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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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carmak · 21/09/2025 17:27

Joyunlimited · 21/09/2025 17:21

What does it add? Realism. Pouring blue liquid on the pads always looked ridiculously coy, imo, as if periods were always something to be ashamed of and keep hidden.

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Why do we need to see any liquid at all? Thankfully the incontinent woman advert doesn't show us urine soaking in.....yet.

tinylegoscars · 21/09/2025 17:26

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The trouble is, their ad has worked because we’re talking about it and it has raised awareness of the brand and the uses of the product.

Joyunlimited · 21/09/2025 17:21

Poetnojo · 21/09/2025 17:14

More the red I object to, do we not all know blood is red? Shit is brown? Mucus can be green? It's all gross to see and unnecessary. What does it add to the ad?

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What does it add? Realism. Pouring blue liquid on the pads always looked ridiculously coy, imo, as if periods were always something to be ashamed of and keep hidden.

carmak · 21/09/2025 17:21

TheignT · 21/09/2025 17:00

The one with the smiling woman, then close up to see the muck between her teeth..I think it must be for dental floss but it makes me feel sick.

It's on in the mornings, I can't stand it. What the hell is that supposed to be in her mouth, it looks like cat litter, I always look away now.

tinylegoscars · 21/09/2025 17:16

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NorthernGirl1975 · 21/09/2025 17:15

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Sitting down with a chilli and immediately on cones a Welsh guy yelling Diarrhoea!

Poetnojo · 21/09/2025 17:14

Joyunlimited · 21/09/2025 17:04

I assume that the manufacturers want to show how much liquid - blood - a pad will absorb. This is not an issue with loo roll or tissues so showing poo or snot is unnecessary.

Did you object during the years when they showed blue liquid being poured into the pads? Or is it just the more realistic red you object to?

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More the red I object to, do we not all know blood is red? Shit is brown? Mucus can be green? It's all gross to see and unnecessary. What does it add to the ad?

soupyspoon · 21/09/2025 17:10

Do they pour yellow and brown (or green YMMV) onto nappies?

No, just liquid, liquid you can see so yo can see how much it absorbs, usually coloured blue.

But changed it to red for some reason for women. Why is that?

Joyunlimited · 21/09/2025 17:04

Poetnojo · 21/09/2025 16:41

Well everybody shits but I don't want to see brown stuff in loo roll ads, and everyone has snot and mucus, I don't want to see green slime on screen depicting this either.
What's your argument here, because it's women we need to see depictions of blood and piss on the telly every 10 mins or its somehow misogynistic?
I don't find it refreshing in the least.

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I assume that the manufacturers want to show how much liquid - blood - a pad will absorb. This is not an issue with loo roll or tissues so showing poo or snot is unnecessary.

Did you object during the years when they showed blue liquid being poured into the pads? Or is it just the more realistic red you object to?

TheignT · 21/09/2025 17:00

The one with the smiling woman, then close up to see the muck between her teeth..I think it must be for dental floss but it makes me feel sick.

JohnTheRevelator · 21/09/2025 16:43

I hate the ones for 'lower body deodorant'. I think there's a Lynx one and a Sure one. The Sure one is the worst.

Poetnojo · 21/09/2025 16:41

Joyunlimited · 21/09/2025 08:02

I really don’t see the problem with this. I was just thinking the other day how refreshing it is that advertisers no longer have to use blue liquid to represent menstrual blood. Why should something experienced by half the people who have ever lived to adulthood be something to be ashamed of or disguised?

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Well everybody shits but I don't want to see brown stuff in loo roll ads, and everyone has snot and mucus, I don't want to see green slime on screen depicting this either.
What's your argument here, because it's women we need to see depictions of blood and piss on the telly every 10 mins or its somehow misogynistic?
I don't find it refreshing in the least.

tinylegoscars · 21/09/2025 16:40

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TigerRag · 21/09/2025 16:38

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5 star constantly show adverts for skin a & e around meal times

Gross

MimiGC · 21/09/2025 16:30

Orangepate · 21/09/2025 08:24

The dancing Pepso Bismol people. “Diarrhoea!”

This.
I feel sorry for the poor actors who probably studied drama and dance to end up in that ad.

smallglassbottle · 21/09/2025 16:23

Thinandbare · 21/09/2025 16:16

Having worked in the industry I can assure you there’s not some puppet master trying to create deviants of us all. Usually, there’s a hapless marketing director at best….

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The toleration of bad standards is as bad as the promotion of such. The outcome is the same. It's always top down.

Thinandbare · 21/09/2025 16:16

smallglassbottle · 21/09/2025 16:06

It's being done deliberately to reduce the country to the most base level. A people who are reduced to a bunch of ignorant, poorly educated medieval types, who behave like animals rutting in the fields is the aim. Think about where it might be coming from. We're not the only people it's happening to.

Lousy standards everywhere. Food, housing, education, media output, music (smack ya biatch up the cunt type lyrics), pornography, shitty clothing, the toleration of feral behaviour.......

Having worked in the industry I can assure you there’s not some puppet master trying to create deviants of us all. Usually, there’s a hapless marketing director at best….

Thinandbare · 21/09/2025 16:15

Americano75 · 21/09/2025 15:59

That's the one that absolutely disgusts me. So unnecessarily grim.

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Yeah this is repulsive. It doesn’t endear me to the brand at all.

smallglassbottle · 21/09/2025 16:06

It's being done deliberately to reduce the country to the most base level. A people who are reduced to a bunch of ignorant, poorly educated medieval types, who behave like animals rutting in the fields is the aim. Think about where it might be coming from. We're not the only people it's happening to.

Lousy standards everywhere. Food, housing, education, media output, music (smack ya biatch up the cunt type lyrics), pornography, shitty clothing, the toleration of feral behaviour.......

UnctuousUnicorns · 21/09/2025 16:03

JacJac77 · 21/09/2025 16:00

The Boots one with the little girl licking the chocolate off the peanuts and the man eating them and getting a cold - that used to make my stomach turn!

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UnctuousUnicorns · 21/09/2025 16:02

LillyPJ · 21/09/2025 15:41

That's not the vagina you're seeing (unless they have a hole in their leggings, aren't wearing pants and have got their legs wide apart).

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Yeah, I think we all know that, but thanks for the A and P lesson anyway. Ever heard of exaggeration for effect?

JacJac77 · 21/09/2025 16:00

The Boots one with the little girl licking the chocolate off the peanuts and the man eating them and getting a cold - that used to make my stomach turn!

Americano75 · 21/09/2025 15:59

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

That's the one that absolutely disgusts me. So unnecessarily grim.

hadjustaboutenough · 21/09/2025 15:59

I certainly don't think periods are anything to be ashamed of, but I also don't like the red liquid in the new ads. Red liquid, even if it's not particularly realistic, is much closer to looking like blood than the blue liquid was, and it still makes me feel a bit squeamish, and I don't appreciate seeing it in adverts. I don't feel ashamed that I poo, but I don't want to see poo in ads, thanks so much. Same goes for blood, whether it's from a scratched knee or on a sanitary product.

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