safety advert where the car is under heavy braking with its front wheels locked and rear wheels still rotating and which then hits a pedestrian. There's just so much wrong with it. Firstly the car clearly hasn't got ABS (and what mainstream cars don't these days?), the driver should be Cadence Braking, and almost certainly the car's brakes, brake balance, tyres and dampers aren't in good condition otherwise it wouldn't be locked up at the front and not the rear. The whole thing stinks of being more scripted to an agenda than a Top Gear Special.
Before ABS and stability systems cars brakes were designed to lock the fronts before the rears. It keeps the car stable and prevents the rear of the car from swinging round.a) pretty much all modern cars have ABS now (and that was already the case even when the advert was airing) and
b) a driver should be cadence braking and not completely locked up.
Which just shows that speed doesn't kill - crap drivers with crap cars do.
Advertising isn't cheap.
Not even on Dave, unless it's early.
Watching the adverts for the newer, fledgling companies is a bit like watching Dragons' Den. You can almost hear the badly presented business idea offered at thousands for a tiny percentage share of the company.
It seems advertising executives must be a pretty persuasive bunch. I've little doubt the business owner knows he must get across his product's function, cost and availability. Maybe even a unique selling point thrown in, just as if he were in front of the Dragons. Yet suddenly his product is presented with most of the information missing.
Take Oak Furniture Land. "Gold for the price of Silver". Great, I really want a piece of mass produced oak furniture. Where do I find it? No f
king idea, and I'm not going to bother going on the web to search for the closest. It's oak, I get that but I can walk in John Lewis and buy quality, some hand made, oak furniture. Why should I buy OFL's?
If the advert showed a craftsman, carefully dovetailing the joints and each piece being hand checked for quality, rather than a nondescript out-of-town furniture supermarket staffed by gormless Laurel and Hardy lookalikes with a penchant for crap pirate imitations I might be interested. As they don't, Aahm oot!.
Whoaaaaaaaa!Body-f-o-orm!
Not even on Dave, unless it's early.
Watching the adverts for the newer, fledgling companies is a bit like watching Dragons' Den. You can almost hear the badly presented business idea offered at thousands for a tiny percentage share of the company.
It seems advertising executives must be a pretty persuasive bunch. I've little doubt the business owner knows he must get across his product's function, cost and availability. Maybe even a unique selling point thrown in, just as if he were in front of the Dragons. Yet suddenly his product is presented with most of the information missing.
Take Oak Furniture Land. "Gold for the price of Silver". Great, I really want a piece of mass produced oak furniture. Where do I find it? No f
king idea, and I'm not going to bother going on the web to search for the closest. It's oak, I get that but I can walk in John Lewis and buy quality, some hand made, oak furniture. Why should I buy OFL's?If the advert showed a craftsman, carefully dovetailing the joints and each piece being hand checked for quality, rather than a nondescript out-of-town furniture supermarket staffed by gormless Laurel and Hardy lookalikes with a penchant for crap pirate imitations I might be interested. As they don't, Aahm oot!.
Whoaaaaaaaa!Body-f-o-orm!
Edited by dfen5 on Monday 18th August 08:35
dfen5 said:
Advertising isn't cheap.
Not even on Dave, unless it's early.
Watching the adverts for the newer, fledgling companies is a bit like watching Dragons' Den. You can almost hear the badly presented business idea offered at thousands for a tiny percentage share of the company.
It seems advertising executives must be a pretty persuasive bunch. I've little doubt the business owner knows he must get across his product's function, cost and availability. Maybe even a unique selling point thrown in, just as if he were in front of the Dragons. Yet suddenly his product is presented with most of the information missing.
Take Oak Furniture Land. "Gold for the price of Silver". Great, I really want a piece of mass produced oak furniture. Where do I find it? No fking idea, and I'm not going to bother going on the web to search for the closest. It's oak, I get that but I can walk in John Lewis and buy quality, some hand made, oak furniture. Why should I buy OFL's?
If the advert showed a craftsman, carefully dovetailing the joints and each piece being hand checked for quality, rather than a nondescript out-of-town furniture supermarket staffed by gormless Laurel and Hardy lookalikes with a penchant for crap pirate imitations I might be interested. As they don't, Aahm oot!.
£85m turnover would suggest they are appealing to someone.Not even on Dave, unless it's early.
Watching the adverts for the newer, fledgling companies is a bit like watching Dragons' Den. You can almost hear the badly presented business idea offered at thousands for a tiny percentage share of the company.
It seems advertising executives must be a pretty persuasive bunch. I've little doubt the business owner knows he must get across his product's function, cost and availability. Maybe even a unique selling point thrown in, just as if he were in front of the Dragons. Yet suddenly his product is presented with most of the information missing.
Take Oak Furniture Land. "Gold for the price of Silver". Great, I really want a piece of mass produced oak furniture. Where do I find it? No f
king idea, and I'm not going to bother going on the web to search for the closest. It's oak, I get that but I can walk in John Lewis and buy quality, some hand made, oak furniture. Why should I buy OFL's?If the advert showed a craftsman, carefully dovetailing the joints and each piece being hand checked for quality, rather than a nondescript out-of-town furniture supermarket staffed by gormless Laurel and Hardy lookalikes with a penchant for crap pirate imitations I might be interested. As they don't, Aahm oot!.
Edited by dfen5 on Monday 18th August 08:35
evenflow said:
I know it's probably been done already in this thread but...
Quorn sausages. Are. A. Healthy. Source. Of. Protein.
Funnily enough this is the very advert I visited this thread to moan about. Bloody irritating, even more irritating when you open up the Sports News and see that he's missed another event because he's passed out. Try some real bloody protein you idiot, you might be able to make it to the end of an event!Quorn sausages. Are. A. Healthy. Source. Of. Protein.
Practice...Protein...practice...pass out.
bodhi said:
evenflow said:
I know it's probably been done already in this thread but...
Quorn sausages. Are. A. Healthy. Source. Of. Protein.
Funnily enough this is the very advert I visited this thread to moan about. Bloody irritating, even more irritating when you open up the Sports News and see that he's missed another event because he's passed out. Try some real bloody protein you idiot, you might be able to make it to the end of an event!Quorn sausages. Are. A. Healthy. Source. Of. Protein.
Practice...Protein...practice...pass out.
I had a tooth infection, didn't collapse once. True story.
World Wide Fund are at it again, rattling their virtual tins for more money.
It's big cats this year, clearly they have saved the Polar Bear and the Pandas. Or they have all died.
Don't ask me for just £3 a month to adopt a Lion, I'm not falling for that one again. I never received my Elephant 5 years ago.
It's big cats this year, clearly they have saved the Polar Bear and the Pandas. Or they have all died.
Don't ask me for just £3 a month to adopt a Lion, I'm not falling for that one again. I never received my Elephant 5 years ago.
Derek Smith said:
I would have loved to have seen, along the bottom of the advert, One litre of paint is not sufficient to paint a whole room the size of the one illustrated.
On a similar point there's an advert for some kind of vitamin supplement or suchlike where an embarrassing trendy bloke is dancing and a couple of women shake out some of these pills into their hands and throw them on the floor, you just see the bloke starting to fall before it freeze-frames for the product shot. I'm surprised there isn't a "don't try this at your own parties in case of serious injury" tag line - it's only a matter of time.kdri155 said:
The Barclays ad with the guy who's invented walking football....No you didn't you copied it off Father Teds 5-a-side match.
I saw that last night, he doesn't claim to have invented it, only that he's started playing it. Still annoying, though, as it goes on too long, as do most of the current Barclays "patronising the older people" campaign.I guess any advert gets annoying if you see it often enough.
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