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

[Randy Winkman]

robinessex said:

Is it me, or is the mixed-race thing getting to be the norm for ads these days ? Got to be politically correct I suppose now.

It's not just you. There have been at least 20 posts about it on this thread already. (No offence meant. )

[Johnnytheboy]

robinessex said:

Is it me, or is the mixed-race thing getting to be the norm for ads these days ? Got to be politically correct I suppose now.

It's just funny now though, isn't it?

You get a single race couple on an ad and it's oddly jarring.

[21st Century Man]

I was reading an advertising industry article a few months ago which said that the UK has the least representative advertising in the world, with the US having the most representative as it's mandated by law.

[Randy Winkman]

21st Century Man said:

I was reading an advertising industry article a few months ago which said that the UK has the least representative advertising in the world, with the US having the most representative as it's mandated by law.

More laws anyone?

[LuS1fer]

Wowcher.

I'm irritated and irked but far from excited.

Devised by the tea person in the office I assume

[robinessex]

Idly scanning down the TV programme with the channel button, I stalled at an unknown channel. 9 ads in succession were all 'ladies medical issues/ problems'. I guess us guys have to stick going bald, and erection failure. Hang on, the last can be cured by buying a new car apparently.

[droopsnoot]

I switched to Film4 yesterday for something, to see what seemed like the entire ad break taken up by a single ad for a supplementary mattress of some kind. I did wonder whether I'd switched to a shopping channel.

[Milkyway63]

droopsnoot said:

I switched to Film4 yesterday for something, to see what seemed like the entire ad break taken up by a single ad for a supplementary mattress of some kind. I did wonder whether I'd switched to a shopping channel.

Where do all those returned mattresses go after 62 days... if you’re not satisfied.

Edited by Milkyway63 on Monday 20th September 15:13

[kowalski655]

The Vision Express radio and, some cockney prat just repeating everything that's said

[matchmaker]

Currently any advert about funerals or life insurance, as my mother in law died on Tuesday. There seem to be dozens of these bloody ads!

[rider73]

the womens contraceptive pill ad thats available to buy

perhaps its me but it comes across as "if your a women who likes a lot of nookie ,get these" ?

[Blown2CV]

Milkyway63 said:

droopsnoot said:

I switched to Film4 yesterday for something, to see what seemed like the entire ad break taken up by a single ad for a supplementary mattress of some kind. I did wonder whether I'd switched to a shopping channel.

Where do all those returned mattresses go after 62 days... if you’re not satisfied.

Edited by Milkyway63 on Sunday 19th September 23:42

quick febreze and out to the next customer

[Milkyway63]

rider73 said:

the womens contraceptive pill ad thats available to buy

perhaps its me but it comes across as "if your a women who likes a lot of nookie ,get these" ?

Clinics going to get busier now then...

[Milkyway63]

matchmaker said:

Currently any advert about funerals or life insurance, as my mother in law died on Tuesday. There seem to be dozens of these bloody ads!

Sorry for your loss... RIP
( But Yes... just had about four in a row & Junedad won’t stop either)

Edited by Milkyway63 on Monday 20th September 16:22

[LuS1fer]

Blown2CV said:

Milkyway63 said:

droopsnoot said:

I switched to Film4 yesterday for something, to see what seemed like the entire ad break taken up by a single ad for a supplementary mattress of some kind. I did wonder whether I'd switched to a shopping channel.

Where do all those returned mattresses go after 62 days... if you’re not satisfied.

Edited by Milkyway63 on Sunday 19th September 23:42

quick febreze and out to the next customer

I think I read that they give them to shelters or hostels. I can't imagine that many are returned.

[droopsnoot]

There's one that seems a bit sinister, some kind of airborne mild sedative for cats, narrated in the voice of the cat. "I used to spray here" and so on.

[swisstoni]

droopsnoot said:

There's one that seems a bit sinister, some kind of airborne mild sedative for cats, narrated in the voice of the cat. "I used to spray here" and so on.

Yes I caught that one.
So some people would quite happily sit there inhaling a substance known to make cats drowsy.
Probably standard issue in care homes.

[eldar]

droopsnoot said:

There's one that seems a bit sinister, some kind of airborne mild sedative for cats, narrated in the voice of the cat. "I used to spray here" and so on.

Loads of cat addicts soon stumbling around your garden looking for the next fix.

[Cupramax]

The woman on the Amazon advert,turning a nut with a ratchet spanner, except she’s not turning it because she’s got it the wrong way round, all she’s doing is turning the ratchet. I think if I see it many more times my head may explode. especially as they’re trying to make a big deal of retraining.

[Anonymous John]

swisstoni said:

Yes I caught that one.
So some people would quite happily sit there inhaling a substance known to make cats drowsy.
Probably standard issue in care homes.

It's not a sedative. It's a synthetic copy of a pheromone that relaxed cats emit naturally. It won't affect humans. Men don't feel randy near a cat on heat, do they? Unless it's scented, you won't even smell it.

Edited by Anonymous John on Tuesday 21st September 09:40

Edited by Anonymous John on Tuesday 21st September 10:42