Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.

Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.

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JonRB

74,584 posts

272 months

Sunday 6th September 2015
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The current Nissan Pulsar advert.

The driver is so incompetent that he almost drives into the back of someone, but then his Emergency Brake Assist kicks in and saves him. He looks surprised, then smug.

Sadly, this is probably indicative of many drivers on the road today.

(Apologies for the cross-post. I had forgotten about this thread)

Issi

1,782 posts

150 months

Monday 7th September 2015
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Riley Blue said:
AlexRS2782 said:
NFU Mutual with their "Based on a true story" Derbyshire family and how they'd "...been hit really hard and couldn't stay..." by stormy weather and a local agent coming to their rescue.
It makes me cringe (not just because I live in Chesterfield) but because of the mock sincerity of the script, something like, "...he arrived quickly as he was already on a call next door..." Utter bks!
I'm one of the 'local agents' (but not for the NFU), the truth is that you'd be appointed to do the survey, and then having driven 2 hours back to the office, you find a new instruction for 'the house next door', so then you'd have to go back tomorrow.

Petemate

1,674 posts

191 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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The Curry/PC ads "someone wants a new laptop" Smash TV time

DaveGoddard

1,193 posts

145 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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JonRB said:
The current Nissan Pulsar advert.

The driver is so incompetent that he almost drives into the back of someone, but then his Emergency Brake Assist kicks in and saves him. He looks surprised, then smug.

Sadly, this is probably indicative of many drivers on the road today.

(Apologies for the cross-post. I had forgotten about this thread)
Every time I see a car ad offering this (Fiat and Toyota have done it recently too) I reply with "Or you could just, y'know, look where you're fking going!"

Stuff like this being provided on cars is among the many reasons no one can drive properly or be arsed to drive properly any more.

Halmyre

11,204 posts

139 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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DaveGoddard said:
JonRB said:
The current Nissan Pulsar advert.

The driver is so incompetent that he almost drives into the back of someone, but then his Emergency Brake Assist kicks in and saves him. He looks surprised, then smug.

Sadly, this is probably indicative of many drivers on the road today.

(Apologies for the cross-post. I had forgotten about this thread)
Every time I see a car ad offering this (Fiat and Toyota have done it recently too) I reply with "Or you could just, y'know, look where you're fking going!"

Stuff like this being provided on cars is among the many reasons no one can drive properly or be arsed to drive properly any more.
It's getting easier than ever to drive a car. Auto engine start/stop, automatic gearbox, electronic handbrake, anti-lock brakes, parking assist, emergency brake assist, reversing hazard warning, satnav, cruise control, speed limiter, lane change warning, automatic wipers, automatic lights, automatic light dipping (have I missed anything?).

So why do people still make a of the actual act of driving? All they need to do is turn the big round thing in front of them but oh no that's too fking difficult, if only there was a smartphone app for that sort of thing...


DaveGoddard

1,193 posts

145 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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Ideal TV feature: get "modern car" owners to have a crack at driving Mark Walker's 1905 Darracq which made a star appearance at the Goodwood FOS. The thing doesn't even have brakes!

hidetheelephants

24,409 posts

193 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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ASDA adverts are fairly innocuous but the song they're using at the moment has particularly irksome lyrics, ending with the teeth-itchingly bad "You're all I need to make me feel best". It makes me want to inflict pain on the songwriter.

TheAngryDog

12,407 posts

209 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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The advert for Shpock boot sale and classifieds. It is annoying on levels I never knew existed

opieoilman

4,408 posts

236 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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hidetheelephants said:
ASDA adverts are fairly innocuous but the song they're using at the moment has particularly irksome lyrics, ending with the teeth-itchingly bad "You're all I need to make me feel best". It makes me want to inflict pain on the songwriter.
100% agree. Although what is worse than the song being on the adverts, it's also been released and is on the radio now. Then I went into Asda the other day and they were playing it in store. Might be time for a change of supermarket.

VictoriaYorks

974 posts

142 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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I thought it was "make me the best", either way it's a dreadful racket, more of a noise than a song.

I am getting old frown

kowalski655

14,644 posts

143 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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Its:
Oh, MY LOVE let me be your fire
We're a thousand miles up and 'bout to get higher
Feel my heart beating out my chest
You're the only prayer I need
To make me feel blessed,

Is ASDA a church now?

budgie smuggler

5,388 posts

159 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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kowalski655 said:
Its:
Oh, MY LOVE let me be your fire
We're a thousand miles up and 'bout to get higher
Feel my heart beating out my chest
You're the only prayer I need
To make me feel blessed,

Is ASDA a church now?
Just pulled it up on youtube as I couldn't remember how the tune went. Christ almighty, the singers look a right pair of chebs in the video hehe

oobster

7,095 posts

211 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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I know this is a thread for ads that we hate, but does anyone know they music playing the background of the new Sky 1 Mount Pleasant series? Quite like the music, would like to download/buy it, but can't find out what it is called or who it is by!

RacingBlue

1,396 posts

164 months

Thursday 10th September 2015
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Working out in America at the moment and there are so many ads I could nominate for this. TV (and radio) seems to be 85% adverts, 15% actual content.

Tycho

11,610 posts

273 months

Thursday 10th September 2015
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oobster said:
I know this is a thread for ads that we hate, but does anyone know they music playing the background of the new Sky 1 Mount Pleasant series? Quite like the music, would like to download/buy it, but can't find out what it is called or who it is by!
Is it on this playlist?

http://open.spotify.com/user/1110214303/playlist/7...

I don't have Spotify so can't listen to it.

The Hypno-Toad

12,283 posts

205 months

Friday 11th September 2015
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The AO advert.

Your fridge breaking down just before your daughters cupcake competition is not a disaster.

AO are not life savers.

A disaster is your daughter accidently drinking bleach. A life saver is a paramedic who saves her.

Your daughter will not even remember the fking cupcake competition in a years time, while you will still be stuck with the overpriced coolbox that you bought in a fking stupid panic because some other over-protective, judgemental, bh faced soccer mums, who also won't remember the pissing competition in a years time, might think your child is a failure and you are a BAD PARENT. And we can't have that can we??

Doofus

25,825 posts

173 months

Saturday 12th September 2015
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Landrover Discovery Sport.

How long was that woman going to stand next to the river with her dogs if the bloke in the Landrover hadn't turned up?

And then, he opens the boot to let the dogs in, and immediately unfolds the third row of seats, so the bloody things can't get in after all. So she opens the rear passenger door, and then has to fold down the second row of seats, so the dogs can actually get into the boot, like they were going to in the first place!

My god, that guy is a proper fking moron!

the pips

187 posts

139 months

Saturday 12th September 2015
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And how did the sledge get across as well?

Langweilig

4,328 posts

211 months

Saturday 12th September 2015
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Trainline. YOU ARE NOT A TRAIN. You stupid, delusional human being!

DrDoofenshmirtz

15,232 posts

200 months

Sunday 13th September 2015
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That one advertising makeup, that ends in 'Ta-dah'.
Drives me mad every time I hear it.

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