Adverts on TV today are shit.
There was a time when the odd amusing one would appear and raise a smile, even the odd titter. Strangely I used to find the old Rowan Atkinson Barclaycard ones quite funny. Unfortunately the recent dumbing down of advertising has left me worried for the state of the nation as we must assume these adverts are actually working.
Surely we’re not all sheep?
Are we?
Personally I think it began with Budweiser and the “Wasssup” campaign. I still know people that answer their phones like this. Complete twats the lot of them.
Also, I pay good money to watch my TV, about £40 a month, so I don’t want to be inundated with advertising Mr Sky TV. Especially not between the low-brow dumbed-down retardvision you seem to be showing by the bucket-load at the moment.
The BBC isn’t much better though. OK, I may not have to listen to that old bat from Terry & June witter on about paying for funerals and stairlifts and stuff, but I pay a licence fee for programming, not for you to tell me how fucking great you are. Apparently it’s called ‘positive reinforcement’. I’m paying over £100 a year to be told how good a channel, that I had no choice in purchasing, actually is. What a load of fucking arse.
I’m fortunate enough have sky+ so I can fast forward through most adverts when I’ve recorded something, but I have seen a few recently that I decided to test out, purely in the name of research you understand. Can you figure out which companies the tested products were from?
- Well, you quoted me fucking miserable you lying cunts.
- Oh yes it IS an ‘ordinary custard tart’ you overpriced fucking poncey bastards.
- I’m lovin’ it? I can barely fucking digest it.
- You’ve probably had your tongue removed if you think thats the best lager in the world
- Kev, Bev, it’s a fucking Volvo. Get over it.
- I don’t care how friendly your bacteria is, it gave me the shits.
- It doesn’t exactly say on the tin “will fucking ruin whatever you’re wearing when you use it”, now does it?
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I can’t believe I got all of those. Although no.5 gave me some trouble. The fact that I have no life has now been reinforced in concrete like a Russian reactor.
Having spent far too much of my career in marketing, trust me, the “Creatives” who come up with all those brilliant ideas, do indeed think the public are sheep.
Baaaa…
matt – 5 gave me trouble, or rather it gave the t-shirt I was wearing trouble.
BoT – I do hope none of the above are down to you?… Of course not.
Apparently due to far more people skipping the adverts the ‘creatives’ are now looking at “interactive” adverts.
Well there’s something to look forward to.
I’ve just realised you have a Vodafone ad on your site. Man, that’s funny. They make me redundant as of tomorrow. The fuckers.
Matt – where? NF said the same. Google put some ads but I think everyone sees something different, the cost of a non-blogspot site I’m afraid
Right here on this very page, although it has been replaced now. It was just taunting me…
is me losing the plot but i see no adverts.
adverys suck and what i hate most is those debit concillation companies … they pray on the unfornunate and the unlucky never do i hear any mention of mafia style interest rates. i hate all the buy double glazing windows ads especially with the cannon and ball pair.
but i love the adverts for prescription meds that you can see in america …. they rock and i love how they side step all the side effects. they are really excellent but expensive. any place that advertises meds over breakfast is like seriously sound.
Smash up your tv. You do not need it. Fuck advertising. Fuck advertisers. Time for a war.
Matt – I’ve turned the ‘taunt the reader’ option off now.
karilyn – are you in the US then? I saw a Pele TV ad for the Mr Floppy’s amongst us, but that’s as far as it goes in the UK I think?
RD – I’m buying a new one and am considering throwing the old one from my bedroom window like a proper rock-star, would that be OK?
No you haven’t! It’s bloody back! Telling me I should click on it to get a lifetime of free texts! Well, piss off Vodafone, I’ve just got a new job. You can stick your free texts up your arse.
Matt – if you keep mentioning Vodafone, we’re going to keep getting vodafone adverts.
nokia, nokia, nokia. See if that helps.
i used to live in the us and they advertise drugs in ireland also… via tv and the scum bags on the side of the street. but now live in uk.
I remember years ago AA there was talk about giving TV advertisers permission to insert subliminal advertising O2. These were flashed at you so quickly that you didn’t notice them as such but they BT registered at a sub conscious level.
I believe the practice was banned but how E4 the fuck would we know.
Adverts are a pain in the arse, when my kids watch the TV they see all the toy adverts and the bloody Mc Donalds ones to and then they expect me to buy them everything. I would vote to get rid of them.