More bloody patronising adverts !!

[FCUKWIT1]

Anyone noticed the increased incidence of adverts with pseudo dim, simple people extolling the virtues of a product to appeal to the general public. I am thinking of.....

Kwikfit.....Mrs Simple and more recently Mr Simple talk about how great these people are despite being a bunch of overpriced crooks - hah !!

AA - Mr Simple explains how there is no need to look anywhere else for the best deal on insurance, even though their best deal was a third more than my final choice - hah !!

Bristish Gas - more simple talk about how customers are returning to this overpriced utility - hah !!

I suppose the crazy frog brigade get exactly what they deserve - stupid easily led chavs.

[FCUKWIT1]

Re: chavver

Oh dear - have we been taken in Dim but not out ?

[thunderlizard]

Re: chavver

My favourite dense ad is the AA Loans one, where a strange cut&shut job on the space-time continuum allows a couple (Bev and Kev or something) to repeatedly meet and envy their alternate selves who are deeper in debt but have a car that is a bit shinier.

[wendigo100]

Re: chavver

AA loans? I thought it was a Volvo advert.

I hate "make me happy". I really do.

[Lucifer Box]

Re: chavver

I think the girl who fronts the "people who like to say yes" (to charging you 19.9% APR for an old, over-priced banger) is quite cute, although a bit nasal sounding.

Other than that, surely the Ocean Finance collection of typical customers, some of whom are clearly aliens from another dimension, is the epitome of such adverts?

[sunnysan]

Re: chavver

My favourite must be the Clover ad where a politically correct cast for the advert get all emotional over the way the butter is churned.

It must be a p!sstake. They cannot be serious

:x

[darmstadt]

Yeah but compared to German TV adverts, British ones are high art

[wobbegong]

Other than that, surely the Ocean Finance collection of typical customers, some of whom are clearly aliens from another dimension, is the epitome of such adverts?

I'm sure I saw Arthur Mullard in a dress on that one the other day!

[wendigo100]

Re: Ocean Finance

Someone once advised me never to purchase a financial product advertised on TV because:

1. TV advertising makes the management fees expensive

2. If the product was any good, it wouldn't need to be advertised on TV

3. Such products are for the lower classes

[Lucifer Box]

Re: Ocean Finance

I'm sure I saw Arthur Mullard in a dress on that one the other day!

I think they hatched him out of a pod on the morning of filming. 0]