Swiftcover.com – Car Insurance with Iggy Pop
28 January 2009 by SilkyLike many of the stars of 80′s TV shows who have had their series cancelled, Skeletor has fallen on hard times. Unable to find a proper job on “civvie street”, Snake Mountain has fallen into disrepair and God only knows when he last changed Panthor’s litter tray.
So poor old Skeletor has had bend over a think of Eternia while the man sticks it to him:
Not really.
This is, in fact, the horrifying sight of, the now 113 year old, Iggy Pop whoring his bag of bones for swiftcover.com car insurance.
Some folks on t’internet have claimed that, following the Johnny Rotten/Country Life butter affair, this advert sounds the death knell of punk.
Others refuse to believe that Iggy Pop, an icon of this anti-establishment rock music genre, could throw his principles out the window and flog car insurance?
What has he become? Some sort of stooge?
Anyways, if punk is dead (which it is) then, from the looks of him, I’m fairly certain Iggy Pop won’t be far behind.
“I’m selling you time.” Iggy tells us.
“Get a life!” Iggy emplores us.
If only poor old Iggy Pop would listen to his own advice and make better use of the precious little time he seems to have left and not churn out any more of this guff.
Just How Bad is this Ad?
(121 votes, average: 4.55 out of 5)
102Responses:
Ian
Said on the 29 January 2009
This advert is shit… pure and simple…
Tommy
Said on the 29 January 2009
Hahaha, I was wondering if you’d ever post this piece of shit advert. Everything about it is just annoying.
I hate seeing that prats face every time I change the channel!!
ali
Said on the 29 January 2009
rock and roll huh?
of course iggy can’t find his birth certificate – paper does tend to disintegrate fairly easily after hundreds of years
R E Krishna
Said on the 29 January 2009
Of course this ad is doomed to failure in the light of other current car insurance ads. Far better surely to have invented a joke website called say—www.comparetheferret.com. Naturally to make it work the presenter would need to have a ludicrous, heavy foreign accent. I think it could work though.
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 29 January 2009
Is that Iggy Pop?!! I thought it was a scarecrow on speed…..
Archer
Said on the 30 January 2009
I saw Iggy Pop live a couple of years ago. I’m fairly certain he pissed himself on stage. Suddenly I was very aware that I was watching a gurning old man writhing about and screaming. If I hadn’t been a bit trashed, I probably would have felt uncomfortable about it all.
RJ Roberts
Said on the 30 January 2009
They must really be scraping the bottom of the barrel now. You know it because it’s when “celebrities” start to crop up in every ad for a certain thing in this case insurance. Insurance has never been, and never will be sexy, cool, hip, any of those things. Just fucking drop the ads already.
I have an idea for a new car insurance ad, the fat cunt from the “act on CO2″ ad is sitting on his sofa with one of the broads from Sheila’s Wheels. Bloke turns on the telly… *wham* fucking giant hammer blasts out of the screen and smashes his face in. This just about sums up insurance.
sammy micaels
Said on the 30 January 2009
this advert actually scares my son , he runs out fo the room when it comes on , and u have to admit that is a very strange and disturbing advert
Liam
Said on the 31 January 2009
the rage this advert fills me with resulted in me seeing if others are offended by it. since typing swiftcover advert hate into google i realised i’m from alone.
truly awful
Pajy
Said on the 31 January 2009
Pretty much this guy has always been a talentless arse repeating himself like a flatulent pullet. It is surprising he has been spared selling insurance for so long
I guess a lot of people seeing Pop think oh I thought he was dead
certainly his act was even 10 years ago when I lsat saw him
Nizza
Said on the 1 February 2009
My God, this advert is really getting on my nerves. Listening to Iggy Pop ranting on about loving his damn car and telling us to get a life is bad enough. But having to watch his flabby moobs bouncing around on his wrinkly body is enough to make me want to upchuck my lunch. IGGY GET A LIFE (or at least a bra!!!)
bob
Said on the 1 February 2009
The ad is disgusting, some old man with dried out elephant skin draped over a bag of bones talking absolute nonsense.
As soon as this ad comes on, which unfortunatley is way, way too often I have to turn over especialy when we are eating
This ad has had the opposite effect with me, even if swift have the cheaper quote there is no way I’ll take it.
Why do the powers to be ban funny ads like the microsoft xbox ad and allow shite like this ad is beyond me
Stacey
Said on the 3 February 2009
EWWWWWWWW put a t-shirt on.
Felix
Said on the 5 February 2009
Welcome to Swift chat.
You are now connected to Swiftcover chat. Please wait for an agent to assist you.
Rebecca : Hello you are through to Rebecca, how can I help you?
Customer: Hi i’m looking for Car Insurance. Can you cover my profession?
Rebecca : Please can I have the registration number of the car you are looking to insure?
Customer: xxxxx
Rebecca : Thank you. Please clarify your occupation.
Customer: I’m a musician.
Rebecca : Please wait one moment while I look into that for you.
Rebecca : Is this your full time profession?
Customer: Yes, a performing musician.
Rebecca : Unfortunately we do not cover your profession we apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Customer: Just one question then. The guy in your Advert “Iggy Pop’ what does he do for a living?
Customer: Hello?
Rebecca : Unfortunately we do not know his personal life. He is not one of our policy holders.
Customer: He is a Rock Musician
Customer: An Entertainer
Customer: He claims to be one of your customers in the advert. Are you saying he isn’t a policy holder?
Customer: I think that is called ‘False Advertising’ can you please tell me who I need to complain to?
Customer: Rebecca?
Customer: This is very slow
Rebecca : Iggy Pop was chosen for advertising purposes only. Swiftcover do not cover Musicians as part of our underwriting.
Customer: I think that is called ‘False Advertising’ can you please tell me who I need to complain to?
Rebecca : Please send all complaints to complaints@swiftcover.com
Customer: Thanks Rebecca. Goodbye
Rebecca : I hope this has helped answer your query. Is there anything else I can help you with today?
Customer: No, thank you
Neil
Said on the 5 February 2009
Swiftcover definately wouldn’t cover poor Iggy as clearly stated in their exceptions with the reference to his profession as an ‘entertainer’ This is clearly a case of false advertising and misrepresentation.
Perhaps Rebecca should have said: Please send all complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority at http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/how_to_complain/complaints_form/
dieiggydie
Said on the 6 February 2009
Even worse is swiftcover sponsor Sci-fi on SKY. Which means at the start and end of any sci-fi show and at the start and end of every ad break you get him babbling away.
So lets say I watch a Stargate double. That means 16 instances(3 ad breaks in an hour show plus the start and end) in a two hour pediod. God damn overkill…. Please no one ever use swiftcover ever ever ever ever….
Neil
Said on the 8 February 2009
Here is the most Truthful Youtube take on Iggys Swiftcover advertisement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvp-LFJ9GFc
Oh the Irony….
Matt
Said on the 10 February 2009
This advert has absolutely no aim to it…it completely diverges from its planned path of selling insurance and generally leaves me and i assume anyone else who views it confused as to whether someone has just dropped LSD into their drink.
Beyond its creepiness the actual result of their attempt at being down with the kids (fyi swiftcover: no one, let alone kids care about car insurance being cool…cus its not!) its just a completely botched job of using a celebrity face to boost sales.
One final thing…why the hell is this advert sponsoring sci-fi on sky?! how is it related in the slightest?! God, Rupert Murdoch really wasn’t paying attention in that ad schedule meeting.
This advert annoys me to such an extent i actually came online to find others who hate it…this is what this piece of s**t has done to me…made me a sad complaining baglady!
Rant over…
P. ORG
Said on the 10 February 2009
goes to show that fame or money doesn’t make you look better when you get older.
not an ad that compels you to ring swift.
perhaps they think that if your stoned you won’t bother to ring them after an incident.
firebird
Said on the 11 February 2009
I’m glad to see so many others also find this ad disturbing and annoying.
If anything this ad with Iggy puts me off buying insurance from swiftcover. I will avoid them like hell if I can. Unless of course they were to give away free insurance, then I may think about it for a second.
And as Felix on 5th Feb (see above) points out, this is false advertising. Hope someone takes this advert off the air….soon. and I hope swiftcover are reading these valuable comments.
Also, the whole sweatiness thing really doesn’t appeal. Ewwwwww.
firebird
Said on the 11 February 2009
I wrote an email to the feedback address of Swiftcover.com.
I got a response from the Marketing Director who said that she hoped that this ad will grow on me! Nooooooooo, I don’t want anything to do with Iggy growing on me!
Joshua
Said on the 11 February 2009
I find the use of the anarchism symbol quite enraging…
Ziggy Plop
Said on the 12 February 2009
I love it.
vryannoyed
Said on the 13 February 2009
This advert makes me feel sick too.
He looks like a dead horse thats been found in the desert and then proped up and glazed with vegetable oil.
What made them think that we want to see this example of decomposition in progress, prance around like a camp baboon…especially when we’re eating.
oh well, I see the vultures circling him.At least there won’t be another commercial with him in it.
Ziggy Plop
Said on the 13 February 2009
Don’t be so harsh vr, it takes a lot of hard work to have a body like that when your in your eighties.
justawful
Said on the 18 February 2009
SImply dreadful. I would never use any company prepared to be so irritating. Actually couldn’t believe that it was Iggy Pop. Thought it had to be a look-a-like and that he wouldn’t sell out – let alone so badly. Look at me everyone, I am a ****head.
steve
Said on the 19 February 2009
this old bag of bones should be put out to pasture !!! absolute crap advert
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 19 February 2009
or melted down for glue….
Danny
Said on the 24 February 2009
The ASA are currently investigating this false advertisement as we speak and should in all fairness ban the ad, as it is clearly in breach of the regulations regarding false or misleading adverts.
Iggy Pop would find to his cost that insuring with Swiftcover is not beneficial to your health or pockets in the long run.
If he were to make a claim, it would immediately be refused due to their exceptions which include, an entertainer, musician, actor and last but probably not least, the fact that he is not a resident of the U.K. for at least 9 months of the year.
It is still not too late to lodge a complaint via the following webpage
http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/how_to_complain/complaints_form/
Daniel Newton
Said on the 24 April 2009
I REALLY REALLY Hate this advert!!!
“Maybe im selling car incurance or maybe im selling time” – WTF? you ARE SELLING CAR INSURANCE.
This advert makes me feel sick watching that malformed old man running arround.
and what annoys me more than anything else is the fact that on sky 1, 2 and 3 its repeated on every set of adverts start and finnish (8 times an hour !!!)
I really hope this advert gets canceled soon becouse every time i see it i have to either mute or turn over or shout very loudley at my tv!!!.
The Boy Of Steel
Said on the 28 April 2009
This advert is freaking nasty.
I’m 17 years old so i haven’t a CLUE who this tramp is, (From the band Iggy Pop as i’ve just found out) but he looks like Freddy Kruger on crystal meth.
I actually HATE this man so much so i googled ‘Ugly man on Sky Car insurance advert’ to see if anyone else wanted to gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon everytime they saw it.
i can see i’m not alone in this.
And Felix’s comment reminds me of one of those random Family Guy side-scenes.
Lol.
Pantsman
Said on the 28 April 2009
I’m 65 just like Iggy but my body isn’t as nice as his.
Nick
Said on the 28 May 2009
Finally, a bunch of likeminded. I watch lots of scifi on Sky and am thoroughly fed up by Iggy Pop. It is an effective way of making be stay clear of Switfcover forever!
Never mind the points others have made about this having no relation to the product and that Iggy would never be able to get cover from stupid Swiftcover.
On the bright side, this means that I make an effort to mute the TV during commercial breaks, right to the moment where the regular programming resumes. Way to go, Sky!
Jake Adson
Said on the 31 May 2009
I HATE this advert, that man in it and SWIFT COVER. I will NEVER buy anything from them ever again becouse of this advert I will also make sure that knowone i know EVER buyes anything from them also.
As for scifi on sky – I cannot watch it anymore becouse this advert ruins it (its on every break and has been for atleast 2 months now?) PLEASE sky get a new sponser for scifi or im going to cancel. I mean how many times are they going to show this piece of shit???
Distrubed.
Ziggy Plop
Said on the 31 May 2009
OOOh Jake , I bet Swift Cover and Sky are shitting themselves now.
shoot ziggy on sight
Said on the 10 June 2009
Please make it stop, ive not watched sky for like 6 months, because of that ziggy kunt.
alan
Said on the 11 July 2009
ive just watched it again unmuted to see if there is anything i can actually like about it but i cant, its fuking shit, ugly scrawny bellend spouitng his mouth off about shite insurance he cant even get off them himself,
its now on my avoid list along with that safestyle wanker with his BOGOF offer you buy one you get one free i say you buy one you get one free FUCK OFF WITH IGGY please !
Another Ad Hater
Said on the 20 July 2009
ARGH! This shit advert is back on again. Why the hell is Iggy in a car insurance ad if he CAN’T EVEN FUCKING BUY IT?!
Get a life, get Swift Covered? No, I’m gonna rephrase that. Get a life, get the fuck off the TV and stop shoving shit adverts on our screens!!
Jack
Said on the 24 July 2009
Complete and utter vomit inducing garbage has the man no shame?
Mike
Said on the 4 August 2009
Surely appearing in adverts from beyond the grave is against ASA rules isn’t it?
Neil
Said on the 6 August 2009
Why don’t you sad ,no-life flat liners just switch over to the BBC?
Why put yourself through it?
me
Said on the 7 August 2009
war, famine, crime, poverty, ecconomic melt down, etc etc
BUT LOOK AT US! WE ARE IMPORTANT, BECAUSE WE ARE RANTING ABOUT ADVERTS! LISTEN TO US! VALUE US! please….
tossahs.
R E Krishna
Said on the 7 August 2009
What an awful curse…….to be born with absolutely no sense of humour.
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 7 August 2009
Even trolling has hit a new low, probably being trained by the skills centre….
Archer
Said on the 7 August 2009
To be fair… I do post on here in a desperate attempt at validation.
Mike
Said on the 8 August 2009
On No! I thought that posting silly comments about advertisements would really make the ad men sit up and take notice, in short make a difference! Neil’s comment shows me how sad I am. I’m off back to http://www.lookhowlittleyourwillyis.com – at least there they take me seriously.
alan
Said on the 9 August 2009
WTF Neil
” Why don’t you sad ,no-life flat liners just switch over to the BBC?
Why put yourself through it?”
obviously you dont have sky so stick to your 5 channel black and white portable in the living room,
but as me and many others have sky or just think the BBC is shite and dont want to watch songs of praise… we want to watch the other channels, scifi for instance is sponsered by swift so hes there all day, and like i said hes a crawny bellend spouting his mouth off making people sick with his greasy body and poofter glitter , and i like commenting on things i dont like,
I'm ME!!!!
Said on the 10 August 2009
I am nearly 40 and I have never heard of this guy!
According to Wikipedia, Iggy Pop was in a group called the Stooges?!?
The Stooges, I thought those three were all dead, and who was he, the one with the big horn or the one who got hit on the head a lot?
No, I think it is cool to see that they make adverts for the pensioners. Enough yoof already!!!
john shaw
Said on the 22 August 2009
Yeah, like he’s really worried about all the negitive remarks your all leaving, whilst he’s laughing all the way to the bank, thousends of pounds the richer, and again here he is all these years later right in everybodies face in 2009 some 30 years after he first entered the punk sceen, good on him, wish I could do the same.
Alex Penn
Said on the 14 November 2009
Hi,
We are a taxi company Hummingbird Cars in London. We provide Airport Transfer service from all london airports.
We are in need of having insurance cover for all over Taxi.But, we are in a sort of confusion as there are so many insurance provider as we know that there are so many hassles in the claim process. So, Can anyone please advice us where we can buy best and most reliabel Insurance for our cars.
http://www.hummingbirdcars.com
Thank you
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 14 November 2009
No.
Daniel Newton
Said on the 27 November 2009
Here in Manchester this idiots ugly mug is still posted all over the back of busses (adverts)
I was behind a bus with his ugly fucking mug staring at me for 20 mins last night, I really did want to put my foot down a total the bus.
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 7 January 2010
Fuck, Swiftcover now have a new ad on our screens with Iggy driving a car and there’s this really DISTURBING puppet of him sitting in the passenger seat. I thought the previous Swiftcover ads were gross but this new one is FUCKING DISGUSTING! I fucking hate the sweaty look of Iggy! Get this shit off my TV NOW!!
Daniel NEwton
Said on the 8 January 2010
@ AD Hater 2.0: Please Please Please!!! tell me thats not true! honestly this advert was the bain of my life a few months back I HATED it beyond anything. I dont want to see some malformed old man with stupid long hair running arround like a nutter every single set of fucking adverts!
Nick
Said on the 8 January 2010
@Daniel Newton: True. Saw it too. almost as bad as the original. Looks like an attempt at copying the Vauxhall (I think) ads with the woman and the ugly dolls. This time with an ugly man and an uglier doll. And there is no point to the ad either. Just meaningless blabber (sort of like this comment)…
Daniel Newton
Said on the 8 January 2010
One would think that after hundereds of complaints about the previous series of adverts (i.e. mindless drivel) Swiftcover would get the message……….
I mean these adverts are so ugly, “Am i selling car insurance or am I selling time” what? “Get a life, Get swiftcover” piss off!
I really dont want to see a malformed geriatric arsehole running arround my tv screen covered in oil blurting out “get a life” every time the break comes on during corrie!
Swiftcover better take then hint and swiftly get this shit off my telly before I see it!
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 8 January 2010
It’s all true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhBnEV3ElvY
What the fuck were Swiftcover on?! This makes me NEVER EVER want to use their site!
emily
Said on the 10 January 2010
I LOVE HIM!!!!!!
gingerbiscuit
Said on the 10 January 2010
Never a Stooges fan. But this is the most hysterical thing I’ve seen in a long time. Go Iggy
Daniel Newton
Said on the 16 January 2010
NOOOO! I can confirm a second advert with Icky Poop on a Golf Course with a waste cote on and nothing underneath i.e. his leathery wrinkled belly is hanging out.
I mean please Swiftcover fuck off, you toured me with these adverts at the beginning of the year when you decided to sponsor Sky-Fi on Sky 1 (rather appropriate for Iggy actually) – I actually rang up Sky and canceled by subscription because of seeing this literally 8 times an hour none stop for 3 months – honestly no exaggeration.
Swiftcover has blatantly ran out of marketing ideas for yet another bloody car insurance company and decided to use the doll.
Honestly I feel sorry for anyone still with Sky who is paying £35+ per month to watch nothing but bloody adverts!
Iggy
Said on the 25 January 2010
“One would think that after hundereds of complaints about the previous series of adverts (i.e. mindless drivel) Swiftcover would get the message……….”
Oh, would one? But wait! One doesn’t work for swiftcover does one? (does one work?) So one doesn’t get a share of the squillions of pounds swiftcover made last year or get a sniff of the huge amount of coverage it got (I bet that grates, what with one being a no-mark). So the ‘hundereds’ (yep, SIC) of people who complained pale into insignificance compared with the thousands of people who bought the insurance!
So Daniel “Swiftcover better take then hint and swiftly get this shit off my telly before I see it!” and AdHater 2.0 “This makes me NEVER EVER want to use their site!” – they don’t care what one thinks. They are not listening to one.
People power. On a blog. Read by 12 people! Not quite Tiananmen Square.
Daniel Newton
Said on the 25 January 2010
Dear Iggy (Arse-hole above) your obviously in love with Icky Poop – thats the only logical reason I can think of that anyone would want to watch a malformed old man running around half naked.
It’s so funny how some people are such hypocrites yet they don’t even know it, you for instance are obviously just like the rest of us who took time to find this site and submit a comment
As for swiftcover.com – They don’t (or did not) even cover musicians when they started using Icky Poop – More lies.
Feel free to post another witty amusing rant, On a blog, Read by 12 people….
Yes, I love Iggy Poop (ooh, edgy)
Said on the 26 January 2010
Hey Dan
Thanks for the permission to respond (phew, I was worried there that you wouldn’t let me, seeing as you’re so powerful). Yes, I actually think the Iggy Pop ads are quite funny, but then I don’t get bent out of shape by pretend things like adverts.
But hey, I really like this site – I love seeing all the shitty ads and all the sarky comments, particularly the funny ones when people have spent time thinking up a response, rather than just using the 30 seconds when the boss isn’t watching to spew out their bile at their lives not working out as they had dreamed of so they end up working in a dead end job.
But the thing that is almost as funny as the bad ads are the people who think that advertisers and creatives in their Mercs, BMWs and Lexi, Paul Smith suits and Alpine chalets are going to take any notice of the people who say “if you don’t get your multi-million pound advert for your multi-million pound company off my TV, I won’t buy your stuff!”
Boo and indeed hoo.
Daniel Newton
Said on the 26 January 2010
Again with the Hippocrates, you my friend have obviously taken the time to find this site and post two comments haven’t you?
You must be very lonely in this world if you find it ok to watch a geriatric malformed old man running round your TV screen half naked screaming “Get a life”
I personally don’t give a flying fuck if an ‘advertising exec’ reads my rants on this site or not, it’s a good place to vent anger on the likes of ‘GoCompare’ (your probably a fan of that too?)
Boo, Hiss………………….
Iggy
Said on the 26 January 2010
Hey Danny Boy
Good to hear from you again.
What’s with the Greek? Yes, I took the time to find this site and post comments because I like the site and like posting comments (I see you’re struggling with the concept of enjoyment).
Why am I lonely? Why is it not okay to like the ad? (It’s not like I’m burning down orphanages). You obviously watch the ad quite a lot to be able to vividly recreate it in the form of words, so why deny the pleasure?
Not wild about GoCompare, to be honest, but it doesn’t make me angry in the way it seems to make you froth and thrash. But chill out Dan-Dan, life’s too short. Have you tried turning off the TV, reading a book or, like good old Iggy says, Get a Life. What about golf – I see Iggy plays.
You might like it.
Daniel Newton
Said on the 27 January 2010
Oh joy! another witty well thought out responce.
I wait eagerly in anticipation for the next one….
Iggy
Said on the 28 January 2010
Ooh, you tease!
Not iggy fan
Said on the 28 January 2010
this is the most disgusting advert I have ever seen in my life, the man is a disgrace to humanity and should not be allowed to polute my screen he makes me feel sick.
Jake Walker
Said on the 29 January 2010
I can’t believe this person above called ‘iggy’ is actually defending this bollocks.
Who wants to switch on the tv and be confronted by an old wrinkled droopy man, covered in oil with stupid bleached long hair and no shirt on? who then proceeds to run around the screen shouting “get a life” it’s completely beyond me, I don’t care if the person who made this advert is reading, but I hope one day I get to meet him/her and punch its fucking daylights out for subjecting me to such heinous adverts.
Like a poster above I was completely unable to watch Sky 1 for months when this rubbish first came on in Jan/Feb 09 – It was 8 times an hour that you where seeing this malformed old horse running around, apparently thousands complained both due to the frequency of the advert and the indecent expose – I cant believe Swiftcover would even considerer brining this back….
Daniel Newton
Said on the 4 February 2010
Saw this again last night while I had friends visiting from Australia – They where immediately shocked how this advert was allowed to be shown in fact one of them actually thought it was “completely inappropriate and disgusting” – of course referring to icky poop.
Gary b
Said on the 8 February 2010
I feel sorry for the old dude. There’s no denying that when the movie trainspotting was releases in the early nineties the music Inc iggy pops bit was awesome, but that was in the early nineties it’s 2010 now…. Next they will have David Bowie doing ring tone ads!! Shame I think.
Iggy Man-Love
Said on the 8 February 2010
WOW! The Aussies hate it! Well, let’s ban it then!
Shocked! “Completely inappropriate and disgusting” – blimey, let’s take to the streets!
Nights in at your house sound like a real blast.
“Hmm, yummy pot noodle. What’s next?”
“Let’s watch the TV and be offended by the adverts!”
“Cool!”
fadermnan
Said on the 12 March 2010
Get a life Iggy says, about right with the other comments on here ! its a good ad,I like it
and will get swift covered next time I renew.
all the ads with Iggy are good and he stiill gets a crowd when he performs.
its a good job we are not all jedwood or rihana fans
Daniel Newton
Said on the 12 March 2010
WHAT!!!! these adverts are awful, how anyone can say these are good is beyond me!
Know one wants to see a horrid old man running around half nude with his wrinkeled deformed bear belly hanging out – I don’t care whether its Iggy Pop or Prince Williams – Its just NOT NICE
Also you obviosly don’t have sky, these adverts used to be repeated TWICE every 11 minuets on every single channel that’s just under 21 times an hour!
oh… and by the way its Rihanna
ali
Said on the 12 March 2010
ahh prince williams, i wondered what robbie was up to these days…..
Dan Moral
Said on the 15 March 2010
I just love the way Daniel Newton smugly corrects fadermnan on his spelling of Rihanna!
Please see your incorrect spellings below and my corrections:
Know one No one
Wrinkeled Wrinkled
bear belly beer belly
Prince Williams Prince William
obviosly obviously
sky Sky
minuets minutes
Get a Life! Get Swift Covered! (and a dictionary) You Stupid TWAT!
Daniel Newton
Said on the 15 March 2010
Oh dear, it appears someone has too much time on their hands…..
and er, close the door on your way out.
Dan Moral
Said on the 15 March 2010
Daniel Newton – I had time to count that you have posted 11 times on this one thread alone! Seems to me that you have rather a lot of spare time Yourself!
And I slammed the door on my way out FUCK FACE!
Paul
Said on the 29 March 2010
I think Iggy Pop selling car insurance is pretty punk – it makes me laugh anyway. Johnny Rotten selling butter as well (apparently he did it to finance a new Public Image Limited album instead of giving over control to a record label in return for the funds – which sounds fair enough) http://www.facebook.com/getalife.swiftcover?ref=nf#!/video/video.php?v=104031609635620&ref=mf
djb
Said on the 10 April 2010
I loved the ad so much I went out and bought two Iggy albums.
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 7 July 2010
Well, just fucking fantastic. This shite ad is back on our screens once again! FUCK OFF IGGY POP ALONG WITH YOUR STUPID UGLY PUPPET!
AJXX
Said on the 12 July 2010
oh for fuck sake this utter fucking bollocks is back again! I thought we where well and truly past having to see this wrinkled fucking bag of shite running around half nude with his beer belly hanging down.
So far I have only ever seen this on Sky 1, 2 and 3 so hopefully this cunt won’t be shown every 10 fucking mins on every single channel like it used to be!
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 25 July 2010
Oh fucking wonderful! Now there are Swiftcover ads on Spotify. On TV was bad enough but I don’t want to hear that stupid Iggy puppet while I’m listening to music! FUCK OFF!
john
Said on the 10 November 2010
Swift insurance take the piss sorry it true,
I had to phone them to cancel my car policy, I had to spend 48 pound, on the phone call it self, it a dam right liberty that a company makes money on there clients phone calls and insurance fees.
I am being charged 38 pound, to end the contract thank god, I received a email confirmation that the policy is know cancelled.
I have read thousands off bad problems about swift cover regarding, cancel policy,getting them to pay up, getting them to pay up via a accident, that wasn’t your fault or was your fault.
I put everything together from other forums to ditch them, I came up with a story to get rid off them, I was still asked the reason off leaving them unreal.
First time i called swift cover, I told them i wanted to council my policy, was diverted to the correct department and i told them again i want to council my policy please, the lady said no lol. (according to her i had no reason enough to council my policy.)).
cheek.
i went immediately to the bank with the right hump, and ask the lady at the band for 50 pound worth of coins at the bank.(i was well pee off, had all ready spent 20 pound on this stupid swift cover idiots.
So i fort right,let pone know and do it, the forum way, and plan my conversation, ill get rid off the idiots.
So i phoned again , I got thou to correct department, straight away i told them, excuse me , I have spent know 78 pound over on this conversation and i want my insurance policy council know.
The lady ask all relevant info gave it, then ask for the date need the policy stopped from, i said right this minute.
(don’t believe the next question))
she said please tell me why you want to council you policy, I fort right here we go, be careful there aiming to keep you!)
I said, I have no money in my account to pay any bills, not even food money, please stop the policy, i am phoning you , so you know, i got problems with money,
I then ask her can i have the policy free( no she said lol, i fort right i am there, she hearing me.)
Then she said my email address, i confirmed it, then she said the policy is know cancelled.
in total 108 pound spent in two days to get rid of swift insurance, i was with them over 6 years, never again……..
The end and swift piss off and die , you scum sucking insurance company…
I won in the end bitch.
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 5 January 2011
Oh what fucking joy! Iggy fucking Pop has returned to our screens with a new set of SHIT Swiftcover ads and that ugly excuse of a puppet is still there. Get a life? No! I’d rather you FUCK OFF!
Steve
Said on the 11 July 2011
I love reading all the bullshit hate here people pulling each other up on tiny spelling and grammatical errors. I’ve come to the party late but I just wanted to say I don’t think having a disheveled junkie and a Muppet as the face of your business is the way to go. To the guy who got ripped off by swift cover. When Iggy Pop came on the telly half naked exposing his disgusting drug and alcohol riddled skanky old body almost showing his pubis with a Muppet caricature next to him and tram lines up his arms from injecting drugs did you actually think hmmm I want to trust my financial services to these people.
djb
Said on the 11 July 2011
Why is everybody so upset about an advert?
Seems like a stupid and childish thing to me.
And, Iggy is in great shape for his age!
Any argument that his body is “skanky” is completely idiot – he’s 63!
Compared to other people of his age he has the least skanky body!!
All of you silly children should just grow up.
Iggy is one of the most respected musicians of all time, and Swiftcover are a multi million dollar company. Neither care about your pathetic whining.
At the end of the day, the adverts will still play whether you like it or not!
Steve
Said on the 11 July 2011
“Childish” is being amused by a sad old man and his puppet djb and Iggy “was” one of the most respected musicians of all time. Now he is a sad ugly old car insurance salesman.
Steve
Said on the 11 July 2011
And don’t be calling me a silly child djb your clearly some sort of homo bitch.
Steve
Said on the 11 July 2011
No doubt sad old punks think buying insurance from shit cover is pretty rock and roll and sticking it to the man. I have watched the media and corporations take punk away from the people so they can market it back to them. “Completely idiots” such as djb allow this to happen through their stupidity and lack of understanding.
djb
Said on the 11 July 2011
Steve, I find you offensive. What has my sexuality got to do with anything? Cheap shots like this do nothing to enhance your argument.
I don’t know if you know this, but Iggy is adored by the young generations, especially mine.
I was at a gig of his two weekends ago, and there was not a grey hair in sight. Everyone in the audience was under 25, all of them were singing along and dancing. How is he a sad old man if he can provoke such a reaction from a crowd of thousands?
He is one of the best performers of all time, and age has not affected his ability to excite an audience.
I am amused by the novelty of the advert, much as I was amused by David Bowie on water advertisements in the early 2000s.
Sad old men like you do not understand punk. If you did you would know that Iggy defines it, and anything he does is “punk” regardless of how far from punk you believe it to be.
Please find something worthwhile to complain about.
Steve
Said on the 11 July 2011
“Anything he does is punk” How can I win a argument against that kind of fanaticism. Yea I apologize your right I’m wrong the swift cover adverts are really good and cool and well executed and Iggy has lost non of his edge or kudos for becoming a insurance company spokesman. I’m sure Patti Smith and Sid Vicious and Jello Biafra would all agree with you too.
Steve
Said on the 11 July 2011
I suspect your idea of punk is blink 182, sum 41 and the offspring “Americana” Where as mine is Crass, The Exploited, The Dead Kennedy’s, Bad Religion, The sex Pistols and The Clash. Iggy DID define punk now he sells insurance policies that rip off customers. That is not Punk it never has been punk and it never will be punk and I’m rubber stamping that and nothing you say changes that. You are amused by a idiot and his puppet I am not. Nor are the majority of people here. Iggy has come full circle and become what he despised like most punks do.
steve
Said on the 11 July 2011
Also djb why do you assume I’m old? Is it because I’m more knowledgeable about music, life ,art and culture than you? What decade are you living in? No-one young knows who Iggy is. There was a young woman on here earlier inquiring as to who the dirty looking tramp with his man tits out is. Is that the hip young people that were at the gig your pretending you went to.
djb
Said on the 11 July 2011
I doubt you know more about music than me. The first time the word “punk” was used to describe music was in a review of the Stooges first album. 1969. I do not class anything after 1982 as punk as I believe it died then, everything since is an imitation – including Sum 41, Blink 182 etc. I do not listen to them. Sex Pistols are not punk, they’re shit. PIL was much better.
The Swiftcover adverts are not good, but is any advert good? It surely isn’t the worst advert on tv right now!
If you think that the commercial will tarnish Iggy’s career you are deluded.
You’re stuck in a cliche that “punks” must act a certain way, even though punk is about doing what you want!!!!! Do you know Iggy? No? then you don’t know what he despises.
I can tell you are old because of your impression of the young, and your attitude. I’d guess you’re in your 40s.
Also, it was Hop Farm festival, Lou Reed was there, and Patti Smith. Iggy was clearly the best performing artist there, closely followed by Tim Booth.
Steve
Said on the 12 July 2011
“Sex Pistols are not punk” Bollocks So which is it? Punk died in 82 or Iggy is still punk and everything he does is punk. Punk died when Iggy Pop started advertising car insurance. Absolutely Iggy pop can do what the fuck he likes. He can endorse fucking oil or land mines for all I fucking care. The difference is now when I listen to Real wild Child it no longer hits the spot. His music is tainted now and contaminated with smelly corporate dollars. Any song he now writes I am gonna assume is part of a marketing campaign. Anything he says has no credibility. I could believe in Iggy’s words before now I can’t.
Steve
Said on the 12 July 2011
And yes I do expect my punks to behave a certain cliche way I expect them to be rocking the fuck out. In the same way I expect bus drivers to drive buses. Factory workers to work in factories. Lawyers to work in courts and fishermen to work at sea. Personally I have lost all respect for Iggy. I don’t expect to see my punk rock icons selling me financial services. Iggy has done a massive dis-service to himself his fans and punk in general. He is no longer a artist he is now a salesman. Come on djb your honestly telling me you don’t find the shit cover adverts even mildly irritating? You don’t cringe a bit when it comes on T.V.?
Steve
Said on the 12 July 2011
And no I am not in my 40′s I’m a long way off 40. I’m in my 20′s. Your the deluded one if you think Ziggy plop plop’s shit-cover adverts are more punk than the sex pistols.
djb
Said on the 12 July 2011
Punk is American. Sex Pistols were a band created to sell clothing.
Iggy IS punk, but he hasn’t released a “punk” album since 1974.
Obviously you do care what he does, otherwise you wouldn’t be here.
Real Wild Child was pop, not punk. From Iggy’s most commercial album – Blah Blah Blah.
You are very shallow if you lose faith in an artist because he has done something you don’t like! Especially an artist of such a high caliber as Iggy. And, by the way, “punk” has nothing to do with credibility.
Punk isn’t about “rocking out”, it’s about rebelling. All punks are salesmen of their own music.
After seeing the advert I bought two Iggy Pop albums, so something worked.
Mentioning “Ziggy” is interesting because Ziggy Stardust wouldn’t have existed without Iggy Pop.
And once again, the Sex Pistols were terrible, their music was dull. Even the Clash hated them – they complained “Anarchy in the UK” was too slow.
Steve
Said on the 13 July 2011
Interesting choice of words “Most commercial Album” that implies that there were previously “less commercial albums”. Funny that a salesman of his own music. (your words not mine) has gone from less to more commercial. Which was my original point. So you didn’t like Blah Blah Blah because it was “too commercial” but you like the swift cover commercial. You are a fucktard of the highest order.
Steve
Said on the 13 July 2011
See djb your making me get personal now. Were gonna agree to disagree. I’m gonna go and listen to my Dead Kennedy’s back catalog safe in the Knowledge that Jello believes in something bigger than himself. You can go and play with your Iggy latex muppet while buying a shit insurance policy that wont pay out or insure musicians while basking in former glory.
djb
Said on the 14 July 2011
By less commercial albums, I mean, “punk” albums. And Blah Blah Blah was 20 years ago! Since then he has been less commercial than he was before it – Avenue B and Preliminaires to name a few.
I like Blah Blah Blah, it has some very good song on it.
And you are a fucktard for not reading my comments properly.
And your second reply to me made “it” personal.