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

[rider73]

oh sweet jesus

VERY's new ad

[thiscocks]

spanky3 said:

2) The asda ones with the bloke who sounds like he has learning difficulties.

And looks like it, plus his kids.

[Escort3500]

rider73 said:

oh sweet jesus

VERY's new ad

Yup. Dire.

[CooperD]

Pixel Pusher said:

Has this bearded, lip synching, moon faced knobbertron from the Hey Car ad had a mention yet?

. I was just about to post up about this one. Thanks for mentioning it. Seems to be on every ad break

[Biker 1]

PLEASE can Nationwide be banned from TV advertising. FFS, I came pretty close to smashing up my telly last night.....

[Randy Winkman]

Well done to McCain for a TV advert I saw today with a person with a "disability". I've recently been wondering why they all seem to have gay or transgender people and mixed race couples but don't have a full range of diversity.

[swisstoni]

Randy Winkman said:

Well done to McCain for a TV advert I saw today with a person with a "disability". I've recently been wondering why they all seem to have gay or transgender people and mixed race couples but don't have a full range of diversity.

Disabled people aren’t on-trend.

[AlexRS2782]

Barclaycard Sidekicks - you'll know when you see it. I wonder how much Nick Frost's being paid to front it?

[LuS1fer]

AlexRS2782 said:

Barclaycard Sidekicks - you'll know when you see it. I wonder how much Nick Frost's being paid to front it?

I don't know but there is another exceedingly annoying person.
Must be a competition...

[GC8]

Randy Winkman said:

Well done to McCain for a TV advert I saw today with a person with a "disability". I've recently been wondering why they all seem to have gay or transgender people and mixed race couples but don't have a full range of diversity.

You don't appear to be able to make an advert without featuring a gay wedding now.

[jakesmith]

Go Compare are trying to build a bit of a back story around their opera singing moustached bloke, to add some personality to their insurance advert. It makes a change from the bloke just singing go compare but is futile against the power of the meerkat.

[GC8]

I think that it is more of a home-recorded 'Covid-19 advert' than a shrewd strategy.

[anonymous-user]

thiscocks said:

spanky3 said:

2) The asda ones with the bloke who sounds like he has learning difficulties.

And looks like it, plus his kids.

Lanky, curly haired, wob-eyed arse.

[blade runner]

Any ad that shows someone in a face mask - in some vain attempt to make this seem like this is a perfectly normal and natural thing that everyone is just fine with. This is obviously the new 'must have' for ads, having now rolled back slightly from the beared hipsters and same-sex couples.

HSBC - some tt puts on a mask before going outside the front door with his bike.
Hilton Hotels - some granny gesturing to a toddling baby in an excited way. Yep that's going to work really well if the child can't see your facial features...
Turkish Arlines - managing to impart the new family holiday experience (with face masks and other PPE just about everwhere) about as much appeal as a colonoscopy.

[21st Century Man]

Why are they all so bad these days? What's driving it? There was a time when prime time TV would actually feature a programme about Britain's greatest and best loved ads, fronted by Denis Norden or similar. Such a programme would be impossible now, unless it were for Britain's worst and most hated ads.

[Abbott]

21st Century Man said:

Why are they all so bad these days? What's driving it? There was a time when prime time TV would actually feature a programme about Britain's greatest and best loved ads, fronted by Denis Norden or similar. Such a programme would be impossible now, unless it were for Britain's worst and most hated ads.

The last ad that made me laugh even after seeing it a number of times was the young lad collecting for Alzheimers by running a swear box then find ways to make everyone swear

[Randy Winkman]

GC8 said:

Randy Winkman said:

Well done to McCain for a TV advert I saw today with a person with a "disability". I've recently been wondering why they all seem to have gay or transgender people and mixed race couples but don't have a full range of diversity.

You don't appear to be able to make an advert without featuring a gay wedding now.

I don't think advertising actually cares about diversity. Perhaps that's obvious since it's about selling; which means following at trend.

[LuS1fer]

jakesmith said:

Go Compare are trying to build a bit of a back story around their opera singing moustached bloke, to add some personality to their insurance advert. It makes a change from the bloke just singing go compare but is futile against the power of the meerkat.

Yes but unfortunately it just makes him even more irritating (and I'm Welsh FFS).

[GC8]

Randy Winkman said:

I don't think advertising actually cares about diversity. Perhaps that's obvious since it's about selling; which means following at trend.

Indeed. Had we had a same sex marriage referendum then Id have voted in favour without a moments hesitation, but I dont want to have virtue-signalling depictions of gay marriage forced down my throat courtesy of some corporate wes trying to sell me someones elses soap powder.

[cmsapms]

Ed Minigland as the asda spacker! Won't be long before corbyn's fronting up Lidl ... or, given his champers socialism, Waitrose!