Ads that get right on your tits

[Orava]

I now have lightning quick reflexes when the GoCompare bloke comes on. If you watch it without sound it's really creepy when he starts singing though the letterbox, I think he should have brushed his teeth first.

You mean this one?

[Alarm]

I loathe the advert where they destroy a classic song with adapted lyrics like "Got my cherry, got my berry, got my spooooooon".

All of the adverts for that product are annoying, but the latest is the worst.

[piku]

I loathe the advert where they destroy a classic song with adapted lyrics like "Got my cherry, got my berry, got my spooooooon".

Sounds rude to me...

[gilesgoat]

If in 2 ( or maybe less ? ) years time or so Halifax is still going to ask the government ( or anyone else ) money to fix their
problems after they continue to spend quite some of it in those ads it will be time I'll start a public campaign againist Halifax.

I really don't understand what kind of image they are trying to make/give about themselves, I think they managed to create
the most possilble irritating and unprofessional one that any bank ever managed, I think they could be in the Guinness book
of records for that.

I think if there is a bank I'll NEVER use on this planet this is Halifax.

Must be said that even Lloyds TSB and that other bank I can't remember are .. bit weird in their ads ..

Bit weird because fundamentally they encourage you not to stop spending ( or probably asking for more loans ? ) when at
the same time they make it look like "actually it would really be better if you'd stop".

I don't get well the message because from one side it clearly makes it look like "listen, you are worried you don't have the
money to buy that thing" ( and you probably have not in fact ) but then "by magick" "NO, look, you are rich you have
that money you SILLY you did not know it because you never check your bank ! ".

If it would be realistic it would probably be around the lines "he's buying without checking the bank therefore he's spending
money he does not have" .. instead is like "he's NOT buying because he believes he does NOT have the money but then
he checks the bank and voila' turns out he has money to spend".

I "love" those "we can give you an help to check your finances" .. well .. what is to check when income is 0 + 0 + 0 + 0
+ 0 + 0 etc. .. ?

"We can help you to spend less" .. well yes .. if you give me food for free that would work.

Give me a better job and make that '0' something else instead, if you want to help me for real then give me a job in
one of your banks, a well paid one

I think banks are well scraping the bottom of a pretty empty barrel.

And those who REALLY have money .. certainly they don't give a shit/belong to any of those ads.

So those ads are really a bit like shooting at fishes in a barrel.

I love those "cushions yourself" as well.

"Listen baby, if I find I have 3K or so in the bank I am *NOT* going to spend them for your ring with a diamond !" Take it or leave it

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I think if there is a bank I'll NEVER use on this planet this is Halifax.

Must be said that even Lloyds TSB and that other bank I can't remember are .. bit weird in their ads ..

I thought you were with Lloyds. Halifax is Lloyds, they're all the same thing

[piku]

I think if there is a bank I'll NEVER use on this planet this is Halifax.

Must be said that even Lloyds TSB and that other bank I can't remember are .. bit weird in their ads ..

I thought you were with Lloyds. Halifax is Lloyds, they're all the same thing

Are Halifax part of the RBS group?

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It's part of the Lloyds Banking Group

[Portland]

Nah, Bank of Scotland was part of the HBOS group. Both in turn were effectivley eaten by Lloyds banking group last year.

Royal bank of Scotland is a separate bank (four arrows logo, sponsor 6 nations, not in as much shit.)

[Alarm]

That logo always reminds me of steaming dog poop.

[KlaxonCow]

The music in the background, as I'm sure you'll recognise, is a funked up version of the Dad's Army theme tune, "Who do you think you are kidding, Mr.Hitler?".

ASDA appear to be calling Tesco Nazis. Which, considering the Tesco family are Jewish, seems in rather poor taste, really.

Also, like all supermarket ads, it's all very jolly and, consequently, highly annoying.

[Portland]

That logo always reminds me of steaming dog poop.

Does for us now. After a good first couple of months, they have now indeed gone to shit (as A&L)

Process alignment pre changeover perhaps?

[gilesgoat]

I am not sure about all that "gouping", I knew that Halifax was by its own and then been acquired by Llloyds TSB.

If I'd have lot more money I'd seriously investigate/consider turning it into solid gold or something like that with a real
intrisic value rather than keeping it as money with a nominal/virtual value but from my poor ( so far ) understanding of
the thing is that "gold can be easy to buy but it can be quite difficult to re-convert it into money when you need it".

However I don't know if it's more fluctuating/unstable a thing like the value of gold Vs the value of money/currency.

Maybe I should buy diamonds .. or just pretend to, go to Amsterdam and get ... well as usual .. stuffed with curry and chips

Anyway back to annoying ads yesterday I saw another one about a phone company promoting "unlimited calls for 9.99" when
there were quite a number of small letter notes saying things like "yes but if you have an account that costs you 19.99 a
month", "yes but there is an activation fare of 29.99" .. "yes but as 'unlimited' we mean from 6 am to 6 pm only of week days
from phones of the same area into the same are of the same kind excluding ... ".

It's a bit limited to be UNlimited ..

[piku]

The music in the background, as I'm sure you'll recognise, is a funked up version of the Dad's Army theme tune, "Who do you think you are kidding, Mr.Hitler?".

I'd spotted that too.

ASDA appear to be calling Tesco Nazis. Which, considering the Tesco family are Jewish, seems in rather poor taste, really.

However I doubt this level of deep thought went into the adverts.

[Portland]

CA ad's Sean Connery has been doing seemingly without end on Eurosport are annoying.

[KlaxonCow]

ASDA appear to be calling Tesco Nazis. Which, considering the Tesco family are Jewish, seems in rather poor taste, really.

However I doubt this level of deep thought went into the adverts.

Undoubtedly.

But that's kind of my point. They didn't really expend any thought on the implications of their advert - and they really, really should have.

It's farcical professional incompetence, on the part of the marketing department responsible, to be accidentally anti-Semitic and potentially deeply offensive in the pursuit of pimping a particular brand of shop for buying your fruit, veg and ready meals.

"Oh, oops, I've slipped and accidentally placed a cartoon animation of the Prophet Mohammed as a paedophilic terrorist in our advertising by mistake. Oh dear, what a silly accident-prone idiot I've been. Nevermind. Where's my over-inflated pay cheque?"

I don't think they did it with any malice whatsoever, I'm sure - but how truly incompetent and shite at your job do you have to be, to do this accidentally and not realise what you're unintentionally implying?