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Old 26-09-2016, 18:58
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what are you anti-animal now? OH you mean the wife
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Old 26-09-2016, 19:15
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The new advert about switching current accounts
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Old 26-09-2016, 19:46
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What the hell are these new Nationwide adverts about
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Old 26-09-2016, 19:52
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The new Go Compare advert.

Had I been in Venice I'd have pushed the bunch of ....s overboard into the canal...

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Old 26-09-2016, 20:10
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My latest most hated ad.

Smyths.....

"If I were toyyyyyeeeeeeeee!"

Jezuz Chroise. Did the writers of this Beyonce song seriously give permission for this song to be used for this Godawful ad?

The new advert about switching current accounts
Exactly! It would take more than a measly £100 for me to swap banks. 5 grand, and we can start talking........

I think the problem is they chose a breathy-type version and used the voices or real people who they have helped, when something with more of a triumphant feel to it would have served them far better, i.e. a 'we are succeeding' rather than 'we want'. Or I could be totally off the mark and owe loads of people an apology.

As regards japanese translations, on here I get squares with codes in them and no sign of a bird flapping its wing ("medifus"?) or urinating dogs. It all displays correctly on the other box but I get a distinct impression that what was really wanted was the extra-short version of the expressed sentiment which I expect, much like the english version, has a greater syllabic simplicity.
I LOATHE every breathy indie girl singer that I hear on ANY ADVERT!

Makes me wanna puke! This kind of sound went out about 5 minutes after Dido's last top 10 hit!

I don't care if she is easy on the eye that bl**dy SCS girl is unbelievably irritating. And I don't want to hear ANYTHING about the "festive season" in September.
I can't stand her stupid ridiculous face OR her pathetic voice OR her mental smile, and now there's a whole family of them! Kill me. Kill me now!
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Old 26-09-2016, 20:48
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The latest advert I saw in the cinema that you think is going to be about how important children/small moments are in life etc... but its for a bloody bank! (Natwest) FFS!
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Old 26-09-2016, 21:10
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Would it be a word beginning with F?
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Old 26-09-2016, 22:53
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The tuneless woman, with a tuneless background, singing "That's Amore". Don't know what it's advertising but I can't hit mute quick enough, as her voice slices into my eardrums and is as welcome as a visit from ISIS!

And the Easyjet advert with people leaping about on an old computer keyboard, ripping off Bowie dancing on the typewriter in Absolute Beginners.

Virgin Media:
Is that what it is advertising? First time I saw it it made me incredibly angry.
Patronising kids I do not like!
Makes me want to leave them!

Oak furniture land - I cannot stand the two morons employed for this campaign. There's clearly no effing veneer in the PR company's heads either.
"Pay no interest" and the lad stops listening to him. Ugh... LAME!

It does however show us what advertising creatives think people are obsessed with.
Why on earth would having a new couch "matter" for Christmas ??
What's next - new car for Easter?
A boob job for New Year's Eve ?
Hey, don't knock it till you've tried it!
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Old 26-09-2016, 23:36
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Oak Furniture Land - the gag doesnt even work as it mixes a metaphor! You TAKE AN INTEREST in something, you PAY ATTENTION to something, FFS
Plus its just a shit gag
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Old 28-09-2016, 04:23
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I love the Jack Whitehall ads. So funny.
I hate the Jack Whitehall ads. So unfunny.
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Old 28-09-2016, 06:01
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That Nationwide ad with the guy giving a baffling monologue to camera. What a load of cobblers.
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Old 28-09-2016, 07:50
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I quite like the poem!
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Old 28-09-2016, 11:07
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I quite like the poem!
So do I. Pity its used in the wrong context, I think.
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Old 28-09-2016, 11:32
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The latest advert I saw in the cinema that you think is going to be about how important children/small moments are in life etc... but its for a bloody bank! (Natwest) FFS!
I loathe these type of ads. Anything that tries to manipulate us into 'feeling'. Particularly nauseating is the Trevor McDonut one for an opticians chain. "I've seen some remarkable things in my lifetime". Cue images of famine, war, protests and so on. "My eyes are important to me". Oh, really, Trev? Because I can f*ckin' take or leave mine.

There's also the one where a young girl is watching an on-line vid of Nadia Comaneci (I think). It's set to Alicia Keys' 'This Girl Is On Fire', and the general theme is about female achievement and empowerment, and especially how important it it for young girls to realise they can do anything they set their mind to. Nothing wrong with the concept and I assumed it would be from a charity or Govt. campaign or something to encourage more girls to try...something. Turns out it's just flogging bloody Virgin Media.

Worst current one by far, though, is the one that uses a setup of a boy seemingly about to be bullied - or worse - by a gang of kids on an estate, only for the boy to defuse their impulse to rob/ beat him by showing him a puppy, and it's for Pedigree frickin' Chum. Bullying and kids beating kids is bad enough in real-life. No-one needs to use it and no-one wants to see it in an advert.

Oak Furniture Land - the gag doesnt even work as it mixes a metaphor! You TAKE AN INTEREST in something, you PAY ATTENTION to something, FFS
Plus its just a shit gag
Conversely, I quite like these ads because they're so cheesy. They're not claiming they can change the world, or even change your life. They just want to sell you an oak table and matching sideboard. Yes, they're a bit shit, but for me, that's their charm.
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Old 28-09-2016, 11:50
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For me all ads should be done by the Ronseal people. "This is our stuff/thing, its great - buy it!"
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Old 28-09-2016, 12:10
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I wonder who at Confused.com or their advertising agency thought it would be a good idea to flog car insurance using a backing song written and performed by a bloke who died in a car crash?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bolan#Death
Well it is, isn't it? Isn't that precisely the kind of thing you insure your car for?
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Old 28-09-2016, 12:13
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For me all ads should be done by the Ronseal people. "This is our stuff/thing, its great - buy it!"
I saw one on a bus stop for Oasis drink: , "It’s summer. You’re thirsty. We’ve got sales targets."
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Old 28-09-2016, 12:19
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The idiots in advertising have no idea of the context of songs.
Why should they? I don't suppose that 90% of the people that bought the record did either. Unless it's heavy handed protest, a song is what you make of it, just as with any other form of art. Besides the agencies have to obtain permission to use the songs so if there's fault for 'inappropriate' use it surely lies elsewhere.
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Old 28-09-2016, 12:32
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... a boy seemingly about to be bullied - or worse - by a gang of kids on an estate, only for the boy to defuse their impulse to rob/ beat him by showing him a puppy, ...
Some may remember the Viz strip "Tommy and his Trifle" where he would get away with anything by virtue of simply having a magnificent enormous trifle with him at all times.

The one where he got a free ride on the bus because the conductor was so impressed with the sight of the magnificent trifle is one that just stuck in my memory - so this is what comes to mind...
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Old 28-09-2016, 16:56
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I saw one on a bus stop for Oasis drink: , "It’s summer. You’re thirsty. We’ve got sales targets."
They also had piss take Christmas adverts in July on bus stops
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Old 28-09-2016, 18:09
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an ad I am getting fed up with repeatedly seeing (though more on Sky than ITV or 4) is for BRitish Gas offering £400 on your old boiler or free electric on Saturday or Sunday and that flamin' penguin
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Old 28-09-2016, 19:02
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For me its not the product commercials but the constant programme trailers especially on ITV.
Its annoying to see a trailer, then its followed by a voice over repeating exactly the same thing.
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Old 28-09-2016, 19:20
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an ad I am getting fed up with repeatedly seeing (though more on Sky than ITV or 4) is for BRitish Gas offering £400 on your old boiler or free electric on Saturday or Sunday and that flamin' penguin
There's a flaming penguin? Sounds quite exciting!
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Old 28-09-2016, 19:45
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Oh god Park Hampers have started their christmas campaign
It's still September for f***s sake
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Old 28-09-2016, 19:46
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YOPA's advert. It uses mock 'Village People' - towards the end the dialogue goes:
''How do you spell that?''
''Y-O...'' *to the music of YMCA* (roll eyes)
Then a voiceover interrupts: ''NO, not Y-O-P-A...it's YOPA.com!''

Now, I'm sure in some marketing person's 'creative' and 'edgy' brain that all added up and made sense and was very witty, but why should a voiceover interrupt and insist it's wrong to be spelled out?! Someone in the ad asked for it to be spelled out!
I don't even...I just...it doesn't make sense!

Also Nationwide's rambling poem adverts that go on forever. Dreadful and muted/channel changed when they come on

Hankook tyres - a short ad but a lot of it is taken up plugging the Real Madrid football team and how Hankook 'supply' the Real Madrid football team. I get how sponsorship works, but Real Madrid's football team aren't 'really' relevant to a British audience.
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