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Old 01-06-2016, 14:45
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Don't forget the deep fried Mars Bars, these advertising agencies really earn their money.
For years I've wondered whether theyre actually a thing (according to the likes of QI they are), you can get deep fried Creme Eggs as well
I'm not Scottish, but I dont think the ad is funny - and plays on lazy stereotypes.
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Old 01-06-2016, 15:11
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Though if more Scots bet against England the odds we get supporting them to win will improve, so hope it works.
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Old 01-06-2016, 16:06
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The premise of the advert is flawed anyway. If Scots football fans want the England football team to lose, how is betting money on them to lose going to facilitate that? That would not be very canny use of your money - notice how I'm trying to avoid the stereotype of Scots being 'careful' with their money here!

Adverts for betting companies are almost always stupid and annoying anyway, coming up with different ways to persuade people to do an irrational act, i.e., to throw away their money.
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Old 01-06-2016, 18:31
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Old 01-06-2016, 21:01
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That new ad for Kelly's ice cream.
I love ice cream and was interested in the ad for the first couple of seconds until it just became pathetically stupid and an insult to the intelligence.
I love trying new sweets and ice creams etc but I won't ever buy any of Kelly's on principle, after having to suffer that nonsense.
Who the earth that that ad was a good idea
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Old 01-06-2016, 21:19
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For years I've wondered whether theyre actually a thing
They are, invented at The Haven chip shop in Stonehaven (now called The Carron) in the mid 90s. I have a personal tradition of having a fish supper and a single mars bar every birthday.
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Old 01-06-2016, 21:30
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They are, invented at The Haven chip shop in Stonehaven (now called The Carron) in the mid 90s. I have a personal tradition of having a fish supper and a single mars bar every birthday.
but have you tried fried ice cream, I had a "Father" who taught me how to make them, the art is to get the batter just right so that when one drops them off a thin knitting needle the hole closes before it hits the boiling oil, if not one has a hell of a cleaning job when it explodes
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Old 01-06-2016, 21:46
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Who the earth that that ad was a good idea
Introducing an ancient and valued part of our language to millions of people?. Yeah, silly.
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Old 01-06-2016, 22:10
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I dont think I've ever heard Cornish spoken before, I thought it might have been Welsh at first And when he mixed up Cornish and English, it reminded me of when I've heard Hindi spoken in films and they slip in English
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Old 02-06-2016, 00:02
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I didn't know it was Cornish, so that's why I can't understand it! I just thought it was some leery cocky little tw*t talking some made up hipster slang,
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Old 02-06-2016, 06:53
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Oh yes. Bearded corporate slave gangsta wannabe in SUV. In white. And why is he parking anyway? Parents on the school run simply come to a halt in the middle of the road to disgorge their offspring.
For me the most annoying part of that ad is the girl whose face would turn milk sour when her mum drops her off and has the temerity to wave bye bye
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Old 02-06-2016, 08:24
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I didn't know it was Cornish,
nor did I, I thought that my ears had had a stroke
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Old 02-06-2016, 09:49
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Ga-la la la, gala, la la, hey hey hey, bin-go!

God that's infuriating!

And the new one with the woman in the cafe; there's something just not right with her face; the bottom half looks weird.
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Old 02-06-2016, 09:53
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That new ad for Kelly's ice cream.
I love ice cream and was interested in the ad for the first couple of seconds until it just became pathetically stupid and an insult to the intelligence.
I love trying new sweets and ice creams etc but I won't ever buy any of Kelly's on principle, after having to suffer that nonsense.
What ad is that? I have searched google and youtube, but the only Kelly's ice cream ad I can see has hardly any dialogue on it.
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Old 02-06-2016, 09:59
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Plusnet! "You might as well become a full time off grid spoon whittler!" WTF is THAT about?
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Old 02-06-2016, 10:09
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Plusnet is one of those long running ad campaigns which are inexplicable to me. They've never been any good, no-one likes them, no-one thinks they're funny or interesting and yet, year after year, they insist on trundling out that fat Northern git in some new scenario just as boring and unconvincing as all the previous ones. Ditto a million times for 118 118.
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Old 02-06-2016, 10:11
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Plusnet! "You might as well become a full time off grid spoon whittler!" WTF is THAT about?
and that is a swindle, I tried to buy some spoons from them, but they didn't respond
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Old 02-06-2016, 10:19
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This one has a singer? on it that hurts the ears. Call that singing it's a horrible nasally noise!!!

http://www.tvadmusic.co.uk/2016/04/s...ies-on-demand/
God I hate that ad That awful voice. It seems to be on every ad break on Sky
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Old 02-06-2016, 10:28
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Plusnet is one of those long running ad campaigns which are inexplicable to me. They've never been any good, no-one likes them, no-one thinks they're funny or interesting and yet, year after year, they insist on trundling out that fat Northern git in some new scenario just as boring and unconvincing as all the previous ones. Ditto a million times for 118 118.
Hmmmm, I kind of agree PN aren't great, but I don't think they're any worse than BT or Virgin. We've experienced all 3, and they're all crap as each other LOL.

and that is a swindle, I tried to buy some spoons from them, but they didn't respond
LOL.

God I hate that ad That awful voice. It seems to be on every ad break on Sky
Same! I hate hate hate these breathy indie female singers. Too many of them by far, and they're almost always destroying classic songs.
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Old 02-06-2016, 14:32
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Tesco new one.

Who drives to Tesco to take a watermelon back to swap for a pineapple?

Idiotic.
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Old 02-06-2016, 14:33
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Plusnet is one of those long running ad campaigns which are inexplicable to me. They've never been any good, no-one likes them, no-one thinks they're funny or interesting and yet, year after year, they insist on trundling out that fat Northern git in some new scenario just as boring and unconvincing as all the previous ones. Ditto a million times for 118 118.
He's like a cut-rate Jason Manford.
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Old 02-06-2016, 14:34
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Who the earth that that ad was a good idea
Half the words he uses are English anyway.
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Old 02-06-2016, 14:35
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Worst ads are local radio ones though, there's some seriously annoying ones.
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Old 02-06-2016, 16:47
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Same! I hate hate hate these breathy indie female singers. Too many of them by far, and they're almost always destroying classic songs. [/quote]

Me too!!!

I saw that Crunchie one last night. Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
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Old 02-06-2016, 16:50
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Tesco new one.

Who drives to Tesco to take a watermelon back to swap for a pineapple?

Idiotic.
But the son STILL hasn't returned! Tesco must monitor this thread!
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