[Closed] Of all the ads that sicken my piss.......

Morally cynical is how I'd describe the Sainsburys ad.

However, if the RBL are happy to be associated with it, then I'm in no position to get wound up over it. They represent the people who properly have a right to comment on it. Not some shouty people on the internet.

'Elite Singles' so cringe worthy I want to tear my own face off when I see it -

I basically can't stand arrogant ****ers telling other arrogant ****ers they should use them, and not anyone someone working class might use.

Morally cynical is how I'd describe the Sainsburys ad.

However, if the RBL are happy to be associated with it, then I'm in no position to get wound up over it. They represent the people who properly have a right to comment on it. Not some shouty people on the internet.

I'd go with that assessment. Don't think RBL have sole opinion-forming rights though, especially as they have a financial interest in the success of the campaign. Not going to get wound up over it - just won't be shopping in Sainsbury's.

I'll just throw this one into the mix, now I remember it:

Advertising is visual cancer.

That's a bit strong, don't you think?

Anyway. The worst thing in your life is a TV ad? 😯

lot's of Ad's are coblers and easy enough to find issue with if you look hard enough.

The message in this one is great:

I call it Muller-licious

'Elite Singles' so cringe worthy I want to tear my own face off when I see it -

Ooooh, oooh - no this is probably worse...
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Damn - I can't find the other one - you know the REALLY funny one that STW has carried for a while with the cute girl and the 2002-stylee round helmet that ruins the whole thing and especially funny considering what site we're one. Can anyone post it, it has me in stitches everytime.

I don't understand perfume adverts. You have no idea if it stinks like dead cat and piss but here's an extravagant advert to convince you of something you can't verify while sat on you're arse watching it.

Simple, they put on an advert with Keira Knightly and a classic Ducatti. It's basicly blackmail, buy our perfume or we'll stop showing you this.

Oh yeah, adverts - it's almost worth the sky monthly fee to get rid of them.

I don't understand perfume adverts.

It's just like any other advert.

Here is a lifestyle filled with supermodels / lambourghinis / lumberjacks / insert-relevant-dream-here, it can all be yours* - if you buy this bottle of smelly stuff.

* actually, sorry, it can't, but never mind, maybe next time.

Oh yeah, adverts - it's almost worth the sky monthly fee to get rid of them.

No it's not, there's more adverts on Sky than there is on ITV!

This. It's not the only reason I'll not have Sky in my house, but it's a damn good one.

WTAF are you paying for?!?

Can't say that adverts annoy me very much in general but I would like that woman in the Trivago advert on page one to fall off her balcony and drown. Also, that Bleu de Chanel has to be the worst offender in the ****y perfume adverts.

These threads are always good value for the Advertising-Effectiveness-Deniers...

WTAF are you paying for?!?

broadband, phone, hdtv recorder thingy, tv content

feel free to not buy it, etc.

Not a tv ad but I saw this in the cinema a few years back

Really a very effective ad. Ok, more a public service message but it was played in between ads for whatever tosh.

Anyone seen the Breitling one with the two 'fighter pilots'? I almost had to rub my eyes to believe it'd actually happened in from of me.

broadband, phone, hdtv recorder thingy, tv content

That's a bundle. Still, if I was going to have a pay-for-tv service, I would want it to NOT have adverts, myself.

And as you point out, I do indeed feel free not to.

Oh, and speaking of which - I HAVE A P [EEEEEEEEEEEE].

Get in.

Those Boddies adverts were great!
An excellent pisstake.

Not seen the Elite Singles/Voyage Privee/Prime Location ads before.
They make me want to dissect live kittens.

The bit in the prime location that says 'this is your reward for missing the school play' - Surely a more approppriate reward for that would be a child with anxiety and a bus load of pramface-silent-tea.

if the RBL are happy to be associated with it, then I'm in no position to get wound up over it. They represent the people who properly have a right to comment on it. Not some shouty people on the internet.

I know it's all smug and everything - but since getting rid of the TV and getting a projector to watch Netflix/downloads etc - adverts just seem utterly bizarre and pathetic.

What's the actual message here? This Audi is the car to buy if you're into unnecessary, convoluted and stealthy gramophone destruction? Meh...

I think the Audi one is a response to this Jaguar one:

Doesn't make it right though, in fact it annoyed me more!

Ok konabunny, if you want to intellectual about it, **** off!

I know it's all smug and everything - but since getting rid of the TV and getting a projector to watch Netflix/downloads etc - adverts just seem utterly bizarre and pathetic.

Yep.

That new payday loans advert with woman walking along, makes me furious that these vultures are allowed to operate.

We just mute them when they come on. The Muller (I think?) ones with that vacuous bint off the telly, where she ends up with a cute and adorable splodge of yoghurt on nose as if to accentuate how cute, adorable and buttonlike it is, can get [i]right[/i] to f- as well. Oh,a and that stupid advert for fat free yoghurt where the two other vacuous bints turn out to be centaurs- wtf?

Last time I tried to watch something on terrestrial commercial TV at prime time, I counted 5 minutes of adverts in every 15 minutes of telly. A friend tells me this is roughly the ratio you get when you pay for SKY as well.

So 1/3 of your viewing time consists of people trying to sell you stuff.

And of course, if this is a documentary, they have to spend a couple of minute reminding you what went on before the commercial break.

All the gambling ads are awful.

The grey, alcoholic looking couple in their dingy, grey flat who find roulette chips in the freezer etc being the most depressing.

[i]A friend tells me this is roughly the ratio you get when you pay for SKY as well.[/i]

You know what really really bugs me - channels you pay extra for and EVEN BOX OFFICE events also show loads of ads! As if they aren't making enough money out of the subscriptions. But what can you do about it eh?

I find the channel 'idents' as annoying as the adverts tbh.

I don't want to be constantly reminded which channel I'm watching, I just want to watch the bloody programme!

At least you can brew up during the adverts.........

At least you can [s]brew [/s] skin up during the adverts.........
FIFY

If you ever watch anything on tv in Austria the ad breaks are about 15 minutes long.
They also come on about 5 minutes after whatever your watching has started.

[i]I find the channel 'idents' as annoying as the adverts tbh.
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Argh! And the "this programme is sponsored by.." relatively new phenomenon but my lord how annoying are they?! The same words about the same damn Lexus/perfume/film/etc before and after every ad break. Irritating as shit.

The bit in the prime location that says 'this is your reward for missing the school play'

Niiiiice.

I find the channel 'idents' as annoying as the adverts tbh.

Any advert that features men with beards, audis, trivago, shiteland, perfume or any other bloocks they're trying to punt me. Can all **** right off.

Any advert that features men with beards,

I'm not even sure he was a real captain.
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Any advert that features men with beards,

end to need a bit of backtracking when you skip the first 20secs of your program.

Interestingly, the Virgin Tivo box have this a feature, so it rolls back a little when to stop the fast forward. The faster you're going the longer it rolls back.

Good point DONK.

The ones that really annoy me though are the little 'idents' that are broadcast in the top corner of the screen DURING THE ****ING PROGRAMME!

Started with SKY iirc.

yep, DONK +1

Long live idents.

I almost never watch live tv. I set the computer to record series or programs I want to watch, then blast through the ads on the +30s skip (8x presses on ITV, 10x on Channel 5 BTW 😉 )

Idents give you a buffer to land on.

I purposefully build a buffer into any transmissions I want to watch as they go out. GO my Humux box on a 2min skip feature to deal with the ads.
I don't mind paying my Licence fee to avoid being pushed unnecessary guff, the Sainsbury Ad evoking the WW1 Xmas truce is just such processed shite. They should donate to the Charity anyway not just to offset the obvious crassness of their campaign.

It's very easy to be a critic.
Don't like this, don't like that etc.
What makes a good advert then?
Something that you would enjoy watching and possibly go out and buy that product?

Never drank Southern Comfort, before or since, so no idea if it works or not.
Certainly got the brand a lot of attention, so I assume so.

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