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What adverts are chalk on a blackboard for you.

156 replies

OhBeAFineGuyKissMe · 23/07/2024 21:14

At the moment the Tesco ‘I’ve got the power’ makes me want to scream.

And the Google “allow me to re-introduce myself” with the fake “wows” “amazing” 🤢

What advert just gets on your nerves?

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BreakfastAtMilliways · 23/07/2024 22:52

That blimmin’ Fairy laundry ad with the fragrant blonde lady in white and the cute tiny fluffy headed baby in white and never a postnatal figure or a stain or mess to be seen.

ditalini · 23/07/2024 22:53

I'm weirdly fascinated by the Vogue woman one. She's obviously been told that she has to keep her voice loooowww which has led to a slightly odd vocal pattern. In one of the early ones she didn't do it and went really squeaky at the end.

Now I watch them when they come on hoping she'll let loose the squeak again. (Always close with a click safety fans).

It's a fail at making me buy Fairy products though.

Mackenziemimi · 23/07/2024 22:56

Tootingbec · 23/07/2024 22:06

Oh my God the “Octopus Energy” one that is constantly on LBC, Smooth , Magic

”This is what outstanding customer service sounds like!!”

Omg you read my mind, I can't stand this advertisement so annoying 😫

JC03745 · 23/07/2024 23:15

Currys adverts. Their advertising team must be on crack! The bearded women, eating manuals and the latest one with with the boggly eyes! WTF!

What adverts are chalk on a blackboard for you.
What adverts are chalk on a blackboard for you.
What adverts are chalk on a blackboard for you.
HighHeelsOnCobblestones · 23/07/2024 23:21

There was a radio ad years ago for Weight Watchers where they were talking with their mouths full. Awful. Had to turn it off every time.

billyt · 23/07/2024 23:22

Any Veresure advert. Anyone in the Electronic Security industry cringes as they are lying through their back teeth.

Fairy liquid - makes me want to smash the TV every time that bloody woman opens her mouth.

SammyScrounge · 23/07/2024 23:37

The one where the police are sitting in a patrol.car, turn to speak to one another and children's voices come out. They are repulsive, squawking in ridiculous high pitched voices.
They make me grind my teeth.

Whatthebarnacles · 23/07/2024 23:41

🎶 recycle your electricals 🎶
😑

Italiangreyhound · 23/07/2024 23:44

goodness me, yes, Tesco ‘I’ve got the power’ ad, Graze arguing with her own head.

Any advert where people are naked or nearly naked around food and drink. Especially, the salad leaves one!

Yes, the Tango one is vile.

Yes, and McDonalds where everyone is desperate for the food!

Gymnopedie · 24/07/2024 02:20

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Dominos

Another one for Octopus Energy - the woman who does the voice over sounds like a smug headmistress and the contents of the ads aren't much better.

Also because of the voice over - Viking Cruises. I don't know how that woman got the job. She manages to be sickly and condescending and prim. My theory is that she's the chairman's wife who said she wanted to do it and he indulged her.

I've not seen it on TV but a radio ad for Always Discreet. 'Give a little squeeze'. In the queue for a latte 'give a little squeeze'. It should feel like you're bursting to go to the loo and having to hold it in - we've all been there (said with a simper). Arrgh.

JohnTheRevelator · 24/07/2024 02:26

Tootingbec · 23/07/2024 22:06

Oh my God the “Octopus Energy” one that is constantly on LBC, Smooth , Magic

”This is what outstanding customer service sounds like!!”

This one really pisses me off too. Her smug voice saying 'Outstanding service at fair prices' makes me want to throw the radio across the room.

JohnTheRevelator · 24/07/2024 02:30

The Vodaphone one that was constantly on LBC (thankfully seems to have disappeared now). That girl/woman's voice is SO irritating.

ExhaustedCoffeedrinker · 24/07/2024 03:34

The one with the ladies at yoga talking about their pads, is it for tanner lady?

LunaNorth · 24/07/2024 03:43

At the moment, a bloke sitting on the bog with his pants round his ankles.

I don’t see my own husband having a shit, so why do I have to see someone else’s? It’s fucking gross.

Bring back the golden lab puppies, ffs!

mm81736 · 24/07/2024 03:54

I find the little girl in the yellow cardigan in the Robinson fruit creations 'listen up" ad very annoying

UmberNewt · 24/07/2024 04:01

The GoCompare adverts.
I’m not gonna lie, I was a teen when those adverts first came out and nothing annoyed me more than hearing “GO COMPARRREEEE” every 5 blooming minutes on the tv and when it moved over to radio?…
unfathomable torture.

but now that I’m 30… I still hate it!

CrushingOnRubies · 24/07/2024 08:37

There's a competition advert on Magic radio atm about ice cream. Them talking about ice cream using 🤢 adjectives

TheCadoganArms · 24/07/2024 08:40

mnahmnah · 23/07/2024 22:03

Vogue Williams Fairy adverts

This, a thousand times.

Seriously, some D rate celebrity famous for being on a few half arsed reality tv shows and for marrying a reality tv 'star'. Just fuck off.

ClaudiaWinklepanda · 24/07/2024 08:41

The Charlotte Tilbury one with close ups of mouths. Her voice over is awful.

FionnulaTheCooler · 24/07/2024 08:42

The Channel 4 one for the Paralympics, the old man who is supposed to represent gravity laughs like Punch out of Punch and Judy, it goes on for the whole advert. I have to mute it because it goes right through me.

Garman · 24/07/2024 08:42

OP do you mean nails on a blackboard, rather than chalk??

MonsteraMama · 24/07/2024 08:46

I don't watch "proper TV" except at my mam's so I generally have no ads or can skip them, but the Wild Deodorant ads on YouTube are still SO obnoxious, irritating and intrusive that I will literally never buy their products even if they'd completely remove my ability to sweat and smell.

I also absolutely despise the Jet2 holidays ads, but that's because I have a deep long term hatred for that fecking Jess Glynne song.

I miss the absolutely batshit head fuckery that was advertising in the 90's and 00's. The "I want some Crusha" song still slaps.

OhBeAFineGuyKissMe · 24/07/2024 09:05

Garman · 24/07/2024 08:42

OP do you mean nails on a blackboard, rather than chalk??

Yes, yes I do.

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Coastalcreeksider · 24/07/2024 09:19

Verisure, Verisure and Verisure especially the new one with Angela Scanlon gurning through it.

Also Tesco, hate that one too.

YellowDaffodilRedTulip · 24/07/2024 09:20

‘Perf with Surf’ . Nope.

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