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    #1472
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,877 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Feckin' John Lewis, how long before people start losing their minds over whatever crap they spew out this year.


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    #1473
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,279 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    mistersifter wrote: »
    It wrecks my head. This business of assuming that when you slow down and strip back a fast song, it automatically makes it a good version. It doesn't. Lilly Allen is one of many people who need to realize this. One of her efforts was used in a John Lewis ad a while back. Boring, monotonous, melodramatic sh*te!

    I have to step in and say that advert was awesome-also, many of the crew who worked on it (one being Disney animator Aaron Blaise) were very grateful to be brought onto that because it was incredibly therapeutic. (Blaise's wife had passed away from cancer a year or so before working on it). The song went to number one, as well, due to the popularity of the ad.
    I'm no fan of hers-I'm in the 'just shut up and sing' camp.

    That said, the 'slow it down, now it's hip' thing is, I agree, is really annoying. It's happened long before Lily. When Gary Jules did it with 'Mad World' it had a number one hit. And after that..it spiralled. I think it was in Damages or Greys Anatomy which just brought it to absolutely comical levels. ('Girls just wanna have fun' slowed down is nauseatingly cringey. I think that was Damages-that Glenn Close tv show).


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    #1474
    mistersifter
    Registered Users Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭mistersifter


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    I have to step in and say that advert was awesome-also, many of the crew who worked on it (one being Disney animator Aaron Blaise) were very grateful to be brought onto that because it was incredibly therapeutic. (Blaise's wife had passed away from cancer a year or so before working on it). The song went to number one, as well, due to the popularity of the ad.
    I'm no fan of hers-I'm in the 'just shut up and sing' camp.

    That said, the 'slow it down, now it's hip' thing is, I agree, is really annoying. It's happened long before Lily. When Gary Jules did it with 'Mad World' it had a number one hit. And after that..it spiralled. I think it was in Damages or Greys Anatomy which just brought it to absolutely comical levels. ('Girls just wanna have fun' slowed down is nauseatingly cringey. I think that was Damages-that Glenn Close tv show).

    It's well accomplished, as you would expect from a big budget Xmas ad. Still, I hate all these businesses trying to tug on your heart strings every December in the hope that you'll spend money in their shops.

    Mostly though, its the slowed-down cover versions that do my nut in.

    It's got to the stage now where it doesn't even need to be a pop song - loads on the thread have mentioned the slow version of "heads shoulders knees and toes" on one ad. Horrific stuff.

    To be honest, I just want an ad to make me laugh. If it's funny they have my cash , even if their product is sh*t :pac:


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    #1475
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,303 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    It's probably been mentioned many times already but that On Post ad with the screeching kid nearly burst my eardrums.

    I honestly never realised a kid could make that much noise when they screech.


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    #1476
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,765 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    It's probably been mentioned many times already but that On Post ad with the screeching kid nearly burst my eardrums.

    I honestly never realised a kid could make that much noise when they screech.

    That kid is an evil little monster straight out of The Exorcist


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    #1477
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,765 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    This ad makes me want to get sick over the tv:



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    #1478
    The Specialist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    Those TUI adverts....jesus tap dancing christ. The "singing" is ****ing atrocious, and I hate her smug face. Did nobody in the adverts universe of dancing buffoons think of telling her to shut up, when she kept singing the same 5-7 words from the plane, to the beach and to a restaurant later that evening? That's surely 10+ hours of non stop squawking awfulness.

    Hate hate hate it.


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    #1479
    Go Harvey Go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    That TUI ad is absolutely everywhere. In magazines, on billboards, even on the backs of buses.

    Im-begging-you-Please-make-it-stop.jpg

    Bethany, for that is her name, may as well become the long-term face of TUI - just as Hayley-Jo, the Specsavers workout lady, has become *that* company's long-term face...

    https://twitter.com/hojow/status/825288069372923904
    https://twitter.com/hojow/status/903899524393033728
    https://twitter.com/hojow/status/910993847240544256


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    #1480
    LithiumKid1976
    Registered Users Posts: 432 ✭✭LithiumKid1976


    Comhra wrote: »
    This ad makes me want to get sick over the tv:


    Jesus, i hadn't seen that before, (nor wish to again) its like a really bad effort by the lads on "The Apprentice", where there task is to shift boilers.....and create a marketing campaign, but save money at the same time... and this is what you'd get ...

    cue high fives and hollering at the creation of the wonderful advert, shortly before it gets cut to pieces by mister sugar in the boardroom. #Fired

    Also, why didn't he bring the kids to the pub like a normal grownup :)


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    #1481
    castletownman
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    Feck off M & S with your "quirky" Christmas story and Kevin the carrot.

    What the hell does a carrot have to do with christmas anyway? Literally way down the list in terms of "traditional" christmas dinner staples.


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    #1482
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    castletownman wrote: »
    Feck off M & S with your "quirky" Christmas story and Kevin the carrot.

    What the hell does a carrot have to do with christmas anyway? Literally way down the list in terms of "traditional" christmas dinner staples.

    What do you leave out for Rudolf on Christmas Eve?

    Would love to see Kevin getting the crunch :D


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    #1483
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,279 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    castletownman wrote: »
    Feck off M & S with your "quirky" Christmas story and Kevin the carrot.

    What the hell does a carrot have to do with christmas anyway? Literally way down the list in terms of "traditional" christmas dinner staples.

    Kevin the Carrot is Aldi.

    Marks and Spencers is Paddington Bear.

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/07/ms-christmas-ad-paddington-bear-marks-spencer-john-lewis


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    #1484
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Its got bear sh!t in it!

    You bunch of moth ridden carpets what you know about whats in it?


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    #1485
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users Posts: 6,483 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Gen.Zhukov wrote: »
    The lad on the holiday doesn't get a look in. It's all about her holiday.

    He got a great look in at 1 minute 10 seconds!




    All those Eir ads and the other one with he same song drive me mad - no idea what the other company is because I turn off the station before the name displays. Eir took a terrible song and made it a million times worse!


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    #1486
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,229 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    wendydoll wrote: »
    Debenhams Christmas Ad is pissing me off already

    Ewan McGregor making that sweet sweet Christmas ad money.


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    #1487
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,279 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Ewan McGregor making that sweet sweet Christmas ad money.

    Well, he's gonna have a divorce in the future, so better to have the alimony ready to go.

    Wonder if the advert will also have a 'I never knew anything about Weinstein' in it as well?


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    #1488
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    On the M&S ad when the burglar thanks Paddington bear for giving him a sandwich he says 'Thank you little bear' but due to a combination of his 'Sarf Lahndan' accent and delivering the line too quickly his 'Fank you little bear' sounds like 'Fcuk you little bear!" instead.


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    #1489
    The Specialist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    valoren wrote: »
    On the M&S ad when the burglar thanks Paddington bear for giving him a sandwich he says 'Thank you little bear' but due to a combination of his 'Sarf Lahndan' accent and delivering the line too quickly his 'Fank you little bear' sounds like 'Fcuk you little bear!" instead.

    Once you've heard it, it can't be unheard. I look forward to the next 7 weeks of it :D


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    #1490
    Kumejima
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭Kumejima


    Not sure if its on TV but its stalking me across youtube. The Opel Crossland X ad where the couple are sitting in the rain and the presumably wife encourages the husband to ask the Opel customer service team for help finding the nearest hotel. Which it turns out is right in front of them. Its such patronising ****e I honestly thought the guy was going to morph into a 10 year old version of himself at the end he acted so useless and pathetically grateful to his all-knowing wife.

    Why do ads do this? Insult half their audience? If men are so effing clueless maybe we should ask Opel to reassure us that none were involved in the design, engineering and manufacture of the car.


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    #1491
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    Kumejima wrote: »
    Its such patronising ****e I honestly thought the guy was going to morph into a 10 year old version of himself at the end he acted so useless and pathetically grateful to his all-knowing wife.

    Why do ads do this? Insult half their audience? If men are so effing clueless maybe we should ask Opel to reassure us that none were involved in the design, engineering and manufacture of the car.

    It's the same with a lot of ads, i.e making men out to be dumb and needing to be put right by smug know-all women. If it was the other way around there would be uproar from womens' groups.


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    #1492
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,847 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
    Kumejima wrote: »
    Not sure if its on TV but its stalking me across youtube. The Opel Crossland X ad where the couple are sitting in the rain and the presumably wife encourages the husband to ask the Opel customer service team for help finding the nearest hotel. Which it turns out is right in front of them. Its such patronising ****e I honestly thought the guy was going to morph into a 10 year old version of himself at the end he acted so useless and pathetically grateful to his all-knowing wife.

    Why do ads do this? Insult half their audience? If men are so effing clueless maybe we should ask Opel to reassure us that none were involved in the design, engineering and manufacture of the car.

    if its this i think you picked it up wrong, i see the woman asking him to get out of the car and go into the hotel to ask if they have rooms. he gets to use the tech knowing they will ring the hotel for him

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db4BPRVXFmI

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #1493
    Kumejima
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭Kumejima


    Didn't see the first shot of them in front of the hotel. That makes it less crap I guess. Still, I don't know any male past puberty who would look so craven in the face of a bit of rain. I guess their target market must enjoy males looking weak or foolish but it would be nice to have the odd ad that celebrates male awesomeness every now and again. Rant over.


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    #1494
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,847 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Kumejima wrote: »
    Didn't see the first shot of them in front of the hotel. That makes it less crap I guess. Still, I don't know any male past puberty who would look so craven in the face of a bit of rain. I guess their target market must enjoy males looking weak or foolish but it would be nice to have the odd ad that celebrates male awesomeness every now and again. Rant over.

    the look on the guys face is weird and its a bit of a dumb advert, a mobile phone would have have done the job. not to mention it looks like he could have driven up to the front door :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #1495
    Speedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    silverharp wrote: »
    the look on the guys face is weird and its a bit of a dumb advert, a mobile phone would have have done the job. not to mention it looks like he could have driven up to the front door :pac:

    I don't think he doesn't want to go out in the rain to ask the hotel for a room. Rather he didn't like the look of the hotel in front of him, hence asks on star to find a decent hotel.

    Still, if you're explaining, you're not winning.


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    #1496
    [Deleted User]
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    Kumejima wrote: »
    but it would be nice to have the odd ad that celebrates male awesomeness every now and again. Rant over.

    :D


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    #1497
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    blueser wrote: »
    That TUI "ain't nobody" ad. Whoever signed on that ad has a lot of questions to answer. Number 1 being "What the fcuk were you thinking of?"

    Do you know what's annoying on the TUI ad I heard seventy six times on the radio this morning? Their catchline is ''We cross the t's, dot the i's and put u (as in you, the customer) in the middle''. Clever right? Until you realise the letters they use in their typefont are all uppercase so the T's can't be crossed and the I's can't be dotted.

    Yes, I'm a petty pedantic man.


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    #1498
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,279 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    inthehat wrote: »
    :D

    Pretty much the Lynx adverts.


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    #1499
    optogirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭optogirl


    inthehat wrote: »
    It's the same with a lot of ads, i.e making men out to be dumb and needing to be put right by smug know-all women. If it was the other way around there would be uproar from womens' groups.

    Totally agree - bumbling Dads & boyfriends, ever cheery 'Mums' creating sparkly perfect Christmasses for all around them, young women squealing at their shiny hair.... marketing is a crock.


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    #1500
    optogirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭optogirl


    That was hard....I'm a real hugger


    :mad:


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    #1501
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    optogirl wrote: »
    That was hard....I'm a real hugger


    :mad:
    That line makes me think of the film Alien


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