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Not seeing it sorry! Least convincing advert you’ve seen

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Grabbner · 26/03/2020 19:29

Just seen an advert claiming that nail fungus can be stylish! It’s going take some work to convince me of that!

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Lordfrontpaw · 03/04/2020 11:41

When we were kids when ads came on 'New and Improved' we would chorus 'so we we're using 'old and rubbish'?'.

I think the dry shampoo one is irritating me at the moment. Young model leaps out of bed, has beautiful hair anyway, does some meditation, sprays her hair, dresses, takes some cheesy cutesy selfies and bounces out the door.

GloGirl · 03/04/2020 11:48

Marco Pierre White advertising Bernard Matthews turkeys.

No. Bad dog.

ArthurDentsSpaceTowel · 03/04/2020 12:12

"in the next advert pay close attention to the actors gums"

Pedant DH has the best answer to that. 'It's not this advert, it's the next one, nope, no gums in that.' GrinGrin

TurtleBeach · 03/04/2020 12:15

I follow a lot of comedians on twitter who (both male and female) are having a field day with "I'm a stand up comedian. Peeing myself is comes with the job"

Lordfrontpaw · 03/04/2020 12:29

No I think that's another profession they are thinking of.

TurtleBeach · 03/04/2020 13:00

Oh and I loved the Cadbury's advert when I first saw it - the granddad hiding the easter eggs and then the younger and teenage grandsons giving him a hug.

Now I keep telling at the TV for Cadbury's to pull it. Those kids shouldn't be visiting their granddad let alone touching everything in his house to find hidden chocolate. I can't believe they are still showing it - makes me feel very uneasy that it might give people ideas.

MrsCastiel · 03/04/2020 14:10

@TurtleBeach I'm the same with celebrity Bake Off. They're encouraging people to get together and raise money. Even though I know it was filmed before all this, I inwardly cringe every time they say it. Ridiculous but just shoes how conditioned we have become in such a short space of time.

Clettercletterthatsbetter · 04/04/2020 08:23
  1. The one with the woman prancing around her baby’s nursery in what is, essentially, a black nappy. She says something like “I knew my life would change when I had a baby, but I didn’t realise I’d be continually pissing myself due to extreme pelvic floor dysfunction. But that’s ok because I can just wear incontinence pants!”

No, love. It’s not ok. And of course you didn’t expect it because it’s not bloody normal! It really angers me that they’re normalising incontinence like this and making women think it’s commonplace to lose all bladder control just because you’ve had a baby, rather than them seeking help from a GP/gynaecologist/pelvic floor physio.

  1. “I never even knew Oral B made toothpaste!”. Have you been living in an actual fucking cave?
Dowser · 04/04/2020 09:03

Ikiboo

Gives me the rage that one...hi dad , it’s June
You’re not on the phone. It’s real life, he should know his own fucking daughter 😡😡😡
I can’t get to the remote quick enough.

Dowser · 04/04/2020 09:05

Mrs Castiel

I know. Watching the last tango in Halifax on catch up , it was weird seeing people hugging one another.
I want my life back.

sueelleker · 04/04/2020 09:34

Dowser
I always thought his daughter was telling him that June had popped round-not that June was his daughter.

MagnoliaJustice · 05/04/2020 09:49

June is the neighbour. We never get to know the daughter's name. Derek has a lot of lady friends for an older gentleman with a dodgy taste in knitwear.

sueelleker · 05/04/2020 09:53

But he has got that insurance policy-perhaps they're all hoping to be the beneficiary?

Grabbner · 05/04/2020 15:22

I don’t know what they see in Derek. I bet June’s Dh is much nicer. He’ll not be the smarmy type like Derek and will be at home working hard in his garden while Derek and June are flirting.

Anyway - haven’t seen the Argos ad. There is however another ad which is causing me to cringe at the highest level of cringedom. And that’s the one with Robert de Niro dressing trendily. Why would he do that to himself?!

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