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Old 02-01-2017, 19:57
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I don't know what is worse about the PostCode lottery. The idiots that win it or the annoying woman with the stupid facial expressions in red
There isn't a 'worst' Postcode Lottery aspect - EVERYTHING about them is the worst. The adverts are terrible.
Your postcode is your postcode is.... your postcode is YOUR postcode is your POSTCODE is your postcode is your.... postcode!
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Old 03-01-2017, 00:19
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I don't know what is worse about the PostCode lottery. The idiots that win it or the annoying woman with the stupid facial expressions in red
...now there's a conundrum - I reckon each is as bad as the other, and the whole ad is dreadful
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Old 03-01-2017, 01:13
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Anything involving Jeremy Clarkson.
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Old 03-01-2017, 01:25
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Anything involving Jeremy Clarkson.
A thousands 'likes' for that post!
Can't stand the sight of him!
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Old 03-01-2017, 02:27
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Yep that's exactly what I thought. I knew it reminded me of an engine oil advert but couldn't remember the name of it.

The original Castrol GTX ad must be getting on for 30 years old
This one...

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Old 03-01-2017, 07:57
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Yes, I think you're right. Though you'd have to be fairly old to appreciate the joke!
I'm old enough to still enjoy the joke "Why did the chicken cross the road" in Latin
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Old 03-01-2017, 09:23
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Just seen the latest Alpecin "German engineering for your hair" advert.

Seems to be a direct crib of the (decades ago) Castrol GTX motor oil advert ("Liquid engineering for your car"). Right down to the music, and the little stream of liquid running down the can.

Anyone else remember?
Yep, i heard the music before i looked up to see what it was and immediately felt i got transported back to my childhood. It is my new favourite advert.
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Old 03-01-2017, 10:15
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Has it still sold 2 million bottles in Germany?
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Old 03-01-2017, 10:49
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I'm old enough to still enjoy the joke "Why did the chicken cross the road" in Latin
Maybe it got nervous after hearing someone ask 'quantum ille canis est in fenestra?'...?


Has it still sold 2 million bottles in Germany?
They forgot to say 'over', or at the time of making the figure was less than two million so the approximation was OK but 'over' was not. Possibly.
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Old 03-01-2017, 11:14
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I see they've brought that daft Zoopla advert back, the one with the smug git rolling round on the floor pretending to be some sort of house whisperer
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:20
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I wasn't watching the screen when this first came on, and I thought immediately that they'd revived the old GTX commercials as a sort of retro thing
Haha, me too - I was in the kitchen and could only hear the TV. To this day, the opening of the 2nd movement of Mahler's 7th symphony always reminds me of Castrol GTX.
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:29
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BGO bingo with that dwarf from Austin Powers seems to be on every ad break at the moment.
Used to like MC Hammer but Argos and this have murdered the song for me.
"I'm the boss at BGO dot com come and beat me" in all that terrible bling.
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Old 03-01-2017, 16:02
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Why does DFS manage to make every single advert they put out annoying?

I've yet to see one from them then I don't dislike.

All furniture ads are the same though, especially Dreams. FGS it's a flipping bed, and they make it out like it's a hyper emotional thing.
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Old 03-01-2017, 16:18
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Why does DFS manage to make every single advert they put out annoying?
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Old 03-01-2017, 16:29
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Just saw an Uncle Ben's advert butchering Peter Frampton's "Show Me The Way" with some t**t of a kid singing it!
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Old 03-01-2017, 18:03
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Don't know if it has already been mentioned, but I am appalled at the malteser ad, what has crushing someone's foot got to do with a chocolate sweet? The advertizing world's gone mad.
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Old 03-01-2017, 19:44
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Another thing, "Diabetes Lottery" ads have started appearing now. Firstly, that couldn't sound more like a load of diabetics dipping into a hat containing one sugar-heavy thing among non-sugary items, blindfolded, if it tried but also the ad is awful.

It's a voiceover talking while a seperate man and woman are 'dad dancing' for no apparent reason. It's like a 6th form media studies thing.
I was going to mention this advert but decided to check and see if anyone else had.

Like you i was wtf and was laughing at how bad it is.

What does all the stupid dancing have to do with diabetes.
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Old 03-01-2017, 19:45
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Nationwide adverts
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Old 04-01-2017, 09:18
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Nationwide adverts
I hate them with a passion and was even tempted to move my accounts (I didn't as a) I opened my first account when it was just the Anglia Building Society so been there years and b) I couldn't be bothered with all the faffing about.)

I thought a new advert of theirs appeared last night ( that is all we need) it seemed similar to the rest of the dross when it first came on but I didn't wait to find out, I ran away screaming just in case.
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Old 04-01-2017, 14:08
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These are my nominations for the most annoying daytime ads of 2016.
- The Gladstone Brookes PPI bully boy
- The Money Super Market strutters.
- Confused James Cordern driving like a lunatic. Car insurance anybody?
- Sun Life's free pen. Apparently shown 372 times a day!
- Rrrroyal London's Welshman.
- Top Cash Back Irishman on a plastic hippo
- Purrrfect Home's cat that needs to be turned in to violin string
- Vanquis medieval loans that take 60 seconds. Clocks with second hands came centuries later.
- Sixpad smugly advertised by someone who a) already has a six pack and b) a hell of a lot of money
- NOW TV streaming for DEAF PEOPLE.
- BT's constant sales

Dishonourable mention for House of Frazer dancing to a racket and thumping tables.
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Old 04-01-2017, 14:14
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BGO bingo with that dwarf from Austin Powers seems to be on every ad break at the moment.
Used to like MC Hammer but Argos and this have murdered the song for me.
"I'mY the boss at BGO dot com come and beat me" in all that terrible bling.
Bloody Vern Troyer.so annoying.
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Old 04-01-2017, 14:17
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Here's one that caught my eye -----
A chap is paying for his electricity and gas on a "pay as you use" basis .
He has run out of credit but never mind --- he picks up his mobile phone and tops it up from his phone !!!
What !?
He has to use "pay as you use" for his electricity but has a contract with his mobile phone ------ someone has his priority messed up ..
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Old 04-01-2017, 16:23
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Here's one that caught my eye -----
A chap is paying for his electricity and gas on a "pay as you use" basis .
He has run out of credit but never mind --- he picks up his mobile phone and tops it up from his phone !!!
What !?
He has to use "pay as you use" for his electricity but has a contract with his mobile phone ------ someone has his priority messed up ..
Regards
You do realise that it's not only chavs and peasants that use pay as you go? In rented property it's the preferred method of landlords because there's no need for constant changes of accounts when tenants come and go and no nasty surprises from unpaid bills left behind from tenants who have conveniently disappeared. So you could just as easily find it in a penthouse pad in Mayfair as in the sink estates in Basildon.
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Old 04-01-2017, 16:29
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Maybe it got nervous after hearing someone ask 'quantum ille canis est in fenestra?'...?
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Good Lord! Were you born in a barn? "Quantum ille canis in fenestra est?", peasant!
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Old 04-01-2017, 16:31
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These are my nominations for the most annoying daytime ads of 2016.
- The Gladstone Brookes PPI bully boy
- The Money Super Market strutters.
- Confused James Cordern driving like a lunatic. Car insurance anybody?
- Sun Life's free pen. Apparently shown 372 times a day!
- Rrrroyal London's Welshman.
- Top Cash Back Irishman on a plastic hippo
- Purrrfect Home's cat that needs to be turned in to violin string
- Vanquis medieval loans that take 60 seconds. Clocks with second hands came centuries later.
- Sixpad smugly advertised by someone who a) already has a six pack and b) a hell of a lot of money
- NOW TV streaming for DEAF PEOPLE.
- BT's constant sales

Dishonourable mention for House of Frazer dancing to a racket and thumping tables.
10000000000 % agree everything you posted.
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