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

[swisstoni]

nicanary said:

motco said:

nicanary said:

I've just seen that. It goes over a bump and then the rear continues to bob up and down as it travels away. Sure looks like shagged shocks to me.

Now, about the Currys ad, Apparently we can buy a "Ledd" TV. I could be wrong, but surely LED is an acronym and should be pronounced "Ell-ee-dee"?

If L.E.D. were an acronym similar to N.A.T.O. (naytoe) then it would be 'led'. It is an initialisation and is therefore 'ell'-'ee'-'dee'.
Source: Cambridge Dictionary

Oops. Me and my useless A/O in The Use of English.

That's good info. Thanks.

It’s OLED.
I pronounce it ‘oh ell ee dee’

However most seem to say ‘ohled’.

[motco]

nicanary said:

motco said:

nicanary said:

I've just seen that. It goes over a bump and then the rear continues to bob up and down as it travels away. Sure looks like shagged shocks to me.

Now, about the Currys ad, Apparently we can buy a "Ledd" TV. I could be wrong, but surely LED is an acronym and should be pronounced "Ell-ee-dee"?

If L.E.D. were an acronym similar to N.A.T.O. (naytoe) then it would be 'led'. It is an initialisation and is therefore 'ell'-'ee'-'dee'.
Source: Cambridge Dictionary

Oops. Me and my useless A/O in The Use of English.

That's good info. Thanks.

[AlexRS2782]

I see the PPI companies have now moved to dieselgate claims.

Saw an ad on Quest earlier for something like mydieselclaims suggesting that if you've ever bought or owned a diesel car from 2007 onwards then it would have been deliberately mis-sold and you're entitled to compensation for the damage the vehicle has done to the environment in the time you owned it

[Adrian W]

All these bloody cuddly Bank adverts , lloyds, Halifax how they car so much about their customers, bks

[Randy Winkman]

AlexRS2782 said:

I see the PPI companies have now moved to dieselgate claims.

Saw an ad on Quest earlier for something like mydieselclaims suggesting that if you've ever bought or owned a diesel car from 2007 onwards then it would have been deliberately mis-sold and you're entitled to compensation for the damage the vehicle has done to the environment in the time you owned it

Sorry to ask such a basic question which isn't aimed just at you. Are all of these sorts of claims (VW etc) about some sort of psychological harm to the owners because they were driving cars that did more "harm" to the environment than they had thought? Or are any about actual monetary loss because of cost of VED or fuel consumption?

[Johnnytheboy]

Randy Winkman said:

Sorry to ask such a basic question which isn't aimed just at you. Are all of these sorts of claims (VW etc) about some sort of psychological harm to the owners because they were driving cars that did more "harm" to the environment than they had thought? Or are any about actual monetary loss because of cost of VED or fuel consumption?

I think resale value may be a factor, though if you lease that's irrelevant.

I get the odd letter from VW wrt to my van but I couldn't give two hoots about the emissions, resale value, anything!

[corinthian]

The Barclays Bank advert trying to be funny with men dressed up as caped, cartoon characters, I’ll avoid their services. Some things in life need to be handled seriously, in particular, other people’s money. An earlier poster was also spot on, Touchy, freely bank adverts are for morons, just get on with your work, especially since every time I ever phone a bank, they tell me they’re experiencing a large number of calls and everyone is busy.

[21st Century Man]

The Barclays ad also tries to portray or spin a layer of credit protection as unique to them, when it's legislation that is applicable to all credit cards.

[AlexRS2782]

The new Robinson's juice advert, with the annoying children brats and singing, is particularly bad.

[21st Century Man]

Brittany from Amazon is still annoying me, so many weird and bizarre inflections on almost every word, even by American standards. Unless she has a condition of some sort that impairs her speech and I've not picked up on it?

[Gecko1978]

67Dino said:

Gecko1978 said:

LuS1fer said:

The Nationwide lesbian advert. Beginning to wonder if there are any heterosexual single race couples out there at all

Trinny London I will mention again as that smug face and tone is infuriating. On a par with Claudia Winkelman.

Noticed BA advert the other night what started to look like 2 friends and then a touch at the end you see they are a couple....just sort of pointless

Talking toy bunny in Duracell ad, no problem.
Superhero in Barclaycard ad, perfectly reasonable.
Policemen with baby voices advertising Haribo, sure.
Family join advisor to sing about Equity Release, fine.
Unrepresentative number of gay couples - what?
Hang on. That’s just not realistic.

I suppose my thoguht was start off add two friends on holiday advert ends tag lines all in and only then do we see they are more than friends. Umlike say the Renault advert where as a relationship progresses so do the cars they have. Its two women but the point of the add was as you grow change etc Renault offers you many options. The relationship is part of the advert. Unlike the BA add. See what I mean.

[67Dino]

Gecko1978 said:

67Dino said:

Gecko1978 said:

LuS1fer said:

The Nationwide lesbian advert. Beginning to wonder if there are any heterosexual single race couples out there at all

Trinny London I will mention again as that smug face and tone is infuriating. On a par with Claudia Winkelman.

Noticed BA advert the other night what started to look like 2 friends and then a touch at the end you see they are a couple....just sort of pointless

Talking toy bunny in Duracell ad, no problem.
Superhero in Barclaycard ad, perfectly reasonable.
Policemen with baby voices advertising Haribo, sure.
Family join advisor to sing about Equity Release, fine.
Unrepresentative number of gay couples - what?
Hang on. That’s just not realistic.

I suppose my thoguht was start off add two friends on holiday advert ends tag lines all in and only then do we see they are more than friends. Umlike say the Renault advert where as a relationship progresses so do the cars they have. Its two women but the point of the add was as you grow change etc Renault offers you many options. The relationship is part of the advert. Unlike the BA add. See what I mean.

Yes, see your point. Mine was really more general, about the regular complaints here about unrepresentative levels of diversity. My view is it’s ridiculous to object to ads being unrealistic, because they nearly always are, as they portray an idealised world to sell their product.

I suspect for some the real objection is less to the lack of realism, and more to the ideal being portrayed. Personally I just see it as showing an ideal world where everyone is equal, which seems fine to me. Not at all realistic sadly, but certainly fine.

[rider73]

The spanish beer ad (estrella is it) where everyone drinking it is a superb eco warrior activist saving the oceans, the sky and the earth as a whole, then they sit down and drink the beer in the last 2 seconds of the advert - i think it has something to do with them putting to "sustainable production" labels .....

[21st Century Man]

swisstoni said:

Philbar said:

"When the ice cubes are frozen solid you know the temperature is set right"..

Tech experts Curry's..

No fking st! Are people so fking gormless they need to be told how to freeze ice cubes by some tit at Curry's?!?

Worse than that I suspect these are real staff and they have made them look like berks by giving them moronic things to say.

"Two different temperatures on two different levels". No. That would be four temperatures. I think he means a different temperature on each of two levels?

[swisstoni]

I hope they pay him well. Surely nobody can stand the sight of the bloke now.

[waynecyclist]

swisstoni said:

I hope they pay him well. Surely nobody can stand the sight of the bloke now.

He is cheap, only a tenner

[cuprabob]

waynecyclist said:

swisstoni said:

I hope they pay him well. Surely nobody can stand the sight of the bloke now.

He is cheap, only a tenner

That deserves a

[Nickbrapp]

Not a TV advert but I general rant about start up companies, who always use the most cringe slogans like

We’re here to revolutionise the banking market
We’re here to disrupt the shaving market

Usually something like lick paint which uses Instagram to advertise or a shaving subscription.

I don’t know what it is but it’s like they are smug and like they’ve cottoned into something the big boys hadn’t thought of

Tesla - disrupting the car market etc

There’s annoying one in Bristol on the buses. It says hey Bristol, I’m Pipt, watch me revolutionise socials.

You can guarantee it will be more of a flop than Google’s attempt at Facebook.

[21st Century Man]

"Impossible to pigeonhole".

[Randy Winkman]

21st Century Man said:

swisstoni said:

Philbar said:

"When the ice cubes are frozen solid you know the temperature is set right"..

Tech experts Curry's..

No fking st! Are people so fking gormless they need to be told how to freeze ice cubes by some tit at Curry's?!?

Worse than that I suspect these are real staff and they have made them look like berks by giving them moronic things to say.

"Two different temperatures on two different levels". No. That would be four temperatures. I think he means a different temperature on each of two levels?

But what if the two different temperatures on each level were actually the same two temperatures?

Ah! I get your point. I definitely took it to mean that on one level of an oven you can have 2 temperatures. I thought it was a bit too clever to be true. Definitely a misrepresentation of the facts if it's not the case.

On the Estrella advert; total cringe.

Are there now two companies that have basically the same "Tomorrow begins today" thing? The original one plus a health club.