Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.

[bingybongy]

Frank7 said:

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."

Ask him to pronounce NHS. If he says Enn haitch ess tell your sister she needs a divorce. He won't though he'll say Enn Aitch Ess because everyone does, thus defeating his own argument.

[nicanary]

bingybongy said:

Frank7 said:

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."

Ask him to pronounce NHS. If he says Enn haitch ess tell your sister she needs a divorce. He won't though he'll say Enn Aitch Ess because everyone does, thus defeating his own argument.

I believe it may be a throwback to primary school, where kids are taught the alphabet by how letters sound, and to teach them "haitch" will reinforce the memorisation. They are expected, I'm sure, to drop the childlike pronunciation as they get older.

I find a lot of Irish people pronounce it "haitch". Don't know why. IT'S INCORRECT!!!!

[Halmyre]

nicanary said:

bingybongy said:

Frank7 said:

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."

Ask him to pronounce NHS. If he says Enn haitch ess tell your sister she needs a divorce. He won't though he'll say Enn Aitch Ess because everyone does, thus defeating his own argument.

I believe it may be a throwback to primary school, where kids are taught the alphabet by how letters sound, and to teach them "haitch" will reinforce the memorisation. They are expected, I'm sure, to drop the childlike pronunciation as they get older.

I find a lot of Irish people pronounce it "haitch". Don't know why. IT'S INCORRECT!!!!

My wife pronounces it more like 'itch' which might be a Fife thing.

[bony_13]

The 'Thomson has now changed to tui' adverts.

"We cross the t's and dot the i's and put u in the middle"......ahhh how very clever; you're logo has a cute little slogan to go with it! Only shouldn't the customer come first? Or are you simply setting our expectations to gratefully accept coming somewhere in the middle like Ryanair?!

Oh, and what was wrong with an established name like Thomson anyway?

[Gary29]

bony_13 said:

The 'Thomson has now changed to tui' adverts.

"We cross the t's and dot the i's and put u in the middle"......ahhh how very clever; you're logo has a cute little slogan to go with it! Only shouldn't the customer come first? Or are you simply setting our expectations to gratefully accept coming somewhere in the middle like Ryanair?!

Oh, and what was wrong with an established name like Thomson anyway?

Thomson probably sounds 'too white' or some other similar nonsense no doubt.

[raceboy]

Or it could just be that the parent company has been called that in most of world for quite a while...

Touristik Union International

[zb]

raceboy said:

Or it could just be that the parent company has been called that in most of world for quite a while...

Touristik Union International

This generic homogenisation bullst is insulting. Jif, Marathon bars and this, these companies are saying the UK is not important.

[Halmyre]

zb said:

raceboy said:

Or it could just be that the parent company has been called that in most of world for quite a while...

Touristik Union International

This generic homogenisation bullst is insulting. Jif, Marathon bars and this, these companies are saying the UK is not important.

In the global scheme of things, they're right, like it or not.

[zb]

Halmyre said:

In the global scheme of things, they're right, like it or not.

They only thing they're correct about, is the majority of customers in this country will just suck up this sort of cynical, fiddling with the bottom line, nonsense.

[Escort3500]

Just seen the James Corden 'sheep whisperer' ad for the first time. What a wker he is.

And a total waste of a lovely Merc.

[poing]

Escort3500 said:

Just seen the James Corden 'sheep whisperer' ad for the first time. What a wker he is.

And a total waste of a lovely Merc.

Not to mention that it's trying hard to trash another great piece of music.

[cuprabob]

The new Morrisons' advert measures quite high in the cringeworthy scale

[BlueHave]

nicanary said:

bingybongy said:

Frank7 said:

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."

Ask him to pronounce NHS. If he says Enn haitch ess tell your sister she needs a divorce. He won't though he'll say Enn Aitch Ess because everyone does, thus defeating his own argument.

I believe it may be a throwback to primary school, where kids are taught the alphabet by how letters sound, and to teach them "haitch" will reinforce the memorisation. They are expected, I'm sure, to drop the childlike pronunciation as they get older.

I find a lot of Irish people pronounce it "haitch". Don't know why. IT'S INCORRECT!!!!

I'm led to believe in parts of Ireland it boils down to being a religious thing.

[Halmyre]

zb said:

Halmyre said:

In the global scheme of things, they're right, like it or not.

They only thing they're correct about, is the majority of customers in this country will just suck up this sort of cynical, fiddling with the bottom line, nonsense.

I don't really have an emotional attachment to brand names, especially kitchen cleaning products. I don't really like Marathon/Snickers, and I don't go on package holidays.

[zb]

Halmyre said:

I don't really have an emotional attachment to brand names, especially kitchen cleaning products. I don't really like Marathon/Snickers, and I don't go on package holidays.

Quite.

[budgie smuggler]

nicanary said:

I believe it may be a throwback to primary school, where kids are taught the alphabet by how letters sound, and to teach them "haitch" will reinforce the memorisation. They are expected, I'm sure, to drop the childlike pronunciation as they get older.

I find a lot of Irish people pronounce it "haitch". Don't know why. IT'S INCORRECT!!!!

Does it matter though? There's a lot of stupid crap in the English language and letter names are one of them IMVHO. Why not just make it haitch then it sounds like the letter is pronounced. Makes no sense to have it as aitch. Just another pointless inconsistency to learn.

[nicanary]

budgie smuggler said:

nicanary said:

I believe it may be a throwback to primary school, where kids are taught the alphabet by how letters sound, and to teach them "haitch" will reinforce the memorisation. They are expected, I'm sure, to drop the childlike pronunciation as they get older.

I find a lot of Irish people pronounce it "haitch". Don't know why. IT'S INCORRECT!!!!

Does it matter though? There's a lot of stupid crap in the English language and letter names are one of them IMVHO. Why not just make it haitch then it sounds like the letter is pronounced. Makes no sense to have it as aitch. Just another pointless inconsistency to learn.

But it f***s up foreigners. That's part of the fun.

[budgie smuggler]

nicanary said:

But it f***s up foreigners. That's part of the fun.

Good point, but not the French though, and IIRC their fault in the first place.

[Johnnytheboy]

Having erroneously posted this in the "does your wife faff unnecessarily" thread somehow, let's try here...

The current Lenor advert is starting to bother me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqg1cjLjz0k

For people like me that can never be bothered to click YT links, horse-faced young woman sees blue cardy in shop, buys cardy then loves it forever (with Lenor's help).

The trouble is (IMHO, but I have my OH's agreement) is the blue cardigan is absolutely hideous!

[Yipper]

Think I may be falling in love with the Admiral Multicover milf.