Annoying television adverts...

[daveo]

I saw the RNIB Christmas advert again last night. The one where the young girl talks about braille letters from Santa. That girl must surely be in her twenties now the ad is that old.
However, it strikes me as good stewardship of their resources.

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I can’t stand gambling adverts, especially at a time like this. The bingo ones are the most common.

Tombola is probably the worst. I can’t stand the talking insects and how over friendly they make their platform look with guitar chords and everything.

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This! It is on all the time. Myself and someone else mentioned the word grid advert in the scam calls discussion thread.

It is very annoying how the monotone voice speaks constantly without a breath for the whole duration of the advert, making it impossible for you to concentrate on finding the word in the grid!!

Who needs to concentrate? The words are always in exactly the same place on the grid!!!

 

[75A]

Get a whole series of them over here and often back to back on the Television and or Radio.
Postcode Lottery - the very small print says not in Northern Ireland
Saga Cruises makes a fuss about having a Chaufeur to your departure point and then ends with UK Mainland only.
LNER - Excuse me there's a thing called the Irish Sea!
Deliveroo - Deliver what?
et al

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I see the IKEA TV advert is still running with a grown man who obviously has some medical problems that convince him that he is still in his babyhood, answering the door and saying "Welcome to my crib"...

It must be 18 months ago since I made that posting above and this week, the very same TV advert was repeated. The man is now 18 months older and I would have expected him to sleep in something more advanced than a crib since the original date.

 

[Steddenm]

Get a whole series of them over here and often back to back on the Television and or Radio.
Postcode Lottery - the very small print says not in Northern Ireland
Saga Cruises makes a fuss about having a Chaufeur to your departure point and then ends with UK Mainland only.
LNER - Excuse me there's a thing called the Irish Sea!
Deliveroo - Deliver what?
et al

Deliveroo is available in NI (Belfast, Derry and most major towns).

Saga Cruises do include NI in their UK Mainland claim (although they do drop you at the ferry port in Belfast and then collect you again in Cairnryan) - when they say UK Mainland only they mean they exclude IoM, IoW, CI, Scilly and Scottish Islands.

 

[Lewisham2221]

It must be 18 months ago since I made that posting above and this week, the very same TV advert was repeated. The man is now 18 months older and I would have expected him to sleep in something more advanced than a crib since the original date.

Crib has been an informal term for someone's home for at least 25 years; several dictionaries recognise this usage.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crib has been an informal term for someone's home for at least 25 years; several dictionaries recognise this usage.

I have lived on this earth for 80 years and have never heard the term "crib" mentioned previously in relation to a residence.

"Away in a manger, no crib for a bed".....If what you say about "crib" is true, what will "manger" mean in informal terms?

 

[Ashley Hill]

I have lived on this earth for 80 years and have never heard the term "crib" mentioned previously in relation to a residence.

"Away in a manger, no crib for a bed".....If what you say about "crib" is true, what will "manger" mean in informal terms?

Me neither and I’m in my 50s.

 

[dgl]

There#s a current on for Heinz pasta sauces, where supposedly this Italian woman's secret recipe is said sauces and he (I assume) makes a spaghetti bolognaise with some of the sauce.
My issues are that,
1. No self respecting Italian would use pre made sauce out of a jar, and
2. If she really is Italian then she would have taught the grandson that you have tagliatelle, or similar, with a bolognaise. Spaghetti is not meant for a thick sauce like a bolognaise.

 

[DelW]

I have lived on this earth for 80 years and have never heard the term "crib" mentioned previously in relation to a residence.

I think it was used regularly in the original "Minder" series with George Cole and Dennis Waterman, though I can't find confirmation of that.

This article says originally thieves' slang, later popularised in black American slang:

https://www.reddit.com/answers/4ef41514-a1b6-44fc-96e9-7c524f752db1/?q=slang%20meanings%20of%20crib%20related%20to%20house&source=PDP

General Slang for House​

• Modern Usage: "Crib" is commonly used to refer to someone's house or apartment. This usage is popularized by shows like MTV Cribs. "MTV Cribs was early 00’s."
• Historical Context: The term has roots in post-Medieval England, where it was part of a dialect known as Thieves' Cant. "TIL the usage of the word 'crib' to mean 'house' extends back to post-Medieval England and was used in a dialect known as 'Thieves' Cant'"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

This article says originally thieves' slang, later popularised in black American slang:

https://www.reddit.com/answers/4ef41514-a1b6-44fc-96e9-7c524f752db1/?q=slang%20meanings%20of%20crib%20related%20to%20house&source=PDP

I wonder why they chose that particular actor for that TV advert?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

There#s a current on for Heinz pasta sauces, where supposedly this Italian woman's secret recipe is said sauces and he (I assume) makes a spaghetti bolognaise with some of the sauce.

My issues are that,
1. No self respecting Italian would use pre made sauce out of a jar, and
2. If she really is Italian then she would have taught the grandson that you have tagliatelle, or similar, with a bolognaise. Spaghetti is not meant for a thick sauce like a bolognaise.

Thought the advert was for 'La Famiglia Rana'. Is that a Heinz company? Either way, a mildly amusing advert, not annoying, but possibly not doing its job, as an advert, of selling the product!

 

[dgl]

Thought the advert was for 'La Famiglia Rana'. Is that a Heinz company? Either way, a mildly amusing advert, not annoying, but possibly not doing its job, as an advert, of selling the product!

It's one I've seen quite a few times on YouTube, the Gran is playing video games while the grandson in cooking.

 

[75A]

Deliveroo is available in NI (Belfast, Derry and most major towns).

Saga Cruises do include NI in their UK Mainland claim (although they do drop you at the ferry port in Belfast and then collect you again in Cairnryan) - when they say UK Mainland only they mean they exclude IoM, IoW, CI, Scilly and Scottish Islands.

Thanks so very much for sharing the info about Saga, really good news. Because of the advert i'd never bothered even looking, but I'll now spend the rest of the day on the interweb investigating.
The Wife has been keen on going on a Cruise for a while, and its only the 'getting there' that's been the hassle. Watch this space.

 

[side effect]

Pure cremation. No wonder im on the phone more.

 

[Northumbriana]

Why do parents only give their kids a new phone whilst stood in the garden in those EE adverts? Not annoying to me, just weird. Love the music though, nice throw back.

 

[JD2168]

Why do parents only give their kids a new phone whilst stood in the garden in those EE adverts? Not annoying to me, just weird. Love the music though, nice throw back.

The song is Your Not Alone by Olive from 1997

 

[Ashley Hill]

UKTV festive entertainment sponsorship by Beaverbrooks. It’s November!!!

 

[Harpo]

The Wife has been keen on going on a Cruise for a while, and its only the 'getting there' that's been the hassle. Watch this space.

After spending three days in the English channel on a MSC ship with dwindling fresh food, failing bogs and dirty restaurants, mostly sailing around in circles and avoiding compensation for cancelled foreign ports, the current MSC advert invokes a certain reaction.

 

[ElBoiii]

The M&S advert which is split into two parts, with each part played on either side of another advert

 

[daveo]

CHRISTMAS adverts already!!!!
should be banned until 1st December

 

[AM9]

CHRISTMAS adverts already!!!!
should be banned until 1st December

I enjoy most Christmas ads, which is just as well because it pays for the programming on the commercial channels so as long as the advertisers are willing to pay to air them, viewers moaning about them is ignored.

 

[Oxfordblues]

Stephen Fry is everywhere on television. No panel show, quiz or travel documentary is complete without Fry to add his wit and charm. What really gets my goat though is when you get a brief respite from Fry's omnipresence, with the ad breaks, there he is again voicing Sainsbury's junk food promotions. There's no escape!

 

[GusB]

CHRISTMAS adverts already!!!!
should be banned until 1st December

Fixed that for you!

 

[Fenchurch SP]

I think it was used regularly in the original "Minder" series with George Cole and Dennis Waterman, though I can't find confirmation of that.

Are you thinking of 'drum' ? The Terry character used it a lot when referring to his flat.

 

[DelW]

Are you thinking of 'drum' ? The Terry character used it a lot when referring to his flat.

I thought I remembered "crib" being used, but it's many years ago and you might be right.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Dior perfume TV advert that has a woman wailing "our baby" over and over and over again but no sign of the infant in question appears.

Exactly a year to the day (8th November) when I made that posting above, the same female appeared in the Dior TV advert wailing about "our baby".

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I thought I remembered "crib" being used, but it's many years ago and you might be right.

You would have thought using the word "flat" as the vast majority people I know do would not have difficulty in remembering it. Out of sheer interest, I called into the local estate agents and asked if they had ever used the word "crib" when marketing a flat and was assured similar to the phrase made famous by Ian Paisley..."Never, Never, Never"

 

[Ivor]

Are you thinking of 'drum' ? The Terry character used it a lot when referring to his flat.

Yes ‘drum’ used in Minder by Terry & ‘Arfur’

 

[Forty29]

I have lived on this earth for 80 years and have never heard the term "crib" mentioned previously in relation to a residence.

"Away in a manger, no crib for a bed".....If what you say about "crib" is true, what will "manger" mean in informal terms?

American expression l think.

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The M&S format has had it's day l think judging by this year's effort.

 

[Harpo]

I’m fairly sure the term ‘crib’ is used in the film The First Great Train Robbery to describe the room where a policeman is positioned.

 

[daveo]

Fixed that for you!

thanks, but didn't need fixing