are a cunt.
Adverts have been around for a very long time. According to Google, the first ad we have record of was on a papyrus found in Thebes, and dated at c3,000 BC. It was done by a craftsman to promote his weaving store. Ever since then they’ve been around to irritate or bore us to various degrees.
It’s fair to say that I can ignore ads for the most part, but some annoy the fucking life out of me for some reason. Take the case of this shitty ad for Maltesers. Here we have a classic for our time; a family of effnicks being introduced to ‘grandma’s companion’, an utterly gormless-looking wally chomping on chocolates, who is, of course, the figure-of-fun token white on display;
Speaking of ‘rainbow ads’, how about the utterly weird ‘copy nothing’ ad for Jaguar cars? This features a bizarre looking collection of individuals poncing about in strange costumes, but oddly, there’s not a car in sight… Reports suggest that since this very peculiar and irritating ad appeared, sales of Jags have slid into oblivion. ‘Go woke go broke’ then?;
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Now some ads drive you to distraction by the sheer amount of repetition they subject you to. Who’s not been battered into submission when on YouTube by THIS total cunt?;
Yes they can truly annoy and irritate, and really, I suspect that’s the point. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.The more annoying an ad is, the more it lives rent free in your head. To this day I can’t shake out ‘on and on and on and Ariston’, and ‘Go Compare!’. If the ad man can throw some controversy into the mix as well and get people arguing about the ad in the meeja and online, then he’s generated (as that appalling Americanism has it) ‘more bangs per buck’.
I’m sure that you lot out in the world of cunting will have have your own ‘horrible ads’ to report. One thing’s for sure; like earthquakes, locusts, the clap, wasps, peacefuls and other undesirables, annoying adverts are another thing we’ll never get rid of.
Nominated by Ron Knee.