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I absolutely detest the gocompare.com advert.
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I agree, I always mute that advert. But you have to agree its very effective whether you like it or not, that silly song will stick in your head for a long time!
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But you have to agree its very effective whether you like it or not that silly song will stick in your head for a long time!
I agree, but it annoys me enough for me never to want to use the company.
Edited by L'escargot on 20/01/2010 at 07:25
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I agree but it annoys me enough for me never to want to use the company.
Likewise.
I stick to a broker, otherwise I would use internet searches. After all, who is paying for all these expensive ads?
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i actually like it "go comapre, go compare"
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i actually like it "go comapre ..........."
Huh?
;-)
Edited by L'escargot on 20/01/2010 at 07:27
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webuyanycar.com aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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"I absolutely detest the gocompare.com advert"
Me too, I channel surf whenever it comes on and often don't go back.
I used to like Iggy Pop but I'm sick to death of seeing his scrawny, horrible torso on my screen.
Always enjoy the Meerkats though.
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I absolutely detest the gocompare.com advert.
I think the original one, with the 2 blokes chatting in a coffee shop, is great! Still makes me smile when I see it - I think it's their deadpan demeanor (and the final punchline) contrasted with the singer's melodramatics which does it for me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ-6clXHMEw
More recent ones not so funny.
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www.wynneevans.co.uk/
The singer is a rather good one actually.
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www.wynneevans.co.uk/ The singer is a rather good one actually.
Interesting PU - I assumed it was a (good) actor miming to someone else's singing; I'm pressed he appears to be able to do both well. (Obviously I realise he was miming in the advert, but at least it was to his own song.)
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The singer is a rather good one actually.
He's not Welsh is he?
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Welsh National Opera singer I believe - don't know his nationality but it appears more than likely with a Welsh first-name.
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"Wynne Evans was born in Carmarthen, South Wales and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio.
As a principal tenor with Welsh National Opera..."
see www.wno.org.uk/seraglio/cast/wynne-evans
also: www.wynneevans.co.uk/
and: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8468837.stm
According to some press reports, he is highly embarrassed by the often adverse publicity his commercials have generated.
Edited by ChrisPeugeot on 20/01/2010 at 09:29
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not car insurance but gets my vote for most annoying car advert. Looks like the production budget was about £3.50
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh8knUqi5CA
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Wot - no votes for the meerkats? They've gone OTT with the latest one. "We're doomed! Are we doomed?" Quite funny the first couple of times....
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I also mute the 'gocompare' advert, but it's actually a clever adaptation of the WW1 American patriotic song, 'Over There' (chorus below) sung by Henry Barr.
Over there, over there!
Send the word, send the word, over there!
That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tumming ev'rywhere!
So prepare, say a prayer, send the word, send the word to beware!
We'll be over, we're coming over,
And we won't come back 'til it's over Over There!
P.
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I have a WW1 recording of the song, sung in Italian and English, by Enrico Caruso.
Ted
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I have a WW1 recording of the song sung in Italian and English by Enrico Caruso.
More versions on youtube eg. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pmq6AIGF-U
Thanks for the info P.
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not car insurance but gets my vote for most annoying car advert. Looks like the production budget was about £3.50
Oh. Dear. . That is epically bad. What on earth possessed them? Who thought that people in penguin costumes singing a naff song would make a classy commercial?
As far as car insurance ads go, it has to be that ruddy 'Go Compare' advert. I, too, mute it unless Mrs Badwolf-To-Be gets to the remote first, then she'll sit on it so that I have to suffer. She's very thoughtful like that.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 20/01/2010 at 12:42
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I can't think of a single annoying one. I don't watch them.
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Aviva, or more specifically the ones with Paul Whitehouse in them.
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I absolutely detest the gocompare.com advert.
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Here here !!
I want to fetch my axe from the shed and attack the telly when this comes on !
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Hi
let's get v real here.
adverts, like them or loathe them are there to remind you of a product = FACT
the godontcompare, webut, wesell, confusion/etc are memoranle as well as the the moneyfishmarket one.
at times a few will take a toal dislkie to an advert and dispassionate themselves from it, but that will be a lot less than 15 of their target market.
The one that does no justice to car insurance ad and as mentioned here by another member is that SHELIA'S wheels - reminds me of an assuie.. - enough said!
the lv advert sounds like that it needs its batteries recharging
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Quote. Me. Happy.
Nothing will ever beat that for irritation. People writhing around their kitchens in near-orgasmic delight at a car insurance quote on the telephone. Give me strength.
Edited by Alanovich on 20/01/2010 at 11:03
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Quote. Me. Happy.
I know someone who cancelled their renewal with Norwich union purely because of those nauseating ads
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confused.com for the way they protray the Biritish public as being thick as mince.
Look Mum, increase your personal liabilty by £150 and you'll save 2p
Oh ! That's clever, and look at all these slidy bits.
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I actually thought that Esure advert (or rather that smug Michael Winner) was the most irritating but I have to admit the Go compare one beats it hands down.
Now what would be a really irritating would be to have Michael Winner with curly mustache suspended in mid air singing 'Calm Down Dears' while Lucky the ( now deceased and unlucky ) More Than dog rolls past at the wheel of a runaway car with three pink skirted Aussie girls singing in the back ......
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the interesting thing is, that esure wont insure Mr Winner, because they wont accept actors as a risk.
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The "Go Compare" adverts make me laugh. I feel dirty afterwards though
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Does anyone really buy insurance based on advertising only?
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Up here in't North West we have Safe=Style windows' ads popping up all the time with a highly irritating baldy man in a daft coat or the awful Cannon & Ball . In both versions every word is shouted at you...it must cost them a bomb but it must pay.
I just want to hoof something through the telly !
I don't know if other regions get them. Granada viewers will know the one !
Ted
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I love the Go Compare ads, and the Michael Winner ones.
Ii'd like to set fire to a meerkat though.
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I don't know if other regions get them. Granada viewers will know the one !
We get them here in the Tyne Tees region, just the same, its either the bloke from Coronation Street, the man in the stupid coat saying "BOGOF" or Cannon and Ball
I too hate the Go Compare one too, and the Confused.com as I agree as stated before the portray the British Public as stupid "look its got a bar that you can slide"
webuyanycar.com im ashamed to say i must like it as I caught myself miming along with the advert tune
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I don't know if my FIL likes or dislikes the ads but I know he thinks little of the actual comparison sites.
He wanted a quote for his new Hyundai i30 and went for the ones that had the ticks in all the right boxes.
The quote then comes through with none of the benefits he wanted and for a lot more than was showing on the original quote.
To him it was a total waste of time and in fact he spent longer using the comparison site than he did just picking a random sample of well know insurers directly.
Go Compare?
Go Get Stuffed more like!
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this version is even worse!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXiJBp7HK5o&feature=related
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Because of the amount of repetition on Day time Sat TV- Direct Line with the very expensive voice overs by Stephen Fry and Paul Merton. For toe cringing embarassment - the singing loon with the corkscrew moustache.
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I love Sheila's Wheels and the meerkat (who on earth dreamed up the idea of a Russian intellectual meerkat?) but I wouldn't dream of buying insurance on the basis of a TV ad.
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>>> s******
Scheissglumpwaregts?
Edited by Lud on 20/01/2010 at 15:05
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No a highly irritating word that's now been added to the swear-filter.......think meerkats.
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>>No a highly irritating word that's now been added to the swear-filter
Thank you PU.
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now been added to the swear-filter
The fact that this extreme measure has been thought necessary here indicates that the meerkat ad has enormous 'impact'. Helped of course by the jaunty charm of the digitally-produced creature itself.
In my ad-testing days, now long in the past, we used to find two things regularly. One was that respondents who remembered the ad itself very often couldn't remember the brand or even the product being advertised. The other was that 'impact' cuts both ways: respondents in the 'target market' categories sometimes reacted to an ad that had high 'impact' with hatred and fear rather than sympathy and attraction.
Admen sometimes claimed that these things didn't really matter: 'awareness' of the brand, even subliminal and unconscious, counted for more than any immediate intention to buy it. And in many cases they may have been right.
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I absolutely detest the gocompare.com advert. >>
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7...l
Top 10 most annoying adverts of 2009:
1 The opera singer in the Go Compare adverts
2 Cash 4Gold – encouraging people to trade in their beloved trinkets for cash
3 Glade air freshener, featuring a little boy telling his Mum he wants: "to do a poo at Paul's".
4 Swiftcover – Indie rock god Iggy Pop representing a firm that doesn't insure musicians.
5 Confused.com – people talking about insurance quotes.
6 118 247 – jingle rhyming the company name with "directory heaven".
7 Churchill – the talking dog that can only say two words. Oh, no.
8 Webuyanycar.com – repetitive jingle that won't go away.
9. Nintendo – Ant & Dec interacting with their public.
10. there is NO no.10 on the above Telegraph page !
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>>>>No a highly irritating word that's now been added to the swear-filter
>>Thank you PU.
Thanks from me, as well. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who finds it irritating.
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No a highly irritating word that's now been added to the swear-filter
Well I know its irritating but isn't censorship going a bit far? Shouldn't the swear filter be used to censor offensive language. Where does this stop?
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>>Well I know its irritating but isn't censorship going a bit far? Shouldn't the swear filter be used to censor offensive language. Where does this stop?
I think that PU is joking.
But I can't bring myself to check that by typing it.
;-)
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All I can say is... it was annyoing and not a word. Simple is a word though. Think of it as a spell checker in this instance.
s******.
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If you have any real objection - e-mail us, otherwise back on topic please.
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I think I dislike most of the adverts at the moment for car insurance especially the opera singer in the Go Compare commercials (at least I told him he had a spelling mistake on his website and he's getting it fixed and thanked me for telling him).
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A plague on all their houses. All TV adverts are irritating. Thank goodness for the advert-free BBC.
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Thank goodness for the advert-free BBC.
I find the constant BBC trailers (aka adverts) for their own programmes a lot more annoying than most car insurance ads!
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I find the constant BBC trailers (aka adverts) for their own programmes a lot more annoying than most car insurance ads!
especially when you're having to pay for them...
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>> I find the constant BBC trailers (aka adverts) for their own programmes a lot more
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>>>>>>>..and me, apparently radio 2 is still on air but its lost me as a listener
im a born again galaxy radio listener now
my zimmer frame bent this week as i boogied
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