Adverts that irritate and entertain

Sput · Wed 04 Feb, 2009 17.53

The closest thing I compared it to was eating soap. Awful AWFUL stuff. I was pretty gutted as I thought, what with their largely excellent food, the Americans would be good at chocolate.

nwtv2003 · Wed 04 Feb, 2009 20.47

Couldn't believe what I found to my horror when I flipped on the Telly this morning

"Who you gonna call? 1-1-8"

..why ruin a classic?

cdd · Wed 04 Feb, 2009 21.12

Sput wrote:The closest thing I compared it to was eating soap.

You may be onto something there. I wonder if the americans bathe in chocolate?

Andrew Wood · Wed 04 Feb, 2009 21.25

Sput wrote:The closest thing I compared it to was eating soap. Awful AWFUL stuff. I was pretty gutted as I thought, what with their largely excellent food, the Americans would be good at chocolate.

Was disappointed too. It's like eating highly-compressed brown talcum powder.

Malpass93 · Fri 06 Feb, 2009 13.51

The T-Mobile ad with the people who take their tops off is greatly annoying. The stupid "I wanna talk" 'tune' in the background is half the annoyance, with the other 50% being the idiotic faces of the people.

Fortunately, it's not on very often.

Gavin Scott · Fri 06 Feb, 2009 13.58

Malpass93 wrote:The T-Mobile ad with the people who take their tops off is greatly annoying. The stupid "I wanna talk" 'tune' in the background is half the annoyance, with the other 50% being the idiotic faces of the people.

Fortunately, it's not on very often.

The lad with the pink T shirt and hand outstretched at the end is very handsome, I think - so I don't mind that commercial at all.

marksi · Fri 06 Feb, 2009 16.02

There's an ambulance-chasing-lawyer's advert on at the moment that contains the line "have you been the victim of an accident" twice.

Can an accident have a victim?

Col · Fri 20 Feb, 2009 19.37

marksi wrote:I HATE THE HARVEY NORMAN ADVERTS BECAUSE OF THE FUCKING AWFUL SHOUTING VOICEOVERS.

I also think they have a very odd combination of products. Beds, sofas, dining tables and PCs.

Their latest ad seems to have a less shouty Australian bloke doing the voiceover, but the "small print" is far too small and the credit arrangements are spoken through at warp speed, making them hard to hear.

And how many years has almost every break on UTV had a DFS ad and those Allianz ads with Queen's "I Want It All" blaring at top volume?

marksi · Fri 20 Feb, 2009 20.58

I don't know. I don't watch UTV. Or ITV (and looking at it's share price today no one else is either).

Chie · Wed 11 Mar, 2009 09.19

"That's the iPhone - solving life's littul problems..."

:roll:

Sput · Wed 11 Mar, 2009 10.04

At least Apple had the decency not to put a face to it, so it's better than the smug twattery that is the blackberry advert. God I loathe those people.