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

[rider73]

techiedave said:

Barclaycard reshowing the Simon Cowell repayment calculator thing

As a warning of the perils of cosmetic surgery its ok

I took it as "youve paid for yoru cosmetic surgery on credit card, when you can finally see through the swelling eyes, pay a little more each month so you can get those neck wrinkles done quicker"

[Bluedot]

rider73 said:

techiedave said:

Barclaycard reshowing the Simon Cowell repayment calculator thing

As a warning of the perils of cosmetic surgery its ok

I took it as "youve paid for yoru cosmetic surgery on credit card, when you can finally see through the swelling eyes, pay a little more each month so you can get those neck wrinkles done quicker"

and maybe get your teeth done again so you can actually talk normally.

[Halmyre]

That bloody Jet2 advert. "Hold My Hand", only if I can hold it over my ears so I don't have to fking well listen to it.

I'm ashamed to say we flew Jet2 last year, so I only have myself to blame.

[Escort3500]

Halmyre said:

That bloody Jet2 advert. "Hold My Hand", only if I can hold it over my ears so I don't have to fking well listen to it.

I'm ashamed to say we flew Jet2 last year, so I only have myself to blame.

Exactly; it’s your fault we have to endure this st

I love the way the Jet2 ads, and in fact most holiday ads, always feature deserted beaches and unoccupied pools and terraces so you have your own private hotel and resort. Possibly.

[Halmyre]

Escort3500 said:

Halmyre said:

That bloody Jet2 advert. "Hold My Hand", only if I can hold it over my ears so I don't have to fking well listen to it.

I'm ashamed to say we flew Jet2 last year, so I only have myself to blame.

Exactly; it’s your fault we have to endure this st

I love the way the Jet2 ads, and in fact most holiday ads, always feature deserted beaches and unoccupied pools and terraces so you have your own private hotel and resort. Possibly.

A lot of adverts, I don't know what the actual product is, because I blank out as soon as they start playing. This was one of them - I was only aware it was an irritating song advertising some sort of holiday, until recently.

[Rider007]

Halmyre said:

That bloody Jet2 advert. "Hold My Hand", only if I can hold it over my ears so I don't have to fking well listen to it.

I'm ashamed to say we flew Jet2 last year, so I only have myself to blame.

Hear Hear !!. Bloody Jess Glynnes grating whiny voice is an absolute pisstake

[psi310398]

I suppose that it's my own fault... A few months ago, I gave up smoking after forty dedicated years and whereas I used to use the ad breaks to disappear outside for a quick fag, I now stay put and experience all the advertising dreck pushed our way. I simply hadn't appreciated just how awful so much advertising is.

[swisstoni]

psi310398 said:

I suppose that it's my own fault... A few months ago, I gave up smoking after forty dedicated years and whereas I used to use the ad breaks to disappear outside for a quick fag, I now stay put and experience all the advertising dreck pushed our way. I simply hadn't appreciated just how awful so much advertising is.

There used to be a lot more intelligence and entertainment in advertising.
Now it just seems to be very dumbed down and tacky. And some ads just set out to be annoying in the first place.

[ceesvdelst]

Do you think actors are trained to "Hold" a McDonalds burger prop to make it loos massive?

It's hilarious, the advert is SO PC, every conceivable race, creed and colour in there, and then they make the dumb cretin at the end eat a burger like nobody has ever eaten a burger in their life, as if it is bigger than a pizza.

Makes me so cross I could well.

[poing]

Nationwide are keeping up their normal standard for fking awful adverts. Some mad old woman telling a pointless and boring story. It makes a change from the 2 idiots singing, the crap poetry and the even worse stand up comedy. It's not better, just a change.

[cuprabob]

poing said:

It makes a change from the 2 idiots singing

Those "2 idiots" got a gig at the Royal Variety Performance on the back of their adverts.

I think Nationwide give themselves the target of making each campaign worse than the previous

[FrenchCarFan]

ceesvdelst said:

the advert is SO PC, every conceivable race, creed and colour in there,

That describes about 95% of any advert these days.

[LuS1fer]

FrenchCarFan said:

That describes about 95% of any advert these days.

Even the Purple Bricks animated figures FFS.

[Escort3500]

cuprabob said:

poing said:

It makes a change from the 2 idiots singing

Those "2 idiots" got a gig at the Royal Variety Performance on the back of their adverts.

I think Nationwide give themselves the target of making each campaign worse than the previous

And succeeding admirably

[droopsnoot]

ceesvdelst said:

Do you think actors are trained to "Hold" a McDonalds burger prop to make it loos massive?

I had a Big Mac the other week, I'd quite forgotten how different they are to the photographs, to the extent that I'm surprised they can get away with it.

[ceesvdelst]

I actually don't mind Maccy D adverts, some of them ring true to aspects of my life, especially the late night one, sometimes you just can't resist! For all its bad! More than 10 people though I just skip and go home, fast food is not fast food if you have to wait 10 minutes for it!

But holding a burger with both hands like a bloody teddy bear, I am sure they are told how to do it and given stuff that in no way matches the real thing.

Just stop it, no-one does it and everyone thinks you are stupid for doing it!!

[FourWheelDrift]

droopsnoot said:

ceesvdelst said:

Do you think actors are trained to "Hold" a McDonalds burger prop to make it loos massive?

I had a Big Mac the other week, I'd quite forgotten how different they are to the photographs, to the extent that I'm surprised they can get away with it.

Have a look at this, "Tricks Advertisers Use", McDonalds is early on - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MflT0I7ZPCs advert tricks up to 3m18, then life hacks.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Tuesday 14th January 12:20

[AlexRS2782]

Peugeot with the E-208 advert creating another hashtag / tagline that wasn't needed.

"Unboring The Future".

The electric Vauxhaul Corsa advert can also be added for similar reasons.

"Petrol - back in the ground where it belongs" (or something similar).

[LuS1fer]

In fairness to Vauxhall, though preachy and self-righteous bilge, far better than their old chav adverts.

[TCEvo]

The electric Vauxhall ad's odd: "back in the ground...." etc, bearing in mind that the majority of their offer's petrol/diesel powered.