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

[DrGreggles]

[ollyboro]

Why is there a raccoon in a British TV ad? They're not really a thing here. A squirrel, or a fox I'd get.

The street sign the racoon climbs up/on looks more American too.

Post- Brexit we can look beyond indigenous Eurozone wildlife to sell us shite. The next Cadbury's bunny's going to be a Burmese Python.

[Pseudopath]

Ashamed to admit that I did laugh at the sassy sashaying shite.

[Captain Z]

Amazon's Christmas ad (old ladies sledging) looks and feels like the result of asking AI to generate a John Lewis ad.

[Cerys]

The old lady who buys the haemorrhoid cushions is clearly Sir Ian McKellen in drag.

[Gurke and Hare]

UKTV Play's gone mad, it keeps feeding me the same advert on repeat. Just had the Paco Rabanne FAME one four times in a row.

[Sebastian Cobb]

UKTV Play's gone mad, it keeps feeding me the same advert on repeat. Just had the Paco Rabanne FAME one four times in a row.

Can't speak for UKTV specifically but either they're trying to 'close' that campaign and are being naughty and showing it multiple times in the same break* or they've 'ran out' of other campagigns/ads for the programme you're watching, although usually they sell that space really cheap if it looks like it's going to happen and have 'cross-platform' ads they can shove in for shows that don't pull in massive audiences where slots are premium.

*An ad-supported streaming service I used to work on used to pull similar tricks, by default the ad-server was configured with 'collision detection' which essentially means you wouldn't get shown, say, a string of adverts for competing banks in the same break, but if they'd committed to showing a certain amount of ads for someone by a given date then that would get turned off.

[seepage]

Eurostar has gone all lesbian

[seepage]

Apple getting down with the kids by having somone called Pink Pantheress and a bloke who does nothing except keep his sunglasses on indoors pretend to make a song on a MacBook. What child has access to a MacBook?

[Captain Z]

The song's melody is also very blatantly Baby Jane by Rod Stewart. I assumed that was part of the narrative but it ends with something completely different being sung over the top so who knows.

[Des Wigwam]

Have got NowTv for a while so I get either LinkedIn ads - boring not worth commenting on - or Tinder Matchmaker. I have never been a Tinder or any dating app user and a bit unsure why the algo has targeted me - and it is relentless - but so be it.

The feature they're pushing is that your mates can suggest some matches for you, I think. There are a couple of suitors who are left (?) swiped and then the one who gets approval says simply "The only fish you will see in my hands is sushi". The panel love this.

What does it mean? Is it something the kids (people under 45) are saying now like "spill the tea"? It can't be the UK-centric 80s school boy fishy fingers thing - can it? Is it that he won't be out fishing all the time - which seems associated with a different age and demographic anyway. The whole thing is styled slightly as if it's set in Atlantis / under the sea but not particularly noticeably - so maybe it's saying he won't get off with mermaids maybe?

Can someone tell me what it means?

[dissolute ocelot]

Have got NowTv for a while so I get either LinkedIn ads - boring not worth commenting on - or Tinder Matchmaker. I have never been a Tinder or any dating app user and a bit unsure why the algo has targeted me - and it is relentless - but so be it.

The feature they're pushing is that your mates can suggest some matches for you, I think. There are a couple of suitors who are left (?) swiped and then the one who gets approval says simply "The only fish you will see in my hands is sushi". The panel love this.

What does it mean? Is it something the kids (people under 45) are saying now like "spill the tea"? It can't be the UK-centric 80s school boy fishy fingers thing - can it? Is it that he won't be out fishing all the time - which seems associated with a different age and demographic anyway. The whole thing is styled slightly as if it's set in Atlantis / under the sea but not particularly noticeably - so maybe it's saying he won't get off with mermaids maybe?

Can someone tell me what it means?

It's apparently a common trope on dating sites for men to have a photo of themselves holding a big fish they'd apparently just caught, to show their prowess at killing animals, love of the outdoors, and bonus if it's somewhere exotic. Posing with drugged tigers also used to be popular but I think even the dimmest men eventually realised that was a bit shitty. Fuck fish, tho.

[DrGreggles]

[Icehaven]

As much as you have to admire Janeplan's optimism in advertising a dieting scheme in the run up to Christmas, their fabulous offer to "calculate your BMI for free!" is rather akin to offering to do a Google search for free.

[dissolute ocelot]

That must win some kind of award on a scale of best advert for least appetising product. Is it some kind of blood sausage?

[seepage]

made with the blood of their enemies

[boki]

Bold of Tesco to go the Body Horror route with their Christmas ad.

[gilbertharding]

They've been running for a while, but I noticed they just refreshed the Comfort Fabric Conditioner adverts, with the obviously completely unhinged people in the beds in the park, sniffing the duvet and reacting as if it's arousing powerful emotions.

I often wonder how they make these adverts. That is, I wonder what the director says to the people he's hoiked out of the nearest drama school to get them to act like that, and how they decide what to use in the final advert. Presumably there are out-takes where the actors are even MORE deranged than in the final cut.

I realise that adverts aren't supposed to be accurate reflections of real life (and that's kind of the point), but I am drawn to any advert where the participants seem unnaturally enthusiastic about the product.

[seepage]

I'm fed up getting the Amazon Web Services one every five minutes. I mean, as a typical Four in a Bed and Location³ viewer, how likely am I going to need AWS?

[jfjnpxmy]

Every single ad man who thinks they're being clever by making their advert about how it's too early for a Christmas advert should be fed, feet first, into a big meat grinder.


The ensuing cunt mince should be used to make cheekily unseasonal stuffing, which is rammed right up the arse of Santa Claus in September.

[gilbertharding]

Every single ad man who thinks they're being clever by making their advert about how it's too early for a Christmas advert should be fed, feet first, into a big meat grinder.


The ensuing cunt mince should be used to make cheekily unseasonal stuffing, which is rammed right up the arse of Santa Claus in September.

Isn't that a bit close to the trope Marks and Spencer tried recently of acknowledging that some people don't like Xmas, causing all the worst dickheads on the internet to wilfully construe it as them wanting to cancel Xmas? Dangerous game, giving them something to shout about.

[jamiefairlie]

Every single ad man who thinks they're being clever by making their advert about how it's too early for a Christmas advert should be fed, feet first, into a big meat grinder.


The ensuing cunt mince should be used to make cheekily unseasonal stuffing, which is rammed right up the arse of Santa Claus in September.

[jamiefairlie]

They've been running for a while, but I noticed they just refreshed the Comfort Fabric Conditioner adverts, with the obviously completely unhinged people in the beds in the park, sniffing the duvet and reacting as if it's arousing powerful emotions.

I often wonder how they make these adverts. That is, I wonder what the director says to the people he's hoiked out of the nearest drama school to get them to act like that, and how they decide what to use in the final advert. Presumably there are out-takes where the actors are even MORE deranged than in the final cut.

I realise that adverts aren't supposed to be accurate reflections of real life (and that's kind of the point), but I am drawn to any advert where the participants seem unnaturally enthusiastic about the product.

Have at it

[jamiefairlie]

It's apparently a common trope on dating sites for men to have a photo of themselves holding a big fish they'd apparently just caught, to show their prowess at killing animals, love of the outdoors, and bonus if it's somewhere exotic. Posing with drugged tigers also used to be popular but I think even the dimmest men eventually realised that was a bit shitty. Fuck fish, tho.

You'd think a real alpha male would have a photo of them fucking a wild lion

[Icehaven]

Isn't that a bit close to the trope Marks and Spencer tried recently of acknowledging that some people don't like Xmas, causing all the worst dickheads on the internet to wilfully construe it as them wanting to cancel Xmas? Dangerous game, giving them something to shout about.

I didn't see it but apparently M&S removed one of those ads because it showed paper Christmas hats being burnt and they got complaints that some of the hats were same colours as the Palestinian flag. I mean the advert was probably made in Summer but OK.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67294809.amp

[gilbertharding]

Have at it

I was going to say that the Shake n Vac advert doesn't quite fit, because they obviously wrote a song and sorted out a dance routine - rather than getting drama students to just improvise... but then I realised you were probably making a reference to large amounts of white powder...

[Icehaven]

That Manscape advert with Pete Davidson, where he gets a male grooming kit as a gift then reacts with horrified disgust when he sees a trail of white hair going up the chimney - what's the implication? Is it supposed to be Santa's pubes or has he just used the kit on his beard and Davidson is revolted for some reason?

[dontpaintyourteeth]

that voltarol advert where the old cunt rubs a bit on his back and then suddenly the cunt's building/fixing a fucking motorbike. nah. nah mate. not fucking having it.

[Captain Z]

Not seen that but it sounds great.

We've never met before, have we sir?

Nah Del, we haven't