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Advertising cliches that piss you off

Juice Terry said:
Airlines that assume everyone flies first/business class, no mention of the all the poor fuckers cramped into cattle class like ...er ... cattle.
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They don't assume everyone flys business class - the ads are only aimed at people who can either afford/their companies afford to fly BC/First. Airlines make more money out of BC seats than they do from economy which you have to take if you want to fly, and by and large your choice of airline is based on flight need (flight time, airport etc) and convenience not preference for BA, Virgin or whatever.
 
swelegant said:
Another thing that shits me is how women are often semi naked or naked in adverts. If there's going to be naked women, there should be naked men as well!
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There are quite a few. I don't necessarily think it's a good thing though. There nothing wrong with naked bodies but showing a naked man or woman basically having an orgasm because of the smell of his/her shower gel is a bit unnecessary and just, well, silly! :rolleyes:
 
Going back to tampon adverts, what really gets me is the ones where the tampon is oh-so-discreetly wrapped that no-one would know it is a tampon.

Why-o-why-o-why should women be ashamed of having a tampon in their possession? Have we still not got over shame at having periods? Surely it would be more embarrasing for a woman not to use any form of tampon/towel/mooncup at all?

Grrrrr.

Rant over. I feel better now.
 
RE: Tampon ads...it's still the old biddies and repressed Daily Mail readers that mean the rules regarding taste and decency in relation to sexual content on TV are also applied to sanpro advertising. This one really is out of the hands of agencies and advertisers unfortunately.
 
Personally speaking I'd much rather they slopped a beaker of blue dyed water around in tampon and nappie ads than blood, piss and shit. Put you right off your dinner that would.
 
I hate anything being described as 'great' (opther than in mentions of historical figures etc)

What a lazy use of language! It just gets slapped on to produce a false sense of urgency without bothering to actually procude a word that specifies what is so good about this product.

Or it's used to sound hip and youthful and appeal to a young market. How fucking patronising can you be?

And this is done by people who get paid fat salaries as writers.
 
Re:Cloo's comment
And when said child gets a really bad infection, caused by the accelerated mutation/evolution of bacteria, which in turn, is caused by Mother following said ads, what will happen then...? :rolleyes:
(Hello, "Ambulance Chasers"...?)
Grimley
 
Re:HP ad's
No they're meant to justify the £27 (Approx), you have to fork out everytime the ink cartridge(s) run out on your HP printer.... :p
As for Dell's ads...
"Whar's a Blade...?"
"It's the stupid name our marketing department's come up in order to sell this product..."
"Why are there no cables at the back...?"
"It's to lock you into our product & force you to buy our "docking station" er "Blade Center" which does have the cables at the back..."
"What's a "Blade Center"...?"
"Jeez, I just told you what a "Blade Center" is...."
"Tell me, how much is your Server replacement budget, this year...?"
(Dell servers use Intel Xeon processors, as we have signed a exclusive agreement with Intel, allowing us a 10-15% cost discount on their processors, which we won't be passing on to you...)
Grimley
 
That fucking Hovis ad with the cartoon Northern kids doing "show me the way to go home" about junk food. "Give us grease that makes us obese..." no tap-dancing on every parent's worst fears there than... wankers.
 
G. Fieendish said:
Re:HP ad's
No they're meant to justify the £27 (Approx), you have to fork out everytime the ink cartridge(s) run out on your HP printer.... :p
As for Dell's ads...
"Whar's a Blade...?"
"It's the stupid name our marketing department's come up in order to sell this product..."
"Why are there no cables at the back...?"
"It's to lock you into our product & force you to buy our "docking station" er "Blade Center" which does have the cables at the back..."
"What's a "Blade Center"...?"
"Jeez, I just told you what a "Blade Center" is...."
"Tell me, how much is your Server replacement budget, this year...?"
(Dell servers use Intel Xeon processors, as we have signed a exclusive agreement with Intel, allowing us a 10-15% cost discount on their processors, which we won't be passing on to you...)
Grimley
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A) The ad is for IBM
B) IBM are one of the least exclusive manufacturers out there, offering AMD, intel and IBM processors, as well as Unix, linux, windows and any number of other esoteric systems
C) IBM have given more support to open-source software than any other institution
D) IBM blade servers are based on technology licensed from RLX, who publicly offer compatible licenses
E) Blade servers are extremely cost-effective for situations where huge numbers of servers are required for critical applications
 
Northern fucking Upholstery/DFS/Conroys.

Adverts exclusively shown between 6 + 7 every friday, every week without fail. Always a closing down sale, with the available discounts always being on for just the one weekend only, but in over 20 years (at least) they never quite seem to get round to closing permanently (with the honourable exception of shackletons, god i miss that old biddy rambling about the chair her daughter-in-law bought her). Always list the name of every branch n its somewhere you've never heard of and my thoughts are always, "well the weekends here, what the fuck could possess me to go anywhere near (all together now)......carcroft, thorp arch, wetherby, brigg, castleford, grantham, darleydale, peterlee and shiremoor - if I knew where they were, would there be owt there apart from a fuck-off sized bland soulless furniture warehouse?". The biggest ugliest sofas, y'kno, the upholstery equivalent of a Humvee, are the only ones that appear on the ad, as long as theyre baige, mauve, lilac or some other non-colour. Theres always a 30 something couple sitting 'modelling' them, usually a stepford wife smiling inanely whilst pretending to read peoples friend, with hepworths ad throwback pretending to be her husband, again smiling inanely.

Oh, and the KFC 'lets film some good-looking 20somethings throwing a frisbee around to the sound of some 60s soul classic'. That way no-one will notice we sell shite food, or equate the fact that our usual megabucket aficionados are at least 22 stone and don't tend to share the fuckers with their mates.


Just remember folks, theres nowt soulful and nowt funky about deep-fried undersized poultry.
 
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I hate those yogurt adverts which have some magical ingredient with an unpronouncable, obviously made-up name:

With Cultures of Quyanbolasfaoghaloatron, consumers agreed that this yogurt has 5% less fat...

I also hate that SUV advert with the behemoth driving along a country road with kids singing "go where you want...do what you want". It promotes a reality where the SUV driver is "free" to drive wherever, even though most SUVs will never see a country road or mountain track, and will more likely be used to take the fat kids to school (watch out for those peedofiles who walk the streets) or travel to the local Homebase.

Yeah right...go where you want (the local Tesco), do what you want (block up the road for other drivers/motorcyclists/pedestrians)
 
G. Fieendish said:
Re:Cloo's comment
And when said child gets a really bad infection, caused by the accelerated mutation/evolution of bacteria, which in turn, is caused by Mother following said ads, what will happen then...? :rolleyes:
(Hello, "Ambulance Chasers"...?)
Grimley
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God, yeah. :rolleyes:
 
Re:Poet's Comment
It seems you did not watch the ad I am referring to/taking the mickey out of(Delete As Applicable), Poet, as it is Definitely for Dell's product,
NOT IBM...! :rolleyes:
The end of the ad explictily mentions that Dell use Intel Xeon Processors Exclusively....
Grimley
 
nobody is ugly... and...

"new and improved"

if it's new, how can it be an improvement? it's a new product?
and if it is improved... then it's not new, it's just an old product with bits on
 
swelegant said:
What bugs me are the panty liner commercials, where you won't feel "morning fresh" unless you wear them,
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I wonder when the manufacturers of panty liners are going to market a male version to prevent skid marks.
 
Hey, the Mach 3 actually feels like driving a F1. Three laps on a sandstorm with no helmet. :p

Well, ads for make-up and slimming products where most of the models would never need it. All others were already mentioned.
 
I love how ads for drink have slogans like Bastard Rum - Gets you pissed fast

And then underneath in tiny wee print there's Best enjoyed in moderation
 
Two bad words.

Crazy. Frog

Or any of those ring tone phones. Or people laughing with their loan company cos that always fucking happens doesn't it.

Or (and this *really* gets me) ads where the company owner is so vain he appears in it themselves, and insists on doing the voiceover. But his voice isn't up to the job so it sounds muffled. And shit

Or onces that go "YOU BUY ONE - YOU GET ONE FREE! I SAID YOU BUY ONE YOU *sound of shotgun being discharged at TV by me*


For someone who works in advertising, I sure do hate a lot of ads.

All ads should be like the dancing Renault - innovation doesn't always cost much.
 
the crazy bleedin frog.
The furniture ads featuring Katie Melua singing the closest things to crazy.
The stupid ads for magazines like Chat and Closer that imply that all working class people live lives like something off the Jerry Springer show. (or are the producers of such trying to be "ironic" ?).
 
the fucking sunny d ads. coz not every kid is like max wilde its ok for you to pump them full of sugar bollox with our drink made in a lab and has never seen a drop of orange juice in its life.
 
Has anyone mentioned yoga chick yet?

How many ads have you seen with a relaxed looking 20 something woman in the lotus position? Tends to be photographic rather then film. It is such a tedious image. Fuck knows who they think it appeals to.
 
"tasty" pet food adverts :mad: "won't make you throw up when when feeding your cat whilst hungover" would be a better sales gimmick

The time honoured weakness as strength ploy - I would not like to have a crash in the car in the pinball advert and the back end of shaking that ass is ugly.

Advertising does provide some priceless fuckups though - has BA run that fall asleep on the streets advert since Gate Gourmet?
 
Celebrities appearing in the ad and then "snapping out" of the action to address us lowly punters - breaking the 4th wall / TV screen. (Is this the same as verisimilitude? Media studies is a distant memory...)
There you go - I can say I hate the Michael winner ads now, cos it's part of a cliche (see also Joanna Lumley...)
BTW - loving the fact MW has been replaced by a badly animated mouse.
 
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