Infuriating Commercials

[Cain]

Quoting flarewearer from 08:43, 29th Apr 2006
No, I'm not fucking loving it.

I second McDonalds, purely for making everybody use the progressive tense and thinking that they're cool. On a night out "I'm loving this music/these drinks/etc"...
why not just say "I love..."?

For sume reason, it vexes me greatly.


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I hold an element of surprise

[novium]

oh, I agree, I hate those mcDonalds things. Although truth be told, I've hated every new "hip" slogan they've trotted out over the years.

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sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri, nihil considerate potest.

[thePontificator]

3 - welcome to our network
Phones 4 U
Esure
Honda - the Power of Dreams

And almost every car or perfume ad ever.

[mrssmith]

No I quite like car and perfume ones, expensive ones are never usually THAT annoying. I do hate local ones, that obviously cost about £50 to make, and cheap nationwide ones again - like elephant, or confused.com, you can imagine them watching in a boardroom and all saying, "yeah, that'd impress me!", ughhhhh, for insurance or anything, I'd never go with someone with adverts that look like they were made by an amateur dramatics company and a guy with powerpoint, I like to know the company has the money to spend on adverts!!
I hate esure the most though, because I'm not sure Michael Winner knows that everyone hates him; I think he thinks we're laughing with him not at him, and that annoys me.

[Dave the Explosive Newt]

Halifax Howard. I am convinced they gave him drugs to make his face like that, and he has to be the most irritating man alive.

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Mmmm, cake.
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[Icarus]

The apparently endless stream of ads by companies offering to give you a loan to 'consolidate all your debts into one easy to manage monthly payment.' Somehow they all seem to forget to mention that you'll be making that one monthly payment for the rest of your natural life and end up paying thousands of pounds more over the course of your repayments

[Malcolm]

Quoting Icarus from 13:26, 29th Apr 2006
The apparently endless stream of ads by companies offering to give you a loan to 'consolidate all your debts into one easy to manage monthly payment.' Somehow they all seem to forget to mention that you'll be making that one monthly payment for the rest of your natural life and end up paying thousands of pounds more over the course of your repayments

I find it ironic that these adverts are shown during the day. They're quite clearly targeting unemployed chavs who slob about on their couch waiting for Trisha to start.

[themanwiththehair]

The consolidation loans one......where the guy is talking on the phone to the company while he plays with a ball and his wife video tapes it. "Abit of rain never hurt anyone!". Fucking twat. Dont say stupid things and learn to act *slap* Not only is the advert shit, the whole debt consolidation thing almost justifies people getting into debt in the first place...if your in debt stop fucking BUYING!!!

[the reason for the word w]

The "quote me happy" one (what is it? Norwich Union?) makes me want to get my shotgun. And I second whoever mentioned the phones4u one with the guy going "yeah". That scares me!!!

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Are you a terrorist?
- Depends! Are you terrified?

[Precious]

Sheila's Wheels
Michael Winner on esure
That one with the frog singing about weeds being a right pain in the grass
Singing Howard
That "sit down on it" sofa advert with Martin Kemp that gets dragged out every bank holiday.

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Teeth! Teeth, my preciousss, but we has only six!

[KayBee]

SafeStyle windows "You buy one, you get one free, I said you buy one you get one free"

I heard you the first time you idiot.

[Nick82]

All hail the BBC.
However it does make what are techically add promoting their own shows ever so slightly more irritating.
For me another vote for Shelias wheels. Incidently has anyone noticed that in half that add the car is going backwards or am i being stupid and missing something.

Oh and from the little I have seen a higher percentage of american and European adds are excruciating.

[Setsuna]

Quoting Gubbins from 19:22, 28th Apr 2006
Anything to do with nappies, sanitary towels, insurance, loans or injury claims. Makes me glad I don't have a telly!

My god, I fecking HATE any sanitary towel adverts, they just scream 'HAVING YOUR PERIOD IS GREAT! LETS GO SKYDIVING AND AFTERWARDS WE'LL DO MARDI GRAS!!!' when instead you feel like shit, have awful cramps, are covered in spots, alternate between crying and laughing every five minutes and are about 2 stone heavier than normal.

Sheila's Wheels - I've been singing that song non-stop for 2 days now.

That bank/insurance-type one with the people moaning and then going 'That's better' with that horrible woman's eye at the hairdressers.... euch.

Badly dubbed airfreshener ads, including that annoying boy counting the number of puffs...

THat annoying tequila sunrise chevrolet guy that was on cold feet with the horrible way he asks for a people carrier.

[Atangaladhion]

The best advert ever made has to be the Honda - Impossible Dreams one. I don't see how people can not get how brilliant that is when you realise it's basically giving you a history of the company. The Honda Civic choir commercial is great too (can you make all the sounds of a car?!) And then of course there's Cog.

Honda make far and away the best ads ever.

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Lars Olsen is not the second coming of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was the first coming of Lars Olsen.

[thePontificator]

Honda ads make me want to drive into other Hondas. This is generally considered a negative thing when it comes to promoting your product. Half of their ads don't actually say anything about the car whatsoever.

Well done, you've found a choir that can make car noises (no I can't make a car noise, but then again NO-ONE FUCKING NEEDS TO). Stop making pretentious ads about 'the power of dreams' and MAKE A BETTER CAR.

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

Quoting thePontificator from 10:45, 17th Jun 2006
Honda ads make me want to drive into other Hondas. This is generally considered a negative thing when it comes to promoting your product. Half of their ads don't actually say anything about the car whatsoever.

Well done, you've found a choir that can make car noises (no I can't make a car noise, but then again NO-ONE FUCKING NEEDS TO). Stop making pretentious ads about 'the power of dreams' and MAKE A BETTER CAR.

Quite. My flatmate was saying any number of other car companies could quite happily try to sell their vehicles on how quiet they are (for the driver, at least). With this in mind, he suggested they have a BMW ad ripping off the Honda one. Have a bloke at a desk, in absolute silence. And then, an angry german can scream 'WE ARE MAKING THE BETTER CARS THAT ARE MORE QUIETER THAN YOUR PATHETIC AUTOMOBILES'. Or you could just have that Honda choir. Just dead.

Awesome.

[Cain]

Quoting rob 'f*ck off' wine boy from 11:09, 17th Jun 2006
With this in mind, he suggested they have a BMW ad ripping off the Honda one. Have a bloke at a desk, in absolute silence. And then, an angry german can scream 'WE ARE MAKING THE BETTER CARS THAT ARE MORE QUIETER THAN YOUR PATHETIC AUTOMOBILES'.

That is just money. I would rush out and buy a BMW out of sheer terror, then work out the next day how I was going to afford it and all the insurance etc.

We need more shouty Germans on TV.

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I hold an element of surprise

[thePontificator]

A man drives a Honda down a country road on a glorious sunny day. All of a sudden his brakes fail and he is unable to steer in any direction other than straight on. Along the road the Honda choir appear and echo the noise his car is making as it plunges off a cliff and lands on an orphanage, and the explosion engulfs the nearby SSPCA centre for strays.

The image of hideous bloody destruction fades to white, and the caption 'Honda - you drive one, you fucking deserve it' appears.

If necessary shouty Germans could be incorporated.

[Happy-Go-Lucky]

So many annoying ads to choose from . . .

There's one at the moment with a big fat old guy with a moustache saying "Have you been injured . . . " No, but I bet you could arrange it for me thanks.

"They're going to taste greeeeeate!" from the Frosties people which seems to be on constantly at the moment, even during late night adult programs. I thought such awful kiddy-aimed ads were saved for daytime and children's hour.

"Are you a wax virgin?" - "Hey! That was easy!" ARGH!!!!! Waxing is not that painless ever, and it never leaves you so perfectly smooth as that. And using a sexual word like "virgin" is just gross and pointless.

The Mars Delight ad with the 2 odd looking women oozing over men on a computer. "Ooh I could do you!" - "Mmm I could do you too". Eww.

Man, I could go on forever. Remember that one a while ago for careers advice or something with a boy making painfully sickening noises as a body appeared to try to burst out of his stomach - "The real you is trying to get out" or something like that. That ad made me feel physically sick everytime it came on, so much so that I had to change the channel whenever it came on, and I ended up complaining to the Advertising Standards Agency. Several people I spoke to agreed it made them feel sick too.

However, I do rather like the lottery one with the massive flock of bricks flying through the wilderness like a migrating flock of birds.

[pinkymoo]

I like the one with the bouncy balls bouncing down the hill...i really like that song. Does anyone know what it is called?

Also the one that reeeeeeeeallllllly bugs me is the one with the double decker bus that changes colour, with the shall we say 'oriental' people being amazed by the bubbles, you know? The music to that aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg

But i also do love the irn bru 32 one...hahah his accent is brilliant!!!!!!!