Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.
Discussion
V8S said:
Twincam16 said:
Anything in which an overweight balding slob with two brain cells is married to a smart and beautiful professional woman in order to show how 'sensible' buying the product/service is.
Also, anything promoting some expensive hi-tech thing to 'trendy urbanites' by making the advert look like it cost 50p, featuring lots of 'ordinary people' and featuring some Independent-female-American-singer-songwriter-with-a-guitar singing an incredibly simple, childish song about being green or blowing bubbles or looking at all the pretty clouds over the top of it.
However, the ultimate object of my advert-rage are the IBM adverts. Smug, boring, humourless American business types in C&A suits who probably work for a firm with 'solutions' in the title raising cynical eyebrows at eccentrics before showing how hard-working and efficient they are as a result of owning some computer with a silly name like 'thinkbook' or 'tossrag' or something. It's the whole 'we're above being interesting and human because we're in BUSINESS!' attitude that puts me off buying anything from IBM at all.
Same goes for that copycat 'gotomycomputer' advert.
That said, I love the new Stella advert. At least someone's remembered the art of selling by making your products look glamorous.
Do you have a newsletter? Please point me to your registration form so that I can access your knowledgebase for blue sky solutions.Also, anything promoting some expensive hi-tech thing to 'trendy urbanites' by making the advert look like it cost 50p, featuring lots of 'ordinary people' and featuring some Independent-female-American-singer-songwriter-with-a-guitar singing an incredibly simple, childish song about being green or blowing bubbles or looking at all the pretty clouds over the top of it.
However, the ultimate object of my advert-rage are the IBM adverts. Smug, boring, humourless American business types in C&A suits who probably work for a firm with 'solutions' in the title raising cynical eyebrows at eccentrics before showing how hard-working and efficient they are as a result of owning some computer with a silly name like 'thinkbook' or 'tossrag' or something. It's the whole 'we're above being interesting and human because we're in BUSINESS!' attitude that puts me off buying anything from IBM at all.
Same goes for that copycat 'gotomycomputer' advert.
That said, I love the new Stella advert. At least someone's remembered the art of selling by making your products look glamorous.
/ Aaaaaaargh!!IBM-style b
ksspeak is the bane of working life (or should that be 'worklife on a thinkpad' or some such tripe).BigLepton said:
Steamer said:
That bird in the Galaxy advert! - You know the one... Fish-Bulb-Head... good god shes odd looking!
No wonder her friends stole her chocolate, I'd empty the house and leave if I woke up next to her!!
.... the illicit love-child of Marty Feldman and Jon Tickle.No wonder her friends stole her chocolate, I'd empty the house and leave if I woke up next to her!!
That cracked me up!She is a proper Onion headed woman that one.
And with a strap line of 'Heres to hiding it'.... here you go love, hide it with this
Steamer said:
BigLepton said:
Steamer said:
That bird in the Galaxy advert! - You know the one... Fish-Bulb-Head... good god shes odd looking!
No wonder her friends stole her chocolate, I'd empty the house and leave if I woke up next to her!!
.... the illicit love-child of Marty Feldman and Jon Tickle.No wonder her friends stole her chocolate, I'd empty the house and leave if I woke up next to her!!
That cracked me up!She is a proper Onion headed woman that one.
And with a strap line of 'Heres to hiding it'.... here you go love, hide it with this
993AL said:
What about that bloke who's made of chocolate, somebody breaks its arm off and it STIll smiles, can't remember what the ad is for but I'd like to blow torch that smile off its fking face.
Lynx king face.
I can only imagine it smells rank!...But I like the advert. I also quite like the recent one they did with Fernando Alonso doing a bit of moonlighting,
Edited by Steamer on Thursday 27th November 15:25
collateral said:
The last episode of Screenwipe was about this very subject - link
I nominate all those post-watershed chat line ads - 'we're a bunch of hot tarts with nothing better to do on a Friday night than text you pictures of us!' Pull the other one
Damn good show that, Charlie Brooker is an angry genius!I nominate all those post-watershed chat line ads - 'we're a bunch of hot tarts with nothing better to do on a Friday night than text you pictures of us!' Pull the other one
Hammond selling out to Morrisons boils my piss!!
What does he look like in that get-up? Clearly just turned up for the cheque, no emotion in his voice.
Particularly cringy ending:
"Hi Denise"
"Hi Richard, I thought you were away for Christmas"
<shrugs shoulder>
"I was"
The end.
wk.
On the flip side, I like the new advert for the latest Tomb Raider game - cool music.
What does he look like in that get-up? Clearly just turned up for the cheque, no emotion in his voice.
Particularly cringy ending:
"Hi Denise"
"Hi Richard, I thought you were away for Christmas"
<shrugs shoulder>
"I was"
The end.
w
k.On the flip side, I like the new advert for the latest Tomb Raider game - cool music.
Legend83 said:
Hammond selling out to Morrisons boils my piss!!
What does he look like in that get-up? Clearly just turned up for the cheque, no emotion in his voice.
Particularly cringy ending:
"Hi Denise"
"Hi Richard, I thought you were away for Christmas"
<shrugs shoulder>
"I was"
The end.
wk.
On the flip side, I like the new advert for the latest Tomb Raider game - cool music.
All of the celebrity/suopermarket tie ups, irrespective of which celeb and which supermarket get on my nerves.What does he look like in that get-up? Clearly just turned up for the cheque, no emotion in his voice.
Particularly cringy ending:
"Hi Denise"
"Hi Richard, I thought you were away for Christmas"
<shrugs shoulder>
"I was"
The end.
w
k.On the flip side, I like the new advert for the latest Tomb Raider game - cool music.
The nationwide ones are annoying as well, but thats nothing to do with the adverts, more the twisted truth thats in them.
nakedninja said:
collateral said:
The last episode of Screenwipe was about this very subject - link
I nominate all those post-watershed chat line ads - 'we're a bunch of hot tarts with nothing better to do on a Friday night than text you pictures of us!' Pull the other one
Damn good show that, Charlie Brooker is an angry genius!I nominate all those post-watershed chat line ads - 'we're a bunch of hot tarts with nothing better to do on a Friday night than text you pictures of us!' Pull the other one
Respect due for him sticking up for Russell Brand too, because when they were on Have I Got News for You together he looked like he hated him
Women's face cream adverts usually whoosh past without me noticing, but every now and then a few words pop into my consciousness and bring me out of my advert induced daze:
"tangibly smoother"
"with extra taughtening"
And not fogetting the scientific materials that are used:
nutrillium
hyarolonic acid
pentapeptides
Utter rot.
"tangibly smoother"
"with extra taughtening"
And not fogetting the scientific materials that are used:
nutrillium
hyarolonic acid
pentapeptides
Utter rot.
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