Dumb Adverts

Okay adverts are a pet hate of mine -actually probably eveyones but those in the advertising industry who seem to think we look forward to the ad breaks.

I'll get the ball rolling with...

#1 The "just one look" current anti-drink drive advert. Very noble cause BUT does it strike anyone else that the couple in the bar look like brother and sister!!!:eek: Not cool. NOT COOL. Though maybe there's a few areas of this strange land that are being targeted with the important message that your sister won't do the wild thing with you any more if you drink and drive. :D

Moving swiftly along ...though not too far along ...

#2 Barrys Tea GAA ads ...they are just so fcukin red-neck hokkum. Like a Craggy Island-esque sketch. We've switched to Lyons ...and that took getting past Lyons' "nothing added but wind" ad.

#3 Cillit Bang! ...now these I resent. I resent being advertised at like I'm a Daily Sport reading, William Hill loitering little-Englander. ...and does yer man have the same name as the fellah who whacked Jill Dando?!? :eek: what the hell's that about?

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

#3 Cillit Bang! ...now these I resent. I resent being advertised at like I'm a Daily Sport reading, William Hill loitering little-Englander. ...and does yer man have the same name as the fellah who whacked Jill Dando?!? :eek: what the hell's that about?

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Listen to the re-mix:


:Dhttp://www.cillitbangremix.com/

I absolutely can't stand the Snack ads!
Guy jumping out of the press.
Guy smacks his boss on the arse with a tray.
Guy gets his sleeve stapled to the desk.
Pathetic!

Also can't stand the ads for Heineken, where the guy has a hotel in his head. Trying to be like the Carlsberg ads.

Any Budweiser "Answer The Call" ad will make me homicidal!
The guy screaming, deserves a kick in the nuts!

BARRY SCOTT IS A LEGEND :D

Agree with Peadar on the Snack and Bud ads.
Who ever came up with the Snack ones, I'd like to give them
a smack in the mouth.

I used to hate those Ronseal varnish adverts. The lad looked a bit
of a nutter and it sounded like "use Ronseal or else I'll call around
and break your jaw"

The advert for the toenail infection cream freaks me out.
Especially when the little bug opens up the toenail like a door!!!!

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Any Budweiser "Answer The Call" ad will make me homicidal!
The guy screaming, deserves a kick in the nuts!

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Ditto on that. Can't belive no one mentioned the Halifax adds despise them.

Patronising radio ads for Mespil Hotel with culchies sounding like imbeciles

Most drink ads tend to be awful (notable exception the Carlsberg one with the truck driver, the old lady and the cat -especially the cat) The Budwieser ones are terrible alright, though they do have a good tune - "Young Folks" by Peter, Bjorn and John, fact fans. (thats on the "barbacue - OI'm there" one , not the awswer the call.) Also agree re the Barrys tea ads. Horrendous.

I'm talking about 6 years ago, but that black guy on the adds for some insurance company used to drive me crazy.

And, although the ads themselves weren't so bad, the Budweiser ads have to lot to answer for in terms of making every clown shout "WHASSSUUUUP!!!?" every 5 minutes.

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Originally Posted by sligoman

Listen to the re-mix:


:Dhttp://www.cillitbangremix.com/

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Makes watching the Cillet Bang ads in the past worthwhile - that's a new remix too!

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Originally Posted by TonyD

Most drink ads tend to be awful (notable exception the Carlsberg one with the truck driver, the old lady and the cat -especially the cat)

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Have to say though, I am a fan of this ad...

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Originally Posted by Peadar

Have to say though, I am a fan of this ad...

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Class though since when is Heineken French?


The bank ad with the two tools doing some kind of hip hop dance is particularly appalling. Radio ads are mostly dreadful too.

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Originally Posted by Peadar

Also can't stand the ads for Heineken, where the guy has a hotel in his head. Trying to be like the Carlsberg ads.

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RODRIGO CARDOZO!!!
How can ya not like the man with the worlds best name?
Strangely, Barry Scotts wife in the ad is called Jill.:eek:
Reassuringly, her murderer was named Barry George.

What's the drink ad with the 'memory hotel' in it? It ends with the receptionist (his mind) telling a guy (drinking brand X), "You're killing me here."

I can't help but interpret that in a way I don't think they intended.

There's no end to stupid ads. There won't be until people stop buying stuff in ads.

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Originally Posted by Schumi

The bank ad with the two tools doing some kind of hip hop dance is particularly appalling.

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Imagine, they used some of their profits, made from charges to customers, to pay for that!
I'd switch banks!

hate the new bank of ireland add witht he elf, also despise that bud add going to a barbecue. I love the rabobank adds, very good

Think the Halifax "get back you bankers" ads are alright

Agree with almost every other choice so far. The ads I absolutely despise are the ones for "cheap" car insurance or "cheap" home loans or debt consolidation. Makes me love Vorderman a little less

Off topic , but I had to mention it.
Funniest add is for Donegal catch . The one that goes " you might be beautiful but their keeping my idea on file .....in a filing cabinet.. I still laugh every time I see it it's a classic.

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Funniest add is for Donegal catch . The one that goes " you might be beautiful but their keeping my idea on file .....in a filing cabinet.. I still laugh every time I see it it's a classic.

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Get a giggle out that myself.

Can't stand the McDonald's ad, with the child in the back of "taxi".
Cheeky cow should be grateful she doesn't have to get the bus.
Would be no harm if she sorted out her accent either.

Also think the Diet Coke (lets hear it for the girl...) is sickening!

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

#3 Cillit Bang! ...now these I resent. I resent being advertised at like I'm a Daily Sport reading, William Hill loitering little-Englander. ...and does yer man have the same name as the fellah who whacked Jill Dando?!? :eek: what the hell's that about?

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BANG! ...and the Dand is gone! :eek: :(

The Good
- Rabobank

The Bad
- Budweiser ads are rubbish
- Heineken usually just as bad.

The Ugly
- Government ads just as National Workplace Strategy. The government has too much money if wasting on this rubbish.