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Adverts that get on your wick!!

174 replies

Ioki · 23/10/2018 23:51

The Herbal Essences one. Confused the one that goes ‘ahhh oooooh’ all the way through it... because if you listen closely behind the ‘ahhh oooh’ tune there’s a lady saying ‘yes, yes, yes!’ on repeat and I just think it’s a tad too... orgasmic sounding for shampoo Shock - made by the same people who made organic yoghurts I’m sure?

YY I know if I know what it’s advertising then it’s effective etc... just irritates me.

Oh and the shitty nationwide ones with the pretentious shitty poems.

Regale me with your most fury inducing advert MNetters please do.

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LaLaLamp · 23/10/2018 23:56

that one with the couple, he says, she says, his fave thing is this, hers is that...I think it's an advert for a bank.

MarthaArthur · 23/10/2018 23:56

The toothpaste advert where the woman says "Oral B?! I didnt even know they made toothpaste!"... grrr.

Yes to the annoying poem adverts.

The moving house one. When i first saw them it implied the elderly.couple had died then they started again with an extra segment showing the old people had moved to a smaller home. They must have had complaints.

MarthaArthur · 23/10/2018 23:56

The bank ads using judy garland.

BringOnTheScience · 23/10/2018 23:59

The M&Ms advert that is on every night during Sky News. "Scott's home early". Every.single.bloody.night

Foslady · 24/10/2018 00:36

Asda hallowe’en - all that bloody screeching fgs Hmm

vampirethriller · 24/10/2018 00:51

The bank poem ones
All the malteasers ones but especially the one where the woman broke a friends necklace and then throws her malteasers all over the floor...
McDonalds flat white.

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desertmum · 24/10/2018 01:12

omg the M&Ms one = who the hell thought that one up? Weird on a lot of levels

ALL the toothpaste ones - why is it always women who are made to look gormless?

Not quite the same but the ad for Emma whoever who's 'delivering babies' - she's not delivering fucking babies - makes me shout at he TV every time it comes on.

AlrightBabby · 24/10/2018 01:14

The Top Cashback, that bloke gets on my very last nerve!

7Days · 24/10/2018 01:16

These threads used to get heaps of replies, but with streaming tv we don't have the same reference points.

Will no one think of the chidren??

Mollypolly2610 · 24/10/2018 01:42

ALL oral B adverts I could scream

And Hillary’s blinds

SpamChaudFroid · 24/10/2018 01:59

That Diet Coke ad - the one with the smarmy man who likes receiving voicemails. The way he says, "It's good, no?" at the end. Angry

MischiefManagedAlways · 24/10/2018 05:29

The awful fucking advert about releasing equity. I think it's a company called Key? They sing through the whole thing and do the most excruciating dance and oh it's just such a huge pile of shit Halloween ShockHalloween Angry

Tadda · 24/10/2018 05:42

The masses of happy, gardening grandparent adverts with the voiceover stating 'your going to die soon, give us your money and we'll send you a pen' type adverts.....

IdahoCrow · 24/10/2018 05:43

I have returned from my normal commercial radio station to another one because of the inane, bewilderingly crap 'Bad Credit Good Car' advert. I am hoping it's not spreading like a contagion throughout the country.

Tattybear16 · 24/10/2018 05:48

All the ones with food in, I’m on a diet😭

Also the pants one, they’re not pretty, they are as ugly as sin.

The Halifax one, the rights to those movies must be costing a fortune, invest in the people who bank with you rather than throw it back in my face that you’ve lowered the monthly bonus your customers once received.

Tadda · 24/10/2018 05:56

...Oh and 'pop up' ads on my phone!!! I'm only trying to read the news! Stop checking what I've 'recently searched for' and constantly showing me pictures of the holidays I can't afford and the boots I bought a year ago!!!!

PhilomenaDeathsHeadHawkMoth · 24/10/2018 06:02

Tadda or school shoes I literally just ordered. DD doesn't need another identical pair!

sashh · 24/10/2018 06:19

Yoghurt on the nose and that, "Bigs says... Little says ..." I have no idea what it is about, which means it is a really bad advert.

Anything on Youtube that tells me, 'don't touch that button', don't tell me what to do in my own home.

There's a guy on youtube who does, "American reacts to" and he just reacts to things on British TV, but he has done quite a few on adverts. Good fun to watch as he doesn't have the 'history' we have, so a load of horses on a beach - well what does it have to do with a bank.

Twooter · 24/10/2018 06:23

The over 50 plan with June from next door obviously targeting the smarmy widower.
The life assurance one when the friend brings it up with his mate just as the daughter comes up to him after dance class, rather than discussing it when the kids aren’t around.

MissMarplesKnitting · 24/10/2018 06:30

HELLO. I'M BARRY SCOTT.......

Please shut the utter fuck up!!! Why does shouting make the cleaning product better?!!

MissMarplesKnitting · 24/10/2018 06:31

And that Key equity release one. Makes me cringe.

Upslidedown · 24/10/2018 06:44

The one with Martin Freeman on a train. Few things annoy me more than people listening to things on their phone without headphones but the ad makes out he's the weird one for not doing it.

TroysMammy · 24/10/2018 06:45

All of them except the Action Man ones and the meerkat that says he learned to speak Spanish in Spain.

665TheNeighbourOfTheBeast · 24/10/2018 08:30

Some supermarket who's tagline is "Good with food" but the accent means it ends up as "Gud with fud"
And the kitchen roll one... "One shit". (Sheet / Spanish accent) "One shit is ..something..enough" ?
I bet they rolled on the floor in the and agency when they came up with that one...but they would be the only ones..😠
.I don't even know why they give me the rage as I like accented speech.

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