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Does anyone else find the Lynx lower body spray advert utterly nauseating?

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Bikergran · 03/07/2025 20:21

I aporeciate that it is made in a jokey way, but feel that not only is it nauseating, showing people sniffing each other's crotches like dogs, but it encourages men to think they can neglect washing their arses/genitalia and simply spray them instead. Yuk.

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tobee · 03/07/2025 23:07

It’s like a lot of the current generation of ad creatives are obsessed with toilets and toilet humour right now. Lots of adverts of people sitting on toilets, the farting Andrex one, this bollock spray one, the pepto bismal one! Grow the fuck up advert people - it's pathetic

Greedybilly · 03/07/2025 22:36

@Meredusoleilooh god now I'm thinking about that. I hate that ad too! Thought up by some weird oppressed ad executive 🤢

RobertaFirmino · 03/07/2025 22:30

I'm concerned about the Sure Whole Body spray. It's aimed at women as well as men and it's just going to encourage people to spray their fanjo. Are they in cahoots with Canesten?

wastingtimeonhere · 03/07/2025 22:14

That and the other advert for lower body spray, where they call body parts by nicknames, both male and female...just go and shower you stinky mingers. It's bad enough working with a soap dodger who thinks BO can be covered with lynx without it being encouraged with more products he admits he doesn't wash himself or clothing to try to cover it when people are recoiling. 🤢

Picklechicken · 03/07/2025 22:02

I really think stuff like this is horrible. It just encourages people to think spraying themselves with this shit is a substitute for washing properly. I’m so sick of people smelling awful now. It’s got gradually worse since Covid times. Unless someone has a very genuine reason why they can’t wash (disability etc) people need to wash. Every day. All of themselves. So many people kid themselves thinking they don’t need to wash every day and they do.

Plasticwaste · 03/07/2025 22:01

Not convinced it isn't just some ad exec's fetish, tbh. Creepy af.

Meredusoleil · 03/07/2025 21:57

I agree OP.

But I'll just add another ad into the mix. The Dominoes one where the couple are in the bath and the delivery driver pops up from behind the man. I'm like wtaf is this I'm seeing. Just awful awful awful imho 😏

JohnTheRevelator · 03/07/2025 21:56

Zov · 03/07/2025 20:51

It's horrible. Glad it's not just me who hates it.

I hate the ads for womens pissy pads too, where they try and make out any woman over 40 pisses herself when she sneezes, coughs, laughs, or farts. And I hate the fecking awful ads (for Corsodol) where they spit blood into the sink.

These ads are always on at fecking mealtimes too! Hmm

The Trade Centre UK one (that's on the radio quite a lot, but also on the TV occasionally) makes my ears bleed, with that hideous, annoying, shouty man on it. I have stopped listening to independent radio (like Smooth and Heart) because this ad comes on every 6-8 minutes. Also, 'vintage cash cow' can bore off too! I HATE those ads! 'oooooh Annie, I got meself £189.53 for a bunch of gold and silver I sent to vintage cash cow.' Course you did Beryl, but it was worth £3,700!

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OMFG radio adverts. I listen to LBC a lot and over the last year. I am utterly sick to death of the Harris Fowler personal injury lawyers. The woman's voice irritated me beyond reason. And they play the damn thing EVERY SINGLE poxy as break. I thought adverts usually have a 'shelf life',i.e. after a few months they are discontinued. But this one seems to have been going on for eternity.

Funnywonder · 03/07/2025 21:52

Aw Jaysus. Why did I open this thread?🤢 At least I know to avoid the ad now.

Serpentstooth · 03/07/2025 21:52

Revolting. It's hard enough to get a clean teenager without this company trying to persuade them that squirting a load of chemicals all over will do the work of a shower. Blecchhhh.

Galatine · 03/07/2025 21:50

Reminds me of the ad for a deodorant where the woman can wear her (smelly) top once more. Gross!

Pomer0l · 03/07/2025 21:43

Yes it makes me feel queasy

Greedybilly · 03/07/2025 21:41

Desperate capitalism- what can we make money out of next? Sweaty balls of course. What a sad world we live in.

Thingyfanding · 03/07/2025 21:37

It’s terrible. I can’t see it helping the global decline in sperm count either.

Greedybilly · 03/07/2025 21:35

God it's awful. So childish. Yuk hate it.

itwascousinhalifax · 03/07/2025 21:23

It’s disturbing, the slow-mo crotches narrowly brushing against noses…bleurgh.

However, it’s karma for all the years we’ve had Femfresh pushed at us. Now it’s men’s turn to be bothered about smell. Ha!

InMyOpenOnion · 03/07/2025 21:21

MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel · 03/07/2025 21:19

Oh jeez, it's awful but not as awful as the pepto bismal one.

Oh yes, that's up there too. I don't think anyone needs a jaunty song about diarrhoea.

MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel · 03/07/2025 21:19

Oh jeez, it's awful but not as awful as the pepto bismal one.

ShamrockShenanigans · 03/07/2025 21:15

It makes me nauseous, as do the Andrex adverts where people are farting before going for a crap.

fruitandvegoverload · 03/07/2025 21:14

It's so vulgar and crass. I turn into Mary from Gogglebox whenever it comes on; 'Not more depravity!'

InMyOpenOnion · 03/07/2025 21:13

It's the bum and crotch sniffing that makes me nauseous.

aWeeCornishPastie · 03/07/2025 21:10

It made me laugh. It’s just light hearted humour w you should try it sometime

MissAvainthesun · 03/07/2025 21:07

I hate it…Part of my job is to work in a school a few days a week and the smell on the corridors is awful especially in this heat these last few days. The smell is either lynx or Victoria’s secret or they haven’t washed. Kids really need to be taught properly about hygiene by both parents and school. I sat down with my Godson and said have a shower after PE, apparently nobody does that so he uses body wipes now and a roll on after (due to two students having Asthma attacks no one is allowed sprays) and luckily he’s taken to it and now saves up to get the branded versions like Hugo Boss.

He hates Lynx but the majority of his mates use it…from what he says some to seem to think that the down below sprays means they don’t need to wash down there as often 🤢 luckily he’s going through the stage of washing and smelling nice…long may it continue.

Zov · 03/07/2025 20:51

It's horrible. Glad it's not just me who hates it.

I hate the ads for womens pissy pads too, where they try and make out any woman over 40 pisses herself when she sneezes, coughs, laughs, or farts. And I hate the fecking awful ads (for Corsodol) where they spit blood into the sink.

These ads are always on at fecking mealtimes too! Hmm

The Trade Centre UK one (that's on the radio quite a lot, but also on the TV occasionally) makes my ears bleed, with that hideous, annoying, shouty man on it. I have stopped listening to independent radio (like Smooth and Heart) because this ad comes on every 6-8 minutes. Also, 'vintage cash cow' can bore off too! I HATE those ads! 'oooooh Annie, I got meself £189.53 for a bunch of gold and silver I sent to vintage cash cow.' Course you did Beryl, but it was worth £3,700!

PinkiOcelot · 03/07/2025 20:45

Horrible adverts. I think Sure do one as well.