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Annoying Adverts 2015

twentythreedom said:
Yes, insurers fleece us as it is, and now they flog their poxy mascots to gullible fools, then point and laugh while counting their cash :mad:
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I've got two meerkats from compare the meerkat.com. And I believe I got cheap insurance.

If you can't get round it (and I couldn't - it was my house or car insurance) then get a meerkat toy.:cool:
 
Sirena said:
I am considering a Brian toy with my next insurance purchase. I believe I am a style victim.:)
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It's not a toy, it's a symbol of your oppression. Brian and the meerkats will point at you and laugh while you sleep, plotting to extract more cash from you at renewal time :(

Don't do it!
 
There is an ad on at the moment for one of those magazine part works that no one ever buys more than two of. Anyway, this is for something called Art Therapy. As far a I can tell, it is colouring in for grown ups. You get patterns and colouring pencils and a pencil sharpener and that kind of stuff. First issue is 99p. Next issues are £2.99, I see.

Actually, I don't think the advert annoys me as much as the product it's advertising baffles me. I can't imagine who'd buy it.
If you are a kid and you like colouring in, great - those colouring in books cost pennies anywhere they are sold. Crayons, colouring in pencils and felt tips are all pretty cheap and provide hours of entertainment. I think most kids like colouring at some point.
If you are an adult who likes doing arty things, you'd surely not be buying a sodding magazine that tells you how to colour in the "design pages" supplied.
Is it aimed at adults who are no longer arty, to remind them of how much fun colouring in was?
Baffled, I say.

Arsebiscuits. I might just have talked myself into buying the bloody thing to see if the advert is correct in its extravagant claims that I will be relaxed after a spot of colouring in.
:facepalm:
 
Espresso said:
There is an ad on at the moment for one of those magazine part works that no one ever buys more than two of. Anyway, this is for something called Art Therapy. As far a I can tell, it is colouring in for grown ups. You get patterns and colouring pencils and a pencil sharpener and that kind of stuff. First issue is 99p. Next issues are £2.99, I see.

Actually, I don't think the advert annoys me as much as the product it's advertising baffles me. I can't imagine who'd buy it.
If you are a kid and you like colouring in, great - those colouring in books cost pennies anywhere they are sold. Crayons, colouring in pencils and felt tips are all pretty cheap and provide hours of entertainment. I think most kids like colouring at some point.
If you are an adult who likes doing arty things, you'd surely not be buying a sodding magazine that tells you how to colour in the "design pages" supplied.
Is it aimed at adults who are no longer arty, to remind them of how much fun colouring in was?
Baffled, I say.

Arsebiscuits. I might just have talked myself into buying the bloody thing to see if the advert is correct in its extravagant claims that I will be relaxed after a spot of colouring in.
:facepalm:
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Thing is there are some incredibly detailed colouring in for adults (my missus does them on occassion) and they only cost a couple of quid from your local discount bookshop/99p store
 
Radio ads currently doing my swede; Have I got PPIiiiiii? And Gumtree with Brian cunthead Blesssed shouting away. Either are enough to get me sympathising with Michael Ryan.
 
Activia yoghurt with Gok Wan rabbiting on about how it'll do wonders for your energy and vitality levels etc. What gets me EVERY SINGLE TIME is when he starts talking about what sound like its "delicious fruit parings" and EVERY SINGLE TIME my brain goes "fruit parings?! yuck! couldn't they put some of the proper fruit in? why should I knowingly pay for floor sweepings and offcuts of fruit, eh?".

He is of course talking about "fruit pairings" but my brain is so set in its ad-rejecting kneejerk ways I can't make it stop.
 
Pseudopsycho said:
I'm glad someone posted this; I've attempted several times but have been struck illiterate with irrational hatred.

Why the fuck does how they these walking beards been animating got anything to do with anything else?!?!
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Because you need to know the setup: why are these people having a mind numbily innane conversation about mobile phone tariffs???? Because they have spent 3 years in each others company moving things a little bit at a time, and have exhausted ALL other topics of conversation.
 
gosub said:
Because you need to know the setup: why are these people having a mind numbily innane conversation about mobile phone tariffs???? Because they have spent 3 years in each others company moving things a little bit at a time, and have exhausted ALL other topics of conversation.
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I'm getting het up for no reason now so I'll think I'll batter some Dragons in Skyrim!
 
Espresso said:
There is an ad on at the moment for one of those magazine part works that no one ever buys more than two of. Anyway, this is for something called Art Therapy. As far a I can tell, it is colouring in for grown ups. You get patterns and colouring pencils and a pencil sharpener and that kind of stuff. First issue is 99p. Next issues are £2.99, I see.

Actually, I don't think the advert annoys me as much as the product it's advertising baffles me. I can't imagine who'd buy it.
:facepalm:
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Aha, but this is a Legitimate Psychological Aid and a Social Trend in Anxiety Treatment. Trend originating in France apparently (they're very anxious over there, on average, it's all the cheese.) Entirely un-bogus Trend Analysis reportage here:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4398423.ece
 
There is an advert on at the moment for Etihad airways in which Nicole Kidman lounges and lolls about looking very glamorous and wittering on about....well... I'm not really sure. Lots of inspirational waffle about not very much.
Nice work if you can get it, I'm sure, but it's an advert for an airline. Now either I'm the dimmest dimbo in dimland but if I'm booking a flight I want one that goes to where I'm going, when I want to go for a price I am willing to pay. Is that not how it works?
Or am I supposed to quite fancy a go on on an Etihad aeroplane, then plan my holiday based on their destinations?
 
I think I put much the same in last year's thread, but "Booking dot com, booking dot yeah" just smacks of a particularly ineffective brainstorming session.
 
Espresso said:
There is an advert on at the moment for Etihad airways in which Nicole Kidman lounges and lolls about looking very glamorous and wittering on about....well... I'm not really sure. Lots of inspirational waffle about not very much.
Nice work if you can get it, I'm sure, but it's an advert for an airline. Now either I'm the dimmest dimbo in dimland but if I'm booking a flight I want one that goes to where I'm going, when I want to go for a price I am willing to pay. Is that not how it works?
Or am I supposed to quite fancy a go on on an Etihad aeroplane, then plan my holiday based on their destinations?
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Oh, come on. Umpteen airlines fly between, say, London and New York. It really is a matter of choosing a carrier, and it's perfectly reasonable to value seat width, food, the likelihood of being stranded in the wrong city and so on - meaning that a sane person would avoid a US carrier like the plague, settle for a European flag carrier (as long as they weren't code sharing with an American outfit) and if they could afford it, splurge on an Asian or compromise on a Gulf airline. And most people who fly do so when work is paying and they can get away with paying a couple of hundred quid over the rock-bottom price.
 
Maurice Picarda said:
Oh, come on. Umpteen airlines fly between, say, London and New York. It really is a matter of choosing a carrier, and it's perfectly reasonable to value seat width, food, the likelihood of being stranded in the wrong city and so on - meaning that a sane person would avoid a US carrier like the plague, settle for a European flag carrier (as long as they weren't code sharing with an American outfit) and if they could afford it, splurge on an Asian or compromise on a Gulf airline. And most people who fly do so when work is paying and they can get away with paying a couple of hundred quid over the rock-bottom price.
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I see you inhabit a vastly different world to me. :D
 
Have we moaned about the auld lad and young lad having putting their fries in the lid of their burger box in common yet? That's definitely the most annoying one at the moment.
 
Radio adverts for belvita biscuits are doing my head in at the moment. Both the male and female. The tune. The message. The cringy ' I was doing sit ups'.

Never mind the fact that the biscuits aren't exactly healthy and have a fuck ton of sugar. You might as we'll! Have bourbons or hobnobs for breakfast.
 
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