Annoying Adverts (again)

[upsidedown]

June Whitfield talking to old people about "those final expenses".

That 40 under 40 one makes me decidedly uncomfortable.

 

[jimboalee]

Was it me many moons ago who told you Tesco have a team of Marketing people who surf the internet looking at chatrooms to see what Joe public are saying about them?

Oh yes.

Do I remember we gave them a good panning about cycle facilities and them selling less than decent bikes?

Tesco clubcard advert features a LBS no less. And he gets a speaking part.

A bit corny mind, but does it change our minds about Tesco?


Or is it just coincidence?

 

[Campfire]

Wafflycat mentioned the one where 'dear old mum' used to come round to use her foot vibrator (is that a euphamism)

Is there any such thing nowadays as a 'dear old mum' - my mum is 90 years old, sharp as a button, does her garden, clips her hedges, paints her greenhouse and drives to her old buddies cycling get together the Dover Fellowship in Lydiate most weeks, does code-words, etc etc. The last thing I would refer to her as is 'dear old mum'! Actually she's quite frightening & I don't tell her everything even now.

 

[Campfire]

Oh, God, the underarms one, I think that's the last part of my anatomy I would ever think about so long as they are not smelly, they're just underarms. There's something else they say in that ad, but can't remember, like 'your underarms deserve or something' I mean who gives a monkeys?

 

[Ravenbait]

That one where they have the lava and say some bacteria live here so just imagine what's in your kitchen.

Not effing extremophile lava-dwelling bacteria, that's for damn sure. Not unless you've got a volcano in your sink, in which case a few germs are the least of your worries.

Sam

 

[Black Sheep]

Any advert for nutritional supplements that can really help boost your immune system as proven in trials.

My wife, as part of a module of her nursing degree aquired some of these trials,

pretty much all of them were done on AIDS and HIV patients in south africa

for anyone not familiar with how the above illness affects the body, it is essentially the immune system crashing slowly until it is too weak to fight off any infection.

so of course it's going to make a difference, however the difference to the immune system of an average user of this forum would be very debatable.





While I'm here, "i was given the wrong ladder at work and fell off it"


why on earth did you climb it if it was the wrong ladder?

 

[atbman]

I discovered the origin of the WKD ads when I had a slight twitch in my wrist while typing. Apparently the W should have been a D

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I discovered the origin of the WKD ads when I had a slight twitch in my wrist while typing. Apparently the W should have been a D

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That one that was on during the TdF for some kind of special Britannia penny, that was annoying, especially since they repeated everything a second time after taking ages to get through the first effort...

Or that one also during the TDF for some stupid car thingy that had a woman constantly singing

'I just wanna to be ok, be ok, be ok, I just wanna be ok, be ok, be ok ........'.

You might be ok love, but you try saying that to the poor sod on a bike you've just run over whilst you revel in your new found Okayness!! .

 

[taxing]

June Whitfield talking to old people about "those final expenses".

That 40 under 40 one makes me decidedly uncomfortable.

The worst are the ones where they have their adult children doing the talking (like the guy who has to dogsit while his mum's on a cruise), or the old people mention that their kids are okay about it. It gives me an impression of grown men and women snapping around their parents' heels, waiting for them to die so they can get their inheritance.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

This is going to sound SERIOUSLY tragic, but as a kid, I collected smarties tubes (there were a LOT of different designs over the years I'll have you know!) from both here in the UK and mainland Europe, dating back to the early '90s.

They were still in the loft until last week when, after getting in touch with The Museum of Brands in London http://www.museumofbrands.com/, I donated them to them!

I was in London anyway, so I waddled along with a BIG box full of the tubes and various other things out to where it is in Notting Hill.

If you have never been to that museum, I'd recommend it, it's FULL of the sort of things that you had either forgotten about or you haven't seen in YEARS!

Who knows, you might even see some of my smarties subes somewhere, and what's more, I got to speak with the currator, Robert Opie, who seemed to be particularly interested in an example from Southern Ireland which was in fact just a long thin box the same size as a tube.

Anyway, here is the link:

http://www.museumofbrands.com/

 

[hackbike 666]

That one with Paul Whitehouse as the hippy is just not funny.

Oh yeah and all those adverts with drink responsibly....Doh.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Compare the Meerkat dot com.

Yes yes, I know we are all meant to be in raptures over them, but I'm not, I can't stand the ruddy things!

 

[Campfire]

That silly woman who is walking around a warehouse in thin heeled shoes, a large parcel in her arms, looking backwards and then blaming the company for some wrapping stuff on the floor. Yes, I know it's dangerous and it should always be cut & it should always be picked up but if she was looking where she was going and wore sensible shoes for going in the warehouse she would avoid it!

I know it's only an ad but it should represent reality a bit. Yes, a bet she was pleased receiving five thousand pounds!

Someone also mentioned phones. It gets me when they say "ONLY 35 pounds a month!" There's nothing ONLY about 35 pounds!

 

[HLaB]

Compare the Meerkat dot com.

Yes yes, I know we are all meant to be in raptures over them, but I'm not, I can't stand the ruddy things!

I didn't mind the first ad too much but after 10zillion versions of the same thing