Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up. (Vol 2)

Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up. (Vol 2)

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CooperD

2,889 posts

179 months

Thursday 8th November 2018
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The Plusnet Wifi advert with the bloke doing Karaoke. Pure utter bilge.

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

165 months

Thursday 8th November 2018
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Varooma dot com ,some outfit that lends money against your car and because

Joey "I'm acting a bit thick Essex" presents it.

AppleJuice

2,154 posts

87 months

Thursday 8th November 2018
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Pericoloso said:
Varooma dot com ,some outfit that lends money against your car and because

Joey "I'm acting a bit thick Essex" presents it.
Target market, perhaps?

AlexRS2782

8,071 posts

215 months

Thursday 8th November 2018
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Had to have a bit of a laugh at the Tesco Christmas ad saying how Christmas is for everyone & everyone's welcome. I wonder if the people who were sold the dodgy turkey's last year will feel that way hehe

Oh, and the new Kia Ceed advert has a decent level of cringeworthiness to it courtesy of the narration.

Buy a Kia, pick up your mates and show off reverse parking with no hands, then go out partying with them, bump into a woman, shag woman, get her pregnant, wait 9 months for her to drop the sprog, then wait another year and buy a Kia estate to go alongside the Ceed he started out with vomit

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Thursday 8th November 22:33

Saleen836

11,160 posts

211 months

Thursday 8th November 2018
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Dolmio, are we really meant to believe your bolognese sauce will silence children and make them sit at the table quietly and eat a meal?? rolleyes

cuprabob

14,816 posts

216 months

Friday 9th November 2018
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Old Man Fred said:
There seems to be a new radio ad out that says "wouldn't it be great if you could cut out all the fuss of comparing your energy supplier, well now you can with our new website"

i can't remember what it is called, but there are already half a dozen websites that have been doing that for 5 years.

Same principle with the contactless one mentioned earlier, anyone that hasn't heard of contactless is probably not going to be using it
I may be wrong but I think the difference is that they will automatically put you on the cheapest deal each year.

FourWheelDrift

88,719 posts

286 months

Friday 9th November 2018
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cuprabob said:
Old Man Fred said:
There seems to be a new radio ad out that says "wouldn't it be great if you could cut out all the fuss of comparing your energy supplier, well now you can with our new website"

i can't remember what it is called, but there are already half a dozen websites that have been doing that for 5 years.

Same principle with the contactless one mentioned earlier, anyone that hasn't heard of contactless is probably not going to be using it
I may be wrong but I think the difference is that they will automatically put you on the cheapest deal each year.
Wasn't that the one pitched on Dragons Den?

Cupramax

10,487 posts

254 months

Friday 9th November 2018
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The latest Diet Coke ad, clearly written by a hipster who spends too much time watching US tv box sets.

cuprabob

14,816 posts

216 months

Friday 9th November 2018
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FourWheelDrift said:
cuprabob said:
Old Man Fred said:
There seems to be a new radio ad out that says "wouldn't it be great if you could cut out all the fuss of comparing your energy supplier, well now you can with our new website"

i can't remember what it is called, but there are already half a dozen websites that have been doing that for 5 years.

Same principle with the contactless one mentioned earlier, anyone that hasn't heard of contactless is probably not going to be using it
I may be wrong but I think the difference is that they will automatically put you on the cheapest deal each year.
Wasn't that the one pitched on Dragons Den?
Don't know. Haven't watched Dragon's Den for a while.

Old Man Fred

821 posts

91 months

Friday 9th November 2018
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cuprabob said:
FourWheelDrift said:
cuprabob said:
Old Man Fred said:
There seems to be a new radio ad out that says "wouldn't it be great if you could cut out all the fuss of comparing your energy supplier, well now you can with our new website"

i can't remember what it is called, but there are already half a dozen websites that have been doing that for 5 years.

Same principle with the contactless one mentioned earlier, anyone that hasn't heard of contactless is probably not going to be using it
I may be wrong but I think the difference is that they will automatically put you on the cheapest deal each year.
Wasn't that the one pitched on Dragons Den?
Don't know. Haven't watched Dragon's Den for a while.
Maybe i'm just a cynic, but probably like the 'best deal' your car insurance company comes up with each year!

over_the_hill

3,190 posts

248 months

Friday 9th November 2018
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The EE advert with Mitchell and Bacon - more so the fantasy football daughter

"cheers dad - I've just switched out my captain"

Who talks like that ?


Saleen836

11,160 posts

211 months

Friday 9th November 2018
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over_the_hill said:
The EE advert with Mitchell and Bacon - more so the fantasy football daughter

"cheers dad - I've just switched out my captain"

Who talks like that ?
I mentioned the advert earlier in this thread, why would you take your kids anywhere and waste money for them to spend all the time on their phones!

cuprabob

14,816 posts

216 months

Friday 9th November 2018
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Old Man Fred said:
Maybe i'm just a cynic, but probably like the 'best deal' your car insurance company comes up with each year!
I'm just as cynical :-)

Biker 1

7,770 posts

121 months

Friday 9th November 2018
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AlexRS2782 said:
Had to have a bit of a laugh at the Tesco Christmas ad saying how Christmas is for everyone & everyone's welcome.
Not only that, but isn't it against the rules for muslims to celebrate xmas? Wouldn't there be a fatwa or similar involved??

Antony Moxey

8,184 posts

221 months

Saturday 10th November 2018
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Saleen836 said:
over_the_hill said:
The EE advert with Mitchell and Bacon - more so the fantasy football daughter

"cheers dad - I've just switched out my captain"

Who talks like that ?
I mentioned the advert earlier in this thread, why would you take your kids anywhere and waste money for them to spend all the time on their phones!
And why would a girl give a toss about fantasy football?

swisstoni

17,185 posts

281 months

Saturday 10th November 2018
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Antony Moxey said:
Saleen836 said:
over_the_hill said:
The EE advert with Mitchell and Bacon - more so the fantasy football daughter

"cheers dad - I've just switched out my captain"

Who talks like that ?
I mentioned the advert earlier in this thread, why would you take your kids anywhere and waste money for them to spend all the time on their phones!
And why would a girl give a toss about fantasy football?
They do in Adland. Just like most couples are interracial (not many black women mind), all pensioners are amazingly active and young looking, etc, etc.

Balmoral

41,079 posts

250 months

Monday 12th November 2018
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So many adverts start with a false premise that just doesn't make any sense if you think about it (Yes, I know that's where I'm going wrong!).

Greg from the Halifax rings to say he's got your new debit card, then delivers it by hand.

My bank efficiently delivers my new debit card directly to me, in the post, from a central processing point, unlike the Halifax, who seem to be putting layers of unnecessary delay into the equation by delivering it to your local branch, who then call you to say they have it, and then you have to wait for the fkers to bring it over to you too.



Edited by Balmoral on Monday 12th November 16:34

Blown2CV

29,091 posts

205 months

Monday 12th November 2018
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Balmoral said:
So many adverts start with a false premise that just doesn't make any sense if you think about it (Yes, I know that's where I'm going wrong!).

Greg from the Halifax rings to say he's got your new debit card, then delivers it by hand.

My bank efficiently delivers my new debit card directly to me, in the post, from a central processing point, unlike the Halifax, who seem to be putting layers of unnecessary delay into the equation by delivering it to your local branch, who then call you to say they have it, and then you have to wait for the fkers to bring it over to you too.

Edited by Balmoral on Monday 12th November 16:34
if they actually do this, then it's a potential personal data governance violation and a risk to the customer.

Halmyre

11,300 posts

141 months

Saturday 17th November 2018
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The smug tt who's spotted a potential burglar on his doorbell camera. "I'd like you to go away please". I'd hope the burglar would hang around until he comes home, kick the st out of him and then rob his house.

WJNB

2,637 posts

163 months

Sunday 18th November 2018
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Every single one.
Product is no longer the main issue, politics & championing minorities & causes is, witness having diversity continuously rammed down our throats. Now at its height as we move towards Christmas.
The same with most TV adverts. & programmes these days. Suddenly a good book or listening to music is so liberating