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Adverts you luv or hate!!

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  • BigBouncyBall
    BigBouncyBall Posts: 1,937 Forumite
    edited 22 April 2009 at 11:31PM
    I hate cheap adverts (compare the market, insurance ads, wheretheresblametheresaclaim ads etc)

    I hate stupid adverts - cadburys gorilla and drums. (i also hate people that like that advert - they're usually common)

    I hate funny, wacky, zaney, smug, up their own !!! adverts

    I like big budget professional adverts - made by a proper advertising agency. The Nike advert are always good and i currently like the Honda advert that uses lightbulbs to make pictures (Honda Insight). And the one a few year ago about the perpetual motion of car parts.
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  • Mrs-D_2
    Mrs-D_2 Posts: 16 Forumite
    I love the 118 247 ad too. Can't get the song (and the Magical Trevor song) out of my head most days.

    At the moment I hate the ad for Vodafone where the guy in the car servicing place is miming to that "If I ruled the world" song. And the ad for X-Box 360 with the woman who slowly smiles but only one side of her mouth goes up is really creepy.
  • Mister-D_3
    Mister-D_3 Posts: 129 Forumite
    I cant say that I really like any advert.

    I really dont like those "Have you had an accident then let us make a profit out of you" adverts, or the "you are in debt let is dig you in deeper" adverts or the "anyone on the planet can be a driving instructor" adverts

    I also cannot stand computer games adverts or mobile phone adverts that contain the phrase "simulated images or not actual game play".

    My pet hate is also any beauty/haircare advert that says "X was styled with some natural extensions that were treated with x" as this implys that the product was carp and they wouldnt have it anywhere near them.
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  • tattycath
    tattycath Posts: 7,175 Forumite
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    I always liked the smash adverts
    I hate the 118 118 ads -boring does my head in!!!
    I like the 118 247 ad- quirky catchy 'song'
    hate the -have you had an accident blah blah
    hate the insurance plan ads
    hate the loan ads
    always hated the shake n vac ads (showing my age now!!
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    (showing my age now!!

    Ye 21 ;).....
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  • jaydeeuk1
    jaydeeuk1 Posts: 7,714 Forumite
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    WKD adverts make me laugh (at least the first time I see them!)
    Can't stand that 118 advert and that damn song.
  • trevormax
    trevormax Posts: 947 Forumite
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    oh and CILLIT BANG, BANG andthe dirt is gone. "It gets rid of dirt with such little effort" she sounds like Waynetta Slob from Harry Enfield
  • My all time fav is the Bouncing Balls in San Francisco (Sony Bravia IIRC)

    Hate:
    You buy one, you get one free
    The car rental one with the bloke who used to be in Game On and his "Mum"
  • I like the new Audi advert with the battles music - and the BMW art paint advert?
  • BigBouncyBall
    BigBouncyBall Posts: 1,937 Forumite
    The bouncing balls ad is fantastic. As was the clay animated rabbits for the same product
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