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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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Stumped7 · 24/07/2024 16:15

The McDonalds radio adverts. The shouty man sounds like he's a heavy smoker. In general all radio adverts are so cringey.

VictoriaEra · 24/07/2024 16:15

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!

Yes and aren’t they all excited about these plans?

VictoriaEra · 24/07/2024 16:16

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.

Agree with all of this.

stickthewellyin · 24/07/2024 16:21

Some blonde woman singing something like bibidi Bobbido boo. I think it's for collagen. It pops up continually on my reels.

Rosecoffeecup · 24/07/2024 16:22

I didn't know you had dandruff

Superhansrantowindsor · 24/07/2024 16:22

mnahmnah · 23/07/2024 22:03

Vogue Williams Fairy adverts

YES! Every time it’s on I shout at the TV ‘but she doesn’t do the washing!’

and which mum on planet earth sits down to do finger painting with their kids in a crisp white wool jumper. Does. My. Head. In.

Onlywayisupmaybe · 24/07/2024 16:26

Missing the point of the thread but I really like the one with the middle aged black couple dancing together when preparing dinner while their daughter looks on in disgust. Think it is for a bank as the daughter adds some cash to her moving out account.

OkapiSandwichAndARoastEgg · 24/07/2024 16:45

VictoriaEra · 24/07/2024 16:15

Yes and aren’t they all excited about these plans?

Yes! It's like they've won a free cruise or something! In fact if you approach your local authority, they will do a cremation for a fraction these companies charge provided you collect the ashes.

TV ads are the pits. So many of them are trying to get you to buy into a 'lifestyle' and most of them treat us like idiots or sheep.

TheCadoganArms · 24/07/2024 16:58

The Omaze win a house ads with that stupendously smug woman with the weird affected accent swanning around the place like a Poundshop Julie Andrews.

OhBeAFineGuyKissMe · 24/07/2024 17:03

Onlywayisupmaybe · 24/07/2024 16:26

Missing the point of the thread but I really like the one with the middle aged black couple dancing together when preparing dinner while their daughter looks on in disgust. Think it is for a bank as the daughter adds some cash to her moving out account.

I like this one too.

Who are ‘on the beech’ advertising too? It is so off putting,

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AInightingale · 24/07/2024 17:18

Haven't seen it for a while, but that ad where Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford were sitting barefoot using some foot massager thing was pretty gross. It always seemed to be on when I was eating.

mnahmnah · 24/07/2024 17:29

Superhansrantowindsor · 24/07/2024 16:22

YES! Every time it’s on I shout at the TV ‘but she doesn’t do the washing!’

and which mum on planet earth sits down to do finger painting with their kids in a crisp white wool jumper. Does. My. Head. In.

And the way she is dressed like a stepford wife. Not her at all. And the whole script is cringe. The ways she talks about Theodore and what she thinks, as if everyone knows her and who Theodore is!

AreThereSomewhereIslands · 24/07/2024 17:30

That sodding Lucozade advert with the urban yoof playing basketball, etc. In the full 60-second version, there's a basketball team sharing a gym training session with a dance troupe rehearsal, with pounding lyrics from a song called Roll Call.

After I'd suffered silently through it for the first 20 times, I realised that when the second segment (focused on the dancers) starts, the tune exactly fits the opening lyrics from Only Fools And Horses - and now all I hear, every time, is a strongly-American-accented voice yelling, "Ah got haff-prahce cracked ahce, teevees, deep-freeze, David Bowie LPs..." Grin

VivaciousRadish · 24/07/2024 17:38

God the Dominos.

Im really careful to mute the adverts because there’s a dominos one every time (im watching something on channel 4) but the other day there was a cute hedgehog coming out of hibernation, so I was actually watching when I realised it was dominos. Aghhhhh I hate them so much

And the Tesco Power

Coastalcreeksider · 24/07/2024 17:42

Pet Plan with the soppy emotional music with the bloke collecting his dog from the vet, none other than Noel Fitzpatrick.

usernother · 24/07/2024 18:11

The chocolate one with child saying very slowly 'I'd like a bar of chocolate please'. I turn over every time it's on.

MumofSpud · 24/07/2024 18:12

Can I add a radio one - the National Trust one where the woman repeats 'Dies summer surprise you' or something like that - makes no sense

Bluevelvetsofa · 24/07/2024 18:22

There’s a relatively new one for Green Flag, which is on the radio every five minutes. Manages to be smug and ageist at the same time and no car rescue service ever arrives within an hour.

DerekFaker · 24/07/2024 19:09

Definitely Graze and Tesco.

The Pot Noodle one with the donkey where the person just yeeeeelllls. They seem to have cut that a bit though.

Febreze plug-in "So fresh!" It smells bloody awful, why can't you just air your house by opening some windows? Plus it's badly dubbed.

We Buy Any Car. Aaaargh!

DerekFaker · 24/07/2024 19:17

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.

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I'm sure adverts used to be better in the past, or at least there were quite a few good ones in among the dross.

RealHousewivesOfTaunton · 24/07/2024 20:00

DerekFaker · 24/07/2024 19:17

I'm sure adverts used to be better in the past, or at least there were quite a few good ones in among the dross.

"Too juicy for my nan, too juicy for my shark..." 😎

OhBeAFineGuyKissMe · 24/07/2024 20:28

There are some good / OK adverts. I like the audible ones at the moment.

But the number of shit ones far exceed these.

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Thevelvelletes · 24/07/2024 20:34

mnahmnah · 23/07/2024 22:03

Vogue Williams Fairy adverts

Yes because all in white is time to get the craft paints out... bollocks.

LindorDoubleChoc · 24/07/2024 20:37

I barely watch live TV and so miss most adverts. It truly annoys the fuck out of me that channels aimed at elderly/retired people showing gentle shows like Miss Marple or old repeats of 70s/80s favourites are crammed full of graphic charity ads. They are exploiting the goodwill of older people and should be banned.

Thevelvelletes · 24/07/2024 20:40

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 reckon Derek is having it with June and Rose and there's no awkward medical questions about my rancid cock.😁