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Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

mjam — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:09:36 GMT

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Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

Eliska Dobson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:44:07 GMT

:o). No I really don't. I just really like it ... I know it must seem strange to someone who finds it irritating, but there you go we are all different :)

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

sue turner — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:46:15 GMT

A new entrant. A rushed-out-to-meet-the-christmas-market CD ad, which has been airing (to my knowledge) for the past few days. It's for an outfit called 'The Priests' and yes, they are real priests. The first time I heard it was in the gym changing room and since I wasn't actually looking at the plasma I thought it was a segment from Father Ted. Even when I watched it I expected Dougal to pop up at any time. It's bad and sad. Just like Lloyds.

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

sue turner — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:26:31 GMT

You don't work for Lloyds by any chance (directly or by proxy) do you?

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

Eliska Dobson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:02:00 GMT

What a shame, I love those ads. I actually think that they are quite popular and that they have done well for the company. This sugest that they will be around for a while - sorry :)

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

Fiona Ramsay — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:26:39 GMT

I hate the Lloyds TSB ads – all of them – as I cannot stand the warbling music on it - Eliza's Aria by Elena Kats-Chernin apparently. Drives me to turn off the sound or change the channel everytime the ads come on. I have no idea what happens in the ads because I will not watch one to the end.

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

Eliska Dobson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:56:32 GMT

well, you must have been happy when they failed as a business ;)

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

spikegullsrule — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:09:39 GMT

What about those shocking Bradford and Bingley ads with that infuriating women? Sleep easy?! Not only were they massively inappropriate (erm, this company has failed and is being bailed out, where is the security in that?) but I hate being spoken to as if I'm a three-year-old girl. Now go away.

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

sue turner — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:15:45 GMT

HSBC: Tired, at odds with the reality of the products and services. Convoluted and dismissive of the domestic market. Marks & Spencer: overblown and overcooked. And anything Morrisons have ever done.

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

Kathleen Carter — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:09:34 GMT

Anything with 'pentapeptides' involved, Olay is an example.

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

Eliska Dobson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:39:42 GMT

Hi Stephen,

I agree, Confused.com is just so irritating. Why do they do it????

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

Eliska Dobson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:32:53 GMT

I like the trucks but hate the gorilla too. No point to it :)

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

paul finch — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:25:07 GMT

Polaris world - great comedy value for the first 3 / 4 times at the presenter's inability to speak english, sounding like a B-movie Spanish villain,and trousers-under-chin fashion. It then became deeply offensive after the 5678567856785678568rd time

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

Stephen Attree — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:30:09 GMT

I quite like them!

Has to be the Gorilla/Trucks cut-and-shut job. Awful.

Confused.com seem to have learned to stop shouting but they're still irritating. Injurylawyers is definitely up there too.

Re: Nomination: Irritating ad of the year 2008

David Pearce — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:14:04 GMT

'Tax doesn't have to be taxing'

But it is taxing becasue it's a tax. Taxes are taxing. They're tax!

It's the slef assessment form that doesn't have to be taxing...but still is.