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Fucking Gross Adverts

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BlueEyedBogWitch · 21/09/2025 07:47

It started with little kids on the toilet with their pants round their ankles, holding their noses.

Then there was the one with a woman farting at work and then scurrying to the bathroom clutching a bog roll.

I think I reached the nadir last night when I was subjected to an advert for razors which treated me to the sight of a man bending down with his back to the camera and his hand under his dressing gown, shaving his sack and crack.

I mean, that might not be the nadir. Maybe next time they’ll drop the dressing down, and I can feast my eyes on his arsehole winking at me while it gets a short back and sides.

At this rate I’ll have to clear all the crap off my kitchen table and start eating like a civilised human again.

AIBU, or are adverts getting increasingly foul?

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BlueEyedBogWitch · 21/09/2025 08:50

Yes, the Viagra ones are a bit much for the time they’re on, but I left them out because they don’t actively disgust me.

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AtomHeartMotherOfGod · 21/09/2025 08:47

The 'Come Up and See Me' one for Viagra was also 🤢

AngelinaFibres · 21/09/2025 08:46

LetGoLetThem1234 · 21/09/2025 08:31

Now this commercial has a little bit of a charm to it: the wink the chap gives, plus the Welsh accent and bottom cluck - makes me laugh

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Makes me laugh that all those people probably dreamt of acting fame when they started at drama school and now they're paying their mortgage by singing abiut diahorrea.

MyPinkTraybake · 21/09/2025 08:45

soupyspoon · 21/09/2025 08:33

I think its largely indicative of the increasing reduction in boundaries, privacy and standards.

All very boring to some people but I think it has an emotional impact on how we interact and manage ourselves as a society. We're pretty emotionally incontinent, lacking in resilience, very poor MH, this isnt because we're all more in tune or in touch with our emotional health, its quite the opposite, and it might not seem connected but a breaking down of boundaries and taboos is part of that in my view.

Humans need structure and rules. We're just big children after all.

Structure and rules don't teach you resilience. Taking risks and failing teaches you resilience. Nothing to do with the thread but this is what I wanted to add.

AtomHeartMotherOfGod · 21/09/2025 08:45

The one I found really gross, but also acceptable as it was the whole point of the advert, was the Channel 4 Change Climate season of TV, which had loads of businessmen and women, and politicians, seemingly engaged in some kind of Bacchanalian orgy while wearing huge white Y-fronts that oozed oil from the bum crack. 'What are they doing about their carbon skid mark?' was the tagline. Very clever advertising IMO.

https://www.4creative.co.uk/work/change-climate

Also, on the tube, a guy spraying deodorant into his pants (in an advert, I mean, not in real life).

Change Climate | 4creative

We’re all recycling our arses off but are those with power doing enough in return?To promote Channel 4’s Change climate season we produced a campaign that asked whether powerful institutions could be doing more to save to the planet.

https://www.4creative.co.uk/work/change-climate

PashaMinaMio · 21/09/2025 08:44

flossisboss · 21/09/2025 07:55

YANBU. There's a full body deodorant one which is rank too. Not to mention that it's a stupid, needless, and damaging product.

Oh phew!
Im glad I’m not the only one who finds the body spray advert offensive.

I also find some of the urinary incontinence pad adverts too near the bone, embarrassing in mixed company, of a woman in her sheer, see-through knickers, pad on show, lifting a child into her arms. I know the condition exists but really? I don’t need it shoved in my face quite like that.

Why don’t we ever see adverts for male incontinence products? Dont men dribble and sometimes lose control of their bladder?

Sux2buthen · 21/09/2025 08:44

Maybe some posters here need to unclench and release the gas a bit themselves 💨

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BlueEyedBogWitch · 21/09/2025 08:44

LauraNorda · 21/09/2025 08:42

The irony in complaining about revolting adverts without resorting to an expletive in just a three word title.

I didn’t resort to an expletive. I chose it, gleefully.

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InMyOpenOnion · 21/09/2025 08:43

Owly11 · 21/09/2025 08:29

Same! We always used to mute them and I still do that now. It’s nice to have a pause from the noise for a minute or two and there’s absolutely no need to watch the adverts!

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I never watch anything live that has adverts for this reason. I always record it and start half an hour later.

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BlueEyedBogWitch · 21/09/2025 08:43

The other side of this is, how the hell do you face your mates in the pub after ‘starring’ in one of these?

”How’s the acting going, Sheila? Parp, hehehe”

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SweetPenelope · 21/09/2025 08:42

I don't like the one for toilet paper with the boy needing to do a poo at school and everyone cheering him on. It makes me cringe.

LauraNorda · 21/09/2025 08:42

The irony in complaining about revolting adverts without resorting to an expletive in just a three word title.

RhaenysRocks · 21/09/2025 08:41

Sux2buthen · 21/09/2025 08:36

I think it’s great. It’s trying to get rid of the embarrassment

There's nothing wrong with being a bit private about bodily functions. Only absolute twats would make fun of someone if there was an accident, leak, smell or whatever (I'm talking about adults here). I agree with the pp who said we are losing that sense of self control and basic manners really.

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BlueEyedBogWitch · 21/09/2025 08:41

Sux2buthen · 21/09/2025 08:36

I think it’s great. It’s trying to get rid of the embarrassment

I’ve never been embarrassed to go for a crap. I don’t need to witness some drama school reject fart her way round the office to help me confront anything; it just makes me feel sick.

Even if was the type to be embarrassed about bodily functions, I can’t see how watching someone play out my worst case scenario would do anything other than unlock a whole new level of anxiety!

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shellyleppard · 21/09/2025 08:38

@Bastilee I'm surprised he was allowed to go to the toilet in the first place 😂

DaffodilValley · 21/09/2025 08:38

None of these are as bad as MN constantly and relentlessly advertising fag ends on every thread.

If they want people to use the forum and maybe even click on the ads, it might help if they were for something that isn’t utterly revolting and at least useful.

olderandnonthewiser · 21/09/2025 08:36

soupyspoon · 21/09/2025 08:33

I think its largely indicative of the increasing reduction in boundaries, privacy and standards.

All very boring to some people but I think it has an emotional impact on how we interact and manage ourselves as a society. We're pretty emotionally incontinent, lacking in resilience, very poor MH, this isnt because we're all more in tune or in touch with our emotional health, its quite the opposite, and it might not seem connected but a breaking down of boundaries and taboos is part of that in my view.

Humans need structure and rules. We're just big children after all.

100% this.

Sux2buthen · 21/09/2025 08:36

I think it’s great. It’s trying to get rid of the embarrassment

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BlueEyedBogWitch · 21/09/2025 08:35

Shookethh · 21/09/2025 08:34

The one with the men playing basketball and the crotch smelling

I haven’t been treated to this yet, thankfully.

FFS.

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BlueEyedBogWitch · 21/09/2025 08:35

Bastilee · 21/09/2025 08:34

It’s the kid farting at school and crop dusting his way to the toilet with a big roll in his hand that’s makes me feel gross

Yes! Foul!

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Shookethh · 21/09/2025 08:34

The one with the men playing basketball and the crotch smelling

Bastilee · 21/09/2025 08:34

It’s the kid farting at school and crop dusting his way to the toilet with a big roll in his hand that’s makes me feel gross

luckylavender · 21/09/2025 08:33

I’m not overly keen on bulky pee pants. Those men singing about diarrhoea nor the kid going to the loo at school with a loo roll & everyone is clapping.

soupyspoon · 21/09/2025 08:33

I think its largely indicative of the increasing reduction in boundaries, privacy and standards.

All very boring to some people but I think it has an emotional impact on how we interact and manage ourselves as a society. We're pretty emotionally incontinent, lacking in resilience, very poor MH, this isnt because we're all more in tune or in touch with our emotional health, its quite the opposite, and it might not seem connected but a breaking down of boundaries and taboos is part of that in my view.

Humans need structure and rules. We're just big children after all.

Takentomybed · 21/09/2025 08:33

Orangepate · 21/09/2025 08:24

The dancing Pepso Bismol people. “Diarrhoea!”

That one came know while I was eating dinner. Gross