the cancer charity one is the worst tho, some 15 year old twat in specs and a lab coat so you're supposed to think he's a scientist
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
i hate advertising on some visceral dna puritan level tbf tho, also i'm a depressed moaning bore
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
I've said it before but I can never listen to Let Em In again and I liked that song a lot
― or something, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
I admit using 'celebs' rather freely there, but over here it's exactly the same: crestfallen soap opera 'stars' and strictly come dancing ppl etc. Fuck, I looked the UK one up and the wiki says even Attenbrough is an "ambassador", sad lol. I was taken aback seeing it on English telly because I naively thought this tragedy had been confined to this country. But of course the cunts exported this lottery that plays on FOMO and guilt, because it does so very well what you just said: wring out some more dough from the poorest, instilling them with the fear of their cunt neighbours winning a huge prize and them being left behind. It's criminal.
A Dutch add (viewer discretion is advised). Same aesthetics, same "celebs" you want to slice open. All I want for christmas is the bald fucker to be decapitated, plz Santa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZZSGs5nWW0
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
oh shit i didn't realise it was an international property
the irony is that "postcode lottery" started life as a phrase describing something v negative
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Above ad amazingly, defiantly doesn't even contain tears. It's in the fine print that if you win, they can waterboard and taser you till you cry and admit your darkest fears and secrets. Because some GRATITUDE hello people. xp
A fine Dutch invention :(
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, November 19, 2019 8:29 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
Would campaign for that meaning to overtake the better known one here tbf
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
Dear Macmillan I bet you think you're so clever with your chirpy song about death which is fucking horrible you scumbags
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
it's Marie Curie I think, not Macmillan?
that's a double-edged one really. I could really do without the endless parade of funeral planning and life insurance for the over 50s ads, and this falls into that for me, but my wife doesn't mind this particular ad because she thinks people should be talking about death more. I doubt she'd feel the same way if it was Macmillan doing it though, because she hates Macmillan
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
That makes two of us - at least.
Now I love red hair and I love redheads and, if I were to let my beard grow, you'd soon see I've got the gene myself - having said all that, any chance that advertising agencies can stop using redheads (women and children especially) in every second advert? It's the abject lack of imagination displayed by these advertising 'creatives' that irritates me rather than people with red hair fwiw.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
i think you're right CP, i didn't bother to factcheck. otm about all the funeral plan ads but i find that Marie Curie thing particularly triggering even tho your wife is right, really.
That fucking screamy "I want my bang bang" song on the phone advert, now that's *really* triggering, but it triggers hatred
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 13:27 (four years ago) link
jfc at that Tesco Casablanca advert
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
i like the way they don't even try to sound like the actors
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
And I keep hearing it as ‘...that can’t stop talking about’, instead of ‘...you can’t stop talking about. It’s annoying, in a minor way.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
Is there anything more let's nuke the planet from orbit than perfume ads?
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
I get great joy from the TV perfume ad that goes"Shall I.... rephrase the question?""..... I'm not going to be the person I'm expected to be any more"
It is SOOOOOOOOO SHITand it's for a MEGA LUXURY BRANDand it's DIRECTED BY SCORSESE
and it's like something Alan Partridge would come up with
― kinder, Friday, 6 December 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
I still don't like it when Natalie Portman glowers at me like it's my fault
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
Oh my god Scorsese directed that ad that rips off Mishima?
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
New andrex one with skincare vloggers can fuck off
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
Any advert with 'ordinary people' (actors) singing a famous song badly - because ordinary people (stupid plebs) can't sing.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
Any advert with actors playing homeless people because real homeless aren't sympathetic enough
― Mark G, Friday, 6 December 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
they keep showing THE SAME 'on the beach' advert twice in a single ad break. why?
― koogs, Sunday, 29 December 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
I can't tell why the voiceover is a Lee Marvin impression.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
I thought John Goodman, which makes about 3 things he is currently advertising
― koogs, Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
oh, it's Iggy Pop
― koogs, Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
ctrl+f 'peloton guy' not found, wtf people
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
I'm guessing we won't be seeing it any more now the season is over, thankfully, but the Sky TV ad with Idris Elba singing "In the days over Christmas I like to watch mov-eez" to the tune of The 12 Days of Christmas was one of the more irritating things over the holiday. Jeez, you'd think a copywriting agency would be able to find someone to write some new words where at least one of them fit with the melody.
― Bloody Snail, Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
Peloton got a brief mention a year ago but, yes, annoying. I never saw their controversial advert, just this current one and the earlier one which was the same but with a woman leading. "Smashed it"
― koogs, Monday, 30 December 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
can't work out if "what do i want from a vacuum cleaner?" woman was asked to play stranglably smug on purpose or not
― Kebabs Windsor (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 January 2020 09:49 (four years ago) link
I've noticed they've re-edited the the latest Paddy MxGuinness/Jackpot Joy advert and replaced the most disturbing scene - the one on the bus. I'm sure they must have had complaints.
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 January 2020 10:20 (four years ago) link
Lads, solidor have come out with another banger
― Kebabs Windsor (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 January 2020 13:41 (four years ago) link
Grammarly
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
This BUPA mental health ad is making me quietly radge
― "Back Home" in Dari (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 January 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
Peloton
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 11 January 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
Oh it's been mentioned
I hate everything about it. Expensive exercise bike and app subscription so that twats in a certain wage bracket can look like porn superheroes or whatever it's supposed to be. Go for a fucking run round the park. You smashed it! Awesome work guys, dress down/beer fridge Fridays!
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 11 January 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
And it's all about putting in the work at home to be one up on the next schmoe isn't it. The idea of free time as an opportunity to make yourself fit and competitive, stitched into our normal so seamlessly there's an app for it
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 11 January 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
does anybody else see those adverts for HelloFresh and Gousto and their ilk and think "fuck me how much money do some people earn?"
on an unrelated note I hope Kevin Bacon dies soon
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 January 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
watching things recorded around Christmas and I'm surprised the m&s jerky jumpers thing never got mentioned here. it's in every ad break.
― koogs, Sunday, 19 January 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
i liked the dancers :D
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 January 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
That godawful Gumtree "poem" really grinds my gears
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 January 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link
this new campaign for the Clear travel system has one of the stupidest and most annoying slogans I've seen in a good long time. https://www.thedrum.com/creative-works/project/red-antler-clear-you-get-you-places
"You Get You Places" - what? You pays your money and you gets you places.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 25 January 2020 02:41 (four years ago) link
a four star hotel with a pool for this price?
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
(didn't there used to like 100 different trivago adverts? why did they settle on this one to replay repeatedly?)
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
Lad in a launderette with a gretsch guitar.
Seen it three times this morning!!
(oh, and I own the same guitar, it doesn't sound like that, unpluggedin)
― Mark G, Friday, 28 February 2020 07:36 (four years ago) link
Nothing wrong with the advert per se but I suspect this ad campaign might need to be pulled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjrmP4fKSIg
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 March 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
I'm very sorry but I kind of want to batter the little twat off the British Heart Foundation adverts
― Richard Hegley (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 09:26 (four years ago) link
So many horribly inappropriate TV ads still running, it's pretty funny.
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 March 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
Yes, some grim laughs to be had.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
saw an ad for a dramatisation of the Coughing Colonel incident on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, seemed singularly ill-judged at the moment
― Neil S, Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
God yeah I saw that trailer and didn't think, looool
There's a Now TV ad that starts something like "Sue feels locked in by her current TV package" accompanied by shot of a woman binge watching in a darkened living room
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link