What is something you will never use/see/own because of their adverts?

[CatamaranViper]

Some brands or shows just have the most annoying, repetitive adverts and it just puts you off using or watching them.

For me it's Norton Antivirus software and the Apple adverts with the kid karate chopping wood or the guy with the fish. They drive me potty!

DH says Impractical Jokers. The ads were on so much that he has vowed to never watch the show.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has this?

The Flash dog is indeed very cute; but afaic, they DO sing 'Spray white dung' - don't really want to think about cleaning my kitchen with bird poo, thanks very much.

Modibodi assert that "Some trans women don’t have uteruses".

Could they please advise us how many transwomen DO have uteruses? And, if their answer is more than 'zero', could they enlighten us all as to how this could be the case?

Not all women have uteruses, but everybody who does have a uterus is a woman (or a girl). And if you do have (or have previously had) a uterus, that automatically disqualifies you from ever being a 'transwoman'.

She sounds so wooden when reading her script.

And referring to herself as 'the lovely' - or sanctioning the ad maker putting it up on screen, as if it were her actual name - is just weird beyond words.

Not saying whether she IS lovely or not (I don't know her), but let's just stick to her actual name, shall we? It was one thing when Paul was the star of the show and it was a little (condescending) sop to make her feel special too, but the time has very much gone now. It's kind of the equivalent of if Sally Lindsay were to insist on singing "There's no-one quite like grandma" at the start every time she made any TV appearance, now she's decades on from being a sweet little kid and is now a respected adult professional.

'Daisy, daisy, daisy' - bit of a Manson vibe going on there.

omg I think you just articulated perfectly why it weirds me out 😂

All Clear insurance. If anyone spoke to me in the patronising way he does to her he'd be instantly red-carded.

Verisure. Like something a team on The Apprentice would make. Max cringe.

Boots. I stopped using them a few years ago when they did a Christmas ad focused on women who work in emergency services. That'll be the same emergency services Boots avoid paying taxes to fund. The hypocrisy made me ill.

I never buy Dove anymore. It is all their inclusive, all shapes stuff, while simultaneously making woman feel shit because, if they don't use Dove, their armpits might suffer from not as soft and moisturised. Inventing a new problem for women to get paranoid about whilst pretending to be women friendly.

And I wonder how long it will take for their male advertising to go the same way. At the moment, very conventional male models.

also incontinence aids for younger women. Pretending that it is not a problem really and you just need to buy their 'Pee Pants' when it might just be worth going to the dr and seeing if you can cure it, instead of chucking money at the issue and normalising it

Any ad that shows the elderly being delighted because they have just booked their own funeral so their younger relatives won't have to worry. And then showing the younger relatives celebrating the fact

Yeah grandad must have saved liked mad for his funeral... sentence that will never be uttered...load o shite.

I came on to see if anyone else had said this.

i used to eat them from a vending machine as a teenager. Saw that advert and haven’t touched one since and never will.

Hahaha 🤣

This was the one I came on to say.

Still hear at a f*^king geniuses rather than booking geniuses.

1. Booking genius (see below) On the Beach - makes me never want to book with them in case I come across the sort of family in question, nothing to do with their shapes and sizes but more the attitude, plus I actually don't like swearing much. I would imagine they are skirting quite close to the line here with booking.com that has genius benefits, I am sure they are aware...
2. "Bulky pee pants" makes me completely cringe - one thing dealing with an issue sensitively, another thing altogether having a woman sat on the shoulders of someone else (with, as they say "I can't believe.....") in the same sentence that says that the pee pants hold loads of wee. Get down. You are not a half-cut 16 year old on the shoulders of your boyfriend at your first concert, and most of us concert goers can sort of forgive that. FFS.

Earlier this month, 135 complaints were made to the ASA by people who thought TV star Paddy McGuinness, who does the voiceover for the advert, was swearing. The ASA dismissed those complaints. It also said it didn't agree with the four people who complained the ad encouraged rude and greedy behaviour.

I kind of got that too.. it's nearly Willy Wonka esque

I didn't hate it I suppose is what I'm trying to say

On The Beach. Partly because of the wanky family and their obnoxious son in the ad and partly because of the way Paddy McGuinnes (I can’t be arsed try and spell his name right) says airport or whatever it is. Like he’s purposely emphasising his northern accent.

Also Sanex. A few years back they had an ad where lots of naked people bunched together swaying around. Then the camera panned out so it ended up as just the skin of one single person, but in part of that pan out the optics of it were just sooo creepy and gross, almost like lots of bits of skin. I do have trypophobia so that’s probably why I hated it but it honestly haunts me to this day.

Agree with this. I still think it’s a beautiful advert.

I quite like the weegie donkey 🤭

I detest the bloody thing because it sounds like a dick line manager I had.😀

Yes! Won't be using those Flash mop wipe things. Pretty sure they can't be recycled.

Tee hee I knew my ad would get a few mentions

If you count sponsorship of a Formula 1
team as advertising, I won’t be buying Red Bull any time soon. Their boss has a fling with his PA, then won’t let it go, sends her emails pressuring her to say what underwear she has on, and describing himself wanking in the loos while thinking of her, and sending photos of his own hand covered in what appears to be semen. He restricts her ability to do her job, and she takes him to a tribunal. Red Bull do an internal
investigation, say he has no case to answer, and suspend HER.

I won't use Moonpig again due to the incessant marketing

Most perfumes

Must say, although I loathe the On the Beach ads, I think the lad playing the son is a charismatic young actor who plays his part very well. I wish the girl had more to do in it though.

Wish I could say the same about the wooden acting in the Verisure ads - they make me want to go and steal their actual alarms, just to stop them smugging about one-dimensionally with their ChatGPT-sounding scripts...

Verisure. Like something a team on The Apprentice would make.

YES!!!!!!!