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

[jakesmith]

Tango13 said:

Europa1 said:

Tango13 said:

Some charity one asking for money because...

'Every fifteen seconds a child could die'

Yes, a child could die every fifteen seconds, we could also get invaded by perverted aliens from planet bumsex determined to ream every ringpiece on planet earth, doesn't mean it's going to happen though does it?

Oh and that cake theiving little st from the Mr kipling ad has just been on, he can get bumsexed by aliens on behalf of planet earth so we can all remain sphictus intactus!

I think charities should be banned from advertising on TV, especially during the daytime when arguably the bulk of the audience is likely to be suggestible.Children with cleft palates, children who sleep rough in certain countries, the snow leopard, our "old friend" the elephant (I've never been for a pint with one - have you?), donkeys, the RSPCA (income £142m).

I don't doubt they are all very worthwhile causes, but their adverts are shamelessly designed to play on the emotions, and I find that distasteful. I apologise for not being able to articulate it better.

Bit in bold, I know exactly what you mean, trying guilt the viewers into coughing up some cash.

I've often been tempted before now to watch an entire episode of Minder/The Professionals/The Sweeney and total up how much the various charities are asking for but I doubt my TV would survive.

Yes what are they thinking! Stupid isn’t it - appealing to emotions to elicit a charitable donation, how ridiculous.

Would be far better if they said ‘look, 70% of what you give us gets wasted in administration anyway you stupid so sign up for £5 a month today to keep us in jobs. We’ll help the fking polar bears if we can too.’

[George7]

The Amazon advert with all the flashing colours and the annoying woman talking extremely fast to tell you about that she only has 15 seconds to tell me about the 'unmissable deals' on Amazon. I get it on Youtube videos a lot (no adblocker on my TV YouTube app) and it's got to the point where it absolutely infuriates me.

[AlexRS2782]

Speaking of Amazon. It appears every 2 or 3 weeks they debut another post Covid advert featuring one of their many staff going on about the great virtues of their company. I think the recent 2 have been a guy close to retirement who just happens to be a dad, a grandad, oh & a DJ in his spare time too, and another with a "staff line product trainer" saying how empowered she is working for Amazon whilst she's doing her degree at Uni. I wonder what the next chapter will be in a couple of weeks

[Escort3500]

AlexRS2782 said:

Speaking of Amazon. It appears every 2 or 3 weeks they debut another post Covid advert featuring one of their many staff going on about the great virtues of their company. I think the recent 2 have been a guy close to retirement who just happens to be a dad, a grandad, oh & a DJ in his spare time too, and another with a "staff line product trainer" saying how empowered she is working for Amazon whilst she's doing her degree at Uni. I wonder what the next chapter will be in a couple of weeks

And don’t forget the one who left the army for a better job with Amazon.

[rider73]

Europa1 said:

anonymoususer said:

Europa1 said:

Christ.

You'd be signed up to the Snow Leopard, some donkeys somewhere, elephants, WWF, cleft palates, inturned eyelashes, cancer research, heart research,possibly something that looks like it's to do with the armed forces, and at least one funeral plan, all presented by a heady mix of slow motion film, emotive music, a "oh look, it's that nice so and so off such and such" personality, and the funeral plan parsnip deviant. Oh, and a really tacky coin that is unique, limited to one household only, that is only legal tender in Guernsey.

But on the plus side you will more than likely be contributing something to Carol Vorderpersons next lot of cosmetic surgery

Oh god, I'd forgotten about her. Also in the "Oh look, dear, it's that's nice so and so off such and such" category. She seems to be turning into a cartoon - like she wants Jessica Rabbit's gig.

...and the "just £1 a day for clean water"...
and after youve paid all that out
"....you could release equity in your retirement, our friendly advisor will come and tell you all your options...." (and not leave until your pressured into handing over your only asset !

[Richard-390a0]

Alexa / Opera Singer / Bloke on sun lounger in budgie smugglers requesting she sing something else / Donna Summer... On at every ad break it seems.

& Gio Compario without his twirly 'tache & wig can feck off with the Meerkats too

[anonymoususer]

Having said all this
The new AA advert is a belter and a nice move away from the tired old Red Dwarf stuff

[21st Century Man]

noom.

If you're going to advertise in the UK, please make a UK advert, don't just run your American advert, which would be fine if it had standard American movie/tv accents, but not when it's full of those bloody awful whiney nasally vocal fry high rising inflection fast talking absense of punctuation squeaky high pitched every other word is like godamned annoying American women. It's unbearable.

[Escort3500]

anonymoususer said:

Having said all this
The new AA advert is a belter and a nice move away from the tired old Red Dwarf stuff

Is that the one with the woolly dog? It’s great, and our hounds love it too

[AlexRS2782]

Escort3500 said:

anonymoususer said:

Having said all this
The new AA advert is a belter and a nice move away from the tired old Red Dwarf stuff

Is that the one with the woolly dog? It’s great, and our hounds love it too

It makes a nice change from the AA tbh - nice, simple concept & no stupidity. Although it was getting rinsed on every ad break on E4 the other night - they must have decided any late night viewers of Buffy The Vampire Slayer were a target demographic on Wednesday night.

Their worst ad to date still has to be the awful part CGI'd kid with the dancing & overdub to Tina Turner.

[Cupramax]

The utterly cringeworthy Viagra connect cartoon.

[anonymoususer]

Escort3500 said:

anonymoususer said:

Having said all this
The new AA advert is a belter and a nice move away from the tired old Red Dwarf stuff

Is that the one with the woolly dog? It’s great, and our hounds love it too

And a belting tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlF1KxtArCg

[Langweilig]

"It's from Gin Club. I wonder what's inside?"

Erm...I would speculate and say It would be gin-related.

[whitesocks]

Any Advert that is advertising a UK company (Like Green Flag, for example) But it's obvious that the thing was filmed in another country, just by looking at the architecture of any nearby buildings.

And regarding charity adverts, they always make a thing of showing them at dinner times.

Edited by whitesocks on Friday 24th July 09:48

[anonymous-user]

"I'm the gocompare man, so what have learnt during the lockdown?"

That you're still an annoying tt?

[Blown2CV]

whitesocks said:

Any Advert that is advertising a UK company (Like Green Flag, for example) But it's obvious that the thing was filmed in another country, just by looking at the architecture of any nearby buildings.

Edited by whitesocks on Friday 24th July 09:48

seems a weird thing to be irritated by.

[21st Century Man]

Blown2CV said:

whitesocks said:

Any Advert that is advertising a UK company (Like Green Flag, for example) But it's obvious that the thing was filmed in another country, just by looking at the architecture of any nearby buildings.

seems a weird thing to be irritated by.

I think it's when they pretend it's the UK, they rip off images of UK registration numbers and crudely print them off and tape them to cars at random, not understanding the system and getting it wrong. It's bleedin' obvious that it's South Africa or Namibia where a huge number of our adverts are made. Ditto the Dave TV channel self promo adverts, a horse tied up between parked cars with all the wrong UK plates on them and downtown Johannesburg city view just over the wall.

[thegreenhell]

21st Century Man said:

I think it's when they pretend it's the UK, they rip off images of UK registration numbers and crudely print them off and tape them to cars at random, not understanding the system and getting it wrong. It's bleedin' obvious that it's South Africa or Namibia where a huge number of our adverts are made. Ditto the Dave TV channel self promo adverts, a horse tied up between parked cars with all the wrong UK plates on them and downtown Johannesburg city view just over the wall.

I don't think they're trying to be British. They're probably deliberately not country specific so that they can use the same stock footage in multiple countries without having to change the plates all the time. In fact, I read once that they would only use symmetrical characters on the plates so they can flip the same image to use it for both RHD and LHD markets, although with modern CGI that's probably less necessary than it once was.

[hidetheelephants]

Europa1 said:

jakesmith said:

Not the thread for it but literally the only decent ad on t’box right now is the Carlsberg one- genius!

I disagree. I love the Sipsmith advert.

I quite like the 'squeaky toy' ads for Kingsmill bread. I am a child.

Escort3500 said:

anonymoususer said:

Having said all this
The new AA advert is a belter and a nice move away from the tired old Red Dwarf stuff

Is that the one with the woolly dog? It’s great, and our hounds love it too

It is a welcome change from the endless zoom cliche bks.

[21st Century Man]

thegreenhell said:

21st Century Man said:

I think it's when they pretend it's the UK, they rip off images of UK registration numbers and crudely print them off and tape them to cars at random, not understanding the system and getting it wrong. It's bleedin' obvious that it's South Africa or Namibia where a huge number of our adverts are made. Ditto the Dave TV channel self promo adverts, a horse tied up between parked cars with all the wrong UK plates on them and downtown Johannesburg city view just over the wall.

I don't think they're trying to be British. They're probably deliberately not country specific so that they can use the same stock footage in multiple countries without having to change the plates all the time. In fact, I read once that they would only use symmetrical characters on the plates so they can flip the same image to use it for both RHD and LHD markets, although with modern CGI that's probably less necessary than it once was.

That's not what I said/wrote.

I'm talking about say FN08GDW on a MKI Golf or YT51SYP on a new Mazda whilst a late Discovery will be on P854TSK.

Palindrome numbers don't come into it.

The daftest one was a Cider advert that was supposed to be rolling green Irish countryside and Irish number plates, when it was clearly the dry dusty baked Savanna with flora and fauna, all that was missing was the herds of Wildebeest.