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Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Tue 26 May, 2009 17.58
by James H
If I hear that twattish, annoying, childish, high-pitched, desperately shit "ta-da" at the end of a confused.com advert again I think I'll go and hunt him down with a machete. It's the biggest load of wank on my telly since I got too excited watching SmileTV 2.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Tue 26 May, 2009 19.04
by lukey
James H wrote:If I hear that twattish, annoying, childish, high-pitched, desperately shit "ta-da" at the end of a confused.com advert again I think I'll go and hunt him down with a machete. It's the biggest load of wank on my telly since I got too excited watching SmileTV 2.
Urgh, yes. It's COMPLETELY ruining Judge Judy for me. PFFT.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Wed 27 May, 2009 13.16
by Gavin Scott
Mikado.
Have we done this one yet?
The advert enrages me. It reinforces the notion that all chinese girls are filthy bitches, what with her appearing to squat over a photocopier, taking a picture of her snatch.
If there was ever a case for an Ofcom complaint, there it is.
Anyhoo, against my better judgement I bought some this morning. They're smaller than I expected, and there's more packaging than content.
Meh. Won't try them again, otherwise they will get the wrong idea and their next ad will feature a pair of chinese girls pooping in each other's mouths.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Wed 27 May, 2009 13.48
by Cache
Gavin Scott wrote:
The advert enrages me. It reinforces the notion that all chinese girls are filthy bitches, what with her appearing to squat over a photocopier, taking a picture of her snatch.
Ahh, but it is funny to see the man's face, looking longingly at the copies spewing out the machine
What about the Listerine ad, in the mountain chalet? Their hideously overblown facial expressions irritate me.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Wed 27 May, 2009 13.50
by Ronnie Rowlands
Gavin Scott wrote:Mikado.
Peep-boo! I think they're Yum-Yum. But not as good as Koko pops.
*ahem* Yes, I've seen 'The Mikado' you know.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Wed 27 May, 2009 14.48
by cdd
When I went to Tokyo I purchased some oversized mikados, except they were covered in some weird kind of banana sauce. I blame them for making me very sick the next day. Anyway, yeah, shit ad, the kind of rubbish you expect to find in some stupid 5MB chain email. The directing style doesn't actaully seem English either, I assume it's imported.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Wed 27 May, 2009 15.00
by Nini
It's imported and it is a terrible ad.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Thu 28 May, 2009 15.11
by Chie
James H wrote:If I hear that twattish, annoying, childish, high-pitched, desperately shit "ta-da" at the end of a confused.com advert again I think I'll go and hunt him down with a machete. It's the biggest load of wank on my telly since I got too excited watching SmileTV 2.
I think the most annoying thing about the advert is the woman who says, "There's a little slider and you can change your excess." Wow I really must go on confused.com
right now - they've got a slider!!
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Thu 28 May, 2009 22.37
by nidave
We have had a reply from Sainsbury's Marketing Dept:
Thanks for your email about our recent TV advert. I can understand your concern about the short weeks we mention.
I’d like to assure you that we are not part of a government conspiracy to reduce costs, nor are we helping MPs to claim time along with their expenses. If we were dabbling with Einstein’s theories, we certainly wouldn’t want to reduce the weekends because we know this wouldn’t be in anyone’s best interests.
As I’m sure you’re aware, time flies when you’re having fun. What you might not know is that time also flies when you’re growing new potatoes. This, of course, is to do with the perception of time passing and this was what we were referring to when we talked about the short weeks. Sadly, we don’t yet have the technology to alter actual time so you can rest assured that weeks will remain at the standard length of 7 days.
I’m grateful to you for making us aware of the confusion our advert caused and I hope you will enjoy our new potatoes during the few regular length weeks that they are at their best.
Yours sincerely
Executive Office
Fantastic response - they took the point and responded accordingly
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 08 Jun, 2009 12.02
by Ebeneezer Scrooge
Calgon's latest irritant:
"These cheaper water softeners only give you half protection; half protection is almost like no protection. It's almost like him (points to son) going out with half a helmet on".
Genius. If half Calgon protection is almost no protection, Calgon is only twice nearly no protection. I'm not so sure limescale in a washing machine is quite on the same scale as sending your son to play with traffic with only half a cycling helmet either!
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 08 Jun, 2009 18.07
by Beep
Anyone noticed the pot of dirt under the child in the Sainsbury's ad? Not the old one, the one that represents children in 2009. Ugh.