jon81uk
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It doesn't state the adults have to be the parent of the child does it? So could be any two adults, a single parent may take a friend, or their parent(s).
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Annoying television adverts...
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TheGuy77
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Calgon is very annoying with the dubbing and exaggeration. Also very expensive: £6 for 15 washes?!
Xenophon PCDGS
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When I was recently in Wilmslow, I was talking to an estate agent that I have known for very many years whose company sells top of the price range properties and I asked him if any of their clients whose home they had sold carried on in the ridiculous manner of those portrayed in the "We buy any car" TV advert and with a horrified look on his face, replied that all their customers are well-brought-up people who just say "thank you".
dangie
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Car adverts, when in small writing it says ‘Car shown not in UK specification’ [or words that effect]
Note: Not that I would buy a car based on a television advert.
Note: Not that I would buy a car based on a television advert.
More likely due to the use of an LHS drive car in the advert.
Peter Mugridge
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Probably cheaper to just buy a washing machine more often...?
TheGuy77
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'Washing machines live just as long without Calgon' – Which?
Consumer organisation puts Calgon's infamous advertising slogan to test, and finds it wanting
www.theguardian.com
Remember this £295 is from 2011, when a 15-pack of Calgon was only £4.48 compared to today's £6.
Xenophon PCDGS
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I am really annoyed at the cynical attitude of "Happy Tiger Bingo" who seem to take pleasure in letting those addicted to their product talk freely about it in some of their more recent adverts.
No all ads are annoying although the Meercat ones can irritate, - except for the current on which features Paul Hollywood dressed as a superhero. After he appears in all his splendour, one meercat says: "wow! Clooney's let himself go". That is refreshingly amusing.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Having seen adverts for Curry's, with bearded ladies and the like, I wonder how their human resources team actually make research into the field of human evolution.
Xenophon PCDGS
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ITV3 seem to ad nauseum state that certain companies are "proud sponsors" of some of their programmes. How do these companies express the stated pride?
Mcr Warrior
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By paying the TV company an amount of £££££ money, which will obviously vary depending on what exactly is being 'sponsored'. Expect top dollar to have to be paid for 'Coronation Street' on ITV1.
Xenophon PCDGS
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I don't watch ITV1. Like many old fogies, I find that ITV3 show some of the series from days long gone that I remember when new.
Ashley Hill
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The British Heart Foundation advert featuring a fake Slade. A worthwhile charity but could have had a better advert,possibly featuring the real Slade!
If they are a) available and b) willing!
Xenophon PCDGS
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After hang-gliding goats and speedboat-loving walruses, I wonder what part of the animal kingdom will next appear in Virgin Media TV adverts? Incidentally, walruses normally weigh more than enough to cause the small speedboat to capsize when it attempts to board the vessel at the rear in the manner shown as it does in the advert. I am still at a loss to understand how the hang-gliding goats manage to land safely when their trip is over.
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Who really cares? The goat depicted was a CGI goat. No real goats were harmed during the making of the advert.
dangie
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Speaking of Virgin, I really don’t know why the adverts for Virgin Atlantic would make me want to fly with them? The airline may be, or may not be, excellent, but the adverts are plain silly. Not sure how seeing a woman passenger pulling a ‘funny’ face at a young child is advertising the airline?
Xenophon PCDGS
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Does that mean a real walrus did not attempt to board the speedboat?....
Maybe not displaying the criteria that drives my personal choice of airline, but that series of ads seems to be displaying the fun side of travel with Virgin and the inclusively of its passengers and crew. Outside of the issues of safety and luxury, many carriers seem to project a stuffy atmosphere of privilege and exclusivity.
Hadlow Road
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And roller-skating tortoises? O.K., not Virgin, but..
Xenophon PCDGS
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I suppose the CGI goats were using CGI hang gliding equipment from a CGI sports retailers that is shopped at by the CGI advertising executive.....
If you remember it then the marketing team are doing their job well
Xenophon PCDGS
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There are negatives as well as positives in the remembrance of certain advertised products.
dangie
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Agreed. Some adverts I may remember, but they genuinely put me off buying the product.
That ad, in various edits, has been running for a long time. Somebody must be convinced it works.
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I recently returned to the UK from the Continent. The most conspicuous difference is how fat people are here: over 60% are overweight or obese. There seems to be a national crisis in junk food consumption. Realising something needed to be done the Tory government announced in June 2021 a ban on the advertising of junk food on television before 21:00 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57593599)
It never happened of course, probably because of a backlash from the junk food industry, much of which supported the Tory Party. It was government by announcement: you announce something but you never get around to implementing it!
Now the policy has been re-announced to come into effect "without further delay" in October 2025. That's a delay of over 12 months (or in railway terms 525,600 minutes!) Meanwhile the promotion of junk food on television continues unabated and the nation gets even fatter.
It never happened of course, probably because of a backlash from the junk food industry, much of which supported the Tory Party. It was government by announcement: you announce something but you never get around to implementing it!
Now the policy has been re-announced to come into effect "without further delay" in October 2025. That's a delay of over 12 months (or in railway terms 525,600 minutes!) Meanwhile the promotion of junk food on television continues unabated and the nation gets even fatter.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Perhaps I move in the wrong circles as at the age of 79, I am more likely than most to be involved in discussions on funerals of people we know, but if ever such a conversation does crop up, the name of the funeral director is not often heard, but more about the deceased person and the actual service. Pure Cremations must move in different circles, as in their TV adverts, the people do not just mention the name of that company, but carry on as if they were employees of that company giving a presentation of the various minutiae of the services offered by that company.....
This morning, I was talking to a neighbour about a certain fresh sliced loaf that we both use, but the conversation never once developed into the minutiae of the baking arrangements of the company concerned....and why should it?
Motto for the day.... Do not ask for realism as a refusal often offends.
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This morning, I was talking to a neighbour about a certain fresh sliced loaf that we both use, but the conversation never once developed into the minutiae of the baking arrangements of the company concerned....and why should it?
Motto for the day.... Do not ask for realism as a refusal often offends.
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I have not seen that particular advert, but during a morning chat over coffee with one of my neighbours, she mentioned that she had seen one of the TV adverts of that company having a male member of the flight staff "looking very unusual" but would not say what. Is there anyone on here who can explain?
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Ashley Hill
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Diversity is a wonderful thing but I think Virgin are just being smug about it here. The woman pulling a face looks uncannily like Mel Chisholm (aka Sporty Spice) but probably isn’t.
jon81uk
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Virgin Atlantic are celebrating the diversity of their cabin crew in the advert and the fact their uniform policy is looser than other airlines. All staff are free to wear the uniform that would traditionally be assigned to any gender and the same applies to make up. It starts with a female-presenting member of cabin crew wearing the traditional female uniform choosing not to wear make up, then later on there is a male-presenting member of staff wearing the traditionally male uniform but they have have glittery eye make up.
I would assume it is the member of crew with the glittery eyelids who looks unusual to your neighbour.