Sometimes, TV ads can be so completely annoying, they actually make me angry. An online greeting card company, ‘Thortful’, has been placing this advert on various TV channels recently, in time for the Valentine’s Day card rush. Not only is it in every ad break, it is usually shown twice in the same break.
It is too stupid to even be funny, and the constant repitition had driven me to contact the company by email, asking them to remove it.
Please do not use this company. Make them pay for insulting our intelligence, and sense of humour.
Lol. A little bit crazy, but its staying in mind. The advertising company has achieved its objective. :-)) Thanks for sharing, Pete! xx Michael
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They got it to stay in my mind, but I would never buy their cards. So only a 50% success.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Great decision. Honestly writing cards is so old-fahioned, right? xx Michael
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I never watch adverts, and so have not seen it. Adverts seem to be going on for longer and longer these days. When I fast-forward through them sometimes 6 minutes have passed.
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These are on channels like Really and Quest, that my wife watches.
If I want to watch anything on a commercial channle like C4, I tape it and F-F the ads too.
Best wishes, Pete.
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There is nothing relatable or thoughtful over here. Perhaps they meant to say that the language of love is not easily understood by every one. But it certainly cannot be likened to squeaking! Not in this world.
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I agree completely.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Don’t think I could handle watching that more than once. It even startled my dog. 🙃
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It is truly horrible, Christina.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It is really annoying, for sure. Here we have quite a few choice ones, and many of the programmes come up with the hosts advertising as well in the programmes they are hosting… But then there are the ones that you watch and have no idea what they are advertising. I’ve seen their reply, but I’ll comment there. I am not surprised, Pete. I am not sure I could put up with it either.
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Thanks, Olga. I do actually enjoy seeing well-made, original ads. However, this one is unspeakably bad. (By the way, I just bought ‘Tyll’, based on your review.)
Best wishes, Pete.
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Something that stupid, should be against the laws of nature. Wait, it already is! It didn’t even qualify as stupid, or silly. I can’t imagine having to sit through two of those, back to back.
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They are on the ‘reality’ channels my wife watches. Even when I am not watching with her, I have to hear the nonsense from another room, Ron.
Best wishes, Pete.
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A lot of people find this ad extremely annoying. Granted, the final line makes no sense. But I actually enjoy this ad, and even went to so far as to find out the name of the actress (Anna Telfer), and put that in a comment because people wondered who she was.
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I don’t mind that one so much. At least the people in it are ‘normal’.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I think commercials have gotten a lot more creative over the years, but I can see why this one gets on your nerves, Pete. It’s pretty dumb. My crusade is with greeting cards. I think 90% of them are unimaginative and what is supposed to be humorous is anything but. I have difficulty understanding how someone can get paid to write such nonsense.
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Yes, I like clever commercials, and I agree 100% about greeting cards.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Ooh God Pete. . . After watching it just once my gums are getting sore, my eyes are burning, my ears are ringing (well, that may be self inflicted from the bloody ’11’ setting) and I think my nose is getting set to bleed.
Whoever originally said “there shall always be an England” had no idea this was coming.
This is potentially very grave indeed: Based on the saturation of impressions you describe, this ad could easily be a psyop designed to be the cornerstone of the beginning of the end for all of blighty.
WARNING ⚠️ Don’t watch it. Don’t listen to it, don’t think about it, (and for God sakes, don’t write about it!) or you will be unknowingly taking part in the end of the Empire.
As a final though? In regards to England, there is hope. . . “Bob Hope” actually. He’s a Londoner of sorts, born just down the A2 in Eltham. And Bob quite eloquently once said said: “They’ll always be an England, even if it’s in Hollywood.”
As such? Save yourselves! – Flights leave LHR for LAX at a frequency of something like every 12 minutes or so.
We, your fans in these western colonies would love to have you all here. Yes, the dog too of course. He’ll just have to take walks on the beach in Malibu. He’ll adjust. 😘
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Chris, once the quality of advertising in an empire sinks to these depths, it is pretty much the end of things. Look what happened to Rome, when they started advertising gladiator fights with naked statues, and interrupting chariot races to allow a word from the sponsor! Before you know it, the colonies will want independence, the Prime Minister will be a lying party-goer, and they will be trying to arrest a Prince.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Have you thort about a petition Pete? I’ll sign.
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I got a reply from them, will post that later, Paul.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Adverts drive me mad, which is why I prefer recording anything on the commercial channels so I can fast forward them. I really hope the Been don’t go down that route. Personally I think the license is worth it for the excellent dramas and nature programs, so I’d prefer to pay a subscription.
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BEEB* (annoying predictive text) 😣
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I think the BBC licence is worth it too. I find more to watch there than on Netflix.
Best wishes, Pete.
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We have a lot of stupid ads on TV here, too. And the interruption of nearly everyting on TV, even the news, is really annoying. I recently published a post on that.
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Thanks for the link, Pit. We have four channels (all BBC) that have no advertising. They are my refuge. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh my Pete, that is truly an awful advertisement, but your reaction is priceless. “Aversion Advertising,” is something I’ve never heard of and admittedly I’m sort humored by the term. There are a lot of annoying things in the world and ads definitely top the list, although the ones aired during last nights football game (San Francisco 49er’s vs the LA Rams) were rather worthy! Hugs, C
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So many ads have the opposite effect to the intended purpose. I make it my mission in life to never buy anything from companies stupid enough to pay for them. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
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I can’t wait to hear your thoughts about this Quiznos commercial that aired during the 2004 Super Bowl:
🙃
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Well, it is American! It’s appalling, but still not as bad as the greeting card advert. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Even with that “added benefit” of rodents singing about sandwiches? …
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At least rats would eat sandwiches. Nobody would sit in a cafe squeaking like a dolphin.
Well I hope not… 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Fair enough, though I’m not quite sure that a sandwhich chain would benefit from the idea that rats are its main customers? 🙂
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Definitely not! 🙂 🙂
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What the hell did I just watch? How can anyone think that is going to get them customers. I am so sorry you have to see that
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Thanks, Drew. My sentiments exactly.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I always wonder how they can assume that the annoying repetition would make me more likely to buy something!
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In my email, I told them to be aware of ‘aversion advertising’, constant adverts that make people determined to never by the product. (Like me!) 🙂
I also told them to sack the agency that created the awful ad.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m with Eddy and I only saw it once. Warmest regards, Theo
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It’s bloody awful, Theo.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I don’t find it annoying… I find it creepy.
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That’s another issue, Ren. I can imagine small children being scared by it too.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Okay, I watched. Most of it. Once was enough! My least favorite ads here are for drugs. They show really happy people, who’ve apparently found relief from some newly defined malady. The ad comes with an annoying jingle designed to stick in your brain, then ends with the announcer speed reading through all the nasty side effects, including death! No thanks! I always mute these.
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Only shop-bought painkillers are allowed to be advertised in the UK. Mainstream drugs for serious medical conditions (like Diabetes or Epilepsy) are not allowed to be advertised on TV.
Best wishes, Pete.
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That’s how it should be, and how it used to be here. Now it’s out of control and the ads for new drugs outnumber all the rest. It’s really terrible.
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If Boris had his way, our health service would be privatised, and we would no doubt be seeing those ads too.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I see what you mean. I would be writing to them as well. How awful!
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I was supposed to be contacted by their Customer Services. So far, no ‘contact’.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Whoa. That was really, really, really, really, really, really annoying.
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When my wife was watching an evening of ‘her programmes’ recently, that was shown 24 times in a few hours. That tipped me over the edge! Even when I choose not to watch, I can still hear it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I can’t think of any slate of TV programmes that would be good enough to for me to withstand that dreadful commercial 24 times.
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I ended up watching it three times as Gosia had to see it and then Malina, I am already loosing my will to live 🙂 I’m just glad I don’t have terrestrial TV anymore 🙂
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I expect little kids might love it, but not 24 times in one evening! 🙂
Cheers, Pete.
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If nothing else, the company has achieved one object in that you remember its name! 😉 However, I quite agree: I usually switch over/watch a bit of something I’ve recorded/make a cup of tea/or go for a “comfort break” 😉 during the commercials. Because I don’t find this irksome, the last of my options is one reason why I think it would be a way out of the BBC’s funding travails to take advertising on its arguably most popular channel, BBC1: quite often I don’t have enough time between programmes [even despite the inevitable “coming up/soon” trailers] to nip upstairs and relieve myself, and it’s very irritating to miss the beginning of a programme; although I think films/movies should be an exception to this option. No doubt I’ll be in a minority on this: even my union, Equity, is in favour of retaining the licence fee. No doubt, the government will do what’s best [pahahaaa!] Cheers, Jon.
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I’m happy to pay the licence fee for the quality of BBC drama alone.
Most of the adverts I have to see (or listen to from another room) are on the ‘minor’ channels that my wife watches to get her fix of medical programmes, ghost hunters, and antique buying experts.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Sorry, but it made me laugh. I can see how it becomes annoying if you are forced to watch it repeatedly though.
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I wish it made me laugh, GP. 😦
Best wishes, Pete.
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On principle, I won’t watch it either.
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Thanks, Peggy. You didn’t miss anything, I assure you.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I couldn’t even watch the video all the way through. Thankfully I rarely watch commercial TV
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I usually record anything I want to see, then fast-forward the adverts. But my wife watches channels that have this annoying advert on them, so even if I am not watching, I have to hear it from another room.
Best wishes, Pete.
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You going full on Steptoe? 😀
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More like a turbocharged Meldrew! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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😀 😀 luv it!
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