Confession - I love the genre of ads which solve problems for inept people. They give me a warm glow - I may be inept at many things but at least I'm not so inept that I need to buy this product!
One I saw recently showed someone who had, for no obvious reason, bought an industrial sized bottle of fabric conditioner. The ad showed them struggling to remove it from a cupboard and weaving their way towards their washing machine struggling under the weight of it. They then tried to tip some into the washing machine drawer, but it was too heavy to control and spilled onto the floor, and then the person was on their hands and knees laboriously cleaning up the spill. They were clearly traumatised by their abnormally large bottle of fabric conditioner.
The product being advertised was for fabric conditioner sheets. It showed the delighted person holding a lightweight box of these sheets, their abnormally large bottle woes over!
The other alternative - next time buy a manageable standard 1 litre bottle - was not a solution which had occurred to the inept person.
I may be inept at many things, but at least I'm not so inept that I buy bottles of fabric conditioner larger and heavier than a small child!
Mr Heavenly owns a pet tech company and as a consequence our browsers are filled with ads for pet products. I would be very concerned about my cat’s alopecia if it left a comfy chair several inches deep in dense cat hair that needs its own hoover to remove. Likewise the grooming comb which appears to remove my cat’s body weight in fur in one session.
@Heavenlyannie what does Mr Heavenly reckon to the equigroomer comb for cats ?
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That is a very expensive comb! I’ll get him to ask at work if anyone has used one.
Our, admittedly short-haired, cat makes do with a £5 brush with push up function for disposal of fur. Mochi is groomed about 3 times a week - she loves being brushed - and she is in beautiful condition with a glossy coat. I’m happy with a £5 brush.
There's an ad in the cinemas at the moment from Facebook/Meta which assures the viewer that they aren't reading your WhatsApps ... which seems bafflingly counterproductive.
This may be my problem only as my current eye condition means that my brain doesn't always correctly interpret what my eyes see.
There is an advert on the TV which has me totally bamboozled.
It has what I see as someone carrying horizontally under his/her arm either a plank with a head, or human being as stiff as a plank. This 'plank' is then dunked, headfirst, into a lake or similar body of water, and brought up dripping with weed or some other gross substance, and looking much larger and not at all plank-like
I believe it is a KFC ad, and it is possible, having a chicken reference to add to the visuals, to imagine the 'plank' has become a giant piece of chicken covered in a lumpy coating of some sort.
No idea why it should do, and it is far from appetising, but that is the only explanation I can come up with, as my brain is making no sense of what my eyes are telling it.
Please can anyone interpret this somewhat unpleasant vision for me.
The Daily Mail claims hundreds have complained the ad mocks Christianity. Basically a man is dunked in a lake of gravy and transforms into a massive piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The Daily Mail claims hundreds have complained the ad mocks Christianity. Basically a man is dunked in a lake of gravy and transforms into a massive piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Can't have been any worse than the Greggs Christmas advert a couple of years ago that had a Greggs sausage roll in a manger being worshipped by the Wise Men.
The Daily Mail claims hundreds have complained the ad mocks Christianity. Basically a man is dunked in a lake of gravy and transforms into a massive piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The allusion to baptism passed me by completely.
I just thought that it was weird & gross. Wouldn't even have associated it with chicken if it hadn't pasted the word across the screen. Looked like some alien monster from the deep - and those slimy tentacles were supposed to be gravy?
Have never had KFC, and this is certainly not tempting me, repulsing me rather.
Confession - I love the genre of ads which solve problems for inept people. They give me a warm glow - I may be inept at many things but at least I'm not so inept that I need to buy this product!
One I saw recently showed someone who had, for no obvious reason, bought an industrial sized bottle of fabric conditioner. The ad showed them struggling to remove it from a cupboard and weaving their way towards their washing machine struggling under the weight of it. They then tried to tip some into the washing machine drawer, but it was too heavy to control and spilled onto the floor, and then the person was on their hands and knees laboriously cleaning up the spill. They were clearly traumatised by their abnormally large bottle of fabric conditioner.
The product being advertised was for fabric conditioner sheets. It showed the delighted person holding a lightweight box of these sheets, their abnormally large bottle woes over!
The other alternative - next time buy a manageable standard 1 litre bottle - was not a solution which had occurred to the inept person.
I may be inept at many things, but at least I'm not so inept that I buy bottles of fabric conditioner larger and heavier than a small child!
I’m reminded of an array of ads from some decades back that all turned on the trope of people being just unable to manage really basic tasks, usually in the kitchen, until now, with the Ronco Miracle Widget, etc. I’m not sure any of those things would be helpful for someone with genuine physical difficulties (and thank God for those devices, absolutely), but it sounds like the same tone you’re describing here.
Out of idle curiosity I googled to find out what the largest size of fabric conditioner is, and it seems to be 5 litre bottles. Where the inept person had sourced their huge, heavy and unwieldy bottle, I don't know. Perhaps they worked in a hotel or hospital laundry and had nicked it from work.
I was reading an online article advocating a minimum unit price for alcohol and the banner gave me an advertisement for an industrial-sized brewing kit...
My favourite ad of all time was probably the one for New Shreddies, quite a few years ago. There were billboards announcing that the boring old square ones and been abandoned to be replaced by this stylish new diamond shaped version. It was the exact same product, of course, but certain persons of a certain age thought it was hilarious. My wife and daughters thought that my friends and I were complete idiots for our admiration of it, but we carried on buying Shreddies (and still do).
It has recently been resurrected on one of the smaller free-to-air channels. I had meant to watch it, but kept forgetting when & where it was. I don't remember it being too bad but then I'm old enough to have watched Crossroads.
One of the actors from Eldorado was in the SpecSavers home eye-testing adverts. I recognised her voice straight away.
I don't pay attention to ads - that's what the mute button + knitting are for. But I've been following Roland Garros and I see the advertisers reckon tennis fans are interested in cars, holidays in Turkey (or possibly Korea), male fragrances and financial products - one for the last of these comes into the Eh? Category. It has people walking about under giant buckets.
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Not an ad as such, but an example of sales-speak: Budget Dresses for the Maturer Lady with the Fuller Figure ie cheap frocks for fat old women.
One I saw recently showed someone who had, for no obvious reason, bought an industrial sized bottle of fabric conditioner. The ad showed them struggling to remove it from a cupboard and weaving their way towards their washing machine struggling under the weight of it. They then tried to tip some into the washing machine drawer, but it was too heavy to control and spilled onto the floor, and then the person was on their hands and knees laboriously cleaning up the spill. They were clearly traumatised by their abnormally large bottle of fabric conditioner.
The product being advertised was for fabric conditioner sheets. It showed the delighted person holding a lightweight box of these sheets, their abnormally large bottle woes over!
The other alternative - next time buy a manageable standard 1 litre bottle - was not a solution which had occurred to the inept person.
I may be inept at many things, but at least I'm not so inept that I buy bottles of fabric conditioner larger and heavier than a small child!
@Heavenlyannie what does Mr Heavenly reckon to the equigroomer comb for cats ?
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Our, admittedly short-haired, cat makes do with a £5 brush with push up function for disposal of fur. Mochi is groomed about 3 times a week - she loves being brushed - and she is in beautiful condition with a glossy coat. I’m happy with a £5 brush.
There is an advert on the TV which has me totally bamboozled.
It has what I see as someone carrying horizontally under his/her arm either a plank with a head, or human being as stiff as a plank. This 'plank' is then dunked, headfirst, into a lake or similar body of water, and brought up dripping with weed or some other gross substance, and looking much larger and not at all plank-like
I believe it is a KFC ad, and it is possible, having a chicken reference to add to the visuals, to imagine the 'plank' has become a giant piece of chicken covered in a lumpy coating of some sort.
No idea why it should do, and it is far from appetising, but that is the only explanation I can come up with, as my brain is making no sense of what my eyes are telling it.
Please can anyone interpret this somewhat unpleasant vision for me.
Can't have been any worse than the Greggs Christmas advert a couple of years ago that had a Greggs sausage roll in a manger being worshipped by the Wise Men.
KFC crossed with Soylent Green?
I just thought that it was weird & gross. Wouldn't even have associated it with chicken if it hadn't pasted the word across the screen. Looked like some alien monster from the deep - and those slimy tentacles were supposed to be gravy?
Have never had KFC, and this is certainly not tempting me, repulsing me rather.
I’m reminded of an array of ads from some decades back that all turned on the trope of people being just unable to manage really basic tasks, usually in the kitchen, until now, with the Ronco Miracle Widget, etc. I’m not sure any of those things would be helpful for someone with genuine physical difficulties (and thank God for those devices, absolutely), but it sounds like the same tone you’re describing here.
If you want really bad adverts - I play silly games on my phone. With Ads.
Every ad for another game includes at least some of:
kept count either).
OK, I should just stop playing stupid games, but these are so unbelievably bad.
Thank you.
It's why I buy 5L everything household cleanser related. Cheaper and less garbage.
AFF
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One of the actors from Eldorado was in the SpecSavers home eye-testing adverts. I recognised her voice straight away.
The problem is, there are not many recent series that are quite as famous for wooden acting, or I would have used one.
Maybe I should have said "So bad, they make William Shatner look fluid" But that would have got me into a whole different heap of trouble.
I see your Eldorado and I raise you Albion Market
My rubber, I think.
Perhaps this should have been posted on, 'You know you're old when' ..... Sorry
Triangle?