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    Just saw that myself. Jesus wept.

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      Also, less traumatic than dumb, but some probiotic thing which boasted that its bacteria are "scientifically proven to reach your gut alive". I mean, great? I would have thought that was the bare minimum. If you're boasting about that, doesn't it rather give the game away that you can't boast of any actual effect?

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        Originally posted by Toby Gymshorts View Post
        Dilly dilly!

        (Agreed. Fucking reprehensible shite.)

        Surely the worse crime is applying an archaic English verbal inflection to an adverb? "Noweth in bottles". Ugh.

        (And when I think how many Cyrillic letters are likely to be misused in World Cup advertising... fortunately I'm determined to avoid the whole thing anyway.)

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          On which note, I've just started following @NoFauxCyrillic or People for Ethical Treatment of Russian — PETR

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            Welcome Lymeswold. Whatever happened to lymeswold cheese?

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              The Pilgrim's Choice cheese of your dreams ad is just fucking weird, and goes on too long.
              Also I don't think I've ever been more disappointed than when I saw that the Muppets had sold out and advertised Barclaycard.

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                Richie: It's in Russian.
                Eddie: You just put the Rs the wrong way round!
                Richie: THAT'S WHAT RUSSIAN IS!

                Any excuse to quote Bottom.

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                  Originally posted by Lymeswold Snork View Post
                  Surely the worse crime is applying an archaic English verbal inflection to an adverb? "Noweth in bottles". Ugh.
                  Agree - although most of us already have the guns to our heads by the time it's reached that point.

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                    Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View Post
                    Welcome Lymeswold. Whatever happened to lymeswold cheese?
                    Good question; not even Private Eye think it's funny any more.

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                      No, Owen Wilson, Shakespeare never said "People are usually happiest at home". Well, he might have, but at least he had the sense never to include the phrase in a play or sonnet as I suspect you're trying to imply.
                      What a shame your parents didn't stick to just cuddling on ye olde sofa.
                      Must force myself to remember what you're advertising so I don't buy one accidentally.

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                        Meanwhile, grudging respect to the Trivago girl. They have about 20 adverts currently in circulation, and she's there in every one. OK, they're not good adverts, but they get the award for effort.

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                          Trivago may have stretched the formula as far as it can go. The one where she also plays the hamster will come to be seen as their equivalent of ELP's triple live album.

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                            Guarenteed to blow your mind apart...

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                              I've just read that Pete Murray was the MC for ELP's live torture-thons. Surely that must have seemed a bit naff even from their perspective?

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                                That does seem odd. Alan Freeman - or maybe Tommy Vance, although his time was a little later - would seem the more likely candidates.

                                Still, if it were Pete Murray's Open House, you'd at least have been able to escape through the roof during Pictures at an Exhibition...

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                                  Originally posted by WOM View Post
                                  Saw a good billboard today for Canadian high-density-foam / direct-to-home mattress company Endy.

                                  "True North Strong and Free Shipping".
                                  Saw another installment today. "YYZzzzzzzzzz"

                                  Very good.

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                                    Viagra advert to the tune of Make Me Smile. Wholesome watching with your nearly 70 year old parents.

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                                      This may close the thread:

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                                        Originally posted by Eggchaser View Post
                                        Viagra advert to the tune of Make Me Smile. Wholesome watching with your nearly 70 year old parents.
                                        Especially when your dad starts making notes.

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                                          Originally posted by Chemin-de-fairy View Post
                                          This may close the thread:

                                          Surely that's a very deadpan piss-take, though? I mean, one of the "veterans" is called "Warholic".

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                                            Fact or fake?

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                                              Hyundai present Maroon 5 singing Three Little Birds for their World Cup advert. I can't unlisten to that. Maroon 5 should be Marooned for 5 years in a Siberian gulag for that fucking travesty.

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                                                Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View Post
                                                Hyundai present Maroon 5 singing Three Little Birds for their World Cup advert. I can't unlisten to that. Maroon 5 should be Marooned for 5 years in a Siberian gulag for that fucking travesty.
                                                Yeah, between that and the incomprehensible Blockchain/Internet of Things nonsense the World Cup ad break isn't winning me over

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                                                  Not only have BT made an advert masquerading as a music video the Weimaraner crossing the road has to be a reference to the original Blue Monday 88 video.

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                                                    Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View Post
                                                    Hyundai present Maroon 5 singing Three Little Birds for their World Cup advert. I can't unlisten to that. Maroon 5 should be Marooned for 5 years in a Siberian gulag for that fucking travesty.
                                                    Maroon 5 should be publicly filleted for ever having existed full stop.

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