Thursday, 19 May 2011

Ariel ActiLift

One that gets me these days is that Ariel Actilift one with the lady who says, "It's - tough - to - get - white - socks - really - clean."
Her voice has a strange hypnotic quality to it as she says the words in time with sock-footed footsteps stepping in yer face.
Then, even more bizarrely, a man with learning difficulties takes a sock out of the washer and proceeeds to make himself a little sock puppet(?)
This is clearly a source of great amusement for the chap and he has a good laugh about it before removing the sock and marching away.
Fair enough.

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Where Bad Adverts Go to Die

We’ve all been subjected to adverts that were just plain bad, these days they hit you as soon as the credits stop rolling. If you didn’t escape the living room to get a bag of crisps or whatever then you could have been the victim of some terrible adverts.
They could be annoying, plain stupid, guilt trip inducing or just rubbish for no definable reason.
There once was a time when viewers like us were powerless against these ruthless nonsense peddlers.

This has all changed now with The Bad Ad Graveyard.
Finally the little man can hit back. Tell us about your advertising gripes. Which advert do you hate? Which adverts lie? Which adverts’ science-bit was more like science fiction?

Please tell us about your all-time worst advert and it will go straight in the Advertising Hall of Shame. If we get enough comments on the same advert then that advert will actually die as it turns out, so choose wisely (please allow 48 hours for processing and eventual advert death)
The stronger, more resistive bad ads may need a good few comments to keep ‘em down but the html programming should be fairly sound in this respect, I made it myself.


Here’s one to get you started:

That Hateful Tassel-Faced Punter off the Go Compare Adverts


I’m sure this guy must be the spawn of Satan because there's nothing else on TV that means I have to literally leave the room.
The only thing it makes me want to go compare is which household object hitting his face makes the best noise. Actually, that’s not entirely true because I would also like to go compare the enjoyment I get from attaching his twisty moustache to the back of a moving train compared with the enjoyment I get watching him run over by an uninsured driver in a Vauxhall Nova.
Is there anybody out there that actually likes these adverts?

Please stick your comment in if you have any views on this or any other bad ads you may have been forced to witness.