Comments on: Ocean Finance – Long Grass

By: AJXX

AJXX — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:33:02 +0000

I see these cunts have a new advert (still looks cheap as chips!) with the fucking idiot in a tent with a light bulb strapped to his head.

The whole point of these adverts “did you know ocean have their own TV channel” – whoopt’y fucking doo! who in the fucking right mind would want to watch an entire TV channel after watching this single advert?

Honestly, why bother Ocean – can you not afford a decent advertising team?

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:50:00 +0000

“When you’re desperate, you’ll do anything for money: Sell your cherished record collection, sleep with your best friends mum, ”

Cadge from the impoverished tax payer rather than sell your valuable art collection………

By: rik o shea

rik o shea — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:42:10 +0000

have you just had a stroke ? you have ? oh good , that means it will be easier to forge your signature on the proposal form.

By: rik o shea

rik o shea — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:34:28 +0000

drowning in debt ? no? well take out an ocean loan and you soon will be.

By: LisaLisa

LisaLisa — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:35:49 +0000

The dog is NOT scraggy!! He is my dog!!

By: D

Wed, 13 May 2009 20:55:59 +0000

Come on… a sit-on lawn mower for a garden that size!!!!!! wtf?!?!?!

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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:13:33 +0000

This is hilarious, the symbolism in it, Freud would have a field day with the ginks who thought this load of tripe up.

By: Geoff_S

Geoff_S — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:05:44 +0000

Ocean Finance must have got feedback from the bailiffs they send out to repossess their customer’s homes, that their ideal customer is one that can’t be arsed to mow their lawn. (like me).

Sort of people who’ll happily convert unsecured debts that they could probably walk away from, into one they’ll lose their house over.

Has anyone else noticed that the bad taste these adverts leave in your mouth is transferred to the program that follows? The program you’re watching has been financed out of the misery & exploitation of others.

By: Raymond Dunthorne

Raymond Dunthorne — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:16:06 +0000

It’s almost as tasteless as the ‘castaway’ one Ocean did. The hapless debt-strewn victim was rescued at the end by a large ‘Ocean Finance’ yacht that I was told was owned by guess who? That’s right, the CEO of Ocean Finance.

By: helenw1301

helenw1301 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:47:42 +0000

Basically these ads are for dumb arses – Are you in debt? Then get another loand to make yourself into more debt and be a lot older when you finally pay it off

By: Silky

Silky — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:40:53 +0000

Hey those adverts make me some good money.

I mean, I wrestle with my conscience on a regular basis about running ads this blog, Clagnuts.

I use the title “Ironic Advertising” to kid myself I’m not just another shill…

By: Clangnuts

Clangnuts — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:08:31 +0000

How ironic. The google ads for loans after all the well meaning lecturing

By: Exiledinwatford

Exiledinwatford — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:59:00 +0000

Can’t keep up your repayments? House being repossessed? We have the answer – BORROW SOME MORE! For me Picture is just as bad. All these companies offer an answer to everyone’s debt problems by guess what? Getting into more debt. They ought to be stopped.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:13:32 +0000

The funniest part of the advert has to be the crazy spending. Even though the poor sod just needed to spend a hundred quid on a better mower, he’s managed to borrow enough to carry out some pretty extensive reworking on his house.The ride-on mower is pure class, which considering the size of his garden,would be like buying a pig farm when you fancy a bacon sandwich.

If I’d shot the advert I’d have kept the basic story but had the whole family wearing top hats and monacles and guzzling champagne as they watch him mow the lawn.

By: MikeZag

MikeZag — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:02:42 +0000

The product is vile – lumping all your tiny loans into one huge ugly one. However, spare a thought for the other vulnerable people here – the classically trained actors who are forced to do the ads between shifts at Starbucks. It’s not as if Kevin Spacey or Bob Deniro could do any better… They are just actors – unlike Nadine Baggot – which is by far the worst Ad ever… because it has the added ingredient of ‘no shame’.

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By: Thranjax

Thranjax — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:50:52 +0000

Truly an awful advert (but hilarious) and typical of the wish fulfilment nonsense that the debt consolidation leeches spew out.

Also, towards the end there is a shot of him approaching his wife on the mower, and a cut to him going back the other way. There’s no space for him to turn the monstrous thing round (the mower not his wife) so how did he? (Shades of that old advert with the Joker on the soundtrack and the bike in the elevator).

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:20:43 +0000

So right. But it’s not just the look he gives his wife, it’s the fact that she’s stuffing that pot, down at crotch height, really hammering home the point that he’s now getting to give her a stuffing.