adkm1979 wrote:Adverts. Â Don't you just fucking hate (and occasionally love) them?
I have two currently annoying me sufficiently to make me angry at random intervals even while not watching TV.
One is the Red Bull advert, showing several magnificent sportsmen and some Formula 1. Â Mostly it's fine, but then it's finished off by what ounces like a drunken idiot stealing a radio and saying the most inane thing about winning. Â Fuck off.
The other one is a Colgate(?) advert featuring some attractive but annoying Scottish bird pretending to be in a real video diary about using their latest toothpaste. Â I hate adverts that use actors pretending to be real people anyway, and this one is particularly bad.
I'm not sure if advertising agencies deliberately hire people who instinctively know how to irritate the fuck out of any rational human being, but most adverts show an alarming lack of any grasp of reality. Â Themutants be the same people who think that calling people and playing them a prerecorded message selling their shit is a good idea.
Beyond product placement, I wonder what the future of advertising is as more and more of us use series link to watch telly when we want, fast-forwarding past this pish.
Paul the sparky wrote:I liked the car advert with the bambino in the Darth Vader suit. I'd actually stop fast forwarding through the ads to see it if it was shown during something I recorded. Then rewind it and watch it again. Interestingly, I don't even know what car they were advertising.
mk64 wrote:is that the one where the bird rubs her teeth and they squeak? she's a nutter.adkm1979 wrote:The other one is a Colgate(?) advert featuring some attractive but annoying Scottish bird pretending to be in a real video diary about using their latest toothpaste. Â I hate adverts that use actors pretending to be real people anyway, and this one is particularly bad.
I just hate them, and try to avoid as much as possible. If I'm watching a TV channel with ads it goes straight on mute as soon as the break starts.adkm1979 wrote:Adverts. Â Don't you just fucking hate (and occasionally love) them?
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