Adverts that irritate and entertain

[marksi]

The Aviva insurance adverts with Paul Whitehouse are shite and irritate me.

[Pete]

Are you so simple that you can only interpret the mere presence of arranged music as being depressing?

What a vile thing to say! But I wouldn't expect anything less from you. :roll:

If I'm not mistaken, your last bit of moral panic aimed at lukey was when he told plymouth to fuck off.

If we were to apply this consistently and have a distaste for everyone who wished plymouth would fuck off and thought chie had odd advertising taste we'd be left with a very small subset of users.

Tell me what's next on your list of injustices? Was Britain's number one wibble banned for the wrong reasons too?

[Gavin Scott]

The Aviva insurance adverts with Paul Whitehouse are shite and irritate me.

I saw the second one tonight, and was going to sit up and start typing.

But I like Paul Whitehouse, so I sat back.

But they ARE shite, and really annoying. Those characters are wankers with annoying voices talking shit.

[wells]

Are you so simple that you can only interpret the mere presence of arranged music as being depressing?

What a vile thing to say! But I wouldn't expect anything less from you. :roll:

If I'm not mistaken, your last bit of moral panic aimed at lukey was when he told plymouth to fuck off.

If we were to apply this consistently and have a distaste for everyone who wished plymouth would fuck off and thought chie had odd advertising taste we'd be left with a very small subset of users.

Tell me what's next on your list of injustices? Was Britain's number one wibble banned for the wrong reasons too?

I only commented because I happened to know that Chie is a rather sensitive soul and was rather hurt by that comment.

[iSon]

Oh, pass the bucket!

[wells]

Oh, pass the bucket!

No that's the reason I posted what I did, nothing more to it.

[Chie]

Oh, pass the bucket!

I did find lukey's holier than, 'you're such a simpleton if you can't appreciate the music'-esque remark rather disheartening. I'm not knocking the music as such, but that sort of music does have a time and a place. I personally don't think a Ford car advert is it. Sure, you want the music, but do you want the car..?

Thank you Jon, for speaking out. I appreciate it.

[lukey]

To clarify, I'm not trying to take some pretentious 'ooh it's got instruments so it's REAL music which YOU couldn't appreciate' stance, rather it just seemed that BECAUSE it was arranged you dismissed it as depressing, when - oh, there, I've exhausted all possible interest in this mediocre advert.

[nidave]

Not quite an advert but an advert break:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamo ... undhog-day
some people are idiots

[Alexia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjtO4d1m5j0

Otherwise an amusing advert, does anyone think the British voice sounds a bit artificial in the ad? Is it another case of recycling an American advert and pasting a British accent over it? It distracts from what is potentially a classic advert.

[Sput]

Why does Somerfield have a fat spinster as its mascot?

I've also been weighing up new mobile deals and honestly, truly, have stayed away from T-Mobile because of those horrible mass karaoke adverts. God I hate them.