{"id":10047,"date":"2012-08-21T22:32:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T21:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10047"},"modified":"2012-08-21T22:32:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T21:32:56","slug":"annoying-adverts-2012-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10047","title":{"rendered":"Annoying Adverts 2012: II"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JarringBack in May I mentioned a few annoying adverts<\/a> I\u2019d seen.<\/p>\n

The Weight Watchers one faded very quickly, thank God. Ads with idiotic whistling are still high on the list of \u201coriginal\u201d ideas for most ad companies, especially for radio versions (Tesco\u2019s whistled signature tune grates against my skull like fingernails on a blackboard).<\/p>\n

But the Secret Escapes adverts is still going strong. The reason I mention it now is that looking through my stats I have hundreds of hits on the same\/similar search term. Two today on \u201csecret escapes advert annoying\u201d. I STILL<\/strong> rush to mute it whenever it comes on.<\/p>\n

EDIT:<\/strong> As of late 2014\/early 2015 Secret Escapes has embarked on a new advertising drive. I must say that the woman is beginning to look a bit past it now.<\/p>\n

The company in question appears to be one of those you\u2019d see being laughed out of the Dragon\u2019s Den. Who in their right mind would want to use their service is anyone\u2019s guess, so how long they can stay in business has to be in question. I\u2019m guessing the current overkill level of airtime is a last-ditch attempt at survival.<\/p>\n

Strongbow still has the monopoly on effeminate men pretending to be all butch and giving a gutsy \u201cahhhhhhh!\u201d after sipping less than a teaspoon of their drink after carrying a box up some stairs.<\/p>\n

Doggie Dentures still cracks me up<\/a> every time I see it. And so do the meerkat adverts (especially when you watch what\u2019s going on in the background). Even the radio versions are funny:<\/p>\n

Aleksandr: Janet from Northern Ireland writes \u201cDear Aleksandr, thank you for wonderful Sergei toy after I buy car insurance from \u201cCompare The Market\u201d. My dog has taken liking to him. I even find him trying to\u2026\u201d Ooooh. Too much information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, Direct Line\u2019s TV ads are incredibly annoying and unfunny. They\u2019re the ones with Z-list comedians showing exactly why they\u2019re\u00a0 Zed! Direct Line refers to their ads as \u201chilarious\u201d on its own website.<\/p>\n

Honestly, Direct Line. They\u2019re not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in May I mentioned a few annoying adverts I\u2019d seen. The Weight Watchers one faded very quickly, thank God. Ads with idiotic whistling are still high on the list of \u201coriginal\u201d ideas for most ad companies, especially for radio versions (Tesco\u2019s whistled signature tune grates against my skull like fingernails on a blackboard). But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-tv-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}