Adverts that irritate and entertain

tillyoshea · Mon 30 May, 2011 16.14

Chie wrote:Homebase are having a 15% off event. That would be a sale, then...

It always used to be "10%ff" days when I worked there. I've no idea whether by accident or design, but all of the in-store signage used to say "10%ff everything", with the second "0" of "%" presumably to be read as an "o". It just looked utterly bizarre to me.

Jovis · Mon 06 Jun, 2011 19.51

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2011/06/04/a ... he-year-2/

marksi · Tue 07 Jun, 2011 17.45

The way the voiceover bloke says "Wickes" at the end of the adverts enrages me.

Gavin Scott · Tue 07 Jun, 2011 18.45

I love the little Walls dog that says, "thank you for all the sausages".

Actually I love the expression on the man's face as he looks at his wife.

marksi · Tue 07 Jun, 2011 19.18

Gavin Scott wrote:I love the little Walls dog that says, "thank you for all the sausages".

Actually I love the expression on the man's face as he looks at his wife.

I don't get that advert at all.

woah · Tue 07 Jun, 2011 19.48

That advert makes me want to throw knives at my TV. It is absolutely awful in every single way, cannot bear to listen to it.

Gavin Scott · Tue 07 Jun, 2011 21.47

woah wrote:That advert makes me want to throw knives at my TV. It is absolutely awful in every single way, cannot bear to listen to it.

I know I know, everything is designed to annoy - but I have an absurdly empathic resonance with that bloke.

Oh.. God how awful. I identify with pitiful gratitude.

Well that's a kick in the rubber parts. Didn't see that coming.

Chie · Tue 07 Jun, 2011 22.05

Gavin Scott wrote:I love the little Walls dog that says, "thank you for all the sausages".

Actually I love the expression on the man's face as he looks at his wife.

I thought she was just some random lady who works at the garage.

Not a fan, myself. It's yet another advert that implies men are stupid and can't express themselves. I'm thinking of Knorr rice, "I know you haven't got any of those artificial... things?" Flora Cuisine, with Vernon Kay and his possessive mum. Although she might be an actress pretending to be his mum, we don't know.

Men aren't stupid really, they just spend their lives pretending to be stupid, unable to fulfil their true potential, because being the school swot got you beats. Pathetic adverts like these just reinforce the pretense.

That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it!

Edit: Although having said all that: I would...

Ebeneezer Scrooge · Tue 07 Jun, 2011 22.26

What are you banging on about? That Walls commercial is the best around at the moment!

Gavin Scott · Tue 07 Jun, 2011 22.51

Chie, you're watching the second advert.

nidave · Wed 08 Jun, 2011 15.35

Gavin Scott wrote:Chie, you're watching the second advert.

That is dire.. why are they doing hipety hopety music.. I don't get it. (and I am a bloke)
I am able to express my feelings - its a steaming pile of sh*t. Its so bad, my I wanted to rip my eyeballs from their sockets and throw them under a bus.