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lord nuneaton savage
08:25 / 27.10.05
I'm not going to be rude about it, although I am sorely tempted, but I do wish that someone would point out to Alan Sugar that discretion is the better part of valour.

People bleating on about their charitable deeds is so...vulgar.

Then I wish they'd feed him to some angry dogs. Slowly.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
08:46 / 27.10.05
When people were going on and on about the RomeH&JulieM advert a while ago, I honestly thought they were probably being a bit grumpy and overreacting.

Now that I've seen it, let's just say I've revised my opinion. Mary J, what were you thinking?
 
 
Spaniel
10:33 / 27.10.05
Actually, whilst I've taken Ganesh's comments elsewhere onboard, I like the "it's not dirt" aspect of the Persil adverts. We live in a crazily germ/dirt phobic culture, anything that's working to counter that gets a thumbs up from me.
 
 
Saveloy
10:40 / 27.10.05
I'm mostly with you there, Boboss, I just wish they'd found a way of doing it that wasn't so self-satisfied.

And those two boys are far too young for that sort of thing.
 
 
Spaniel
10:44 / 27.10.05
Sav, I wouldn't say the advert is entirely un-annoying, just that I like an aspect of it.
 
 
Spaniel
10:45 / 27.10.05
And yes, they are far too young. Could you imagine...?
 
 
Ganesh
11:38 / 27.10.05
And far too cutely heteronormative, in a way that wouldn't be considered acceptable with any other gender combination.

Pah.
 
 
Triplets
12:38 / 27.10.05
Extreme Gorbachev: That Specsavers ad actually makes me wonder if people in advertising have souls. It's utterly loathsome on so many levels. An ad that features a girl so insecure that she is jealous of her mother. Nice, that'll help sell glasses.
The Persil adverts. No, it is mess. Shut up.


Here's something I posted a couple of months ago about another Specsavers ad:

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Advert that is simmering my shit at the moment is the Specsavers one. Upper-middle class couple on a boat, their own boat by the looks of things. She's got those auto-tinting glasses on, hubby hasn't. Hubby goes below deck to switch his glasses to shades and like the fat sack of rich crap that he is leaves his frames right on the edge of the deck..

Oh noes!

The ship lists to one side (and I'm not entirely sure the wife DIDN'T do it on purpose) and his glasses become so much sunken pirate booty. What does the wife do? Lets out the biggest devil may care shit-eating-grin you've seen. Yeah, it's not like a 260 quid pair of glasses actually costs anything. Fucks.

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Unrepentant cocks!
 
 
Ganesh
13:24 / 27.10.05
The SpecSavers ones are uniformly vile, from the 'you need your wits about you to get a pair of cheapo glasses, ohh yes' father/boyfriend cockfight to the faux-corporate 'they really syooot him' bollockery.
 
 
Loomis
14:19 / 27.10.05
I find it impossible to see those ads and not chuckle now, after a bus ride a few months back during which a gaggle of yoofs in hoodies were carousing up the back of the bus, thumbing their noses at Mr Tony with their flgrant display. Lords knows why, but they found the expression "you should have gone to specsavers" hilarious and they kept yelling permutations of it as each other as they leapt about. They were also yelling it at pedestrians whenever the bus stopped.

And the weird thing is, if you repeat it enough, it does become kinda funny.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:33 / 27.10.05
Loomis? You should have

Oh, I can't be arsed.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
19:08 / 27.10.05
Then I wish they'd feed him to some angry dogs. Slowly.

MMMMM, yes. Problem is, he'd start firing the dogs one by one as they failed to chew his tender bits with just the right degree of corporate , um, dog-eat-dog vigour. That and the dog which fails to lick his arse properly will be up for a right going over the coals, and sacked on the spot with a flea left in its ear.

Maybe not just angry dogs will do - but rabid ones?
 
 
Whisky Priestess
11:59 / 28.10.05
Can I add my voice to the chorus or ARG GOD NO for the Romeo and Juliet ad? If I ever bought new stuff I would be boycotting H&M right fucking now.

In fact, I'm tempted to get a job at H&M, starting on the sales floor and over the years working my way up to management, until one night it's late opening and I'm left in charge of the safe and I know no-one will check the takings until Monday morning and I will just take every single note away with me and spend it on Levi's which I will distribute to the poor. It will be worth it, just so that H&M can never afford to blow their wad on abysmal, soul-tearing shite like that ever again.

"Jeans are love and soul and tears" ... for fuck's sake. I'm not sure he shouldn't have to pass some sort of verbal comprehension test before he is allowed to use any words other than WANK WANK WANK again.
 
 
Bear
12:15 / 28.10.05
I really want to see this H&M ad now, can it really be as bad as everyone's making out?
 
 
Sax
12:16 / 28.10.05
I wonder if Persil gets out pre-adolescent semen stains from bunk-bed linen?

"It's not dirt. It's wanking."
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
12:34 / 28.10.05
Or maybe rabid dogs WITH EBOLA TIPPED SPIKES FOR EYES.
 
 
Triplets
12:47 / 28.10.05
Kayfabe, here. Click Play Again (although you won't actually want to ever do that) and wait a couple of minutes for loady.
 
 
Triplets
12:48 / 28.10.05
Ooooaaaahhhhaaaaahahahaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaaaitsabigpileofcraaaaaappp.
 
 
Bear
13:07 / 28.10.05
Oh and Goodfellas seem to be sticking with the "We like shutting down small companies" method...
 
 
Sniv
13:37 / 28.10.05
Kayfabe - yeah, which is stupid when you think about how "eurgh" home-pizzas are. Nothing can compare to pizza from a pizza-place, and anyone who says otherwise is lying, and should be kneecapped.

One other ad I hate, and make me want to pull my testicles off (so I can't have kids) is the Disneyland ad that they're showing again. Y'know, the one with "But we're too exciiiiiited!" and the little freak doing a perfect pirroette (or however you spell it). Every time that comes on, no matter where I am in the house, my g/f shouts "Those fucking horrible kids are on TV again!" and then we get angry about how awful ads are.

Speaking of awfulness, who else has to listen to commercial radio all day? The ads on there reach new levels of awfulness, especially the one for Hastings Insurance, which is too stupid for words (complete with a plinky-plonky soundtrack and an actor who, 'hilariously', is surprised by the Hastings announcer who innanely sings the '1066' bit of the jingle.... grrrrrrr....)
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
13:57 / 28.10.05
There was a classic local radio ad I remember from my time in Devon for local furniture salesman/self-made man/facist Larry Spears and his furniture warehouse. It went something like this:

Woman: (wailing. Sound of extreme misery) AWOOHUHUHUHUHU, UHUHUHUHUHUHU, I'm so SORRY!

Man: (very thick Devonshire accent) YOU STUUUPID WOMARN! YOU SHOULD HAVE GONE TO LARRY SPEARS WE COULD'VE SAVED POOOUNDS!

Woman: UHUHUHUHUH, AAHUHUHUHUH! (weeping continues).

It sounded very much like the advert was advocating a beating for your "womarn" if she failed to shop at the correct furniture warehouse. Devon is that kind of place.
 
 
Ganesh
20:50 / 03.11.05
Why don't Lucky's owners have the fucking thing put down? The little bastard really is taking the piss now.
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
22:00 / 03.11.05
I always imagined the "FRANK" of the "Talk to FRANK" adverts as the Punisher's side job.

"I found out my sister was injecting cannabis and consorting with degenerates, so I talked to Frank. Who burnt down our house, fucked the dog with a power drill, and then ground her down into mince and fed her to a chinchilla."

Yes.
 
 
sleazenation
22:04 / 03.11.05
"I am the spirit of dark and lonely water..."
 
 
Mourne Kransky
22:19 / 03.11.05
Ah, when Freddie Krueger did Public Information Films... And Darth Vader was the Green Cross Code Man. Thought you'd be too young to remember those, sleaze.

My current most hated advertisements are the ubiquitous posters from Brazil, with the paintings of weird fishlike children somehow inspiring us to drink Bramah Beer. Yuck. Creepy.
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
22:28 / 03.11.05
I just saw one a couple nights ago during Conan, a PSA starring DONALD FUCKING TRUMP, intoning in that Noo Yawk honk of his:

"Y'eva hea' of a drug deal gone good?"

No, you don't fucking hear about that, douchebag; that doesn't sell newspapers. I have drug deals go good all the time, then I take home the drugs and do them, laugh a lot and don't hurt anybody. You're just mad that whoever styles your hair is higher than the Trump Tower.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
05:39 / 04.11.05
Ah, the Green Cross man...

I WON'T BE THERE WHEN YOU CROSS THE ROAD... SO ALWAYS USE THE GREEN CROSS CODE. COME TO THE DARK SIDE, LUKE... BUT MIND OUT, THERE'S A BUS COMING.

A bitter, bitter man is Dave Prowse these days. When he came into F*rb*dd*n Pl*n*t for a signing while I still worked there, he was charging about fifteen quid a time for an autograph, and wouldn't write anything except DAVE PROWSE IS DARTH VADER. There were a lot of unhappy children that day.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
06:10 / 04.11.05
He came to our junior school as the Green Cross Code Man to instruct us on the proper crossing of the road, which was nice.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
06:16 / 04.11.05
Same here. He was less bitter back then, it would seem. I think in the more recent case, while STILL smarting from being dubbed by JEJ, he was now worried about the advent of yet ANOTHER Darth Vader with a better claim to the title.
 
 
■
07:09 / 04.11.05
"Open the gate"
Bulldog broadband. Perfume-ad bollockery for teh interweb. Just awful.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
19:09 / 12.11.05
The new Post Office campaign.

"With us it's personal."

You're not joking. It's personal because every single person who's ever had anything delivered, by you, through their letterbox, has their very own, individual story to tell about what a bunch of useless fucks you are. It's not just "I've got this friend who had this happen to them," we've all had you screw something up. Personally.

When it gets to the stage where people are no longer prepared to mail order from certain places because those stores clearly mark their packages, making it so much easier for the thieving cunts you've got working for you to know that there's something worth half-inching in them, it should be blatantly obvious that there's a pretty serious problem.

So when I see your ads with a happy-go-lucky postie giving everybody a cheery smile and jauntily making his way across fields and motorways in order to ensure that Little Jenny gets that new CD she ordered from Amazon, or Granny Jones gets that letter from her grandson, it simply makes me want to upchuck. If they were realistic in any way, Little Jenny's CD would never have made it to her house and would instead be put up on eBay within the week by somebody who works in a sorting office, while Granny Jones would pick the post up off her doormat (at about 2PM in the afternoon, if the delivery times around here are anything to go by) and discover that the ham-fisted prick who'd been plucked, at random, to do that round on that day had smushed it through the letterbox, leaving it scrumpled and torn. He'd probably have opened it up first, though, to check if there was any cash hidden away in it.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:18 / 13.11.05
"With us it's personal."

That should so be accompanied by a disgruntled postie going apeshit with an AK.
 
 
P. Horus Rhacoid
14:47 / 13.11.05
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Billy Fucillo, ace used car salesman. The man is inescapable in the area of New York where I go to school; his doughy, obnoxiously grinning image is plastered on billboards, in newspaper inserts, on the sides of buses (reclining, head resting on his elbow)...

His catchphrase, when talking about the sales and savings that are available at his dealerships, is that they are 'huge.' So every TV commercial (also inescapable) involves him yelling "It's going to be HUUUUUGE!" while spreading his arms wide to encompass how huge it's going to be. Except sometimes even that's not enough, so he does things like promise not to say huge, at which point he instead mouths it while hurling his arms wide, or holds up a sign that says 'HUGE' or starts saying 'huge' but stops midway through, or he has small local children say 'huge' for him and oh my god I can't even look at the word anymore. Words can't capture how unbelievably irritating this man is.

I just thought of the best Fucillo commercial ever: he's making his pitch, and as he's about to say 'huge' someone runs on camera and punches him in the face. Then they turn to the camera and inform us that Billy Fucillo has been arrested for making obscenely irritating commercials and is serving 3 consecutive life sentences without possibility of parole. Yeah!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
01:25 / 14.11.05
I think that everyone probably wants to kill him now, FOM
 
 
Psych Safeling
18:07 / 14.11.05
I'm so glad that someone's finally mentioned 'Mum says it's maaagical'. My wee sproglet is never going to Disneyland, no matter how many prizes it wins/scissor-stabbings it witnesses at school, solely on the strength of that advert. Those child actors (particularly the girl) may have an extremely bitter and volatile young hoodlum to deal with in approximately 15 years time. It makes me angry for about half an hour after 'we heard that!'.
 
  

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