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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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Des Wigwam

Just seen an ad that started out for Change Please - a social enterprise to help the homeless - but then pivoted on a One Show handbrake turn into being a Colgate ad. Seems Colgate are motoring around in a converted double decker giving out dental care stuff and possibly running clinics for the homeless. The cynic in me was first to react but then I thought - yea fair play, do that. It's not actively bad.

I don't know if they are running clinics or just giving out toothbrushes - I hope it's the former. It's tax deductible guys! Really hope the suits at Colgate-Palmolive post on here and read this.

Edit - yes seems they are offering dental services.

gilbertharding

Quote from: Des Wigwam on May 18, 2022, 11:14:25 AMThe Galbani (mozarella brand) ad has circled back round for me. Annoys the piss out of me as it's a fairly anglo-friendly word to say not like (Dr.) Oetker, for example - and even then only if you're reading it. Apart from one Irish character who says Gelabni (and understandable pronunciation error just about) and is then corrected it makes almost no sense. And that character then just starts sticking sounds in randomly.



Yeah - there's another one for Galbani Dolcelatte. The whole gimmick is the guy who can't pronounce Galbani despite being corrected about a dozen times, and it doesn't work. It's like that episode of Coffeefriends where Joey tries to learn French.

Icehaven

Quote from: Des Wigwam on May 18, 2022, 11:14:25 AMThe Galbani (mozarella brand) ad has circled back round for me. Annoys the piss out of me as it's a fairly anglo-friendly word to say not like (Dr.) Oetker, for example - and even then only if you're reading it. Apart from one Irish character who says Gelabni (and understandable pronunciation error just about) and is then corrected it makes almost no sense. And that character then just starts sticking sounds in randomly.



They sponsored (possibly still do) either Four in a Bed or CDWM when I occasionally found myself slumped in front of an entire week's worth on bleak lockdown weekends, so I got to hear some glassy eyed failed actors pretending they couldn't pronounce it about 10-15 times. The horror.

Butchers Blind

Saw this at the cinema yesterday during the ads. Depressing.



Fambo Number Mive

Anyone else getting loads of ads for holidays in Tel Aviv when they use YouTube? Got them three times in one day recently.

Gulftastic

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on June 02, 2022, 10:04:25 PMAnyone else getting loads of ads for holidays in Tel Aviv when they use YouTube? Got them three times in one day recently.

I'm getting ones for Isreal, all of which seem to be aimed at people 30 years younger than me.

JesusAndYourBush



Psybro

Quote from: Gulftastic on June 03, 2022, 07:43:28 AMI'm getting ones for Isreal, all of which seem to be aimed at people 30 years younger than me.

Possibly due to cultural differences, I get a real Poochie vibe from how rad they are.

Icehaven

Quote from: Bently Sheds on June 09, 2022, 12:33:27 PM

This is the 2nd or 3rd ad I've seen with distorted cats (one of the others was for cat food I think and they had these awful wrong faces). What are they thinking? If you like cats you're just thinking "What the fuck have you made the planet's most beautiful creatures look like that for?", and if you don't like them it won't appeal to you in the first place and frankly who cares what you think anyway.

Bently Sheds

It's weird. The badly modelled cats and the old cars make me think it's a very old, unused advert they've dusted off from the late 90s, coz they could have done the cats in CGI and got a better result today.
Did make me laugh, though.

Cuntbeaks

That Ribena ad is undiluted Shit For Cunts.

gilbertharding

Quote from: Bently Sheds on June 09, 2022, 05:41:23 PMIt's weird. The badly modelled cats and the old cars make me think it's a very old, unused advert they've dusted off from the late 90s, coz they could have done the cats in CGI and got a better result today.
Did make me laugh, though.

Yeah - I used to have a Ford Escort. Very odd.

dissolute ocelot

Sky Comedy keeps showing adverts for thirdhome.com, which lets people with second homes (must be worth £500k or more) temporarily swap houses with other members of the super-rich.

Sebastian Cobb


JesusAndYourBush

LBC have an ad on constant rotation for something called "We Are A". It's ungooglable.  We Are A what?. What is it??  Every time it's on... We Are A...  We Are A what???  Argh, just WTF is it??? Google.  Nothing.  Gah!.

Finally saw the ad on telly and it's "We Are 8".  Some kind of social media thing where you get paid to watch ads, or something.

gilbertharding

A couple of recent ones from either end of the spectrum I've noticed:

The loaf sofa ones. Twee bastards, 'visit our SLOW room! there might be cake!!' Chucklesome twerps. You can tell from his voice that the bloke talking can't see the harm in playing the ukulele in public, and would quite like to visit that cereal cafe in Hoxton from a few years back.

And Cunard. An obvious attempt to appeal to the core audience for their cruises (boomer gammon) by hiring a man who sounds like every Commissioned Officer in a 50s war film (but turns out to be 'renowned philosopher Alan Watts' (who?)) to intone some allegedly thought-provoking circular piffle about journeys and self discovery over footage of youthful 50 somethings gawping at landscapes before fading to a logo 'packshot' which could be an actual vintage advert for Senior Service or Rothmans fags. It has the quality of an actual hand-made graphic shot on a rostrum camera on slightly underexposed film.

Des Wigwam

Quote from: gilbertharding on June 28, 2022, 02:22:40 PMAnd Cunard. An obvious attempt to appeal to the core audience for their cruises (boomer gammon) by hiring a man who sounds like every Commissioned Officer in a 50s war film (but turns out to be 'renowned philosopher Alan Watts' (who?)) to intone some allegedly thought-provoking circular piffle about journeys and self discovery over footage of youthful 50 somethings gawping at landscapes before fading to a logo 'packshot' which could be an actual vintage advert for Senior Service or Rothmans fags. It has the quality of an actual hand-made graphic shot on a rostrum camera on slightly underexposed film.

Yes - have been seeing the Cunard one a lot lately. I couldn't work out (or be bothered to look into it) if the voice over piffle was from a famous speech or film or something but it's quite relaxing to listen to. Moreso than any other ad on at the moment (or in recent memory) it screams quality. I have to confess it makes me think for a nano-second I'd like to go on a cruise before I remember I would hate to go on a cruise.

Just to be clear the cruise I imagine myself on is in the 30s or 50s and yes all the passengers would most likely be white but I can't help that. There might be an Indian doctor I befriend.

gilbertharding

Quote from: Des Wigwam on June 28, 2022, 02:37:55 PMYes - have been seeing the Cunard one a lot lately. I couldn't work out (or be bothered to look into it) if the voice over piffle was from a famous speech or film or something but it's quite relaxing to listen to. Moreso than any other ad on at the moment (or in recent memory) it screams quality. I have to confess it makes me think for a nano-second I'd like to go on a cruise before I remember I would hate to go on a cruise.

Just to be clear the cruise I imagine myself on is in the 30s or 50s and yes all the passengers would most likely be white but I can't help that. There might be an Indian doctor I befriend.

I spotted some chat on reddit (but didn't read very deeply) that the use of Alan Watt's (d. 1973) speech in an advert for holidays completely misses the point of what he thought and believed - but since when would that bother an advertising 'creative'?

Still, it sets Cunard apart from the modern Disney type cruises where it's all-inclusive drinks and Americans being sick over the buffet etc.

If I may, @Des Wigwam, I don't think it's a cruise you want to go on, it's a voyage, like one out of a Somerset Maugham short story, or a Graham Greene novel.

Captain Z

I haven't seen the advert but Alan Watts' philosophy is generally quite popular with hippy types, certainly in music there's some degree of crossover in the use of Alan Watts and Terence McKenna samples in records. So it's probably fair to say that wealthy pensioners are/were not his typical audience.

Captain Z


Is this the advert? If so I can see why Reddit were unhappy, it does edit and misrepresent the original quote somewhat. It goes on to hypothesise that if you dreamed your perfect dream for long enough you would introduce more and more challenges and uncertainty until you dreamed yourself right back to where you currently are in your life.

Quote"Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say "Well, that was pretty great." But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say "Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream ... where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today."

edit: I'm actually think of two different quotes, but they both largely say the same thing.

Quote"...and you would of course be able to alter your time sense, and slip, say 75 years of subjective time into 8 hours of sleep.

You would, I suppose, start out by fulfilling all your wishes. You could design for yourself what would be the most ecstatic life – love affairs, banquets, dancing girls, wonderful journeys, gardens, music beyond belief. And then after a couple of months of this sort of thing, 75 years a night, you'd be getting a little taste for something different, and you would move over to an adventurous dimension, where there was sudden dangers involved, and the thrill of dealing with dangers, and you could rescue princesses from dragons, and go on dangerous journeys, make wonderful explosions and blow them up. Eventually get into contest with enemies. And after you've done that for some time, you'd think up a new wrinkle. To forget that you were dreaming, so you'd think it was all for real, and to be anxious about it. Because it'd be so great when you woke up, and they you'd say, well, like children who dare each other on things, how far out could you get? What could you take? What dimension of being lost, of abandonment of your power, what dimension of that could you stand? You could ask yourself this 'cos you know you'd eventually wake up.

And after you're gone on doing this, you see, for some time, you'd suddenly find yourself sitting around in this room, with all your personal involvements, problems, etc, talking with me. How do you know that's not what you're doing? Could be, because after all, what would you do if you were god? If you were, what there is, the self, and do you punish us – The basic text of Hinduism, one of them starts out saying in the beginning was the self, and looking around it said, I am. And thus it is that everyone to this day, when asked who is there, says that it is I.

If you were god, and in this sense that you knew everything, you would be bored. Because, if looking at it from another way, we push technology to its furthest possible development, and we had instead of a dial telephone on one's desk, a more complicated system of buttons, and one touch would give you anything you wanted, Aladdin's lamp, you would eventually have to add a button labelled surprise, because all perfectly know futures are past. They have happened, virtually. It is only the true future that is a surprise. So if you were god, you would say to yourself – man, get lost."

Poobum

The YouTube one with a mumbling dead eyed Kiefer Sutherland. Has he lost all his money to them and is working it off?

Des Wigwam

Quote from: gilbertharding on June 28, 2022, 02:57:23 PMIf I may, @Des Wigwam, I don't think it's a cruise you want to go on, it's a voyage, like one out of a Somerset Maugham short story, or a Graham Greene novel.

Yeeessss. You're right. That's what I want.

Also I know I would probably be too shy to talk to the Indian doctor or if I did he wouldn't be wry and wise he'd just keep asking if I knew when the buffet was open and talking about how good the buffet is.

gilbertharding

Quote from: Des Wigwam on June 28, 2022, 03:58:50 PMYeeessss. You're right. That's what I want.

Also I know I would probably be too shy to talk to the Indian doctor or if I did he wouldn't be wry and wise he'd just keep asking if I knew when the buffet was open and talking about how good the buffet is.

I figure there'd only be a dozen or so passengers, including an ebullient American, a German couple who mostly stay in their cabin, a nervous English middle manager type, and a lone young woman who might be an orphan on her way to be a teacher in Singapore but no-one knows much about. The social life on board consists of sweltering evenings drinking pink gin and playing cards. There would definitely be an Indian doctor though - and you'd definitely form a bond and invent histories about the other passengers.

I read once about the fact that most cargo ships even now carry a few passengers, and that this can be an excellent way to travel, provided you aren't in a hurry. I come from a long line of merchant navy officers, so was caught up in the picturesque potential of this idea - until I found out how expensive the tickets were.

Sebastian Cobb

How on earth did Direct Line afford to get Tessa Thompson in for that guardians advert where she swans around Brighton, and why did she say yes, christ.

monkfromhavana

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on July 23, 2022, 02:49:40 PMHow on earth did Direct Line afford to get Tessa Thompson in for that guardians advert where she swans around Brighton, and why did she say yes, christ.

Got confused with Tessa Sanderson for a minute.

Bad Ambassador

That new Weetabix "three little pigs" ad is crazy. The wolf wants to eat the pigs even though he's already had his Weetabix, and the box is the only thing in his satchel, so the wheat biscuits gibve him the strength to blow down houses and kill the residents. The final shot of him sitting under the tree with a full stomach assumes the wolf is the hero of this story. It's like it was done by a losing team on The Apprentice. And the animation is so oddly old-fashioned I was expecting a red car and a blue car to be having a race in the background.

seepage

re: the Cunard ad - I forgot to comment on their previous one with the creepy cabin boy cum valet who picks out the woman's dresses for her and who looks like she's doinking instead of the silver fox she's booked on the cruise with. Ad obviously aimed at the woman customer instead of Silver Fox.

dissolute ocelot

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on July 23, 2022, 02:49:40 PMHow on earth did Direct Line afford to get Tessa Thompson in for that guardians advert where she swans around Brighton, and why did she say yes, christ.
Because their insurance is fucking expensive. I think I ranted about this on a Marvel thread. It's a shit advert too that explains nothing. Bring back Harvey Keitel.

Quote from: Bad Ambassador on July 24, 2022, 01:18:06 PMThat new Weetabix "three little pigs" ad is crazy. The wolf wants to eat the pigs even though he's already had his Weetabix, and the box is the only thing in his satchel, so the wheat biscuits gibve him the strength to blow down houses and kill the residents. The final shot of him sitting under the tree with a full stomach assumes the wolf is the hero of this story. It's like it was done by a losing team on The Apprentice. And the animation is so oddly old-fashioned I was expecting a red car and a blue car to be having a race in the background.

Isn't it a homage to the old Disney "Three Little Pigs" shorts, except not a very accurate one as the animation style is a bit off and the Wolf's voice is all wrong.