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Badvertising – Hello Kitty

by Matthew Laidlow

Just like Glee, cheese slices and mullets, Hello Kitty is something that utterly baffles us. What children see in a creepy cartoon cat that just about squeals a high-pitched tone is beyond us. Listening to the Japanese creation almost sends us into some hypnotic trance. Whilst the effects don’t do anything to us, it’s possible [...]

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Badvertising: BT

by Steve Charnock

There are plenty of reasons to hate television advertising. The very fact that six Hoxton-finned bastards in two grand suits get paid six-figure salaries to ‘touch base’ and talk about the best way to con you out of your pocket money should be enough.

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Badvertising – Windshield Wonder

by Matthew Laidlow

You know what’s really annoying? Bloody windows. Not the kind that internet geek Bill Gates came up with, but the glass kind that you find in cars, houses and balanced on the end of your massive nose. So why are they such a pain in the arse? After all, windows protect us from all sorts [...]

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Badvertising Gold – Howard From Halifax

by Matthew Laidlow

Given the current state of the world’s banks, it’s a fair bet that the majority of people think bankers are twats. After all, the whole monetary system has gone into meltdown. Things have gotten so bad that in Nottingham it’s been reported that sterling has been abandoned in favour of actual human shit. But who [...]

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Badvertising – Envirofone

by Matthew Laidlow

Ever seen anything and thought “Christ, that’s a load of bollocks. I could produce better things out of my anus”? This happens to us on a regular basis, but nothing has ever truly angered us like the Envirofone advert that is still floating around between period dramas repeats on ITV. Honestly, it’s enough to make [...]

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Badvertising: Compare The Market

by Steve Charnock

Technically, this series of TV adverts shouldn’t feature in ‘Badvertising’. Technically, it’s a very successful and clever campaign carried out with the surgical precision that a smartarse meerkat in scrubs with an indeterminable accent would be proud of. No other commercial has quite taken advantage of social media so well before and it’s a catchphrase, voice, image and jingle that [...]

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Badvertising: Just For Men

by Steve Charnock

If you have a penis and two testicles, you are a man. Whether you are in possession of such fancy accoutrements or not, you will almost certainly have noticed the worrying trend of advertisers opening mocking men and their daft little ways to hawk their toot. It’s almost as if some of these advertisers want [...]

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Badvertising – Evian Roller Babies

by Matthew Laidlow

Gone are the days when the basic principle of an item could be rammed down your throat. In times gone by, water was marketed as a drink to quench a thirst after a day of playing football or stalking members of the opposite sex. But times are changed! Now adverts cost stupid amounts of money [...]

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Badvertising – Cash For Gold USA

by Matthew Laidlow

There’s an alarming trend that is sweeping through daytime commercial breaks. No, not evil food companies trying to sell sugary drinks to our beloved little tykes; it’s more the constant pleas of organisations trying to get us to part ways with our broken tat. Apparently, gold is hot stuff at the moment and thousands of [...]

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Badvertising: BlackBerry, All You Need Is Love

by Stuart Heritage

Until now, there has always been a fundamental difference between iPhone users and Blackberry users.

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