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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:08 / 26.01.06
I believe you are referring to the very same one I came to this thread to rail against. Sheila's Fucking Wheels.

It's the one with the bloke singing that nags at me- "cos if you've got a name like Florence and you're after car insurance"- FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF!!!

"Women are careful drivers, you can save a bunch of fivers"

DEAR GOD MAKE IT STOP!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!
 
 
Loomis
14:45 / 26.01.06
Now, now, gents, we'll have no railing against sheilas on Australia Day.

I curse you both for putting the words in my head. I'd never worked out exactly what they were saying. Thanks. Thanks a bunch.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
16:42 / 26.01.06
What I like about that ad: the car appears to be travelling in reverse.
 
 
Loomis
20:10 / 26.01.06
That's how cars work in the southern hemisphere Randy. Just like how water swirls in the opposite direction.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:16 / 26.01.06
They're in the future in Australia too, aren't they? Does that mean there are jetpacks and stuff?
 
 
Sniv
21:39 / 26.01.06
No, it means that somewhere, deep in the outback, Tina Turner is making people fight to the death and looking all scary in chain mail.
 
 
Loomis
09:21 / 27.01.06
Just be glad you never saw Tina doing the Rugby League ad on television.
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
07:10 / 09.02.06
I detest that Persil ad on at the moment, where the foxy mum is getting ready to go out for the evening, and her teenage son insists on her wearing a red cardigan so that his mates don't lech at her. Why don't you just joing the fucking Taliban and make her wear a burqa, you little twat.
 
 
Jub
07:53 / 10.02.06
apparently, the way to make precious drama school children drink milk is to give them a straw made of chocolate and they will be visibly amazed at how good it tastes, rather than just, y'know, eating the straw.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
08:29 / 10.02.06
A straw made of...

...

...
 
 
■
09:30 / 10.02.06
It's a straw, presumably made of wafer, coated in chocolate to "turn the milk chocolately". Given that the only vaguely nutritional component of Coco Pops (known in the us as Cocoa Krispies, IIRC) which it is a spin-off from is rice - which this doesn't seem to contain - my brain boggled when I first saw this.
 
 
■
09:34 / 10.02.06
Snackspot link
Advert (probably, can't get it at work)
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
21:18 / 13.03.06
That bloody Whiskas advert - "This is fred, bed, fred, bed, fred, bed, fred, bed." until my ears started to bleed and I wanted to murder Fred and his owner, one of those little fuckers who acts like an adult.
 
 
praricac
12:02 / 14.03.06
furniture adverts seem to have haunted me throughout my life

am i paranoid, or is there some sort of psychological trickery being employed by DFS and such?

in their ads, whenever they mention the *price* of something they say it like "just three nine nine" as if its some kind of abstraction, but when it comes to the *saving* they always go "that's over four hundred pounds off"

you never hear them say "that's a saving of six zero zero!"

is it me?
are they really that mean and sneaky?
 
 
Ex
13:35 / 14.03.06
It's great to be forty!

(And for a long blissful moment, you think - this is the first step to freedom. Look at the happy, confident forty-year old women. It's probably an advert for adult education courses or something. Whee! Feminism actually worked! Adverts are no longer the medium where sexism survives through a horrible half-life of parody and 'ironic nipples', springing back into sincerity again at the first opportunity, like a vampire prune drying out and then being reinflated with Sunny D and wee. Hurrah!)

...when you look thirty!
 
 
Jack Denfeld
13:41 / 14.03.06
The new Longhorn steak house commercials. The guy goes in and sees his girlfriend's there with Lou Ferigno. And then Lou Ferigno kicks his ass for ruining their date. It's not really awful though.
 
 
Ariadne
13:46 / 14.03.06
Ha - that advert's been driving me nuts, Ex! The first time I saw it there was noone around to exclaim to, and I was left just hitting the arm of the chair in annoyance.
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
15:08 / 14.03.06
What mammoth ARSE thought it would be a good idea to soundtrack an advert for mobile pissing phones with Vashti Bunyan's "Just Another Diamond Day"?

Stand up for yourself, sirrah and fight like an Englishman. I'll thump you to oblivion and back.
 
 
praricac
09:47 / 18.03.06
three words that will strike terror into the heart of anyone who has telewest cable tv:

"lastly mate, bluetorials"

why why WHY would any company employ such a complete twunt to represent them?????
 
 
Alex's Grandma
11:10 / 18.03.06
Indeed.

'But can it make me a dotcom millionaire?'

Whole cities have been razed to the ground for less.

If it's any consolation though, I'm guessing the star of this ad has to down about a gallon of scotch every night, just to keep the mocking voices and terrible flashbacks even vaguely at bay.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
11:19 / 18.03.06
I saw that French Connection ad for the first time yesterday. Fucking hell. As if there weren't enough reasons to hate the FCUK brand already. FCUK profits fall by 53%. Good!
 
 
praricac
09:30 / 20.03.06
confused.com
1 the 'actor' in it
2 his lines: "soooooooo many companies" etc

makes me want to dive off a skyscraper and land teeth-first on a drinking fountain every time
 
 
Shrug
18:34 / 28.03.06
This "add".

It's not cute, it's weird.
 
 
■
18:44 / 28.03.06
Velvet? Hell, yes. I thought advertisers had learned their lesson about that with the Britannia ads a few years back. Just creepy and wrong.
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
16:46 / 16.04.06
WARNING, WARNING!

Anna "I was Born for this Thread" Friel is back in another godawful advert - for panten no less. When will the advertising community learn that we will not stand for the smug cow wondering around like she's Immelda Marcos.

Silly Cow.
 
 
Triplets
17:07 / 16.04.06
Silly women and their adverts.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:30 / 16.04.06
Silly Cow.

Silly women and their adverts.

Um?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
18:47 / 16.04.06
I think Triplets was pointing out what a knob Math is.
 
 
Kiltartan Cross
21:09 / 16.04.06
I think Triplets was pointing out what a knob Math is.

That business with the owls and the flowers was right out.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:42 / 16.04.06
That was certainly the impression I got from Triplets' post.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
22:35 / 16.04.06
Fair enough. Sorry, Triplets.
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
10:41 / 17.04.06
Ok kids, I wasn't having a go at women, or Anna friel for being women, mainly at her smug nonsense that she brings to EVERY SINGLE ADVERT she is in. If that makes me wrong, I don't ever want to be right.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
14:33 / 17.06.06
The new Frosties advert.

The water in the toilets at school that you're presumably going to have your face shoved in repeatedly for this performance may taste like many things, you over-enthusuastic young shaver, you, but 'great' probably won't be one of them. Mate.

And how dare they sideline Tony like that? You get the feeling that if the ad had gone on for a few seconds longer, that boy would have shot his load in Tony's face.

It was bad enough when they tried to turn him into a 'Mr Motivator'-type lifestyle guru, but now he's been reduced to the status of a petrie dish, pretty much.

Poor Tony.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
15:13 / 17.06.06
It's the weird protestant health freak appropriated ska that makes it just that extra bit grrrrrrating.
 
 
Ganesh
15:30 / 17.06.06
The new Frosties advert.

Indeed. The most punchable child of all time? Of this year, anyway.
 
  

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