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Post by zaffra on Jul 28, 2004 12:21:06 GMT
You know, that AA car loans advert.
How annoying is that, I have to turn over every time it comes on (wich seems to be every ad break at the moment).
I guess I'm not the target group of this ad, I find Kev and Bev dull and suburban (with all that money he bought a new Volvo). The loan is 6.6%p.a. which on the kind of sum you would need to borrow to buy a car isn't really that good.
Although the look on Bev's face suggests she'd like a threesome with both Kev's.
Which advert do you find most annoying?
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Post by mikemk on Jul 28, 2004 12:26:20 GMT
Any advert where an adult voice-overs a baby or a toddler. My bile is actually rising as I think of the latest Pampers/Huggies advert.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 28, 2004 13:32:07 GMT
E-Sure / First Alternative
"I'm not your sister"
All those Channel 5 finance adverts.
Diamond (in the Cafe). Firstly, its the worst set ever. Its not at all convincing. They just put a table and 3 stolls in a studio. Then its just the whole stupid idea of the plot.
OMG! i just remembered! All those Ringtone adverts. That fucking Dancing Hippo! It was just as bad in Germany. So many of the fucking adverts.
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Post by Becky on Jul 28, 2004 13:38:13 GMT
E-Sure / First Alternative "I'm not your sister" Calm down its a commercial! I dont like those comfort ads with the creepy cloth people, where its all in rhyme. |
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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on Jul 28, 2004 15:58:48 GMT
I am mortally depressed by those dodgy "Been refused finance? Poor credit rating? Would you like to consolodate all your debts into one low monthly payment?" ads on cable.
Then, just to illustrate how they really will give money to anyone, a variety of obese and greasy haired freaks are shown in their livingrooms talking about how easy it was to sell their debt on to some obscure company at vastly huge interest rates so they could buy more Lladro ornaments. (Don't get me started on Lladro). "The staff were very helpful. Couldn't have been easier."
Who's making these ads, Mike Leigh?
Anything with Carol Vordeman also makes me want to kill myself.
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Post by klee on Jul 28, 2004 16:04:51 GMT
I met someone in a bar the other week who works in marketing for one of those firms. I think they ask you to leave your principles by the door next to the coats and turn off your consciences in case they distract you.
Hair and beauty adverts piss me off more than life itself, mind.
"My skin was more than 25% smoother after I used Oil of Bunkum
25% compared to what? That can mean anything.
And all that bilge about hair absorbing nutrients and shite. Hair is dead material, for Christ's sake. It's the apotheosis of junk science.
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Post by jode* on Jul 28, 2004 17:06:05 GMT
"My skin was more than 25% smoother after I used Oil of Bunkum25% compared to what? That can mean anything. Yeah, if you read the small print it's never 25% smoother - it's just that 25% of women tested (of about 10 normally) said their skin was smoother. That's only a 1/4 chance of seeing any difference!! |
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 28, 2004 17:08:38 GMT
I met someone in a bar the other week who works in marketing for one of those firms. I think they ask you to leave your principles by the door next to the coats and turn off your consciences in case they distract you. Hair and beauty adverts piss me off more than life itself, mind. "My skin was more than 25% smoother after I used Oil of Bunkum25% compared to what? That can mean anything. And all that bilge about hair absorbing nutrients and shite. Hair is dead material, for Christ's sake. It's the apotheosis of junk science. My favourite is " Dove with Silk Extract". Silk is smooth because of its structure, the way its mollecules are arranged, etc. Therefore if you take liquified silk it has no such strucutre and no such properties, so Dove with Silk Extract won't give you "Silky skin". |
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Post by si on Jul 28, 2004 21:05:45 GMT
I am mortally depressed by those dodgy "Been refused finance? Poor credit rating? Would you like to consolodate all your debts into one low monthly payment?" ads on cable. Then, just to illustrate how they really will give money to anyone, a variety of obese and greasy haired freaks are shown in their livingrooms talking about how easy it was to sell their debt on to some obscure company at vastly huge interest rates so they could buy more Lladro ornaments. (Don't get me started on Lladro). "The staff were very helpful. Couldn't have been easier." Don't, they're pure evil. I'm learning all about this stuff in my new job -- I never knew that brokers conned people so badly! As for creepy cloth people, have you seen the Comfort Sensitive ads with the gay hairdresser cloth man? Because us sensitive types have got to stick together! Are we back in the 1970s? |
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Post by mikemk on Jul 29, 2004 7:50:16 GMT
I met someone in a bar the other week who works in marketing for one of those firms. I think they ask you to leave your principles by the door next to the coats and turn off your consciences in case they distract you. Hair and beauty adverts piss me off more than life itself, mind. "My skin was more than 25% smoother after I used Oil of Bunkum25% compared to what? That can mean anything. And all that bilge about hair absorbing nutrients and shite. Hair is dead material, for Christ's sake. It's the apotheosis of junk science. If anyone uses this crap, ask them which hand they use to put it on with. Then ask them why that hand isn't smoother, younger looking, or more wrinkle free as well. |
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Post by Becky on Jul 29, 2004 9:12:46 GMT
The talk talk ads that are shown with Big Brother really get on my nerves too. I just dont find them funny at all when they really try hard to be.
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Post by QuincyMD on Jul 29, 2004 12:18:25 GMT
You know, that AA car loans advert. Although the look on Bev's face suggests she'd like a threesome with both Kev's. Which advert do you find most annoying? I can remember when Kev was the star of Grange Hill, now look at him! |
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 29, 2004 17:09:34 GMT
There is also the Bev and Kev radio adverts. One of which is when Kev puts Bev's credit card in the blender. The other is when they are making sex noises but really they are putting suitcases* in the car.
*possibly containing the posher Bev and Kev's bodies.
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Post by Becky on Jul 30, 2004 9:33:02 GMT
Another ad I really hate is that one where the car acts like a dog and runs over the cat at the end.
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Post by zaffra on Jul 30, 2004 18:47:32 GMT
I can remember when Kev was the star of Grange Hill, now look at him! Who was he in Grange Hill? next I'll find out the ugly fucker is younger than me! |
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Post by Elly on Jul 30, 2004 22:41:22 GMT
I think Bev is sort of adorable. Is that really weird of me? She has such a cute piggy face.
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Post by jode* on Jul 31, 2004 11:15:36 GMT
I agree. I like her. She was also in the Lotto Daily Play adverts, and the bit of totty in Peep Show (Channel 4)
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Post by Nick on Jul 31, 2004 14:19:27 GMT
the bit of totty in Peep Show (Channel 4) I think you're thinking of  . |
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Post by flum on Jul 31, 2004 15:11:07 GMT
I think you're thinking of . Any excuse, ay, Mr Nick. |
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 31, 2004 17:23:22 GMT
How could we forget "I'd like to come back as a Marks&Spencer's sea food platter. I can visualise the whole family digging in, having a whale oh a time... a whale of a tie, there's a pun." *Slaps the old bitch down* All those M&S adverts are shite, even the radio ones.
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Post by mikemk on Aug 1, 2004 8:46:06 GMT
How could we forget "I'd like to come back as a Marks&Spencer's sea food platter. I can visualise the whole family digging in, having a whale oh a time... a whale of a tie, there's a pun." *Slaps the old bitch down* All those M&S adverts are shite, even the radio ones. Their Christmas adverts were wank too, the ones with Will Young. That's right, M&S, the thing that makes us gay is our preference for interior design over women. |
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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on Aug 1, 2004 12:23:57 GMT
How could we forget "I'd like to come back as a Marks&Spencer's sea food platter. I can visualise the whole family digging in, having a whale oh a time... a whale of a tie, there's a pun." *Slaps the old bitch down* All those M&S adverts are shite, even the radio ones. My personal least favourite is the blonde bird who is obviously trying to be sexy by saying something completely incomprehensible about Percy Pigs (it took me about 5 viewings to work out the Percy Pig bit). |
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Aug 1, 2004 14:16:02 GMT
My personal least favourite is the blonde bird who is obviously trying to be sexy by saying something completely incomprehensible about Percy Pigs (it took me about 5 viewings to work out the Percy Pig bit). well I had to read your post to work out she was talking about Percy Pigs*. "Let's just say they entertain parts of me that men can't reach..." What parts of her can't men reach? I don't understand. Does she have a fetish for extremly deep penetration or something? Other shittos are: the two "Smooooked salmon" trolls *does the hand action* The geordie talking about chicken tikka. Geordies shouldn't be allowed to say the words 'chicken tikka' cos it just sounds so shit. The fucking fucking talking about how it's** juicy and then does that vile slurping noise. I hate those adverts when they try and make out that they are normal people giving their real views. The M&S ads are the worst, cos real people wouldn't say those things. * what are Percy Pigs? **cock |
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Post by mikemk on Aug 2, 2004 11:07:19 GMT
Disagreement in my house regarding the Tesco adverts with Prunella Scales, Jane Horrocks and John Gordon Sinclair. A southerner trying to sound northern, a northerner trying to sound southern, plus a Scot pulling stupid faces.
I think they're shit, whereas everyone else thinks they are just crap.
Total agreement about Homebase with Lesley Ash and Neil Morrissey. Putrid.
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Post by QuincyMD on Aug 2, 2004 13:43:54 GMT
Who was he in Grange Hill? next I'll find out the ugly fucker is younger than me! I can't remember the name of the character he played but he hung around with Stewpot Stewart so that places him between Tucker and Zammo. |
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