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Even more adverts you despise

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    #5462
    Credit Checker Moose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Credit Checker Moose


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Just seen one for Virgin Media, a bunch of young kids singing Starships Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now. Annoying get doesn't even begin to describe it.
    It has made me hate the song.


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    #5463
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    Jesus that (yet another) beardy muppet eating like a savage on the Lidl ad does my head in...


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    #5464
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,277 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Credit Checker Moose wrote: »
    It has made me hate the song.

    It's pretty easy to hate that song, tbf.

    Was used in a Tayto crisps advert a while back.


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    #5465
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    He remembers the old pre-Kraft takeover taste too well. :(

    I think you can still get an Irish Cadbury's bar, lots are now imported, but then you find one :)


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    #5466
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,277 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Speaking of bad song covers, why is it David Bowie's 'Heroes' is ALWAYS covered when it comes to charity, or when folks tend to rely on the people they happily criticise (the army, the healthcare system, teachers etc)?

    BBC/ Radio 6 have an advert with the song. It's so tired.


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    #5467
    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Fair play to Grandad, first question is if it's the one-eyed monster.. :pac::rolleyes:


    Terrible advert.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCfAhmM1weU


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    #5468
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,027 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Suckit wrote: »
    Fair play to Grandad, first question is if it's the one-eyed monster.. :pac::rolleyes:


    Terrible advert.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCfAhmM1weU

    Ah I must be in the minority that thinks it's a lovely ad


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    #5469
    5555555555
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭5555555555


    Anyone see the BOOHOO men ad ?


    Don't hate it, makes me laugh !!


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    #5470
    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,452 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Mod: Homophobic sh*te deleted (plus replies).


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    #5471
    Irish Steve
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 6,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Steve


    What's been grinding my gears today, we had one of the UK sat channels on this afternoon, and they are stuffed to the gills with adverts because the American shows are so short.
    To add insult to injury, for at least 3 breaks during the show, every damn advert was for funeral insurance services. Talk about adding insult to injury, yes, I know a lot more older people have been dying as a result of Covid, but do we really need to have the subject stuffed down our throats with the adverts, it's bad enough having to listen to the news, without another feckin reminder during the adverts.

    Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁



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    #5472
    LiquidZeb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭LiquidZeb


    If I've to see another ad on telly filmed through a phone camera I'll gouge my eyes out.


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    #5473
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,767 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    LiquidZeb wrote: »
    If I've to see another ad on telly filmed through a phone camera I'll gouge my eyes out.

    Oh Jesus yes.

    And the "in other news" slots, someone doing mad stuff in lockdown. Give me strength.


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    #5474
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,277 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    LiquidZeb wrote: »
    If I've to see another ad on telly filmed through a phone camera I'll gouge my eyes out.

    And they always shoot in 'portrait' mode, never in landscape mode.


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    #5475
    EmptyTree
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭EmptyTree


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Just seen one for Virgin Media, a bunch of young kids singing Starships Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now. Annoying get doesn't even begin to describe it.

    This. Drives me absolutely nuts. It's not in any way clever or original.


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    #5476
    Jurgen Klopp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Jurgen Klopp


    Really getting annoyed by that UK bank that's doing these "heartfelt" ads often with them rhyming in regards to the covid. You know the ones with their "in six months our love will be stronger than steel" cringe fest

    There's one in particular of this woman with her "how's your head? How's your family? What about mum we are really missing her"

    As if the ****in bank gives two ****s if covid was over in teh morning and "mum" was one payment late with her mortgage they'd **** her out onto the street


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    #5477
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users Posts: 7,209 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    That Tesco "New Normal" ad is getting on my tits at the moment.

    In fact all of the corporate covid ones and the filler RTE ones (because they can't sell all their slots) are brutal.


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    #5478
    LiquidZeb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭LiquidZeb


    Jurgen Klopp wrote: »
    Really getting annoyed by that UK bank that's doing these "heartfelt" ads often with them rhyming in regards to the covid. You know the ones with their "in six months our love will be stronger than steel" cringe fest

    There's one in particular of this woman with her "how's your head? How's your family? What about mum we are really missing her"

    As if the ****in bank gives two ****s if covid was over in teh morning and "mum" was one payment late with her mortgage they'd **** her out onto the street

    I noticed it was a bit of a long standing trend in ads for banks, building societies and insurers where they have some cosy music playing while they whisper sweet nothings into your ear, praying you've forgotten about 2008 the way the Allen's pray Tim's photo gallery is no longer thought of amongst the public.


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    #5479
    LiquidZeb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭LiquidZeb


    MrMusician18 wrote: »
    That Tesco "New Normal" ad is getting on my tits at the moment.

    In fact all of the corporate covid ones and the filler RTE ones (because they can't sell all their slots) are brutal.

    My personal least favorite is the this is/isn't us ad. You just know some gob****e in marketing thinks he's some sort of poet for that contrived, mewningless, orwellian scutter.


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    #5480
    [Deleted User]
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    Whoever is responsible for coining this term 'The New Normal' should be punched in the face repeatedly.


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    #5481
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Whoever is responsible for coining this term 'The New Normal' should be punched in the face repeatedly.

    Making two black eyes his "new normal"...


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    #5482
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,277 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Which advert is it that's literally trying to get people's blood boiling? The Roy Keane Saipan thing? Check. The Thierry Henry handball incident? Check. (Left out the bit where John Delaney took 5 milliion euros from Fifa to shutup).

    Ah but we'll include Bill O'Herlihy at the end, to make it seem sweet...
    Get lost.

    Weaponising nostalgia, whilst trying to get the vitriol going...get lost.


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    #5483
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,843 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Is this a guessing game? I'll start with that self-appointed "best mate" of bettors Paddy Power.


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    #5484
    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,907 ✭✭✭trashcan


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Whoever is responsible for coining this term 'The New Normal' should be punched in the face repeatedly.

    Oh yeah. And pelted with balls of ****e. Not his own ****e. Someone else's ****e.


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    #5485
    Duvetdays
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭Duvetdays


    Every company has to have a trendy Covid ad these days that are all CRAP.

    The Vodafone ones are the worst. The one with the alarm going off at the start of it and now the one with the annoying kids singing nothings gonna stop us now into their camera phones. Oh and the poxy Aldi Covid family.


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    #5486
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,767 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    MrMusician18 wrote: »
    and the filler RTE ones (because they can't sell all their slots) are brutal.

    Why can't they stick on an extra programme or two instead of fooking ads advertising how "fun" this sh1tty time is?

    Caught a look at the Vodafone montage of lockdown forced fun. Stuff that.


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    #5487
    [Deleted User]
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    Duvetdays wrote: »
    Every company has to have a trendy Covid ad these days that are all CRAP.

    The Vodafone ones are the worst. The one with the alarm going off at the start of it and now the one with the annoying kids singing nothings gonna stop us now into their camera phones. Oh and the poxy Aldi Covid family.


    Worse than the Billie Barry kids


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    #5488
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,277 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Worse than the Billie Barry kids

    It's not Vodafone, it's Virgin Broadband.
    Suckit wrote: »
    Fair play to Grandad, first question is if it's the one-eyed monster.. :pac::rolleyes:


    Terrible advert.

    I think I noticed why it's so s***... the kid's clearly reading the lines off of a cue card. If you follow. Watch his eyes, they're clearly reading his lines.
    Makes it very uncomfortable to watch


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    #5489
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    It's not Vodafone, it's Virgin Broadband.

    They failed miserably there so because I too though it was for Vodafone having seen it countless times now :D


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    #5490
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    The GreenAware ad with the 2 pandas talking. Soo f*cking annoying and grating on the nerves


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    #5491
    Pythagorean
    Registered Users Posts: 244 ✭✭Pythagorean


    That new ad from Irish Water, urging us to conserve water, at the end of the ad she comes over all coy and embarrassed sounding when she says "and take shorter showers" Utterly contrived and nauseating.


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