Agree about the gambling ones, but there is a certain pleasing symmetry to commercial breaks don't you think? First you get the gambling ones, then you get the payday loan ones (so you can borrow back the money you lost gambling), and then finally there's the "How will you pay for your funeral?" ones; just to remind you that you can't just use a payday loan to cover essential household expenditure, you've got to cover all the debts your loved ones will have to deal with when you kark it.
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[TV] TV Adverts
- Thread starter Simster
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Agree about the gambling ones, but there is a certain pleasing symmetry to commercial breaks don't you think? First you get the gambling ones, then you get the payday loan ones (so you can borrow back the money you lost gambling), and then finally there's the "How will you pay for your funeral?" ones; just to remind you that you can't just use a payday loan to cover essential household expenditure, you've got to cover all the debts your loved ones will have to deal with when you kark it.
And another thing ...
Why don't car adverts ever talk about the ****ing car? All they show are young people smugly driving down unfeasibly empty roads, often interspersed with random, sometimes surreal images: polar bears playing in a desert perhaps. Then at the end they say (usually) the name of car, plus some advertising slogan that's almost just random words: "New Austin Maxi - Life power responsible".
It's all total bollocks.
Why don't car adverts ever talk about the ****ing car? All they show are young people smugly driving down unfeasibly empty roads, often interspersed with random, sometimes surreal images: polar bears playing in a desert perhaps. Then at the end they say (usually) the name of car, plus some advertising slogan that's almost just random words: "New Austin Maxi - Life power responsible".
It's all total bollocks.
Grombleton
Surrounded by <div>s
- Dec 31, 2011
- 7,356
I think that's quite inspired - a solution to an irritating **** and all that. A bit like when ITV ran an advert for cough medicine in the middle of that episode of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.
Bladders
Twats everywhere
Sussex Nomad
Well-known member
Ads for expensive perfumes, men and women, just make no sense whatsoever.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
Is Sky classed as commercial television?
pearl
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Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
That TUI advert is so crazy stupid.
Record all ITV & SKY programmes and that advert is the 'sponsored by TUI' and so I know when to press play or fast forward.
Record all ITV & SKY programmes and that advert is the 'sponsored by TUI' and so I know when to press play or fast forward.
Theatre of Trees
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Sussexscots
Fed up with trains. Sick of the rain.
Sky+ is a godsend. In addition to all the commercials, you have another advert squeezed in as XXXX sponsored by XXX so you usually get around 42 minutes of actual programme in an hour of telly. Plus, so many of these adverts are designed to prey on peoples insecurities. At least in the Seventies if I ate a Turkish Delight, or drank a Martini, I might end up on a yacht or in a tent with an attractive lady. Now I must take care to enjoy as part of a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle whilst drinking responsibly which kind of defeats the point. Gash.
Anyway, I can't be doing with He man, Skeletor, Meerkats or the fat bloke. That bloke from Gladstone Brookes deserves particular vitriol and should be strung up for suggesting you reclaim PPI using an organisation that will skin you for a percentage of what you're owed, basically for sending a templated letter you can download from the internet. Who obsessively checks their credit score while talking to their dog? No wonder the bloke's wife appears to despise him.
McDonalds should be taken off air for ever after that appalling 'Dead Dad' advert .
And right now, I'd cheerfully drown the girl in the TUI advert.
And don't get me started on adverts in the cinema.
Anyway, I can't be doing with He man, Skeletor, Meerkats or the fat bloke. That bloke from Gladstone Brookes deserves particular vitriol and should be strung up for suggesting you reclaim PPI using an organisation that will skin you for a percentage of what you're owed, basically for sending a templated letter you can download from the internet. Who obsessively checks their credit score while talking to their dog? No wonder the bloke's wife appears to despise him.
McDonalds should be taken off air for ever after that appalling 'Dead Dad' advert .
And right now, I'd cheerfully drown the girl in the TUI advert.
And don't get me started on adverts in the cinema.
Lower West Stander
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Online betting ads for me.
I am sick and tired of having these rammed down my throat. And what really irritates me is the gamble responsibly and “when the fun stops stop”.
This is after being force fed this stuff during every live football match I watch.
They are all crap and trying desperately to be original. Jeff Stelling, Chris Kamara, Ray Winstone hang your heads in shame.....
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I am sick and tired of having these rammed down my throat. And what really irritates me is the gamble responsibly and “when the fun stops stop”.
This is after being force fed this stuff during every live football match I watch.
They are all crap and trying desperately to be original. Jeff Stelling, Chris Kamara, Ray Winstone hang your heads in shame.....
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This. Is anyone actually swayed by these adverts? They are all so bloody loud too.
Betting companies just **** off!
F@$#king TV Zutons
Cheeky Monkey
Well-known member
- Jul 17, 2003
- 23,035
You watch television?
The advert that baffles me totally is the one for booking.com and portrays a bloke
obviously on some form of world travel experience.
The advert starts by showing the party bits'n'bobs but then footage of
him eating something and chucking his guts up by the side of the road, closely followed by him
in hospital having a stomach pump or the like.
I mean really - what was going through their heads?
"Use us and hey you'll be hospitalised if you play your cards right".
obviously on some form of world travel experience.
The advert starts by showing the party bits'n'bobs but then footage of
him eating something and chucking his guts up by the side of the road, closely followed by him
in hospital having a stomach pump or the like.
I mean really - what was going through their heads?
"Use us and hey you'll be hospitalised if you play your cards right".
maffew
Well-known member
Well adverts arent what they used to be
I actually leave the room sometimes when the Go Compare ones come on and dont return to the program
I actually quite like weirdly that one with Schofield cos it is so ridiculous its funny, and the Heman and Skeletor ones
But no, 80s adverts,Smash, KiaOra, Umbungo, R-Whites, Guiness, Harp kick arse. Classics and proper marketing. Oh and shake and vac can **** off
I actually leave the room sometimes when the Go Compare ones come on and dont return to the program
I actually quite like weirdly that one with Schofield cos it is so ridiculous its funny, and the Heman and Skeletor ones
But no, 80s adverts,Smash, KiaOra, Umbungo, R-Whites, Guiness, Harp kick arse. Classics and proper marketing. Oh and shake and vac can **** off
banjo
GOSBTS
thedonkeycentrehalf
Retired
- Jul 7, 2003
- 8,624
I quite like Moose the dog.
You were watching Piers Morgan? By choice?! I don't believe you. You seem like a man of taste.