Adverts that drive you mad

SJT said:
The ones that don’t represent the world we live in, oh, thats 75% of them then.
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That Virgin Atlantic flight advert set to the gay anthem "I am what I am" going with the "lets see how many diversity boxes we can tick in 30 seconds" makes me laugh every time it comes on TV.

Rather than sneak in one or two "tick-box" characters into the background. They go balls out and went completely over the top, from a flight steward smeared in glitter eyelids mincing down the plane, a wimmin captain pilot, a gurning punk rocker, a black metrosexual bloke shaking his jewelery bangles to even including a "ginger" burd goofing on the escalator.
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Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
 
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Go Compare ones still has me instantly turning over. The singer is the 2nd biggest embarrassment to Wales after Giggs.
And any that has a bunch of people signing and dancing (think latest one is Indeed)
 
These car ads where the legendary small print "car shown not UK spec" appears at the bottom of the screen. Are you seriously telling me that these huge companies can't afford to produce adverts specifically for the UK market?
 
There’s one that annoys me that I can’t even remember what it’s advertising because I can’t concentrate on owt else but the upcoming bits that annoy me in the ad.

It’s a woman saying ‘Euro’ over and over and attaching different words to it… ‘Euro this, Euro that, Euro this that thing, Euro weeeeeeee!, Euro zzzzzzz…’

And after a bit she stops saying Euro and changes to ‘Eura…’.

Eurannoying me you twats!
 
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Oh, also, any trailers for films that come on during advert breaks where the voice-over, says ‘in cinemas January twenny’.

‘January twenny’ was three years ago you American idiots.

It’s ‘twentieth of January’.
 
Boo or Boo-urns said:
That Virgin Atlantic flight advert set to the gay anthem "I am what I am" going with the "lets see how many diversity boxes we can tick in 30 seconds" makes me laugh every time it comes on TV.

Rather than sneak in one or two "tick-box" characters into the background. They go balls out and went completely over the top, from a flight steward smeared in glitter eyelids mincing down the plane, a wimmin captain pilot, a gurning punk rocker, a black metrosexual bloke shaking his jewelery bangles to even including a "ginger" burd goofing on the escalator.
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They're all at though nowadays. It's almost a competition to see who can out woke the next advertising agency
 
Tuearts right boot said:
They're all at though nowadays. It's almost a competition to see who can out woke the next advertising agency
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There’s almost a competition to see if they can get away with playing white men as the dullard or the butt of the joke in adverts n’all.

If that was any other gender or race, there’d be comeback on that.
 
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I'm glad "we buy any car" dropped that horrible snide bastard Phillip Schofield but their new advert is annoying as f*ck. "Just sold my car, to we by any car".

I know some marketing smart arse will tell me the advert has done it's job, yes it has but still annoying.
 
Two Gun Bob said:
A dating site for over 50's that's been hammered to death, featuring a brace of aged ones in an art gallery.

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She thinks he's pure brilliant because he can impersonate a piccaso painting, but in reality he's probably a serial killing sausage lurking for elderly victims. As Off Topic is akin to Cocoon, all I can say is be careful, and let a moderator or other responsible adult know where you're going first.
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I fucking hate this advert.
 
DFS advert with bloke singing " be yourself". It's not particularly offensive but the number of repetitions has resulted in the song jumping into my brain intermittently. Ironically, it doesn't work as an advert as I didn't know what company it was for until thirty seconds ago.
 
Boo or Boo-urns said:
That Virgin Atlantic flight advert set to the gay anthem "I am what I am" going with the "lets see how many diversity boxes we can tick in 30 seconds" makes me laugh every time it comes on TV.

Rather than sneak in one or two "tick-box" characters into the background. They go balls out and went completely over the top, from a flight steward smeared in glitter eyelids mincing down the plane, a wimmin captain pilot, a gurning punk rocker, a black metrosexual bloke shaking his jewelery bangles to even including a "ginger" burd goofing on the escalator.
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Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
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I couldn’t possible comment...lol
 
jimharri said:
These car ads where the legendary small print "car shown not UK spec" appears at the bottom of the screen. Are you seriously telling me that these huge companies can't afford to produce adverts specifically for the UK market?
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One of my pet hates too. "Car shown may not be UK specification." Well in that case Trading Standards shouldn't allow it to be advertised on UK tv screens.
 
Kippaxpete said:
Every time I see that smug, unfunny twat's fizzog I get the urge to put my foot through the screen though, looking at her, they probably deserve each other.
In fairness to the ad agencies, a violent reaction is better than no reaction at all because it proves people have taken notice. If you're old enough to remember the Cinzano adverts featuring Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, some research was carried out which showed that, while viewers' responses were generally favourable towards them, they couldn't recall the product being advertised! Consequently, the campaign failed to fulfil its primary purpose.

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Wonder when that research was carried out then because Cinzano used Rossiter and Collins for several years in about six or seven different ads ?
 
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