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Adverts that make you want to avoid the product

223 replies

chickbean · 08/01/2023 12:14

I can't stand the new Zoopla adverts, they really make me cringe. That said, I won't actually stop looking at it (surely everyone already knows that that's how you can be nosey about what your neighbours are selling their houses for).

However ... I will never consider buying Daisy by Marc Jacobs, because the advert makes me want to scream. Also, my mum won't ever by Muller products because she hated one of their ads so much.

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Lesina · 04/02/2023 02:10

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 08/01/2023 18:25

That car selling or buying one, can’t remember which, with the bloke with the black hair and beard who looks like Beelzebub and can’t say his Ts - ‘You’re in the driving seat now, Bri’ain!’ Makes me want to chuck a brick at the telly.

‘Looks like Beelzebub’ is the best ever description of Rylan… love it 😂

sashh · 04/02/2023 04:39

On the subject of ads and how successful they are.

Can I remind you of Nick Kaman selling Jeans that caused a spike in sales of boxer shorts.

MichaelKeaton · 04/02/2023 05:27

Calgon. Where the man with filthy nails squeezes filthy shit out of a washing machine tube.

On the beach; the one with the Christmas song and the horrid flabby boy mocking his sister as he eats an ice cream.

We Buy Any Car. Gives me an ear worm.

Anything by Care Co where they show a 38-year-old woman slipping effortlessly into a walk-in bath, being stood up by her rise-and-recline armchair, or promenading in her mobility scooter.

Any bed ad. Why no sheets? Why? And why a tray with orange juice on the bare mattress, alongside an alert terrier. Disaster waiting to happen.

Anything with fucking gender stereotyping. Domestic product? Women in a Bretagne top. Whisky? Handsome rugged man, possibly with dog.

Any of the badly dubbed imported ads like Febreze and Calgon. Again.

DatasCat · 04/02/2023 09:42

Just realised the mad Scottish donkey ad is Listerine not Macleans. Oh well, just shows you how memorable the brand name really is.

YouJustDoYou · 04/02/2023 10:26

SmileMakers vibrator. Calls us "Vulva owners".

Inhibitor · 04/02/2023 18:41

The new Love Honey advert for the ‘Rose’ 🙄

NewUserName2023 · 04/02/2023 18:43

We buy any car

ITVX - truly unfunny and appaling waste of acting talent!

Cherrysoup · 04/02/2023 18:49

Black Opium that uses the Hills ‘I only call you at half past five song. One of the other lyrics is ‘I just fucked two bitches’. I understand he says it to prove she means nothing, but come on!

Cherrysoup · 04/02/2023 18:50

NewUserName2023 · 04/02/2023 18:43

We buy any car

ITVX - truly unfunny and appaling waste of acting talent!

Why did Helena Bonham-Carter agree to be on that?! Awful.

SecretVictoria · 04/02/2023 18:57

The Haribo one with the kids voices. I expect it’s meant to sound cute, I mute it every time.

Barleysugar86 · 04/02/2023 19:03

The Lloyds bank one annoys me too. They are just too long and dull and I don't like the odd song versions. And they seem to come on every advert break after another when they run.

Kissedbyfire1 · 04/02/2023 19:05

We bought ourselves a new tv for Christmas and for some reason all the ads are now Irish ones - we are in England. It’s bizarre but quite fun in a strange sort of way because we don’t know the products or the companies and all the prices are in Euros. So as things stand, we don’t hate any ads 🤣.

Sexypyjamas · 04/02/2023 19:07

All these adverts I either shout no thanks or fuck off at the tv (latter when no kids about).

  1. Tui/Haven/CP adverts
  2. Perfume adverts (if the models have a speaking role in particular, usually the words that come out of their mouths makes no sense whatsoever). Bleu de Channel for example, he goes for a walk, goes for a swim and then says "it's right in front of you"....what????? Pardon?????
  3. any sofa advert endorsed by a celeb eating weird cake.
Lennybenny · 04/02/2023 19:23

The current Ann Summers ad is annoying me. They look ridiculous. Plus I record/download a lot and that seems to be the ad that's spent the most to advertise it.

Fernticket · 04/02/2023 19:30

Any ad with the repugnant Phil Schofield in it.
Any ad with the intensely annoying Claudia Wnkleman.
The awful tena Lady/Always products especially the one with the lady sat on the toilet.

1980sfookup · 04/02/2023 19:32

Evasmissingletter · 03/02/2023 21:45

Speak in your normal voices you fucking twats. Why does eating a haribo make you speak like children? Makes my skin crawl.

I was hoping someone would mention this one - I want to smash my own TV when this comes on.

RedHelenB · 04/02/2023 19:37

The hyundai one is really getting on my nerves.

JessicaFletcherscrewnecksweater · 04/02/2023 20:31

Cherrysoup · 04/02/2023 18:50

Why did Helena Bonham-Carter agree to be on that?! Awful.

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Because she’s starring in an ITV show and it was probably worked into her contract.

I think the Matthew McFadyan one is quite funny.

Mum97540 · 04/02/2023 20:40

Dior perfume - what would you do for love - aggressive and weird
Daisy, Daisy, Daisy - goes without saying
Fairy liquid and the peculiar man baby

sashh · 05/02/2023 02:35

Kissedbyfire1 · 04/02/2023 19:05

We bought ourselves a new tv for Christmas and for some reason all the ads are now Irish ones - we are in England. It’s bizarre but quite fun in a strange sort of way because we don’t know the products or the companies and all the prices are in Euros. So as things stand, we don’t hate any ads 🤣.

I play daft puzzle games online, for a while I got an Italian advert about buying some sort of card to give your grandchild for them to but games on a particular games console.

My Italian is limited to ordering a drink.

midsomermurderess · 05/02/2023 03:25

All the charity ones. The emotional blackmail is appalling.

tobee · 05/02/2023 03:42

The dentures one "I'm the one in the pick jumper" with his massive white gnashers and creepy grin eurgh.

The funeral plan one with the big biker bloke and then they stick him in a coffin in a sidecar!! That's not what a big bikery bloke would want!

Toddlerteaplease · 05/02/2023 03:48

The always discreet pants advert.. where the stupid woman won't go to a concert because of her 'bulky pee pants'. Gives me the rage. Go to the doctor! How many women are just buying those and putting up with it.

tobee · 05/02/2023 03:56

The Virgin plane one with the sort of oddball people "ooh look people who trip up, a flight attendant who doesn't wear lipstick" and the the denouement:- a woman pilot. Just looks so old fashioned and not quirky or groundbreaking

tobee · 05/02/2023 03:58

The woman worrying about her "pee". Normalising female incontinence. Rather than it being a thing you can solve.