Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up. (Vol 2)
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Another 2 annoying Christmas adverts to add to the thread that appeared during Traffic Cops.
McDonalds with an awful part animated / part live action advert about how buying junk food for Christmas will bring your family back together.
Tesco delivery driver going through time (Back To The Future style) delivering Christmas goods to various people before getting home to his family.
Edit - actually make it 3 if you add the all singing Amazon advert where the female delivery driver is busy delivering everyones packages and the last one brings her home to her own family for Christmas. Not sure that's quite accurate - she's likely to still be out delivering on Christmas Day & again on Boxing day if the home delivery drivers / SBL couriers round my way last year were anything to go by.
McDonalds with an awful part animated / part live action advert about how buying junk food for Christmas will bring your family back together.
Tesco delivery driver going through time (Back To The Future style) delivering Christmas goods to various people before getting home to his family.
Edit - actually make it 3 if you add the all singing Amazon advert where the female delivery driver is busy delivering everyones packages and the last one brings her home to her own family for Christmas. Not sure that's quite accurate - she's likely to still be out delivering on Christmas Day & again on Boxing day if the home delivery drivers / SBL couriers round my way last year were anything to go by.
Edited by AlexRS2782 on Tuesday 19th November 01:48
SistersofPercy said:
The Christmas Ads at least are only here for a month or so. Then we move to the more annoying holiday adverts. James Villas etc. Now they are generally crap.
I said this at the start of this thread I think, but many years in I'm still to figure out Johnny Depp, his sausage, why he buries his jewellery in a desert and why he's being stalked by a bison. I'm also unsure what any of this has to do with an overpriced aftershave.
Not so with Paddy McG(inty) and Emma Willis, A Holden etc in the M&S god awful Xmas ads - I said this at the start of this thread I think, but many years in I'm still to figure out Johnny Depp, his sausage, why he buries his jewellery in a desert and why he's being stalked by a bison. I'm also unsure what any of this has to do with an overpriced aftershave.
M&S have signed them up to feature in a year's worth of ads!
Then M&S wonder why they make no money. Perhaps if they'd didn't pay these celebs their ransom fees they would not lose money hand over fist.
SistersofPercy said:
New John Lewis ad.
Storyline is a hit with me, but the cover version of Can't Fight This Feeling is toe curling. Sorry.
More Waitrose than John Lewis (I know, it's part JL partnership) plugging it - and is working wonders for them. Storyline is a hit with me, but the cover version of Can't Fight This Feeling is toe curling. Sorry.
Whoever thought that up will get a reward.
I agree the REM Speedwagon song (sung by Bastille singer, Dan Smith apparently - never heard of 'em is dreadful - but cheaper than getting permission to use the original song I assume?)
https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/christmas/waitrose-c...
The Excitable Edgar soft toy is sold out online already.
Mugs are out there, look at what they are selling for on Ebay!
Most are listed at twice or more retail.
I was in Waitrose early this morning and loads of the plush toy lined up at the tills - one shopper had 4 in her trolley - 60 quid!
hmm, perhaps I might just get a couple... ebay, just in time for Xmas, snip at 99 quid the two? 
dandarez said:
Not so with Paddy McG(inty) and Emma Willis, A Holden etc in the M&S god awful Xmas ads -
M&S have signed them up to feature in a year's worth of ads!
Then M&S wonder why they make no money. Perhaps if they'd didn't pay these celebs their ransom fees they would not lose money hand over fist.
Urgh. Great. M&S have signed them up to feature in a year's worth of ads!
Then M&S wonder why they make no money. Perhaps if they'd didn't pay these celebs their ransom fees they would not lose money hand over fist.
Not an M&S fan anyway, and a bit gutted they are now in with Ocado as it means finding a new delivery service. 12 months of this pair have just sealed their fate.
Rider007 said:
Charity ads !!!. No I do not want to donate £5 a month to save the lesser spotted hairless donkeys of madagascar 
.In other words "We're all wanting a really big Xmas party at work and you look like a sucker ".Charity begins at home not lining the pockets of some CEO.
Unfortunately and somewhat shamefully I feel the same. It's a very cynical view but I find it very hard to get past the thought that charities are about the staff first then the charity second .In other words "We're all wanting a really big Xmas party at work and you look like a sucker ".Charity begins at home not lining the pockets of some CEO.loskie said:
i was having this same discussion with my 92 yr old Aunt re Oxfam Chuggers.
She just didnt get it.
I am happy to give to charities but detest paid fundraisers.
I've genuinely lost my temper with a chugger. Had one idiot block my path doing the alright mate routine. I politely said I wasn't interested and had no intention of giving out any bank details. He walked off calling me a wShe just didnt get it.
I am happy to give to charities but detest paid fundraisers.
ker.To be fair one of his colleagues came over to intervene but I reported it to the charity.
I have noticed that some towns seem to allow them to operate whereas others discourage them
If I were the MP who won the Private Member's Bill ballot, I'd try to get a law passed that required all charities to publish prominently the salaries of their top five paid staff on every piece of literature or advert they put out...I'd also require publication (in the light of the shenanigans at Amnesty) of details for all settlements (including the sums paid and legal costs) made for cases of harassment, unfair dismissal and other breaches of employment law.
psi310398 said:
If I were the MP who won the Private Member's Bill ballot, I'd try to get a law passed that required all charities to publish prominently the salaries of their top five paid staff on every piece of literature or advert they put out...I'd also require publication (in the light of the shenanigans at Amnesty) of details for all settlements (including the sums paid and legal costs) made for cases of harassment, unfair dismissal and other breaches of employment law.
Given charities exist is a very competitive market, I think it's entirely reasonable that their most senior staff are remunerated with commercially competitive packages. Charities are often large and complex milti-national organisations. Yes, there have been high-profile abuses-of-position, but that happens everywhere, and nobody whinged that Goldman Sachs senior team were overpaid.
Charities may be non-profit organisations, but nobody can expect everybody who works there to do so voluntarily. Chuggers are the thin end of a s
tty wedge, but that doesn't mean the entire woodshed smells.Doofus said:
Given charities exist is a very competitive market, I think it's entirely reasonable that their most senior staff are remunerated with commercially competitive packages. Charities are often large and complex milti-national organisations.
Yes, there have been high-profile abuses-of-position, but that happens everywhere, and nobody whinged that Goldman Sachs senior team were overpaid.
Charities may be non-profit organisations, but nobody can expect everybody who works there to do so voluntarily. Chuggers are the thin end of a stty wedge, but that doesn't mean the entire woodshed smells.
I've never understood why some people seem to think that the fact that an organisation is a charity means that the people who work for it should work for less than other people. Yes, there have been high-profile abuses-of-position, but that happens everywhere, and nobody whinged that Goldman Sachs senior team were overpaid.
Charities may be non-profit organisations, but nobody can expect everybody who works there to do so voluntarily. Chuggers are the thin end of a s
tty wedge, but that doesn't mean the entire woodshed smells.As you say, many are very complex, multi-million turnover, multi-national operations. Given that many are dependent on donations from the public and/or high street shops, I'd far rather they paid market rate to the people that run the operation than pay below market rate and thereby get potentially less able people.
One of the better known charities that doesn't advertise has a turnover of just under £200m per annum, 2,000-odd employees and 30,000-odd volunteers. It has dozens of sites around the UK and some very valuable, complicated assets. How much do you think their executive team should be paid compared to an organisation of similar scale in the private sector?
Europa1 said:
I've never understood why some people seem to think that the fact that an organisation is a charity means that the people who work for it should work for less than other people.
As you say, many are very complex, multi-million turnover, multi-national operations. Given that many are dependent on donations from the public and/or high street shops, I'd far rather they paid market rate to the people that run the operation than pay below market rate and thereby get potentially less able people.
One of the better known charities that doesn't advertise has a turnover of just under £200m per annum, 2,000-odd employees and 30,000-odd volunteers. It has dozens of sites around the UK and some very valuable, complicated assets. How much do you think their executive team should be paid compared to an organisation of similar scale in the private sector?
I can’t see what the problem with more transparency could be and I don’t have a problem with paying the going rate for staff provided that the charity is run effectively. As you say, many are very complex, multi-million turnover, multi-national operations. Given that many are dependent on donations from the public and/or high street shops, I'd far rather they paid market rate to the people that run the operation than pay below market rate and thereby get potentially less able people.
One of the better known charities that doesn't advertise has a turnover of just under £200m per annum, 2,000-odd employees and 30,000-odd volunteers. It has dozens of sites around the UK and some very valuable, complicated assets. How much do you think their executive team should be paid compared to an organisation of similar scale in the private sector?
However, many charities seem to exist only to harvest public sector funding and to only exist to perpetuate the employment of salaried staff.
Anyway to get this back on track (I helped deflect it - sorry) I think the current Christmas ads are a bit so/so
Blatantly I don't really feel they are works of art by folk at the top of their game. Charity ads are everywhere and they are VERY carefully timed and targeted at the ideal contributors. It's no coincidence they have a big daytime footprint.
I think the virtual signalling/ look at us we help bring folk together/ save the world with us type adverts will be seen in a few years to be of their time. The smart meter adverts get ever more desperate.
Blatantly I don't really feel they are works of art by folk at the top of their game. Charity ads are everywhere and they are VERY carefully timed and targeted at the ideal contributors. It's no coincidence they have a big daytime footprint.
I think the virtual signalling/ look at us we help bring folk together/ save the world with us type adverts will be seen in a few years to be of their time. The smart meter adverts get ever more desperate.
I've been through the last 15 pages and no mention of the Microsoft advert where a gentleman is telling us about his sterling work with snow leopards. I have 3 questions :
1) why is the other gentleman at the start of the advert there?
2) why is he shouting at me?
3) why is he shouting at me in front of an orchestra?
1) why is the other gentleman at the start of the advert there?
2) why is he shouting at me?
3) why is he shouting at me in front of an orchestra?
The advert for the new Nissan Juke is hilariously bad.
Starts with a completely unlikely to ever buy or want to drive a Juke male, casting his destination from his smart device to the car, followed by a CGI'd scene which is meant to make you believe you're a superhero like Batman, followed by driving on amazingly empty city centre streets, and at some point a tag line to make you believe it's the best drive you'll ever experience
Starts with a completely unlikely to ever buy or want to drive a Juke male, casting his destination from his smart device to the car, followed by a CGI'd scene which is meant to make you believe you're a superhero like Batman, followed by driving on amazingly empty city centre streets, and at some point a tag line to make you believe it's the best drive you'll ever experience
SistersofPercy said:
New John Lewis ad.
Storyline is a hit with me, but the cover version of Can't Fight This Feeling is toe curling. Sorry.
They've done WHAT?Storyline is a hit with me, but the cover version of Can't Fight This Feeling is toe curling. Sorry.
I'm very pleased I've not caught that one - that's one of my favourite songs ever. Whoever's ruined that deserves a cobra down their trousers.
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