Whistl

[Colin_P]

And yes before you ask the letter 'E' is missing.

Obviously some focus group think tank workshop type thing was had at TNT to come up with that. The missing letter 'E' was probably due to a Yoof in the group..... innit !

Anyway what and why is the question I'm asking that possessed them to do that. Coupled with the massively annoying radio advert it is something I'd rather forget and not use just for being so annoying.

Talking of radio adverts, I listen to LBC a lot there are a few that either grate or sooth;

Although a very serious subject, the one about overloading plugs sockets. Got it, message understood, so please government spend your advertsing budget on another public information message instead of playing that one 200 times a day. I'd quite like to hear a re-run of the "Charlie says..." ones. Meowww

I've no idea what they are trying to flog but there is also one that uses the Takin' care of business song by the mighty Bachman Turner Overdrive. That one I like and it should be noted that Primal Scream shamelessly knicked the riff from that for their Rocks song.

Does anyone else have an advert(s) that either drives them to insanity or is pleasantly tolerable ?

 

[snorri]

And yes before you ask the letter 'E' is missing.

Obviously some focus group think tank workshop type thing was had at TNT to come up with that. The missing letter 'E' was probably due to a Yoof in the group..... innit !

My translator can't handle this line at all, can you assist please?

 

[Colin_P]

My translator can't handle this line at all, can you assist please?

I'll try but before I do, have you tried a Bable Fish ?

Quite simply; there is an annoying radio advert with whistling on it. It is for Whistl which is the new name for TNT, the delivery people. Similar to Go-Cat now being called Opal Fruits.

 

[snorri]

I'll try but before I do, have you tried a Bable Fish ?
Quite simply; there is an annoying radio advert with whistling on it. It is for Whistl which is the new name for TNT, the delivery people. Similar to Go-Cat now being called Opal Fruits.

Bable fish, no I'm a haddock man, and I don't get adverts on my radio but that name change does seem a bit daft, but then TNT is not something most of us want to mess with either. Hadn't heard of Go-Cat either, but I did enjoy an Opal Fruit now and again.
Phew! I'll get on with the third line of the OP now thanks.

 

[Archie_tect]

If I was TNT I'd lose the 'h' too... Wistl sounds so much cooler... in fact they probably don't need the 't' either... 'Wisl'. There you go, that'll be £380,000 please.

 

[Archie_tect]

is too....
tnt.

 

[Colin_P]

Personally I'd have left it as it was and got AC/DC in to sing their song TNT, Oi, Oi, Oi.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

My current pet hate advert on telly is the Victoria Plumb one. The ear worm music that goes with it has me pressing the mute button in a trice

 

[Colin_P]

If I was TNT I'd lose the 'h' too... Wistl sounds so much cooler... in fact they probably don't need the 't' either... 'Wisl'. There you go, that'll be £380,000 please.

What would be cooler would be W-anchors

And each TNT van should have a this button to press.

 

[Archie_tect]

Any advert that has that irritating voice-over introducing the advert breaks for "sponsors of..." ITV evening programmes [usually some whodunnit series or Grand Designs].... Toyota Auris and Viking River Cruises spring to mind.

 

[vernon]

Will the name change last longer than Consignia?

 

[ColinJ]

I can think of 3 reasons apart from trendiness ...

• They could register the brand name 'whistl' but might have struggled with 'whistle'
• The domain 'whistl.co.uk' was still available
• If you search for 'whistl' you automatically find their website. whereas 'whistle' would obviously have a lot of competition

 

[mjr]

Yet another brand name that gets autocorrected if you try to search for it... money well wasted!

 

[potsy]

Dammit, I am now whistling the tune off the whistl advert

There is an equally bad one on a station we have on at work, it goes along the lines of..

Chapel House Chapel House Chapel House Chapel House Chapel House Chapel House Chapel House Chapel House Chapel House Chapel House Chapel House Chapel House Chap Chap Chaple House, no idea what it's advertising

 

[Arch]

I mostly let TV ads wash over me, but the one I'll stop and look up at is the current range of M and S food ones. I like the music and the food looks lovely, I know it wouldn't look like that if I bought it and cooked it, but it makes me salivate every time!