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Andrew Wood
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Liking the new Carling pool-table ad — with a couple of familiar faces propping up the bar.

http://www.carling.com/adverts/trick-shot/
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Andrew Wood wrote:Liking the new Carling pool-table ad — with a couple of familiar faces propping up the bar.

http://www.carling.com/adverts/trick-shot/
Great nod to the past - love it!
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First ToysRUs as appeared today....."Magical Place" is back.
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The World cup Visa Advert with Usain Bolt. "2014 FIFA World Cup™. Jamaica to Brazil"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NF39wHAy9M

Its Dreadful, poor and you can tell its all fake with him being green screen on nearly every single section of the advert.
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Oddly that bib doesn't feature in the advert.
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I wish to nominate the advert for a yoghurt brand featuring Nicole Scherzinger appearing to be having an actual orgasm whilst eating a yoghurt in a taxi before the taxi brakes, her nose goes in the yoghurt and she laughs stupidly.

She had no dignity before but she really has lost anything close to dignity.
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Looks like this MadBid TREASURE came out last year, but I didn't have the opportunity to see it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZsQhpoOd1c
I thought, "well, it can't be hard to improve on this amazing bunch", but I may have been hasty.
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The Oral-B advert where the woman asks the person on the screen in a white coat (that she's facing away from) in an advert that has clearly to this point been about toothbrushes/toothpaste, "So, you're a dentist?"
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I prefer the one that promises me terrifyingly blinding teeth like Shakira's
"He has to be larger than bacon"
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Not so much an advert, but a teeth-gnashing promo for my new job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOCeAtKHIc
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Oh god, it feels like one of those almost-convincing April Fool's pranks that big companies do these days. What a terrible product. Anyway, why can't they just shout "OK Google... OK GOOGLE... Fuck it... OOOKAAYYY GOOOGGLE" at a phone instead.

PS - has anyone in history stored a shopping list on an Amazon thing, and where on earth would you go to retrieve it?
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