Nuff' said. I think avertising is annoying now. Norwich union adverts are annoying, in fact almost all adverts are annoying! What do you think?
Adverts are annoying and crap!
Nuff' said. I think avertising is annoying now. Norwich union adverts are annoying, in fact almost all adverts are annoying! What do you think?
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You know what's most annoying?
The fact adverts are so much louder than the programme that's on TV. I mean really is there any need for that? I'm not deaf and I have put the TV on the volume it's at for a reason. Why do they overide that?
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The thing that baffles me about most adverts is that it's as if the people making them never bothered to watch them back through. If they had done, they'd have realised 'oh-hang on. This doesn't make people want to buy our product, it just makes them suicidal.'
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I hate adverts. I am the anti-advert, I have come to rid the world of adverts.
I mute them when they come on.
The worst is the one with all the ugly people. It is a loan company, I think.
Then of cause there is the jamster adverts, which I have not seen much of lately.
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Don't you just love adverts where you get the impressiont that the company has come up with the advert first and then decided on a product afterwards.
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tv comercials became mute and void the moment the remote control was invented.....
when those crappy things come on i just switch to the history channel or something.....after about 5 minutes you check the channel you were watching to see if it´s back to regular programming...
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I HATE the Jamster and other ringtones and phone con adverts. £6/fortnight text 'STOP' to unsubscribe and we will charge you another £99
I HATE loan and accident claim adverts
I do however like certain adverts because some make me laugh, but then again I find anything funny.
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Over here, I get national ads and local ads and I cannot decide which ones I dislike the most.
The local ads that pop up during the local evening news have redefined the word "annoying". Almost 80% of them have terrible jingles that sound like they've been done by the same group of people. "The most comforting call you can maaaaake", "Call Lothamer's, we'll save youuuuu" and on and on. One of the exceptions to this are the ads for a large used car place called Sundance Chevrolet. The owner does not have a jingle, but he's got a gimmick that he's a cowboy. He walks around on a horse in the ads, and since his voice is somewhat muppet-like, he's constantly screaming at the camera to try and get his words through. Of course, the volume is turned up.
The national ads anger me in another way. While it is a faux pas to venture near backroom territory, I have to get this across. A large majority of national ads involve demonstrating a product's usefulness through the misfortune and suffering of a stupid, fat, white male. Of course, the product which saves the man is introduced to him by either his intelligent and sensible wife, a street-smart, athletic, black man, or last but not least a cool, collected asiatic. I see this in so many advertisments and it worries me.
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I can't remember a time when adverts made me remotely interested in the product they are trying to sell. They're just a complete waste of my life.
Long live the BBC!
Edit: And for other channels, long live the mute button!
Last edited by Marcellus; 07-18-2005 at 15:16.
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You also forget - Long Live the Mute Button!!Originally Posted by Marcellus
Long live the BBC!
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2 come to mind.
The life of Brian rip-off...
Dolphin bathrooms........
No one should ever buy these products.
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I don't really mind TV adverts. In fact I quite like bad TV adverts, like Cillit Bang, (The bloke comes on and in a really loud voice says "I'm Barry Bloggs (who?) and Cillit Bang is really good, Buy Cillit Bang, Buy it." Well, that's the idea anyway.) Also that one where the woman in the pink jumpsuit grabs a white top off a passer by and smears enigne oil on it (watchers gasp in horror) and then puts her cleany stuff on (watchers gasp in amazement.)
What I hate is adverts appearing where they shouldn't, like those signs in tube stations saying "McDonalds only 50m this way". A while ago someone was trying to set up a business selling advertising space on the sides of private cars, which would have been the absolute limit.
I also hate sponsorship of sports events. OK so natwest sponsors the cricket and puts their logos on everything. So what? Are we all going to think they are a good bank because they paid the EWCB some money? What's cricket got to do with banking anyway?
And I ESPECIALLY hate the fact that Carling sponsors the Reading festival because it means all there is to drink there is their revolting gnat's piss so-called beer.
So I'd say there's a lot worse things than TV adverts.
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What about those damned Elephant.co.uk adverts? They make no frigging sense whatsoever. Bloody idiots.
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Actually, it's always the same 80's cover band that has (collectively) less musical talent then your average wedding singer. And as local companies don't want to pay for using a recording studio (or for that matter, a microphone) it's all recorded on a Dictaphone.
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Isn't it Barry Scott? I don't think he's anybody important. That is one of the few funny adverts around.
"Look I’ve got my old pledge card a bit battered and crumpled we said we’d provide more turches churches teachers and we have I can remember when people used to say the Japanese are better than us the Germans are better than us the French are better than us well it’s great to be able to say we’re better than them I think Mr Kennedy well we all congratulate on his baby and the Tories are you remembering what I’m remembering boom and bust negative equity remember Mr Howard I mean are you thinking what I’m thinking I’m remembering it’s all a bit wonky isn’t it?"
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Barry Scott, that's it, I just love the way he says it as if anyone knows who the **** he is.
I also like the idea of a cleaning product with a name as bad as Cillit Bang. For quite a long time I thought it was a parody and was waiting for the joke, or that maybe it was an ad for Turkish TV that was somehow being shown by mistake.
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I have another advert, that isn't annoying, but just funny. If you watch the Ocean Finance adverts, you'll notice that about 90% of the 'real people' they've interviewed are overweight dolts, apart from that elderly lady who is married to that unspeaking man who looks like a skeleton.
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Thats the one I was trying to describe above.
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So true, so true. I like loan adverts that ask 'were you turned down by your bank because you couldn't afford the loan? Then come to us!' (or similar). Why do you think they didn't get the loan?! Because they couldn't afford it, you idiots!
"Look I’ve got my old pledge card a bit battered and crumpled we said we’d provide more turches churches teachers and we have I can remember when people used to say the Japanese are better than us the Germans are better than us the French are better than us well it’s great to be able to say we’re better than them I think Mr Kennedy well we all congratulate on his baby and the Tories are you remembering what I’m remembering boom and bust negative equity remember Mr Howard I mean are you thinking what I’m thinking I’m remembering it’s all a bit wonky isn’t it?"
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Hre's an interesting advert, made of real people(!);
http://www.local6.com/news/4741789/detail.html
How stupid can you get?
Very stupid, apparently.
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Oh no it isn't. I went into the toilets of a department store and there on the top part of the Urinal there was the Put Your Advertisement Here sign. For God's sake! Do they really think that men standing there pissing will think "Oooh! They have a special offer on Michelin tires this month at Kwik-Fit. I must go there!"? Other really stupid ads including the E-Sure ones with Micheal Winner. It's one of those broadcasts where you want to horribly murder all the people in it. Then there are the ads which tell you just complete drivel, like the BT Networked IT ad where it says "In the digital network economy, where transactions are instant and secure...". ROFL! They obviously haven't been reading the news a lot recently.
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They've gotten rid of him now, replacing him with 'Mr Mouse', a talking mouse who lives inside a computer mouse (no, I'm not joking). I didn't know how they could make E-Sure adverts worse after Michael 'calm down dear, it's only a commercial' Winner, but hats off to them, they managed it.
"Look I’ve got my old pledge card a bit battered and crumpled we said we’d provide more turches churches teachers and we have I can remember when people used to say the Japanese are better than us the Germans are better than us the French are better than us well it’s great to be able to say we’re better than them I think Mr Kennedy well we all congratulate on his baby and the Tories are you remembering what I’m remembering boom and bust negative equity remember Mr Howard I mean are you thinking what I’m thinking I’m remembering it’s all a bit wonky isn’t it?"
-Wise words from John Prescott
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