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