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Claims made on ads that aren't true (nor ever challenged)

  • 25-05-2020 9:33pm
    #1
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭


    When the red bull gives you wings phrase had to be replaced with Red Bull gives you wiings it made me think.

    Dunnes Stores always better value

    I mean like... better than who? And always?

    Where are the lawyers. Put down your crack pipes and get to work!

    Any other clear lies in ads you saw?


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  • #2
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    veryangryman wrote: »
    Any other clear lies in ads you saw?


    Probably


  • #3
    Andrewf20
    Registered Users Posts: 3,187 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    "Kills 99% of bacteria". Its never 93.5% or 100%.


  • #4
    barney shamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭barney shamrock


    "Easy open and reseal" packets of rashers.
    They're neither.


  • #5
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    All the ads that told me if I parted with my hard earned cash I'd be hung like a horny Mr Ed after taking a couple of pills. Mrs dragon wasn't too impressed. No wonder I'm divorced.:D


  • #6
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    "Kills 99% of bacteria". Its never 93.5% or 100%.


    I think I read that that percentage is determined over a 5 minute period.
    But it kills 100% when given a little more time.


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  • #7
    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    whiter than white


  • #8
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    veryangryman wrote: »
    When the red bull gives you wings phrase had to be replaced with Red Bull gives you wings it made me think.
    Huh? Isn't this the same thing?


  • #9
    JohnFalstaff
    Registered Users Posts: 874 ✭✭✭JohnFalstaff


    Sometimes it takes a rival brand to put the boot in.

    For 20 years Toyota used the tagline 'the best built cars in the world' as part of its advertising in Ireland.

    In 2016, following a series of widely publicised Toyota recalls, Volkswagen's lawyers in Ireland put in a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority.

    Toyota were subsequently prohibited from using the phrase as part of its brand.

    They haven't used it since.


  • #10
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users Posts: 8,535 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    JohnFalstaff wrote: »
    Sometimes it takes a rival brand to put the boot in.

    For 20 years Toyota used the tagline 'the best built cars in the world' as part of its advertising in Ireland.

    In 2016, following a series of widely publicised Toyota recalls, Volkswagen's lawyers in Ireland put in a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority.

    Toyota were subsequently prohibited from using the phrase as part of its brand.

    They haven't used it since.

    In fairness 90s Toyotas were ridiculously reliable


  • #11
    LeYouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭LeYouth


    Not an ad, but I remember a story where someone ( i can't remember if it was in the States or Britain) took a tissue company to court because the amount of tissues in a tissue box weren't the same as what the company wrote on the outside. Like this person literally counted out all the tissues lol. Talk about OCD.


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  • #12
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    tampons - you can run with them, swim with them, ski with them....i gave them to my cousin who has MS and it didn't make a bit of difference


  • #13
    6o9fv7jpreb180
    Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭6o9fv7jpreb180


    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    Huh? Isn't this the same thing?


    Think its "Red Bull gives you wiiiings" . Had to change cos someone sued them


  • #14
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,395 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Harvey Norman sales


  • #15
    Rob Thomas
    Registered Users Posts: 488 ✭✭Rob Thomas


    The Original and Best = Kelloggs


  • #16
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    Huh? Isn't this the same thing?

    Meant to say wiings. Good spot edited


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Swiftcover ad from the UK about ten years ago with Iggy Pop advertising insurance for 'people like me' got banned as Swiftcover didn't insure musicians.


  • #18
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users Posts: 8,535 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    barney shamrock wrote: »
    "Easy open and reseal" packets of rashers.
    They're neither.

    They dont work because theres never rashers left to reseal


  • #19
    Retro.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭Retro.


    veryangryman wrote: »
    When the red bull gives you wings phrase had to be replaced with Red Bull gives you wiings it made me think.

    Dunnes Stores always better value

    I mean like... better than who? And always?

    Where are the lawyers. Put down your crack pipes and get to work!

    Any other clear lies in ads you saw?

    Dunnes already changed it

    Used to be better value beats them all

    Whatever that meant


  • #20
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,657 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    TuringBot47 wrote: »
    I think I read that that percentage is determined over a 5 minute period.
    But it kills 100% when given a little more time.

    clostridium perfringens is a fairly common bacteria. It causes greengage. Under ideal conditions it can reproduce in 6.3 minutes. Hot soapy water if you get a cut.

    So even if 99% are killed the survivors could repopulate in a little over 44 minutes.


  • #21
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,657 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Harvey Norman sales
    I see your Harvey Norman and I raise you DFS


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  • #22
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    I'm planning on creating a disinfectant that kills 1% of bacteria and selling it to Domestos.


  • #23
    Porklife
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    TuringBot47 wrote: »
    I think I read that that percentage is determined over a 5 minute period.
    But it kills 100% when given a little more time.

    Booorrriinnggg!!


  • #24
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,535 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    The banking ads would make you cringe. As if they doing you a favour


  • #25
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users Posts: 13,285 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    "Todays Bread Today".

    It would be reasonable to assume from that tagline that the bread company delivery people actively remove from the shelves any bread which is 2 or 3 days old. And that you wouldn't have to burrow through older stale pans to find the actual fresh bread hidden at the back.


  • #26
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,783 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    "Totally unlimited mobile data" which has usage limits


  • #27
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,149 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    The Head and Shoulders ad where Claudia Winkleman says that's all she uses!


  • #28
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    No way that horse was going to France.


  • #29
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    AIB - Backing Brave. Eh no, you're backing the most conservative business plans imaginable from people with massive collateral


  • #30
    barney shamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭barney shamrock


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    They dont work because theres never rashers left to reseal

    True, also because you need a breadknife and a hammer and chisel to open the packet.


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  • #31
    lobbylad
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭lobbylad


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    AIB - Backing Brave. Eh no, you're backing the most conservative business plans imaginable from people with massive collateral

    And of course the "AIB - Ireland's cheapest mortgage" (which it probably was at the time), but they omitted " - one of Europe's most expensive"


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