I've just seen a traumatic advert

[Jah Womble]

Always despised that song. Even more so now.

I also find that kindly Scotsman in the 'feeling hungry yet?' lamb (or whatever it is) commercial slightly disturbing.

[Lang Spoon]

Fever Tree tonic. Smug trust fund bastard.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1273400070189219841

[3 Colours Red]

The Google Chromebook one that starts with "do you want a laptop that you don't have to charge 10 times a day?"

Who the fuck has a laptop with a battery that shit? Even if you do, you'd just leave it plugged in.

[Jah Womble]

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1273400070189219841

That is superb.

[San Bernardhinault]

The Google Chromebook one that starts with "do you want a laptop that you don't have to charge 10 times a day?"

Who the fuck has a laptop with a battery that shit? Even if you do, you'd just leave it plugged in.

My laptop really is that shit. It’s basically a portable desktop at this point. The battery life is about 40 minutes if it’s not plugged in.

[Various Artist]

It's a good point in general from GY though. It irritates me an unnecessary amount that they can blithely advertise things as an apparent selling point when the same 'novelty' would have ranked on the lowest edge of acceptable only a few years previously. It makes my teeth hurt whenever I read a mobile phone ad or review exclaiming that the impressive battery on new model X "will last you the whole day!", because I can't help thinking "Well, only a handful of years ago my phone battery would last a week".

Obviously it's not a like-for-like comparison, because it wasn't a (usable) pocket-sized computer in the same way that it is now, but even so it grates on me somehow that they can somehow blithely skip over how we've gone so far backwards in this one area of technological 'progress', as if it had never happened.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/manscaped/status/1275443671052083200

[Gangster Octopus]

It's time for me to leave this life...

[Ginger Yellow]

I can't remember if it's the same company, but some "manscaping" equipment firm has bought a lot of podcast ads, which is even more traumatic given the format. It's deeply unsettling to hear podcast hosts with whom you've developed that strange one-sided intimacy talking about grooming down there.

[ursus arctos]

Ira Glass reading "manscaping" adverts is the soundtrack to a dystopian hellscape

[Various Artist]

"manscaping" equipment firm

Jeez, yes. Especially since the way you phrase that makes it sound so... industrial. I can't help but imagine them putting up hoardings, then bringing in a couple of heavy earth-movers and a bulldozer. And a skip.

[Benjm]

Whoa! I only came on the thread to moan about a super weedy acoustic cover of True Faith on a video game ad.

[S. aureus]

Ira Glass reading "manscaping" adverts is the soundtrack to a dystopian hellscape

OMG, he doesn't really, does he? I'm behind on my This American Life listening, and may not want to catch up if that's the case.

[ursus arctos]

I don't think so. It's just that he and Roman Mars came immediately to mind after reading GY's post.

I can sort of see Mars doing it in an ultra-ironic fashion.

[Ginger Yellow]

It's mostly the McElroys so far.

[elguapo4]

Whoa! I only came on the thread to moan about a super weedy acoustic cover of True Faith on a video game ad.

This seems to be an unpleasant new thing, in the last week I've also been exposed to super weedy acoustic versions of I Ran and Linger as well.

[jwdd27]

New Order will be coining it in at the moment, Britbox uses (the original) Blue Monday in every ad break too.

[Benjm]

Over the years they have more than made up for not cashing the Sunkist cheque.

[elguapo4]

I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned the Amazon ads, where happy employees are telling everyone what a GREAT place it is to work. No, I don't believe them either.

[Jah Womble]

I’m sorry, but that Nescafe commercial - you know, the ad where that bloke who looks like an older member of Hansen starts playing guitar to the rhythm of the coin-op while laundering his underpants and all those Hoxton-types come running from nowhere to join in - is rubbish.

[Benjm]

Between getting ready for Brexit and the self-congratulatory guff from the 'terrestrial' TV companies, the comically shit version of Born to be Wild on Volvo's current ad almost comes as light relief.

[Kowalski]

I’m sorry, but that Nescafe commercial - you know, the ad where that bloke who looks like an older member of Hansen starts playing guitar to the rhythm of the coin-op while laundering his underpants and all those Hoxton-types come running from nowhere to join in - is rubbish.

I know, how does he plug in his guitar?

[elguapo4]

I’m sorry, but that Nescafe commercial - you know, the ad where that bloke who looks like an older member of Hansen starts playing guitar to the rhythm of the coin-op while laundering his underpants and all those Hoxton-types come running from nowhere to join in - is rubbish.

Haven't seen that piece of crap in a while thankfully, but yeah, that's annoying.

[jwdd27]

If Robert de Niro had indeed read the script for the car advert, he would have seen that he didn't feature - surely he would have read further to see what his lines were, or what his character's motivation was. Instead he apparently read the first line and dressed as a hipster. Having brought his own costume.

And why would he have even been sent the script?