― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Didoismus (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Didoismus (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Sorry N.
Sorry Timotei.
I don't like that new Calvin Klien cinema ad, which goes on about not showwing logos and slogans. I am assuming it's Calvin Klien, it could be Kellogs for all I know.
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Why don't my boyfriend and I do that? It looks like so much FUN. Mind you, who sprays on deoderant in their bra?
― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Remember the Oreck vacuum cleaner? "I can hold a bowling ball above my head with the powerful suction" - Quick! Switch off the power!
― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
"But there's one thing I wont let her touch, MY COCK!!!!!!!!!!"
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
It's entirely possible that this is discussed upthread, but I became infuriated after just a handful of posts here, because they were making me think of brutal ads, and had to skip straight to the bottom.
― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
But the one that's especially givin' me a headache these days -- played often on CNN and MSNBC (which we have our sets glued to here at the office) is one of IHOP's spicy popcorn shrip. The scenario is a popcorn-shrimp obsessed gym instructor who's strenuously leading his class through some shrimp-centric excercises while bemused muscleheads look on. What makes it so irritating is the instructor's SHRILL fuckin' castigations: "TAKE IT, AND DIP IT, AND DUNK IT, OOOOH YEAH THAT'S RIGHT, TAKE IT AND DIP IT...!" It's exceptionally migraine-inducing.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 2 October 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link
I totally hate the Sears ad campaign starring Ty Pennington. I mean, not only is Ty Pennington one of the butt-ugliest guys ever to walk this planet, but the whole of the ad campaign is uselessly stereotypical and pro-breeder. Which is a shame because I actually really like Sears (i.e. my "high end" clothing store), but hey, I'd like for once for Sears to advertise a woman checking out miter saws and a man ogling the selection of dress slacks, end of ad. No kids. And no Ty Pennington.
― Ever-Ready Daisy Chain (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 2 October 2004 05:15 (nineteen years ago) link
The Nutri-Grain fruit bar commercial with the moving signs. You know a commercial has failed miserably when it compels you to turn the channel at the moment you see it start to come on.
The McDonald's chicken selects commercials. i.e., "Making Paranoid Schizophrenia Marketable 101"!
Any Total cereal commerical. "Provides you with 100% of the recommended daily amount of [x number of] vitamins and minerals in one bowl!" Um, have these people heard of the concept of THREE MEALS A DAY? Unless all you're going to be eating throughout the day is that one lousy bowl of cereal (in which case, wise nutritional choices are not going to be the strongest of your suits), you don't NEED to worry about getting ALL of the RDA of ANY of the vitamins and minerals recommended for keeping up a healthy diet!
― Ever-Ready Daisy Chain (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 2 October 2004 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 2 October 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― trix, Saturday, 2 October 2004 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Winner, Saturday, 2 October 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
There's some other car advert with a bunch of tortoises crawling along - what's that about? Is it saying there car is durable but slow as fuck?
― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I haven't seen this follow-up Michael Winner ad. FWIW, First Alternative refused to insure me because I work in television. Cunts.
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Didoismus (Dada), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
The current one. Where some perfectly normal folk are settling into their sleeping bunk seat thingys, nods/smiles around. And they get to their destination the next morning, and all have turned into plastic supermodel types. The blokes also. And 'Alice Cooper' at the end, supposedly, too. Except it wasn't him in the first place but a younger version. (Maybe he took an earlie flight and had two regenerations like Dr. Who)
ANYWAY!!! PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE! AND SO THEY SHOULD BE!
(agreed re the KFC ads. They are fine. You can like the music and ignore the product.)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Didoismus (Dada), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link
What I hate is that Kodak one with the smug voiceover guy saying how much "we miss real pictures, and we want them back!" Who the fuck are 'we'? Do they think we're going to believe this smoothe-voiced meeja cunt is speaking on OUR behalf? Fuck him! And fuck YOU Kodak!
And another thing about the Head and Shoulders advert: it doesn't make any fucking sense! If, as it points out, she has no problem wearing his aftershave, why is she suddenly unable to touch his shampoo just because it has the word 'men' on it? Aftershave is for men and that didn't stop her! I think they should go the whole hog and call it "Womanthrax." That'll stop the klepto-bitch from touching it.
― strophic (strophic), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
hell yeah! but she'd have to have the manly man power-tool salesdude making untoward comments and trying to scam her into buying something more expensive.
― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link
It's not so much the ad itself which annoys me but the fact that they're doing another one with...wait for it...Johnny Vaughan. Unfortunately I suspect he won't the one who gets hit by the car, followed by the slogan "Should Have Happened Ten Years Ago."
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link