Adverts That Remind You You're a Twonk

Also don't you hate when someone takes a high energy song and then sings it like they are in the death throes of an eating disorder to advertise something?

Here's some pale vegan singing We Will Rock You as if it's about the death of her dog, please shop at our supermarket.
 
Badger11 said:
I rarely watch live TV, mostly streaming or I record. So I skipped through the adverts or MOTD pundits.

Even so I still have picked up on the awful woke adverts. Every family is mixed race even though the stats say otherwise. All white men are stupid and need a smug woman to explain to them they don't need to rob a bank when they can get a loan etc.

And in the afternoons take your pick:
Life Insurance
Funeral Plans
Chair Lifts
Armchairs
Stupid Russian puppets

And I don't even watch adverts, still I guess the Ad men would say they work because I am aware of them.
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No one has ever had their sun life paperwork delivered to their house. It’s always the f***ing neighbour.
 
eritheagle said:
Is the bald actor at the back on the left in the hi-vis use to be one of the officers in The Bill? And I think he was also Sharpe’s nemesis who used to wear an eye patch.
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Féodor Atkine

unlikely as he’s a well known French actor.

Not since my dad told me when I was 14 that everyone knows “Eden Kane is Peter Starsted’s brother” (without a hint of irony was shocked I didn’t know). This was 1995

The same year I wrote a school piece on Sharpe and Major Ducos.

Both of those have come up in the last 24 hours now. My life has peaked. Time for that sun life plan. Hope they don’t deliver it to my neighbour. He’s a c***!
 
Palace Old Geezer said:
Why do companies use stupid furry, animated animals? These marketing guys must be on LSD. I think Paramount TV is the latest one I've seen.

I always laugh at car ads. They're driving through cities or winding through spectacular terrain with no other vehicles in sight. Tells you nothing about the car.

That Welsh bloke wanting to buy your old gold jewellery for cash. Sound frenetic. Only seen on GB News, like those ads for Welsh furniture stores that no one this side of the Severn Bridge has ever heard of. (Strangely enough my wife and I spent a few days driving in Wales last week and drove past one, Hafren in Llanidloes).
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Selling a lifestyle. Lots of people fall for it. It’s the people who shop at Aldi and google everything they buy who don’t.

Actually many buy a car for the image and status, obviously. One car company showed dozens of different types of people driving said car to broaden its target market.
 
Hated the ‘I got the power’ adverts.

Anyone half intelligent knows that Tesco prices with a club card are the true retail prices and without they are a rip off.

Supermarket shopping in Europe is so much better. You don’t have so many brands in your face everywhere.
 
Rudi Hedman said:
Hated the ‘I got the power’ adverts.

Anyone half intelligent knows that Tesco prices with a club card are the true retail prices and without they are a rip off.

Supermarket shopping in Europe is so much better. You don’t have so many brands in your face everywhere.
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It is a data grab, Tesco built up a data company called Dunhumby the valuations in City terms are stunning,they sold a small portion to Kroger.They can extrapolate an awful lot from your data.
 
beak said:
It is a data grab, Tesco built up a data company called Dunhumby the valuations in City terms are stunning,they sold a small portion to Kroger.They can extrapolate an awful lot from your data.
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Agreed. I hate these store cards. My local is Sainsbury I resisted getting a Nectar card for many years until they started their two tier pricing (So that's where Starmer got the idea from), I had no choice but to get one.

Personally I would make pricing like that illegal, as you say it forces you to hand over personal data.
 
Wow , what a relief.

I've got my cremation sorted, so my family don't have additional stress when I die.

Before that happens, I have to send all my money to help badly treated donkeys in south America
 
eritheagle said:
Is the bald actor at the back on the left in the hi-vis use to be one of the officers in The Bill? And I think he was also Sharpe’s nemesis who used to wear an eye patch.
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Capt William 'sweet william' Frederickson of the 60th Royal American Rifles, was the character with the 'eye-patch', as said by Nutmegyeti, Ducos was the nemesis . . .

sharpe.fandom.com

William Frederickson

William Frederickson, nicknamed 'Sweet William' by his men, is a captain of the 60th Royal American Rifles, a regiment raised in the former colony, and trained as sharpshooters. After the British Empire lost the American Colonies, the composition altered and about half its members were actually...
sharpe.fandom.com sharpe.fandom.com
 
Badger11 said:
Agreed. I hate these store cards. My local is Sainsbury I resisted getting a Nectar card for many years until they started their two tier pricing (So that's where Starmer got the idea from), I had no choice but to get one.

Personally I would make pricing like that illegal, as you say it forces you to hand over personal data.
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Like most bad ideas this started in the good ol' USA, my boy works as a Data Scientist and the data is used to target marketing at the relevant groups rather than the old scattergun approach,the two tier marketing is being looked at by the CMA alongside Bogofs.
 
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