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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2000 on: May 31, 2023, 05:57:35 pm »
I wouldn't say that.
I'm not being serious.

(we ARE talking about the same person, right?)

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2001 on: May 31, 2023, 06:22:03 pm »
I'm not being serious.

(we ARE talking about the same person, right?)

I hope so. Actually, having watched the full version, I just realised Cafu is in it as well.
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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2002 on: May 31, 2023, 06:38:30 pm »
I hope so. Actually, having watched the full version, I just realised Cafu is in it as well.
he's hard to spot.  I read he was in it and had to look hard next time to see him.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2003 on: June 3, 2023, 10:57:11 am »
Pluto TV, I think it's Drew Barrymore doing the voiceover. Nails on a chalkboard.
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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2004 on: June 3, 2023, 01:19:24 pm »
adverts that show kids with adult voices, or adults with kids' voices.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2005 on: June 3, 2023, 01:47:02 pm »
That Slimfast ad with some big, fat mess and Kelly Brook dancing like a twat.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2006 on: June 3, 2023, 02:43:02 pm »
The Screwfix one with dancing twats. Imagine working on a site, trying to get the job finished and the sparky keeps moonwalking. The plumber has only realised he needs a bit of right angled piping to fill a gap and the plasterer is flinging muck about as they just cant stop dancing. Bollocks to it all.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2007 on: June 3, 2023, 03:38:03 pm »
That Slimfast ad with some big, fat mess and Kelly Brook dancing like a twat.
It's not a good advert by them. Even Kelly looks likes she's been hitting the pies again. Not very inspirational given the product they're selling.
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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2008 on: June 3, 2023, 03:51:44 pm »
It's not a good advert by them. Even Kelly looks likes she's been hitting the pies again. Not very inspirational given the product they're selling.
A number of "lose weight" advertising seem to have concluded they are better off showing their target customers, which might grab their attention more than unrealistic images.
There are a lot more "plus sized" ppl in all kinds of ads these days.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2009 on: June 3, 2023, 03:54:02 pm »
A number of "lose weight" advertising seem to have concluded they are better off showing their target customers, which might grab their attention more than unrealistic images.
There are a lot more "plus sized" ppl in all kinds of ads these days.


Lets be honest here, they're greedy fat fucks*


* I've just joined the gym cos I fit that category nicely
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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2010 on: June 3, 2023, 04:02:34 pm »
A number of "lose weight" advertising seem to have concluded they are better off showing their target customers, which might grab their attention more than unrealistic images.
There are a lot more "plus sized" ppl in all kinds of ads these days.
I can see that angle. I dislike the unrealistic images angle a lot. It's just that Kelly Brook did lose a lot of weight, supposedly using their products, so I wondered about the wisdom of having her on again given that it looks like she's given the Slimfast up for Sayers now.

I like her though. She's great no matter what weight she is.
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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2011 on: June 3, 2023, 04:19:47 pm »
I can see that angle. I dislike the unrealistic images angle a lot. It's just that Kelly Brook did lose a lot of weight, supposedly using their products, so I wondered about the wisdom of having her on again given that it looks like she's given the Slimfast up for Sayers now.

I like her though. She's great no matter what weight she is.

If you don't stick to using their products you just slip back into the bad habits and the weight goes back on, that's how they make their money. They never educate people to eat properly, that's the last thing they want to happen.
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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2012 on: June 3, 2023, 04:43:29 pm »
If you don't stick to using their products you just slip back into the bad habits and the weight goes back on, that's how they make their money. They never educate people to eat properly, that's the last thing they want to happen.
True enough. Weight loss isn't hard, but the diet industry want you to think it is. Whenever I want to lose weight I simply stay in calorie deficit most days of the week. Eating around 2,000 cals a day. The weight steadily falls off. No need for special diets. Just rein in the shite food and eating to calorie excess.

The will power bit at the start is the difficult bit. Get past that and anyone can lose excess weight without going on a 'diet'. Of course, the diet industry doesn't want anyone to know that.

Simple maths tells us that if we eat fewer calories than we burn each day we will lose weight. It's like a bank balance. If we spend more each day than we put in, our bank balance goes down. Save more than we spend, and the balance goes up. With food, lower calorie stuff means you can actually eat more food and still have room for treats.
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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2013 on: June 4, 2023, 09:58:07 am »
True enough. Weight loss isn't hard, but the diet industry want you to think it is. Whenever I want to lose weight I simply stay in calorie deficit most days of the week. Eating around 2,000 cals a day. The weight steadily falls off. No need for special diets. Just rein in the shite food and eating to calorie excess.

The will power bit at the start is the difficult bit. Get past that and anyone can lose excess weight without going on a 'diet'. Of course, the diet industry doesn't want anyone to know that.

Simple maths tells us that if we eat fewer calories than we burn each day we will lose weight. It's like a bank balance. If we spend more each day than we put in, our bank balance goes down. Save more than we spend, and the balance goes up. With food, lower calorie stuff means you can actually eat more food and still have room for treats.

They even encourage you with "syns" or low calories cakes and biscuits, to eat unhealthy food. That way, when you stop their diet, you still eat biscuits, cakes, cheesecakes and stuff which are loaded with calories and shite, so it's back to fat club. Her sister has been doing slimming world since I met the missus, 17 years and still not able to keep a steady weight, they've had a couple of grand at least just from her.
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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2014 on: June 4, 2023, 01:25:25 pm »
Probably been mentioned, but webuyanycar ads do my fucking swede in.  :no

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2015 on: June 4, 2023, 05:29:28 pm »
The bingo one where the woman asks for four fish and chips which perplexes everyone.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2016 on: June 4, 2023, 11:38:19 pm »
Any TV advert for the “long awaited” or  “classic” album from *insert name of shite group here*.

Embarrassing as fuck.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2017 on: June 5, 2023, 03:49:04 pm »
Probably been mentioned, but webuyanycar ads do my fucking swede in.  :no
In terms of value for money, they'll be buzzing at WeBuyAnyCar.

People were doing their own on TikTok, etc.

It's the perfect balance of catch and annoying.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2018 on: June 6, 2023, 03:25:04 pm »

There are a lot more "plus sized" ppl in all kinds of ads these days.


Notably, the ice skating woman advertising sanitary towels.

wow. I would have worded that totally differently a few years ago without worrying about upsetting folk and getting a ban. :(

Grifter would have had a field day with that advert.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2019 on: June 6, 2023, 03:27:43 pm »
Notably, the ice skating woman advertising sanitary towels.

wow. I would have worded that totally differently a few years ago without worrying about upsetting folk and getting a ban. :(

Grifter would have had a field day with that advert.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2020 on: June 6, 2023, 08:03:21 pm »
Before anyone bitches, it's not "cancel culture", it's a question of taste.

liverbloke's stays because it's an amusing word play.

Oh, and all adverts are universally fucking shite - examples of manipulation and social engineering with purely selfish aim :wave

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2021 on: June 7, 2023, 09:02:45 am »
Before anyone bitches, it's not "cancel culture", it's a question of taste.

liverbloke's stays because it's an amusing word play.

Oh, and all adverts are universally fucking shite - examples of manipulation and social engineering with purely selfish aim :wave

And my tastes are obviously well different to yours ;D

I'll love to understand the aim of adverts noramalising being obese. I admit my BMI is obese, its all on my belly, so I know what I'm talking about. I've got a belly because I'm a greedy c*nt who eats shite, but I don't want people to make it normal, I'm a fat fuck, I'm a mess and if I don't sort it out (I've just joined David Lloyd), I'm going to destroy my knees. Ł40 million is being spent according to todays news to try and sort it on a national scale

The Fosters adverts are at least funny.
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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2022 on: June 7, 2023, 11:20:02 am »

...I'd love to understand the aim of adverts noramalising being obese...

I think it's all part of the drive towards inclusivity. Facts are, the majority of people in the western world are overweight, and so many fit the 'obese' criteria. If those people are portrayed in a negative light it's seen as fat-shaming, and shaming anyone for how they look is more and more taboo now.

I can fluctuate between fit and fat. Food has often been a coping strategy of mine. My mindset can flip between fitness fanatic to binge eating. I don't want that normalising either. Why? Because the mindset I have when binge eating is a killer. That approach to living and eating kills people. It takes years off lives.

I suppose advertisers want as many people onside as possible, so they aren't going to want to marginalise vast chunks of their audience.
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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2023 on: June 7, 2023, 12:31:49 pm »
Proctor & Gamble flog their sanitary pads to obese women by convincing them they can still do a Triple Salchow better than Katarina Witt.




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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2024 on: June 7, 2023, 12:38:23 pm »
same as all advertisers really - buy our stuff and look how GREAT your life will be!!

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« Reply #2025 on: June 7, 2023, 12:41:09 pm »
same as all advertisers really - buy our stuff and look how GREAT your life will be!!

Except for pure cremation that is ;)
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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2026 on: June 7, 2023, 12:57:51 pm »
Except for pure cremation that is ;)
it's next-level advertising ... buy our stuff and look how GREAT your death will be!!

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« Reply #2027 on: June 7, 2023, 01:00:06 pm »
Except for pure cremation that is ;)

they've never had bad feedback from a participating customer funnily enough
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« Reply #2028 on: June 7, 2023, 01:01:56 pm »
they've never had bad feedback from a participating customer funnily enough

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2029 on: June 7, 2023, 01:15:42 pm »
Could you say that any scathing reviews of a crematorium qualify as "flaming"?  ::) :wave

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2030 on: June 7, 2023, 03:52:00 pm »
Before anyone bitches, it's not "cancel culture", it's a question of taste.

liverbloke's stays because it's an amusing word play.

Oh, and all adverts are universally fucking shite - examples of manipulation and social engineering with purely selfish aim :wave
I think 'universally' is pretty sweeping.

From experience, I write ads for a lot of local businesses who are passionate about what they do and genuinely provide a service that people actually need. Then there's schools, the NHS, charities.

McNasty's, Gambling clients, etc. then yep, I agree.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2031 on: June 7, 2023, 05:12:13 pm »

, I write ads for a lot of local businesses

Don't let your clients see your username.  You will not be trusted to deliver. :)

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« Reply #2032 on: June 7, 2023, 05:13:37 pm »
Don't let your clients see your username.  You will not be trusted to deliver. :)

:lmao

He misses out on a lot of prospective work by not being able to make it to the pitch.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2033 on: June 7, 2023, 05:27:49 pm »
I think 'universally' is pretty sweeping.
I'm with Bill Hicks on this one. All the way:

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And George Carlin, for that matter:

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« Reply #2034 on: June 7, 2023, 05:46:58 pm »
:lmao

He misses out on a lot of prospective work by not being able to make it to the pitch.

nice  :)

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2035 on: June 8, 2023, 10:45:02 am »
Nationwide have a very odd approach to advertising. I'd much rather a blank slate with "We want you to bank with us" than some of the cringe inducing shite they come out with.

During the pandemic we had those insanely patronising videos where people would be writing shite poems about how they were putting weight on in lockdown, and the joys of home schooling. It was a tone deaf reflection of how middle class people were really struggling with making banana bread every day and logging on for work in their front room. Now you've got people talking about shopping in the reduced section and being extra cautious with spending.

Swerve the social commentary and just get back to being a place to get cash out, please.

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« Reply #2036 on: June 8, 2023, 11:34:52 am »
Well said about Nationwide

They really do seem to have signed up with some really stubborn advertising execs, who just won't let it go.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2037 on: June 8, 2023, 11:38:10 am »
Oh yeah.  Message to whoever owns the rights to the Beach Boys catalog.

Please don't renew your contract with Sky Mobile.  It's doing your music no favors at all.  I personally never want to hear "Wouldn't it be nice " EVER again.

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« Reply #2038 on: June 8, 2023, 03:15:09 pm »
Oh yeah.  Message to whoever owns the rights to the Beach Boys catalog.

Please don't renew your contract with Sky Mobile.  It's doing your music no favors at all.  I personally never want to hear "Wouldn't it be nice " EVER again.

Using real songs for adverts should be banned, full stop. You should never be allowed to associate ANY song with a brand advertisement.

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Re: Adverts you hate
« Reply #2039 on: June 15, 2023, 06:20:04 pm »
Theres a new Loreal one that has Jenas in it, I wish he would fuck off.