Adverts

[Tom R]

It's advertising aimed at women that is truly the worst in the world.

 

generally involves some smiley, hair flicking slag bitching on about a totally fabricated, totally non-sensical, no scientific evidence "technology" that has gone in to this latest shampoo/face cream/fake tan/whatever.

 

They actually make up words like "Boswellox", stick some ugly cunt like Sarah Jessica "Jimmy Hill" Parker on the advert, and all the thick bitches out there just hoover it up to the tune of BILLIONS of pounds a year!

 

If I was a woman I would be thoroughly fucking disgusted and insulted at the level these vermin pitch their products to me on a daily basis, and yet the dumb bitches just fucking lap it up.

 

Maybe it's because you're worth it?

No, maybe it's because you all actually enjoy being patronised and exploited for your retarded english pounds.

 

 

My all time favourite shit woman advert was an anti-muff and leg hair cream, possibly Veet. The advert said that the "new hair removal technology (that "technology" word again) came "complete with a revolutionary bladeless razor!"

ie - It came with a pink piece of fucking plastic to rub the cream off your minge with.

 

And the thick bitches just keep lapping it up.

"Duuuh.... must have revolutionary bladeless razor for my muff hair. Duuuh.........Here is my money.... duuuuh."

 

 

Women are fucking retarded.

[Antynwa]

Myleene Klass.

 

Her adverts make no sense to me...whatsoever.

 

Also, them fucking Magners adverts, have you noticed they all live in a world with no bright colours?

[Anny Road]

I used to buzz off the Ronseal adverts back in the day. The one with that angry b*stard painting his fence and then he'd turn around and say 'Ronseal, do it now - or pay the price later, its up to you'

 

If that man ever saw you in the street he'd walk up and hit you, even if you were pushing a pram.

 

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[halewood pete]

Compare the meerkat .com AGHHHH!!!!

[Original202]

At the moment the ones annoying me are:

 

• Activia with their "unique formula to create activus bifidus digestivus to aid digestive transit". What the fuck is that? It's yoghurt which helps you shit. Fuck off.
   
  
• The T-mobile smug happy cunts singing and dancing in Trafalgar Square. No explanation needed.
   
  
• The Weetabix family / the weetabix week.
   
  
• And the Maltesers "lighter way to be naughty" ones with them stupid cunts in an office.
  

 

I'm not swayed that much either way by adverts and wouldn't deliberately avoid buying something if I associated with a bad advert - unless it was a new product which I didn't know about. But the brand awareness thing definitely affects us all, even if only subconsciously. If you're in the supermarket and there are two items available, you're likely to be drawn to the one that you feel most familiar with so if one has had a big advertising programme on tv it's likely to win your attention more than the other.

[rargh]

One of the most irritating things in the world to me is when adverts work on people. When people say "put the lime in the coke you nut" and think some shitty advert is Hilarious, I am want to pick axe them in the face.

 

However, you have to concede that they do work, thats why people spend so much on them. I like to think myself as impenetrable to advertising but I'm sure it's worked. The only occassion I can think of was an advert for the airline Germanwings, which did cheap flights and sure enough checked them out and they were more convenient and cheaper then Easyjet and Ryanair. Conversely, I do believe I have avoided products because their adverts annoyed me so much.

 

What are your advert related weaknesses?

 

PS did you know that the volume on your TV goes up when adverts are on?

 

They work, though. Funboys drinking cider in pubs. What the fuck?

 

And what about Just For Men ads all of a sudden, playing on the sex sells routine? "Nobody will want to lay you if you have grey hair, so use this and maybe some ok bit of GILF might wanna have a go on your by then viagra-assisted cock."

 

Men get old, and we don't give a fuck. Victor Meldrew don't need no muthafuckin' hair dye!

[Trumo]

Victor Meldrew don't need no muthafuckin' hair dye!

 

He doesn't get laid either. If he did, he wouldn't believe it.

[Remmie]

Come on guys, lets not turn this into a listing of shitty adverts, that could go on forever. Lets keep it to a discussion about their effects and how respondent we are to them.

[MokTheAfflicted]

That Rolo advert with the elephants and the wanker in a tank top was pure class

[Trumo]

Workshy woman wonders about the office trying to avoid binging on cakes and the like. After a short sit down, during her "break" she eats a packet of new Special K nibbles, to apparently stop her from binging. Seems like her work consists of wandering around her office in a red dress trying to avoid binging on cakes and the like. No doubt after work, she and her "gal pals" head off to the wine bar round the corner to pound chardonnays, before going home and ordering a pizza, sitting around in sweats watching Desperate Housewives or Ugly Betty.

 

Give me the ammo and I can sell the lifestyle.

[Trumo]

Ultralase.

Message to Sir Steve Redgrave. You have many qualities worth admiring. Sheer will to win, longevity in a highly punishing sport, consistency, to name but a few. You have won Gold at every Olympics in which you've competed. Diabetes complications have meant your eyesight has been affected somewhat since then. However, YOU CANNOT ACT.

[Randy Marsh]

Never agreed with a thread so much, every post has me nodding in approval.

 

Here's my personal hates

 

T-Mobile, already mentioned I know. If ever an Al Qaeda cell had a just cause for setting off bombs in London, it's in that fuckin square. Smug over-happy uber-cool cunts.

 

Meerkat. Just fuck off, you're milking it now.

 

Volvic Challenge. "Yeeer, just on to Day 5 of the Volvic Challenge,,,,,,Ooooo, think I might have a cheeky Volvic!". Errr no, fuck off and die you arse lentil.

[Paulie Dangerously]

I like to think adverts don't affect me but they clearly do. Find myself buying products because I've heard of their "awesome power" and not because they are effective. I was always the ad mans dream as a Kid my ma told me, whatever toy was on the telly I believed the hype.

 

My latest anti-advert purchase was a King of Shaves Azor razor. I did this for a 2 pronged reason. 1. I heard it was awesome 2. Those smug cunt Mach 3 Turbo adverts make me puke

[She Knows It]

I have a complete block when it comes to adverts. People always say "Have you seen that advert where blah, blah, blah?" and I never know what they're talking about. I just never take any notice of them, or remember them.

 

The only exception is "We buy any car dot com... any, any, any, any...." I hate that jingly turd more than I could begin to describe.

[sh#t waffle]

I think everyone likes to feel that they're not receptive to advertising, mainly due to the fact that if you hate an advert, you make a point of avoiding that product. However, it simply wouldn't be a multi gazillion pound industry if its influence was that easily avoided. Heavy handed it may have been, but that Derren Brown trick on the advertising executives a few years back showed just how influential subliminal messages can be. Also, the current glut of 'retro' advertising at the moment is, I would imagine, very effective.

[Randy Marsh]

One of the exams on my Journalism course this year was on advertising. It's astonishing just how valuable it is, especially in print media. I'm sure something like 70% of an average quality press magazine's revenue is just gained through advertisements.

[Original202]

I wonder how many adverts the average person sees/hears each day?

 

It's everywhere, billboards, buses and taxis (Inside and out), radio, tv, websites, papers, magazines. You'd have to be deaf and blind not to notice something.

 

*This post was brought to you by Coca-Cola

[Trumo]

I think an advert has to either be brilliant or eyepoppingly awful. Any mediocrity will just lose the message or not have the desired impact. For the record, this is one of the finest non-product ads of the past few years.

 

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[Randy Marsh]

I think an advert has to either be brilliant or eyepoppingly awful. Any mediocrity will just lose the message or not have the desired impact. For the record, this is one of the finest non-product ads of the past few years.

 

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I like the STI awareness ones they, where the bird has chlamydia written round the top of her knickers, and Gonorea on her bra. I can relate to them so well.

[Special K]

I fucking hate that ad. It would make more sense if the guy ordering had car keys in his hand. At least then you'd know he was a driver. The way it comes across is that the barman just has a go at him for nothing!

 

Also any Special K advert (nowt to do with the username!!!) They always, ALWAYS have gorgeous women complaining about putting on another gram of weight! Why not use fatties who need to eat the product????

 

Grrrr!

[Trumo]

I like the STI awareness ones they, where the bird has chlamydia written round the top of her knickers, and Gonorea on her bra. I can relate to them so well.

 

Why, do you have Syphilis stencilled across yer boxers?

[Trumo]

I fucking hate that ad. It would make more sense if the guy ordering had car keys in his hand. At least then you'd know he was a driver. The way it comes across is that the barman just has a go at him for nothing!

 

Also any Special K advert (nowt to do with the username!!!) They always, ALWAYS have gorgeous women complaining about putting on another gram of weight! Why not use fatties who need to eat the product????

 

Grrrr!

 

The point about the Drink Drive campaign is that it gets to the point. Anyway who goes up to a barman to order a drink whilst waving a set of car keys?

 

As regards Special K (the cereal!) I hate that other advert where the women around the pool pretend to be busy whilst the waiter comes round with breakfast stuff. Then you have the red swimsuit-clad Jennifer Garner lookalike sitting down to a bowl of the special stuff. She can barely eat it.

[Special K]

The point about the Drink Drive campaign is that it gets to the point. Anyway who goes up to a barman to order a drink whilst waving a set of car keys?

As regards Special K (the cereal!) I hate that other advert where the women around the pool pretend to be busy whilst the waiter comes round with breakfast stuff. Then you have the red swimsuit-clad Jennifer Garner lookalike sitting down to a bowl of the special stuff. She can barely eat it.

 

But that's my point. He hasn't got a set of car keys but he might not be drinking. For all the barman knows he's going to order a packet of peanuts or a coke! I don't drive so if I went up to the bar and the barman starts doing impressions before I've even opened my mouth I'd be a bit concerned!

 

I admit I'm being facetious but it's a point that must be made!!!

[Remmie]

*rolls eyes and huffs*

[Trumo]

*rolls eyes and huffs*

 

Understand your frustration mate. I thought my post at 8:46pm followed your original intention for the thread. To be fair, a thread called "adverts" is likely to lead to an avalanche of Youtube guff. I realise it's 3 years after the event, but calling the thread something like "The impact of advertising" would probably have kept the thread on track. No-ones fault.