Annoying television adverts...

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Confused.com are certainly living up to their name, A man in his kitchen suddenly turns into an inflateable human and slowly rises to the ceiling but when a person in the next room makes a comment, the man assumes his normal body and smashes downwards onto the kitchen table. Heaven only knows what bodily damage the man suffered.

Sun Life are currently featuring female violence in partnerships where the woman suddenly attacks her partner for no reason whatsoever and seems not at all bothered.

On both of these two adverts, it would be interesting to know if those agency staff were real-life subjected to what is portrayed and knowing how they reacted.

 

[Mr. SW]

Washing powder adverts where adults wipe their dirty hands on their clothes like four-year-olds.

 

[AM9]

Confused.com are certainly living up to their name, A man in his kitchen suddenly turns into an inflateable human and slowly rises to the ceiling but when a person in the next room makes a comment, the man assumes his normal body and smashes downwards onto the kitchen table. Heaven only knows what bodily damage the man suffered.

Sun Life are currently featuring female violence in partnerships where the woman suddenly attacks her partner for no reason whatsoever and seems not at all bothered.

On both of these two adverts, it would be interesting to know if those agency staff were real-life subjected to what is portrayed and knowing how they reacted.

Actually if you're talking of the ad that I've seen several times, its a woman in the lounge who floats worry free to the ceiling having just taken out insurance with confused.com. Her husband is in the kitchen talking to his mother on the phone saying "Mum, Helen adores you, - she would love the company". On hearing this, she is deflated, crashing to the floor saying; "I don't like your mum" to which he replies "OK". It's quite a popular advert at the moment and must strike a note in many homes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Actually if you're talking of the ad that I've seen several times, its a woman in the lounge who floats worry free to the ceiling having just taken out insurance with confused.com. Her husband is in the kitchen talking to his mother on the phone saying "Mum, Helen adores you, - she would love the company". On hearing this, she is deflated, crashing to the floor saying; "I don't like your mum" to which he replies "OK". It's quite a popular advert at the moment and must strike a note in many homes.

There are more than one advert in this "inflatable" series. The one that I refer to is when the man becomes inflatable and only smashes downwards when two women are talking.

There is a more recent one, set outdoors, when the inflated person begins to float upwards then the image is cut off there. We all know what happens to inflatable items when released outdoors, they just keep rising, so what will become of that particular inflatable person?

 

[Welly]

Confused.com are certainly living up to their name, A man in his kitchen suddenly turns into an inflateable human...

Obviously inspired by that Harry Potter scene where his loathsome auntie gets inflated by magic!

 

[AM9]

There are more than one advert in this "inflatable" series. The one that I refer to is when the man becomes inflatable and only smashes downwards when two women are talking.

There is a more recent one, set outdoors, when the inflated person begins to float upwards then the image is cut off there. We all know what happens to inflatable items when released outdoors, they just keep rising, so what will become of that particular inflatable person?

The commissioners of those ads will be pleased that you remember these productions so well. Such name awareness is worth the cost of producing and showing them to get name awareness.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The commissioners of those ads will be pleased that you remember these productions so well. Such name awareness is worth the cost of producing and showing them to get name awareness.

But I am not a user of the advertised product, so remembering just how puerile they are achieves "nil points". If none of us remembered TV adverts, there would be no reason to have opened this thread.

 

[dangie]

But I am not a user of the advertised product, so remembering just how puerile they are achieves "nil points". If none of us remembered TV adverts, there would be no reason to have opened this thread.

Same here. Yes I’ll remember the adverts, but the stupidness of them actually puts me off using the product.

 

[AM9]

But I am not a user of the advertised product, so remembering just how puerile they are achieves "nil points". If none of us remembered TV adverts, there would be no reason to have opened this thread.

But in trying to minimise any positive impact on the products advertised, mentioning the advert(s) on social media you may have amplified its coverage so that others are now (maybe more) aware of it. Don't forget, in advertising, there's no such thing as bad publicity, even publicity criticising the advert* increases the awareness of the product, and at nil extra cost to the advertiser.
* I note that there are no posters here expressing criticism of the product/service itself. - irritating adverts by and large spread spread the word just as well as entertaining ads.. That is one of the first lessons that the mad men understand.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

But in trying to minimise any positive impact on the products advertised, mentioning the advert(s) on social media you may have amplified its coverage so that others are now (maybe more) aware of it. Don't forget, in advertising, there's no such thing as bad publicity, even publicity criticising the advert* increases the awareness of the product, and at nil extra cost to the advertiser.
* I note that there are no posters here expressing criticism of the product/service itself. - irritating adverts by and large spread spread the word just as well as entertaining ads.. That is one of the first lessons that the mad men understand.

Do you think it wrong that such a thread as this was opened and that we should have the social awareness not to contribute upon it?

 

[GusB]

Do you think it wrong that such a thread as this was opened and that we should have the social awareness not to contribute upon it?

No, but you do have to accept that situations portrayed in adverts are not real! Stop taking matters so seriously and let this be the light-hearted thread that it should be

I long for the days when it was possible to obtain pea and ham soup from a chicken!

(link is to a Youtube clip of an old Knorr advert)

 

[AM9]

Do you think it wrong that such a thread as this was opened and that we should have the social awareness not to contribute upon it?

Not at all. @GusB beat me to it, - ads have developed from simple screen versions of printed flyer/newspaper 'notices' or 'announcements' to some of the most obscure but often entertaining micro-sitcoms. Many are designed to grab viewers' attention towards products or service, - usually in subtle ways, hence the comments from the audience that there didn't seem to be any relevance. But the end result is product and/or name awareness.
Way back in the '50s, at local cinemas there were theclassic Pearl & Dean ads typically including the local hairdressers, a tyre and exhaust centre, a furriers and the Asian restaurant where sitar Muzak was heard on a cosy flock wallpapered dining room. All laughable now but their weekly repetition certainly etched those advertiser's on regular cinema visitors' brains.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

No, but you do have to accept that situations portrayed in adverts are not real! Stop taking matters so seriously and let this be the light-hearted thread that it should be

Mea culpa, Mea culpa, Mea maxima culpa.

Indeed logic was never a strong point in the Tom and Jerry cartoons from a past age, when for example, a mouse could lift a heavy frying pan and hit the cat full-face with it.....

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Way back in the '50s, at local cinemas there were theclassic Pearl & Dean ads typically including the local hairdressers, a tyre and exhaust centre, a furriers and the Asian restaurant where sitar Muzak was heard on a cosy flock wallpapered dining room. All laughable now but their weekly repetition certainly etched those advertiser's on regular cinema visitors' brains.

Indeed, I still remember the TV jingle of very many years ago.....

"Collect the labels,
The gifts are free,
With Black and Greens,
The family tea"

 

[Falcon1200]

The Ocado ad with a guy singing 'how does it feel like' etc.

No, no, no! Proper English is either 'how does it feel' or 'what does it feel like'.

Maybe I'm getting old.....

 

[AM9]

The Ocado ad with a guy singing 'how does it feel like' etc.

No, no, no! Proper English is either 'how does it feel' or 'what does it feel like'.

Maybe I'm getting old.....

it's -like - the way to speak - like - grammar is so boring.

 

[Ashley Hill]

You Tube seems obsessed with offering me female hair products. I’m neither female and as bald as a coot. Where do they get their algorithms from?

 

[Mr. SW]

Facebook is offering me women's riding gear and other horsy stuff. I'm neither female nor horsy.

 

[AM9]

Do you have the 'ads tailored to me' switch turned off. If so, then you will be targeted with whatever pays YT the most.

 

[styles]

Facebook is offering me women's riding gear and other horsy stuff. I'm neither female nor horsy.

Foal play

 

[New York Giant]

The Ocado ad with a guy singing 'how does it feel like' etc.

No, no, no! Proper English is either 'how does it feel' or 'what does it feel like'.

Maybe I'm getting old.....

The song is 'Let Forever Be' by the Chemical Brothers ft Noel Gallagher. It was originally released on their 1999 album Surrender. The Chems had previously worked with Noel on Setting Sun, a few years prior.

I digress, we've all been talking wrong like for at least 26 years.

 

[Harpo]

Way back in the '50s, at local cinemas there were theclassic Pearl & Dean ads typically including the local hairdressers, a tyre and exhaust centre, a furriers and the Asian restaurant

The beauty of those (through the 70s) was the professional voiceover announcing a generic type of business followed by the badly dubbed local voice adding the local business name. Wonderfully awful!

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Way back in the '50s, at local cinemas there were theclassic Pearl & Dean ads typically including the local hairdressers, a tyre and exhaust centre, a furriers and the Asian restaurant where sitar Muzak was heard on a cosy flock wallpapered dining room. All laughable now but their weekly repetition certainly etched those advertiser's on regular cinema visitors' brains.

Of course, these were annoying cinema adverts, rather than annoying television adverts, of which there seem to be far more!

 

[Ashley Hill]

The beauty of those (through the 70s) was the professional voiceover announcing a generic type of business followed by the badly dubbed local voice adding the local business name. Wonderfully awful!

Or foreign tv adverts that are badly ovedubbed for the English market. Calgon is a good example of this.

 

[Ediswan]

Or foreign tv adverts that are badly ovedubbed for the English market. Calgon is a good example of this.

There is a home alarm company ad where the map showing the protected premesis used to be a suburb of Madrid. More recent versions have cut that bit out.

 

[dangie]

Or foreign tv adverts that are badly ovedubbed for the English market...

Or car adverts which are left hand drive and say specifications may differ for UK market.

 

[PauloDavesi]

The new Monzo advert, showing very unprofessional conduct from a dentist.

All adverts for gambling companies.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the advert where a girl is referred to as "the stain machine", why on earth is she not obliged to wear an over-bib when eating food until she learns to be able to eat correctly.

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I see thar Currys are keeping up their reputation for "barmpot" adverts as in the one I saw last night featured a supposed customer mega-breath that caused absolute chaos in the store, even to causing a washing machine to move with some speed towards the entrance and would have been dangerous to any customers unfortunate to be in its way. No sign of the bearded lady to help when needed.

The latest Currys "TV advert of absurdity" shows their staff with grossly extended bodies which is claimed to be because they are so full of knowledge. Imagine what the contestants on "Mastermind" or the teams on University Challenge would look like if that particular logic was followed.

 

[Ashley Hill]

The latest GBR advert with the lady telling her granddaughter about her first love. To me it looks like its set on an HST, is this the sort of modern image GBR are wanting to portray? It could be a modern unit but i`m not that au-fait with modern stuff.

 

[styles]

The latest GBR advert with the lady telling her granddaughter about her first love. To me it looks like its set on an HST, is this the sort of modern image GBR are wanting to portray? It could be a modern unit but i`m not that au-fait with modern stuff.

I thought it was TPE at first glance, but I didn't pay much attention to it. I do remember thinking the plug sockets looked fake though as it looked like a regular domestic 2-gang socket plate glued onto a table.

I'm not sure it's "real" rolling stock in regular passenger use, and wouldn't be surprised if the moving scenery through the window was CGI.

I'd have to re-watch it though.

Edit: Google says it was filmed at Portmeirion, which would be on the Cambrian Line, which would normally be served by Sprinters, certainly not at those speeds leaving Minffordd.

 

[DelW]

Edit: Google says it was filmed at Portmeirion, which would be on the Cambrian Line, which would normally be served by Sprinters, certainly not at those speeds leaving Minffordd.

If it's really the Cambrian, it's exclusively 158s, being the only passenger stock fitted with the appropriate ETCS signalling equipment. The only exceptions are occasional charters hauled by one of NR's class 37s.