Ads that get right on your tits

[Col]

The Richmond sausages advert, where a guy is playing a guitar on a bus and signing in anticipation of bangers and mash. Worst thing about it is...there's no gravy!

[Rubisco]

The internet is apparantly a 21st century invention.

Confused.com? You will be.

[merman]

The BBC's "iPlayer - the next level" ads - get on and tell us what it's all about!

[gilesgoat]

I am getting a bit annoyed in general at ALL those StrongBow adverts and ultimately even at those about Guinness.

I begin to find also "strangely weird not sure what to think about" that one about the family values and such that turns out
to be Mc Cain chips.

Mind you Mc Cain chips ARE really among the best but .. it's the ad ..

[gumboot]

Mind you Mc Cain chips ARE really among the best but .. it's the ad ..

Fuck me! Approval of pre-made food from Giles?

[gilesgoat]

Mind you Mc Cain chips ARE really among the best but .. it's the ad ..

Fuck me! Approval of pre-made food from Giles?

Unfortunately - in ITALY - there's almost no restaurant using real chopped potatoes to make chips, in fact I'd say we DO
NOT have "chips" the way you have here in Britain, we probably have what you'd call "French Fries" even if they are not so thin.

I've seen myself a few times that working with real Italian potatoes can be a bit of a problem, quite some of them seems to
be quite "watery" and bubble a lot and it's quite a hassle to make them come good out of a frier, plus they destroy the
oil "at the speed of light".

Now between "a good fried French fry" and "a horribly fried real potato" I think you'd rather go for the first even if it's not ideal.

I won't tell you also that "various places" but NOT "the serious ones" use "crap stuff" like "Kraft semifluid mix grease" or
"special fry oil" or in the past was quite common to see "white palm oil" ( that was looking like suet ) to fry stuff.

Reason was "it holds much better the temperature, it keeps fryting for longer".

Hoever in "proper frying places" they tend to use more sunflower oil and in SUPER POSH places they user peanut oil.

Now of all the "industrial" frozen chips ( there are quite some ) Mc Cain are probably "the best" and among the most
expensive, I also must say that IMHO "one out of 10 places really knows how to fry well" Unless is one of those
places specialised in fried calamari/fish frying sometime is a bit "under cared", I saw quite some places very good for all
the rest but not "exceptional" about frying.

When eating fish or crustaces "generally" in Italy we love it grilled, sometime baked, with spaghetti or in some special
cases in a soup form ( "brodetto" ).

Frying is normally reserved for a few "classic things" I'd say the most classic ones are Scampi and Calamari, the preferred
( I think ) way to eat cod in Italy is in the classic soup "Baccala' alla < insert regional variation > ".

Which is not exactly fresh cod but stockfish.

I love stockfish so much I can just rip off pieces from it when it's still "well salty" and eat it like that I know it's bad
but at times I can't resists.

( Other weirdness I can't resist is to eat uncooked well fermented/acid sauerkrauts as they are straight from the barrel )

A bit like "pickles at the Nth power"

Ah, on the other side, in Portugal, every place I've been eating some fried potates they ALWAYS used "real potatoes" to make them.

[merman]

Bailey's Hazelnut flavour. The most recent series of ads was hateful enough, with the good-looking people writing in their diaries to remind themselves what a good time they had drinking Bailey's, but now we have an advert that mimics the utterly intolerable Doritos "friend-chips" series as they pretend to have difficulty cracking hazelnuts. Oh wow, ad executives, you've really hit on a good idea there. But wait, what is this? A caption that says "Does not contain nuts". Gee, way to sell your product.

And then we have the American Express ads. Fair enough, boast about the qualities of your service and what you can do for customers. But the "DNA makes you speical and we understand that, which is what makes us such a good credit card company" is completely and utterly WRONG. Does your exclusive American Express card contain your DNA? No, it just entitles you to run up even more debt. Is it in fact so exclusive they just send invites out to anyone on whatever mailing list they have bought, regardless of whether those people have sufficient income to match the criteria? Gee, anyone would think they just wanted more customers.

[Alarm]

That "that's the noise whales make" ad. Claiming that your phone monkeys chat a lot and seem to be unbusinesslike don't attract me toward whatever the company is called.

[mightyzim]

The Fiat advert with people having the same movements as puppets in the cars.

[Gillorient]

The new Nintendo DS one, starring my team, Leyton Orient
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwE0_bzZTQA (youtube linky thing wouldn't work)

Why does it get on my tits? Maybe if the silly buggers stopped playing with their Nintendos and did a bit more training they might bloody win a game here and there

[PVB]

Embed works fine; you only use the last bit (CwE0_bzZTQA in this case) inside the YT tags.

[Alarm]

Wow, I would never have believed that those confuzzleddotcom tv ads could ever get any worse. They have.

[merman]

That "that's the noise whales make" ad. Claiming that your phone monkeys chat a lot and seem to be unbusinesslike don't attract me toward whatever the company is called.

First Direct. It's all there in black & white, even on the newspaper front page that the teacher is holding... (but I agree, it is a bit annoying)

[Governmentyard]

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2 ... 0#p1489200

[betamax]

That "that's the noise whales make" ad. Claiming that your phone monkeys chat a lot and seem to be unbusinesslike don't attract me toward whatever the company is called.

I dislike the idea that anyone could be matched to a fucking callcentre job while still in school. It's depressing as all hell.