Bullshit adverts

[Emperor Fabulous]

Well, yeah, I know that's 99.872% of them (I counted), but lately I'm watching shit on the telly and some ads just make me laugh with their barefaced lies ! e.g. - all the online casino / bingo / gambling ads - everyone (and it is everyone) always wins ! Now, I appreciate they aren't likely to gain many customers if they show a poor woman on a council sink estate crying because she's just gambled away her child benefit, but everyone winning ?... all the time ? Er... statistically and factually... er... what's the word ?.... bullshit.

Likewise the RAF ad that's on at the moment... that chap directing an airstrike to an "insurgent" weapons site, just after the 'insurgents' have driven away, so nobody dies. They even use the phrase 'no casualties' in the voiceover. Er... yeah... that's what usually happens doesn't it. Nobody dies in wars. Nice clean war... no dismembered bodies and brains splattered everywhere. Just a nice man in a safe office directing sexy jets to blow up some unattended guns, just after the naughty men have safely driven away.

Are there any ads that annoy you for any particular reasons (but preferably because they're full of shit) ?

[ChrisJordan]

Likewise the RAF ad that's on at the moment... that chap directing an airstrike to an "insurgent" weapons site, just after the 'insurgents' have driven away, so nobody dies. They even use the phrase 'no casualties' in the voiceover. Er... yeah... that's what usually happens doesn't it. Nobody dies in wars. Nice clean war... no dismembered bodies and brains splattered everywhere. Just a nice man in a safe office directing sexy jets to blow up some unattended guns, just after the naughty men have safely driven away.

Well, for a start it was a rocket rail as opposed to some unattended gun, but that's by the by. The issue is that he's some highly observant white-collar worker, yet he doesn't notice the fkn great bird knocking about his office, let alone when it's on his shoulder!

Secondly: Isn't there already a thread for this, where boiled piss is thrown about?

[Viz]

I hate car adverts where they say, "Free your imagination" or some such at the end.

[monquixote]

Likewise the RAF ad that's on at the moment... that chap directing an airstrike to an "insurgent" weapons site, just after the 'insurgents' have driven away, so nobody dies. They even use the phrase 'no casualties' in the voiceover. Er... yeah... that's what usually happens doesn't it. Nobody dies in wars. Nice clean war... no dismembered bodies and brains splattered everywhere. Just a nice man in a safe office directing sexy jets to blow up some unattended guns, just after the naughty men have safely driven away.

This is better than the ones I remember when I was a kid where there was someone waterskiing and saying how they had made loads of friends. It made it look like Butlins with assault rifles.

[Emperor Fabulous]

This is better than the ones I remember when I was a kid where there was someone waterskiing and saying how they had made loads of friends. It made it look like Butlins with assault rifles.

Hahaha ! Yeah... I remember those ! Wasn't there a pisstake around at the time... something about going to exotic places, meeting exotic people... and killing them. A T-shirt and/or a comedy skit seems to ring a bell. 'Butlins with assault rifles'..

[Skodster]

It's the ads where there's a filthy surface or a cooker coated in grime. One spray from Clit Bang and a single gentle sweep of the cloth and your mess is gone.

This is the sort of nonsense I'm on about;



Have they actually tried to clean an oven with their own product?

What about those stain removing products that never work??

So many time's I have been tempted to make a video showing what bullsh*t these ads are. How they get away with it with trading standards I don't know.

[bochetagrave]

Butlins with assault rifles.

Now, there's an idea...

[chillidoggy]

Now, there's an idea...

Ha, ha! Brilliant!

[FBF]

Yesh. Bloody Ginsters adverts... "Good honest food"... Compare the profile shot of a chicken and mushroom slice cut in half with what it actually looks like when you cut one in half, i.e. compacted flaccid pasty enveloping a 2mm layer of congealed sludge with lumps of stuff that might possilby be chicken or mushroom... Every time I think of this I want to take some pictures, do a side by side comparison picture, and send it to the advertising standards people... But then Meh takes over and the rant lives for another day...

Not that I don't like them- I do... Just using the tag line "good honest food" is taking the piss in my book...

[Myranda_Rose]

Yesh. Bloody Ginsters adverts... "Good honest food"... Compare the profile shot of a chicken and mushroom slice cut in half with what it actually looks like when you cut one in half, i.e. compacted flaccid pasty enveloping a 2mm layer of congealed sludge with lumps of stuff that might possilby be chicken or mushroom... Every time I think of this I want to take some pictures, do a side by side comparison picture, and send it to the advertising standards people... But then Meh takes over and the rant lives for another day...

Not that I don't like them- I do... Just using the tag line "good honest food" is taking the piss in my book...

Ginsters are a blight on the food landscape... if I buy a chicken and mushroom pasty I want to know that it's mostly chicken, mushroom and pasty... not potato and onion because they're cheap ways to bulk up a pastry treat, I'd not even care if it were mechanically reclaimed chicken instead of bits of chicken breast, but I think it should be mostly the advertised filling, rather than cheap bulky veg.