Annoying television adverts...

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When will the viewers be next inundated with Black Friday TV adverts?

 

[High Dyke]

When will the viewers be next inundated with Black Friday TV adverts?

Already started I'm afraid. However, it was that memorable I failed to identify who the retailer was.

 

[IanD]

The one advert that I find more unnerving than annoying is the National Lottery one with the gay men losing the ticket. Am I the only one that finds it unsettling because they look so much like brothers (or even twins!)?

It just annoys me that the guy who keeps losing the ticket is entrusted to look after it time and again.

AAARRRGGHHHH.... Christmas adverts have started!!!

It's not December yet!!!

And the Whoop Whoop Celebrations ad is back. Joy to the world.

When will the viewers be next inundated with Black Friday TV adverts?

It's "Black Friday Month" now, don't you know?

 

[75A]

EE Broadband: super duper, blah blah, does this, does that and then at the bottom in small pint available to 25% or in other words 75% of the UK can't get it!
Typical BT.

 

[Lost property]

The M&S Christmas food advert which ends with the usual, well worse than usual, patronising inflection "this isn't just food, this is M&S Christmas food " (missing are the words you grotty little people) with a table piled obscenely high with food.

There are many people who couldn't afford even a starter from M&S, even if they wanted to, so showing a table overloaded with food is just pure arrogance and an insult to many who have to choose between "eat or heat ".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The M&S Christmas food advert which ends with the usual, well worse than usual, patronising inflection "this isn't just food, this is M&S Christmas food " (missing are the words you grotty little people) with a table piled obscenely high with food.

There are many people who couldn't afford even a starter from M&S, even if they wanted to, so showing a table overloaded with food is just pure arrogance and an insult to many who have to choose between "eat or heat ".

Makes you wonder if no-one was involved in the casino and bingo scenarios if the money spent on playing on the products there was instead spent on paying for food.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Checkatrade with the Romans! Why?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Checkatrade with the Romans! Why?

They've probably been watching The Goodies episode "Movies"...?

 

[birchesgreen]

Checkatrade with the Romans! Why?

I assume they remember the old joke about Rome not being built in a day as they had to wait for the paint to dry.

 

[dgl]

The new curry's adverts where they proclaim that their staff has had x hours of training, mainly because I bet that most of the training was how to sell what they wanted to shift rather than what was right. The fact that in the advert they are trying to sell the unreliable garbage that is Shark vacuums kinda proves that.
How I love buying white goods online where they can't sell you what they want you to buy (though they still ring you up to try and sell you appliance cover, well as I am unlikely to damage the item in question the manufacturers long warranty is fine thank you!).

 

[dangie]

….though they still ring you up to try and sell you appliance cover…

When the toaster appliance cover is more expensive than a new toaster!

 

[Ashley Hill]

The E4 Climate advert where all the actors are wearing white underwear. Why the need to grind their hips erotically?

 

[cygnus44]

Let’s not have Christmas Adds before December

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the Nationwide advert, that shows an opposition bank with an executive who wants to close that branch, but still retain the personal office in the building for the executive, that person will have his come-uppance when he finds that there will be no need to retain his office at a closed branch....and quite possibly his role with the company.

 

[Ediswan]

In the Nationwide advert, that shows an opposition bank with an executive who wants to close that branch, but still retain the personal office in the building for the executive, that person will have his come-uppance when he finds that there will be no need to retain his office at a closed branch....and quite possibly his role with the company.

I believe the building is intended to be the bank's head office.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I believe the building is intended to be the bank's head office.

Even worse, as closing the bank's head office, would most certainly see the executive have no need for an office in that building nor a well-paid salaried role. The executive clearly makes reference to the fact that he assumes he will still grudgingly retain his existing office in the building.

 

[JamesT]

Even worse, as closing the bank's head office, would most certainly see the executive have no need for an office in that building nor a well-paid salaried role. The executive clearly makes reference to the fact that he assumes he will still grudgingly retain his existing office in the building.

The advert suggests that the bottom floors of the building are set up as a branch, whilst the upper floors are the head office. The closure would solely be to the branch part whilst the bank would conduct its operations online. Hence the executive would expect to carry on in the style he has become accustomed to, the implication being he’s not tied to the branch activities.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The advert suggests that the bottom floors of the building are set up as a branch, whilst the upper floors are the head office. The closure would solely be to the branch part whilst the bank would conduct its operations online. Hence the executive would expect to carry on in the style he has become accustomed to, the implication being he’s not tied to the branch activities.

Many thanks for such a most thoughtful explanation. Is it now the case that the main head offices of the banking industry no longer have a branch contained in their head office buildings.

 

[IanD]

Many thanks for such a most thoughtful explanation. Is it now the case that the main head offices of the banking industry no longer have a branch contained in their head office buildings.

The ground floor is now a vape show and tattoo parlour.

 

[d9009alycidon]

The H&M Xmas advert is annoyingly weird, I think that they are trying to be so politically correct and avant-garde that they have forgotten that the purpose of the ad is to promote the sale of a product.

 

[Jamesrob637]

One Christmas advert that definitely won't be annoying this year is that of Iceland, simply because they aren't doing one, in order to keep their food prices down. Smart Iceland, very smart. I actually like some of their products, though both mine and my wife's Iceland-branded "Magna" fell off the stick the moment we started to eat them on Saturday night! Definitely a cut-price Magnum there. though in fairness they tasted fine.

 

[AM9]

The H&M Xmas advert is annoyingly weird, I think that they are trying to be so politically correct and avant-garde that they have forgotten that the purpose of the ad is to promote the sale of a product.

I think they are trying to get their name in people's minds, - which seems to have worked on you. They are probably grateful for your mentioning them here.
You don't need to do a QVC hold up the product advert to generate sales.

 

[dangie]

I think they are trying to get their name in people's minds, - which seems to have worked on you....

This is something I've never understood. The Ad-men (or women) will say that no matter how bad the advert, if you remember the product it's a good advert.
I don't get that. Yes I may remember it, but if I can't stand the advert it would put me off buying the product.

As an extra, my favourite advert at the moment is Heinz Baked Beans, where the man is standing by the airport carousel waiting for his suitcase which doesn't turn up. He then spends his holiday in misery.
The scene then rewinds to him packing his suitcase which is full of Heinz Baked Beans. Quite an amusing advert.

 

[AM9]

This is something I've never understood. The Ad-men (or women) will say that no matter how bad the advert, if you remember the product it's a good advert.
I don't get that. Yes I may remember it, but if I can't stand the advert it would put me off buying the product.

As an extra, my favourite advert at the moment is Heinz Baked Beans, where the man is standing by the airport carousel waiting for his suitcase which doesn't turn up. He then spends his holiday in misery.
The scene then rewinds to him packing his suitcase which is full of Heinz Baked Beans. Quite an amusing advert.

Advertising isn't aimed at the few who actually buy from them, they're already on board, but those who don't like their advertising who moan about it to others are also doing their publicity work, - think of the most naff ads you can and then check how that company is doing;
e.g. one of the best/worst shake and vac - Glade Products is still alive
Ant and Dec - Santander is still on my high st.

Name and business awareness is big business, - billions of pounds/etc., are spent yearly just to acheve that, it funds TV channels, much of Youtube/Instagram/Tic-Toc/etc., and that sort of money isn't spent to drive custom away.

 

[dakta]

I've seen a lot of adverts lately along the lines of 'gift extra', I try to switch off to it but i think the gist was I should shop with them in order to be a better gifter.

I love christmas period but this has tipped me into the winter in a bit of a mood - why would i want to be a better gifter? I, like many, fought tooth and nail through the year to survive the world as we've all made it, my ultimate statusisn't going to be set by what little I've left right to hand out, right? right? anyone?

oh crap, credit card time then


I just don't like the very very slight nudge that I'm a better person or can do things better if i spend

 

[AM9]

I've seen a lot of adverts lately along the lines of 'gift extra', I try to switch off to it but i think the gist was I should shop with them in order to be a better gifter.

I love christmas period but this has tipped me into the winter in a bit of a mood - why would i want to be a better gifter? I, like many, fought tooth and nail through the year to survive the world as we've all made it, my ultimate statusisn't going to be set by what little I've left right to hand out, right? right? anyone?

oh crap, credit card time then


I just don't like the very very slight nudge that I'm a better person or can do things better if i spend

Why don't you like it? Because it's true or because it's not true?

 

[dakta]

I don't like it because it effectively sets your worth (not financial) based on what you spend - IMO

I never really used to pay much attention to the commercialisation of Christmas but it's getting a bit sickly

 

[AM9]

I don't like it because it effectively sets your worth (not financial) based on what you spend - IMO

I never really used to pay much attention to the commercialisation of Christmas but it's getting a bit sickly

It doesn't set your worth, it's an advert. You can believe it or ignore it. That's why ad men get paid so much.

 

[dakta]

I can also post on a thread called 'Annoying television adverts...' that I find it annoying

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

As an extra, my favourite advert at the moment is Heinz Baked Beans, where the man is standing by the airport carousel waiting for his suitcase which doesn't turn up. He then spends his holiday in misery.
The scene then rewinds to him packing his suitcase which is full of Heinz Baked Beans. Quite an amusing advert.

Tins of baked beans are not light items, so looking at the number of them that the man is packing in his suitcase, could there be a danger in having it overweight. I wonder what the overseas X-ray airport machines would reveal when being checked and whether the airport staff there would wonder why there were so many basic items of the same food source, with drugs being smuggled in all types of containers these days. I would like to see the distress caused to the man when those airport staff tell him that all the tins would be opened to physically check what contents were inside.

I woinder if the man suffers from chronic flatulence caused by the overeating of that particular product which once had its advert paradied...."Beanz Meanz Fartz"....