Terry Nunn
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Well, I have to say that they really infuriate me. Some are quite good, the meerkats are brilliant for example. But what about the others?
PaulB has already mentioned the "send us your gold" ones. Then there's the "let's be litigious" type. "I was installing this fire alarm and they gave the wrong type of ladder". What a pillock, if he was any professional he would have had his own ladder. He shouldn't have got anything, it was his fault. And then he goes on to say that he got eight thousand pound. POUND! It's a bloody plural.
And what about the appalling dubbing of the Croc Odour ad? Blimey it's excruciating.
Any others?
Terry
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Furniture sales ads! Drove me to distraction, or rather outside for a ciggie.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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For me it's that bloody Churchill dog - aggghhhhh!!
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I forgot about that one Paul, it's on my hit list too!
The whole damned lot! I want an ad that says: buy soap, it gets you clean.
Job done
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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Those old gospel USwitch ones really wound me up. They're quite reasonable now.
Terry
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Jeane, with my total rejection of all TV, I cannot avoid that detestable dog which seems to always be on whilst passing through the living room. Long overdue for putting down.
As Bern says, should be straight to the point, without all the pathetic childish nonsense that goes with it. Bring back those Guiness adverts of the 50s, and 60s.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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.The bed and furniture adverts what a pain, they could save a fortune in advertising fees by just doing an advert for when they are selling at their normal price.
I hate TV add's but I accept that if we want TV without paying more, then they are part of the viewing
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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What about those dreadful Halifax ones....
Remember that old one for the choccies, the Ambassador's party..... talk about bad dubbing. It was so dreadful it was actually a great ad, after all everyone remembers it.
Mackeson, bah gum, it looks good, it tastes good and it does you good..... one of my old favourites and there are precious few of those!
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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Michael Winner and that sodding esure.com advert - "Calm Down Dear, It's only an advert........."
Yeah, calm down Michael, it's only me shoving a red hot poker up your a*se!!!!!!!
AAAAaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh...............
True friends stab you in the front.
"get the strength of the insurance company around you" - anyone remember that?
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Yes Bern, the little animated man in the bowler hat in the centre of a round castle complete with battlement`s. Mid/late 60s if I remember right.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
That's the one!! I remember more from that time than I do about breakfast.....sad! I can remember my Dads Ford Zephyr numberplate more easily than I remember my own now...........help me!!!!!!
It's not so much the content but the frequency and length of ad breaks that annoys me! With american shows the first break comes at the end of the opening credits and the last 5 minutes before the end!! I have counted up to 16 ads and trailers in the breaks. You lose the will to live, but unfortunately the quality of terrestrial tv is such that I frequently resort to Five USA. And I loath the smug dental adverts where the camerman is perched on the floor looking up the person's nostrils...
Brian Dixon
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that "we buy any car"advert.really gets up my nose along with that go compare advert.
We have BT Vision and that enables us to pause a programme long enough to allow us to fast forward through the advert breaks.
As for
www.webuyanycar.com, I valued one of my cars on there and was offered about £690 for it. I didn't respond and about two weeks later got an offer for the same vehicle of £1390!!!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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You are so right Diana. i dont like to watch the digi channels live due to the excessive length of the ad breaks. Far better to set the PVR for any progs on those and fast forward skipping the ads. Also appalling is when the have the sound set at a higher level for the ads.
I read about this some years ago and if I recall correctly, the sound in adverts is recorded at a different compression rate to the programmes, which are all different. Frustrating I know, but it's unavoidable without a global industry standard for recording compressions.
Been nice knowing you :)
