In Ireland we have nostalgic ads

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WHAT THEN

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 5 January 2017 21:14 (seven years ago) link

plus surely the audience for this bus aren't likely to be people who live locally enough to be watching that ad?

Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 January 2017 21:17 (seven years ago) link

I actually know a genuine ghost bus ghost irl. Keeps offering me a free ticket but I've yet to take him up on it

Apparently the tour itself is pretty decent though

Number None, Thursday, 5 January 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link

i was hoping this lad had done a TV advert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3yBzGJKyJc

but it doesn't look like it

Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 January 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link

i'd voice that for them for a tenner. in one take.

xpost i was kind of always curious about the tour, like i bet dublin has some interesting history you could tie into something like that.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 5 January 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link

two years pass...

hon with ye

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link

what's the most recent one of these to attain a cultural foothold I wonder

Number None, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link

specifically with the nostalgia, or the darkness, or just into the pantheon

because im as confirmed in my heterosexuality as i need to be but that lad that talks about the grass and how it makes irish lamb taste special could at least take me out for cocktails

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link

the nostalgia I meant specifically

Kerrygold seems to still have the mammy issues anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF8UBOUkx6w

Number None, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link

the start of this thread is like that film silence

mark s, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link

catholic industrial schools ... slogan

calzino, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link

Lol I fucking posted itt nearly eight years ago, going to die of shame soon.

Was that weird sub genre of post crash emigrant are ecer discussed? Eg https://youtu.be/ct4D63wH8iA - poss not best example but these always felt a bit bleak to me? Your man at home is oblivious and his friend in London just wants to get on with his life?

I think Lyons or Barry’s also had a competition to bring an emigrant home for a visit? I have a photo of it on my Facebook somewhere.

gyac, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link

Are you even Irish if you don’t have mammy issues though?

That new Kerrygold ad though...omg. Truly Art.

gyac, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link

i know yerman

specifically ive been his accent coach

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link

as you can hear, he either hasnt the ear or doesnt listen

its the latter fwiw

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link

I don’t want to bump the other thread with more ad chat, so if Andrew comes here, can I just say, idg where you’re getting that mammy insinuation in the Andre ad!

gyac, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link

xp yeah theres no hint of a consolation ride in the andre ad

the accent on yerwan is cat

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link

someone has remedied the appalling oversight noted up thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_aEMYnh-hs

Number None, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link

Be with you in a moment, just need to watch a bunch of these then ring my mother in tears at quarter to midnight.

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link

I would not be surprised to learn that this one was created by an advanced AI that had absorbed all previous iterations of the nostalgic Irish advert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW2a0hY6_Xo

Number None, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link

sean!

the barrys one is the first one i remember where it felt like yknow the emigrant was more of a gap year tiger cub

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link

Yes!!! I was going to link that one!

This is an absolute CLASSIC:
- mammy issues
- weird accent
- obvious insinuations
- unhappiness

https://youtu.be/fk68Znjabd4

gyac, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link

im gone to bed and cant play any now gizza clue

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link

yeah that's perfection

Number None, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link

It’s the one with the daughter and the baby and her mammy brings out a photo album and there’s a photo of the mammy taken by a STRANGE MAN and the mammy looks wistful and goes “I was beautiful that day”

gyac, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link

The strange man was the priest who was marrying her, of course.

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link

what the fuck

moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link

jesus i dont know it but i might get up just to watch it it sounds scorching

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link

the 97 one might be the last gasp of the "classic" era I feel

compare this from 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr4Fwwv8NCg

they obviously felt they couldn't use the letter-writing device anymore, but the weird proto-vlogging conceit doesn't work at all

Number None, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link

Yeah I just watched that, it’s as painful as anything.

However, what about this one from 1999?
https://youtu.be/491RQvS5VVw

Worth it entirely for the look she gets from the neighbour.

gyac, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:31 (five years ago) link

gyac ur killin me with the hints

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link

deems just pretend you need a piss & go watch these twenty year old tea ads in the toilet or something

gyac, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link

posting in my usual fashion wha

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link

anyway my lil brother emigrated actually yesterday so tbh it would probably be too much id break down

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link

they were definitely chafing against the limits of the form with that one

ultimately feels a bit too self-conscious for me

Number None, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link

mac eile ag imeacht :(

go to sleep or I’ll be forced to link HI KATE IT’S ME THE GUY FROM THE BAR NO HONESTLY IT IS

gyac, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link

xp yeah it’s a bit too Celtic tiger

could have done with some butter

gyac, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:42 (five years ago) link

cmere can one not post links direct to image from imgur app anymore this is fucked

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link

I don’t have that & also I too need to go to sleep

gyac, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link

nm got it

thread and seeing it on fb prompted me to note what irl irish emigrants could look like in days of yore, heres a fellas aunt and uncle in the 60s posted today on their 54th anniversary

https://i.imgur.com/vqJVZ5C.jpg

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link

Catch bars are back, lads

. (Michael B), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link

Walking the dogs yesterday, I told them to "Go, go, go," and then added "with the Glen Abbey Show!"

Luckily there was nobody around to hear me.

trishyb, Thursday, 4 April 2019 07:21 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

Dairy Executive: Ok everyone the public mood on our product seems to be shifting. We need to run a relatable campaign to boost sales and change the conversation.
An actual maniac: I've got an idea pic.twitter.com/lIxFnL2z3C

— Pints Before People (@sonofedge) June 27, 2019

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 28 June 2019 08:00 (four years ago) link

I don't think there's any place for irony on this thread

Number None, Friday, 28 June 2019 09:21 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

This is the bad kind of nostalgia

Bank of Ireland (~2005)
"Train tracks are ching ching, bitta cash you know what I mean"
You could say that this ad is of its time.@bankofireland @talktoBOI pic.twitter.com/lG46f5bJWF

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) September 22, 2020



Something something everyone partied

ciorapomenitul (gyac), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 08:41 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

Tayto (c. 2000)
This was part of a series of ads themed around hell and the devil. I think they originally aired a few years earlier in the mid to late 90s with the launch of a new flavour, Worcester Sauce.@MrTaytoIreland pic.twitter.com/7uSHn73zjQ

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) March 28, 2020

this one was class, but also isn’t that devil from Legend?

liberté, égalité, scampé (gyac), Friday, 30 October 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link

I was just thinking that

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 30 October 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Is it the time of year, is it this year, but, lads

If ever there was a Christmas to look out for one another, this is the one ❤️ So, we’re delighted to share our Christmas ad which tells the story of how a simple act of homemaking becomes a beautiful act of kindness from one neighbour to another. #WereAllHomemakers pic.twitter.com/f8WCTYfKrQ

— Woodie's (@WoodiesIreland) November 14, 2020

scampus fugit (gyac), Saturday, 14 November 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link

I actually consider myself a homewrecker, thank you very much!

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 14 November 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link


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