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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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GasDrivenNun · 08/10/2023 13:35

In the life insurance ads they are always 32 and non smokers. In many areas of the country £100,000 would not pay off the mortgage.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 08/10/2023 14:01

DoraSpenlow · 08/10/2023 13:23

The Currys one with the beards. What in God's name was the person who thought that one up on. And who in their right kind would say wow, what a brilliant idea let's go with that one.

I saw that the other night and thought 'what the HELL are they trying to say here?'

Which is not a question I should need to ask if an advert is getting its message across.

Coastalcreeksider · 08/10/2023 14:07

The weird old couple who might be "getting it on" in the Maltesers advert.

Flapjacker48 · 08/10/2023 14:18

Yes that lenor add where that woman in the bed shouts "what is it!". Who want to add even more shit chemicals to your laundry anyway?

TodayInahurry · 08/10/2023 14:20

Do as we do, record programs and whiz past the adverts!

OnGoldenPond · 08/10/2023 14:26

That perfume ad with the annnoying famous actress (can't remember her name) flouncing around fields and arguing ostentatiously with random blokes. She then finishes by barking aggressively at the screen "and you, what would YOU do for love????"

Fuck off love, I'm taking my peejays off for no one!

tobee · 08/10/2023 14:26

Oh and the pc world adverts with the woman contorted in a box at airport security. But MOST of all the guy in the baked beans tub at the breakfast buffet. Same reaction as the pp on the guy getting the gig as the talking doughnut.

OnGoldenPond · 08/10/2023 14:29

WildFlowerBees · 05/10/2023 23:23

Those bloody life insurance ones, 'Hello Barbara you look nice' he says, Barbara wearing polyester trousers and an anorak 'Hello Ted yes I've just been to a funeral'

Or the older lady whose granddaughter is trying to find her in hide & seek whilst she's on the phone 'I'll go ahead' and then a big dentured smile.

I often wonder who these people are that sit around their desks coming up with ideas and the big cheese says 'yes, amazing let's do this one!' They are all shit.

Ah yes, funerals. The pensioner's equivalent of clubbing! Grin

CesareBorgia · 08/10/2023 14:32

Anything that has a version of a classic rock song being croaked out by what sounds like a young woman on her deathbed.

ladymalfoy45 · 08/10/2023 14:35

All the gambling ones.
All the Nu Man erectile dysfunction ones.
The ones with the sausage dog for health supplements .
These are all on the sport channels.

OnGoldenPond · 08/10/2023 14:39

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.

All those adverts with impossibly good looking families grinning dementedly while charging around on endlessly activity packed holidays make me shudder. That kind of holiday is my idea of hell on earth.

Butteredtoast55 · 08/10/2023 15:35

I really dislike the Virgin Atlantic one and agree that the girl pulling a face looks more like Daisy Ridley.

But the one I truly detest is the one for electric cars where they say 'Who says electrification can't spark excitement when unplugged?

No-one ever, love. That's who.

Cattenberg · 08/10/2023 15:39

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!

😂

Cattenberg · 08/10/2023 15:39

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!

😂

TheThingIsYeah · 08/10/2023 15:39

GasDrivenNun · 08/10/2023 13:35

In the life insurance ads they are always 32 and non smokers. In many areas of the country £100,000 would not pay off the mortgage.

Lol, and they way they suggest you could get £750,000 of cover for £6.50 a month (with a 10% discount for the first year!). They must deal with a lot of disappointed callers.

Remagirl · 08/10/2023 15:40

Head and shoulders ads. Hate all of them 😣

toadasoda · 08/10/2023 15:47

Any sanitary product ad that feels the need to show us using graphics how they work, cos us women folk are too bloody stupid to figure it out. Same for 'sensitive bladder' ads.

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 08/10/2023 17:58

The 'on the market' adverts. The singing is worse then any primary school play I've had to sit through.

TigerRag · 08/10/2023 20:23

The Always adverts for bladder leak underwear. It's the way they talk...like it's normal to just piss yourself.

The Fairy advert where the child says he wants to build a spaceship but it's taking ages for the bottle to run out.

Hiyawotcha · 08/10/2023 20:29

I’ve just seen one for “poonami” proof pampers where thank heavens for the nappy, the parents can go back to sleep because the shitstorm has been contained in the poor kid’s nappy. So that’s ok then. Hasn’t leaked, and the parents don’t need to change the poor baby out of its shitty nappy. Not the best. I’d get it if the advert showed the parents being completely none the wiser but the narrative is that they hear the baby having a poo over the monitor but don’t check and just go back to sleep. Ew.

Badaba · 08/10/2023 20:39

DARLIN HOLE MA HAAAAND...

NumberFortyNorhamGardens · 08/10/2023 20:55

Littletinytarzanswingingfromanosehair · 05/10/2023 22:58

The old "I didn't know oral B made a tooth paste" used to make me angry.
What did you think Oral B was? A foot cream brand?

I’m amused by their current one for ‘Densify’. Haven’t they been doing that to the actors in their ads for years?

Besides, you have to be pretty dense to pay upwards of £8 for a tube of toothpaste.

Happyher · 08/10/2023 21:05

The pee pants one. I just have visions of that woman walking round in squelching full pants - and then she’s sat on that blokes shoulders 😣

coolkatt · 08/10/2023 21:13

i just can't cope with the animal abuse ones. it get switched over immediately. i am an animal lover, i have direct debits to animal charities and i understand the need, but i just can't cope with watching the suffering. i really really hate when they come on.

toadasoda · 08/10/2023 21:29

That toothpaste one where she knows how to keep her body healthy but how does she keep her mouth healthy? She is at a fitness class then opens a fridge full of only bell peppers. Then answers her own question telling us that the dentist told her to brush her teeth..what a moron

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