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I'm a none smoker myself, and I also have been wondering if it's going put off smokers, ...
As a smoker* - nope, these are well over the 'grossness' threshold so I change channel, skip if it's a recording or look at something else. These ads are surely designed to scare kids as their main target to put them off, rather than to get adults to quit?
* Not many a day, used to be more, increasing awareness of 'burning cash' as prices go up, likely to eventually quit due to sensible advice, not graphical hyperbolics...
This one is repulsive and makes me feel sick. I've never smoked but would be interested to know if it would make smokers want to give up.
Maybe older smokers, but I'm not sure about young smokers. When you're young you don't think so much about fatal diseases as dying seems such a long way off. I think a better approach with younger smokers would be to highlight how unattractive it is to have bad breath and smell like an old ashtray.
As for the ad itself - I agree, it's revolting. Not one to watch while tucking into your evening meal.
Oh God, I've just seen a Money Supermarket ad which turned my stomach. It features a bloke who is wearing hotpants and has a CGI backside that he swings about as he minces down the street. This must be the product of a seriously warped mind.
Oh God, I've just seen a Money Supermarket ad which turned my stomach. It features a bloke who is wearing hotpants and has a CGI backside that he swings about as he minces down the street. This must be the product of a seriously warped mind.
If you care to look back over the past two or three days of this thread you will find that you are not the first to make this observation.
Seriously warped minds are what ad agencies look for and cherish in their creative staff. After all, this ghastly ad has got us all talking about it and that was the point of screening it.
And speaking as someone who has a relative high up in an agency that makes a despised ad for a certain well known toothpaste, I feel I know what I am writing about. (I don't. of course, I just feel I do)
Oh God, I've just seen a Money Supermarket ad which turned my stomach. It features a bloke who is wearing hotpants and has a CGI backside that he swings about as he minces down the street. This must be the product of a seriously warped mind.
There are two ads at the moment which I really hate, and they seem to be on an awful lot (or maybe I just notice them more...!) - the Paddy Power pigeon poop (really vile) and the SMA follow-on milk ad. It's not so much the advert itself, but the woman who does the voice-over. She sounds about 15, and the "take it from us, you're doing great" just sounds ultra-patronising.
I really do have a thing about this one in particular - not that you can tell, or anything!
Oh, and the moneysupermarket one - just why? Must have been pitched after a particularly exotically-refreshed lunch, I'm guessing.
There are two ads at the moment which I really hate, and they seem to be on an awful lot (or maybe I just notice them more...!) - the Paddy Power pigeon poop (really vile) and the SMA follow-on milk ad. It's not so much the advert itself, but the woman who does the voice-over. She sounds about 15, and the "take it from us, you're doing great" just sounds ultra-patronising.
I really do have a thing about this one in particular - not that you can tell, or anything!
Oh, and the moneysupermarket one - just why? Must have been pitched after a particularly exotically-refreshed lunch, I'm guessing.
When this ad first appeared I was aghast that it had been allowed. I mean POOP? OK it's pink comedy poop, but really! Then it disappeared and I thought common sense must have prevailed. Now it's back. I seriously wonder about the mental state of some of the people who think up these ads.
I hope someone has mentioned that online gambling ad with the crap poem that seems to be on every break in the evenings: "That's the deal, just a ball and a wheel. Feel it for real." Grrrrrrrr! Stop rhyming! >:(
The advert for Pop Chips is obviously a lazy American import, referring to "crisps" and "chips". You would have thought they would have catered for their market and actually make their advert relevant.
We have Len Goodman and Bradley who supposedly go to Farmfoods, Peter Andre shops at Iceland while Ant and Dec order from Morrisions.
I'm sure all dancing Len goes to Farmfoods in between SCD shows.:D
Yep. This is annoying, I bet they shop in Harrods food hall and Fortnum & Mason. Waitrose for everyday stuff only. They won't have to slum it like the rest of us!.
...and speaking of very bad accents Alistair McGowan telling us to save rain forests and that he can "change from John Bishop to David Attenborough" clearly you can't, John Bishop after suffering a stroke maybe.
I'm convinced Alistair is wearing a wig in that ad.
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* Not many a day, used to be more, increasing awareness of 'burning cash' as prices go up, likely to eventually quit due to sensible advice, not graphical hyperbolics...
As for the ad itself - I agree, it's revolting. Not one to watch while tucking into your evening meal.
If you care to look back over the past two or three days of this thread you will find that you are not the first to make this observation.
Seriously warped minds are what ad agencies look for and cherish in their creative staff. After all, this ghastly ad has got us all talking about it and that was the point of screening it.
And speaking as someone who has a relative high up in an agency that makes a despised ad for a certain well known toothpaste, I feel I know what I am writing about. (I don't. of course, I just feel I do)
I have only one word to describe this ad - VILE.
Good to see that I'm not the only one who DESPISES that C4L ad!
I really do have a thing about this one in particular - not that you can tell, or anything!
Oh, and the moneysupermarket one - just why? Must have been pitched after a particularly exotically-refreshed lunch, I'm guessing.
I absolutely hate that giggly talking.
Also these:
I'm getting sick of the stupid "pick a side" Twix advert.
I hate the Malteasers advert with the woman responding with "very good" and "nice" in a deadpan voice thinking she is funny.
Loved that one too..
I also like the St John Ambulance choking ad.. A novel approach..
But getting on my nerves is a bloke dressed in a skirt.. Not sure what it's for as I skip the ad as soon as I see it
Have a fling with a cream egg - then decide to never buy another!
When this ad first appeared I was aghast that it had been allowed. I mean POOP? OK it's pink comedy poop, but really! Then it disappeared and I thought common sense must have prevailed. Now it's back. I seriously wonder about the mental state of some of the people who think up these ads.
We have Len Goodman and Bradley who supposedly go to Farmfoods, Peter Andre shops at Iceland while Ant and Dec order from Morrisions.
I'm sure all dancing Len goes to Farmfoods in between SCD shows.:D
Those adverts must be at least 5-10 years old though.
I like the Cravendale ad. I think it has an underlying melancholy that is interesting.
Yep. This is annoying, I bet they shop in Harrods food hall and Fortnum & Mason. Waitrose for everyday stuff only. They won't have to slum it like the rest of us!.
I'm convinced Alistair is wearing a wig in that ad.