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Cab Men II: Because fact into doubt won't go

Started by Fambo Number Mive, March 29, 2018, 09:48:16 AM

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Captain Z

Surprised they didn't call it "Wokeopoly".

New page boomer cunt.

Gulftastic

There's  very rare Leeds edition done in the 80's, before the takeover and the plethora of other versions. They only made 500. It was to celebrate Leeds centenary. I think they're worth quite a bit if you've got one.

turnstyle

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on March 28, 2021, 02:09:46 PM
There was a 'millennial' edition of monopoly as well. I'm not sure how that's going to work if nobody gets to be a rentier.



As if any millennial is going to be seen dead with WIRED headphones. Fucking hell Rich Uncle Pennybags, sort it out.

Icehaven

Last week I kept getting 'I Predict a Riot' in my head every now and then, and I couldn't work out why as I'm pretty sure I haven't heard it or even thought about it in many years. Then I was watching TV a few days ago and there it was on an advert that I've probably been half hearing for weeks without even clocking. Couldn't tell you what it's for, I rarely look up during ad breaks but it obviously worked enough and on the right level of consciousness to get the song into my head without me even realising why or where it came from. Fucking ads. Fucking Kaiser Chiefs.

seepage

There was an ad for 'Monster Cars' or something which featured the 'What's that coming over the hill, is it a monster?' song. I assumed that was Kaiser Chiefs but now know it's by some band called The Automatic.

JesusAndYourBush

Quote from: icehaven on March 31, 2021, 04:02:58 PM
I rarely look up during ad breaks

For that reason I assumed for over a year (or however long the ad has been going for) that the "Perf with Surf" ad was being done by Martine McCutcheon and only when I bothered to look at the screen a few weeks ago I discovered it's not her but someone else with the same voice!

gilbertharding

In a just world, the Perf with Surf woman would have a career ahead of her to equal the Go Compare man or the fucking meerkats.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

*possible snobbery alert* What is the deal with those adverts anyway? Is the class system so intractably entrenched in this country that advertising slugs feel the need to target market something as utilitarian as washing powder to TOWIE types?

seepage

I've never seen the 'Perf with Surf' ad so I can only assume the All4 algorithm presumes TOWIE types don't watch Four in a Bed, Bake-off or Grayson's Art Club.

metaltax

Quote from: JesusAndYourBush on March 31, 2021, 05:10:26 PM
[...]it's not her but someone else with the same voice!

It's Danny Dyer's daughter. Can't remember her name; there mustn't have been anything memorable about it.

Icehaven

Quote from: seepage on April 01, 2021, 01:26:01 PM
I've never seen the 'Perf with Surf' ad so I can only assume the All4 algorithm presumes TOWIE types don't watch Four in a Bed, Bake-off or Grayson's Art Club.

I've only seen it on TV, where it ambushes me along with ads for banks and fucking Wayfair.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

Quote from: metaltax on April 01, 2021, 04:12:51 PM
It's Danny Dyer's daughter. Can't remember her name; there mustn't have been anything memorable about it.
Who better than a dyer to make sure your washing powder is colour-safe?

gilbertharding

Quote from: metaltax on April 01, 2021, 04:12:51 PM
It's Danny Dyer's daughter. Can't remember her name; there mustn't have been anything memorable about it.

Fuck my hat.

JesusAndYourBush

Quote from: metaltax on April 01, 2021, 04:12:51 PM
It's Danny Dyer's daughter. Can't remember her name; there mustn't have been anything memorable about it.

I just Googled, her name is Dani Dyer, apparently.

dissolute ocelot

Quote from: Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth on April 01, 2021, 01:12:36 PM
*possible snobbery alert* What is the deal with those adverts anyway? Is the class system so intractably entrenched in this country that advertising slugs feel the need to target market something as utilitarian as washing powder to TOWIE types?
Surf and Daz are working-class washing powders, hence Daz having Shane Ritchie and Danny Baker and soap opera parodies. Poshos use Ariel or Persil with their science and aspirational messages about global warming and attractive people running through mud.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

It's such a weird category of products to divide like that. I can understand not marketing luxury cars towards the Findus Crispy Pancake set, but washing powder? Are there really people out there who wouldn't use Persil because they think it's too snooty?

Same thing with shampoo adverts being divided on gender lines. It doesn't matter about the contents of your pants, it's just for making your hair clean. Which brings us full circle to Pubes Daz.

monkfromhavana

What's the deal with those adverts for, I'm not sure if it's for a running machine or a fitness program or both, where some American shouts at you as you do some exercise and you have to respond with "anything for you, Brad" like it's some kind of cult. The thought of exercise terrifies me generally, but seems like something out of some kind of dystopian film where you have to cycle to power the sacred orb whilst "taking a full and active part in proceedings".

There's a slightly extended version where the woman jumps off and her husband chucks her a towel then jumps straight on the machine for his 4 hour shift. All smiles. Don't these people just drink and watch telly like the normal people?

seepage

They're for Peloton bikes, which have a screen to stream exercise classes. So those people are sort of watching telly, albeit one long terrifying fitness programme.

imitationleather

Those Peloton bikes are really big and expensive.

Getting ads for them is like when I watch F1 and all the adverts are aimed at people about a dozen socioeconomic classes above me. For a couple of hours it's no payday loan companies and online casinos for me!

Icehaven

Quote from: imitationleather on April 03, 2021, 11:44:48 AM
Those Peloton bikes are really big and expensive.

Getting ads for them is like when I watch F1 and all the adverts are aimed at people about a dozen socioeconomic classes above me. For a couple of hours it's no payday loan companies and online casinos for me!

Not that I ever had any intention of getting one but I was amazed at how expensive they are, and to do the classes you have to pay a monthly subscription of about £45 too. Cheaper to join an actual gym, so I guess the ad bombardment is Peloton making hay while they're still closed.

Phil_A

They must have a shitload of money to spend on ads as there seems to be a new one every other week. Although that's probably not a huge surprise given what they charge for the bike and the subscription.

seepage

The instructors are "celebrities" apparently, so perhaps people who are into this kind of thing go "Oh, look, that's so-and-so" instead of "Eh?".

imitationleather

I'm watching an American stream for the football and the just had an ad for this Peloton-adjacent item: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUbNcNjva4w

Crazy! It's like an actual 1984 telescreen!

paruses

#1313
Quote from: icehaven on April 03, 2021, 03:54:47 PM
Not that I ever had any intention of getting one but I was amazed at how expensive they are, and to do the classes you have to pay a monthly subscription of about £45 too. Cheaper to join an actual gym, so I guess the ad bombardment is Peloton making hay while they're still closed.

Yes - I toyed for about 2 seconds with the idea of looking into getting one as I really do like spinning classes. However, I also realised that even in a class if I am knackered I have no shame in slowing down or doing the Mellow Birds ad thing of just sticking my feet out as if I am freewheeling. Just because Brad's on the video screen asking if I "want it" it's not going to make me think twice about just putting a towel over his stupid handsome face and kicking back for a while.

Plus - it's all leader board stuff isn't it? I'd just find that demoralising. At least for £45/month I can have a swim and go and sit in a sauna for a bit afterwards.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

#1314
£45 a month, just to have some smug berk shout slogans at you?! Give me 20 quid and a packet of Monster Munch and I'll peer through your window, while talking inane guff you to your heart's content.

Icehaven

Quote from: Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth on April 03, 2021, 06:58:05 PM
£45 a month, just to have some smug berk shout slogans at you?!

And that's after you've forked over the better part of two grand for the bike. My actual bike has flat tyres, so cycling round the block for an hour on that would probably offer similar resistance for the bargain price of zip.

monkfromhavana

For a portion of their target audience (those interested in purely weight loss) it'd probably be cheaper to just get liposuction.

dissolute ocelot

The thing I don't understand about Peloton is the small print on the ads saying the treadmill isn't available in Scotland.  Maybe they don't want Scots to run fast in case grouse hunting is banned and they need alternatives.

Sebastian Cobb

I've done the maths and these peloton things seem more expensive than an exercise bike and an ipad, which is essentially what they are unless i'm missing something?

seepage

It's an integrated solution so it's going to be more expensive. Plus they've got to recoup the cost of all those adverts.