Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Tom@Crewe on December 20, 2009, 03:33:13 pm
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Go Compare..........AAAHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGG
sick of hearing it.
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Whats it advertising???
Andy
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This is Martins
(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/DickyD_photos/simples.jpg) Simples
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Dicky
That is one of the BEST
It is nearly as good as the
nuts and bolts Bank adverts
Where did you get your GSD avatar?
Does the site have other breeds?
I want an Airedale!
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Got to be that annoying 'lollipop! Lollipop!' advert by dell >>:-(
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No !!! It's the one where the opera singer appears.....advertising insurance >>:-(
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dikky D, leave the meerkats out of it :D oh and SHOOT that retched opera singer.
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I agree with funtimefrankie - he ought to have his stupid moustache shoved somewhere where he won't be able to sing any more :-)) ;) ;D O0 {-)
Love the meerkats. :-)) ok2 ;) :-)
Derek.
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how about the fake drugs advert where he pulls a rat out of his mouth, it always comes on when I am am having a snack, at least it helps me loose weight.
peter
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Shocking-New-TV-Advert-Highlighting-Dangers-Of-Buying-Fake-Drugs-Online-Aired/Article/200911115432185
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with just a few clicks... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
HS93, yeah i have seen that one,
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes!
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes!
Why do we always seem to end up with that Prescott guy again?
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Its only an Advert!
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No !!! It's the one where the opera singer appears.....advertising insurance >>:-(
Thats what started this topic off...Go Compare!!!!!
Wullie
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how about the fake drugs advert where he pulls a rat out of his mouth, it always comes on when I am am having a snack, at least it helps me loose weight.
peter
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Shocking-New-TV-Advert-Highlighting-Dangers-Of-Buying-Fake-Drugs-Online-Aired/Article/200911115432185
Yeah, thats a cracker,
Wullie
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What about that ad where the skinny clown sees the bird in her underwear in a shop, sprays himself with some stinky male stuff and appears in his underwear to her. God it's a sick one, the bloke looks such a prune and the sight of him making that stupid pose makes me chunder!! <*< It is such an apalling ad (apart from the delightful bird) that I don't even know what they're advertising.... I'm too busy looking at the bird I guess. :D
As for go compare I'm with Derek on this one but is a close run thing between that and the annoying '118' ads, those i really hate! <*<
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Got to agree with you Sheerline about '118' >:-o >>:-( :(( ;D
Derek.
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go compare get my vote for most annoying >>:-( (i looked them up for a price on my car insurerance & i would only have saved £20 ''after all that singing from the fat guy {-)
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It always the very best or the very worst which you remember.
Insurance and comparison sites seem to attract some of the extremes.
The tenor of Go Compare (bad)
Michael Winner of E Sure (terrible)
Compare the Meerkat (love it)
Just to show how much things have changed, have a look at this from only 20 years ago - I had one!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0g73JvFbo&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0g73JvFbo&feature=related)
Danny
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i would only have saved £20 after all that singing from the fat guy
Well - TWO tenors are better than nothing {-) {-) {-) {-)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxqJqNLAFRo
Dont worry It makes just as little sense if you understand Finnish lol
By the way its for one of the main banks in Finland
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Correct! How did you know that Dicky?!?!!?
At work, anyone that wants to wind me up just has to quote any sound from those meerkat advert... or even that meercat manor wildlife show!
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Hy Guys
Why do they always scream and shout when there selling double glazing, you know the one, you buy one you get one free, I SAY YOU BUY ONE, YOU GET ONE FREEEEEEE, ARGHHH
Bosun
By the way Happy Xmas to one and all ......(except that clown on that add)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz8K6FUk5jM
agggggggghhhhhhh
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Does anyone actually jump up out of their armchair spilling their beer in the process, and go out and actually buy what the ads are plugging at?
No!
The trick is to route out the guys that invented these adverts and allow your devious imaginations to invent sufficient tortures to repay you for your suffering! <*< >>:-( >:-o
These guys get paid really well for their efforts which doubles the impetus <*< >>:-(
For instance . . . . . . .
No!
Martin would ban me for that one . . . :police:
. . . . . . .
Nope! :police:
Not that one either.
Well, you'd just have to use your imagination! O0 {-)
Of course you could do like I do and just hit the mute botton on the remote, you'd be amazed how detached you become from the ads :-)) :-)
Or am I just a cynical old whats it?
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Any government-funded advert telling me how to behave and what to think.....
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Dicky
Where did you get your GSD avatar?
Does the site have other breeds?
I want an Airedale!
Airedales are few and far between Ned.
(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/DickyD_photos/Airedale_Terrier_PDT.gif) (http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/DickyD_photos/airedale_50.gif)
(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/DickyD_photos/German_shepherd_6.gif)
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Another for Martin.
The next generation of his favourite film stars in training.
(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/DickyD_photos/aAn_MeerkatBaby.gif)
(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/DickyD_photos/German_shepherd_6.gif)
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I'm another fan of the Mute button, but has it struck anyone how well the ad men have done with that appalling Go Compare ad? You see, the whole point of advertising is to make the victim remember the product. Like it or hate it, that advert has had the desired effect.
Now contrast that with some of the "best" adverts of the decade (TV program over the weekend in the UK). I hadn't seen half of them - or I don't think I had - and of those which I did remember I could only recall the product in about half of them. There must be a point to all of this.
My pet hates are furniture stores ("Don't Flaming Shout"), double-glazing, any type of insurance and, worst of all, those horribly pretentious and utterly unfathomable adverts for cosmetics. Does anyone really want to smell of Diesel?
FLJ (Humbug!)
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My pet hates are furniture stores ("Don't Flaming Shout"),
Nothing wrong with furniture stores, FLJ. I'm waiting for DFS to have a sale so that I can buy a new sofa. ;D {-) ;D {-) ;D {-)
Derek.
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Dicky thats a magic little airedale doing what all Airedales do
Jump up at everyone they meet
How do I get that on to my profile
Having trouble typing this as I have Harley my latest Airedal
Trying to climb on me as it is 'walkies' time
Yours Aye
Ned
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Hi Ned
Enter http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/DickyD_photos/airedale_50.gif with insert image symbols (http://)before the url and after in your profile information.,or send me a PM with email address and i will send it to you.
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Go on. Ggo no go on go on; goowww oooonnn. You know you want one, go on
Think it was an ad for biscuits of some kind.
seriously annoyning
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I don't know about you blokes but if I hate the ad <*<, I NEVER buy the product. I'm afraid they shoot themselves in the foot with irritating indoctrination ads where I'm concerned. It makes me remember the name alright and makes me avoid their product regardless of how good it is.
Yours sincerely... grumpy ole git.
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Agreed about the howling, bawling double glazing buffoon (bring back mass public hanging, he didn't do it on his own), the first insurance tenner had a certain grotesque genius, the later ones rather less, but my personal pit of total detestation goes to the past Cillit Bang ads. Their ads have improved, sort of, but I have a long memory for such things, and still actively avoid the product.
Then there are the "story" ads like Kenco and BT, but these are very minor annoyances.
My personal favourite ad was the Carling Black Label ad that spoofed most of the K-Tel ads and was almost a feature film in itself.
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There is a re-mix of the Cillit Bang advert by Yakazoo on you-tube, it's better than the original and very cleverly put together.
The same bloke did one for the Michael Winner Esure insurance ad. Persnally the music is not my favorite choice but the re-mix is very good.. worth a look just for fun.
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At least that one with half naked old pop star has stopped. Male nudity should be banned anyway, where's Mary Whitehouse when she's needed.
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where's Mary Whitehouse when she's needed.
She's been in exactly the right place since November 2001 <:(
Rumour has it she expired in a black apoplexy when someone explained the lyrics of "Brown Sugar" to her.............. I don't think she ever heard of Iggy Pop (or he her....)
As for Barry 'Cillit Bang' Scott, his mam still does our cleaning.
With soap.
FLJ
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There used to be an ad for....something... in the 70's I think and the tag line was;
"That's all right for you boys, but real men"... or something like that.
I found myself using the tag line from time to time but now I can't remember what the hell it was for?!?!?!
.... jog anyone's memory?
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Any government-funded advert telling me how to behave and what to think.....
like this?
the american way... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2kdpAGDu8s
a british take on the same thing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Z64o_AgIM
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like this?
the american way... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2kdpAGDu8s
a british take on the same thing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Z64o_AgIM
Ah, that takes me back. I spent the first few years of my working life deep underground in an installation designed to take two nuclear hits (mind you, we would have been targeted with a lot more...)
But I really meant stuff like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKt1yHhIWLo
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well we do live in a nanny state now, we're worse than the united states
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I didn't like the Boursin cheesey cheese ad until the last few seconds.
Surely the French can't be doing irony!
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The rat advert with fake medicine is designed to annoy and is memorable.
They want you to remember.
People are so hard up they look for cheap sources of meds on the net. But with international unregulated suppiers there are crooks. And people die. Shocking? that is why the ad is desinged to shock.
I live in China where fake milk and baby formala killed kids and made 300 000 people ill last year. It is not just China, it is many countries. And people are buying stuff from fake dealers globally on the internet.
Key thought, it may be annoying but do you remember the message. If you remember it works.
Where it does not work is if the ad is for a product, and you say, 'I am so annoyed I will not buy'. But like the spray fragrance on geek with the fit bird. If you think it is bad, you are not the target audience, you are probably one of the 'Hi-Karate' generation. Remember that one?
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The rat advert with fake medicine is designed to annoy and is memorable.
They want you to remember....
They also want to maintain a monopoly supply. If a medicine that might prolong your life is not available on the NHS you are effectively banned from taking it. Adverts like the one you mention keep us in line....
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The rat advert with fake medicine is designed to annoy and is memorable.
They want you to remember.
People are so hard up they look for cheap sources of meds on the net. But with international unregulated suppiers there are crooks. And people die. Shocking? that is why the ad is desinged to shock.
I live in China where fake milk and baby formala killed kids and made 300 000 people ill last year. It is not just China, it is many countries. And people are buying stuff from fake dealers globally on the internet.
Key thought, it may be annoying but do you remember the message. If you remember it works.
Where it does not work is if the ad is for a product, and you say, 'I am so annoyed I will not buy'. But like the spray fragrance on geek with the fit bird. If you think it is bad, you are not the target audience, you are probably one of the 'Hi-Karate' generation. Remember that one?
yes but the rat advert tends to be on at midnight snack time, it's keeping me thin.
and the milk powder scam , i think they have the right way of dealing with people who put others lives at risk and its very cheap, and does not req probation officers etc.
Peter
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A good way to avoid adverts is to record the programmes you want to watch, and then fast forwards through the breaks.
The only drawback with this method is you have to subscribe to Mr Murdoch's or Mr Branson's services. {:-{ {:-{ {:-{
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They also want to maintain a monopoly supply. If a medicine that might prolong your life is not available on the NHS you are effectively banned from taking it. Adverts like the one you mention keep us in line....
There was an article in the news a few months back. Something like 50% of the internet sourced meds bought in the US were fake. It is a huge problem. It is a dangerous problem. People usually take mds for a reason, if you are getting fake product, you are not getting your meds. Rat poison or no rat poison, this is dangerous. Whatever the motives of the people paying for the adverts, people need to know, IMHO.
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WASSUP
Watching the Game , Having a Bud...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L38wthA4Ld0
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If you think it is bad, you are not the target audience, you are probably one of the 'Hi-Karate' generation. Remember that one?
Drank gallons of the stuff. Never got one like that.
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There was an article in the news a few months back. Something like 50% of the internet sourced meds bought in the US were fake. It is a huge problem. It is a dangerous problem. People usually take mds for a reason, if you are getting fake product, you are not getting your meds. Rat poison or no rat poison, this is dangerous. Whatever the motives of the people paying for the adverts, people need to know, IMHO.
Yes, people certainly need to know. There is a similar problem with illegal recreational drugs as well, incidentally.
The underlying problem is that, if the government decide to enforce a monopoly supply, be it of penicillin or cocaine (and in the case of cocaine that supply is zero) then, unless the monopoly supply adequately caters to demand, people have a reason to break the system. And when they are doing this illegally, they obviously do not comply with things like purity laws, or control the concentration properly.
Deaths due to illegal drugs in the UK are not a high figure (about 1/10 of those attributed to alcohol, for instance - http://www.tdpf.org.uk/MediaNews_FactResearchGuide_DrugRelatedDeaths.htm ) but they could be brought to a vanishingly small figure if the purity/concentration were controlled. Unfortunately, it is in government interests to keep illegal/fake drug related deaths as high as possible....