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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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OkapiSandwichAndARoastEgg · 24/07/2024 11:36

Daytime ads are all about funeral plans and life insurance and designed to make you feel bad if you want a funeral or don't make provision for others FFS. Appalling and repeated for eight minutes every thirteen minutes - unwatchable!

ohpoowhatnow · 24/07/2024 11:39

I have to switch the radio off every time the octopus energy advert comes on 😩😩😩

JC03745 · 24/07/2024 12:13

@CountTo10 Well you have cleared up what Usain Bolt actually says, thank you! I still can't work out how 'I'm Usain Bolt' can sound like 'I'm disabled' though! 🤔

Projectme · 24/07/2024 12:19

"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."

Gaaaahhh....I hate this advert. She said on one of them "...with no children and no casinos'....sounds so snidey and superior, making a dig at a typical cruise ship that has both.

I like the Tesco advert! And I love the new Wilkinson Sword advert.

QuantumMottle · 24/07/2024 12:26

Flash with that stupid dog and that crap Queen song. It was funny the first time but they're just clinging on to it now.

CountTo10 · 24/07/2024 12:30

JC03745 · 24/07/2024 12:13

@CountTo10 Well you have cleared up what Usain Bolt actually says, thank you! I still can't work out how 'I'm Usain Bolt' can sound like 'I'm disabled' though! 🤔

Try saying it Usain Bolt without pronouncing the 'n'. He slurs his words and says 'usaybolt'.

ReacherSaidNothing · 24/07/2024 13:39

Ellemeg82 · 24/07/2024 10:26

^ 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

I quite fancy the head and shoulders guy so don't mind that ad 😳

RicherThanYews · 24/07/2024 13:44

Stacey Solomon and her "I'm just a regular busy working mum" advert for Hello Fresh where she has to get to the box before her kids do because they use it as a fort for stickle bricks or some such bollocks. No kid has ever been that interested in shopping bags unless you tell them you bought fucking sweets. Fuck off Stacey. Fuck off Dominos. Fuck off all banking adverts that are "by the people, for the people" - you have literally shut down every fucking branch of every bank within a 30 mile radius you bastards.

MiddleAgedDread · 24/07/2024 13:50

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.

THIS!!
Also the latest tampax one likening periods to the weather.

Cattyisbatty · 24/07/2024 13:56

@Ellemeg82 - I sing that bloody dandruff song all the time esp to DS to annoy him 😆
Daisy x 3 can get to fuck - no-one will buy the perfume cos the ad is so bad!

The one that really used to make me 🤢 was the Postcode Lottery ‘Someone’s knocking at the door -or!’ The way it’s sung is nauseating to me, it was on the radio constantly when I drove home from work a few years ago! It seems to have gone away now thankfully.

Would never book with On the Beach either if that’s the type of holiday makers they are looking to attract.

RenoDakota · 24/07/2024 13:59

The McCain one with Iain Stirling and the most wooden woman ever to appear on tv.

RealHousewivesOfTaunton · 24/07/2024 14:06

"Ironing is a joy!" on MN Active threads. Sorry, did we time-warp back to the 1950's?

GraceUnderwire · 24/07/2024 14:36

The Always “What the Gush” ones.

The Ariel wash on cold one - specifically the way the voice over woman says “Brrrrrilliant “ at the end. Don’t really know why, it just really annoys me.

Iamblossom · 24/07/2024 14:59

Octopus - switch the radio off every time
Tesco - I am embarrassed for them
More reasons to shop at Morrisons is also dire

purplecorkheart · 24/07/2024 15:01

The one for the Very Sure Alarms. All of them are annoying a hell!

DelphineFox · 24/07/2024 15:48

The one where the woman goes on about her bulky pee pants. She then wears Tena pants and is able to go to a concert and sit on someone's shoulders (presumably while peeing into her non bulky tena pants.)

DelphineFox · 24/07/2024 15:49

I like the "I've got the power!" Tesco man.

DelphineFox · 24/07/2024 15:51

Obviously I don't like the obnoxious On The Beach family where the dad and son look like Bernard Manning.

Curlywurlywurly · 24/07/2024 15:54

DancingPhantomsOnTheTerrace · 23/07/2024 22:42

The horrible horrible slurping pot noodle one.

🤮

Same here. Makes me want to vomit!

TigerRag · 24/07/2024 15:54

Skin A&E
We buy any car
Any advert for women's periods and incontinence stuff

Onlywayisupmaybe · 24/07/2024 15:56

DelphineFox · 24/07/2024 15:48

The one where the woman goes on about her bulky pee pants. She then wears Tena pants and is able to go to a concert and sit on someone's shoulders (presumably while peeing into her non bulky tena pants.)

Yes, that is gross.
There’s another one as well where she wears them so she can wee herself through her yoga class 🤮

Oganesson118 · 24/07/2024 15:56

The clearblue one where she’s like 2 days pregnant and her mate is all “I think I’m gonna cryyyyyy”

AbraAbraCadabra · 24/07/2024 16:02

Isn't the phrase "nails on a blackboard" or something similar? Chalk on a blackboard isn't particularly annoying or irritating

AbraAbraCadabra · 24/07/2024 16:02

Oh sorry just read the update!!!

VictoriaEra · 24/07/2024 16:13

Any advert that uses people in bare feet or with two hands round a mug to denote ‘being at home.’ Extra loathing for ‘vulnerable sleeves’.

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