I just looked up what a vocal fry is and now I'm going to notice it everywhere but be careful.
Criticising it in women apparently means you're sexist.

But with such a good warranty he doesn't need to worry about crashing his beloved car.

No it doesn't. Don't talk nonsense! I'm female and this vocal fry thing will annoy me just as much as annoys you, Stop shoe-horning your frankly tiresome obsession with your perceived male oppression into every possible post. It seems to me that someone need only mention an 'annoying' female in an advert and you've got the "sexist warning" card waiting to be played.

Same here.

I will never understand why people can be taken in by celebrity endorsements. Always supposing it must work on some level, or else why do advertisers pay them so well?

We have Fern Britton telling us how wonderful Wiltshire Farm ready meals are. Isn't she married to a chef?

Then there's Lenny Henry trying to convince us that a) he uses Premier Inns on a regular basis, yeah right, and b) he gets such a perfect night's sleep there he's ready to step out and face the world with a big, smug smile on his face.

Such endorsements insult my intelligence and can actually have the opposite, unwanted effect of steering me way from the product. I'm perverse like that!

The H&M kids' clothes ad. All the kids 'dancing gangsta' (I think that's what it is). Grrrr!!!

Yes, just awful. Fry is always an affectation, and always makes the speaker sound (to me at least) in an extreme state of self-absorption, perhaps because whenever you hear it they're talking about themselves.

She starts one of the ads all investigative-reporter-like: "I'm here to find out if blah blah blah ..."

No you're not, you're being paid to promote a product on television by reading a script.

Don't ASA guidelines say an advert has to be "truthful"?

The flora with the cgi family and the boy dressed as a T-Rex who says dinosaurs only eat meat.
Naturally he has to be wrong and is corrected by his by his mum who tells him that the biggest dinosaurs only ate plants.

Except that isn't true and he is dressed as a T-Rex, a meat eater that is a pretty big dinosaur so stop shoving a bowl of veg onto him and get him some pterodactyl meat.
And who feeds their family a bowl full of peas, carrots and broccoli only then puts butter on the lot?

Just remember the sage advice of Lionel Hutz:-

There's the truth (Shakes head and frowns) & then there's the Truth (Nods head and smiles).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6tmYYhOUU

And why the hell does he sound like the Cookie Monster?


And why does he think that a remote control car's remote wouldn't feature such things such as a steering wheel?

I saw an ad with a lion head on a human body dancing with a piece of meat/animal torso - but that may have been a fever dream I had...

MOON RIVVEERRR Galaxy ad which has been on since the dawn of man. The money I gave them from my chocolate addiction could buy them a new advert alone - bloody cheapskates.

The ad with the man in a hospital bed being sent pose-y photos of his friends and him as a cardboard cut out. It's actually a car ad - cars are boring to look at so I suppose they need to make the ads 'fun' or different somehow with something off topic.

Chef thingy with his cool alternative to sandwiches (for Asda). How is that any different to a sandwich it's the exact same ingredients and it all tastes the same when chewed in your mouth anyway?

So true, there's a totally embarrassed goalkeeper making light of the fact to advertise shampoo. The number one brand, why ? ... Because it's advertised the most.

I watched one of those programmes where a woman was £40K in debt.
When they walked into her spare room it was chock-a-block with cosmetic products and she said she bought absolutely everything endorsed by a 'celebrity'.

Those horrific Postcode lottery adverts voiced over by the endlessly irritating crypt keeper Fiona Phillips and featuring that creepy Carol Vorderman doppelganger - every single "winner" featured in these adverts is a complete and utter inbred cretin. I mean for god sake, I've yet to actually see a 'normal' person appear on one of these adverts. Do these so called "postcode lottery's" only run in small hidden away villages populated by backwards halfwits or something?

I'm honestly ashamed to be British watching these utter tards fondle a check for a few grand whilst drooling over themselves.

There's a baffling advert that advertises advertising ! It's about a lady dog who turns up on the doorstep of her boyfriend dog, suitcase in paw, ready to move in with him. (Whether the boyfriend had or has any say in this isn't made clear.) It flashes-back to the couple in happier times, when they spent their days re-enacting famous romantic movie scenes. Then, oh boy, here come the kids to take over the house. Again, whether 'Dad' knew about them isn't made clear.

It's actually quite a sweet and funny ad, but I've got no idea what it has to do with 'the power of advertising'.

But surely DroolinFool the "Derek we're off to Benidorm" classic just oozes class and sophistication:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoE_yyE6cYg

The first dog has made an advert to show he is in love with the second dog to show his owner so the owner will let the poodle move in

Ah, is that the idea? Maybe I didn't pay close enough attention. I thought the ad bit (the dog's ad) was just flash-back/ memories sort of thing, as opposed to actually being played on the guy's TV.

Well, the poodle moves in, so that's proof for me. Advertising really does work.

First article that came up when I goggled it and go read comments in videos on YouTube with people talking about how much they hate it and get a sense of humour.
I was being sarcastic.
http://www.upworthy.com/what-is-voca...talk-like-that

I absolutely agree.

There's a lad in them at the moment - the "dos yous all want a cuppa tea?" fella - who must be badly suffering from some sort of short term memory problems.

His winning envelope is opened in front of him by someone who I assume is one of the celebs you mention and he looks stunned and surprise, which is fair enough, that may well have been genuinely the moment he found out his prize amount.

Then later in the advert, after he's told us how much it costs to play, there's a shot of him looking pensive then opening the same envelope himself and looking even more stunned and pleased at the contents, even though he's already seen it.

And to add to that there is a third sequence of him opening the envelope again (I think with his left hand this time) but looking just as pensive before and excessively shocked and pleased - certainly a massive over reaction to something that he's seen twice before that we know of.

Am I to get a sense of humour? Did you mean to say the Youtubers HAVE a sense of humour. What you've said in that sentence makes no sense.

In any case. it's you who needs to get a sense of humour because your anti-wimmin stance has nothing to do with Youtube comments. Oh you 'looked it up'. So? Who cares around here what Youtube commenters are saying about it, they're hardly an off-shoot of Mensa, a lot of them can't spell or put a sentence together.

You've been at it since what feels like the dawn of time in this very thread and the merest of glances at your posting history confirms that. Give it a rest with the sexism arguments at the merest whiff of a woman who even opens her gob with a thought of her own. It's offensive, get that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga7eVrqTrAw
0:08 - 0:12 shows the dog putting it on the TV

He did another one when the human was trying to throw his rabbit toy away

Nice ad hominem
I can't help it if you're easily confused so I'll say this and you can have the last word that you desperately want.
There are a lot more people on here who don't like the dumb male and sexist tones in adverts and are far more vocal about it than me.
Far more.
So why don't you go after everyone who complains about this like the more prominent, more active, more vocal members instead of someone less prominent?

This is a thread to complain not to keep our mouths shut.

'Mum, Mum, what's bacterial vaginosis?'
How can they show this during the day in the summer holidays?

By the way, the dogs name is Harvey from Midsummer Murders and can act better than most humans in adverts...

I'm not easily confused. If you can't write in English then expect to be criticised about it. Posters who have legitimate gripes about the tone and content of adverts don't bother me one bit - it's only posters like yourself who fixate on practically every single advert where you perceive the female character to be belittling the male gender, and usually for the most ridiculous reasons to boot. Christ, even the Flora Mummy is getting it for 'speaking back' to her son.

But wait, it's not just the adverts themselves! You now feel it your public duty to warn us against commenting on certain subjects because that Social Media Elite, the Youtube Commenter will shoot us down in flames. If a person allows themselves to be influenced by that particular group then they need help. But of course, it suits your agenda nicely so for that reason it's relevant.

Okay then. I myself won't be keeping my mouth shut and will continue to call out your utterly illogical bollox where I consider that appropriate.