Terrible Ads
Posted by: Jennie
14th Apr 2011 10:13am
Who can't stand the Budget adds????? The stupid French woman and then they had to put her in the shower with her horrid "European" unshaved armpits. These adds are worst than fingernails down a blackboard!!! There is now way I would ever use Budget Direct if you paid me she may haunt me forever!!!!
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Tired mum
While i agree that the Budget ad is awful and creepy ad.
Any ad for tampons makes me groan. They are stupid and they can never get them right.
The Aldi nappy ad is by far the funniest ad on tv at the moment.
Anonymous
i agree they are very unatractiv adds that need to be shut down and replace for family friendly.
PGS
Not fussed on them & wouldn't use Budget because of them (although she is cute & I don't mind if she haunts).
That said, they are not much worse than AAMI's "Rhonda" series of ads, or the crappy 'Bingle" ones.
dave
they are crap
dave
stupid should not have them
mischh75
I like the Budget ads, and now even more so, because I don't shave my psuedo european armpits : )
Amanda
Haha yes I understand your pain and no i would probably never go with them too because the ads are annoying!
chookybo
Well the ads must have got something right as you all remember them. Frankly, I agree with the shower ad. It is out of character and awful. I didn't mind the first one so much when she was riding the push bike. I guess the whole idea of the ad is to get you to notice it. Yes, the tune is catchy. And yes, I hate the ads themselves.
Tempest25
HaHa, totally agree. You would think that someone would have thought it through a little better before putting someone so annoying in the ads. They are bad ads. But not quite as bad as the Coles ad - so annoying and ruined a good song, too.
RainbowSpirit
I agree with Salutia, that tune does stay in your head... "Boo zjay....boo zjay"........ (sorry I tried !)
Steve49
I have never bought anything french or advertised with a french name or used a french person in an ad or watched any movie or listened to any french music since those arrogant scum sank the Ranibow Warrior in NZ. I can't see that they have anything to be arrogant about.
nickname
Okay two things....
i. whilst I agree that the advertisement is annoying it does get its point across....obviously as it has raised a lot of ire amongst the chattering classes and serial whiners..it is a very successful campaign that lampoons both our concept of what 'French' is and indeed how Australians generally react to 'new' things;
ii. Steve49...oh dear this really has raised your hackles hasn't it? So much so that it appears you have let whatever sense of reason/logic/common sense you possess to take a holiday and let emotion rule the roost.
Let's pull this apart a bit more...the Rainbow Warrior attack by the French govt was indeed a sorry state of affairs but does that mean that ALL French are arrogant as you say? That would be as logical as me saying that ALL Kiwis are sheep shaggers, ALL Polish people are stupid, ALL English people have bad teeth, ALL Swedish girls are hot and ALL...well I think you (well hope you) get the point.
Sure I have met some arrogant folk in my life and if I remember correctly one of them was French (but she did have hair free pits FYI Jennie) so please enough with with stereotyping of people...it adds fuel to the fires of ignorance and generally makes those who utter them in the public arena appear boorish, slovenly and pitiful.
Salutia
Not my cup of tea either - but I have to admit, that stupid tune DOES stay in my head grrrr.
sandylee
so true, they need to get rid of them and come up with something different
vonsnrub
Hahahaha I agree with you completely, but personally I believe that the old man randomly standing in the bathroom was the most questionable feature of the ad. He is too old to be a husband (perhaps a sugar daddy) but if he is indeed the father then I believe that this ad breaches a series of laws lol That shower curtain appeared a little too transparent for my liking. I would like to have been there for the meeting when the advertising company said "okay this is our idea". hehehe
Anonymous
haha i agree...i dont really get how the old man and foreign woman are associated with insurance? it seems like just a ad they threw together at the last minute!
Anonymous
Maybe the girl is Budget too (cheap import?) it does look like that with the old guy.
Jennie
Too true, I just think the whole series of these adds is wrong. It would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall. I would love to know who the advertising agency was. I think I would sack them.