Bloody Awful Annoying Barclays Mortgage Advert
Fuck off, Barclays, with your bloody awful annoying offset mortgage advert, now. Fuck off, Barclays, with your bloody awful annoying mortgage advert, now. Fuck off, Barclays, with your bloody awful...
View ArticleGalaxy Duet Advert: Crimes Against Music
See the Galaxy Duet advert. See its fearlessly multicultural cast. Appreciate its mixture of classic and contemporary; refined and urban. Feel its effortlessly transcendent musical symbiosis. Tremble...
View ArticlePiers Morgan Realises He Is A Twat
I wrote this for a now-defunct satire site years ago, but scanning Twitter earlier on today it struck me how apt it would be for Kelvin Mackenzie, if I replaced the word 'twat' with 'cunt'. Former...
View ArticleHow Dirty Do Andrex Clean Routine Adverts Make You Feel?
I asked people how dirty they felt after watching the Andrex Clean Routine adverts. Here's what they said: • As dirty as Katie Hopkins secretly feels every time she utters some hateful words she only...
View ArticleHalifax Top Cat Advert Disaster
It's very much in keeping with modern times that mortgages are advertised by a stray animal that is famous for living in a bin. If you think about it that's where lots of people mis-sold unaffordable...
View ArticleTesco Fist Pump Advert; Naked Curtain Erection
I thought it conceivable that the Tesco adverts featuring Ruth Jones and Ben Miller might have been quietly forgotten about, given the shoeing they received in the run-up to Christmas. Indeed the new...
View ArticleNew Admiral TV Advert: BDSM
The Admiral is now showing a slight edge to her character, telling off hapless Tom for exactly the sort of kooky nonsense that seems to be her stock-in-trade in this new Admiral TV advert. Combined...
View ArticleMikado Advert: Chomping On Cocks
I cannot wait for someone to SFX a bunch of cocks into this new Mikado advert, in lieu of the sticks of Mikado biscuits these actors are chomping on with an abandon verging on reckless and positively...
View ArticleNew Fage Yoghurt Advert
"Hurry up garlic, there's a dish in distress." So concludes this new Fage Yoghurt advert, which poses the unlikely TV detective pairing of, er, some garlic and some yoghurt. I'm not convinced it's up...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Punk Advert: Crimes Against Music
You know what the least punk thing in the world is? McDonald's. You know what the second least punk thing in the world is? This McDonald's punk advert. Food isn't very punk fundamentally, despite the...
View ArticleBrexit: The Ultimate Victory Of The Tory Press
"If you proved to people that the world would explode if they voted out, they'd still vote out". I found myself saying this to someone I was talking to at the weekend as an example of how the debate...
View ArticleOn Cunts And James Martin’s Asda Advert
James Martin then. In this Asda advert. You knew it was coming, surely? No-one can get away with an advert so awkward it could only be worse if it starred Jeremy Corbyn. Not without some lunatic on...
View ArticleVoltarol Tennis Advert: New Balls Please!
Very little to say about this Voltarol tennis advert, featuring a Stupid Dad being beaten at tennis by his lithe and pain-free wife, like the loser he is. Very little, that is, apart from the last few...
View Article#BeLegacy
Look, I know, right? They're only doing their jobs and it fell to someone in the retained agency Stella Artois employs to come up with a catchphrase. There had to be a catchphrase, a hashtaggable...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Advert Voiceovers: An Everyday EveryDave
"Why havent you made a post about that annoying CUNT that is voiceovering the McDonalds ads????His churpy disposition while plugging corporate crap is beyond fake and contrived!! Come on stop moaning...
View ArticleHow Red Dwarf Explains ‘The MSM’ And ‘So-Called Experts’
A growing trend on social media and, increasingly, internet conversation, is a deep and vicious dislike of being told what to do, think and behave by other people. To some extent this is wholly...
View ArticleJames Corden Confused.com Advert
So, the James Corden Confused.com advert. Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in. I am as impervious to James Corden's supposed delights as I am to the people complaining that I'm not...
View ArticleWe Need to Talk About The Kevin Bacon EE Adverts
The Kevin Bacon EE Adverts weren't always a problem. The idea of him riffing off the 7 Degrees Of Separation meme - 'you want to be as connected as me?' - and referencing provincial British television...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: A Modern Atrocity Exhibition
"Negan." That's something Facebook was prompting me with yesterday in one of those daft 'stories you might like' sidebar. These are, in my experience, usually stories I either dislike or have no...
View ArticleLoads Of Amazing Old Print Adverts From The 1980s
I buy old magazines. I love old magazines. As well as being an interesting magazine with lots of good (or rarely less than interesting) writing in them there are images and design that serve to date...
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