Adverts that don't make sense, i.e AO

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First off, I'm sure AO are a great company, but the advert where the woman is saying about her daughter needing to bake a cake for school fayre and finding her fridge freezer broken annoys the heck out of me. How on earth does that stop her baking? It's not like they're cooking in the fridge. And when she smells the milk, and pulls a face. How the hell long do they think people keep food for?? The fridge breaking doesn't instantly render the food unusable. Even if the food was unusable they could just nip out to buy the ingredients, they don't need the fridge straight away to bake a cake. The advert just doesn't make sense!

I know it shouldn't annoy me this much but it does! Its like a dulux advert a while back where they painted a large room with a teeny tiny can of paint, it would never have done it all >.<

Yes I know, I need a life

it makes me cry too, Starky ! And iv been in a horse probably three or four times ever

Kindly stop calling him a dancing poo! His name is Zingy and some people might even find him quite cute....apparently There's even merchandise! www.amazon.co.uk/s/?_encoding=UTF8&x=0&tag=zingy-21&linkCode=ur2&y=0&camp=1634&creative=6738&field-keywords=edf%20zingy&url=search-alias%3Daps&sprefix=edf%20zin%2Caps%2C164

At one time DS was such a big fan of the dancing poo that he had him as a birthday cake.

StarlingMurmuration Why do you keep getting eaten by horses?

starling I'm assuming you mean ON a horse????? B

experienced I always think of the AIBU thread for the Vodafone ad showing the baby to shows too!

I imagine the mother turns around and tells off the bloke with the phone as her DC have no screen time, then he offers a fruit shoot to the kid and she immediately grabs her phone and logs on to Mumsnet to moan.

Also agree with the fucking AO baking a cake ad. DH will change the channel if it comes on in an attempt to stop me from moaning.

The Natwest or whatever mortgage one with the little boy pisses me off too.
Mummy and daddy got married, then bought a house before having a baby because that's the proper way to live.
Oh piss off.

Sorry wrong thread

Or not, I give up

My issue with the Vodafone ad is that the long shot at the end shows the bus in the middle of nowhere. And yet he has a strong enough 4G signal to play episodes of Dora the Explorer or Sooty without constant drop outs and buffering? Don't fucking think so!

AO are bastards anyway - they delivered a fridge to me and just left it in the middle of the kitchen still in it's box! I wasn't expecting them to install it but you'd think they'd have taken it out of the box at least.

Are there places that take shit out of the box for you? I've never known one.

"Are there places that take shit out of the box for you? I've never known one."

You order boxed shit?

The point of the Virgin ad is only to flog Virgin as a brand; they aren't feminist crusaders, they want your money. That's all. They're cynical cunts

Well, obviously UncertainSmile - the whole point of any ad is to flog the product .

However my comment was explaining that, contrary to what Floralnomad said, I don't think that the ad is suggesting that women footballers and the Suffragettes have contributed equally to women's rights. It is saying that with Virgin Broadband mothers can in fact demonstrate to daughters that there are even more inspiring women out there than women footballers. They can make that point and still be cunts flogging a shit service.

All the time grunt

Thistledew Tue 20-Oct-15 08:10:23
I'm trying to work out the one for, I think, Vodaphone, where the young guy pulls out his phone to entertain the crying baby on the bus.

I hate that advert as every time it comes on I think "oh, if you are on public transport with a baby that starts to make even the slightest noise, then all the miserable bellends who are travelling with you, on PUBLIC transport will give you snide mean looks, unless you are lucky enough to have some creepy dude behind you manage to somehow get Dora the Explorer (or whatever it is) on his phone in 2 seconds flat to entertain your slightly whiny child making all the annoying twats on the bus happy that they do not have to listen to slightly whining baby."

I get all irrationally annoyed when the young girl removes her headphones and smiles at creepy Grown Man Dora Fan, and the guy in the business suit gives a sideways smile. I have been known to shout at the Tv that if they do not want to have to deal with other ppl while travelling they should learn to bloody drive. That old dude in the suit reading his newspaper also looks the sort to share those posts on FB about when he was a child they had no TV, and no laptops etc, all they had to play with was a stick and a dead spider and they were happier kids or something, and hence would in actual fact probably frown upon the use of digital means to entertain a baby.

Also, I may have over thought this.

It's a shame that the AO TV commercials are so awful - because AO is utterly brilliant.

I say that, because Appliances Online (as they were then) was recommended to me by a number of MNers a few years ago when we were totally re-vamping our kitchen/utiilty etc.

I simply cannot fault AO - at all. And I've passed on the recommendation to a number of other friends who have, similarly, been massively impressed with them.

But I think AO's ad agency either hasn't got to grips with the concept - so now we have to watch crappy TV commercials, or the AO Marketing Department isn't up to date enough.

I used to work in advertising, but the AO commercials look like commercials for other less efficient retailers.

Come on AO, you have a fab operation - make it look good.

DH works for AO. In their first adverts a couple of years ago, some of the characters were played by real staff. They all got the opportunity if they gave up half a day one weekend to go and "audition". I got quite excited at the thought but DH couldn't be bothered.
He is management, but today has been out "on the shop floor" so to speak, with a man in a van delivering white goods to see first hand what different peoples roles involve.
They are a great company.

Sorry! Just realised my rant at 10.34 had nothing to do with ads not making sense, it was just me moaning that red bra Bon Prix woman should LTB. Apologies. Agree about nonsensical AO ads though.

There's one of those lawyers 4 U type adverts where they say " you don't want mascots" and offer a kitten. Well actually, yes, I DO want a kitten. More than I want an injury lawyer.

And I agree with ao and that woman's "absolute disaster". I think you'll find earthquakes or tsunamis are " absolute disasters" not a blimmin broken fridge ( for all the reasons previously described)

Thank God I'm not the only one hating the oran-utang one.

(EON - and it does look like and orange turd)

Hahaha! ON a horse, ON a horse. I really must try to proofread better.

That whole post was just a proofreading fail. I'm going to blame my iPhone.

I dont think the Andrex ad makes sense.

Why would you want loo paper that makes your arse feel as clean as a slimey, smelly squid?

Amazon Prime

The one where the dad drops his kid off at school and watches him thru the window and he's sad and on his own so dad orders him a superman outfit and next day the kid is Mr popular.

Except next day delivery isn't going to come in time for the school run the next day is it? it's more like 3pm round here.

and the teacher is probably thinking WTF is that kid dressed as superman comic relief isn't until november