MargieH 7,594 Posted September 11, 2021 Report Share Posted September 11, 2021 So what …… Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,094 Posted September 11, 2021 Report Share Posted September 11, 2021 ??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 11, 2021 Report Share Posted September 11, 2021 Every TV soap has the requisite Asian shopkeeper & the resident homosexual couple too. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,089 Posted September 11, 2021 Report Share Posted September 11, 2021 I suppose that reflects city life but mixed marriages only represent a small portion of the population and are not the norm as TV adverts would lead us to believe. Personally I don't know any Asians nor homosexuals. Must be the circles I move in. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,094 Posted September 11, 2021 Report Share Posted September 11, 2021 I don't any either Phil. But my boyfriend does. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,267 Posted September 11, 2021 Report Share Posted September 11, 2021 When you don't have a tv, such drivel doesn't bother you! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mess 609 Posted September 11, 2021 Report Share Posted September 11, 2021 5 hours ago, catfan said: Every TV soap has the requisite Asian shopkeeper & the resident homosexual couple too. Since when did the soaps mirror real life? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mess 609 Posted September 11, 2021 Report Share Posted September 11, 2021 4 hours ago, philmayfield said: I suppose that reflects city life but mixed marriages only represent a small portion of the population and are not the norm as TV adverts would lead us to believe. Personally I don't know any Asians nor homosexuals. Must be the circles I move in. It must be a nightmare to be all inclusive when ad agencies are working on a campaign. To try and present a cross section of the British Population in 30 seconds is one hell of an undertaking Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mess 609 Posted September 11, 2021 Report Share Posted September 11, 2021 7 hours ago, Beekay said: Is it nowadays, the "PC" thing? Make sure you get a bit of everything included. Don't want to upset the L.G.B.T.Blm.NCB.Co-op or any other group that's springing up. Even the advert with the white dog singing the Queen song 'Flash has now got a black guy cleaning the kitchen. The next ad is rumoured to employ a three legged dog. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,217 Posted September 12, 2021 Report Share Posted September 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Mess said: The next ad is rumoured to employ a three legged dog. Yes all inclusive here too. We have an ad on TV here for dog heartworm tablets etc. that has a disabled dog. He is a quite cute Dachshund with two wheels in support of his rear legs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stavertongirl 1,713 Posted September 12, 2021 Report Share Posted September 12, 2021 I find the ad of the singing baby quite creepy. The roller skating tortoise is my favourite at the moment advertising a train company I think. Think the best one was the drumming gorilla, loved that ad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,089 Posted September 12, 2021 Report Share Posted September 12, 2021 The McDonalds ‘laughing advert’ is the one I currently find the most asinine. No more McDonalds for me! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,084 Posted September 12, 2021 Report Share Posted September 12, 2021 Nothing is as irritatingly and annoyingly bad as that advert for a card machine with different people going “oooooh”. Every time it comes on the box, I have to mute the sound. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted September 12, 2021 Report Share Posted September 12, 2021 I think watching live TV may be a older generation thing? Everything we watch is series linked or on catch up via our Virgin 360 set top box, I've not seen an advert for years, I just skip though them, technology eh! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AfferGorritt 868 Posted September 12, 2021 Report Share Posted September 12, 2021 Remember the one for Esso paraffin, Margie? “They asked me how I knew It was Esso Blue. I of course replies, with cheaper grades one buys Smoke gets in your eyes” 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 14, 2021 Report Share Posted September 14, 2021 I never watch TV, not for the last twenty years or so, TV used for DVD watching that's all. In fact I begrudge my £7.50 license fee. Might cancel that next year. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted October 4, 2021 Report Share Posted October 4, 2021 U-REDS Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,497 Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 There’s an advert on TV recently of two soppy looking policemen sitting in a police car eating ‘Horibos’ and talking about them in squeaky childlike voices. Apart from the daftness of the advert surely it’s not acceptable to hear those voices when nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is supposedly banned. Incidentally a couple of years ago I saw a box full of those little canisters dumped in the gutter on Mansfield Road just above Victoria Centre. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,267 Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 If they want to deter people from using nitrous oxide, I recommend a course of dental treatment with Ronald (The Butcher) Acton who practised (torturing his patients) on Gregory Boulevard when I was a child. The big, black chair, the black mask and the 'laughing gas'. No joke, I can vouch for that! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 483 Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 The Haribo - Police advert is one of several they've done using dubbed childrens voices. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 I remember from my earliest days that you could use helium to get the squeaky voice effect. Sometimes balloons were inflated using helium, so you'd slightly release the knot in the balloon to let the helium out slowly, whilst breathing in what was being released. Instant amusement for a few seconds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,089 Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 I remember organising a balloon race at our village fete. The young boys were queuing up for these and then going round talking like Donald Duck. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,071 Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 One advert that I can't stand is for a holiday there's a boy with his sister having an ice cream cone, and she drops her ice cream. the boy pulls a smug face sticks his tongue out out and licks his ice cream. The advert is On The Beach holidays, 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,071 Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 One advert i do like is when the AA calls at a breakdown and when the AA wagon drives off the little girl is sitting singing "Rolling Rolling on a River" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MRS B 490 Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 Mary I totally agree with you about the holiday advert with the ice cream, v annoying. We always have to mute the “daisy, daisy, daisy” perfume one too! We’re having a short break in Northumberland, back tomorrow. Have never seen as many birds as there are up here, wonderful. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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