Alarm wrote:An advert for a pregnancy testing kit suggests you purchase it in order to maximise your chances of pregnancy (also, in small print it says something along the lines of "weeks pregnant display is for illustration purposes only"). That strikes me as all sorts of wrong.
Maynards have just brought out a couple of new ones. On the face of it, they should be good (what with featuring a moose, albeit one whose head it mounted on a wall), but I just can't get past the overwhelming creepiness. Maybe it's the eyes, maybe it's the cheek massage in the one with the bloke, they both give me the willies.
Those Wine Gums ad really do freak me out. I'm thinking twice before picking up a packet of them in the Co-op. I don't fancy that scary-eyed moose appearing out of nowhere...
Hello. Just like to finally stop lurking and say:
a) I agree with most of the screaming-at-the-sodding-tv moments mentioned thus far and especially love the 'drink more tea' ads.
b) Somehow I'm not bothered by the go compare adverts. Somehow.
I can see how people would find them annoying, fail to see how people would find them amusing, but am just completely non-plussed by them myself.
c) I felt I HAD to share the horrific marketing that got delivered by the postman along with the usual post.
A flier for farm foods.
Get thee to fuck.
Not only did it advertise such wondrous delights as bags and bags of different types of frozen chips, dubiously skinless sausages, 'chip shop' fish fingers (never seen fish fingers being sold at a chipshop but there we go), battery eggs and 2 'individual portions' of "Betty Smith's (who?) 21 day matured sliced (wafer thin, no doubt) roast beef", it also included £35-worth of vouchers (providing you spend over £350) and...ready for this?
Had a picture of Ricky Tomlinson in best Whatshisname-Royle-family-dad mode on the front of it, right at the top, next to the farm food banner.
I shit you not.
Now, correct me if I'm incorrect, but the Royle family's meant to be a comedy, yes? Where you're supposed to laugh at how horrible and grotty the family is? (I admittedly don't find it funny, but that's just me it seems)
Now, why on earth would you want your product associated with the Royle family? Unless you're deliberately trying to appeal to people who found the Royle family funny because they're just like you or (goat forbid) think the Royle family's somehow aspirational TV?
Please tell me if I've got the 'appeal' of the Royle family wrong, that's my understanding and hence the cause of my confusion.
Honestly, I'd rather shop at Didldidi:
Oh, and while I remember, the bit earlier about the no-touch soap dispenser...
1. Soap doesn't kill germs as far as I'm aware, hot water does that; The soap's just there to help break down the chemical bonds that cause them to stick to your hands. Antibacterial handwipes and the like are different as they're not soap but anyway - Hot water as hot as you can handle for the length of time it takes to sing happy birthday, suppoedly.
2. How's a hands-free dispenser going to be able to tell the difference between someone wanting soap and one of my cats playing with the dripping kitchen sink tap (again)? Going to be some very soapy (and pissed off) kitty cats. Mind you, I'm sure the wife of one (or maybe two) of the guys I work with will have bought about 6 of them already.
Soap dispensers, that is, not cats.
The loudest sound in the universe is the last heartbeat...
Yak wrote:we were watching some crap on one of those crappy MTV channels and suddenly there was a Scientology ad SCIENTOLOGY ARRGH ARRGH GET IT OFF ME NOW
on MY BRITISH TELLY and everything
EWWWWWW
Scientology is something we POINT and LAUGH AT from AFAR. Not on MY BLOODY TELLY.
EWW.
It's ALL your fault Jeff ..
Next Tom Cruise will be visiting here .. and it could well be .. because with ALL you studied about it I think you know about
Scientology now certainly MORE than "any scientologist alive on this planet" .. maybe you even have surpassed "Source"
Maybe you ARE his re-incarnation ! Could be you are "the one all scientologist are waiting for"
Orava wrote:Finnish porridge adverts still scare me.
I'm not going to click this because it dispells my notion that the two blondes will eventually use the porridge in an "experimental" manner.
"Shouting lager, lager, lager, lager. Shouting lager, lager, lager, lager. Is just one of the reasons you're not welcome at Claridges any more". -Psychic Bob
Scientology TV ads in the UK? They'll be opening a centre in Wales next!
They are gaining way too much influence and false credibility. I think it's time for the church to find its ballocks and stage a western style holy war against them- I'm technically COE so I could join in
"Shouting lager, lager, lager, lager. Shouting lager, lager, lager, lager. Is just one of the reasons you're not welcome at Claridges any more". -Psychic Bob
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