Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.

[Brigand]

Blown2CV said:

Audi RS5 advert. Inspired idea to try and sell a very expensive, very fast car by showing it going very slowly and almost silently. The target market is mid-level drug dealers and owners of doormen firms, not those who want to hide whatever wealth they may have. The tagline is "nothing to prove" and yet the mediocre reviews suggest the car has rather a lot to prove, with the main criticism being that it's dull as dishwater, so showing it going slowly is about the stupidest marketing move imaginable.

Is that the one with the drag car next to it? If so, the thing that annoys me most about that advert is the fact that when the dragster is revving its engine, it clearly sounds like a V8, but once it takes off and drives away, the noise sounds more like a rally-tuned four pot engine.

https://youtu.be/2Q25K4gClnE

[BlueHave]

Brilad said:

BlueHave said:

None of them meet the standard of Lucy the Admiral, she just wears the uniform and hat so well

Edited by BlueHave on Saturday 9th September 20:58

I've narrowed it down to specifically the hat. The trousers fit well, but it's the hat that makes all the difference.

Also - in the latest ad the 'smug at my own extreme cleverness' look drives me bananas in a good way.

It's a shame then that Admiral, after my MPS was hit when parked, by an uninsured driver, decided to try to put my premium up to around £2200. On an 09 car! They seemed surprised when I declined this offer.

Sorry Lucy.

I reckon if they sent Lucy around to personally quote you happy it could be a winner. I mean what else does she do apart from make the tea and look sexy

[Balmoral]

cuprabob said:

lucido grigio said:

I'm starting to get fixated with "Clearscore" man.

I saw the long running Airwaves ad this week and now realise this is also Clearscore man in the blue Focus in a traffic jam.

No sign of Moose.

Excellent spotting

He's also flogging Lenovo IdeaPads at Currys PC World too.

[cuprabob]

Balmoral said:

cuprabob said:

lucido grigio said:

I'm starting to get fixated with "Clearscore" man.

I saw the long running Airwaves ad this week and now realise this is also Clearscore man in the blue Focus in a traffic jam.

No sign of Moose.

Excellent spotting

He's also flogging Lenovo IdeaPads at Currys PC World too.

Indeed, along with a dodgy accent

[Oakey]

iandc said:

Oakey said:

There's an advert for McArthur Glen with a bunch of tts dancing around, it's st. However, there's a girl in a red top I'm certain isn't wearing a bra.

and your points are....

Those were my points, hence the 'however"

[Rich_W]

BlueHave said:

None of them meet the standard of Lucy the Admiral, she just wears the uniform and hat so well

Just FYI

She's in the Voltoral ?? advert where the husband is chasing the Rabbit around the garden.



I'm now going with the singing guy wearing an orange suit, badly moonwalking, in the Switch Guarantee ads.

fking smug wker!

[anonymous-user]

I had no idea Unions now have to advertise!

Nice fluffy feel good advert, they will provide lawyers, councillors and loans for any problem you might have while doing your job! For £1.30

https://join.unison.org.uk/?gclid=CKXEyKOfy9YCFci7...

[iandc]

Oakey said:

Those were my points, hence the 'however"

To quote Dick Emery..... "You are naughty, but I like you"!

[BlueHave]

digimeistter said:

I had no idea Unions now have to advertise!

Nice fluffy feel good advert, they will provide lawyers, councillors and loans for any problem you might have while doing your job! For £1.30

https://join.unison.org.uk/?gclid=CKXEyKOfy9YCFci7...

I remember getting to pieces of advice from a colleague in my first job.

Join a union and have a child to use as a weapon against your employer. The second piece of advice I only worked out over the last few years at how effectively some people use it.

[randomeddy]

bingybongy said:

If anyone has ever made a worse advert than this ever I've not seen it.

It's fking ask not arks!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6usFdfzXf5Q

Just made the mistake of watching that.

[l354uge]

The new go compare advert with the flounces in the convertible with the cgi cancer. Joined ofcourse by the worlds most annoying twunt.

Can we end go compare? This trash needs to end, immediately.

Boycott?

[ric p]

For all you Lucy the Admiral fans, found this whilst bored at work:

http://www.lucybarker.info/index.html

[anonymous-user]

randomeddy said:

Just made the mistake of watching that.

She could easily have raised the money for the washing machine by popping an advert on Adultwork and doing private meets starting from £40

[spyder dryver]

iandc said:

Oakey said:

Those were my points, hence the 'however"

To quote Dick Emery..... "You are naughty, but I like you"!

Your memory is playing tricks old chap. He (she) said "awful", not "naughty".
He (she) was a right petrol head too. As well as a transvestite.

[Antony Moxey]

The Sky Q adverts with Iris Elba extolling the virtues of ultra HD. It's 'aitch' you blithering retard, not 'haitch', as he's wont to say at least four or five times.

[Rich_W]

digimeistter said:

I had no idea Unions now have to advertise!

Nice fluffy feel good advert, they will provide lawyers, councillors and loans for any problem you might have while doing your job! For £1.30

https://join.unison.org.uk/?gclid=CKXEyKOfy9YCFci7...

I've worked in an employer with a Union representative.

Like all Unions in the UK, they were out to get the management for imagined persecutions. They used their full legal wrangling and might to consistently drag out annual pay raises to the end of each year (which was a pain since it always ended up in a backdated lump at the end of the year) And of course they stop the incompetent, work dodging, consistently late or sick or awol, from actually being sacked. It made no odds on those people they ended up leaving one way or another anyway

When something that DID need their assistance occurred they were strangely quiet. Often referring someone to "Speak to a Solicitor" rather than get involved.


I was tapped up to join, but after seeing who was the on site rep, the people he associated with and how it was basically a waste of £12 a month. I declined. That employer was one of the better ones I've worked at. It was a large multi national with decent managers who didn't want the irritate the staff or have bad PR. So it never needed a Union. Unlike some of my former employers who would often treat us like wkers.

[BlueHave]

Antony Moxey said:

The Sky Q adverts with Iris Elba extolling the virtues of ultra HD. It's 'aitch' you blithering retard, not 'haitch', as he's wont to say at least four or five times.

Idris Elbra real life is apparently about as fictional as his role in The Wire.

[lucido grigio]

Now seen the new Confused Corden sheep traffic jam ad ,mentioned last week.

Is it ironic humour that a sheepdog is in the back of the car in the jam ?

[AlexRS2782]

Who the hell signed off on the "pork medallion" advert with the camp man in a chicken costume? - very weird.

[Frank7]

Antony Moxey said:

The Sky Q adverts with Iris Elba extolling the virtues of ultra HD. It's 'aitch' you blithering retard, not 'haitch', as he's wont to say at least four or five times.

My brother-in-law asked me which was correct for hello/hallo, haitch e el el o, or haitch a el el o.
I said neither, as it's aitch e el el o, or aitch a el el o.
He said, "That's what I said", I said, "No you didn't, you said haitch, twice."
He said, What's the difference?"
I said, "One is the eigth letter of the alphabet, the other is a mispronounced letter."
He said to my wife, his sister, "I knew you made a mistake marrying that prick."