Worn Old Motorbike wrote:


As the person who started this thread, and chose its title, I have to say that's the closest competition I've yet seen for the ad that inspired the whole thing. Bloody hell.

What message are Virgin trying to give by using music from Tron Legacy in their adverts?

I'm not sure why but this latest BT advert about Wifi hotspots has really annoyed me. I'm assuming it's about these three flatmates and one of the guys has the hots for the girl, but it leaves me with the feeling "Why should I care about these people?" and "What exactly is it you're trying to sell me?"


This may sound strange, but when I saw that trio of irritating pricks on billboard posters (and subsequently annoying TV ads) I immediately thought of Harry Potter, a Radcliffe, A Grint and Watson but with no magical powers, all grown up and sharing a flat. And getting on my tits with their smug attitudes.

The latest advert for Dulux. What kind of fools would do this to themselves, destroying a perfectly happy relationship by filling the house with screaming mucus machines. This isn't and ad for Dulux, it's an ad for Durex.

YEAH Sean: that is just nasty.

Other than the regular PPI financial shit, we are running out of bad ads, because, no-one has any money to waste.

LOVED that dollarbill thingy: that was funny.

I dislike the Gilette ones with Chris Hoy, and his self-perpetuating thighs, and his voiceover saying 'and why not try the rest of the latest Gilette products' as in, if you dont try them, I will squash your head with my calfs/calves.

Or not.

There is an ad on Irish radio at the moment for Heinz ketchup, which is a man reading out different words for something being tasty, in a whiny sing song voice. If I ever find him, he shall have to come up with a similar amount of words for the injuries that I shall inflict upon him.

Darren wrote:


None of my business, but I like the cut of your jib, sir.

Gerontophile wrote:


Your kind words have been noted and stored for future use for whenever I need a character recommendation, carry on...

The new Newtonian HTC model-falling-out-of-plane advert. Visually, it’s not bad. The voice-over, however, has Jacomo-esque sincerity/hillarity to it. Statements. Made. In short. Breathless. Sentences. Probably. On. A phone. He has that mid-Atlantic Graeame McDowell twang, too, which billy-can-boils my piss. Oh, and Submarine was awful

Those grotesque idiots who populate the adverts for ...some hair product or other... which precede the nightly Simpsons episodes have forced me to come up with a new word to describe them and their ilk: 'Smugly' - a combination of smug and ugly.

God, I can barely bring myself to look at them!

And yet we continue to test chemicals on beagles and similar, when there's a surplus of such wastes of carbon as the above! Gah!

"I quite like that one." said the Marks and Spencer employed Mrs of the Shed upon seeing their new advert for the first time a couple of weeks ago.
"Arrrgh! Fucking thing." said Mrs of the Shed yesterday as it came on the telly. Having the blanded up Gary Barlow version of Here Comes The Sun blaring out of every loudspeaker at your workplace every half hour begins to grate very quickly, I'd imagine.

I meant to write this a month ago, but now I've remembered, I'd just like to thank Gerontophile for the phrase 'Chris Hoy and his self-perpetuating thighs'. If I ever decide to change my username for something a little less cloaked in mystery, it will be that.

Sean: Do you work somewhere with TV advertising? Poor bugger. I thought having to listen to John Hannah saying 'Good With Food' in that strangulated accent every 6 minutes for 8 hours per day, was bad. At least you (might) get Gary Barlow (and the song itself is actually ok, although with *repetition, it would be appalling, I suspect.)

Sam: <blush> Sometimes I get lucky.

*I just had a massive brainfart, and possibly made this up, but I remember a song done by 'Not The Nine O Clock News' called 'Repetition'... or did I? They did the best pastiche ever with 'Nice Video...', so it is quite possible.

Tangent alert (as ever):

Nice video... Dont watch it fullscreen, as its very early 80's, and looks rank. (Which sort of defeats my point, really... fuck it, enjoy.)

I mentioned upthread about the look of really 'traumatic' adverts, and I would suggest, its because 'everyone' (who can) records the programmes, and fast-forward through the adverts. I only get to see the same old shit on FX channel (and occasionally ESPN, but they are actually ok), when I am watching NCIS or something, in real-time (more usually, Leverage, and my, doesnt Timothy Hutton look old!)

30 seconds of Clare Grogan having the piss, ripped out.

You can thank me later.

Sam Kelly wrote:


WOM: I fear that you may have shattered the web with this one... that is utterly batshit-crazy, whatever that means. Awesome.

Not been reading this thread, so apologies if I'm repeating someone, but the Sky Multiroom Nature Docs/Sport advert...

OK, so the people who want to watch football are the father and son, and those who want the nature doc are the mother and daughter. I can cope with that. But then locating the father and son in the living room, and relegating the mother and daughter to the kitchen? Surely there should have been a pause for thought about that...

Sean of the Shed wrote:


Ever since I first saw this ad, it has pissed it down every day. It wasn't the announcement of the hosepipe ban that opened the heavens, it was this piece of brainturd.

Every time I'm in a place where I have to listen to Sky adverts, to hear Victoria Wood describe Murdoch-vision as "We" feels like a dagger in my heart.

Latest Thomson ad contains a lovely piano version of the Pixies' 'Where is my mind'. You can close your eyes and forget that, but for the soundtrack, it's the usual peddling of dreams far removed from the mundane reality of package holidays.