It's the same with the Health Lottery and the Postcode Lottery. Clearly in the Health Lottery ad they use actors so the director must have told them to do the most disgusting and insulting fictional characterisation of kind of people who play these games to escape their financial troubles. The guy that goes "I've won the 'elf lott-ree" is the one that winds me us the most because it sounds like someone who has never been to London trying to impersonate a cockney.
Same thing with the Postcode Lottery ad except all you get is a voiceover while the celebrities (and I use that word in a very loose sense) chap on very middle class looking front doors and hand people novelty cheques, then you get the only audio of one of these winners and its a middle aged woman shouting "OI DEREK, WE'RE GOING TO BENIDORM!".
I can't be the only person who thinks that if a z-list celebrity came up to me whilst I was doing my shopping the last thing I'd do is shout about where I'm going on holiday. Why couldn't she have wanted to use her winnings to book her & her husband on Richard Bransons space rocket, if only so I could have a cheap laugh when she shouts "OI DEREK, WE'RE GOING TO THE MOON!".
There's an advert for neglected donkeys on tv at the moment as I'm writing this, no doubt the majestic snow leopard and rain forest jaguar adverts are not far off.
It's the African kids one that gets to me, Ayesha won't eat tonight- Christ if the skinny mare waits till tomorrow it's 2 for 1 on pizzas at the chippy ill friggin airmail her the free one.:D
And don't get me started on the GSOH begging adverts, a quasi nhs/private joke that denies kids treatment if the are not middle class enough/ hail from the right London postcode. B'stards. :mad:
Go Compare with Stephen Hawkins
Bill Bailey comparing Pro? Cancer to a walnut
What is this world coming to?
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we any buy any car with James Corden, people with balloons and mini branches in car parks
I'm not going to be the person you expect me to be anymore! Yippee for you!
Scary ads for Stop Smoking
:eek::mad::eek::mad::eek::mad::eek::mad::eek::mad:
The Confused.Com one is okay for me, but if you look in the background, one of the animals is biting at one of the other male character's belt.. upon first glance it looks like a bite to the crotch.
The Nisa advert.. man goes in to get shopping.. goes back out.. suddenly there's a dog playing a guitar standing in front of him! What the heck does a dog playing a guitar have to do with shopping?
Depends how you define 'best'. Awareness of an ad/brand/product is always important. Equally though, it's important not to irritate or annoy to the extent where potential customers choose to stick two fingers up at your company and its offerings..
On this basis I would never buy any product that advertised as I find all advertising offensive, manipulative and insulting to my intelligence. So anyone who advertises on TV whose products I buy are lucky I don’t watch adverts!
This must have been said, but the “worst” advert must surely be the best, since it will be the most talked about, thus it has been the most successful in what it set out to do: get people interested and stir up reactions.
They may talk about it but do they buy the product ? If I don't like an ad I won't buy the product .. I just moan about the ad
There is a new one for Stroke Association, it has the woman who played Lucy in Footballers wives in it. It sounds like she is being forced to do the ad.
The Money Advice Service with the possessed nan saying in a Golem-esque fashion 'What does Marv think?' whilst her family look on bemused as if they think she's going to stab them all.
That new car ad...think it's for something called the "Toledo".
It's got a female unaccompanied solo version of Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow"....truly terrible!
I can't describe how terrible!
:mad::mad::mad:
Another god awful twee cover.
When she 'sing' the word tomorrow it sends shivers down my spine for all the wrong reasons
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what are they sending up as that kind of advertising died out in the 70s?
They are the real winners, skanky chavs.
It's the African kids one that gets to me, Ayesha won't eat tonight- Christ if the skinny mare waits till tomorrow it's 2 for 1 on pizzas at the chippy ill friggin airmail her the free one.:D
And don't get me started on the GSOH begging adverts, a quasi nhs/private joke that denies kids treatment if the are not middle class enough/ hail from the right London postcode. B'stards. :mad:
Bill Bailey comparing Pro? Cancer to a walnut
What is this world coming to?
Also
we any buy any car with James Corden, people with balloons and mini branches in car parks
I'm not going to be the person you expect me to be anymore! Yippee for you!
Scary ads for Stop Smoking
:eek::mad::eek::mad::eek::mad::eek::mad::eek::mad:
The Nisa advert.. man goes in to get shopping.. goes back out.. suddenly there's a dog playing a guitar standing in front of him! What the heck does a dog playing a guitar have to do with shopping?
They may talk about it but do they buy the product ? If I don't like an ad I won't buy the product .. I just moan about the ad
The geeks mother turns up and gets the wrong end of the stick about the living arrangements :yawn:
Hope this one is over asap :mad:
I've just had the misfortune of seeing Keith Harris and Orville in the latest Farmfoods advert.
Patsy Kensit, Gregg Wallace, Josie Gibson, Pauline Quirke...oh and I saw Davina McCall's latest dvd advert yesterday
Same here, it's disgusting :mad:
2. That one with the eerie music in the background (don't know the name of company sorry!)
Disgusting in what way?
Avios; The one with the flying washing machines?
Yes that's the one! It's just eerie and awful IMO.
For some reason, my cat's fascinated by that ad.:D
There's an implication from it that unless you talk about smashing something with a large blunt object, men wouldn't pay any attention.
When she 'sing' the word tomorrow it sends shivers down my spine for all the wrong reasons