Clearly they see language as a tool.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 10 April 2008 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
But they aren't allowed to only accept female applications, that'd be sexist
They aren't? What about Diamond and other insurers where that was an explicit condition of their cover?
― Mark C, Thursday, 10 April 2008 11:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, OK I was assuming...
But the ads don't exactly say "only girls", in fact they suggest that an okker in a pink dress could pass muster...
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 April 2008 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Mark how does this model translate to chocolate tho?
― blueski, Thursday, 10 April 2008 11:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, to attract women, make something that appeals 'exclusively' to women, and vice versa. Men get attracted to 'masculine' chocolate, and vice versa. Whereas both men and women don't get as attracted together to 'neuter' chocolate.
Well, you asked.
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 April 2008 11:29 (sixteen years ago) link
We now need to apply genders to Britains fave chocolate products.
Malteasers - Female Snickers - Male
etc
― Jarlrmai, Thursday, 10 April 2008 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
The VW ad that has the guy using his keyless remote to scare a couple away from the car he's already bought is my latest hate-on ad.
WTF with all these ads where the main message is "people who buy/use this product are repulsive jackasses?"
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Crunchie, female Toffee Crisp, male (and a scruffy one at that)
― Ste, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Think there's a simple demographic answer to this one.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
hooray
― DG, Thursday, 17 April 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Because Maltesers remind women of chocolate bollocks amirite???
― JTS, Thursday, 17 April 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i hope that isn't a racial slur on howard brown
― DG, Thursday, 17 April 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I was at the gym watching TV from afar when I first saw that bewildering Woolworths ad. I was like LOL that guy looks like a Woolworths version of Jackie Chan.. then I watched it for reals and :(
I just don't get who these ads are meant to appeal to?
Also, that fucking Kenco ad with the two sacks makes no sense. We don't even see any beans going into both of the two sacks let alone be given enough information to deduce that they are the same beans. Also if they are the same then why have two sacks marked "Instant" and "ground and roast"? I think they are LYING!
― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 17 April 2008 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
So many car adverts that look like a computer graphics grad project right now. I hate the one where the car's being tossed around a horrible industrial estate by the buildings. And the other car ad that could only appeal to terrifying teutonic yuppies with genocide fantasies, but of course it's not because there's a lame joke at the end of the ad.
― the next grozart, Friday, 18 April 2008 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
from that Halifax ad news story:
..and a waxwork model of Brown was exhibited in Madame Tussauds.
are they fucking kidding us?
― Ste, Friday, 18 April 2008 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Thierry Henry, Tiger Woods and the tennis bloke (whose name esacpes me right now) who are all good pals who like nothing more than a good shave and never even think about yesterday. Grrrrr.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 18 April 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
The Pot Noodle "Put the pan down" advert can fuck off as well.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 18 April 2008 10:31 (sixteen years ago) link
The advert with the chef guy making the beat with the repetition of 'Sha' 'cla' or whatever he says. It's annoying but kinda funny too.
― Ste, Friday, 18 April 2008 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Always irritated by that accident insurance ad where the woman informs us that "... the floor was wet with no warning signs". Huh? Whussat?
― Tom D., Friday, 18 April 2008 10:41 (sixteen years ago) link
So many car adverts that look like a computer graphics grad project right now.
That one where they use some desperately uninteresting box of a car as a skateboard. So shit. And that one where the car is doing acrobatics off skyscrapers etc - total vertigo nightmare, that one. Ugh.
― Mark C, Friday, 18 April 2008 10:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i've noticed a lot more adverts liks to show cars getting smashed up these days
― blueski, Friday, 18 April 2008 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link
"It seems to me..." that james dyson could be fixing important problems rather than the steering on vacuumn cleaners (which nobody but him is complaining about anyway)
― koogs, Friday, 18 April 2008 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
The Samsung ad with the Chelsea players and ...Donna Air. Most conceptually vapid ad ever and looks like it took 3 minutes to make.
― Zoe Espera, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 07:35 (fifteen years ago) link
And it's not an ad, but the Gordon Ramsay Braveheart trailer. The sound quality is really bad and I can't tell what he says before and after the chefs run down the hill.
― Zoe Espera, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 07:58 (fifteen years ago) link
the pepsi max(?) ad, which seems to be random people in street picking a footballer and a plot point. the thing ends up as a mess.
the singing worm on that compost ad.
― koogs, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 08:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha, was about to say about the Pepsi Max ad - clearly none of the footy players featured have had to be in the same room at any moment during filming. Even at the 'party' at the end.
― Zoe Espera, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 08:39 (fifteen years ago) link
the pepsi max(?) ad, which seems to be random people in street picking a footballer and a plot point. the thing ends up as a mess
Yeah, that one sucks.
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 08:40 (fifteen years ago) link
The moment of genius in that pepsi ad is that Fat Frank is only seen very briefly, but is EATING.
― aldo, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 08:41 (fifteen years ago) link
"I'm going to beeee a choc'late di-ge-stive choc choccy choc-cy hn hn hn nhnnnn nuh"
Has me reaching for projectiles to launch at the telly. It's so grating. aghh
― Slumpman, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
For reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY5cE2KNqC8&feature=related
― Slumpman, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
you'd think they'd regard the mcvities factory as something akin to auschwitz
― DG, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.visit4info.com/advert/02-Move-to-O2-Broadband-for-a-Happy-Home-O2/59181
Is your broadband making your home unhappy?
― koogs, Friday, 9 May 2008 09:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't cope with the awful adverts for heat - with the woman singing ni the car. They actually make me feel ill, like I'm in the first stages of a heavy cold, in a William-Gibson-Pattern-Recognition way.
― Anna, Friday, 9 May 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
The Visa wedding streaker at a time of DIRE ECONOMIC CRISIS
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 9 May 2008 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Pompous car advert - take your pick really - with female bodybuilder ("Is this beauty... or obsession"), CCTV ("Is this for our safety... or theirs"? (or something like that)) etc etc etc, shut up, it's a fucking car
― Tom D., Friday, 9 May 2008 10:46 (fifteen years ago) link
There's that advert for Berocca which is plainly ripped off the video for OK Go's single - you know, the one with them on treadmills.
― Rob M v2, Friday, 9 May 2008 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Sexy Mike Batt posing at the piano to promote his new album Where Is Summertime City Band?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 9 May 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
The Carling advert where they're possibly in the Wild West or something I dunno.
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 10 May 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
We've been whinging about this ad on the mongrel thread. Does it make you want to visit Melbourne?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnaWc8pxQgs
― moley, Sunday, 11 May 2008 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link
In fairness, it does give you some advance symbolic warning of Melbourne's traffic problems.
― moley, Sunday, 11 May 2008 04:53 (fifteen years ago) link
DIE, EVIL FHM-READING BULMERS ADVERT, DIE
― Just got offed, Thursday, 26 June 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
SQUEEZING THE LAST DREGS OF DIGNITY OUT OF THE BRITISH TELEVISION CORPORATIONS
― Just got offed, Thursday, 26 June 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
DOES ANYBODY ELSE FEEL THE SAME FURY
― Just got offed, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Latest UK McDonalds advert (where adults and children are making a garden representing McD's foodstuffs) is a horrible piece of faux-sincere bullshit including:
1. Use of every tired cliché from every advert made in the last five years ie. indie-twee whistling song, outdoors setting, people working "togevver" to make pointless object which is revealed at the end.
2. Implication that teamwork and community are a part of McDonalds "core brand values".
3. Dreadful chummy reference to potatoes as "Spuds".
4. Hateful reprise of indie-twee whistling shitbaggery for "I'm Lovin' It" motif at end.
― Bill A, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 09:33 (fifteen years ago) link
otm, this got tiresome rapidly
― Ste, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Advertising needs to get nastier I think.
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:07 (fifteen years ago) link
"Buy 1 Big Mac get 17 free, you cunts"
― blueski, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:21 (fifteen years ago) link
New McCoy's ad yet another celebration of pig-ignorant laddishness, apparently knowing about anything that isn't football is grounds for immediate banishment, possibly death.
― ledge, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
What's up with that ad for a generic brand of Asian cars, featuring what appears to be a miniature version of The Feeling playing a shit song from inside the glove box?
― Neil S, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:28 (fifteen years ago) link
this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq9stciOBTM
lol gender sterotypes/daily mail
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link