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Post by Ace on Jul 16, 2021 6:28:23 GMT
My favorite from the lockdown was the lovely women in a white coat proclaiming "I'm an engineer and I get constipation"
As an Engineer whose beautiful wife is an Engineer I find this especially cringe worthy.
Yes, that advert should have been blocked 😁
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Post by JamesFrance on Jul 16, 2021 7:50:28 GMT
The only effective ad campaign I remember was in the 1950s, when everyone was talking about a poster which appeared all over town just showing a white umbrella and rain drops with the words "White rain is coming". Later the word coming became here and everyone was asking if anyone had seen it until the bottles of shampoo appeared in all the supermarkets. Probably the most counterproductive of all for me was a group of gentlemen waving their bottoms in the air which I think is called twerking. This convinced me that I am definitely not "so Moneysupermarket".
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2021 7:59:08 GMT
The other ones that leave me cold are the fast car racing along a coast road.
I never manage to see the brand so they always look like a derivative car. It is as if the companies don't want to sell their cars, just cars in general.
Yesterday's bike ride to Bolton Abbey was especially pleasant.
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Post by agent69 on Jul 16, 2021 8:33:48 GMT
The only effective ad campaign I remember was in the 1950s, when everyone was talking about a poster which appeared all over town just showing a white umbrella and rain drops with the words "White rain is coming". Later the word coming became here and everyone was asking if anyone had seen it until the bottles of shampoo appeared in all the supermarkets. Probably the most counterproductive of all for me was a group of gentlemen waving their bottoms in the air which I think is called twerking. This convinced me that I am definitely not "so Moneysupermarket". Like many things in life, the current standard of adverts on TV compares poorly with the good old days. Who can forget:
- a double diamond works wonders
- paxo the rooster booster, or
- it's tankard that helps me excel, after one I do anything well
I don't worry unduly about the stupid adverts (stupidity is all around us), but it's the meaningless and misleading adverts that wind me up. Things like direct line car insurance saying thay are cheaper than most on the comparison web sites (whatever most means), the Deliveroo advert that showed one delivery driver supplying a bag containing food from multiple sources (when in reality it would require individul deliveries from each source with multiple delivery charges). My current favourite is the couple who run out of nappies, but rather than just go down the supermarket to buy some more they phone up to get some delivered (cost of delivery and time needed not stated in advert).
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Post by JamesFrance on Jul 16, 2021 8:46:46 GMT
I remember some good roadside posters in Ireland years ago when I used to drive down to Waterville, they just said "Guinness is good for you but Murphys is better".
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Post by jonno on Jul 16, 2021 8:58:16 GMT
My favorite from the lockdown was the lovely women in a white coat proclaiming "I'm an engineer and I get constipation"
As an Engineer whose beautiful wife is an Engineer I find this especially cringe worthy.
Yes, that advert should have been blocked 😁 I'm sure any engineer worth his/her salt would be able to work it out with a pencil and paper  erm..........................sorry 
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Post by captainconfident on Jul 16, 2021 12:48:39 GMT
The best advert I ever saw was a 1987 Party Political one by the Conservatives. I'd only have seen this ad. once, but I can remember it clear as day. Over the years I've checked Youtube for this but to no avail. It got its point over brilliantly through the metaphor of cars.
The advert started with the Conservative car, a Ford Cortina or similar, modern and reliable. It passes an older 1960s model car, broken down at the side of the road. The voice-over says "Oh dear, look at Labour's old, uneconomical model". The broken down car was towing a caravan, the Trades Union caravan and the Union men and Labour car drivers were all standing in front of their car arguing. Suddenly, Beep Beep! The Liberal/SDP bubble car shoots past towards a fork in the road ahead, arms signalling left and right shoot out of the windows and the car crashes into a post in the middle.
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Post by JamesFrance on Jul 17, 2021 7:10:26 GMT
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Post by Nomad on Jul 17, 2021 8:22:56 GMT
Why must almost every TV ad with a family home setting feature dogs?
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Post by 09dolphin on Jul 17, 2021 15:10:38 GMT
My favourite ad of all time is the Cadbury chocolate ad with the gorilla drumming to Phil Collins "In the air".
Couldn't wait for it to appear again on TV as I couldn't believe what I had just seen,
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Post by wildlife2 on Jul 17, 2021 15:57:56 GMT
Why must almost every TV ad with a family home setting feature dogs? Totally agree. It should be cats instead.
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Post by wildlife2 on Jul 17, 2021 16:42:36 GMT
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Post by travolta on Jul 17, 2021 20:39:03 GMT
Yes, that advert should have been blocked 😁 I'm sure any engineer worth his/her salt would be able to work it out with a pencil and paper erm..........................sorry Not so far off reality. When Youngest was newborn and suffered constipation ,the charming (Indian origin ) doc advised me to stimulate his anus with a clean pencil point. It works on babies.
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Post by Ace on Jul 17, 2021 21:00:43 GMT
I'm sure any engineer worth his/her salt would be able to work it out with a pencil and paper erm..........................sorry Not so far off reality. When Youngest was newborn and suffered constipation ,the charming (Indian origin ) doc advised me to stimulate his anus with a clean pencil point. It works on babies. That should draw it out 🙃
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Post by jonno on Jul 18, 2021 8:20:51 GMT
Not so far off reality. When Youngest was newborn and suffered constipation ,the charming (Indian origin ) doc advised me to stimulate his anus with a clean pencil point. It works on babies. That should draw it out 🙃 Talk about "charcoal, charcoal, stick it up your ........"
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