(Disclaimer: none of the below are targeted at any particular race, religion or creed... just products or adds that I found funny!)
Red Bull: does not give you wings. It gives you heart palpitations and tastes of cough syrup.
HSBC: takes an enormous amount of grief from its customers, this one included, because its bank cards don’t work outside the country where they were issued unless you clear it with the bank first, making a mockery of its memorable “The world’s local bank” slogan (which unsurprisingly has been scrapped). Also, HSBC’s internet banking portal is as user friendly as a bowling bowl with no finger holes covered in goose fat.
Djarum Super Clove Cigarettes: Smoking one of these things is like putting your lips around an exhaust pipe belching burning hot cloves.
Department of Tourism, the Philippines
It is, indeed, “More fun in the Philippines”....If the traffic doesn’t make you wish you hadn’t left the airport, the pollution and the sense that you’ll get kidnapped any minute just might. The shopping malls wouldn’t be half bad – if it wasn’t for the metal detectors outside that give the impression that the city is awash with guns.
Turkish Airlines: The airline seems to have blown too much money on marketing and left little to spend on the things that ferry its customers about, which are cramped and dirty, according to some agency staffers. The aircrew are rude and, even less forgivebly, Taverna music is played constantly on overnight flights.
Hollywood: Tinseltown knows how to make a great trailer with a nifty bit of editing…… it’s just a shame that the trailers are usually better than the films themselves.
Evian: All the cutesy visual effects in the world by classy French ad agency BETC are not going to disguise the fact that……in the countries where people can afford a bottle of Evian, they could get this stuff out of a tap for free.
Old Spice: Old Spice may have produced a campaign that adland still hasn’t shut up about three years after it won the film grand prix at Cannes……but 46m views on YouTube does not stop this deodorant smelling like a drunken uncle who’s fallen in a fermenting barrel of pot pouri.