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There's an AXA Sun Life Guranteed Over 50s Plan advert on at the moment, with Michael Parkinson trying to get the old dears to sign up to the life assurance policy.

However, the advert must've been filmed a while ago as the phone number to call has changed since filming, and there's a really bad bit of dubbing done in two places, where Parky mouths some other number and a vaguely Yorkshire sounding man reads out the new number in a pretendy Parkinson voice - as if no-one's going to notice.

To make it worse, the sound levels are all wrong. It's truly terrible and very obvious.

The Argos "Bing Crosby" Christmas advert.

"I think he's Argosed it."

What does that mean?

Can only assume it's something extremely rude.

Something Iris would disapprove of. On second thoughts........

marksi wrote:The Argos "Bing Crosby" Christmas advert.

"I think he's Argosed it."

What does that mean?

Oh heavens that is dreadful! Doesn't even look like him. Why spend all that money on a great set, licensing of Bing's likeness (not to mention all the 70s wigs for the audience) and then get a look-a-like that you'd find in the cheap ads section of The Stage?

I do believe this is a national poster campaign, not on radio or TV, but the new 'Keeping Britain Clean' campaign here for cleaning up your dog's mess after it really bugs me. One tagline is 'There's no such thing as the Dog Poo Fairy', and the other appears to be 'Bag that Poo, any bin will do', which reminds me of 'Any Dream will do'. I mentally sing it when I see it, ugh.

Wow, perhaps if I drink diet coke my career will be AMAZING/I will be a mural-painting douchebag TOO!

Ugh...

That suck ass. What was wrong with the diet coke hunk?

I drink the stuff endlessly, and I'm not fussed if its thought of as a lady-drink or homo-beverage, because I am in fact a raging homo.

Why bother marketing it to anyone else?

It is an old advert which aired in the United States only three times and barely accumulated 150,000 views on the video sharing website YouTube. I was impressed by the subtle synchronicity between the music and visuals.

It's far superior to the atrocity we're currently being tormented with over here...

Chie wrote:150,000 views on the video sharing website YouTube.

Are you related to Tumble Tower?

Anyway, those puppets aren't so bad. I like the one where the boss says, "NO NO NO!", and her legs flap about in a rage.

Flapping legs are funny.

What the HELL are those Sky adverts featuring some kind of american blue furry creatures? I hate them.