Halifax Adverts

[Arginald Valleywater]

Can we organise a new reality show where the twats who star in and produce Halifax Tv ads are put on a desert island with maraudung bears, cobras, hyenas and gun crazed rednecks from the swamps of Louisiana?
I would pay good money to see Howard squealing like a pig.

[crofter]

Or we could just let them sign up on this forum to be ravaged by some of our "brightest" forumites ...!oops!

Howard has kind of outstayed his welcome by a good decade though for sure but probably "saves" the Halifax a good few million a year in acting fees.

[Arginald Valleywater]

I would much prefer the stunning, large chested, blonde 40yo MILF who works in my bank the A+L. She is about the town most weekends usually surrounded by young studs!!

[Sam Slater]

[quote]let them sign up on this forum to be ravaged by some of our "brightest" forumites ...[/quote]

Or be verbally insulted by some of our "thickest" forumites... !oops!

[crofter]

Yes could be Sam ... you thick cunt!!

oops sorry just playing to type methinks.!whistle!

[Flat_Eric]

Alice In Blunderland wrote:

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You can say that about of a lot of firms who advertise on TV though, Alice. And like you, I often find myself lost for words about the sheer awfulness of some of the adverts that are constantly foisted upon us.

Why is it for example that all carpet and furniture stores think that they have to SHOUT VERY LOUDLY at us about HOW LOW THEIR PRICES ARE??? Do they think it'll make us more inclined to rush out and order a new 3-piece from them?

Why do so many companies think that we'll find them more appealing when they're publically fronted by smug twats like Martin Kemp and Carol "I'll-Never-Actually-Need A-Loan-Myself-Unlike-You-Plebs" Vordermann?

Do Peugeot seriously expect me to trade in my existing wheels on the strength of seeing their crap advert that features a Peugeot 305 morph into a robot body-popping to techno music?

These are just 3 examples off the top of my head, but the list goes on and on, including countless ads that are obviously MEANT to be "clever" and / or "funny" but are just - well - "crap" is the only word that fits, really.

In fact I've now gone as far as to have my very own mental black-list of companies whose products I wouldn't touch with a bargepole simply on principle because their adverts are so shite - with ADMIRAL INSURANCE at the very top, thanks to that hooray twat in a Nelson uniform and a parrot on his shoulder (a classic case of an ad that's obviously meant to be amusing - but instead is just skin-crawlingly, mind-numbingly bad).

More to the point - I can't help but wonder about the number of people who feel the same, i.e. with whom advertising has the complete OPPOSITE effect to the one intended. Because I'd wager it's a lot.

- Eric

[Bob Singleton]

Flat_Eric wrote:

> Alice In Blunderland wrote:
>
[SNIP]

> Do Peugeot seriously expect me to trade in my existing wheels
> on the strength of seeing their crap advert that features a
> Peugeot 305 morph into a robot body-popping to techno music?
>


I think Peugeot would be very upset to hear you don't want to buy a car they ceased manufacturing in 1987 based on your loathing of an ad for a Citroen C4!!

If you're going to give examples of ads you don't like, at least have the decency to get the products right... otherwise you'll just end up looking stupid.

[jimslip]

Don't start me on The Halifax, Yesterday, a Halifax cash point swallowed my card, I went in and aked for it back and some jobsworth said, "You can't have it back, unless its a Halifax card". I went mad because right next to the counter was a huge life size cut out of that stupid twat with the glasses. So I shouted, "What would Howard do, he'd do a fucking song and dance routine and skip accross to the machine and remove my sodding card!"

I was met with the usual dead=pan expression of the person behind the counter who repeated in a staccatto monotone, You=can=not=have=your=card=back=you=are=not=a=customer!" and so on. Anyway, I now have no money for the Bank Holiday, thanks to Howard!

So don't believe the old lovable image of the Halifax........they're a bunch of crooked bastards!