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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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yarnwitch · 24/07/2024 09:24

Yes to the Tesco one!

Also "I sold my car, to we buy any car" accompanied by a stupid dance.

And all the "I'm worried about my bulky pee pants" ones.

BrigadierEtienneGerard · 24/07/2024 09:44

The bloody On the Beach family ones (no way am I EVER booking a holiday with them).

DW says "Daisy, Daisy, Daisy" makes her want to kill whoever dreamt it up.

Cadno31 · 24/07/2024 09:45

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!!”

Yes! It's so over the top with the praise. They must have paid that man. Cringe 😂

RabbitsRock · 24/07/2024 09:49

The holiday one ( Jet2?)with “ Darling Hold My Hand” playing. So annoying the way an invisible person is dragged along to the next fun thing! Jess Glynne’s voice grates on me too so it’s a double whammy! Oh & there’s another holiday one with that smug kid who pinches his sister’s ice cream. I want to slap him!

RabbitsRock · 24/07/2024 09:50

Another vote for the Tescos one!

Sidge · 24/07/2024 09:52

The Tena ones with the women doing yoga.

Oh I’m wearing my pad so I can just wee myself whilst doing yoga. “I really let it flow” or whatever she says. It’s disgusting.

Sort your problem out, it’s not entirely normal to piss yourself.

MrsSkylerWhite · 24/07/2024 09:54

Flash speed mop (which are rubbish anyway unless your kitchen just 6ft x 6ft!)

SacreBlue · 24/07/2024 10:01

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

😲 Monstera

I was thinking exactly this right down to internally singing the Crusha song & mentally bopping picturing the cats whilst scrolling down the thread

<backs quietly out of thread to source some tinfoil crusha>

tryingcouchto5K · 24/07/2024 10:01

The Febreze, - "Febwheese, it smells so Fwesh"
The limescale washing machine ad, when he squishes goop out of the pipe
The Tena one - "I'm letting it all go" implying a full bladder emptying, so go to the loo before yoga starts

Compash · 24/07/2024 10:02

I actually like the We Buy Any Car dancers, there are some real movers in it (the three kids in green lately, the bigger lass who can really groove)... But I change the words to: 'We Buy Any Ca-ar - wouldn't buy my car' because of the shed I drive... 😄

I also like the Haribo 'We ARE the police!' because it encapsulates that mad and spontaneous imagination in kids' play... the fishing one gives me the creeps though, they come across like online nonces...

But I don't understand the John Lewis ones lately - the pregnant woman and her - daughter? Friend? - complaining about the bendy sofa, or the one who 'has to get back to your Dad...'. What are they trying to say?! Have I missed something really obvious? (That has been known to happen...). 🤷‍♀️

newrubylane · 24/07/2024 10:03

The slurpy Pot Noodle one. Ick.

Ceebeegee · 24/07/2024 10:15

I agree with the PP's about Octopus Energy Ad. I HATE it!!
I'm quite laid back with adverts, but I have to turn the station over if that comes on. It hurts my ears. The narrator is annoying and the "example" customers are annoying as well. I work in customer service and the "example" customers so sound insincere. Hate it.

Also....Wren Kitchens. Saying the great renovation / wren-ovation as wren-err-vay-shuunnnnn

Lolatusernamesuggestions · 24/07/2024 10:21

mnahmnah · 23/07/2024 22:03

Vogue Williams Fairy adverts

God this and her ultra white spaceship she seemingly inhabits. I still watch it and comment because I'm too lazy to switch channels. I must look mental because I say "oh you again" or "ugh go away with your perfect life" and "this is not REAL."
Someone mentioned the poem ad for a bank. One line stands out "sister from another mister" I heard that waaaaaay too many times for my liking.

Ellemeg82 · 24/07/2024 10:26

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!
We have the radio on at work and I hear it so many times a day. It's so irritating. One of the "customers" who rants on about how amazing they are sounds drunk. And the voice over women sounds like a strict headmistress.

There's plenty of annoying ads on TV.

The jingle that really gets stuck in my head though is - "I didn't know you had dandruff.....I don't".

The other adverts I hate are those daytime ones for over 50s plans and direct cremations. The casual discussions at the garden centre about your funeral plans - like that's how people talk in real life! Hmm

TheRakesTale · 24/07/2024 10:34

YellowDaffodilRedTulip · 24/07/2024 09:20

‘Perf with Surf’ . Nope.

Anything with the 'Dyer duo' sends me ballistic

TheRakesTale · 24/07/2024 10:36

Any with people sitting on the loo
Or morphed faces (mouth on forehead)
Any ad that treats me like a child
Any ad propagates the 'perfect' 'family' unit

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 24/07/2024 10:54

Interesting to find out what the people are actually saying as we mute as soon as the advert break comes on! Good reason to go old school and record programmes as then you can fast forward through the ads. The one that annoys me intensely even with the sound muted is the holiday advert with the smug grey-haired man. He looks far too young to have hair that colour and he is absolutely full of himself. No idea which company he advertises but he's not doing them any favours.

Jackreacherstrousers · 24/07/2024 10:57

The Aimee Fuller period "flow forecast" for Tampax........aaaaagh.

I hate hate hate everything about it..her voice, the condescending way it implies women don't know how to use different size tampons during their period, even her polyester suit gives me the rage.

Oh and the graze? women talking to the back of her own head. 🤬

ExhaustedCoffeedrinker · 24/07/2024 11:01

Oh god another one has just come to me.
The one where paddy McGuiness pretends to be all common on a holiday advert "holiday like a fool" or something and even worse when Chris Moyles latched on too.

CountTo10 · 24/07/2024 11:02

JC03745 · 23/07/2024 21:56

  • The woman with all the facial moles that sniffs her children and says 'click click' about a washing detergent
  • The Usain Bolt one (I think its also washing detergent) where the beginning of it sounds like he says 'I'm disabled!' I haven't seen that particular one for a few weeks, so maybe it had complaints?
  • The graze one where she talks to the back of her head.

Oh I'm glad it's not just me. The Usain Bolt one just drives me crazy. I thought he was saying 'I'm disabled' too. Now I know he's just saying his own name I want to shout at the tv 'enunciate and stop mumbling'. Plus I'm sure he's never had to use laundry detergent in his life. He does strike me a modern man who would actually do his own washing.

Fizbosshoes · 24/07/2024 11:04

The slurpy pot noodles one

Any ad for a bank where they say they're there to help you. Have you ever tried actually talking to anyone in a bank ....? It's virtually impossible! (And yes I am tech literate but some stuff can't be done on the app...or in any other way it would seem)

And the jet 2 holiday ones a) because the family look about the most annoying people you could meet....and b) because they use music I associate with Christmas!!

ciderhouserules · 24/07/2024 11:15

Oh god - any advert that <whispers> (a la voyage prive) or SHOUTS! Or has a slurping tongue...

There is an advert on my Duolingo at the moment with a fat, balding aggressive man who shouts (with pointing finger, and approaching the camera) 'why doesn' every 'ome in the YouKe 'ave Sola Powa?' (No idea who/what it's for, i mute and turn the phone face down at this point ! Well done, ad agency.

And anything that comes on every single ad break. For days and weeks and months.
Am sure there are more...

TheWellSungGame · 24/07/2024 11:15

The advert for incontinence pads during yoga INFURIATES me. Stop normalising women's incontinence so you can sell fecking pads. Women with incontinence should talk to their doctors.

I don't even think it's Tena, I think it's actually an Always advert. So the advert has failed on every level. I'd like it to be specifically outlawed by an act of parliament.

ciderhouserules · 24/07/2024 11:19

Any with people sitting on the loo oh god have you seen the one for Andrex - 'most people won't poo in front of their partner' and he is on the loo while partner is in the bath - and he lets it plop! MOST people don't even WEE in front of their partners. Sickening - yes it's natural, but really? I don't want to see it, or do it.

OkapiSandwichAndARoastEgg · 24/07/2024 11:35

The On The Beach ad is likely to make you never want to book with them. The family are the opposite of the type I would want to holiday with.

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