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Time for an annoying adverts thread!

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TheZeppo · 28/08/2019 19:53

Granted, it’s Summer hols and therefore I’m home more often (and therefore see more adverts).

HOWEVER: that bloody Vodaphone advert (woman in the red coat that splits into eleven thousand versions of herself) is on all the bloody time.

And today I have watched the ‘strings and things’ advert over and over. It’s all annoying things at once: random, random kid, repetitive, annoying music, leaching off popular TV hit.

GAAAHHH.

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TeamUnicorn · 30/08/2019 07:10

Already mentioned but the plantur 39 one. The whispered 'over 40' bit is enough to make me never buy the product. I don't care if it is any good or not, I'm 40, not some dirty secret.

JellyBook · 30/08/2019 07:29

There should really be a place where you can vote or comment on an ad for just being annoying, - the companies should know that their ad is so damn awful there’s no way in the world I’m ever going to buy their product. If there are enough negative votes they have to remove the ad and immediately sack the ad producers.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 30/08/2019 08:10

The objective is to get the product name lodged in your brain. Some advertising genius realised they could do this just as well by annoying you as entertaining you. The bastards.

AmIChangingagain · 30/08/2019 08:29

There's one on just now for Wowcher with three gurning women. I want to slap the redhead in particular

I hate whistling of any sort so there is one for, I think TSB, with fucking whistling right through it. It gives me total rage

SallyLovesCheese · 30/08/2019 08:43

We mute the adverts so they don't annoy me as much but one I really hate is the house in the sky and everything starts sliding out of it and the person's hands fall to hold on to anything and the person falls out too. (I can't remember what it advertises.) I can't watch the panic the hands show as the person is sliding out into the air, my overactive imagination pictures all too well what it would be like to fall like that, closer and closer to the earth, knowing you're going to die. I don't care in the advert if everything goes nice and calm - the hands disappear so you don't know what's happening to the person!

And yes I'm aware this makes me weird and/or a saddo. I get affected in the same way if someone in a disaster film falls into a crack in the ground. Nightmare.

Zaphodsotherhead · 30/08/2019 09:38

The Just Eat ones annoy me for the concept rather than the ad. If you're hungry, then just bloody COOK something or make a sandwich, you don't need to order in food every time you are a bit peckish - that's how you get fat!

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TheZeppo · 30/08/2019 09:47

New one: the co-op ladies swimming in the sea and the giant ice cream scoop. Can’t explain why I get the rage!

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lazyarse123 · 30/08/2019 10:04

The car one where she's on the phone offering food and he'd rather go to the pub to watch footie, then she offers him a shag and he turns round so fast they could turn it into an ad about whiplash. So aggravating.

wanderings · 30/08/2019 10:43

Some really annoying radio adverts from a few years ago: dialogue between bank staff and a customer who's leaving them.
"But what about all those leaflets we sent you?"
"I threw them away."
"You threw them away?! Well, we'll throw your money away, see how you like that!"

Another advert for a loan: "This is a man knocking his head against a brick wall. (Sounds of agony) He's frustrated because he can't get the loan he needs."

On Classic FM, I find that distinctive jingle that comes before the ads almost as annoying as the adverts themselves. It's as if it's saying "Here come the adverts!". Cue volume quickly turned down in the car.

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TheZeppo · 30/08/2019 18:00

Strings and things is in the bloody radio too! No escape 😫😫😫

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TixieLix · 30/08/2019 18:18

Most of the above, especially the Trivago one.

Also, the one where the man and woman are on sun loungers and she's all "I shouldn't be here, I was recently attacked by a wolf" (or something) and he's "I shouldn't be here either, this is my 3rd holiday..." and goes on about discounts. Irritating twats!

MrsFlump · 30/08/2019 18:19

I hate the Viagra advert with the bloke dancing around because he managed to get it up. Ruined one of my favourite songs because now when I hear it on the radio its the Viagra song.

The fringe on the Trivago woman is awful and she dresses awful too.

Absoluteunit · 30/08/2019 18:24

The one for perinaise with that stupid little rhyme

and "Perf with Surf"

SpeedyShutter · 30/08/2019 21:19

That one where the characters are thinking, "I wish I'd checked the..." does my head in, especially that but where they're asleep in the tent in the middle of a field. A cow breaks into their tent and wakes them up and she thinks, "I wish I'd checked the zip!" Would a farmer really just let their cows out when there's a random tent in the middle of their field? Wouldn't the noise of the cows wake them before it broke into their tent? Would you really take your family camping in a field in the middle of nowhere where there are no proper facilities? Wouldn't the farmer notice them pitching their tent up and go and tell them to get lost?

Doormat247 · 30/08/2019 21:23

The one I really can't bear is the Churchill one showing every few minutes (or feels that often). 'Oh churchey .....'
I'd like to slowly carve up whoever did the annoying voiceover

UserFriendly14 · 30/08/2019 21:38

Yes to the Flash advert!!

Also one that seems to be constantly on All4 at the moment is the 340 calorie tub of ice cream, where the woman dresses the dog up and the bloke comes in and pulls a face that makes me want to punch in the sack until he's left with that face permanently...

Deadringer · 30/08/2019 21:45

Yes the poor trivago woman, having to wear those awful frumpy clothes.

Scrulytrumptious · 30/08/2019 22:07

The 'that's why WE are versus arthritis' one, with earnest looking actors thrusting their palms at the screen. Looks like an advert made by the losing team on The Apprentice.

firstimemamma · 30/08/2019 22:13

It's June, Dad.

Zaphodsotherhead · 31/08/2019 13:04

@SpeedyShutter - yes! As though a good zip will stop half a tonne of cow from walking through your tent! An advert written by someone who'd never met a bovine moving at speed...

ATurnipOfMyOwn · 31/08/2019 13:44

Perf with Surf - I honestly didn't understand what that was supposed to mean, until it was pointed out to me that it was meant to be 'perfect'.

That one for shampoo (is it Herbal Essences?) where to voiceover ends with something like "Work with what muvver nature gave ya." Ya? Oik.

All of the ones where they're talking about a funeral plan - why is everyone facing the camera whilst talking to each other. Do you sit side by side and talk to nothing in front of you when you're having a conversation? And the other person is always doing this awful "ooh, how interesting" expression off into the distance, with a little nod.

The KFC ones (or it might be Burger King, or both) where the voiceover says "two naanty-naan" in a so cool Sarf London gangsta stylee.

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TheZeppo · 31/08/2019 21:17

Those car adverts: Sixt? Not funny.

The Herbal Essence red haired lady- you know a man put her in a white t-shirt 😡

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