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
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
― ciorapomenitul (gyac), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 08:41 (three years ago) link
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
― 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
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
i feel like since the extreme schmaltz christmas ad took off in the uk and since the diaspora began returning this is not such a strong suit for the irish advertising industry any more discuss.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 14 November 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
Obviously as mentioned upthread the ESB Going Back ad is alltime. I haven’t been able to watch that one this year as I will no doubt be undignified. Anyway this isn’t a diaspora one like your classic Barrys of old, y/n?
― scampus fugit (gyac), Saturday, 14 November 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
yeah that's what I meant
― plax (ico), Saturday, 14 November 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
losing out on usp
― plax (ico), Saturday, 14 November 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
Idk as a diaspora... what is the applicable noun...I find the ads like that really moving, because of the sense of community and small gestures being intrinsically more moving to me in that context.
― scampus fugit (gyac), Saturday, 14 November 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
i guess i am more cynical than you!
― plax (ico), Saturday, 14 November 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
I have been watching a load of nostalgic ads recently due to the twitter account that collects them, however I keep getting interrupted whenever I try to post them so this is all i have atmThe housing crisis in two ads
Barry's Tea ad - New York (1997)"Remember John O'Brien?"Here's another Barry's ad from the late 90s, they were on a good run for sure in this era. Looks to me like John O'Brien might have had more interest in Angie herself than the sister though!@BarrysTeaTweets pic.twitter.com/fqqN0BAIFN— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) March 31, 2020
McDonalds - Apartment (2005)Developed by TBWA Dublin. Directed by Chris Roche for H2 Films. Part of the Sense/Nonsense campaign, Eurosaver menu was positioned as a humorous solution to some of the overcharging associated with “Rip off Ireland”.@McDonalds@TBWA_Dublin @H2_Films pic.twitter.com/M1cCqEbTV5— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) July 8, 2020
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Monday, 11 January 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
yeah i guess she like runs a hedge fund for a tobacco company or something
― plax (ico), Monday, 11 January 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
hedge fund witch
― Ole Blueyes Solskjaer (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 00:30 (three years ago) link
Tangentially related. I dunno how/if Bluesky links work, but here goes:
https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3keml6eeyua2v
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 November 2023 13:24 (five months ago) link
Samantha Mumba’s Body II Body came on Spotify & I wonder what it’s like to only know this song as an inferior cover of Ashes to Ashes and not for thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epTdI-9V6Jk
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:39 (four months ago) link
irish salt bae ad
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:41 (four months ago) link
Omg
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 28 December 2023 16:15 (four months ago) link
you can almost feel every life-ending internal injury
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:14 (four months ago) link
I’d totally forgotten that awful visceral cronch sound effect too
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:34 (four months ago) link
the airplane crash scene in Society of the Snow hit's even harder than that ad, just more snapping legs and broken necks than I needed at this moment.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 5 January 2024 23:00 (four months ago) link
that seat belt ad - holy shit! I can't imagine how they could make the violence that graphic without injuring the actors
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 5 January 2024 23:40 (four months ago) link
I remember as a teenager when the first person learned to drive re-enacting that on the maiden drive in the backseat
― plax (ico), Saturday, 6 January 2024 11:24 (four months ago) link
Do it do it do it