Ok the biggie: your most hated Adverts. - Page 4

Alvin Lucifer · January 31st, 2010, 03:58 AM

Here in the U.S., Burger King's been running one featuring a grown man dressed and acting like an infant. I dunno if BK is aware of it, but that's one of those euphemistically labelled "lifestyle" choices. It's a subculture of adult males who like to dress in pampers and onesies while the suckle bottles and mess themselves, and maybe I shouldn't be so judgmental, but I find it real creepy-like, and it doesn't make wanna patronize Burger King.

Buck-cherry · January 31st, 2010, 01:05 PM

The car insurance ad featuring Iggy Pop. Can't remember the company (so, ha, that's a fail for them right there), but I know that they WILL NOT insure musicians, so the whole thing is complete BS. I guess Iggy is driving his purple XJS (for that, he should be shot) without any insurance. Now, that's rock 'n' roll!

**Staffsyeoman** · January 31st, 2010, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Buck-cherry

"We buy any car.com" The most annoying ad since.........

"Hi, I'm Barry Scott, and this is Cillit Bang" etc etc

Ahhh... you need to go to YouTube and find Peter Serafinowcisz's "Kitchen Gun" and "Toilet Grenade" "Hi!!! I'm Derek Bum!!!" (the rather attractive woman he terrorises is, in real life, the wife on Ben Miller from 'Armstrong & Miller).

I agree with all the 'send us your gold' adverts... I actually do like 2 of the the Go Compare ads... "He's only a tenner..." and "Donna havva da fish"...

Yes, my other half and I hate the very very badly dubbed universal fit adverts; particularly the 'Just for Men' hair dye ones... All the breakfast cereal ads that have clapped out 90s dance music to make them seem 'edgy' Etc. etc...

**henryf** · January 31st, 2010, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by fleetwood77

He looks like a caricature from Der Sturmer

Do you mean to say he's real? I thought he was a product of Ardman Animations, a close relation of Wallace! (or do I meam Gromit)?

**Mal Hombre** · January 31st, 2010, 02:09 PM

That's another thing,Aardman prostituting W&G in adverts,Do they need money that badly?

**Ghaleon** · January 31st, 2010, 08:56 PM

Bad Ads. Good lord where do I even begin.
But I think the ones for local businesses are the absolute worst and where I live there are at least a couple that stick out.

One is for an appliance store call Geddiman's and the have these two brats that pop up at least three times during the ad and screech out the catchphrase "Get it at Geddiman's !" Annoying ? Hell yes !

Another is for a used car dealer called Bangor Car Care where the owner just screams about the deals he's got and invites us to "Come join the Party !" Makes my head explode.

The other thing about adverts, especially the locals, is that they are 10x louder than the program you're watching. If you're not right on top of the remote it's loud enough to rattle your teeth.

As far as national (big name) ads go the worst has got to be for the ED treatment Cialas. What does a man and a woman sitting in seprate bathtubs have anything to do with ED ! And it's even more strange where these tubs appear. On the beach, in a park, there was one ad that had them on top of a snowy hill. What's next, a subway, the middle of Times Square ! Enough already.

I also have a serious problem with all the ads for perscription drugs. It seems that if you take these the side effects are FAR worse than the ailment they were meant to fix.

When does the madness stop.

Ghaleon

**BigBucket** · January 31st, 2010, 09:45 PM

Iceland foods adverts, i wish they would all bugger off to iceland!

**Mad Koala Bear** · February 1st, 2010, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Mal Hombre

That's another thing,Aardman prostituting W&G in adverts,Do they need money that badly?

To be fair they do have employees to pay. Like any company it has to get it where it can.

**RyderKnightley** · February 1st, 2010, 10:41 PM

Most perfume ads (particularly those made by clothes designers) are pretentious shite.

**blondifan** · February 1st, 2010, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghaleon

...One is for an appliance store call Geddiman's and the have these two brats that pop up at least three times during the ad and screech out the catchphrase "Get it at Geddiman's !" Annoying ? Hell yes !... Ghaleon

We have a very similar ad for a furniture manufacturer downunder downunder.
Except this one features a solitary child, who makes these grand sweeping gestures with his arms, then says something - inaudible?
I'd quote him, but I really can't understand him!
I know I've seen these kind of ads somewhere before.
Somehow it just makes it worse that it is such a cheap trick.

Way to go, grandad!

Give the little bugger something to be seriously embarressed about when he gets older. I can see him now at school.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B7Mp...eature=related

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January 31st, 2010, 03:58 AM	#31
Alvin Lucifer Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts Posts: 373 Thanks: 8,750 Thanked 3,055 Times in 364 Posts	Here in the U.S., Burger King's been running one featuring a grown man dressed and acting like an infant. I dunno if BK is aware of it, but that's one of those euphemistically labelled "lifestyle" choices. It's a subculture of adult males who like to dress in pampers and onesies while the suckle bottles and mess themselves, and maybe I shouldn't be so judgmental, but I find it real creepy-like, and it doesn't make wanna patronize Burger King.

January 31st, 2010, 01:05 PM	#32
Buck-cherry Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Warks, England Posts: 69 Thanks: 35 Thanked 732 Times in 66 Posts	The car insurance ad featuring Iggy Pop. Can't remember the company (so, ha, that's a fail for them right there), but I know that they WILL NOT insure musicians, so the whole thing is complete BS. I guess Iggy is driving his purple XJS (for that, he should be shot) without any insurance. Now, that's rock 'n' roll!

January 31st, 2010, 08:56 PM	#36
Ghaleon Vintage Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Between Here & There Posts: 2,063 Thanks: 73,874 Thanked 34,786 Times in 2,064 Posts	Bad Ads. Good lord where do I even begin. But I think the ones for local businesses are the absolute worst and where I live there are at least a couple that stick out. One is for an appliance store call Geddiman's and the have these two brats that pop up at least three times during the ad and screech out the catchphrase "Get it at Geddiman's !" Annoying ? Hell yes ! Another is for a used car dealer called Bangor Car Care where the owner just screams about the deals he's got and invites us to "Come join the Party !" Makes my head explode. The other thing about adverts, especially the locals, is that they are 10x louder than the program you're watching. If you're not right on top of the remote it's loud enough to rattle your teeth. As far as national (big name) ads go the worst has got to be for the ED treatment Cialas. What does a man and a woman sitting in seprate bathtubs have anything to do with ED ! And it's even more strange where these tubs appear. On the beach, in a park, there was one ad that had them on top of a snowy hill. What's next, a subway, the middle of Times Square ! Enough already. I also have a serious problem with all the ads for perscription drugs. It seems that if you take these the side effects are FAR worse than the ailment they were meant to fix. When does the madness stop. Ghaleon

January 31st, 2010, 09:45 PM	#37
BigBucket Vintage Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: The United Kingdom of Oppressed Peoples. Posts: 783 Thanks: 5,453 Thanked 11,405 Times in 770 Posts	Iceland foods adverts, i wish they would all bugger off to iceland!