the zafira advert with those fat northern kids who act as if their parents are their children. "ooh, they're tired", "cant take them anywhere" etc. JUST FUCK OFF.
being a fat little wanker who looks like an obese middle aged northern stereotype is not clever, not charming and certainly NOT funny.
well, that was my most hated advert of recent times... until earlier tonight i saw the Daz advert starring right said fred.
now i dont know what to think
can we focus on the positive instead?
That Honda advert with the robot is just amazing. Honda are making amazing adverts these days, so amazing in fact that I'd go as far as saying that...
"Honda ads > Guinness ads"
Yes, I'd go *that* far!
*faints*
It's not that good
It doesn't have anything to do with cars and it suggests to stupid people that the robot has some sort of self-awareness and higher intelligence than it actually possesses.
What's the point in an advert that tells you nothing about the product that it's trying to sell. I hate adverts.
*faints*
I hate adverts too.
DEATH TO FAKE ADVERTS!
And real adverts.
Can hate be good?
Can hate be great? Can hate be good? can hate be great? can hate be something we don't hate? hate something. change something. hate something, change something, make something better!
^
Actually, I like that one. What a fantastic song.
Oh god
I fucking hate those adverts.
Hate just makes me want to shoot advertising executives in their smug fat faces.
Oh, I guess hate can be good...
it was an ace advert!
lovely animation. they succeeded in making a diesel-engine seem cute.
and the one with a choir making car noises. "Whoom whoom, ptssssssssnow, cccchhhhh, vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrkkkkk, tcha!!!!"
and the one with all the car bits making a crazy assault course reminiscent of the board game Mouse Trap.
HONDA ADS > GUINNESS ADS
I HATE that one with the noises.
Bloody idiots! Why are they doing it? Jones from Police Academy made the orchestral sound effects industry redundant TWO DECADES AGO!
Whats the point?
Cos they look cool.
So idiots associate the product with coolness, and choose it over other "non-cool" products.
You're cool
the robot is technically amazing though!
it can go up stairs, which is a massive breakthrough in robotics (i read an article on that robot about a year ago, it was in some random magazine that got delivered to my old house).
The advert sells Honda as a brand, not a product, and in that i think it works well. Plus it just looks amazing. And the voiceover man has a lovely voice.
Yes, but what else do Honda make that you'd buy
That isn't a car or a motorbike?
No-one buys robots from Honda.
Fucking ridiculous. It makes me hate Honda.
*pssst*
wanna buy a robot?
The only robot that I'd ever buy
would be one built solely to punch you repeatedly in the face until the day you die.
It would be solar powered so it would never stop.
It will fail in the face of
ULTIMATE DARKNESS (ie my face).
it's not trying to sell you a robot, you dick!
it's selling the idea, that Honda as a company are constantly trying to innovate and push their ideas forward. which they do. they've made a robot that can navigate stairs! imagine how much crazy balanc-powers that needs!
pfft, and i thought you were a robot fan.
You, Fatty Hadrill, have made me sad :-(
Yes
but that does nothing to prove to me that they are doing anything to make their cars better than anyone else's.
It just proves to me that they can build cool robots, there is no link to make me think that they make good cars.
It is a great robot. It just has no place in that advert.
:-(
i hate you.
Only because I'm right
NO!
it's because you're a dick.
Dick.
It's sucha cool robot, why should you give a shit if you don't want to buy a car, it's not selling a car. It's really nicely filmed and everything. Like when he waves at the space suit. and it goes up stairs!
Sigh
I'd rather just watch videos of cool robots on the internet then.
I don't want the cool robot to be used to sell me something that has nothing to do with the cool robot.
STUPID.
Honda invented the 'go up stairs' bot.
so they're selling you the idea of Honda as being scientifically-progressive. You then in turn come to associate Honda with progression, so when you then decide to buy a car you think "ah, Honda are a good progressive company. Their cars will be safe/efficient/etc!"
Plus cool robots on the internet wouldn't be as well filmed.
But there is nothing to suggest that Honda
have scientific progression in anything other that building cool robots.
That's what annoys me about the advert, the fact that it doesn't have a link between cool robots and the cars.
but the lnk is already ther
in your head! you know Honda make cars.
I'm going to bed.
that man with the husky voice is none other than
Garrison Keillor, of Lake Wobegon / Prairie Home Companion fame. He sings the hate song as well.
Yep,
the Honda one's my current favourite.
The Nivea one, with that smug prick "look better than you feel.." is probably my least favourite....
i agree, but this isn't the place
i want nothing but hatred
"elephant.co.uk
Thats, elephant.co.uk"
"if you want an unsecured personal loan of up to £25,000 call Lombard Direct on 0800 2 15000"
"CONFUSEDDDD.com"
"It's only a commercial"
"They're gonna taste great!"
"They're behind you!"
"Thats why I'm donating my fee for this advert to the Great ormond Street Hospital"
FUCK OFF. THE LOT OF YOU!
you've hit many nails on their respective heads there
personal unfavourite: dancing frosties kid (RIP)
...
(he's not actually dead)
lol
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/4235/
and i went and bought all those frosties in commemmoration
for shame!
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Does searching for car insurance drive you CRAZY??
CONFUSED! (.com)
thts
CONFUSED DOT com
I LOVE IT! :D
100% sure
those ones are supposed to be really bad. they're certainly memorable in their badness. advertising dudes aren't stupid.
whereas the hideous vauxhall zafira ones are supposed to be clever and witty
bf
I don't like those weird cola ones that they are trying to market to blokes, but they are diet.
I can't even remember what it is called, or if it is coke or pepsi, so not only has it annoyed me, but its failed.
of course, coke zero
"girlfriends, without the 3 year plan"
FUCK YOURSLF
bf
yeah, and in addition to being a truly dreadful advert, everyone knows that diet drinks give you diabetes...
Coke Zero gets my vote too
followed by the Halifax advert imitating Big Brovaz. A new low in advertising.
true.
But I like the Diet Coke advert, that harks back to their strategy ten years ago - Addicted To Love, girls in lift with cans of the stuff, hot dude appears and they jump him. That's what advertising should be about. 'Buy this and you'll have far more sex.' Anything else is just dishonest.
thats the most dishonest statement ever
ive never had more sex by buying what the advertisers tell me to
i got love for the old school diet coke adverts, but the new ones are just trying to appeal to young fresh males who dont want to drink diet coke
Oh come on
You honestly expect me to believe that buying the products you were told to buy didn't get you twice as much sex as you'd had before?
i honestly do
2 x nothing = nothing.
^ in good humour.
I think I meant
'I just want to make love to you' rather than 'Addicted to Love'. It's one of the two. I haven't seen the advert for 12 hours so I can't remember. Either way, it's fucking brilliant.
no!
how could i forget Picture Loans....Truly the worst adverts ever. It's the one with the bloke arranging a loan on the phone and chatting about football.
:)
What? about foot - ball?
Yeah, you're right. Utter bollocks.
:(
that cereal one with Captain Kirk in.
i can handle that one
shatner's self awareness does piss me off though
zoom zoom zoom
or ones using hippy ethos
or ones i'm watching
OK.
I like this thread.
I have many.
1) Teacher adverts.
First of all, the kids' lines will be scripted.
Secondly, kids don't give a flying fuck about gravity or boring facts.
Third of all, they are repulsive people. Why would anyone who isn't sexually attracted to them want to spend their working life around such scrotes?
2) Coke Zero.
The one thing I can't accept in this advert is the basis of this 'parade' marching through a town. They've obviously picked a person men will want to relate to - masculine, broad 'lad'. He leads a crowd of men down a road, who talk about the downsides of good things, 'Like mobile phones, without the dodgy ringtones.'
Change the ringtone. Easy. Problem solved.
'Going on holiday, but coming home.'
Fucking emigrate, you stupid prick.
Then some massive banner pops down from a sky scraper, celebrating what exactly? The fact they've repackaged Diet Coke so insecure twats don't feel 'girly' when drinking it?
More to follow probz.
>>
yeah but without the teachers adverts you wouldnt get to see the most geeky kid in the history of mankind. the one who says "what is dark matter"
reason enough for its existence
there's a welsh-language version of that on S4C
and one girl asks "why are feet so strange?"
I like the implication
the goverment specifically changed the content to reflect the unsettling nature of Welsh feet
you've
pretty much nailed Coke Zero on the head there.
Let's be more positive...
The Gilette Christmas advert is amazing, it's stopped showing now, but I watch it repeatedly on taped sky+. "you told him how to program his phone" etc. Priceless.
Also - the latest Clearasil advert? That must be purposefully 90s. It reminds me of the kinda dverts that would be on trouble and mtv... fond memories.
Everything else - awful.
...except for the Wii adverts.
:)
the clearasil advert.. christ that took me back to circa 1995.
surely that cant have been made recently?
I reckon it was, and was intentional.
Surely?
if so, i appreciated it
not sure about the zit covered kids of today though.
they probably just buy the one with the girl from superman: the college years
I HATE ads
but the "its not a candle if it's a Mandle candle" ad was hysterical...
CH-CH-CH-CHIA
i hate the wkd ads
to be honest if your mates did the stuff they do on the adverts you would want to slap them
WKD adverts...
I can't think of anything I hate more.
I stand corrected...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3jsNVtAvkY
"This is an old commercial from the '90s. It recently aired on Nickelodeon. It stars Danny Masterson (Hyde from "That '70s Show"). "
ahahahaha
that gillette advert is SO FUCKING DISGRACEFUL.
the "dad's" facial expressions are the most hilarious thing ever though. they could have hired someone who wasn't made of plastic???
I know!!
The best is when he gets help with the laptop...
*smiles* "ah!"
And when he the holds the product and grins - best moment on television. Ever.
I so need to find a YouTube of that...
oh god yeah
it's like, is yr dad backward or something?
the clearasil one
with laddo out of that 70's show? whose brother is in malcolm in the middle? that made me laugh. thats gotta be an old one, surely he has made enough money, they did enough bloody series.
...
I think my least favourite advert is by Churchill. I'm not sure if that is the name of the firm, but its some finance/loan company and has this stupid northern women phoning up to get a loan of £25,000 as if its the most normal thing in the world.
I also hate that Tassimo advert - coffee for stupid lazy people
Vic reeves
is in the Churchill ads though!
Sadly not...
He got dropped when he got charged with drink-driving. It's an fake Vic now!
"my tummy feels just like a football"
anyone?
that davina mccall one
her mum is calling her (who's not even her real mum i bet) while she's on a weekend away with her husband or something?? LAME-O.
oh and also
the argos christmas one.
^
This had everyone up in arms. Horrendous.
that really
cheap looking kit kat advert. it's rubbish.
why has no-one asked me about the Daz right said fred advert?
it smacked my gob, metaphorically speaking
Ah
Has anyone seen that Nokia one with Gary Oldman?
Death to Oldman.
Come on
THE HALIFAX ONES!!!!!
Think about it! How is singing about interest rates to the tune of 'Who Let The Dogs Out?' acceptable in the 21st century?
aw but look
he's black but also unthreatening
i hate adverts that
advertise skin products, and they have before and after pictures that look EXACTLY THE SAME.
Like ones for spot creams, and the model putting it on her face has gorgeous skin. SHe doesn't NEED spot cream! How do we know this works? IDIOTS!
i agree with this
same for anti-ageing creams where the model has next to no wrinkles beforehand.
on the flipside, you cant have people with any sort of ugliness issues in beauty adverts. this is why my beauty advertisement career failed
yes
even the ones where the models are supposed to be unfit they really aren't. I remember being quite turned on by that Boots one
"real women"
nah, "real women" are much uglier than that
(no offence to any ladies out there, i dont mean