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Adverts that make you want to avoid the product

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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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Clingfilm · 06/08/2023 09:30

I saw one recently where there was a choir gargling, I instinctively rushed to put my hands over my ears and closed my eyes, the noise and thought of all that saliva genuinely made me want to puke. No idea what the product was, mouth wash?

Another weird one, the scarecrow who turns into a woman, pure horror. Possibly for a bank.

itsmyp4rty · 06/08/2023 09:32

The Daisy one gives me the creeps. I'm sure the women are all in some sort of sex cult.

thesnailandthewhale · 10/08/2023 14:47

I colour my hair red, nothings gonna dull my shine Hmm

Willyoubuymeahouseofgold · 10/08/2023 15:58

Anything with dancers. I just don't understand their relevance to advertising. I hate it . On the list they go

thesnailandthewhale · 10/08/2023 19:07

And that new one that just goes "Sausage! .. Sausage! ... on repeat HmmHmm

Glasgowgal200 · 15/12/2023 00:05

Poor dog keeps getting new owners!!! Never seen the same man twice

GreyCarpet · 15/12/2023 07:16

I used to eat Yorkies.

Then they had an advert claiming they weren't for girls.

Haven't bought one since.

Fuck 'em! 🙃

ExFiles · 15/12/2023 23:45

One word: orgasmazing 🙄🤢

KievLoverTwo · 16/12/2023 03:12

Every Flash advert for the last three years. Bloke mopping a floor or wiping up spills with Brian Blessed loudly narrating and them mugging off the soundtrack from Flash Gordon. Mopping a floor like you're busting moves on a dancefloor / dropping a mic does not make you a SUPERHERO pal. Women have been doing it since the beginning of time without making utter pillocks of themselves, or even needing to feel as though their being a responsible adult is saving the universe.

Nah. Flash have you portray you as a superhero. Every.single.advert.

Fuck the fucking fuck off.

SinnerBoy · 16/12/2023 03:39

I'm really glad that live pause exists. You can go and make a cup of tea or whatever, at your leisure and then fast forward through the adverts.

Anyway, the worst for me are ones you watch loads of times before you get what they're actually advertising.

SammyScrounge · 16/12/2023 04:34

The one where two men chat in high pitched baby voices. It makes me grind my teeth.

SinnerBoy · 16/12/2023 04:37

Is that a Haribo one?

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 17/12/2023 10:55

Any advert with crap poetry. Fever Tree are the latest to do this. Scottish Water are habitual criminals.

NinjaGin · 17/12/2023 11:50

The Mario one where the Mum immediately says “Go play some Mario” to her sad/upset daughter rather than trying to talk to her or do something together….then magically playing the game bonds the sisters together. There’s so much wrong with it!

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 17/12/2023 12:00

Mopping a floor like you're busting moves on a dancefloor / dropping a mic does not make you a SUPERHERO pal. Women have been doing it since the beginning of time without making utter pillocks of themselves, or even needing to feel as though their being a responsible adult is saving the universe

Such a bloke way of cleaning - let's not pick stuff up off the floor, let's clean AROUND it! and then act like some sort of superhero for doing a routine household task.

Lenor
The one with the bloke who goes around with everyone sniffing his clothes
M&S Christmas - clearly some subtext there I'm missing.
Verisure - employment for crap actors
Perfume ads with the directors channelling their aspirations to direct obscure arthouse films
Some laxative one where the woman dashes around like the Duracell bunny.

I watch too much TV.

Gettingbysomehow · 17/12/2023 12:03

Any advert where people are having an orgasm over laundry products. I cannot stand it.
Also men taking the lead cleaning houses. We all know they never do.

Gettingbysomehow · 17/12/2023 12:03

The daisy advert - there is something that has paedophile written all over it.

pinneddownbytabbies · 17/12/2023 12:09

Any and all adverts for toothbrushes and/or toothpaste which show a woman cleaning her teeth (with froth conspicuous by its absence) and then gazing at said toothbrush in vacant puzzlement.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 17/12/2023 12:11

Cannot remember the product name but I'd never buy it as I don't have a dog . It's for a joint supplement (for dogs ) the theme tune I like the way you move

But the last 10 seconds where the dog is running , towing his stupid laughing owner who is trying to keep her hat on. I bloody hate seeing dogs towing their walker (unless it's a sleigh ) out of control .They're laughing Oh ha ha ha isn't this funny , oh stop , dog, stop No it isn't funny at all .
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backtowinter · 17/12/2023 12:27

One in between the channel 5 Christmas movies
Might be for flowers It features people just staring gormlessly at the camera in sort of slow motion

TentaPlayz · 20/12/2023 14:03

That's jingle is so good wdym I've loved it ever since

barbiekitty · 31/12/2023 23:19

Virgin air advert. I hate it

Willyoubuymeahouseofgold · 31/12/2023 23:28

Anything that uses dance tbh

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