JW
Does anyone know where I can get some of the latest Halifax adverts with the bank wokers dancing to remade versions of popular music?
:-(
A former member
Why would you want to do that? They're some of the s******t adverts known to man!! The current one with that guy riding a (badly generated) CGI swan and rapping to Shaggy...well, I'm not even going to comment apart from to say it annoys me immensely.
PS. I work for Barclays so I have a right to be bitchy about them.
PS. I work for Barclays so I have a right to be bitchy about them.
MB
Mark B
I agree. Those people look like they're possessed (as Mr. Boola Boola suggests). They're filmed jigging backwards, you see, to try and make them look 'more sexy'. Unfortunately, it just makes them look like they're dying to go to the toilet.
As for the words, well...
'They say I'm slightly crazy //
but I'm just a banking babe...'
'Extra, Extra, //
You think I'm possessed //
Just wait until you see //
our rates of high int-er-est'
and
'I'll put more money //
in your pocket //
aaangel...'
AAAGH!!! Vomit-making is putting it MILDLY.
I hope in 20 years time C4 can't do another 'Top 100 adverts of all time - except for those we showed 20 years ago which aren't eligible' programmes, just before the 'Top 100 Top 10/100 shows of all time' is shown, of course - this will be because, thankfully, tapes that SHOULD have been wiped were wiped this time.
As for the words, well...
'They say I'm slightly crazy //
but I'm just a banking babe...'
'Extra, Extra, //
You think I'm possessed //
Just wait until you see //
our rates of high int-er-est'
and
'I'll put more money //
in your pocket //
aaangel...'
AAAGH!!! Vomit-making is putting it MILDLY.
I hope in 20 years time C4 can't do another 'Top 100 adverts of all time - except for those we showed 20 years ago which aren't eligible' programmes, just before the 'Top 100 Top 10/100 shows of all time' is shown, of course - this will be because, thankfully, tapes that SHOULD have been wiped were wiped this time.
CH
cheeseboard
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Mark B on 12:58 pm on Jan. 25, 2002
They're filmed jigging backwards, you see, to try and make them look 'more sexy'. Unfortunately, it just makes them look like they're dying to go to the toilet.
They're filmed jigging backwards, you see, to try and make them look 'more sexy'. Unfortunately, it just makes them look like they're dying to go to the toilet.
I actually know the bloke from the ad based on 'Who Let The Dogs Out'. In real life he dances exactly as he does on the advert... and he really does work for the Halifax!
AN
He actually works for the Halifax at Halifax HQ in Halifax doesn't he?
Andrew
Founding member
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cheeseboard on 7:04 pm on Jan. 25, 2002
I actually know the bloke from the ad based on 'Who Let The Dogs Out'. In real life he dances exactly as he does on the advert... and he really does work for the Halifax!
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Mark B on 12:58 pm on Jan. 25, 2002
They're filmed jigging backwards, you see, to try and make them look 'more sexy'. Unfortunately, it just makes them look like they're dying to go to the toilet.
They're filmed jigging backwards, you see, to try and make them look 'more sexy'. Unfortunately, it just makes them look like they're dying to go to the toilet.
I actually know the bloke from the ad based on 'Who Let The Dogs Out'. In real life he dances exactly as he does on the advert... and he really does work for the Halifax!
He actually works for the Halifax at Halifax HQ in Halifax doesn't he?
:-(
A former member
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He actually works for the Halifax at Halifax HQ in Halifax doesn't he?
Is it? I thought he worked at one of the branches. In fact, the finance union Unifi (http://www.unifi.org.uk) had an article on them about the time the adverts first came out and I'm sure I read he was at a branch. Can't remember now though, and can't find the article either
However, for those who are interested (not mayn I imagine), you can on that site, get a glimpse into one of Barclay's call center's at Sunderland (they have two buildings, both REALLY huge) in the pic on this page: http://www.unifi.org.uk/pdf/decjan0102/Pages1213.pdf . Again, why you would want to I don't know *rambling...*