Next Day TV Replacem.. Watch the ad… The key word in this advert is NEED. If you’re the sort of intermiable fuckwit who cannot live without endlessly surfing the plethora of shit TV channels on offer through the trojan horse that is Freeview, or if you’re a repeat offender wanker who can’t miss the tits [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Pampers – Golden Sleep
Posted in Bullshit, nonsense, Wishful Thinking, tagged crapbags, gold, golden sleep, nappies, nonsense, pampers, tenuous connections on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Learn in Sleep with .. Watch the ad… You can always tell when advertisers are clutching at straws as they have to explain their tenuous connections in overly complicated set-ups. You’d have thought that a nappy that helps a child sleep through the night would be an easy sell, both in advertising terms and to [...]
Coco Pops – Coco Rocks with Milk
Posted in Bullshit, Wishful Thinking, tagged chocolate milk, coco pops, coco rocks, false advertising on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a minor point really, in the scheme of things, but I feel compelled to point it out anyway – especially as I’m a big fan of Coco Rocks and hate to see them being falsely advertised. At the end of this advert, as the camera spins out of the whirling mass of neolithic [...]
Old El Paso Fajitas – Spice Up Summer
Posted in Bullshit, Technically Accurate, tagged disclaimers, fajitas, false advertising, fineprint, liars, misleading, old el paso, spice up summer, tortillas on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spice Up Summer with.. Watch the ad… You know those revolting Oil of Olay or L’Oreal adverts that base all their advertising around market research that claims 90% of women think their product works, and then you read the small print which says they only asked 50 people…? They’re basically bullshit; they use selective questioning [...]
Art & Copy
Posted in Actually Quite Cool, tagged 60's got milk, advertising, art & copy, documentary, doug pray, hype, infamy, mad men, scratch, surfwise on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Doug Pray is a filmmaker who’s movies explore dominant artistic cultures in modern society. Scratch* is the best documentary on hip hop and turntablism ever made, and I can’t recommend Infamy as a fascinating alternative take on the graffiti art scene enough. I’d also urge people to watch Hype which covers the Seattle grunge scene [...]
Tesco – Mark Addy
Posted in Celebrity Endorsement, Patronising Bastards, tagged Fay Ripley, huge corporations, Julie Walters, mark addy, smug, smug smug smug, supermarkets, Tesco on August 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Double Value on Baby.. It’s been bugging me for ages what I hate about this advert, and now I know. It’s smug. Smug smug smug smug smug. Smug. It’s so fucking smug it’s driving me up the wall. It’s smug like a Kevin Smith film, or like Quentin Tarantino’s dialogue, or like a Steve Bell [...]
Natwest – Helpful Banking
Posted in Bullshit, Patronising Bastards, Wishful Thinking, tagged banking, financial, illusions, natwest, saturday on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Helpful Banking on S.. Let’s be sure of one thing; if a bank were a person it would not be a very nice person. It would be callous, greedy, unethical, manipulative, bullying psychopathic. You are rarely viewed as a human being, rarely treated fairly and anyone in the lower-income spectrum of society especially will tell [...]
Envirophone
Posted in Patronising Bastards, tagged advert, conspiracy, envirophone, interpretation, mobile phones, nokia, samsung, semantics on August 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Maybe I just see conspiracies where there are no conspiracies but I”m sure Envirophone is funded by the communication industry to ruin the trade in the 2nd hand mobiles. Buy up the old phones and then force comsumers to buy the newest ones. It makes sense, doesn’t it? There’s one more thing I want to [...]
Argos – Live for Less
Posted in Bullshit, tagged argos, bowler hair, live for less, treadmill on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If anything summed up the utter pointlessness of rampant consumerism and, indeed, the marketeers urge to sell something no matter how useless, needless or counter-productive – then this advert is it. A family, down on their luck and saving money, are forced to scrimp on basic luxuries like haircuts so that they can afford to [...]
Sky + HD
Posted in Celebrity Endorsement, Patronising Bastards, Wishful Thinking, tagged anthony hopkins, rocky, sky +, sylvester stallone on August 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Rocky Moments in Hig.. Watch the ad… I once had a friend who claimed he was an extra in Tim Burton’s Batman, and it was an utter lie. We all knew he was lying – the facts didn’t back him up, the evidence was anecdotal and the dates didn’t match – but still he insisted [...]
