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To think that poetry has no place in adverts?

14 replies

ShirleyPhallus · 04/11/2018 15:49

After those fucking irritating Nationwide adverts has anyone seen the Giffgaff ads?

It couldn’t make me want to go with them less tbh. Hideous.

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Hedgehogblues · 04/11/2018 15:51

Er, why?

Oliversmumsarmy · 04/11/2018 16:01

I hate those sodding Nationwide adverts.

I haven’t a clue what that Big says Small does rhetoric has anything to do with a Bank.

RhythmStix · 04/11/2018 16:02

Poetry is lovely. The name ShirleyPhallus is ugly and coarse. Cheers x

Aintnothingbutaheartache · 04/11/2018 16:03

I’d say there were many worse things on tv than a bit of poetry in an ad!😬

LEMtheoriginal · 04/11/2018 16:04

I love your name shirley!!

I HATE those ads with every ounce of my being - its the whole moral highground bullshit that bois my piss.

dangermouseisace · 04/11/2018 16:30

God yes. I hate those adverts. I have to turn the volume down because they get on my nerves so much. It’s like they are trying to be earnest but it comes across as cynical. I dislike the Halifax adverts even more though.

NorthenderNamechanger · 04/11/2018 16:34

Personal attacks on posters are ugly and coarse.

Nationwide ads are hideously irritating though. I turn over.

ShirleyPhallus · 04/11/2018 16:35

The name ShirleyPhallus is ugly and coarse.

You wash your mouth out

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TSSDNCOP · 04/11/2018 16:36

I think the fact it isn’t good poetry is the issue. The two men who’s mothers met at ante-natal. Just who cares????!

Whipsmart · 04/11/2018 16:38

I find spoken poetry to be cringeworthy at the best of times (I know IABU, I can't help it) so shoving it into an advert is beyond the pale

ShirleyPhallus · 04/11/2018 16:40

I love your name shirley!!

Thanks for the fangirling Lem, right back atcha

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LittleMe03 · 04/11/2018 16:41

@RhythmStix what is wrong with you? 😳

Yes OP they can be very irritating but I guess memorable 😂

Athena51 · 04/11/2018 16:56

I love good poetry but these are awful. I have to mute the telly YADNBU

RhythmStix · 04/11/2018 17:18

It aint a personal attack. It's a critique of a pseudonym. Doh.

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