h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ow me sweet freaking Jaysus.....

Ocean finance now have a TV Channel on Sky which is basically an "always on re-mortgage" advert....

Arrrggghhhh....



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There's an advert for Morrisson's (or is it Sommerfield) that really @!'s me off at the moment.

The one where there's a wife and her hubby at the till and she turns to him and says 'Did you get the tonic water...' and when he goes off to get it as he's forgotten it she says something like "What are they like?" to the shop assisstant.

I hope he also remembers to get the sharp stabbing knives so he can stab the smug, self satisfied, patronising to death when he get back to the till.

Yes I noticed that channel.

How come Ocean finance, the kings of the sub-prime market haven't gone to the wall in the current climate? Let alone have their own channel

That Pringles-in-a-bag ad gets on my the silly cow that squeals "it's in a bag, oh my God it's in a bag" Get a life you stupid woman

Oh gosh, I haven't looked at this thread in a while. It's so comforting - it's managed to pick up all of my (least) faves!

The Pringles bag - the hilarity as the man says 'It's the same colour as *your* bag!'

The Somerfield smugness - 'Lovely dress - is it a special occasion?' 'He's cooking' ().

The whole grim Iceland experience. I hope that ad campaign stops with the New Year before my soul gets its P45.

There are a few others that annoy me for different reasons though. There's an ad for a car where they show them 'editing' the ad so there isn't a horsefly on the headlight, and so that the driver's hair is different. They're trying to convey that they're perfectionists so the car must be great, but all I take from it is 'They're obsessed with Photoshop - how can I trust how they present the car in this ad?'

In a similar way (and I know it's because they got in trouble because of a previous advert) but what's the point of the mascara ads that show the model with the legend 'Effect may be enhanced in post production'?

Must go and have a lie down.

I'm so pleased that I'm not the only one grinding his teeth at these ads.
I used to have a stratergy for avoiding them, as soon as the ads came on
I'd switch to the music channels, watch a music video then switch back.

The b*st*rds have twigged me and all ads come on at the same time so there's no freakin escape.

I have a strategy for missing the ads ... trouble is that having no telly also means you miss a lot of programmes ...

I can't stop thinking of them now! That one for that party game that goes 'Oops-tini!' and 'Perfect-tini!' ARGH!

I've developed a new stratergy even if it is a desperate one,
I turn off the sound and add my own dialogue.

Trouble is that I can't get past "I'm a w*nk*r trying to sell you some
sh*t*"
But with practie I'm sure I can come up with something more subversive.

Dunno if these have already been posted....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wiwmYjk9ARA

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ik7bDGQ4uO8

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uUz89EpC9H

If not enjoy......

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Cripes, I pretty much ed with laughter there

And that was just the first two links. The third is broken.

Was that Charley Brooker or me? The dialogue sounds very familiar.

Can someone please shoot the ballon that carries those two 118 d*ckhe*ds.

Ok, so with the sound turned off here's what's going on in the B&Q advert.
Woman in a bus queue is talking on her hands-free mobile.
"Yeah so I had sex with this ninety year old tramp and now I have some new
kind of STD."

Sorry the third one was broken.... here it is again;-

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uUz89EpC9HA

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I'm sorry, I got as far as the Gold Bend ad and vomited.

Hmm, he's quite an angry sort that chap, must be from watching too many adverts.

Angry... but incredibly funny.... (IMHO anyhoo....)

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I do-na-not-na-know but from that last bit about Gold Blend it just makes me want to go and the girlfriend.

I've never seen Brooker before, and I hope I never have to. Swearing, sexual innuendo and making silly voices doesn't make his material funny.

It's watching rubbish like that which leaves me thinking "Perhaps the BBC are justified in paying vast sums to guarantee the services of professional presenters with years of experience" ... then I realised that Jonathan Ross gets paid £18 million to be funny by swearing, sexual innuendo and a silly voice ...

Oh I disagree. I love Brooker's grumpiness, the swearing, the namecalling, the razor sharp wit

>>> "Oh I disagree. I love Brooker's grumpiness, the swearing, the namecalling, the razor sharp wit" <<<

Yeah but, yeah! But... This may be found on a website the name of which escapes me.