the soothing, playful invitation to rack up your levels of debt is on another level of moral repugnance really
Ooh ooh ooh, the Cash Lady ones with Kerry Katona. Like *anyone* thinks Kerry Katona is the soothing and reassuring voice of money management.
― ailsa, Monday, 24 June 2013 10:25 (ten years ago) link
Those got spiked by Ofcom I think - for exactly that reason.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Monday, 24 June 2013 10:47 (ten years ago) link
The wonga ones make me feel ill
― kinder, Monday, 24 June 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
I don't know if this thread is for UK commercials only, but the new Wendy's ads in the US are making me blind with rage.
"Roller food? Really?""I WILL KILL YOU AND HIDE YOU UNDERNEATH JIMMY HOFFA'S CORPSE""Roller food... tsk..."
― WilliamC, Monday, 24 June 2013 13:01 (ten years ago) link
(there was a US version of this thread but it was never obvious from the titles (maybe 'ads' vs 'adverts'))
― koogs, Monday, 24 June 2013 13:04 (ten years ago) link
That Lloyds TSB advert or series of with fluffy, cartoony CGI people puffling around in their safe little world.
Some advert for a phone, possibly Samsung, where phone's owner uses it on train as an ebook reader and then wafts into their ridiculous, open plan office full of beautiful people doing some kind of creative job.
Endless soundtracks of gentle xylophones and acoustic strumming and penny-whistles, verging either towards whistful hoedown or be good to yourself, go on, be good to yourself, you deserve it.
― cardamon, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:42 (ten years ago) link
It's making me want to talk in Nadsat, if you know what I mean
― cardamon, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
yarbles
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
xp I would, but I wouldn't want to end up with eggy-weg on my face.
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 07:42 (ten years ago) link
that Santander ad rules
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 12:12 (ten years ago) link
i didn't know about this thread but this is my new home nice to meet you all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgIhocp5iY
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
Robinson's fruit juice advert where it's 'good to be a dad, better to be a mate' or something
― cardamon, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
The increasingly meta saga of the Go Compare opera singer. It's not much use as an ad if no-one can remember wtf is being advertised, right?
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, he's getting like those fucking meerkats.
I already mentioned this on the old IA thread, but Corden using the word "part-exing" in the Webuyanycar advert really gets on my tits.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
Everyone involved in this should be shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf_aOlhjSJw
(I can't see youtubes on this browser so i hope it's the right one)
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
That's sort of ...
― cardamon, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
You know when an advert tries to take 'a common situation' as its starting point? But that situation in that advert isn't 'common' in the way the advert thinks it is
― cardamon, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
Indeed I do
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Rather like if the 'naughtiness' in question were a young man wondering what it would be like to push an old lady in front of a bus -
plinky strummy plinky plonk
(Bites into chocolate)
I wanna watch your skull get cracked open and see all the brains come dribbling out what's your life worth anyway you piss yourself everyday
'Allow yourself a bit of naughtiness'
― cardamon, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
DAD is preparing barbecue
KIDS are running around shouting
doo-be-doodle plinky plonk plinky ba-dum
Why don't I take this can of petrol and douse every inch of this fucking house then drop a match on it kids I never wanted and a life gone static everything's so still and automatic then drop a match on it
(Am enjoying this a bit too much actually)
― cardamon, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
Advert equivalent of The Wright Way, then?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
otm xpost
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link
that ad is fucking weird
it's a bit post-Savile tbh
― That booby's are HOTTT (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
the setup is botched too. Maybe it's just my american doltishness, but the first time I watched it I didn't even understand what had happened in the first few seconds
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
Advert for some car with estuary english soulful cover of 'reasons to be cheerful' by Ian Dury but it isn't really a cover.
First direct tv advert with a fucking platypus
― cardamon, Monday, 8 July 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
subway commercial with each different sandwich matching some racial stereotype. lovely.
― clouds, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 00:47 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0fcISeVF4k
Hate all of these kids so much, I feel kind of guilty about this though.
― Eight Model Play, Saturday, 31 August 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
never feel guilty for hating children
― Nhex, Saturday, 31 August 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
Just saw a shorter version of this video on the TV and felt physically ill. Totally ruined my enjoyment of the episode of Murder, She Wrote I was watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHisgGPiL4o
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 14 November 2013 11:43 (ten years ago) link
Loads of people on Facebook are going nuts for this, but I think it's horrific.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKKVQLDYYcw
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 6 February 2014 12:50 (ten years ago) link
I tear up whenever I watch this, does that make me a bad person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEIvi2MuEk
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 6 February 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6XjRdbU9hQ
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Thursday, 6 February 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
Anything for yow, cupcake.....grrrrrrrr
― If it was up to the unions we still have stream trains (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 6 February 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
that budweiser commercial would be great if the guy was stoned to death at the end
― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Saturday, 8 February 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
Hive really is the worst of the worst. (See also the Innocent Smoothies thread.)
― emil.y, Saturday, 8 February 2014 03:46 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdxAyAmBaeQ
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 10 February 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
I get the most hulk smash furious at those ones as I've ever been - I don't really understand why
― kinder, Monday, 10 February 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
think because of all the private companies that pretend to be the consumer's bezzie mate, banks are right up there in the taking-the-fucking-piss stakes
― the undersea world of jacques kernow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 February 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
yeah, though i think feeling revulsion towards matey oppressors is always reasonable. xp
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 10 February 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
That's the one that drives me insane. It is totally nonsensical, as in I just can't imagine anyone acting or thinking like this.
One accepts a meal from a new friend (the first time they'd gone out), just because your their friend?It felt 'briwyyent', surely you would be grateful, or perhaps a bit weirded out?This moment compared exactly to the feeling you got when found out about the cashback offer with your bank.That you feel confident that your new friend would like this offer.. (do people discuss this crap with new friends?)
.. this and that every time I watch anything on 4OD it plays at least four times..
― mmmm, Monday, 10 February 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
'you're their friend'
I have been reading too much into this haven't I?
― mmmm, Monday, 10 February 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
as somebody observed on ILX - and no doubt elsewhere - months ago, the more reprehensibly the banks behave, the cuddly wuddlier the adverts get
― the undersea world of jacques kernow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 February 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
The woman is so clearly a simpleton, because that's what banks think of the general public.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
I feel embarrassed for the actually talented people who are involved in that Bud Light commercial
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
Does anyone in the UK actually talk like that besides actors trained to fake that accent?
― Bnad, Monday, 10 February 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
Yeah it's a real accent. Lancashire maybe.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
that accent is v normal! it's anjli mohindra & she is from nottingham
― ogmor, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
i've never felt like ridiculously elated when a friend covers a meal or pays for me in any way, it's always like 10% relief and 90% guilt
― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 03:06 (ten years ago) link
they should've made it about how you can guiltlessly take their money because they're a fucking bank and they suck
― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 03:07 (ten years ago) link