Comments on: Hi, Barry Scott here… http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200708/hi-barry-scott-here/ standards, accessibility, and ranting and general stuff by the web chemist Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:43:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Seb Crump http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200708/hi-barry-scott-here/#comment-17594 Seb Crump Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:39:37 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200708/hi-barry-scott-here/#comment-17594 Do you think the badly dubbed "real" users are part of the deliberate attempt to make it look cheap? The other one that annoys me for obvious bad dubbing over the European (German?) version is the Oust ad. Do you think the badly dubbed “real” users are part of the deliberate attempt to make it look cheap?

The other one that annoys me for obvious bad dubbing over the European (German?) version is the Oust ad.

]]> By: mark fairlamb http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200708/hi-barry-scott-here/#comment-17534 mark fairlamb Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:49:12 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200708/hi-barry-scott-here/#comment-17534 the ironic thing about tv adverts is that the cheap, crap ones are just as likely to make you buy the product as the expensive ones. i might buy cillit bang because it can clean a penny in seconds so should do a good job on my kitchen sink. but it doesn't matter how much britney spears tells me to drink coca cola, if i fancy a pepsi i'll have a pepsi. the ironic thing about tv adverts is that the cheap, crap ones are just as likely to make you buy the product as the expensive ones.
i might buy cillit bang because it can clean a penny in seconds so should do a good job on my kitchen sink.
but it doesn’t matter how much britney spears tells me to drink coca cola, if i fancy a pepsi i’ll have a pepsi.

]]> By: Mike Pepper http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200708/hi-barry-scott-here/#comment-17513 Mike Pepper Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:42:56 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200708/hi-barry-scott-here/#comment-17513 That advert, (and the hundreds of ringtone ones that thankfully appear to have died down now) are the reason I've now started record almost everything I want to watch with Sky+, then go through them the next day fast-forwarding through all the advert. Genuinely entertaining adverts are few and far between these days, I used to be able to put up with the rubbish ones because some were actually quite good, but the only good advert I can think of at the moment that was fairly recent was the <a>Honda Asimo</a> one. For some reason though the thing that bugs me the most about that Cillit Bang advert is that his name isn't even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Burgess" rel="nofollow">Barry Scott</a>! And he announces himself as if we actually know who the hell he is and hold in his opinion in high esteem. That advert, (and the hundreds of ringtone ones that thankfully appear to have died down now) are the reason I’ve now started record almost everything I want to watch with Sky+, then go through them the next day fast-forwarding through all the advert.

Genuinely entertaining adverts are few and far between these days, I used to be able to put up with the rubbish ones because some were actually quite good, but the only good advert I can think of at the moment that was fairly recent was the Honda Asimo one.

For some reason though the thing that bugs me the most about that Cillit Bang advert is that his name isn’t even Barry Scott! And he announces himself as if we actually know who the hell he is and hold in his opinion in high esteem.

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