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Old 12-10-2016, 11:37
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The Galaxy ad - I never want to hear that awful Moon River song ever again. Another irritation is the edit/cut of the song is very abrupt - shoudn't it cut at the end of the sentence.
Probably gonna get lynched for saying this but I really don't think Audrey Hepburn is or was all that.
Average actress - exquisite face
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Old 12-10-2016, 14:34
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Haven't seen the new Costa Coffee ad, but surely it can't be worse that this monstrosity from 2012:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSmij0407A
Ah, I remember when Charlie Brooker took the piss out of this!

https://youtu.be/TiWHDVGaamM?t=1m24s
I really liked that advert! At least it kept the energy up, unlike all the twee cover versions we get these days, or ads like M&S where they play a few beats from the opening of a dance track ("Rather Be", I think), which then ends just as it's meant to get going

Average actress - exquisite face
So how does that explain Helen Flanagan? Less than average all round, and even the chest doesn't impress.
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Old 12-10-2016, 16:34
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I see that horrendous car ad has returned.

The one where someone breathes too heavily on part of the car so the woman owner does something spiteful to the person - usually her husband/boyfriend/friend.
I only caught the end of the one I saw, it was something that had the friend end up with an orange face (tanning machine?)

I don't think I'll ever forget the one where the woman's boyfriend/husband shut the door with his foot cos his hands were full so she smashed his remote controlled air-plane.

They make me cringe.

I love this thread because I very rarely see an ad (I always record programmes on ITV or the like so I fast forward through all ads) so 99% of the ads people complain about I've never seen!
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Old 12-10-2016, 16:41
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The wooden woman on the Evodental advert who wasn't mentally ready to wear dentures but would spend £18,000 on getting metal rivets drilled into her jaws.
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Old 12-10-2016, 16:57
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There's also another malteaser add with yet another seemingly disabled person discussing performing what appears to be a sexual act on a guy and how having a fit made it comedic.
She is not seemingly disabled.
Her name is Storme Toolis and she has cerebral palsy. You can see her in New Tricks.
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Old 12-10-2016, 17:01
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Yep, I posted similar yesterday.
Ah yes, just scrolled up and saw your post, I wonder who thought it would be a good idea? worst d I have seen for quite a while, it highlights everything that is wrong in modern society, the opposite to those warm family oxo adverts of the 70s and 80s.
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Old 12-10-2016, 18:57
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As a Channel 4 viewer in the afternoons (Countdown, etc.) I'm getting really tired of seeing that annoying woman with her bladder problem.

She uses specially absorbent pads inside her underwear so that nobody will know if she's leaked, whereas she should really go to her doctor for a referral to a urologist to investigate the issue!
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Old 12-10-2016, 19:00
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She is not seemingly disabled.
Her name is Storme Toolis and she has cerebral palsy. You can see her in New Tricks.
She played Nick Lyndhurst's daughter!
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Old 13-10-2016, 07:27
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Is anybody else getting irritated by the increasing number of adverts for bingo sites pandering to the gullible.
Can't pick out any ad in particular, they are just all irritating

"when the fun stops, stop"
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Old 13-10-2016, 08:42
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On the subject of awful adverts what exactly is a 'strutter'?
A strutter is one of the seriously-unattractive blokes on the seriously-poor moneysupermarket ads that are a blatant rip off of the Michael Jackson Bad vid.
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Old 13-10-2016, 09:47
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Ah yes, just scrolled up and saw your post, I wonder who thought it would be a good idea? worst d I have seen for quite a while, it highlights everything that is wrong in modern society, the opposite to those warm family oxo adverts of the 70s and 80s.
Exactly!

The Persil ad. with the smug looking little break dancer. At the end she says 'Always keep away from children'. Honestly, I always try to keep away from children, but it can't always be done.
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Old 13-10-2016, 11:39
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On similar to the one below, any ad where you can buy things on finance that crams in a zillion T&Cs at the end, all recorded separately and stuck together, so they really jar.

Similar with holiday ads like the Rob Brydon one where he's rambling, then it adds "This is the life" and then "ATOL-protected".

Is anybody else getting irritated by the increasing number of adverts for bingo sites pandering to the gullible.
Can't pick out any ad in particular, they are just all irritating

"when the fun stops, stop"
# Ga-la-laaa-laaa #

That is more annoying.
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Old 13-10-2016, 11:45
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As a Channel 4 viewer in the afternoons (Countdown, etc.) I'm getting really tired of seeing that annoying woman with her bladder problem.

She uses specially absorbent pads inside her underwear so that nobody will know if she's leaked, whereas she should really go to her doctor for a referral to a urologist to investigate the issue!
THIS!

I always think they have made up this twee phrase 'sensitive bladder' and acting like its normal to p!ss yourself when you laugh. It isn't. You need to see a doctor!
Is the NHS aware of this and are they condoning it?
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Old 13-10-2016, 12:41
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THIS!

I always think they have made up this twee phrase 'sensitive bladder' and acting like its normal to p!ss yourself when you laugh. It isn't. You need to see a doctor!
Is the NHS aware of this and are they condoning it?
Of course it was made up by marketing men. The same is true of 'bad breath' and being able to cure it, this was invented by the makers of Listerine. Before the marketing men came along there was no 'medical cure' for halitosis and doctors didn't even think that halitosis was a medical condition, as back then everyones breath had its own unique smell, just that some peoples were more potent than others.

Another example of the ad men taking something that previously wasn't an issue and making it one is the idea of Body Odour or B.O, in relation to normal washing people, obviously not smelly homeless tramps or people like Howard Hughes.

The term was invented by American ad men at the end of the 19th Century, whilst the shorthand of 'B.O' was created in 1919 for a product called Odo-Ro-No. Both were invented and advertised from around the 1920's through to the late 1960's, usually in this form:-

There is a reason why you are unpopular and didn't get a date/that job/that promotion/invited to lunch. That's because you have body odour/B.O.

Therefore in less that 50 years ad men created something which has became sacrosanct in the western world.

Back to the Tena Lady p*shpads. The NHS won't publically support this kind of product, but I'm sure upper level managers and trust/board members (those in charge of the funds) are happy with this, as it will stop women with mild bladder issues coming into the NHS system and thus the trust can save money via needing fewer Urologists, therefore can run a smaller Urology department with less nurses and receptionists/admin employed, and of course far fewer operations are performed.

This is probably the same reason why no-one has ever tried to regulate (ie shut-down) the quack 'Alternative Medicine' market. At least we don't see TV ads for these scientifically unproven 'medicines' and devices.
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Old 13-10-2016, 16:48
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This must have been mentioned already - the Shpock! ad with the voice over provided (seemingly) by a 13 year old girl who's been force-fed six cans of Red Bull and a few litres of helium. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
Urgh! its the only advert I genuinely can't bear to listen to. Most adverts that I dislike, if i am nowhere near the remote I can just ignore. That one I find impossible to do so. I have to get the remote and change the channel. To ANY channel, just to get that smug advert and that annoying voice off my screen.
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Old 13-10-2016, 19:05
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As a Channel 4 viewer in the afternoons (Countdown, etc.) I'm getting really tired of seeing that annoying woman with her bladder problem.

She uses specially absorbent pads inside her underwear so that nobody will know if she's leaked, whereas she should really go to her doctor for a referral to a urologist to investigate the issue!
"I laugh, there goes my sensitive bladder" yuck! Just what I want to hear on my lunch breaks at work. Truly grim advert!
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Old 13-10-2016, 21:27
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Is anybody else getting irritated by the increasing number of adverts for bingo sites pandering to the gullible.
Can't pick out any ad in particular, they are just all irritating

"when the fun stops, stop"
If not irresponsible, just how much fun can it be to lose your housekeeping money playing bingo?
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Old 13-10-2016, 21:55
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Of course it was made up by marketing men.
Ever since I was a lad they've been inventing things in order to sell you the cure.
Who else is old enough to remember "night starvation", and the product that prevented it?
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Old 13-10-2016, 22:56
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Morrison ads - obviously trying to rip off the M+S ones with a woman with the most annoyingly sickly voice. To say nothing of the food. As there is no Morrisons for 15-20 miles around here, they're even more annoying.
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Old 14-10-2016, 08:27
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Ever since I was a lad they've been inventing things in order to sell you the cure.
Who else is old enough to remember "night starvation", and the product that prevented it?
I'm now curious, what was night starvation?
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Old 14-10-2016, 09:03
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That mawkish Ikea ad where thet kid sets up all the lights for his Mum.Is she crying because she's worried about her electric bill?!
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Old 14-10-2016, 09:35
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Colgate Sensitive toothpaste. What use is the weird looking bloke on the right? Merely justifies his presence by trying to bite the woman at the end. WTF?
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Old 14-10-2016, 11:25
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I'm now curious, what was night starvation?
What is Google?
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Old 14-10-2016, 11:58
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That mawkish Ikea ad where thet kid sets up all the lights for his Mum.Is she crying because she's worried about her electric bill?!
And where does he get all the extension leads from?
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Old 14-10-2016, 12:05
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If not irresponsible, just how much fun can it be to lose your housekeeping money playing bingo?
I'm now curious, what was night starvation?
Eating nothing at night. And the cure is food.
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