Telus needs to stop trying to sell me stuff by using animals. It's just sooo played. Seriously, it's been at least 10 years since they bought clearnet and stole the animal commercial idea. Time for something - anything - different.
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Telus needs to stop trying to sell me stuff by using animals. It's just sooo played. Seriously, it's been at least 10 years since they bought clearnet and stole the animal commercial idea. Time for something - anything - different.
They'll stop when those commercials aren't effective anymore. They are ridiculously highly rated when compared with other advertising campaigns.
There's so many stupid radio commercials I cant stand. Some of them have been mentioned. That friggin hot tubs/billiards are fun one makes me wanna hunt down the owner of the shop and carve his face off with a dull steak knife. There's another one....cant think exactly how the stupid jingle goes right now...9th avenue auto......blah blah blah. I wouldnt buy a f*@kin car at 9th avenue if they were givin them away. One more off the top of my head. Some dork is trying to figure out a name for his new, sure to fail business. He's like...Vick and Sons....Vick and Sons Ltd.....Vick and Sons Ltd. Inc.....Vick and Sons Ltd. Inc. enterprises or whatever the hell. Thing is, I dont even know what the hell the stupid ad is trying to flog. How effective is that?? Ahhh man...tenses me up just thinking 'bout it.
There is one TV commercial that cracks me up though everytime I see it. It's usually on during hockey. The Scotiabank one (I think) where the goof walks into the bank with his buddy in a stroller and wants to start a savings acct. or something for his "kid" so that he can get the free gift for starting it. "Is there an issue papa?" You know the one....lame, but amusing. It's stupid, but get's me everytime for some reason.
How about that add for drywall delivery on fan960...so..the magic drywall fairy is going to come and drop off the drywall, magically...yuuuuup....crunch...
What a psychotic, passive aggressive relationship being portrayed. He eggs her on and obviously preys on her OCD on a daily basis for kicks and an infantile attempt to assert dominance over the demon that is her mental health problem, meanwhile she obviously considers him completely useless, and attempts to humiliate him with that dripping sarcasm and reducing his efforts to some sort of childish fairytale, in an effort to elevate herself to a position of intellectual superiority rather than admitting she actually has a mental health condition.
Two mentally sick individuals going at it over drywall..
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How about that add for drywall delivery on fan960...so..the magic drywall fairy is going to come and drop off the drywall, magically...yuuuuup....crunch...
What a psychotic, passive aggressive relationship being portrayed. He eggs her on and obviously preys on her OCD on a daily basis for kicks and an infantile attempt to assert dominance over the demon that is her mental health problem, meanwhile she obviously considers him completely useless, and attempts to humiliate him with that dripping sarcasm and reducing his efforts to some sort of childish fairytale, in an effort to elevate herself to a position of intellectual superiority rather than admitting she actually has a mental health condition.
Two mentally sick individuals going at it over drywall..
There's so many stupid radio commercials I cant stand. Some of them have been mentioned. That friggin hot tubs/billiards are fun one makes me wanna hunt down the owner of the shop and carve his face off with a dull steak knife. There's another one....cant think exactly how the stupid jingle goes right now...9th avenue auto......blah blah blah. I wouldnt buy a f*@kin car at 9th avenue if they were givin them away. One more off the top of my head. Some dork is trying to figure out a name for his new, sure to fail business. He's like...Vick and Sons....Vick and Sons Ltd.....Vick and Sons Ltd. Inc.....Vick and Sons Ltd. Inc. enterprises or whatever the hell. Thing is, I dont even know what the hell the stupid ad is trying to flog. How effective is that?? Ahhh man...tenses me up just thinking 'bout it.
I totally agree with you. These kind of annoying continuously played ads actually ensure that I will not be purchasing anything they have to sell.
So far, I won't be using;
Shaw, Paradise, Calgary j*bshop.ca, Koodo, 5 hour energy, Barasso Nissan, Simmons Sleep, Auto Value, Greg Martineau ("FACT!") or many others. In fact, like another poster, I will actively discourage people I know to go in another direction, should they be considering doing business with these types of advertisers. Are there people out there that actually will be influenced positively by these dim witted advertisers?
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Telus needs to stop trying to sell me stuff by using animals. It's just sooo played. Seriously, it's been at least 10 years since they bought clearnet and stole the animal commercial idea. Time for something - anything - different.
I had a discussion about this with a friend who works at Telus. She claims that the animal commercials are still as popular as they've ever been. Not only that, but people collect the stuffed animals and there is always huge anticipation every quarter when they release the new animals.
I cannot stand the Fountain Tire ones. So here is a sign that says get $100 off, what does that mean, no really I know you explained it to me like a three year old, but what does it mean. We have done four years of commercials of me proving that I ate nothing but paint chips my entire life but guess what, I am still a freaking idiot and have an IQ less then a freaking brain dead earthworm.
Grrrrrrr!
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I completely agree. I hate the Fountain Tire guy. Pretending to be stupid is not funny!
The only funny thing he has ever done, was when he ate the Ad of the competitor...and even that was a stretch.
The latest Shaw radio ad kills me. The whole gift giver-er thing pisses me off so much. The adding of extra ers to verbs for noun usage is contributing to the dumbing down of popular vernacular.
Charmin toilet paper has passed out of the realm of offensive and into the truly bizarre. I'm talking about the one where little baby bear squats behind the tree (eww!) and then --folks I hesitate to say this-- spreads his cheeks for us all to see. "You can't pass inspection with pieces left behind" chirps the narrator.
Um. Yeah. Has anyone out there ever been subject to random anal-inspections? Or is this something only that cartoon-bears have contend with in their daily lives?
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