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

[Philbar]

fking Jaffa cakes!

[rwindmill]

Harry H said:

waynecyclist said:

aka_kerrly said:

Has the new Suzuki Swift advert had a mention?

The premise is a guy doesn't know how to buy a car so his friend has to explain and give him various tips then he is seen walking into a dealership and saying yes to the first offer

It is crap

The usual, blokes are stupid, women are the smart ones script. BAME for good measure.

A regular theme when it comes to Suzuki adverts

Remember the ones from the 1st lockdown, featuring the 'Managers' of the showrooms

The BAME female manager, she had cleaned the windows in the showroom, brushed the floor and made customers a great cappuccino

The male manager, he had burned the toast, done dodgy DIY and shaved a big groove down the middle of his sons head whilst trying to cut his hair at home.

The ad for secondhand Mercedes, where all of the participants cant make there minds up, so the items they are looking at do it for them, is the same.

The women in the ad, they are looking for important things like paint colours, clothing and second hand cars. The only man to feature in the ad, well he stands there with a slightly gormless look on his face as he try to pick a.............................breakfast cereal.

You can imagine the backlash, if woman had been portrayed that way.

[JmatthewB]

swisstoni said:

I don’t think anyone’s falling for it either.
White people are wondering where they have gone.
BAME people are wondering why they appear to be 70% of the population.

You say that, but my partner teaches in a part of Oldham with a majority Muslim school and some of the students genuinely think the UK is 80% Muslim.

[swisstoni]

JmatthewB said:

swisstoni said:

I don’t think anyone’s falling for it either.
White people are wondering where they have gone.
BAME people are wondering why they appear to be 70% of the population.

You say that, but my partner teaches in a part of Oldham with a majority Muslim school and some of the students genuinely think the UK is 80% Muslim.

I think the advertisers are trying to show that they understand that society is made up of all sorts of people. They understand us. That’s great.

But when they are ALL doing it at the same time you get a laughable misrepresentation that we see at the moment.
Some would call it simply trying to improve their image.
But others will see it as social engineering, albeit inadvertent.

[Randy Winkman]

swisstoni said:

JmatthewB said:

swisstoni said:

I don’t think anyone’s falling for it either.
White people are wondering where they have gone.
BAME people are wondering why they appear to be 70% of the population.

You say that, but my partner teaches in a part of Oldham with a majority Muslim school and some of the students genuinely think the UK is 80% Muslim.

I think the advertisers are trying to show that they understand that society is made up of all sorts of people. They understand us. That’s great.

But when they are ALL doing it at the same time you get a laughable misrepresentation that we see at the moment.
Some would call it simply trying to improve their image.
But others will see it as social engineering, albeit inadvertent.

I agree that it looks odd when they all start doing it at the same time. As I've said before, the only mixed-race couples in adverts until a year ago were and occasional black man with a white woman. Now you'll struggle to find that, but you'll find every other combination.

But one thing to remember is that the adverts themselves are made by a number of different production companies for myriad customers and I assume some sort of quota or rota system would not be thought appropriate. So if each company thinks it looks best for them to have diversity, that's what you're going to get even if the whole lot once combined doesn't represent the UK.

[BawlBag]

The Vax advert that cleans up a bowl of spaghetti in one pass ? Hmmm really ?

[J4CKO]

This one is haunting my every move at the moment on YT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MxvQIzLAJM

"Come peasants, free money for you and maybe a bargain bucket when we get money off VAG on your behalf, we trouser most of it and throw a few quid in your trough"

She just seems to be one of those apprentice candidate types hell bent on making money on just about anything, not an actress as actresses dont read a script quite like someone reading kidnappers demands, and whoever filmed it caught a weird reflection in her eyes, just makes her seem slightly malevolent like she is going to ply me with Hot Chocolate and Turkish delight.

Also ticking the uncanny valley box a bit like she could malfunction like in Total Recall.

Sure she is lovely really but that advert is freaky and amateurish.

[Johnnytheboy]

swisstoni said:

I think the advertisers are trying to show that they understand that society is made up of all sorts of people. They understand us. That’s great.

But when they are ALL doing it at the same time you get a laughable misrepresentation that we see at the moment.
Some would call it simply trying to improve their image.
But others will see it as social engineering, albeit inadvertent.

On the radio the other day there was some discussion about the latest government "don't catch Covid" TV ad because almost everyone in it is BAME.

Some BAME folk had taken offence at (what they felt was) being targeted. The ad agency probably just thought that's how you did ads nowadays.

[DavieW]

The voiceover on the new Jaguar advert - nice enough voice until she mangles the word twenty, saying twen'y.

Mind you the Volvo lady sounds nice - sexy Swede

[21st Century Man]

The French accent "Citrowen" girl seems to be doing Skoda now, it doesn't sound right.

[BryanC]

Can I insert one which I can't get enough of ?

The Boots no.7 advert with ballet Alessanda Ferri with music by Kaleo

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&amp...

A video to get pi55ed by.

[vulture1]

It doesn't annoy me but it is stupid.

The vauxhall advert when all the parents are at Rugby or football of their kids. Then the mucky kids head towards the cars and all the parents are like oh erm no and the vauxhall owner trying be cool about is like get in. Vauxhall at the end "less rah get real"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO9dVFR2UBA

to me it shouts
"its just a fking vauxhall you won't give a st"

[Morningside]

Hybrid car...wait for it...wait for it...wait for it...empty road & wind turbine.

Bullst bingo - Tick.

[21st Century Man]

I notice that everything is on an empty road, and is always in the outside lane too.

[rider73]

21st Century Man said:

I notice that everything is on an empty road, and is always in the outside lane too.

same with holiday ads - look at how they show cruise ship holidays - like your the only one aboard - then they zoom out and you can see the ship can take 4000 passengers, and has 1 hot tub that you have to book weeks in advance of you getting on board

i do feel that ads need to show a certain % of reality in it if they are advertising an "experience" - same goes for car ads ! zipping around city streets in your chic mini with no traffic, green lights all the way and it not raining buckets..........

[rwindmill]

Morningside said:

Hybrid car...wait for it...wait for it...wait for it...empty road & wind turbine.

Bullst bingo - Tick.

To be fair, the 'empty road' thing is used in all car ads, not just the EV/Hybrid ones.

The wind turbine, or little girl in the back seat blowing on a toy windmill is always nice 'green' touch. They should show unicorns coming out of the exhaust pipe as well!!

[rwindmill]

21st Century Man said:

I notice that everything is on an empty road, and is always in the outside lane too.

Ahhhh but did you notice in the latest VW Tiguan advert, they actually come up against a......................traffic jam!!!!!!

Of course, at that point the fairytale la-la B/S kicks in again.

The driver says to Google 'Show me the way home' and instantly they are back on completely empty roads again.

I'm still trying to figure out if the advert is telling me that Google is super-brilliant, for finding a route home that is completely devoid of traffic.

or

If all other drivers on the road, are drooling imbeciles that wouldn't think to look for an alternative route, if they came upon a traffic jam on the way home.

[Nickbrapp]

rwindmill said:

Ahhhh but did you notice in the latest VW Tiguan advert, they actually come up against a......................traffic jam!!!!!!

Of course, at that point the fairytale la-la B/S kicks in again.

The driver says to Google 'Show me the way home' and instantly they are back on completely empty roads again.

I'm still trying to figure out if the advert is telling me that Google is super-brilliant, for finding a route home that is completely devoid of traffic.

or

If all other drivers on the road, are drooling imbeciles that wouldn't think to look for an alternative route, if they came upon a traffic jam on the way home.

Funny enough I saw that advert last night and noticed it’s got a facelift Tiguan that came out in maybe September /October time and it’s got a 20 plate UK plate and is a LHD car!

[LuS1fer]

The new Claudia Winkelman advert in which she is so goddamned annoying, I have to hit MUTE.
Heaven forbid women should have such a function... Joking....

[waynecyclist]

LuS1fer said:

The new Claudia Winkelman advert in which she is so goddamned annoying, I have to hit MUTE.
Heaven forbid women should have such a function... Joking....

If you think she is bad in the advert you should try her radio show