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Adverts that make you want to hit things.

During the shooting of that, Trinny kept sending a runner out for coffee cos she couldn't stand the taste of Nescafe.

My useless fact for the day...
 
Airbrushed masacara and other cosmetics ads - after I dated a photoshop techinician and he showed me how they remove every eyelash in the photo at the retouching stage and draw new ones in but four times as many. :mad:
 
I was sat thinking just where to start and then I read lizzieloo's post about the green dwarf car advert and I agree that is definately one advert that always gets on my tits.

I dunno if it's the same one (it goes along the same lines - get in debt with us or look like a scrubber in your shit old 'payed for' motor) but there's the one with the couple who pull up next to themselves in a another dimension in which they are driving a shiny new car and look incredibly happy. Not only do they look happy and smug but signing on the dotted line seems to have also changed their dress sense, haircut and the amount of makeup they use. They have probably stopped shopping at at Jack Fultons and switched to Marks and Spencers as well. Yes folks buying a car with blah blah finance will transport you to another dimension - a cleaner, richer, higher class one which is also magic cos even though it seems like heaven you will be more out of pocket than ever!!!

arrrgggggg bang bang bang
 
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Latest Andrex (or whatever) ad with yuppies + puppy + gleaming white flat + insufferable "cute" voiceover (Hugh Laurie, is that YOU ??? :mad: )
"thanks for making the bed for me!" AAARGHHHHH!

(for the record I usually like cute puppies - not yet a total killjoy - but this ad just makes me want to chop the little beast up into kebabs.)

Any of the Kandoo ads - special, colourfully packaged, overpriced, unnecesary products to 'help' you potty/toilet train your offspring. It's a wasteful product line in itself but it's INSUFFERABLE that the ads appear to be 'targeted' to the toddlers not the parents! (..." new kandoo buttwipes give YOU the confidence to master the throne" etc....) ... my anger knows no bounds!
 
Any of the Kandoo ads - special, colourfully packaged, overpriced, unnecesary products to 'help' you potty/toilet train your offspring. It's a wasteful product line in itself but it's INSUFFERABLE that the ads appear to be 'targeted' to the toddlers not the parents! (..." new kandoo buttwipes give YOU the confidence to master the throne" etc....) ... my anger knows no bounds!
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It's all about empowering toddlers through their potty training doncha know? Personally I think all this ultra dry stuff retards the potty training and means more $$ for Unilever and P&G - the kids gonna learn not to pissn'n'shit quicker if it learns through aversion...well maybe not but y'know...

My reaction to ANY parent that buys that stupid Kandoo mitten is 'Give the child a flannel and some soap and let it work it out'
 
8ball said:
Those McDonald's adverts. :mad: :mad: :mad:

I've already smashed 3 TV's because of them. Maybe I should stick to the Beeb . . .
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Yep, the "we're listenting" fuck off fuck off fuck off!!!!!!! :mad:
Also the coke one where the man hands them out and suddenly everyones nice to him, also...ANY FUCKING advert where they have a soft voiced northern voice over guy it's so...urghh...
 
Lost Zoot said:
Yep, the "we're listenting" fuck off fuck off fuck off!!!!!!! :mad:
Also the coke one where the man hands them out and suddenly everyones nice to him, also...ANY FUCKING advert where they have a soft voiced northern voice over guy it's so...urghh...
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Well Lost Zoot you are SO much in a minority on that one. 30 years worth of TV and radio research says that over 70% of people prefer to hear a Northern accent when being sold any product that requires 'trust' - financial services for example.
 
kyser_soze said:
Well Lost Zoot you are SO much in a minority on that one. 30 years worth of TV and radio research says that over 70% of people prefer to hear a Northern accent when being sold any product that requires 'trust' - financial services for example.
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that's the whole point kyser. we know that the voice over has been chosen simply for that reason. it makes us aware that the advertiser is trying to manipulate us
 
and I thought I was the only one who shouted at the TV during commercials!

I don't think the Kandoo ad's are particularly bad (although i can often be heard shouting "what's the bloody point" when they are on) but I do worry about anyone who would buy the product.
 
rubbershoes said:
that's the whole point kyser. we know that the voice over has been chosen simply for that reason. it makes us aware that the advertiser is trying to manipulate us
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Yeah, and there are the one's that don't make you annoyed that do work...:p
 
"Why don't you give Diamond car insurance a ring? They know that women are better drivers, and they can save you a third off your car insurance, because you're a woman!"

Because you can tell someone's driving ability by their sex, can't you? :mad: :rolleyes:

Although I suppose it's on a digital channel, in the middle of the day - so you can tell the target audience!

reverse the roles and watch the ASA magically disappear the ad
 
"Why don't you give Diamond car insurance a ring? They know that women are better drivers, and they can save you a third off your car insurance, because you're a woman!"

Because you can tell someone's driving ability by their sex, can't you?
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Statisically yeah you can. Women make fewer and lower insurance claims across all age groups then men as a % of the total driving population. THey couldn't say it about men because it isn't true.

It's not an incorrect statement.

NEXT!
 
Pretty much every cunting advert I see makes me want to hit the 'off' switch on my TV.

I can't remember the last time I saw an advert that actually made me want to buy something, rather than piss me off and insult my intelligence as a 'consumer'.
 
The silliest adverts at the moment IMHO are Nestlé's - they appear to have bought up half the world's breakfast cereal brands and are busy polishing their tarnished image by making out they invented "whole grains" :rolleyes:

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Those M&S Adverts.

They should say, in that horrible purring voice:

This is not just food - this is overpackaged, unhealthy, mass-produced supermarket rubbish made of shit quality ingredients, heavily laced with additives to make it taste even half-way acceptable, but because it's M&S and supposedly upmarket, and packed in fancy packaging, you'll buy it just like the mug you are.
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That Johnny Vaughn 'Waking up your street' ad for Cabidal FM is doing my bleedin' nut in. I estimate that every time that advert is played, he loses another 1,000 listeners. If they don't pull it soon, he'll be ruined.
 
Oh, and all of those NHS anti-smoking adverts.

Look, I know smoking's not good for me but it's my choice to do it and it's not as if I don't pay for it. I don't need you trying to preach at me whilst I'm trying to watch the television. Take your sanctimonious adverts and fuck off!

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