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TV adverts that make you rage

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midnitghtgraveyard · 14/10/2023 13:54

I dont watch TV very much but when i do for some reason the ads give me the
rage.
One in particular is the muller rice ad I WANT IT WARM i dont no why but i cant stand it.
And the Noddle ad with the donkey i mute the TV.
My last one is the listerine mouthwash donkey why i hate it i dont no.

Have you got any to add to the list.

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beachcomber70 · 14/10/2023 14:32

New Warburtons bread one where some American actor [don't know who he is] storms around aggressively, kicking doors with a roaring voice, face distorted with anger. So damn aggressive and I fail to see the point it's trying to make.

Whoever thinks these ads up, because they are so immature and childish.

BTW not every woman is incontinent as some seem to imply. I'm ancient and not been incontinent once. [Not yet....]

But love the Head and Shoulders one...'I don't!'

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midnitghtgraveyard · 14/10/2023 14:33

Dandruff No i dont

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beachcomber70 · 14/10/2023 14:34

Tesco: cartoon figures yelling 'I've got the power'. As if.

Lorrymum · 14/10/2023 14:34

Lloyds Bank "we are by your side" adverts. They fought us all the way when we tried to claim on home insurance policy after our bathroom ceiling collapsed. They were so rude and off hand I actually cried while on the phone to them.
We are still saving up to get it sorted!

TragicMuse · 14/10/2023 14:35

The electric cars one that goes 'who said electric can't be blah blah'

NO ONE. LITERALLY NO ONE SAID ANY OF THOSE THINGS. EVER. NOT EVEN IN YOUR CREATIVE BRAINSTORMING SESSION.

And the Tena lady 'oops I might piss my pants' one.

Babyroobs · 14/10/2023 14:35

God I hate that one for the always incontinence pads where the woman is doing the yoga and goes on about 'pee ' in my pants. Hate it !

TragicMuse · 14/10/2023 14:36

midnitghtgraveyard · 14/10/2023 14:33

Dandruff No i dont

That's such a weird one too, all the way through his voice is macho American. And then right at the end his accent is suddenly really English.

PTSDBarbiegirl · 14/10/2023 14:40

I’m nepo Lila and I’m puuufect as I am….cue virtue signalling gender parade and then Daisy, Daisy,Daisy, Daisy oh fuck off.

onwardandupwards · 14/10/2023 14:40

The olay one where the woman asks how she's going to get down from there 😡

SM4713 · 14/10/2023 14:42
  • Tena lady pee pants
  • Dr Wolffe's vag cream
  • Fairy washing capsules advert woman. Her voice grates on me, the whole click clack thing and all those facial moles 😝
millymae · 14/10/2023 14:43

Another vote for Lloyds Bank - it/they are as far from anyone’s side as they can possibly be. As soon as I see those horses I I can feel the rage rising

maddiemookins16mum · 14/10/2023 14:44

beachcomber70 · 14/10/2023 14:23

The new Curry's ones. One where they eat the instruction booklets stuffing paper into their mouths to 'digest' the info, and another where 'knowledge' of the products mean that both male and female assistants grow beards. So not funny.

In my local Curry's you're lucky to get an assistant to notice you let alone give help and advice.

How an advert with people stuffing paper in their mouth (and the dangers involved!) got the sign off I’ll never know!!

I was open mouthed (pun intended) when I first saw it.

IDontLoveTheWayYouLie · 14/10/2023 14:45

Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy

IDontLoveTheWayYouLie · 14/10/2023 14:46

Also really hates the go compare adverts with the singer. Seemed like they were on constantly.

Cowlover89 · 14/10/2023 14:50

IDontLoveTheWayYouLie · 14/10/2023 14:45

Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy

Ads annoying but my favourite perfume

Bluevelvetsofa · 14/10/2023 14:51

Daisy and most perfume ones. Now is the time of year when they’re out in full force and they’re the same ones every year. Lazy.

Sausages. Is it an advert for insurance? Why?

Certainly the Curry’s ones. Whoever thought it a good idea to have staff pretending to eat paper or grow beards.

Any supermarket advert, especially Tesco and Morrisons.

Daffodilwoman · 14/10/2023 14:51

Adverts sure ain’t what they used to be.
All car adverts are boring.
In fact, all adverts now are boring.

Gettingbysomehow · 14/10/2023 14:53

Any large company advert that claims to "care" for us. They don't give a shit.

madroid · 14/10/2023 15:04

The Macmillan cancer care one of the child crying in distress as she sees her father's shaven stitched head after surgery, presumably for a brain tumour. I hate it. It genuinely upsets me every time.

Who in their right mind thinks seeing a child at one of the most distressing times in their life repeatedly on an advert would be beneficial for a charity?

tobee · 14/10/2023 15:30

madroid · 14/10/2023 15:04

The Macmillan cancer care one of the child crying in distress as she sees her father's shaven stitched head after surgery, presumably for a brain tumour. I hate it. It genuinely upsets me every time.

Who in their right mind thinks seeing a child at one of the most distressing times in their life repeatedly on an advert would be beneficial for a charity?

So many adverts are like that atm and endless funeral ones. It used to just be to depress retired people in the day but now it's all the time.

AGAbaker · 14/10/2023 15:31

That Hana contraceptive advert...especially the bit with the woman singing in the bath 😫

Oh and any of those Tesco 'I've got the power', makes me want to smash the tv.

The million adverts that try to be PC, white Mum, black Dad, Chinese children. Representative of about 0.000000000000000012 of the population.

piesforever · 14/10/2023 15:49

We're obsessed with DAISYDAISYDAISY lol!!!!

dellesapples · 14/10/2023 16:54

AGAbaker · 14/10/2023 15:31

That Hana contraceptive advert...especially the bit with the woman singing in the bath 😫

Oh and any of those Tesco 'I've got the power', makes me want to smash the tv.

The million adverts that try to be PC, white Mum, black Dad, Chinese children. Representative of about 0.000000000000000012 of the population.

Every advert is like that mixed or predominantly poc - it's not representative of the majority populace and I'm a black woman saying that! It's good to see representation but not force fed so that it doesn't represent society maybe the major cities 🏙️ but that's about it.

Poontangle · 14/10/2023 16:59

Ian Botham's gnarly feet.

AND it's drug free! No shit?

NyanBinaryJohn · 15/10/2023 04:03

The sexist as fuck Curry's beard advert can get in the sea. Seriously, there was a boardroom full of marketing execs who thought that continuing with the idea that male = intelligence was a good idea?

The bulky pee pants.

Oh, and I'm Verisure I'll never buy one of those shitty alarm systems, if the quality of their 'actors' is anything to go by