Annoying Adverts (again)

[guitarpete247]

GF loves the ads for mascara products. "Filmed with Lash Inserts" "Enhanced in Post Production" etc in small type somewhere near the beginning of the ad for a few seconds.

The cosmetics products that state that such and such percentage of women found them fantastic. The trouble is the sample number is ridicoulously small. Obviously they miss out those in the sample that have said it's useless.

"8 out of 10 cats (who expressed a preference)". How did they do that then?

Dr Pepper "What's the worst that could happen?" Well you could drink it .

Yeah the meerkats are good. As is their website.

 

[benb]

Oh, the one that I find really annoying at the moment is one for formula milk.

"To get the same amount of iron, your child would have to drink 8 pints of milk"

And then in teeny tiny letters, "Milk is not a good source of iron"

It's like saying "to get the same amount of Vitamin C as a carton of OJ, you'd have to eat 20 rice cakes"

 

[Davidc]

What narks me is the level of implied misinformation.

Don't these ignorant brain-dead morons understand that a human body contains MORE bacteria cells than human ones? And if it didn't the owner of the body would DIE. That we need to come into contact with some (not too many) pathogenic bacteria to stay healthy?

We have more problems now caused by the sterile lifeless world these companies have persuaded us to pay to create than we do from the bacteria they're trying to frighten us with.

As has already been said, we aren't in the middle of any epidemics at present are we? If not there's not a problem with the bacterial menace is there?

rant rant.

Another is in the same vein - adverts saying that a product is produced without chemicals.

So these food products/ cosmetics/ whatever have no substance, they dont actually exist then. They have been produced with no water, nothing from the air, no minerals? How the hell do they produce their organic food/ sun cream/ makeup and so on using only free uncombined elementary particles - electrons, protons, muons, mesons, bosuns, and then putting them in a product without them forming any edible substance - since that is all chemical?

I'm quite happy with "no harmful chemicals" or "no artificial chemicals", but no chemicals - that's the product of a poorly educated and dangerously stupid mind.

rant, rant.

 

[jimboalee]

There's one on the local radio.

"Nice bike Dave 'Ding ding'."

"Yeh, got it from Blackminster Bikes at Blackminster Industrial Estate, Blackminster, near Blackminster."

"They've got all the good names; Mongoose, Gary Fisher, Orange. And have a 'top-notch' repair service too".....


AWWWWWWWWWWW .....

Blackminster is a few houses, a railway bridge, some greenhouses and a couple of industrial units in a field.

 

[Ashtrayhead]

The BT ads with that scruffy git who always wears the same clothes. He must stink by now!

 

[beanzontoast]

WE BUY ANY CAR DOT COM, WE BUY ANY CAR

repeat...

And how. If only the advertisers knew that their advert has determined me never to go near the firm they are advertising!

 

[guitarpete247]

There's one on the local radio.

"Nice bike Dave 'Ding ding'."

"Yeh, got it from Blackminster Bikes at Blackminster Industrial Estate, Blackminster, near Blackminster."

"They've got all the good names; Mongoose, Gary Fisher, Orange. And have a 'top-notch' repair service too".....


AWWWWWWWWWWW .....

Blackminster is a few houses, a railway bridge, some greenhouses and a couple of industrial units in a field.

It does look like a good bike shop though . If this is the one you are talking about.

 

[guitarpete247]

And how. If only the advertisers knew that their advert has determined me never to go near the firm they are advertising!

They will buy any car. But will offer you B*gger all for them.

 

[Eurygnomes]

As has already been said, we aren't in the middle of any epidemics at present are we? If not there's not a problem with the bacterial menace is there?

Wwwwweeeeeeeeeelllllllllllll.....

define "we"
define "middle"
define "epidemics" and
define "at present"

then I can answer that more succinctly.

If I get the LloydsTSB screech stuck in my head one more time....

 

[Arch]

Any advert where a group of smart women meet up in a smart cafe to drink coffee or wine, and the conversation immediately turns to constipation....

Does anyone really do that?

 

[slowmotion]

Any advert featuring a totally bogus and laughable portrayal of "sophisticated living". They are grimly fascinating.....here's one....


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P-nZZkQqTc

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Bl**dy "Go Compare". That twunt tennor with twitchy moustaches .... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

On the plus side I've now learned where the mute button is on the remote

 

[Jaye]

Money supermarket ad with Omid (I'm Iranian you know) Djalili. What an annoying twunt.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Bl**dy "Go Compare". That twunt tennor with twitchy moustaches .... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

On the plus side I've now learned where the mute button is on the remote

+1 on that, I'd like to string him up by his twitchy moustaches

The insurance add with the nodding dog, I'd like to stick his nodding head where the sun don't shine.

 

[beanzontoast]

Bl**dy "Go Compare". That twunt tennor with twitchy moustaches .... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

On the plus side I've now learned where the mute button is on the remote

I can understand that annoyance factor is one way of getting people to remember a company's advert, but out of principle, I never go near firms that use this tactic. Another one is that bloke who shouts the phone number in the double glazing advert.

The location of the mute button was one of the first to be memorised on the remote of our new tv.