Annoying television adverts...

[yorksrob]

The mother and father in the TV advert did not seem unduly distressed by the fact that they had a new set of twins. However, the salesman in the house was only concerned with convincing the parents that they now needed a bigger family car. How had he obtained entry to the premises, had he been invited in by the parents?

The father grimaces at the news of two extra

Anyhow, if I get broody, I'll be getting a cat.

 

[GusB]

Not being knowingly concerned with credit scores, as I mentioned on another thread, I have seen an advert for cars, where a man looks at what I assume is called a smart phone, where once he strokes his finger across the screen, the credit score increases. He does the same thing another couple of times, increasing his credit score each time. Do companies such as Experian make complaints about adverts such as this, as it looks to be a fraudulent increase in a credit score.

The man in question is Richard Ayoade, and I believe this is actually an advert for one of the credit reference companies. It might be Experian, but I can't remember and I've been unable to find a clip of the advert online.

The mother and father in the TV advert did not seem unduly distressed by the fact that they had a new set of twins. However, the salesman in the house was only concerned with convincing the parents that they now needed a bigger family car. How had he obtained entry to the premises, had he been invited in by the parents?

I still feel that you're taking this far too seriously!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I still feel that you're taking this far too seriously!

To be honest, I think it is the fact that I have been fortunate to have been father of twins and remember my good lady wife and I having so many memories of the wonderful childhood days bringing the boys up. They will be 46 this year. Twins are a special gift to parents, not a matter of regret. If someone had told me it would be a good idea to have a vasectomy very soon after the birth of my twin children, that person would be persona non grata from that moment onwards.

 

[ABB125]

The mother and father in the TV advert did not seem unduly distressed by the fact that they had a new set of twins. However, the salesman in the house was only concerned with convincing the parents that they now needed a bigger family car. How had he obtained entry to the premises, had he been invited in by the parents?

The problem with that advert is that you can't actually fit six people (two parents, two current children, two future twins) in the new car that the wife chooses. (Well, not according to my dad, anyway!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The father grimaces at the news of two extra

Being a septuagenarian, matters regarding numbers of children in the area of North Manchester where I spent my childhood were much different in those days and it was not unusual to see families with five or six children. One particular verse of a folk song that our folk group sang many years ago made a parody of big families, the song being "In my Liverpool home"....

"When I grew up, I met Bridget McCann,
She said "You're not much, but I'm needing a man.
I want sixteen kids and a house out in Speke"
Well, the flesh it was willing, but the spirit was weak.

 

[BluePenguin]

I’m sure it was much more affordable to bring up children in those days compared to now. Some parents struggle to comfortably bring up 2 let alone 6 or 16

Does anyone else find the Tombola Arcade adverts particularly annoying? The talking insects playing games on an oversize mobile phone irritate me.

As with most other adverts for gambling, you are spoken to in a baby voice and dazzled by bright colours and shapes to lure you into playing the games.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Some time ago, one of those "bingo" T V adverts showed people gathering in a go-cart racing premises and other adverts from the same company showed a group of people enjoying themselves at an outdoor event. Surely, "bingo" events in real life do not have such events, so why do their TV adverts show them?

 

[Busaholic]

I’m sure it was much more affordable to bring up children in those days compared to now. Some parents struggle to comfortably bring up 2 let alone 6 or 16

Does anyone else find the Tombola Arcade adverts particularly annoying? The talking insects playing games on an oversize mobile phone irritate me.

As with most other adverts for gambling, you are spoken to in a baby voice and dazzled by bright colours and shapes to lure you into playing the games.

I was employed as a croupier for a very short period (I walked out the moment my first pay cheque got banked) and you had to be cleared for a gaming licence, which in my case arrived in a record (for the company) two days. To get the licence, you had to show you were of suitable character, but as far as I was concerned it was a non sequitur: anyone who wanted such a licence didn't have a suitable character! It was 1979, and I never told any of my family, other than my wife, of my inglorious few weeks working for Grand Met in the Golden Nugget casino near Piccadilly Circus.

 

[Westcountryman]

Referring back to some posts which may have been in this thread, I note that the adverts for electricity companies who advertise that they only supply green energy, now have text at the bottom which at last clarify that, although they may purchase their power from green sources, that the power that actually comes into your house is supplied by the national grid and is a 'mixture' of all power sources, including imported power, nuclear and gas power stations. I wonder whether this is due to some action to the advertising authority or Ofgen.

 

[Busaholic]

Bernard Matthews 'bootiful' turkey (alleged) ads from the 1980s.

 

[Paul Jones 88]

I hate Mc Cain adverts, sickly sweet poop.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Don't ask my why, but I really become annoyed when I see the AA advert that shows a dog on a chair, in front of a fan on full power, with music playing in the background.

 

[BluePenguin]

Don't ask my why, but I really become annoyed when I see the AA advert that shows a dog on a chair, in front of a fan on full power, with music playing in the background.

I quite like listening to the guitar music playing, although I can never quite make out what the girl is singing.

I always remember the dog and the fan but never that it is advertising the AA. Probably because this advert says nothing about the AA at all!

 

[stantheman]

Car adverts with stupid young people nodding inanely

 

[GusB]

Don't ask my why, but I really become annoyed when I see the AA advert that shows a dog on a chair, in front of a fan on full power, with music playing in the background.

I quite like listening to the guitar music playing, although I can have a quite make out what the girl is singing.

I always remember the dog and the fan but never that it is advertising the AA. Probably because this advert says nothing about the AA at all!

I love that advert! However, there appear to be two versions, and I think the point only really comes across when you see the full-length one (50 seconds). You need to have travelled with a dog in a car to get it.

The song is "Drinkee" by Sofi Tukker and the words aren't in English, which would explain why it's difficult to understand!

 

[krus_aragon]

Car adverts with stupid young people nodding inanely

How about car insurance adverts with a stupid nodding dog?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I love that advert! However, there appear to be two versions, and I think the point only really comes across when you see the full-length one (50 seconds). You need to have travelled with a dog in a car to get it.

The advert in its shortened version commencing with the dog actually in a room on a chair is the only one that has been seen in our North-West TV area and is not that 50 second one you make mention of. What TV region are you in?

 

[BluePenguin]

You don't see as many of these adverts anymore, but some of the most popular ones back in the day were for chat lines. Disguised as dating and party lines to make new friends, these chatlines were designed to lure the bored and lonely to call various 0891 premium rate numbers. They were the most annoying to ever surface on television. Most feature irritating jingles like many gambling adverts do today. Here are a few of the catchiest yet worth culprits. With 90s raves to cheesy over enthusiastic commentary they were guaranteed to grab your attention

"Being single has never been so much fun"
"Find love on the phone, call the singles network"
"Do you want to talk man to man?"
"Don't miss out and join the party today!"
"Don't be bored, call FRIENDS!"

 

[nlogax]

You don't see as many of these adverts anymore, but some of the most popular ones back in the day were for chat lines.

Best thing about those chatlines were the ads! They were more entertaining than half the stuff they bookended on tv at that time of night.

 

[BluePenguin]

Best thing about those chatlines were the ads! They were more entertaining than half the stuff they bookended on tv at that time of night.

Which channels do you remember seeing them on? I think I saw some on ITV and Channel 4. Even today late night television is either bingo, tele shopping or roulette. I missed the Quiz Mania days lol


A few more I found:

 

[nlogax]

Which channels do you remember seeing them on? I think I saw some on ITV and Channel 4. Even today late night television is either bingo, tele shopping or roulette. I missed the Quiz Mania days lol

Back in the day it was Meridian, and what I briefly remember on TVS pre-1992. 'Late Night Late' graveyard slot. Rammed full of brightly coloured and badly sung chatline ads wedged between episodes of Get Stuffed and The Hitman and Her. That 'FIFTY FIFTY FIFTY' one is the specific example that rings through the ages..dreadful

 

[GusB]

The advert in its shortened version commencing with the dog actually in a room on a chair is the only one that has been seen in our North-West TV area and is not that 50 second one you make mention of. What TV region are you in?

STV North. I've seen both the long and the short versions played here. I've no idea how they decide which one to use.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

With the matter of the American wife of a US Intelligence Officer at an American base in Britain who drove on the wrong side of the road, killing a motorcyclist, in mind, it is utterly crass to show car advertisements shown in Britain with that type of driving. Tonight, I think it was an MG advert that showed it.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

With the matter of the American wife of a US Intelligence Officer at an American base in Britain who drove on the wrong side of the road, killing a motorcyclist, in mind, it is utterly crass to show car advertisements shown in Britain with that type of driving. Tonight, I think it was an MG advert that showed it.

Surely it is just the case that they'll film an advert in a country that drives on the right, and not bother to flip the footage because it causes more headaches for the editors, which means higher costs. That certainly wasn't the first or last case of people driving on the wrong side of the road.

A tad insensitive to a pretty small minority of people, rather than "utterly crass". Directly referencing the incident you speak of would indeed be utterly crass (as well as utterly daft from a business perspective) but that isn't what happened.

 

[Ostrich]

The "Wowcher" adverts.

Beyond irritating .......

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

What on earth is the cartoon character dressed in green and white tight lycra supposed to suggest at the start of the National Homebuyers TV advert?

 

[Welly]

I was watching my neighbour's sunflowers waving in the wind and annoyingly, I was reminded of a 1990s TV advert for some sunflower margarine brand that had singing and dancing sunflowers going,"ooooh, ooooh, <brandname>, ooooh"!

Edit - the brand was Vile-ite!

 

[matacaster]

What on earth is the cartoon character dressed in green and white tight lycra supposed to suggest at the start of the National Homebuyers TV advert?

What on earth is the cartoon character dressed in green and white tight lycra supposed to suggest at the start of the National Homebuyers TV advert?

The potential buyer was a cyclist??

 

[Busaholic]

The Duracell bunny. In my experience, if anything Duracell batteries are exhausted earlier than rivals, the latter often being only half the cost, A premium price product that doesn't deliver.

 

[birchesgreen]

Duracell have always been average, just another example of a company with a big marketing budget.