Ad’s that drive me MAD

[Munstermaniac]

Have Today FM on at work every day, and some of the adverts on during the day are scarily bad, such as.....


Birdseye Potato Waffles - the stupid bint who starts roaring at the boyfriend( Seán) 'cos he forgot the potatoes. Surely she should have noticed this a lot earlier in the cooking. And whats the feckin' urgency with getting the waffles. Death is too good for this bi**h.


Vodafone Broadband - These shower claim you need a degree in Science to get broadband from other networks! Well, I nearly failed maths in the leaving cert and dropped out of college after two years, yet I actually have broadband!! How can this be?


Some phone company - yer man gets the phone bill and burns his hands!! Then herself, instead of running and getting him the TCP and some cold water to soothe his delicate fingers, says "I told you". I'm telling you now, if Mrs. Maniac said that to me, I'd make her sleep in the shed!!


Voices - how come any voice on a radio advert that isn't from Dublin, has to be some thick, dung eating, from the back of beyond bogger type. There are 31 other counties in Ireland. Can the ad agenciesnot find more people to do these voiceovers?


Thats the end of my rant for now. Please post any more ad's that annoy you if you want. I just needed to get this off my chest.[img]smileys/biggrin.gif[/img]

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Anything Harvey Normans [img]smileys/mad.gif[/img]


Go Harvy, Go Harvy, Go Harvy Norman. [img]smileys/mad.gif[/img]

[who?]

"Did ya put the cat out"?

He just went downstairs to put the cat out (ok, he nearly burnt the
house down in the meantime), why would you ask him again when he
gets back into bed?

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[An Fear Bolg]

I have a theory that the people who got good advertising degrees went on to do TV ads. The ones who came bottom of the class do radio ads.


I regularly change the radio when the ad break comes on. Maybe I should let the radio stations know the standard of the ads on their station makes me change to their competitor!

[The Crimson King]

The Meteor ads [img]smileys/mad.gif[/img]with those terrible, terrible women "auditioning" friends.


Why are there so many awful women in ads? (Note: the answer "because there are so many in real life" will not be accepted [img]smileys/lol.gif[/img])


I have a great oul' soft spot for Barry Scott though. In case anyone hasn't come across this (I doubt it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGooQ8yYC0c

[duffer09]

what sickens me about these ads is that people get paid to some up with this sh*t!!!!

[Munstermaniac]

what sickens me about these ads is that people get paid to some up with this sh*t!!!!

I met a good few of these clowns when I was working in Dublin. There was an ad agency near our office, and these lads would always be hangin around trying to get their " creative juices" flowing. Bunch of tossers most of them. My dog has more imagination than these people.

[sewa]

Generic brand peach snaps - best radio ad ever

[Ruck]

Cillit Bang on the tv.


that phone bill ad on the radio is awful, easily one of the worst.


the lotto ads annoy me as well, yer mans voice grates on my brain.

[Balla Boy]

Radio advertising reached its peak with The Happy Butcher, and it should have been left alone after that.

[James Lynch]

TV licence inspector on radio and tv.
Budweiser screaming idiot.
meteor ads

At work now i'm driven demented by ads. I never realised how many
crap ones there were because i used to change channel during an
adbreak, at work i don't have that luxury.

I find that when an ad annoys me i will make a concious effort not to
buy that product. Does anyone else do the same?

[who?]

I find that when an ad annoys me i will make a
concious effort not to buy that product. Does anyone else do the same?

Very much so. But ultimately the advertiser probably thinks annoying
one or two customers is worth the advert being memorable, even if it's
for the wrong reasons.

[Scin]

The financial regulator radio where yer wan says "and I got my hair done for this" is particuraly crap.


I was in the car on Sunday listening to today fm I think and the whole program was literely an ad for bulmers light. The whole show had the music from the ad playing.


Ialso hatethe heinekentv ads at the moment. "Mario Cardozo".

[The Crimson King]

"Enrico Cardozo" - yup [img]smileys/mad.gif[/img]and it's a pity because the idea makes me laugh: beer kills your brain cells, but shur it's only the cr@p memories anyway. [img]smileys/lol.gif[/img]


It's called the Radion effect - from the 80s, when the Radion ads (Eamon Holmes, luminous washing powder box, catchphrase "Therrr fullllthy") were universally loathed but got instant brand recognition; still regarded as one of the world's most successful product launches. [img]smileys/c&#111;nfused.gif[/img]

[inoverthetop]

TV licence inspector on radio and tv.
Budweiser screaming idiot.
meteor ads

At work now i'm driven demented by ads. I never realised how many
crap ones there were because i used to change channel during an
adbreak, at work i don't have that luxury.

I find that when an ad annoys me i will make a concious effort not to
buy that product. Does anyone else do the same?

A particularly irritating one.. funnily enough some f**king D4 idiot(who do I know he was D4?? because he had bleached hair and was wearing a blazer) was at that s**t on Camden st a while back, it wasn't funny the first time or the second time he did it, what was funny was when some 12 year oldknacker came over and punched him in the mouth in front of the woman he was trying to impress.... instant classic that got a round of applause from many spectators including myself [img]smileys/lol.gif[/img]

[Ciano]

that Bud had was so unpopular they pulled it, and have gone back to the one about the BBQ which goes all well until the guy at the end is dubbed really badly.





I Cannot stand dubbed ads, it's just laziness and cheapness by some of the world's biggest corporations. I think there's a Cillit ad that's badly dubbed now.


I happen to be involved in parts of all this messing but know exactly what I like and am very critical of some of the godawful ads my company try and get in there!

[LZ]

Strongbow ads on the TV, can't stand them...

[seanp]

APACHI PIZZA I turn it off every does my head in [img]smileys/mad.gif[/img][img]smileys/mad.gif[/img][img]smileys/mad.gif[/img][img]smileys/mad.gif[/img][img]smileys/mad.gif[/img][img]smileys/mad.gif[/img][img]smileys/mad.gif[/img][img]smileys/mad.gif[/img][img]smileys/mad.gif[/img]


And the birds eye ad and not just because of my name.

[Corker]

I find that when an ad annoys me i will make a
concious effort not to buy that product. Does anyone else do the same?

Very much so. But ultimately the advertiser probably thinks annoying
one or two customers is worth the advert being memorable, even if it's
for the wrong reasons.

Daft Dave and the Tile crowd he was advertising being a case in point for me anyway. Still, annoying as the Daft Dave ads were, they got the message out and now even the youngest kids know all about where to buy Turkish Travertine ............. It works folks, like it or not.

[POC Lost Tooth]

Meteor ads are brillant.....FACT[img]smileys/biggrin.gif[/img]

[McCloud]

Meteor ads are brillant.....FACT[img]smileys/biggrin.gif[/img]

The cat falling out the window always made me laugh

[Hakaman]

Those Eircom Phone watch ads were a disgrace. Purely focused on peoples fears of being burgled and played on that theme. Received enormous levels of complaints and the ads have been removed as a result. Despite what some claim, there is a point when too much bad publicity is bad for business.

TV license inspector ads - I probably think it's horrible to listen to because I know my good money goes to pay the likes of Plank Kenny €750,000 PA for being the most smarmy, condescending, overpaid, talentless little Runt. And why, in the Good name of the Lord is RTE shelling out nearly (correct me if I'm wrong) €400,000 for Marianne Finucane? For WHAT?

[Spike]

Have to agree with Hakaman about the TV Licence adverts...though when they try to suggest that not paying your licence fee will lead to social stigma and shame on the scale of genocide and murder...well it would appear that Plank Kenny has indeed written the script.


Those adverts for fungus under your toenails...its bad enough having a toenail removed during particularly boisterous junior hurling match but to watch it on TV...OOOOWWWWWW!!![img]smileys/mad.gif[/img]

[The Word Is Born]

Anyone remember The Blizzard of Odd and the way it ripped the piss out of the various tv programs?

It's rather ironic now that is shilling himself to Diet Coke and any other 'Orange Drink' company that will stump some filthy lucre so he can buy his tight t-shirts from Urban Outfitters.

[Combatlogo]

The Pat the Baker ads with one of those D'Unbelieveable tossrs, with some culchie kid coming back from Americay...


Any ad which has a voice-over with some clown putting on an unbelieveably bad yankaccent...concert ads are particularly bad for this.

[munsterforever]

eircom broadband ads. i hate dave "who always likes to have the last laugh" and would like to punch him as hard as possible to wipe his smarmy smug smirk off his face.i also hate the greedy b***h who wants more tuna mayo on her sambo -(shes fat enough already) and has a loyalty coffee card and something wrong with her teeth. the kid with the insects needs a slap round the chops too. the ads have nothing to do with f**k all-anyone who gets eircom broadband is a loser

[Siobhan]

Any and all fire service ones.

I'm pyrophobic and they scare the living bejeezus outta me (mad but in a different sense to the original poster's thought, I suspect).

[Munstermaniac]

Dug out this thread, because I wanted to add a few new ones:

Windsor motors: Have these fake Scousers voicing the ad. Whats the f**kin' point?

Whiskas: Cat and dog playing fetch. The voice and the content of the advert are enough to make me want to rip my arms off and beat the writers to death.

Old Mr. Brennan - he was always good at the repartee[img]smileys/lol.gif[/img]

[sparks]

Cant believe nobody has mentioned the new right price
tiles ad on radio and tv, it fecking does me nut in!!

95fm is particularly bad for ads! Mainly cos they make
them, themselves [img]smileys/mad.gif[/img]