Any American advert which is badly dubbed over (usually applies to adverts which depict wrinkle cream being applied to people in their 20's).
Infomercial type adverts which go on for ever and ever (particularly the ones for Time life music).
The new bread of Currys adverts. Whoever thought that 'Cur-reez...always cut-ting pri-says' was a good idea should be shot. The line itself is weak, the delivery of it is...unbelievable. Something like that belongs strictly in those embarassingly bad ads from the 80's that you come across when watching your 20 year old recording of Mary Poppins at Christmas.
Ocean Finance adverts (the guy's promising smile has looks about as genuine as a secondhand car salesman's, and they change their phone number seemingly every 2 weeks, which doesn't inspire confidence either).
But, my all time annoying ad has to be the radio jingle for Shire's adventure park played at EVERY commercial break and at EVERY weather report (4/5 times an hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week):
'Come on down to, SHIRES ADVENTURE PARK (near Wadebridge)'.
Currys:
The latest ads featuring Linda Barker: the main content of these new Currys, ads I don't mind,
but the cheesy end jingle would sound better suited to something like a 1983 Rumbelows ad!
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The new bread of Currys adverts. Whoever thought that 'Cur-reez...always cut-ting pri-says' was a good idea should be shot. The line itself is weak, the delivery of it is...unbelievable. Something like that belongs strictly in those embarassingly bad ads from the 80's that you come across when watching your 20 year old recording of Mary Poppins at Christmas.
I have to agree, that that is one of the most annoying adverts on television at the moment. They always seem to be coming up (so to speak) with new slogans every time, which are all
very
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I also hate the "FREE PROWWWWWCESSING".
I hate that one with a capital H. Really gets on my nerves!
And on a slightly related point, where the hell are the branches of Max Spielman and Klick Photopoint? Thing is I have never seen one of these in any of the places I have been to.
Other adverts on the hitlist include any type for loans/personal finance, those cheesy informercials you sometimes get on the ITV News channel for the ab-force belt and those ones for Time Life music, music which nobody seems to ever want to buy.
I hate that one with a capital H. Really gets on my nerves!
I think the little boy and his facial expressions rescues that ad!
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And on a slightly related point, where the hell are the branches of Max Spielman and Klick Photopoint? Thing is I have never seen one of these in any of the places I have been to.
The old 11 88 88 ad appeared during Teachers while on C4 - now thats a good advert - the catchy tune is easy to remember...
Stu
Yeah, I've seen that one a few times over the past few days. It's much better than the new ones. I know they're trying to make people remember the number, which it is doing, but it's actually putting me off calling them.
I hate that one with a capital H. Really gets on my nerves!
And on a slightly related point, where the hell are the branches of Max Spielman and Klick Photopoint? Thing is I have never seen one of these in any of the places I have been to.
There was a Klick Photopoint in the town I lived in (it shared space with a Johnnsons(?) - formerly Kneels dry cleaners) but it closed. I've never even heard of Max Spielman though - probably the same company trading under two different names.
Has onyone seend the one where they guy who dies of cancer in the NHS smoking helpine ad, then goes on to tell us that his loan was very quick and easy to get.
Has onyone seend the one where they guy who dies of cancer in the NHS smoking helpine ad, then goes on to tell us that his loan was very quick and easy to get.
Would the guy in the NHS ad be the same one in the Ocean Finance ad who bares is soul with:
I had a family setback (dramatic breath) and aquired some CCJs. But Ocean Finance helped me (pause), and I'm sure they'll be able to help other people too.
I dunno, the way all the untalented actors in these ads try to appear 'common and just like you' just looks so forced. If I had a mortgage/owned a home, it would take more than 'yeah wuw I cawed Ocean Fynanz like,and it was no hassles, no difficawl queschuns, and they just ad the cheque in the post the next day lyke, yaknowutimean' before I would use such a company.
