Annoying television adverts...

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The perfume TV advert that has a woman wailing "our baby" over and over and over again but no sign of the infant in question appears.

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Another thoughtless perfume TV advert stridently states "Freedom cannot wait". I wonder how many Palestinians will rush out and buy it?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

During a normal conversation, I can well imagine someone commenting that a picture was their own.

What I cannot understand is the woman 's voice in the TV alvert deciding to sing the same comment, over and over again, to a really annoying tune.

 

[daveo]

The advert for (I think) RNIB with the young girl imploring us to donate to braille letters from Santa to children. Nothing wrong with the content or sentiment, but this same advert has now been repeated on three consecutive years. (At least it saves the cost of a new production).

 

[AM9]

The advert for (I think) RNIB with the young girl imploring us to donate to braille letters from Santa to children. Nothing wrong with the content or sentiment, but this same advert has now been repeated on three consecutive years. (At least it saves the cost of a new production).

Well, presumably the success of the screening in previous years indicates that it was still effective.There's no point in spending charity funds on making new adverts just to entertain viewers.

 

[daveo]

Well, presumably the success of the screening in previous years indicates that it was still effective.There's no point in spending charity funds on making new adverts just to entertain viewers.

Agree!

 

[PauloDavesi]

The adverts between overs on the TNT coverage of the England v New Zealand test series are almost exclusively for gambling companies.
In view of the harm gambling can do to individuals and families, I feel there should be a total ban on such companies advertising on tv.

 

[Harvester]

The perfume TV advert that has a woman wailing "our baby" over and over and over again but no sign of the infant in question appears.

The latest Chanel No 5 perfume commercial is something worth watching over again. It is quite stunning, and so is Margot Robbie.

 

[High Dyke]

You don't see closeups of human backsides being used to promote toilet roll!

Admittedly the bottoms are clothed, but...

 

[route101]

The Amazon Black Friday adverts on Youtube with one of two faces then a tik tok style graphics ad. Every video I seem to watch has this advert.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

They've stopped now, but the incessant "Visit America" ads managed to cram in I think 15 tiny video clips of American scenes in its 15 seconds.
Comes very close to subliminal advertising which was banned long ago (1957).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I am expecting my very first Amazon delivery today. What time will the massed ranks of photographers be expected to arrive and am I supposed to perform artistically when the package is in my hands?

 

[aftv]

I just get hacked off by Ads from Thameslink and Southern on YouTube trying to inspire me to go to places that are on my doorstep that i've been to countless times Usually Brighton, Eastbourne or Bognor Regis. As for Spotify I kept getting ads for a product aimed at young families. FWIW I'm a bloke and dont have a family no matter how many times i've told them i'm not interested in the ad the thing kept coming back .

 

[AM9]

I just get hacked off by Ads from Thameslink and Southern on YouTube trying to inspire me to go to places that are on my doorstep that i've been to countless times Usually Brighton, Eastbourne or Bognor Regis. As for Spotify I kept getting ads for a product aimed at young families. FWIW I'm a bloke and dont have a family no matter how many times i've told them i'm not interested in the ad the thing kept coming back .

Other people use you tube and most of them don't live on the doorstep of destinations that TL are offering, so how do you expect them to advertise? You could prevent localised adverts by turning off access to your geographical location.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the latest Currys TV advert that I saw, a female customer was walking past a display of electric kettles, deliberately knocking them off the display. Should the male assistant who was walking behind her called for assistance, as surely what she was doing was anti-social?

 

[dangie]

In the latest Currys TV advert that I saw….

The current crop of Currys adverts are some of the stupidest on TV. Yes I know some will say ‘Ah but you’re remembering them aren’t you?

Yes I may remember them, but for the wrong reasons. They certainly wouldn’t tempt me to buy from Currys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The current crop of Currys adverts are some of the stupidest on TV. Yes I know some will say ‘Ah but you’re remembering them aren’t you?

Yes I may remember them, but for the wrong reasons. They certainly wouldn’t tempt me to buy from Currys.

I am often tempted to call into the Currys store in Stockport and ask to be served by the girl with the long beard.

 

[Eyersey468]

The current crop of Currys adverts are some of the stupidest on TV. Yes I know some will say ‘Ah but you’re remembering them aren’t you?

Yes I may remember them, but for the wrong reasons. They certainly wouldn’t tempt me to buy from Currys.

I agree they are stupid, they don't tempt me to buy anything from there either

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Just seen a TV advert that seems to attach human feelings to cats which confuses me. It seems to suggest that cats are incapable of looking after themselves in winter and need human protection. Yet I have seen pet cats stalk and kill birds in our local garden area which suggests that the species have not lost that particular power. My grandson says that TV advert does not apply to Scottish wildcats.

 

[Big Jumby 74]

Just seen a TV advert that seems to attach human feelings to cats which confuses me. It seems to suggest that cats are incapable of looking after themselves in winter and need human protection

Absolutely bizarre I agree. Seem to be bombarded with beg...charity adds, one after the other, mostly for overseas - use to be a phrase, charity begins at home (where ever 'home' is for anyone reading). On a more serious note, and somewhat worryingly I find, is an add that has been appearing of late on one of the '3 view' channels, advertising a chef's/cookery fan's large bladed knife. For heavens sake, what the fxxx is that all about, in this day and age? They'll probably claim the item concerned does not break any legal 'rules' because it's this shape or that (etc), but it's beyond me!

 

[jfollows]

Adverts which show people checking out from hotels and acting surprised when they find that someone else has paid less.
Firstly, because I can’t ever remember checking out and overhearing how much someone else has paid.
Secondly, because paying the same amount would surprise me more than paying different amounts.
The advert is trying to make a point but based on a totally invented and unrealistic ‘scenario’.

 

[Forty29]

Absolutely bizarre I agree. Seem to be bombarded with beg...charity adds, one after the other, mostly for overseas - use to be a phrase, charity begins at home (where ever 'home' is for anyone reading). On a more serious note, and somewhat worryingly I find, is an add that has been appearing of late on one of the '3 view' channels, advertising a chef's/cookery fan's large bladed knife. For heavens sake, what the fxxx is that all about, in this day and age? They'll probably claim the item concerned does not break any legal 'rules' because it's this shape or that (etc), but it's beyond me!

Hello Big Jumby 74 again replied to your post on 31165!
Yes the way these knives cut through a tomato with no effort is alarming. Selling them to all and sundry means they will end up in the wrong hands for the wrong reasons, although any knife could be treated the same in this respect.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Adverts which show people checking out from hotels and acting surprised when they find that someone else has paid less.
Firstly, because I can’t ever remember checking out and overhearing how much someone else has paid.
Secondly, because paying the same amount would surprise me more than paying different amounts.
The advert is trying to make a point but based on a totally invented and unrealistic ‘scenario’.

It may well have been the case that one of the people awaiting to settle their accounts had occupied a totally different grade of room accommodation, so it would not be surprising if there was a price differential. One expects a certain standard of confidentiality to be shown by hotel employees in a front-line role with the public and any hotel supremo would be most unhappy to see what the advert showed and would have called those staff for a disciplinary meeting.

 

[philthetube]

On a more serious note, and somewhat worryingly I find, is an add that has been appearing of late on one of the '3 view' channels, advertising a chef's/cookery fan's large bladed knife. For heavens sake, what the fxxx is that all about, in this day and age? They'll probably claim the item concerned does not break any legal 'rules' because it's this shape or that (etc), but it's beyond me!

A 6 inch blade with a sharp point would be much more use for the purposes you are describing than a great big chefs knife which was difficult to hide and easy to cause self injury with

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Idly musing over the festive holidays and remembering the buxom ladies in "the Roly Polys" and an "Enjoy Yourself" TV advert came on the TV for Ambassador Cruise Lines and the female dancers in that advert would have all qualified to have been in that particular dance troupe.

My folk singing days in the 1960s brought to mind another large lady in the old song "Rawtenstall Annual Fair" that mentioned one of "the attractions" there...
"Roll up roll up, come and see the fat girl,
Forty stone of loveliness and every bit her own.
Eeh she were a big 'un, wi' accent on the big
And all the fellows with walking sticks kept giving her a dig
She were a great big lassie, as didn't know her chassis
Were blowed up with air, I do declare
Everything were champion, until some silly clown
Stabbed her wi' a pin, said the showman with a frown.
All hands to the pumps, lads, my vessels going down
At the Rawtenstall Annual Fair"

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Normally, I would not have a good thing to say about the "On the Beach" TV adverts, but by making their current TV advert that shows the same obnoxious family as they did last year, it does give prospective holiday buyers a very big reminder of the type of people they seem to wish to attract and allows people to look elsewhere.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Adverts which show people checking out from hotels and acting surprised when they find that someone else has paid less.
Firstly, because I can’t ever remember checking out and overhearing how much someone else has paid.
Secondly, because paying the same amount would surprise me more than paying different amounts.
The advert is trying to make a point but based on a totally invented and unrealistic ‘scenario’.

Have just seen the Trivago advert like this. It’s poorly acted and the customers featured don’t look normal/natural and appear jerky in movement.
There have also been a couple of adverts recently featuring children whose facial features appear to have been altered to fit the advert using CGI.

 

[IanD]

Have just seen the Trivago advert like this. It’s poorly acted and the customers featured don’t look normal/natural and appear jerky in movement.
There have also been a couple of adverts recently featuring children whose facial features appear to have been altered to fit the advert using CGI.

Is this the Jürgen Klopp one? Can't imagine he'd be bothered about saving £60 on his hotel room tbh.

 

[DM352]

We had a provincial government health care ad where they indicated "help is on its way" for our overstretched underfunded post covid public health care system. The emergency service videos in the advert were stock video from somewhere in the EU.

 

[Eyersey468]

We had a provincial government health care ad where they indicated "help is on its way" for our overstretched underfunded post covid public health care system. The emergency service videos in the advert were stock video from somewhere in the EU.

They always plead that the NHS is overstretched and underfunded

 

[chrisjo]

That simpering woman on the Emirates ad who expects to be given more caviar if she gives the flight attendant a little flirty look. If there were any possibility of her being on my Emirates flight I'd be looking for a different carrier. (Not that I'd ever be flying with them anyway, much less First Class, but just saying!).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I had the TV playing in the background, whilst reading letter from an old friend, when a car commercial made me take notice, as being the worst ever male lead rendition of California Dreamin', one song I remembered from long ago by the Mamas and Papas. The rendition was so bad that although I can recall it was a car advert, the very poor background male lead vocals made me instantly forget what car was being advertised.