In Ireland we have nostalgic ads

I wasn't mocking Angela's Ashes

nah i just meant weird coincidence.

like I don't remember the last time I heard anyone mention Angela's Ashes.

It's like how Tuomas killed Michael Jackson on the dead pool thread!

lol @ http://discohorror.com/2009/08/10/it-is-hot-so-i-am-listening-to-lugnet/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNH6gKbew2o

this one might be more sexxxay than nostalgic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Z4crBt-iM

this one though is an absolute masterpiece, and the when the old woman says "safe journey" it is more naked and real than i can handle

i mean, this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REqZ4h_5fZI

YOU COULD PUT A BIT O' BUTTER ON THE SPUDS, ANDRE

the andre one is like a failed draft of these later masterpieces

classic thred, but "he'll be barn in jurmany, but his feet will touch irish soil furst" crosses into official "fuck off and die" territory

thats not a phake sounding irish accent btw

spelling is more trying to convey that simpering heartfelt whisper putting jam on the accent that is horribly fake. & anyone who would do something like this and tell people abt it is the worst kind of disgusting savage imo or certifiable.

dear god man, just play him Thin Lizzy in his crib or something.

have they found a donor for your soul transplant yet?

sorry man but grabbing him bloody out of the womb and plunging him into your shoebox to prove to everyone how important your irish identity is = NAGL

Richmond Sausages: we have a packet of these in the freezer. Some people may think that is because I am gullible English person, but no! In town there is a butcher who makes sausages on the premises and they are a thousand times better. Richmond sausages are our cheap go-to sausage when we want to knock together a toad-in-the-hole.

kinda feel liek they hint at this whole human drama surrounding his family's closeness, the suspicion that he's been taken by this german woman away from home, the land that was supposed to be his, that he still misses, and that this is just a way of making some sort of symbolic compromise

xp

but i mean, to these ads get shown elsewhere?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi1_1kAEZgk

for those who like the letter-writing format:

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

way xxxxposts but it was like a national scandal when sally o'brien turned out to be irl english

idg the appeal here

eh its like an actual thing that when you are visiting ppl in other countries you are required to bring taytos, and i know from all the polish supermarkets in ireland now that ppl really do miss stuff from home, ireland has a weird relat. w/ diaspora etc.

i am nostalgic for all these nostalgic adverts

just lolling at "barry's tea", idk why

do irishmen living in england get nostalgic for taytos or is it just crisps in general longing for the further afield

they get nostalgic for it, sure and why wouldn't they?

well as far as i have discerned tayto quality isnt that vast compared to yr average walkers and whatnot - certainly not a void on the level of a pole pining for his packet of cup-a-borscht or whatever

the taytos u get abroad are a pile of shit

they're not the same, yr import tayto are made in NI to a different recipe i think.

but in either case r|t|c god made taytos on day 7 iirc

yeah i mean if you buy taytos outside of ireland they taste like cardboard, but here they really do render all other types of crisps irrelevant

cant imagine lyfe without taytos.

i mean barrys tea i can take or leave, tbh, that diaspora thing is just marketing bullshit. but taytos i dunno.

nah that NI thing is mostly bullshit, they are pretty much the same ime. however walkers cheese and onion are fucking appalling compared to any tayto or king crisps....so shit, can't believe rtc can't taste the diff!

(that esb as above is beautiful)

x-post just also to say, don't think i miss anything from ireland apart from decent sausages and i am slowly being weaned onto the british variety.

esb ad*

im in ireland right now

no ur not, i would see u

I was in "county roscommon" all week eating the pint of harp

nobody drinks harp=u are not in ireland

where did u even find harp on draught

well it was the metaphorical harp, really i was just eating loads of butter and various meat puddings

i had "the pint of guinness" though just like james joyce once did

anyone remember that dennys rashers ad with the irish guy and his american wife getting a phone call rom the old sod

how did you enjoy "the trip to ireland" max?

michael do you mean the denny ad where "it's breakfast time back home"?

I deeply enjoyed myself "local policeman" (via Gaelic). I went, with my grandmother, to the town from where my great great great grandfather emigrated. I also read the first hundred or so pages of Murphy. All in all, I would describe it as a "crack."

i have never read any joyce

kindof ashamed

Really though, I had a great time--everyone I met was friendly and helpful and the food, despite what I expected, was great. Good job on your country.

bought ulysses a few months back but can't get into it, despite liking musil/broch and stuff that gets compared to him a lot. max it's "craic" tho you probably knew that. "crack" is a drug which is frowned upon in Irish culture.

where in Roscommon was it? my friend's parents have a house in Boyle that I've been to a lot.

i have only been to roscommon to go to hyde park

is one of those places i don't think i've ever met anyone from (aside from while being there)

nah they all flee to galway

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.

i guess i am more cynical than you!

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 atm

The 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

yeah i guess she like runs a hedge fund for a tobacco company or something

hedge fund witch

Tangentially related. I dunno how/if Bluesky links work, but here goes:

https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3keml6eeyua2v

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 this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epTdI-9V6Jk

irish salt bae ad

Omg

you can almost feel every life-ending internal injury

I’d totally forgotten that awful visceral cronch sound effect too

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.

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.

that seat belt ad - holy shit! I can't imagine how they could make the violence that graphic without injuring the actors

I remember as a teenager when the first person learned to drive re-enacting that on the maiden drive in the backseat

Do it do it do it