Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Thu Aug 15, 2019 8:09 am

Nescafe Azera (or however you spell it) cappuccino in a can.

The one with the hipster in the laundrette washing his trainers. The clunk and thump of his shoes in the machine providing a beat, he starts jamming away on his guitar, then suddenly all these other weirdos turn up and it turns into a party.

A) Why is the laundrette deserted?
B) Who washes just their trainers?
C) Where's the owner/manager of the laundrette when all this is going on?
And D) Why doesn't said manager kick all the hipsters out for scaring away paying customers?
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby Dot » Thu Aug 15, 2019 8:26 pm

I hate Vodafone advert where girl is dressed in a red outfit and then she seems to have cloned versions of herself.

I do like dancing sloth advert for the Eve mattress.
Makes me smile for some reason.

As for Nescafe advert I do agree with you.
I wash trainers in a pillowcase that has end tied in a knot and throw in bath mats and towels to give machine a bit of padding. ::):
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Fri Aug 16, 2019 8:14 am

The choreography of the Vodafone ad is pretty much its only good point.


I like the new Meerkats ad though. Oleg and his wee friend Ayana getting reunited with Aleksandr and Sergei, it'd bring a tear to a glass eye. :)
Although the whys and wherefores of how they got from Africa to San Francisco remains something of a mystery.
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby Dot » Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:43 pm

The scary ghost in the Smithwick's advert.
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:46 am

Am I the only one who's a bit disturbed by the giant tongue in the new Coca Cola ad?
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby Dot » Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:42 pm

I really don't like that Coke advert at all.

If you're talking about drinks adverts then I don't mind most of the Carlsberg ones.
I think the Guinness advert with the fox and the snow is one of my favourites.
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby Dot » Wed Aug 28, 2019 7:15 am

I think the dancing man in MAOAM advert is kind of strange.
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby Dot » Sat Nov 09, 2019 9:17 pm

iPhone 11 advert is a bit strange.
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sat Nov 09, 2019 9:26 pm

I swear, Amazon's ads are getting worse.

Those damn singing boxes are back - murdering "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" - and no bugger in the ad looks particularly cold because it would've been shot in the middle of July.
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby Dot » Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:42 pm

Not sure about M&S Christmas Jumper advert with 'Pack it up, pack it in' playing as people go into dance routine.

I imagine the other M&S one for food will be seen as more festive.
It has a Welsh school choir singing along to 'Albatross' by Fleetwood Mac.
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:56 am

Dot wrote:Not sure about M&S Christmas Jumper advert with 'Pack it up, pack it in' playing as people go into dance routine.

I imagine the other M&S one for food will be seen as more festive.
It has a Welsh school choir singing along to 'Albatross' by Fleetwood Mac.

Never thought I'd live to see the day when "Jump Around" by House of Pain was used in a Christmas ad.
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby Dot » Fri Nov 15, 2019 8:55 pm

John Lewis have had to apologise for some kids being upset by the plight of the dragon Edgar in the latest advert.
I have only seen the advert a couple of times but I think bit where snowman melts is maybe too much for some.
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby Dot » Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:17 pm

Does anyone else think that Vauxhall have copied Coke advert with people looking out the window at car rather than
man drinking a can. The format is pretty much identical and is for the Astra model.
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Wed Nov 20, 2019 9:12 am

Dot wrote:Does anyone else think that Vauxhall have copied Coke advert with people looking out the window at car rather than
man drinking a can. The format is pretty much identical and is for the Astra model.

Maybe it's the same ad agency?
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Re: Boredom Thread: What advert drives you insane?

Postby Dot » Mon Dec 02, 2019 9:14 pm

Gucci 'Guilty' perfume advert.
People dressed in outfits more like something out of 1960s and various creatures appear including a snake, a tiger, an ostrich and an owl. It just strikes me as rather odd is all but perhaps others think differently.
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