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TV Adverts you despise

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beeonmybonnett · 05/10/2023 20:56

Lighthearted.

I hate that Sainsbury’s “hey big saver” ad. It really grinds my gears!

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Iwasafool · 05/10/2023 20:58

I hate the Verisure adverts. I keep thinking they can't get any worse but everyone reaches a new level of awfulness. I'm fascinated about how badly they will end up.

TheThingIsYeah · 05/10/2023 20:59

The Virgin one with the steward haughtily walking up the aisle and Mel C sticking her tongue out. WTF is that supposed to be about?

RunningUpThatBuilding · 05/10/2023 21:03

All adverts with an awful scripted conversation that they try to pass off as natural. Really winds me up.

e.g. man on phone to call centre: "I hear you do life insurance plans for all adults based in the UK with no invasive medicals or complicated forms".

NO ONE says that! NO ONE!

MustBeNapTime · 05/10/2023 21:03

The All Clear travel insurance one. The most recent one is the couple sitting on a plane drinking champagne and simpering about everything being "all clear"!

cassiatwenty · 05/10/2023 21:09

Tesco's I've Got the Power singing possesion/obsession

LemongrassLollipop · 05/10/2023 21:11

I can't stand that Tesco one where a man is stuck down a well and a Tesco trolley comes to rescue him. I think there is also a string of talking sausages.

It makes no sense and I have an irrational hatred of it!

Mamette · 05/10/2023 21:11

The paint ones, with the singing 20-somethings “this bear is all grown up” etc

Oh god they are cringe as the DSs would say 😫

Cocolapew · 05/10/2023 21:12

Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy

beeonmybonnett · 05/10/2023 21:13

LemongrassLollipop · 05/10/2023 21:11

I can't stand that Tesco one where a man is stuck down a well and a Tesco trolley comes to rescue him. I think there is also a string of talking sausages.

It makes no sense and I have an irrational hatred of it!

Yep - it’s naff!

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beeonmybonnett · 05/10/2023 21:13

Cocolapew · 05/10/2023 21:12

Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy

It’s like a cult😳

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beeonmybonnett · 05/10/2023 21:14

RunningUpThatBuilding · 05/10/2023 21:03

All adverts with an awful scripted conversation that they try to pass off as natural. Really winds me up.

e.g. man on phone to call centre: "I hear you do life insurance plans for all adults based in the UK with no invasive medicals or complicated forms".

NO ONE says that! NO ONE!

Oh I can’t be doing with those ads! They’re so cringey

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Teenagequeenwithaloadedgun · 05/10/2023 21:17

There's a gambling one (I can't remember the company because I've blocked it out of my mind due to sheer horror) where a guy dressed in yellow sings a stupid song whilst passers by pretend to look excited.

In reality they'd think he was a dickhead.

Scutterbug · 05/10/2023 21:19

The car ones with no audio. Always think the tv has gone off!

Floogal · 05/10/2023 21:20

Booking dot com. Booking dot yeah. With that Ruby Wax wannabe

FitAt50 · 05/10/2023 21:44

The BOLD adverts to the tune of GOLD by Spandau Ballet. The themes are crap and the lyrics terrible.

treacledan71 · 05/10/2023 21:47

The we buy any car ones where they dance.

JanglingJack · 05/10/2023 21:47

It's Not Milk!!!!!

Oh it is milk.

Wankers.

JanglingJack · 05/10/2023 21:49

Scutterbug · 05/10/2023 21:19

The car ones with no audio. Always think the tv has gone off!

This one too.

Every time my daughter and I comment on the sound going off but have no idea what they're advertising.

Well done marketing 🙄

DonttouchthatLarry · 05/10/2023 21:58

Viking River Cruises - the over enunciation of every syllable makes me wish they'd gone the route of the silent car ad 😄. I hhatttte itttt

DiscoBeat · 05/10/2023 22:04

The Virgin one with the steward haughtily walking up the aisle and Mel C sticking her tongue out. WTF is that supposed to be about?

I love that advert!

DiscoBeat · 05/10/2023 22:06

I agree that the advert with a man being rescued from a well by a trolley and a string of sausages is very annoying!!

KettleOn919 · 05/10/2023 22:14

"Lenor lovers" contorting themselves in ecstasy as they inhale the entrancing scent of their favourite fabric conditioner.

CosyCoffee · 05/10/2023 22:20

The Omaze ads with the grinning woman who over emphasises every word. She looks and sounds demented.

Sux2buthen · 05/10/2023 22:25

T'aint Mel C.
But this is weird, I've seen that same advert mentioned here before with the same Mel c comment.
I don't even see the resemblance Grin
How weird

Go.compare
Meerkats
I think they started these things with no idea they would be stuck with the same gimmick so many years later

Crinkle77 · 05/10/2023 22:28

Iwasafool · 05/10/2023 20:58

I hate the Verisure adverts. I keep thinking they can't get any worse but everyone reaches a new level of awfulness. I'm fascinated about how badly they will end up.

I came on to say this. The one with the pregnant women was a new low.

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