Adverts that get on your wick!!

[Ioki]

The Herbal Essences one. 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 - 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.

Herbal Essences advertising their shampoo as gluten free. The rest of the ad is appalling in every respect and then the gluten free bit just gives me rage.

I do like the little boy who tries to sell back unused nappies! I love that one

Most of them

the selling unused nappies one isn’t bad but a few days ago it was on after every programme I seemed to watch - grated a bit then!

I absolutely loathe any adverts (for baby/child products) that use a 'mums know best'/'mum's choose xxx'/'no.1 choice of mums' etc.

Kinder and Pampers have both had variations on this and I detest how it reinforces stereotypes that it's women who are responsible for child-rearing. Why not simply say 'parents choose xxx'? And God forbid we ever hear a reference to Dads!

On the other hand, I do quite like the McDonald's 'getting your money’s worth’ ads. Especially the guy wearing his fancy dress costume the week after his party and the man drying his wife's hair with the leaf blower he hired!

The new Tui one where the dancing mum (who looks quite nice) tries to cheer up her daughter (who looks like the spawn of Satan) on holiday. The daughter is spectacularly awful but is happier at the end of the ad - well bully for them. She was still behaving like the worst brat in the world at the beginning and that I cant forgive. Fucking ingrate.

June next door is the worst actress in the world.

I think the Haribo one is quite funny though and, even more controversially, I love the Lloyds one with the horses that run down the beach whilst the local people look on. It makes me tear up a bit (in a good way) but I dont really know why.

The chewing gum one where the man is introduced to the jumped up arrogant little shit who's fucking his daughter

Any life insurance ones as they all look like they've been made by the losing team in The Apprentice in the advert-making task - really stilted fake sounding dialogue delivered by people that can't act

That one where an elderly, infirm lady is running around making a toddler meal of fish fingers chips and peas for her useless 40 year old manchild son, who just sits there expecting to be waited on. And of course she has to be sure to leave him all her money because he's still her "little boy"..... no he's not, he's an adult who should be making his own fucking dinner, and yours too

The new EE one with two supposedly grown blokes getting competitive over the new I=Phone

When we lived in the US we had a channel without ads for kids progs. However, but every now and then we'd be watching weather or sport on man channels and a Viagra ad would be shown

Fucking Laura with her drippy beardy weirdy husband who cannot so much as look after a 6 month old baby without Alexa prompting him and of course giving him a gold star for being a Man Who Looks After His Own Child.

He’s the sort of knob who has pictures all over his Facebook of him ‘babysitting’ his own kids. I bet Laura is having ‘me time’ like a doctors or dentists appointment and she’ll return to the house to a husband expecting a load of praise for keeping the kid alive.

Laura needs to order some books about feminism and emotional labour on her Alexa.

Any life insurance ones as they all look like they've been made by the losing team in The Apprentice in the advert-making task - really stilted fake sounding dialogue delivered by people that can't act

The best one is the old lady cooing over her neighbour’s funeral flowers. “Ooh I could never afford a nice funeral like that!” How sad do you have to be to want to keep up with the Joneses at your own fecking funeral? She almost seems a bit sad because she’s not dead!

I’m trapped on the sofa during the day feeding a newborn, so as you can tell, I’ve been watching a lot of daytime tv lately!

The afternoon ones for furniture, or sofa covers or something. Couples younger than me sitting in brightly lit rooms on patterns that my gran would have rejected as old-fashioned!

TAKEAWAY AD's!! Omg can't cope when I'm on a diet 😂

That AWFUL one used to be advertised on E! a lot. VIPoo or some shit scuse the pun
It was like a loo air freshener that you spray into the toilet after you’ve done a poo for when you’re out and about and don’t want others to smell your poo

Disgusting and pointless and the advert was only aimed at women cos clearly men don’t give a shit about the smell of their shit

There is a nappy advert where they call it ‘pee’. I’ve spend so long saying to my kids that ‘pee’ is what blokes in pubs call it. That wee is ok but once you are over six years old or so you ought to be saying ‘I need to go to the loo/toilet’ etc.

OMG @desperatehousewife21 VIPOO!!!!! I used to see that advert constantly... it was the fact that they referred to it as 'devils doughnuts' or 'devils dumplings' - used to turn my stomach!

Funnily enough they have a youtube account where they have longer versions of the advert and silly little 'sketches' all surrounding shit. - either the social media manager or the creator of the damn thing has a bit of a fetish I think < not envy

I have been to the cinema a lot lately and every time they show this stupid OTT Wagamama advert. It’s pointless, too bright and just totally gets on my wick.

The whitening toothpaste advert with "do my teeth look yellow" and constant grinning.

Bloody Alexa and the useless husband who needs minute by minute guidance of how to look after his own child. He should know the teething rings are in the fridge ARGHHHH major rage. And then he gets a pat on the back from bloody Laura. Does Laura get a pat on the back every day? Well, does she????

However, the singing flash dog is brilliant.

Another one who watches taffe316!
I love how he knows there's a bad advert coming. You forge t how brutal our adverts are sometimes

Did you know there's about six days a year where there ISN'T a fucking DFS sale?

Incontinence pads and discreet underwear adverts.

Not a single one on TV EVER advertises mens incontinence wear, really does my head in!

That Herbal Essences ad markets it as ‘Gluten Free’ have you ever seen such blatant misuse of a bandwagon?! Do they think people are going to eat it or that celiacs digest though their head?!