They couldn't get it for being infuriating, so they had to go down the 'misleading' route... but they got it, praise be, they got it! God bless the Advertising Standards Authority...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/vodafone-advert-break-up-video-banned-martin-freeman-30-day-guarantee-a8577006.html
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
Does the ASA have a death penalty?
― Leon Carrotsky (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
Graham gets called upstairs. He gets half way up before being told not to bother. Then a baby does. Then Graham does again.
What is that about?
― koogs, Friday, 12 October 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
softcore cleavage-fest for Mya cosmetic surgery just made me irl lol
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
still really fucking funny this morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svt6TuGbT6I
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 08:42 (five years ago) link
there's a few MYA adverts that exist - I only ever seem to catch them during the ad break in Countdown though. They're hilarious, I like to imagine a director trying to coax a horse to bounce harder to really convey the sense of augmentation
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Everybody seems v happy
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
i don't remember hallowe'en adverts before, but a bunch of people are doing them this year (including one using the 'round the twist' theme tune)
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
The screaming in that Asda advert really pushes my grumpy old man button
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
That’s the prostate, right?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
Lol probably
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
I did enjoy the revival of "Going Round the Twist" for the sainsburys adverts
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 October 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
Hi British Gas, "we're with you" is almost, kind of, an actual real world colloquial phrase, but every time you try to shoehorn it into your ad copy it just sounds Martian, give it up you useless twats.
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 October 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
Move that skeletor is back on our screens in time for Halloween.
― koogs, Saturday, 27 October 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
Move -> nice
Bloody autocorrect. Of those 10 words 4 were wrong.
(And 1 of those)
― koogs, Saturday, 27 October 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
If you can do a proletarian accent and have no self-respect there's money to be made advertising online gambling
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
This one plays like 5x during every single episode of Shark Tank and rubs me the wrong way on several levels:
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dYOy/t-mobile-hats-off-featuring-bryce-harper
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
Jesus that's some Starship Troopers shit
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
I mean1) Obviously there's the dumb veteran jingoistic part, but it's a fairly benign form and I'd excuse that alone2) But it's being used to sell phone service3) The commercial gives you the impression that it is going to have a narrative arc but then it doesn't4) I don't think most veterans would actually get all that excited just because someone did a thank-you-for-your-service over the loudspeaker5) They couldn't even be bothered to make it sound like the voice was actually coming over the loudspeaker!6) The connection between this ballgame and the product is completely unclear (other than the fact that there's a deal for veterans and the ballgame also thanks veterans)7) The vet's maudlin facial expression kills a small part of me each time I see it
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
I have never given a shit about early 80s children's movie Ghostbusters but this building society advert is helping me to empathise with the GamerGaters that do
― Tsugumo Alanshearer (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 November 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
Wait until you see the Wizard of Oz version.
― koogs, Friday, 9 November 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
martin whatsisface looks more like norman wisdom with every new advert. he's ice skating in the new one.
― koogs, Monday, 12 November 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
I accept that I'm wrong and not getting it and being a failed ally but nothing makes you look more of a cretin than doing cosmetics adverts
― Danton Lok (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
"I'm Tom" he says. he's half-naked in your daughter's bedroom but it's somehow ok because he has gum and a cheeky grin.
and not a tv advert, but every time that leaflet about a £400 reading light falls out of my weekend paper a bit of me dies inside.
― koogs, Monday, 19 November 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link
Haha otm about that light leaflet! And the name of the product is the Serious Light! More like the you can't be serious light.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 19 November 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
I've known this secret for a week or twoAaaargh aaargh aaargh aargh aaargh kill die die
― Danton Lok (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 22 November 2018 00:45 (five years ago) link
Eva Green cut it out with the edgelord shit
― Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 December 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
real people talking about M&S food, fuck the lot of yiz
― Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 December 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
Chewing gum Tom looks like 'they're gonna taste great!' kid
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 2 December 2018 01:34 (five years ago) link
nothing impresses prospective in-laws more than a box of Thornton's while you cosplay being a cross-channel ferry steward
― Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 December 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
nope I'm still not swayed to buy a Facebook camera and set it up in my home, A for effort though
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 2 December 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
That peloton app, if the advert is anything to go by, must have a high rate of masturbators, and what interests me is the company deals with that
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
How*
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
Is it James Nesbitt doing the voice overs for BT like he's being held at gunpoint?
― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 December 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
that sandcastle bloke is going to give me nightmares.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBsNErt1OmQ
also, maxine peake, how exactly does a smart meter save me energy?
― koogs, Monday, 31 December 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
oh man the smart meter propaganda machine, so transparent
― Driving Drone for Christmas (Noodle Vague), Monday, 31 December 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
first time i saw that sand man i got M.R. James vibes
― Driving Drone for Christmas (Noodle Vague), Monday, 31 December 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link
If I really want to save energy, Maxine, the best option would be to keep my old dumb meter and link the fucker out with some 4mm twin and then viola! free energy.
― calzino, Monday, 31 December 2018 13:34 (five years ago) link
one of those smart meter adverts had The Jellies' "Jive Baby On A Saturday Night" on it!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 11 January 2019 00:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1EAYEh_la8
I've gone hardcore militant against smart meters since this doorstepping prick informed me I'd be forced to pay for the install if I didn't opt for it now. I told him my meter was linked out, there was a mini cannabis factory under the stairs and fuck off and die cunt!
― calzino, Friday, 11 January 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
smart meter propaganda seems to be based on two contradictory premises:
1. when using a conventional meter you are being charged in a way that is inaccurate, tending towards overcharging.
2. we, a company looking to make money from you, wants to spend money installing a meter that will charge you less out of a sense of fairness
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 January 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link
It's because now, the supply of energy is a competitive market. So, they would prefer you give *them* a reduced amount of money rather than log in to some other supplier.
― Mark G, Friday, 11 January 2019 11:16 (five years ago) link
> when using a conventional meter you are being charged in a way that is inaccurate
this is only because they read the meters once a year now, the legal minimum, rather than every 3 months like they used to.
they've just sent me a leaflet saying that they are changing my tarrif and i will be 34p better off every year. don't spend it all at once.
more worryingly, they have increased the standing charge and decreased the per-unit charge, which makes it harder for me to save money by decreasing usage, rendering the smart meter thing more ridiculous.
― koogs, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
anyway, tv adverts...
― koogs, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:17 (five years ago) link
Pretty fucked up the level of torture I daydream of inflicting on Greg from the Halifax.
― Berks & Cow (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 January 2019 09:14 (five years ago) link
― Mark G, Friday, January 11, 2019 3:16 AM (yesterday)Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The same thing happens where I am despite there not being competition
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 12 January 2019 09:45 (five years ago) link
Samuel Adams commercial that's been running on youtube.
Fisherwoman hauling up her catch or something: "It's got huge flay-vah...once it hits ya lips, ya know? Hah hah hah!"
I can't find it anywhere online except randomly ahead of youtube videos.
― peace, man, Thursday, 24 January 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link
use ublock origin and you will soon forget that youtube even has ads
― Dan I., Tuesday, 29 January 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
it's terrible in its own way but putting durex lube adverts in the middle of that Fantastic Beasts film on itv2 the other day probably caused a lot of awkward questions to be asked.
― koogs, Friday, 1 February 2019 11:06 (five years ago) link