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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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tobee · 05/10/2023 23:41

Nearly all adverts these days have blokes with beards who are a bit dull looking. It's quite the cult.

Sooo many adverts are for wills/funerals/life insurance.

And alllll the millions of erectile dysfunction adverts.

14blackcrows · 05/10/2023 23:43

It's that Disney land one with the girl walking towards the camera with various Disney land stuff going on behind her. Just looking really smug and then doing a big clap at the end.
I think I was watching some election coverage and this advert was played every single time there was a break and it just started to grate on me. The girls smug face. And now it's come back on TV recently!! Lol I just feel anger welling up inside me every time the music starts. I do not know why I have such a bad reaction to this advert!

tobee · 05/10/2023 23:43

O and any gambling adverts where it makes it look like it's a fun social event. Especially the bloke introducing the band.

Kevinbaconsrealwife · 05/10/2023 23:43

We buy any fucking car . fucking com…. And relax 😊

tobee · 05/10/2023 23:44

14blackcrows · 05/10/2023 23:43

It's that Disney land one with the girl walking towards the camera with various Disney land stuff going on behind her. Just looking really smug and then doing a big clap at the end.
I think I was watching some election coverage and this advert was played every single time there was a break and it just started to grate on me. The girls smug face. And now it's come back on TV recently!! Lol I just feel anger welling up inside me every time the music starts. I do not know why I have such a bad reaction to this advert!

Yes I hate that ad too. She's quite stage schooly

tobee · 05/10/2023 23:46

Btw Tesco club card I think they've got rid of those spooky smiley cartoon faces that appeared. I hope so

14blackcrows · 05/10/2023 23:46

@tobee I'm glad I'm not alone! Was feeling guilty about taking against a child like that but she just annoys me so much!!

lollipoprainbow · 05/10/2023 23:53

The lotto one with the two guys ergh !!

augustusglupe · 05/10/2023 23:54

The erectile dysfunction ones.
Same with the Tena ads...
I can reassure women in their 30s/40s that you don't suddenly get to 50 and start pissing yourself. If you believe the adverts they make it seem like the norm. It's not.

Crikeyalmighty · 05/10/2023 23:56

Any of those adverts to do with life insurance for the 'more mature ' where they speak to all us over 50s like we are all totally senile

LighthouseTheme · 05/10/2023 23:57

augustusglupe · 05/10/2023 23:54

The erectile dysfunction ones.
Same with the Tena ads...
I can reassure women in their 30s/40s that you don't suddenly get to 50 and start pissing yourself. If you believe the adverts they make it seem like the norm. It's not.

Let alone, she makes it sound as though she has no plan to even find a toilet, or hold it..... "Letting it all go" (!), "Morning - Noon -Night" (!)

I feel sorry for the person whose shoulders she it sitting on at the concert.

JamieJ93 · 05/10/2023 23:58

All of the stupid life insurance/ funeral planning adverts! Fuck u carol voderman!!

JamieJ93 · 06/10/2023 00:00

Oh and that bathroom advert with the guy with the beard that looks like he's just risen from the dead steam coming from ears right about now

Justleaveitblankthen · 06/10/2023 00:04

The current sponsor of Loose Women, deoderant I think?
Shows a very sweaty bunch of women in a class.
Maybe not deodorant then? 😂

Katisha · 06/10/2023 00:10

The one where some bloke is comparing something or other to feeling like a maraTHONN.

Vetoncall · 06/10/2023 00:15

The Jet2 one with the Jess Glynne 'Ready For This' song, mostly because I can't stand her voice and detest that song.

On the Beach with the horrible kid smugly/revoltingly licking an ice cream. I know kid blah blah but I'd happily push that little shit into the pool any day of the week.

The singing We Buy Any Car ones.

The Halifax (? I think) ones with the spoken word poetry.

Pudmyboy · 06/10/2023 00:31

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?

It's Mel C??? I never knew that!! Agree it's a bloody annoying ad though!

Glasgowgal200 · 06/10/2023 00:34

Who's the older woman in it on the plane who is taking a drink from a cup - she seems familiar to me but just can't think of her name

HuckleberryJam · 06/10/2023 00:36

I agree about the woman bemoaning her "bulky pee pants" and then sitting on someone's shoulders pissing into her non bulky pee pants.

The woman saying "I feel like I can rock this edgy haircut. This little bob" twice every ad break during Welcome to Plathville

Emmalin · 06/10/2023 00:46

I don't hate them, but those Cotswold Company adverts always make me think that we're all going to die one day.

TurquoiseThings · 06/10/2023 03:41

Go Compare! used to be awful but Go Dot Compare is a hundred times fucking worse.

sashh · 06/10/2023 03:48

The people's post code lottery is annoying on two counts, it is annoying but it also doesn't tell you how it works / how you win / why your neighbours will be happy.

theunbelievabletruth · 06/10/2023 07:54

Oh my god .. the bloody fairy liquid advert with some impossibly coiffed woman in her immaculate home with her immaculate kid both dressed in day-glo white
....- which then transforms into immaculately daubed stained - with - paint top .. HONESTLY have never ever seen such a stylishly 'stained' garment.. which is of course miraculously transformed back to day-glo white by the judicious use of the eponymous fairy detergent.
Which is .all done in next to no time by the fucking perfect woman and her fucking perfect kid in her fucking perfect home .. now joined by a fucking perfect baby which is of course swaddled in fucking day-glo white again ... arghhhhhhh

validusernameagain · 06/10/2023 07:58

Urgh, there's one for Chase bank where a creepy disembodied voice answers people's banking questions...
Person 1: why are there no numbers on my debit card!?
Creepy disembodied voice (CDV): Because at Chase bank..

And then it ends with CDV turning up in a cafe and reassuring bewildered looking man that millions of people use Chase bank.

I have no idea why but CDV gives me the rage every time! Like stop bothering people in cafes and on buses. 😜

validusernameagain · 06/10/2023 07:59

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!! And every time it comes on I think 'a string of sausages would not support a human's body weight'. 😂