Halifax - Howard and Co.
April 15th, 2007There’s a section of the male populace that believes if they ever even so much as happen to see a musical let alone *sharp intake of breath* enjoy a musical that they will have to run out into the street and butt fuck the first policeman, construction worker, Indian chief, sailor or cowboy that they bump into.
I am not one of those men. I am, in fact, a big fan of the musical. Cabaret is surely one of the best films ever made. My Fair Lady is probably 45 minutes too long for my liking but “On the street where you live” is possibly the most beautiful tune ever written, ever. So yeah, I like a good musical.
The Halifax however don’t like a good musical. They hate musicals so much that they want everyone else to hate them too. And by God are they trying to get us to hate musicals.
For their campaign (that has easily been running for 5 long, soul destroying years) they take popular songs and ruin them by rewriting the lyrics to be about… banking. What’s more they set the *songs* against big, spectacular set pieces, with literally 100’s of dancers. But most gut-wrenching of all is the fact they use Halifax employees to *sing* the *songs*. By all accounts talent searches are run throughout the company for people to be in the ads. But if after a talent search of the entire company, you end with Howard, it’s surely time to pack it all in and move to a commune some where in Wales.
Life doesn’t get much worse.
Unless you ring the Halifax of course. Once I had the pleasure of being on hold on their telephone banking system for nearly an hour. I heard Howard sing “Sex Bomb” so many times I had to spend six months in a secure unit for my own protection.
Here’s the advert where they destroy Aretha Franklin’s Think but it pretty much sums up the seemingly never ending, ball breaking, musical hating campaign.
Update
In the latest advert, Thomas from the Halifax branch in Leeds, *sings* along to “I’m Into Something Good” by Herman’s Hermits. I’ve read a few disparaging comments about Thomas that I’m not going to repeat here but does he remind anyone else of the mannequins from O’Neill shop windows? You know, the ones with the terribly fashionable hair cuts on top of their really big heads?
Anyway, here’s the advert. Enjoy!
Just How Bad is this Ad?
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tom
April 18th, 2007 12:26 am
Not only are banks or building societies pulling the wool over peoples eyes in making their presence seem essential, they are literally making a song and dance about it. what the fuck?
Jimmy
June 30th, 2007 5:48 pm
Stupid fat woman with ‘attitude’ takes to the streets to (ahem) sing about your interest - I’ve lost mine, along with my lunch, something I suspect she has plenty of. Silly wobbling mare.
john jones
July 7th, 2007 1:17 pm
Never, ever, ever will I buy a Halifax product after they invade my television with moronic talentless idiots bastardisng classic songs. How many more stupid, fat, boggle eyed morons who may well be very good at working in a bank, will they force upon me. That fucking fat mess of a woman is the last straw. Fuck off Halifax.
Jesse
July 7th, 2007 10:09 pm
Damn that fat hooker on Halifax. Halifax do yourself a favour and die FUCK OFF HALIFAX
Sarah
September 11th, 2007 1:46 pm
OK, I agreed with all the other adverts mentioned, but I actually like this ad. I wouldn’t get a Halifax account but I think their adverts are fun and original. I am a bit concerned that the only reason previous commenters seem not to like the ad is because the lady is “fat”. Aretha Franklin herself was a big lady. What about the fact that Natalie has a very good voice? The blonde on a previous ad in the series singing “sailing” about a million octaves too high - now that’s worth moaning about! If you don’t like the ad, critise something funny about it - don’t make cheap comments about people’s size.
Silky
September 13th, 2007 7:28 am
Hey Sarah, thanks for your comment.
Yeah, I agree you. And I’d like to reiterate that the point of this post was not about Natalie’s appearance and I don’t agree with the other comments about her either.
I currently run the policy that I don’t sensor comments on this site and I apologise if you’re offended by what others have written.
I hope this won’t put you off coming back and participating on this site in the future.
Cheers, Silky.
Joanna Butler
September 18th, 2007 4:00 pm
but she is fat, a fat mess of a woman as someone else said!
russell
September 30th, 2007 10:23 pm
She can move a bit for a fat lass. Tasty. However, my wife has had her ankles welded together so my judgement may be a bit off.
lol
October 11th, 2007 1:51 pm
Maybe we are just haters? I will continue to hate while I search for a solution to my hate issues, these ads makes me want to die ffs.
I’ll have to find a way to take Howard with me so that humanity can go on, we wouldn’t want him contributing to the gene pool would we.
Damn I think I just HATED a bit too much again, excuse me.
CathK
October 27th, 2007 10:37 pm
Russell (300907) you made me crack up - hilarious!!!! But it has to be said - why the fuck shouldn’t they ask a woman to sing if she can sing - what the bleedin hell does it have to do with her size? Look at Aretha Franklin, Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballe, Alison Moyet, Rik Waller (oh sorry maybe not!!) It’s just not reasonable fo expect everyone to be slim.
I hate the ad don’t get me wrong its total crap but tell you what, I would rather watch it than that prick of a wizard saying ‘you buy one you get one free ASAY you buy one you get one free’ what a total dick - even the Safestyle salesmen think he is a waste of space and a total disgrace - who asked him to be on telly???? Ugly lank haired twat - and he is slim (ish - can’t bleeding tell under that daft chuffin green cape!) ) - so judge not by the size! There will always be fat people so get over it - who wants to look like an ironing board with two paracetemols on top anyway?
Russell
October 28th, 2007 9:09 pm
Yep she can sing and move. Porkette 2, Howard nil.
Would also like to add that I’m totally unconcerned by size… other than finding very-thinnies unattractive.
izgrant
November 6th, 2007 9:39 am
So many times I had to spend six months in a secure unit for my own protection - Classic, tickled me for ages!
Silky
November 7th, 2007 9:32 pm
Cheers, izgrant.
Glad you liked it.
Andrew
December 4th, 2007 4:11 pm
I agree with with damn enar all these comments.
Fuck Halifax. Fuck them all to hell. With shitty adverts like this they deserve to be closed down and everybody involved in the advertisment campaigns shot in each leg, have their hands and lips cut off. They’re free to go if they can walk through a town playing a trumpet.
But only then are they allowed to live.
Perspicacious Critic
December 8th, 2007 5:30 pm
To be fair, this commercial as wasn’t as cringing as the previous Halifax ‘musicals.’ The production values, along with the choreography, have improved immensely. (And, no, I neither work for Halifax nor Delaney Lund Knox Warren, the advertising agency behind this advert.)
trevor ellis
December 12th, 2007 8:16 pm
i dont mind that advert at all.
btw the way does anyone remember which bank used the song i only wanna be with you?
it uses a group of men and women dressed in 1960s clothes dancing and prancing around
What the?
January 5th, 2008 8:43 pm
Uh..to be honest this ad wasn’t as bad as the one with the freeze your whatever rate today, that was like something out of Dr zuez and it makes me ask What were you guys smoking?
But yeah that was irrelivant.
mike
January 7th, 2008 4:08 pm
Okay, first. SHE CAN”T SING! She can’t hit the note for the first “Think” so they had to drop it off as she sings.
Second, she is a fat slob. SHE”S UNHEALTHLY OVERWEIGHT. Why glamorize that? Finally, she’s in a halifax ad, and so must die.
Soapy
January 7th, 2008 5:08 pm
Well at least she isn’t Howard, and that has to be a plus. Seeing howard these days really grates beacause he has the demenour of someone who really thinks they’re the finest thing in broadcasting, as opposed to someone who should be dragged around the country tied to the legs of a retired racing horse as an abject lesson to anyone else who thinks that banking and celebrity are a tantalising mix.
Chubbzz
January 9th, 2008 9:51 am
I must say they do put the most effort into there adverts out of all the banks etc…
yoman
January 13th, 2008 8:06 pm
I would like to say how wicked these people are you have a go at someone for being big I believe big is beautiful there is to many anorexic woman on TV they should stop glamorising them, and start glamorising big people, only because a woman is fat does not mean she is not fit or healthy as the song goes If everybody looked the same we would get tired at looking at each other. so true, thank god for big people that what I say and lets put a stop to these trolls who are offensive to big people .
CathK
January 13th, 2008 10:09 pm
yoman I couldn’t agree more - ok so medically being overweight is bad as it increases your chances of having strokes, heart disease, diabetes, cancer blah blah. But I tell you what - I would rather see bigger people than ultra skinny cows like Nicole Ritchie or Victoria Beckham. Being fat is no fun but I honestly would rather be overweight than a stick insect with bones poking out all over the place, that is NOT sexy. Mike (070108) - you need to think about your attitude. Being fat or overweight or big boned or pleasantly plump or whatever does not mean that you are a slob. There are plently thin people that are slobs. Usually people are fat because they have a medical problem or more commonly because of their lifestyle, but even if you eat too much and don’t excercise this does not mean it is ok for people to sit in judgement and call you a slob. Calling an overweight person a fat slob is just ignorant Mike I am afraid.
B&B
January 23rd, 2008 2:39 pm
The latest has a gay chinese singing to a Hermans Hermits tune!
a_n
January 25th, 2008 5:02 pm
ive never been so annoyed about a tv advert. it seems pointless to get over worked about it, but when they are so fucking terrible its beyond belief, what idiot comes up with the ideas. and how much do they cost? hundreds of extras, they cost money, sets, computer graphics.MONEY!
christ i hope these adverts disappear before the end of the year.
Katherine
January 31st, 2008 3:36 pm
I hate the advert but definitely prefer her to those with ‘Howard’ as the main singer.
What the hell has this womans size got to do with the advert, or anything for that matter? Bad celebrity role models and guys like Mike are the reason so many girls become ill.
WOMEN ARE MEANT TO BE CURVY - NOT STICK INSECTS.
My best friend started throwing up after she ate and refused to eat because her now ex boyfriend said she was ‘bigger than normal girls’ (she is a size 14 and NOT fat). I spent 3 months forcing her to eat and then following her to the loo to make sure she didn’t bring it back up and its people with this attitude that really gets to me. I’m a size 8/10 and I know for a fact that she is more healthy than I am, I eat healthily (now) but I don’t exercise - I’m the first to admit I’m a slob but because I don’t put on weight easily I didn’t think what I was eating was wrong and to be honest I am amazed that I am not ill from it.
Just because someone is big doesn’t mean they are unhealthy - did no-one see the Jamie Oliver program recently with the German doctor who studies the human body for medical research? He did a demonstration with a thin man who ate crap and an overweight man who ate healthily - the thin man had more fat in his body than the one that was overweight.
Regardless of whether the advert is good or not, you do not have the right to attack someone for the way they look. Big is Beautiful.
Jellyfish McSaveloy
January 31st, 2008 5:27 pm
I don’t care that the bint is porky (plenty of curvy women out there who are proper hot), i do care, however, that she is a mong and then tries to act ’sedcutively’ while signing about banking. That makes me want to boak. She’s not a terribly good singer but I suppose she’s no worse than that irritating goggle-eyed slaphead. It’s more the fact that the ads aren’t actually original now (as someone else claimed they were) because they’ve been flogging the same dead horse for years and it’s fucking annoying. The first was original (although no less irritating for that) now they just make me want to poke out my eyes, an urge only just overcome by the reflexive lunge for the TV remote to switch it over and end the torture.
Dave
February 1st, 2008 7:40 pm
It’s not the size of the saps in their adverts but the fact that they are all employees of the Halifax, what a bunch of suck ups, imagine the team meetings, “right everyone one we’re looking for a volunteer to make a complete cunt of themselves on national television”. And they fall over themselves to fuckin’do it, creeps.
CathK
February 2nd, 2008 2:17 pm
Dave 010208- I couldn’t agree more - I bet all the rest of the Halifax Staff think they are right arse lickers!!! You can imagine an e -mail going around Halifax staff saying “who wants to A) make a complete arse licking twat out of themselves in order to make Halifax attempt to look good B) annoy the fuck out of the nation C) make everyone in the UK hate you D) make all your colleagues at work call you behind your back
suckers!! You can imagine their pay appraisals in March too. Their line manager…”You will only get 3% same as everyone else, because you can’t get more for being a ‘Halifax champion’ or ‘Halifax employee of the month’ or ‘Halifax suck up’ - the accolade of representing our company is quite compensation enough I’m sure you will agree young Howard/Natalie/Gay Chinese lad ”
sorry ‘Gay’ is prob a bit presumptuous - just copying off whay someone else put!
JOhnie
February 4th, 2008 10:42 pm
aaawwww that Thomas is so Cute!!!! Im off to leeds
abc
February 6th, 2008 9:50 pm
well, if you don’t like it, then why are you finding more and more about it? a.k.a. going onto a blog about this advert =.=
Blimey O'Reilly
February 8th, 2008 11:37 am
I think the Halifax has definitely overdone it with the singing adverts now but at least when they come on it gives me time to nip into the kitchen to put the kettle on. I’m glad someone else noticed the odd size of Thomas’s head. I thought it was my telly going funny!
Bugsy
February 9th, 2008 7:00 pm
My, there are a lot of readers here with serious personal issues: Like verbal diarrhoea with mental constipation. Like my Mama use to say, “If you haven’t got anything useful to say, shut the fuck up!”.
Jen
February 10th, 2008 12:31 pm
Is it just me or does that twat on the last ad sing “Something tells me r into something good”? 1. That don’t make any fucking sense and 2. It’s bloody annoying to say the least.
Ron Atkinson
February 10th, 2008 7:18 pm
Annoying adverts - specifically I have to agree with John Jones’ wise words.
Futher, Katherine, there is not ‘a Kat in hell’s chance’ that this woman is a size 14. If she’s under a size 20, you can call me ‘a lazy f***ing ******’ for not finding out.
Mike is right, why should obesity be advocated and thus encouraged. Why should we promote malnutrition? In fact, seeing an example self-harm on tv is quite disgusting, not to say offensive. I find her utterly disgusting.
As for saying ‘women are supposed to be curvy - not stink insects’, you just show your plain ignorance. Women are not ’supposed’ to be anything.
Dann
February 11th, 2008 3:29 am
What a bell end.
Joanna Butler
February 11th, 2008 5:10 pm
jesus i can’t stand these women banging on about how ‘big is beautiful’ no, its not, big is unhealthy and unsightly.
i was fat, i am no longer fat, i must be the only woman here who doesn’t bleat ‘big is effing beautiful’
dan powell
February 11th, 2008 7:38 pm
howard brown fuck off, fat bitch fuck off, chinese kid fuck off, all halifax adverts just fuck off, it really ruins my night when im watching television and one of those tossers come on, maybe nasa can use them as test pilots to mars without oxygen……………
Free Online Games
February 16th, 2008 2:05 am
Omg enough of these Halifax adverts already, how many more do i have to listen to? I hate that fucken bank because of these adverts. Question: I am supposed to think: “Hey I would bank with these suited clown fucks because they sing songs on telly?” Hell no, I am going to think they operate like a circus. Also don’t bank with Barclays they suck donkey balls to. But at least they don’t sing on tv.
celebrityportraits
February 20th, 2008 4:13 pm
The little ‘guest appearance’ from Howard in the current ad really grates for me - surfing in there, trying to steal little Thomas’s thunder. Howard, you’ve had your share of the limelight, now please, you’ve lowered yourself enough, now it’s someone elses turn.
There’s a particularly mincing little shuffle form thomas i always look forward to when this comes on - i think it’s the bit on the boat. it’s hard not to warm to him after that. perhaps it’s just me though.
Joanna Butler
February 20th, 2008 4:32 pm
lol mincing shuffle.
i hate that Thomas’ face. I just want to punch it, makes me more nauseous than Howard on his surfboard
grrrrrr
Kevin
February 21st, 2008 10:38 pm
RIGHT! seriously Halifax, FUCK OFFFFFFFFF. I’ve just got up off my very comfy coach to vent my anger at your bunch of nonsensical, singing wankers. You have stuffed these idiotic, shit inducing people on us for around 12 years now and you are still pretty much the worst bank\building society on the high street.
Please listen to us, these adverts are not working in your favour and NO Mr fucking Howard Brown you are not a celebrity so please creep off some where and become an alcoholic, drinking on your own and reminiscing about the ‘good ole days’ of acting like a cunt in front of millions of people, who now want to stone you to death. Then hopefuly you’ll find drugs and vomit your shit inducing, singing, lungs up and DIE!!!!
As for you Halifax do us all a favour and take a leaf from Northen Rock’s book or at the very least stop patronizing us and take a look at how crap you are at what you do, stop fuckin singing about it. CUNTS
Joanna Butler
February 22nd, 2008 3:38 pm
lol Kevin thats a fantastic rant.
Munny Bagz
February 23rd, 2008 4:14 pm
For Kevin ….
Have you had an experience with Halifax then? It seems you are a little upset
Sue
February 24th, 2008 8:20 pm
If the Halifax is so good why do they have to make such stupid adverts? It’s more likely to make you run a mile!!!
Spiritualized
February 25th, 2008 9:34 am
On one of the youtube postings there was loads of comments about how these ads were such hard work, (no, not to watch), they meant as in production and choreography.
So pathetically contrived.
And as for *that* haircut, didn’t Beckham have that super mullet about 5 years ago? Jesus Christ.
Bugsy
February 25th, 2008 7:27 pm
Actually, I like Halifax a lot. They lent me lots of money at a very low rate, and have always given me great service. Like I said before, lots of F…FUCKINIG Tourettes sufferers hanging around this site.
Ron Atkinson
February 27th, 2008 9:34 pm
Tourettes sufferers? Yeah there are, WANKER.
Sev Amstell
March 2nd, 2008 5:08 pm
Why on earth have they dragged this type of advert out for so long? In honesty I thought the first one was a fun, original idea. That doesn’t mean they need to remake it for 5 years. Now they are just taking the piss, as each new halifax advert comes along they just grate more and more to the extent that I will never bank with them.
Get a new idea Halifax.
Claire
March 4th, 2008 8:48 pm
People come to Halifax (in Yorkshire) and expect you to start performing like “one of those twats off the tele.” Truthfully, Halifax is an even worse place to be than the place inhabited by the aforementioned, but still…
Claire
March 4th, 2008 8:51 pm
Re: the haircut. He’s a student, which explains it all really..
Emile
March 5th, 2008 7:54 pm
There should be a law against these knob jockeys appearing on our televisions…Every bleeding day i have to sit through some twat killing another song and if that 4 eyed ponce walks down my road iam afraid my car will suddenly vear on to the pavement.It makes me want to pop down to beachy head and throw myself off.I feel so sorry for that lovely town of Halifax and those warm and caring people that preside there in.Isnt it about time the people of this country stopped banking at the halifax and thus ending the misery and the pain they inflict on us.
Lucy
March 6th, 2008 9:33 am
I think that the fact that some of you that are saying that because she is ‘fat’ ‘obese’ ‘unhealthy’ or whatever you want to call it is disgusting. She is not fat obese or unhealthy. She’s curvy, theres a difference. Who are you to judge people and say why or why not someone should be on tv or not. The fact is she is on the tv and there’s nothing you can do about it. Personally I cannot stand the adverts but thats not because of what the people in them look like. I think that if that’s your reasons for her not being on the television then you shouldn’t be allowed to give your opinions and should stop poisoning people with your nasty comments.
Lucy
March 6th, 2008 9:40 am
Its not how big you are on the outside, its your body mass index and I bet you anything that that woman is medically classed as at a healthy weight.
Joanna Butler
March 7th, 2008 2:39 pm
you’re not a fatty by any chance are you Lucy?
Dave
March 7th, 2008 6:16 pm
Sorry Lucy you’re having a laugh aren’t you, she’s got to be classed as obese at least, do you seriously think that she has a BMI of 18.5 to 25, I think the horizontal hold on your telly needs attention (now I am showing my age).
CathK
March 7th, 2008 6:49 pm
Dave I have to agree - she has to be clinically obese - even women who are size 14 and 16 are classed medically as overweight even if society or themselves or their friends & families don’t consider them to be overweight - but even so I still think it is fair ebough to have her on there and you can’t just dismiss a person purely because of their size. Joanna to be perfectly honest your opinion is a bit vile - you have accused me and Lucy of being fatties - just because we are sticking up for our beliefs does not make us fat! You actually said “you must be fat” to me - well I love animals and stand up for animal rights and give what I can to animal charities but does that make me an animal? I might stand up for a disabled person who is being discriminated against but I’m not disabled. I might say allsorts - we are all entitled to our opinion and so are you - but this website is meant to be for expressing views on adverts and how annoying they are - surely people need to stop mud slinging personal remarks to eachother? So you were fat and now you are not. So what exactly? I also used ot be fat and now I am not - but I don’t treat people who are overweight with disrespect like you appear to do. Please don’t bother retaliating to this - it is getting a bit boring now for other people I guess this “you stuck up for a fatty and therefore you must be a fatty” - how bleeding infantile.
Lynda
March 8th, 2008 5:43 pm
The only good thing about the latest Halifax advert is the beautiful scenery! It makes me homesick!
Joanna Butler
March 9th, 2008 4:45 pm
can we just stick to how shit the advert is and not be bored to death with fat rants?
Dave
March 9th, 2008 5:15 pm
You’re right Joanna lets just stick to the fact that its a load of shit and Halifax employs a bunch of wankers who will humiliate themselves on national tv like trained chimps, must be on the application form ‘only prize winning arse lickers without an ounce of self respect need apply’.
Russell
March 9th, 2008 6:23 pm
I agree with Joanna that we shouldn’t get into irrelevant rants; however be careful everyone NEVER to spell Joanna’s name incorrectly (see Cadbury ape advert for detail). Hey I’m just saying is all :b
Joanna Butler
March 10th, 2008 9:17 am
lol @ Russell, or is it Rusel?
Russell
March 10th, 2008 10:29 pm
I bin called worse. On a daily basis in fact.
Just to keep this post relevant… love fattys, and thinnies, but hate Halifax; they took over the building society I’d chosen to do business with and my subsequent attempts to extricate myself from their corporate grip was so tortuous that I tool a solemn oath never to get involved with them again. Have you ever been in one of their compartmentalised micro offices, eh? the decor makes the average McDonalds look sophisticated.
emile
March 11th, 2008 3:15 am
Who gives a flying fuck if the bitch is fat thin or a used tammy…. mind you she is fucking ugly and the only fuck she would get from me is a lump of 4 by 2 round the back of the head….bloody hell you people get a grip…close the bank down and wipe out the staff and that i hope would be the end of that cunting halifax…id give them xtra..right up there shit pipe and no mistake…drag the staff into the street tar and feather them nail the fuckers to a pile of timber and set light to the fuckers toot sweet..bon oui
R E Krishna
April 4th, 2008 12:35 pm
The chap that sings this advert……slanty eyed little bugger. Is it just me or does he look German?
PG
April 8th, 2008 12:50 pm
It’s “populace”. “Populous” is an adjective.
Staffordshire-Lou
April 10th, 2008 3:58 pm
Sorry, but I just found this site, and I almost had a severe asthma attack laughing. Some of the comments are cruel cruel cruel, but OMG I have tears streamind down my cheeks. I can’t wait to join in with the banter on here.
I am in quandry about the halifax adverts: I like a couple of them, but some of them are annoying. The chubby chick doing ‘THINK’ is cringeworthy I must say. But OMG there are some funny people on here, and the owner of the site is f**king funny too. I think it’s cool that it’s not censored because the swear words make the comments look really funny…
Bye for now.
LOUISE xxx
Silky
April 10th, 2008 6:37 pm
@ Staffordshire Lou - cheers for that and welcome to TVs Worst Adverts.
@ PG - Thanks for the spot, I’ve made the update.
Celebkiller
April 13th, 2008 6:37 pm
Halifax…. I will not invest with this bank as a matter of principle……..your ads are shite……. get real
Celebkiller
April 13th, 2008 6:58 pm
Jump on the X Factor wagon Halifax. That one with the fat heffa is terrible - it’s ok to be obese.
embo
April 13th, 2008 7:34 pm
Staffordshire-Lou - ME TOO!
i’ve been sat here for hours reading comments, they’re hilarious!
definitely bookmarking this page!
does anybody actually know who the hell this howard guy is and where the bloody hell he came from?
is he actually a real person?
i wanna meet him…
maybe he’s a robot.
maybe theyre all just robots.
i’m with halifax actually, had no problems so far
but i tell you something, if i wasnt i would NOT be attracted to them in any way, shape or form purely on their adverts :/
and as for fatties,
just burn off more calories than you eat.
simple.
Titus
April 27th, 2008 10:21 am
I could not agree more, several times I have done myself, and others around me, serious injury diving for the remote to mute/turnoff/throw at the screen.
I am looking for a mortgage, if the Halifax were the last company in the world and I had to spend the rest of my life in a makeshift tent, I would not use them. I would not trust any company that subjects me to such torture. Never mind special rendition, show them Halifax adverts.
Howard should be taken to the Hague and charged with crimes against humanity.
Tuppence
April 28th, 2008 4:06 pm
There adverts annoy due to their unmitigated cheapness (and I’m not talking about the production values). They’re aiming at a certain social demographic - the kind who go to Pontins, drive 6 year old Ford Mondeos, read the Sun and call their children Kailey or Ashley. That said, you can’t argue with their competitive rates…
And lets not be rude about fat people, eh? Nevertheless, lets not ignore the elephant in the room (no pun intended): this girl isn’t ‘chubby’, or ‘curvy’ or a size 16 - I’ve been out with a size 16 girl. The lady in the advert is what she (clearly) is - clinically obese. she might be sprightly now, but wait till the knee-joint arthritis kicks in and going upstairs becomes a struggle.
Milkybarnick
May 9th, 2008 11:43 pm
The first time I saw a Halifax advert was 7 years ago, just after New Year 2001. Howard Brown was in it. They’re still wasting money on them now. I’ve never had problems with the Halifax, but how much more interest would we all make if they didn’t fritter their profits on shit adverts like this?
Simes
May 25th, 2008 8:09 am
Oh Titus - love the makeshift tent rant. I too have been wetting myself over the comments on here. BUT - who the hell works in their marketing department? is the Director the ‘head of cheese??’
Thursby
July 2nd, 2008 4:24 pm
The entire idea that an advert can only be effective if it rhymes is a shocker. The Halifax also seems to be hell-bent on portraying the erstwhile Howard Brown as some kind of special needs case - “An an interest rate of 15.9% typical variable that I can recommend!” pitches a smiling HB through his bottle-bottom glasses whilst strutting across the cartoon room like a man who’s joints have been replaced with slinky springs. Oh, fantastic, Howard’s a bit simple so he wouldn’t tell me any prokies would he?
Janet Baines
July 3rd, 2008 10:05 pm
“Fat, Non-Comedian Woman On Telly” shocker. God forbid.
Honestly, I like her Whattitude (that’s “white attitude”, and yes, I’ve deliberately used a cringeworthy portmanteau) and it makes a refreshing change.
A lot of you are talking like complete tossers. The ones who are calling the main “actress” disgusting for being fat are being unnecessarily cruel on a superficial level and the ones who are “supporting” her fatness are clearly just trying to forward their own personal fat-agendas under the guise of a sickeningly PC “curvy” label.
Hurrah for those of you who have actually voiced an opinion on the advert and not just the frontwoman..
Simes
July 8th, 2008 8:40 am
Agreed Janet - the fattist thing is best avoided, but oh the rants are fantastic.
BUT…Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the TV - THERE’S ANOTHER ONE!
We are saving??? -NO YOU ARE A BUNCH OF ANNOYING WANKERS!!!
kirsty
July 11th, 2008 6:57 pm
i do like this advert even if now the person singing it is a bit gay i think the first person who sung the first one was miles beter now shes gone i feel it got a bit boring but still i like to sing to this one
TOOTIE FRUITY IS BETTER ADVERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Games Volcano
August 3rd, 2008 2:04 pm
Someone chop the Asian kid up and put him in a Thai curry. Boycott Halifax! Die Howard Die!
r dalton
August 6th, 2008 7:25 pm
if there was ever a candidate for a makeover it is this gormless looking cunt
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