Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.
Discussion
Vipers said:
Digressing slightly, not adverts but general TV shows, shots of people driving cars, driver turns to their passenger and yap for about 5 seconds.
FFS how can you do that.
Same with the number of car ads where the main selling point is the touchscreen or music connectivity inside it. Isn't that just advertising how much it distracts you from driving??FFS how can you do that.
Jinba Ittai said:
That sounds familiar. I've seen a tacky ad for a car supermarket in South Wales, can't remember the name, and there is never any sound. I live in North Wales and I've come to the conclusion it's some thing to do with regional advertising, catchment area and costs.
There's one near me that does that too - I think the lack of sound is designed to make you look up at your TV as you think it's gone off or something has gone wrong, so you then see their ad. Quite clever actually.
Jim the Sunderer said:
This silly gimp in his new Polo nearly running down an Italian woman carrying oranges but she was saved due to the automatic braking feature.
Look where you're going, you could see her a mile off!
Any car ad using features like that as selling points should have the tagline "For people too thick to drive properly".Look where you're going, you could see her a mile off!
DaveGoddard said:
Jim the Sunderer said:
This silly gimp in his new Polo nearly running down an Italian woman carrying oranges but she was saved due to the automatic braking feature.
Look where you're going, you could see her a mile off!
Any car ad using features like that as selling points should have the tagline "For people too thick to drive properly".Look where you're going, you could see her a mile off!
In theirs the car's being driven by a supposedly hipster "father" who's so busy listening and dancing around to the music in the car that he's paying no attention to the road / surroundings. A reference is made to "Sam" who never "pays attention", followed by hipster driver suddenly noticing he's about to run over a pedestrian who's wandered into the road / not paying intention to his surroundings. Cue the Citroen auto bake kicking in and saving the pedestrian from being run over and waking up the driver too. Narration says that "Sam" is actually the pedestrian not the driver as originally hinted at
Of course the advert plays up the excellence of auto brake and makes it look like you can drive a car whilst not paying attention because the safety feature will save your life and that of any pedestrians, whilst completely ignoring the fact that the driver is equally as bad as the pedestrian because neither were paying attention, and if they were the auto brake feature would never have been activated in the first place.
BFleming said:
Apologies if this has been mentioned already. It more than likely has. I was with a few americans in Spain last week, and everyone knew the ad... they also added a line to the script.
What's a computer? FFS...
To me, it advertised the fact that you need to be an ignorant, gullible, pretentious What's a computer? FFS...
to buy anything Apple make.If her tablet is so f
king clever, why does she need the massively overpriced keyboard?Is she actually doing anything in the ad that a laptop at half the price couldn't do?
funkyrobot said:
BFleming said:
Apologies if this has been mentioned already. It more than likely has. I was with a few americans in Spain last week, and everyone knew the ad... they also added a line to the script.
What's a computer? FFS...
To me, it advertised the fact that you need to be an ignorant, gullible, pretentious What's a computer? FFS...
to buy anything Apple make.If her tablet is so f
king clever, why does she need the massively overpriced keyboard?Is she actually doing anything in the ad that a laptop at half the price couldn't do?
AlexRS2782 said:
Citroen are currently running something similar for one of their city / crossover cars - the one with the colour combo panels, rubber door mouldings, etc, intended to be fashionable for drivers in the 20's, but always feature adults aged late 30's onwards driving them instead, whilst enjoying their awesome, unrealistic, lifestyles.
In theirs the car's being driven by a supposedly hipster "father" who's so busy listening and dancing around to the music in the car that he's paying no attention to the road / surroundings. A reference is made to "Sam" who never "pays attention", followed by hipster driver suddenly noticing he's about to run over a pedestrian who's wandered into the road / not paying intention to his surroundings. Cue the Citroen auto bake kicking in and saving the pedestrian from being run over and waking up the driver too. Narration says that "Sam" is actually the pedestrian not the driver as originally hinted at
Of course the advert plays up the excellence of auto brake and makes it look like you can drive a car whilst not paying attention because the safety feature will save your life and that of any pedestrians, whilst completely ignoring the fact that the driver is equally as bad as the pedestrian because neither were paying attention, and if they were the auto brake feature would never have been activated in the first place.
I'll wait to see that one but it sounds like it deserves a complaint.In theirs the car's being driven by a supposedly hipster "father" who's so busy listening and dancing around to the music in the car that he's paying no attention to the road / surroundings. A reference is made to "Sam" who never "pays attention", followed by hipster driver suddenly noticing he's about to run over a pedestrian who's wandered into the road / not paying intention to his surroundings. Cue the Citroen auto bake kicking in and saving the pedestrian from being run over and waking up the driver too. Narration says that "Sam" is actually the pedestrian not the driver as originally hinted at
Of course the advert plays up the excellence of auto brake and makes it look like you can drive a car whilst not paying attention because the safety feature will save your life and that of any pedestrians, whilst completely ignoring the fact that the driver is equally as bad as the pedestrian because neither were paying attention, and if they were the auto brake feature would never have been activated in the first place.
generationx said:
What has happened in Fairy’s recent legal history that they’re so obsessed with telling us to keep their laundry products away from children? Every bloody break.
A quick Google gives ushttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/warning-pare...
Could that be it? I'd noticed the same...
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