There used to be an advertisement hate thread but I can't find it, so here is the venting thread dedicated to the ads that insult you with their lack of any kind of inteligence or creativity.
Ads I hate include:
The Budget Direct ad with the incredibly bad French accent on the lady who pronounces it ''booo-jay'' & her patronising husband/boyfriend who has to correct her pronunciation.
Some ridiculous ad about seeing Block Party at the MCA which somehow links Block Party to the MCA through a series of very poor connections, especially a reference to chicken soup & the most famous painting of a soup can being done by Andy Warhol. THAT WAS A TOMATO SOUP CAN PAINTING, YOU AD-TARDS!
The debit matercard ad that tries to indicate that you can somehow become a famous rockstar by buying a drumkit with your debit mastercard & then booking a venue with your debit mastercard which will somehow fast track your rockstar career. Did the same people who wrote this ad also write the script for Garage Days???
There are more, I'm sure.
THAT WAS A TOMATO SOUP CAN PAINTING, YOU AD-TARDS!
He did all kinds of Soup, not just tomato
the ad that claims women have to sleep with their legs together unless they wear the particular pad/tampon to stop leaking.
BULLSHIT!
That Campbell's Real Stock one with the bint going on about how she is a real housewife and she's in her real house surrounded by her real family when it is obvious they're all actors on a set.
There is chicken in there.
Yes Junkie, but they refer to the most famous painting, & the tomato soup can painting by Warhol is iconic.
Nah, it's all of them, the peice is 32 cans, all the flavours at the time he made them.
i saw those in real life not a month ago. le sigh.
Yeah, I seen em too.
Actualy pretty good in the flesh
I would argue that the tomato is THE most famous, but I'm happy to agree that I disagree.
i really really really really really really detest the I-select ads
''you'd be a ''insert stupid parable that doesn't make sense'' if you did it any other way''
FUCK OFF YOU PROVIDE A SERVICE THAT THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDES FOR FREE AND YOU CHARGE SUCKERS.
i'd agree with that GC as well.
the ad that claims women have to sleep with their legs together unless they wear the particular pad/tampon to stop leaking.
BULLSHIT!
agreed. i think the first time i saw that ad i started yelling at the telly.
I still do, foxy
That doesn't matter at all though, as it's still the most famous painting of a can of chicken soup.
all ads shit me
hyperfuzz goes berserk whenever we're watching something and that insurance ad with the insufferable woman who tries to rap comes on.
I yell at the screen every time I see that one.
The only people to believe it are young girls who haven't yet menstruated, so as soon as they do they'll be so terrified they go and buy that product. Women generally stay loyal to one brand - I for always have been, never entirely consciously - and so BAM. They've another generation of buyers found, simply by trading off (or perpetuating?) the sleepover fears of insecure pre-teen/teenage girls.
NICE ONE GUYS.
Snap on the ''yelling at the telly'' sentiment.
Mel, the girl in that ad, is quite your senior anne.
She doesn't have to believe it to be in the ad, Ohyeah.
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when we was kids we used to piss ourselves laughing and mocking mc donalds ads.
there was this one that went: ''at mc donalds, you can always find a friendly face!''
we had great fun poking our heads around corners and popping up from behind things and saying that line with a big stupid smile on our faces.
this was a favourite too...
can anyone remember that ad where the woman is in the kitchen talking on the phone while shes cooking chips and and oil catches on fire and she screams ''oh my god the chips!''
and that ad with those annoying kids ''dont worry mum! were making eggs florentine!''
the blind factoryyyy...the blind factoryyyy...the blind the blind the blind the blind the blind factoryyy...
fark me!!!
werthers originals. old codger and his grandson.
end thread.
that new coles ad is terrible
Freeview ads make me want to kill. It's not free. It's paid for by us, the cost of advertising is included in the price we pay for crap.
''If you're in advertising, kill yourself''
The Aeroguard Grease ad- fucking woeful!
That Virgin ad with the guy with the picture frame, saying greetings in all different languages. Ugh, kill, kill, kill!
Yeah that is kinda irritating!
A general rule of thumb is that kids told to be 'cute' are painful.
Like the one with the swimming pool safety checklist for Mum & Dad?
@LovingThe Alien
''OH my goodness the CHIPS!'' - classic!
ANY KFC AD, what's their research group full of, fuck-stupid teens who love dad jokes at the beach?! Fuck they shit me!
Get fucked Progressive car insurance! I'm sick of your stupid ads, especially the one where the sales girl speaks in 'whale'.
Oh god I hate that kid. I'm still unsure whether it's a girl or a boy, looks like it could go either way.
let me hear you say yeah!
YEAH!
no no no no no no no
there's no limit
fuck off dodo!
ARGH!
I've always hated the Bupa ''find a healthier you'' ads on telly, where they use the same actor but make one version of her all blotchy-looking, and the ''unhealthy'' version is all sycophantic while the ''healthy'' version sits there all smug and superior.
And now the ads are on this site!
I can't tell which is meant to be the healthy one most of the time.
there's some fucking ad for a bio-yoghurt called Alvia or some shit that promises to alleviate bloating in middle aged women (at least that's the target market). What's annoying is the younger, better looking woman who is the provider of this comfort in a cup to the hot flushing menopausal bloat crew throws one to one of the ladies saying ''You'd all better have one''. The woman misses the catch and the younger woman gives a ''whoops!'' and the fakest laugh ever. Made me want to punch my own balls.
All the recent Commonwealth ads have been particularly godawful. And that one for brazilian waxing or, well, something. I'm not really sure what it's about because the narrator uses infuriating backwards babytalk and speaks in one of those mind-rending ''aren't I funny!'' voices and it irks me so.
The one with the chins - Be brave and shave! one shit me up the wall. I'll admit it I thunked they were kinda funny when they were new years ago, but the novelty wore off a long, long time ago.
^^^^yeah that one shits me as well^^^^