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Worst advert on TV at the moment (Part 11)

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    grimtales1grimtales1 Posts: 46,697
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    The Carphone Warehouse one with Keith Lemon.
    If he's supposed to be in Tokyo, why does it play the main theme from Enter the Dragon in the background - a film set in Hong Kong :confused:
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    SuperAPJSuperAPJ Posts: 10,402
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    Probably already mentioned, the advert for one of the banks with the supposed 'cute kid' talking about his parents getting a loan/mortgage to buy a new house "so they could have me!".
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    laineythenomadlaineythenomad Posts: 3,495
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    LucyDTrym wrote: »
    All my friends are elderly well depends on what you mean by it. I am 64 and my friends range up to 76.

    We all know how to surf the Internet and are not generally stupid and I am sure the teenagers know that if they want a job they will wear suitable attire (but not always the case sadly lol).

    I used to TEACH I.T. for the elderly lol, and most of them were on there buying tickets for holiday and doing their shopping. My students ranged up to 93 in age lol.

    I think Barclay's advert if its aimed at us old folk is condescending trash.

    Actually the guy has a very good point. There are a lot of illiterate people out there and if you want the bargains you need to use your brain.

    The amount of things I see misspelled is unbelievable.

    Funny this old biddy has been using Ebay for years, and never once have i been done or had a bad experience. Perhaps because i am experienced and old enough to realise that there are scammers and counterfeits out there. Although I always stressed to my students you have to have the best malware and virus software on at all times.

    I never buy from anyone unless they have the right feedback.

    I actually don't mind the Barclay advert about the misspelling because its a good point. I told my husband the other day to misspell something he needed for his engine, and he found what he was looking for and got it dirt cheap too, as no one else had found it lol.

    Great post - I was going to make the same points but you put it so much more eloquently! I'm an old biddy of 61 and I too know how to use the internet and that there are scammers out there etc.....not stupid just because we're over the age of about 35!
    Those Barclays ads really piss me off, if I had an account with them I'd have switched by now.
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    yviebabeyviebabe Posts: 6,050
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    SuperAPJ wrote: »
    Probably already mentioned, the advert for one of the banks with the supposed 'cute kid' talking about his parents getting a loan/mortgage to buy a new house "so they could have me!".
    Creepy!!! And the bit about his parents living with Nanna and Granddad 'but they didn't like it'. No, I don't suppose Nanna and Granddad liked it much either. Get a place of your own before you get married or live together!
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    CorabalCorabal Posts: 3,373
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    grimtales1 wrote: »
    The Carphone Warehouse one with Keith Lemon.
    If he's supposed to be in Tokyo, why does it play the main theme from Enter the Dragon in the background - a film set in Hong Kong :confused:

    Actually it's set on a island that is territory free.
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    JayDee279JayDee279 Posts: 3,089
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    The nudist in the AA ad ..... how, exactly, did he lose his car-keys? They didn't fall out of his f****** pocket!

    The good news, though, is that Microsoft, having cured cancer, has now invented football. Or something.
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    SurrenderBillSurrenderBill Posts: 19,084
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    grimtales1 wrote: »
    The Carphone Warehouse one with Keith Lemon.
    If he's supposed to be in Tokyo, why does it play the main theme from Enter the Dragon in the background - a film set in Hong Kong :confused:

    What is he even advertising... except himself?
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    catboy71catboy71 Posts: 471
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    pork.pie wrote: »
    What is he even advertising... except himself?

    Carphone Warehouse ?
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    StaffsyeomanStaffsyeoman Posts: 613
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    Another plea... please, please get rid of the creepy Galaxy advert with the cyber-Audrey Hepburn.
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    TurbulenceTurbulence Posts: 4,819
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    I can't even think of one. For some reason adverts seem to be a 30x speed blur these days.
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    pegasus2pegasus2 Posts: 5,293
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    Under no circumstances would I either shop at or support the left wing biased Oxfam "charity", especially as now they have roped in the lovee millionaire Martin Freeman who is quite happy to let people suffer from his wife's self imposed bankruptcy. His cheek is breathtaking.
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    pumpkinlattes33pumpkinlattes33 Posts: 8,326
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    I just saw an advert promoting Scientology. It was a proper advert (shown on Channel 4)- but looked like it was imported from America maybe. I thought it was a bit weird.
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    c0boc0bo Posts: 6,477
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    Another plea... please, please get rid of the creepy Galaxy advert with the cyber-Audrey Hepburn.

    Yes I agree get rid of that creepy / annoying Galaxy as.
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    Fadge1968Fadge1968 Posts: 431
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    The one with the bear and the Mueller rice. What the actual is that crap about?
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    Fadge1968Fadge1968 Posts: 431
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    macavity77 wrote: »
    Money Supermarket with the bloke in high heels. Weird and creepy.

    Inspiration for Bruce/Caitlin?:p
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    TouristaTourista Posts: 14,338
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    Turbulence wrote: »
    I can't even think of one. For some reason adverts seem to be a 30x speed blur these days.

    :D

    Yep, god bless the inventor of the PVR.....
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    House of JonesHouse of Jones Posts: 124
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    piggypug wrote: »
    I just saw an advert promoting Scientology. It was a proper advert (shown on Channel 4)- but looked like it was imported from America maybe. I thought it was a bit weird.

    I saw one during "The Good Wife" the other day. Very odd, and extremely vague - made loads of unlikely sounding claims about the good it has done around the world, but no specifics.
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    StykerStyker Posts: 50,130
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    I'm not impressed with Qatar Airlines advert and using a Beach Boys song. It so doesn't work imo and that song hasn't aged well either in my view. I think Qatar Airlines should have a look at how they go about their advertising.
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    ellesworthellesworth Posts: 919
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    "I'm not a blonde. I'm not a brunette. I'm a bronde!"

    Just no. There is no such colour as "bronde".
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    albion-mad-nickalbion-mad-nick Posts: 4,087
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    TripAdvisor is another muter. It's normal volume and then "BOOK" is "barked" by a dog at a bizarrely loud volume.
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    a11iea11ie Posts: 380
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    I've seen an advert this afternoon for a UK holiday park/spa that seems to show a woman being boiled in a jacuzzi. I think it's the pink/reddish lighting combined with the woman jerking her head up & down.
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    Angelique_DormaAngelique_Dorma Posts: 3,577
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    TripAdvisor is another muter. It's normal volume and then "BOOK" is "barked" by a dog at a bizarrely loud volume.

    This one really riles me. And just how loud is the word BOOK? I thought advertisers weren't allowed to raise the volume of ads any more?
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    heikerheiker Posts: 7,029
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    I love the Sunny Loans advert......

    "Fast, Flexible Loans with No Fees"

    Only 1295% APR :o:o:o

    So if you borrow just £1 on January 1st then by December 31st you will owe Sunny a total of £12.95.

    Looks like a no brainer to me :p
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    lea27lea27 Posts: 11,426
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    The advert with purple puppet and East 17 song, who is the actor defusing in the corridor, he seems familiar?
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    ÆnimaÆnima Posts: 38,548
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    Are McDonalds doing bad ads on purpose? Did some ad man lose a bet? Where they asked to make the cringiest set of adverts imaginable?!

    In the latest offering in a long line of embarrassing cringe fests, we now have a man and woman, presumably deciding they are made for each other because they happen to be ordering the same meal... and people said romance was dead!

    Apparently. they're also a great place for first dates, or for soothing tensions between youths and old men. Is it me or do they have a hugely inflated view of themselves? :p

    2nd in the cringe factor zone is Barclays, with their internet advice from OAP's. Yeah, that's a strange one.
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