Odious Advert/Slogans

by **Porty** » 29 Aug 2004, 02:20

A pet detestastion of mine, indeed I'm probably more obtuse than GM-n-Eye on this subject.

The first Ad i would like to bring to your attention is the Allinsons Strap Line.

"With nowt' taken out"

WTF does that mean?

It means we can put in whatever additives, enhancers, emulsifiers, provers, Enumbers etc. It means that if our manufacturing process was as natural as we try to convey, then, if a seagull flew by and shit in our bread mix. Then I am afraid that due to our customer commitment statement "we cant take it out".

Luckily, our manufacturing process is conducted almost entirely in a factory. The only possible eventuallity that we could not take corrective action upon is if one of our consumptive operatives took a dump in the mix. What could we do? Nothin Im afraid cos' at Allinsons we firmly believe that there is "Nowt taken Out"

What Ads do make you mad?

by **Dadaist** » 29 Aug 2004, 08:11

Anything that says "Nothing is better than xxx".

Which to me reads as "Even if you didn't put in any powder at all, you'd get a better result than if you used Sud-U-Like, which we are trying to hawk."

by **xxxx** » 29 Aug 2004, 08:28

This thread must rate as a classic , second only to the ever reliable 'have you heard the rubbish that's in the charts these days' stuff.
As colour television consists of little but adverts these days
( adverts for programme sponsors followed by product ads, followed by forthcoming programmes adverts followed by station branding all served with a delicate sliver of sponsor friendly content in between)
I would implore you not to get mad, but get used to it
Failing that, at the end of your leg you should find a shoe, you can throw it at the television when things get too much

by **ecm** » 29 Aug 2004, 09:49

Wrinkles can appear 7 years younger if you spend exorbitant amounts of cash on products advertised by a sword-fencing, crap actress who looks like she's dooked in an acid bath.

by **Porty** » 29 Aug 2004, 11:06

Halifax: "always giving you Extra".

Notice, how the sentence stops at the word extra.

Would you care to specify what the Extra things you are always giving us might be?

Is it benefits, money, preferential rates? Oh, you would rather not say. Surely if you were giving us some decent extra things you would want to tell us all what they are?

If you look at the small print in the HBOS contracts, if you look at the sleight of hand in their advertising then you see that they are in fact among the lowest of the low. The sickest thing is that the advert actually refers to all of the extra costs they ladle into their products.

by **Porty** » 29 Aug 2004, 11:20

by **ecm** » 29 Aug 2004, 12:43

by **Porty** » 29 Aug 2004, 13:49

by **bellybabe** » 29 Aug 2004, 22:30

Never normally watch TV so miss most ads, but last night saw one for Iceland with the horrific slogan "Because mums are heroes". That really made my blood boil. Firstly because of the absolute sexism and family-ism the assumption suggests - only women shop for food, and therefore presumably cook, and only ones with children can shop at Iceland? As a mum who does indeed do most of the shopping and cooking in our household, I can admit to my own food-snobbery and say i wouldn't dream of shopping at Iceland. I've only ever seen them advertise so-called "children's" food like chicken nuggets and other things that have never seen an animal, so my assumptions are based on that rather than any attempt to shop there. If I bought things like that my children would indeed see me as a hero...until they reach 25.
And anyway, if they are going to be so sexist, they might as well go the whole hog - surely mums must be heroines?

by **ecm** » 30 Aug 2004, 20:20

by **Porty** » 19 Sep 2004, 13:52

by **Jay** » 21 Sep 2004, 14:10

The very patronising male voice on the Scottish Power 'Ways to Save Energy" adverts, and the equally patronising graphics ....... :evil:

by **Epykat** » 21 Sep 2004, 21:31

by **Porty** » 21 Sep 2004, 21:39

by **Epykat** » 21 Sep 2004, 21:49

by **General Tactifer** » 21 Sep 2004, 22:38

by **wangi** » 21 Sep 2004, 23:07

by **Jay** » 22 Sep 2004, 13:15

by **General Tactifer** » 25 Sep 2004, 00:10

by **Jay** » 28 Sep 2004, 11:39

by **Porty** » 27 Oct 2004, 13:32

by **rathbone** » 27 Oct 2004, 15:19

by **Porty** » 27 Oct 2004, 15:46

by **Maria** » 27 Oct 2004, 16:22

by **Jay** » 27 Oct 2004, 18:32

by **Porty** » 03 Nov 2004, 20:34

by **Maria** » 03 Nov 2004, 22:23

Em...it's a rubbish deal?

by **Epykat** » 03 Nov 2004, 22:28

That new advert for whatever with the Liverpudlian woman trying to convince us she's "17" - aaaaargh! It's doin me ead in

by **Porty** » 03 Nov 2004, 22:35

by **Pal of Porty** » 03 Nov 2004, 23:20

by **Porty** » 03 Nov 2004, 23:30

by **Poppy** » 13 Apr 2005, 17:34

by **ecm** » 13 Apr 2005, 19:38

by **Poppy** » 13 Apr 2005, 19:47

Ecm, envy is a terrible thing! Just because you didn't get to met Howie-Baby!! :twisted:

by **Pal of Porty** » 14 Apr 2005, 12:33

Howie is meant to be dropped from Scotland as well. He has really brassed off loads of HBoS customers up here and the bank has received numerous complaints. I can't think why.................

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