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Old 30-12-2016, 05:03
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Add to the fact that because she's disabled, are we meant to brush this behaviour off and think it's funny?
I came here to post about that crude and patronising Maltesers advert but I can see many poster have already made good points about it.
It's a tasteless advert as it is, but throw in the disabled actress for the "shock" factor and it is totally patronising and exploitative
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Old 30-12-2016, 06:28
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Exactly, it is spiteful, rude and nasty and I can't possibly see the connection to a bag of sweets.

The "spasm" one is embarrassing and makes me cringe and again, why on earth would I want to go out and buy a bag of their sweets on the strength of the advert? More likely to have the opposite effect.

Those ads are just saying look disabled people can be just as rude and offensive as able bodied people. Deeply patronising and misguided.
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Old 30-12-2016, 09:30
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Thing is, Top Cat's credit score should be through the floor, what with him being an unemployed criminal of no fixed means or abode. Lending him money, even for something as small as a duplex rubbish bin, is exactly the sort of irresponsible fiscal behaviour that caused the 2008 financial crash.
Exactly!!!
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Old 30-12-2016, 12:41
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I haven't seen the advert yet (thankfully) but that is irresponsible if they are showing someone looking for alcohol under the sink where chemicals are.

Haven't they seen the safety film 'Apaches'?
but Father Jack Hackett drink the Domestos anyway
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Old 30-12-2016, 12:52
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How come partworks are only advertised after Christmas?
has anyone worked out the cost of those, "The first parts comes at a special price of only £1,99," yeah then it goes up to £4.99 and there are 96 issues, that is £474,05 plus the first issue of £1,99.
I had a girlfriend who was taking a part-work back in 1976, she couldn't see that.
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Old 30-12-2016, 12:55
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Nearly £1,200 to build a model of a "Back To The Future" DeLorean car ??
I don't think so !
especially as there is no guarantee that they won't stop making them after one has spent about £700 because so many people have stop buy that it is no longerprofitable.
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Old 30-12-2016, 12:58
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The advert for the Co-Op.
"Corks come ow. We go ow an abow"
"Corks come ouT. We go ouT anD abouT"
FFS PRONOUNCE THE LETTER T, WILL YOU !!!!!!!
Idiot.
used to be called "Mockney"
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Old 30-12-2016, 13:01
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You've probably seen a shortened version of the advert but the version I've seen we see the bears struggling to take their cases off the carousel which suggests they have just come back from somewhere
especially as they go through passport control, one doesn't need that to meet some-one
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Old 30-12-2016, 13:04
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I think the best one is the Warburtons Crumpet Show - just brilliant!
yes not half bad
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Old 30-12-2016, 13:09
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The one with the woman in the wheelchair who brags about crushing a bridesmaid's (?) foot with her wheel and leaving with the best man's number and that annoying thing she does with her fingers when she says "guilty" really irritates me.

As if injuring someone is something to be proud of.
yeah as if the best man would be desperate enough to go out with HER
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Old 30-12-2016, 13:14
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Revolting. And it doesn't even obey its own logic; if, as she says, her "hands were wandering", in what way did he "misread the situation"? Her hand must have been in position when the spasm started, therefore the situation was hardly open to a wide range of interpretations.
hey; I wonder if I could get a wheelchair and try that with a woman, not my fault, it was spasm
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Old 30-12-2016, 13:17
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I don't see how the boyfriends would think their girlfriends talking about their private sex acts publicly would be appropriate.
possibly because the boyfriend boast about THEIR private sex acts to their mates
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Old 30-12-2016, 13:22
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I wouldn't tell my sister if I needed incontinence pants!

I like the ad where the man says 'Dad, the boiler's gone', and there's a boiler on legs running down the street. Basic but funny.
based on a VERY old sketch with I believe either Morcambe and Wise or Spike Milligan, the fireplace rolls out of the door, "Mother the fire has gone out"
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Old 30-12-2016, 13:24
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I have no idea what the ad is for but the one with two teenage girls sat in the back of a car on their mobile phones while chatting to each other in a stereotypical text speak way.
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Old 30-12-2016, 14:32
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based on a VERY old sketch with I believe either Morcambe and Wise or Spike Milligan, the fireplace rolls out of the door, "Mother the fire has gone out"
I didnt know that was where it came from
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Old 30-12-2016, 16:44
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based on a VERY old sketch with I believe either Morecambe and Wise or Spike Milligan, the fireplace rolls out of the door, "Mother the fire has gone out"
Still funny, though it seems a bit rudimentary for Spike who liked his humour more surreal!
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Old 30-12-2016, 16:49
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yeah as if the best man would be desperate enough to go out with HER
I will withhold judgement on that until I have seen the best man. He may like violent sociopaths.
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Old 30-12-2016, 18:49
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Yeah. At least when John Lydon sold out and did butter ads, they were funny.

What next, Angus Young plugging Saga Holidays? Or Patti Smith saying "Read the
"People's Friend"?
Who did John Lydon sell out to? He's always done what he wanted when he wanted. He's never been anti money or anti capitalist.

I won't buy anything from Argos because of that stupid annoying bloody song in their advert. The woah, woah woah woah woah repeat repeat.

Or from oak furniture land. Their stuff is quite expensive, and they advertise it as good quality solid oak furniture. Then they have the tackiest 'I wanna knock, on wood' but at the end, which to me makes their entire brand and products come across as totally cheap.
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Old 30-12-2016, 20:18
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I wouldn't tell my sister if I needed incontinence pants!

I like the ad where the man says 'Dad, the boiler's gone', and there's a boiler on legs running down the street. Basic but funny.
Thats my sense of humour too.

Does anyone remember the light bulb adverts about 20 years ago, where all the lightbulbs in the house were making erm farty noises and the strap line was Light bulbs behaving badly? I used to laugh my head off at that one.
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Old 30-12-2016, 20:26
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I have no idea what the ad is for but the one with two teenage girls sat in the back of a car on their mobile phones while chatting to each other in a stereotypical text speak way.
Love it, best foreign language film
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Old 30-12-2016, 20:45
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The bizarre Malteasers disabled adverts, as mentioned.

The McDonalds ad about their chicken nuggets being filled with "beaks and feet". "Beaks and feet, beaks and feet..." mentioned over and over - I know they're trying to play on the assumption that everyone kinda knows fast food meat isn't the best, I do like a good ol' greasy McDonalds now and then, but that advert just puts me right off buying any of their chicken.

Also a general observation, but there's a gradually increasing, encroaching amount of Gogglebox-style adverts - folks sat on couches conversing about products etc. Either the same, unimaginative ad agency are making the ads or it's just bandwagon practice. I hate Gogglebox as a show anyway, so having bizarre, over-the-top camp couples and cringey, loud families fighting over the spotlight with unfunny, scripted faux banter is not going to make me want to buy what you're trying to sell me.
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Old 30-12-2016, 20:53
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I think it may have been mentioned already but that "prosecco, babes?" woman from tne Tesco advert is crying out for a smack across the puss
She is far too smug with herself.
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Old 30-12-2016, 23:40
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I think it may have been mentioned already but that "prosecco, babes?" woman from tne Tesco advert is crying out for a smack across the puss
She is far too smug with herself.
The entire Tesco Campaign needs to be Axed
they clearly killed off the "teenage" son. they must be paying them a bloody fortune to carry on with taking part in them.
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Old 30-12-2016, 23:50
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The entire Tesco Campaign needs to be Axed
they clearly killed off the "teenage" son. they must be paying them a bloody fortune to carry on with taking part in them.
I'm pretty sure they killed and cooked him for Christmas dinner.
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Old 30-12-2016, 23:55
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Stupid Talk Talk advert with the patronising girl telling mum how to use a bloody tablet.
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