Irritating adverts

danmanchester

The current McDonald's adverts are seriously irritating! :mad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNCsn7YNxd8

TeamPlum

Reminded me of another one - I think it's KFC with the guy who's "double hungry".

The "two" guys look nothing like each other, but they're supposed to be the same man? I don't get the premise of the advert.

roddydogs

The National Lottery, how the hell does my winning stop LLB or Noel E winning? its false advertising.

Malthusian

Pretty much all National Lottery advertising is false advertising. If odds of 14 million to 1 (now longer I think, not that it matters) don't make "It could be you" false advertising, how long do the odds need to be?

To illustrate, if Maltesers came up with the slogan "Buy Maltesers, you might find a diamond ring in the bag", I would expect the ASA to ban this as false advertising. But the odds of someone dropping a diamond ring in the Maltesers factory which turns up in your packet are no more remote than the odds of winning the Lottery.

takman

Malthusian wrote: »

Pretty much all National Lottery advertising is false advertising. If odds of 14 million to 1 (now longer I think, not that it matters) don't make "It could be you" false advertising, how long do the odds need to be?

To illustrate, if Maltesers came up with the slogan "Buy Maltesers, you might find a diamond ring in the bag", I would expect the ASA to ban this as false advertising. But the odds of someone dropping a diamond ring in the Maltesers factory which turns up in your packet are no more remote than the odds of winning the Lottery.

Well considering that over 60 million bags of Maltesers are sold a year and a diamond ring hasn't ever been found in one then I think that you are far more likely to win the lottery. But then when you also consider that the process is automated and open bags are not handled by people and the fact that someone would not wear a ring that keeps falling off I would say the chance of it happening is almost 0.

Yet to win the lottery you just have to choose the right numbers, which has been proven many thousands of times that it is possible.

lincroft1710

The annoying music on the TSB advert

Malthusian

Well considering that over 60 million bags of Maltesers are sold a year and a diamond ring hasn't ever been found in one then I think that you are far more likely to win the lottery.

Doesn't matter. Both 60 million to 1 and 14 million to 1 are "won't happen". If you want to be pedantic you could say both could theoretically happen. Theoretically anything could happen, including a series of quantum leaps which result in the entire universe turning into a cabbage. But there has to be a point of improbability at which we accept that "could happen" has been stretched past the point it has any meaning. 14 million to 1 is past that point.

It is true that the odds of one of the millions of entrants hitting the 14 million to one shot is higher, but irrelevant. The slogan is "It could be you" not "It could be someone".

teddysmum

Currently the opera singer for insurance (no idea which), but over the years I've hated the shouty man for windows , the ad using dozens of giggling babies for a car brand and many years ago, a horrid close up for a brand of biscuit ,showing a woman taking a bite and rubbing the crumbs from her lips (yuck).

takman

Malthusian wrote: »

Doesn't matter. Both 60 million to 1 and 14 million to 1 are "won't happen". If you want to be pedantic you could say both could theoretically happen. Theoretically anything could happen, including a series of quantum leaps which result in the entire universe turning into a cabbage. But there has to be a point of improbability at which we accept that "could happen" has been stretched past the point it has any meaning. 14 million to 1 is past that point.

It is true that the odds of one of the millions of entrants hitting the 14 million to one shot is higher, but irrelevant. The slogan is "It could be you" not "It could be someone".

The odds are much higher than 60 million to 1 considering that would mean one diamond ring is found per year, but it has never happened in all the years of production!.
I think "it could be you" is used fairy considering that someone "beats the odds" and wins almost every week.
It can't be said it won't happen because people do win!.

But your trying to compare the lottery with a completely random and unpredicted event occurring. With the lottery there are guranteed to be a set of number drawn each week which have the chance of matching your ticket. But that can't be compared to finding a diamond ring in a malteser packet when not one packet has one put into for the "competition".

TeamPlum

thriftymanc wrote: »

Any adverts with "advert music" (i.e. sh*t, wet, whiny covers of any songs by complete nobodies, or just horrible bands trying to start their careers by selling their horrible songs to adverts because that's all they're good for).

Yes, it's like the John Lewis effect - make an advert sort of sad and have a ballad-y sort of song sung by someone with a guitar/piano.

Awful trend at the moment.