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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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Leah5678 · 24/07/2024 20:40

The Haribo one with the god awful high pitched voices, not only subjected to it on TV but over radio too

Allie47 · 24/07/2024 20:42

CaveMum · 23/07/2024 21:20

Any bloody perfume advert, but that “Daisy, Daisy, Daisy, Daisy” one in particular makes me feel stabby!

I came on here to say exactly this, it's so fucking creepy and pervy, it gives me the rage 😡

Allie47 · 24/07/2024 20:48

newrubylane · 24/07/2024 10:03

The slurpy Pot Noodle one. Ick.

Slurping noodles (i.e.adding air) is supposed to make them taste better and isn't considered rude or weird in Asia.

LighthouseTheme · 24/07/2024 20:51

mnahmnah · 24/07/2024 17:29

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!

Isn't she now almost Royalty-adjacent?

(Her husband's brother married to sister of the future Queen?)

LighthouseTheme · 24/07/2024 20:58

I think there ought to be some kind of Advertising mash-ups... hmm, what about one for alcohol combined with the Always ladies? - a whole new meaning to pissed up....
Or the Gaviscon alongside KFC or other indigestible food? Eat it and never mind the consequences, or the fact that you WILL need a indigestion remedy..
A luxury/overpriced brand coupled with We Buy Any Car ---- sell your car to afford the new (whatever)? [Never mind that you now have no transport]

Any more ideas?

StoneTheCrone · 24/07/2024 21:25

Someone up thread has already mentioned this but its the fact that all the adverts are so infantile and uncool that gets me.

We're adults! For the love of god, please produce some content aimed at adults!

I'm old so maybe that's it but I remember some cracking ads in the 1970s - mainly for cars, cigarettes or petrol, with soundtracks by the Rolling Stones. Brilliant.

Aren't most advertising/marketing agencies run by women these days? I know it was one of the pink industries in the 90s. If so, What the fuck are they thinking?

BlossomToLeaves · 24/07/2024 21:27

I did laugh (the first time) at the one about the bears contemplating the twins contemplating the twix (it doesn't matter if you choose the right one or the left... I like the snap when you bite into it). But now it gets shown several times an hour on some shows and the humour has gone...

Onlywayisupmaybe · 24/07/2024 21:35

BlossomToLeaves · 24/07/2024 21:27

I did laugh (the first time) at the one about the bears contemplating the twins contemplating the twix (it doesn't matter if you choose the right one or the left... I like the snap when you bite into it). But now it gets shown several times an hour on some shows and the humour has gone...

I still enjoy that one

Cheesandcrackers · 24/07/2024 21:45

Onlywayisupmaybe · 24/07/2024 21:35

I still enjoy that one

Love it too. I wish the bears had a go at the Tesco ad oldies, Vogue Williams and the bulky pee pants ladies...

AndForAFortnightThereWeWereForever · 24/07/2024 21:48

Can't think what the product is, and I don't see this ad often. But, this ad pisses me off...

It's where a couple are sitting up in bed, and SHE says 'we can make such big savings, so I can get an engagement ring! Hint hint!' Cue the boyfriend looking horrified because his woman is hinting at marriage! Because getting married is the WORST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO A MAN. Shock

Oh noooo! It's a trap, trouble and strife, nagging wifey, ball and chain! Hmm Horrible misogynistic shitty advert! Everyone knows married men are happier, and healthier, and live longer than single men! They should be grateful women want them!

ALSO hate the Omaze ad, and the smug women with an irritating face and annoying voice!

Vogue Williams. Urgh!

I GOT THE POWER!!!!!!!!!!!

Any charity/begging ad.

Any ad that ticks every diversity box!

mildlydispeptic · 24/07/2024 21:51

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

... is what I came on to say. Like fingernails down a blackboard.

Mollypolly2610 · 24/07/2024 22:48

There is a relatively new Amazon one where a woman fills her balcony with plants the song in the back ground I hear as

"I steal lighters from your daughters...."

Can anyone enlighten me on this please its like an earworm to me.

AndForAFortnightThereWeWereForever · 24/07/2024 23:28

Another one I loathe is for ARGOS. On every bloody ad break of Coronation Street! (With the blonde doll and the dinosaur thing.) Unfunny and annoying! DH giggles at it - every single time it comes on. Drives me so batshit, that I now record Coronation Street and skip the ads, (including that Argos one.)

XenoBitch · 24/07/2024 23:34

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?

Ah, I FUCKING HATE the Tesco ad too. The old lady mouthing "I've got the power"...
I hate it so much.

Mochudubh · 25/07/2024 09:40

@Gymnopedie and @Projectme

I have a theory that the Viking cruise woman is having a little, ahem, "tickle" in the recording booth to account for the weird, breathy, almost giggly, delivery.

Portakalkedi · 25/07/2024 10:08

Most of them. It's rare to see a clever or funny one these days. Last one I remember was the Twix with the bears and campers. I especially hate the holiday ones where they show a couple on an empty cruise ship,or a family on an empty beach. I'd love to see someone sue these companies because the ad grossly misrepresented the holiday and didn't show the other 5000 families/couples ...

ciderhouserules · 25/07/2024 11:23

Oh and whatever Advert has (the thug) Boy George and Karma Kameleon as a backtrack.
Surely criminals shouldn't be used for Adverts?

ciderhouserules · 25/07/2024 11:30

AND - the fairy 'baby' with Ray Winstone's voice! Whoever though it cute to have a thuggish baby?

Chillilounger · 25/07/2024 11:36

All adverts. I just don't want to know. If I want something I will research it myself.

user98265374687 · 25/07/2024 11:38

CaveMum · 23/07/2024 21:20

Any bloody perfume advert, but that “Daisy, Daisy, Daisy, Daisy” one in particular makes me feel stabby!

This. I change Chanel to avoid it. Never have i been so irritated by an advert…and then DD bought me the perfume and to my shame i quite like it!

derxa · 25/07/2024 12:11

Angela Scanlon and her mother! Yuck
!

itwillnotopen · 25/07/2024 12:14

'Someone's knocking at your door'
Postcode lottery. No thank you.

Pippatpip · 25/07/2024 12:30

The dancing man in a tank top with a purple puppet who are dancing in front of their new extension. The music is nice and he is a good puppeteer buy whyyyyyyy? What has it got to do with building extensions.

Tesco shouty ad 'I've got the power'
Supernoodles - skupring and some random old woman and a donkey.

That awful family On the Beach that no one wants to be near on holiday and espouses the current thought that you can behave how you like and bugger to anyone else.

The weird girl eating her boyfriend is weird and a bit creepy.

AreThereSomewhereIslands · 25/07/2024 13:43

user98265374687 · 25/07/2024 11:38

This. I change Chanel to avoid it. Never have i been so irritated by an advert…and then DD bought me the perfume and to my shame i quite like it!

Autocorrect fail of the century there, @user98265374687! Grin

Crinkle77 · 25/07/2024 15:23

derxa · 25/07/2024 12:11

Angela Scanlon and her mother! Yuck
!

I hate all the Verisure adverts. I think their marketing tactics are disgusting. The worst was the one with the pregnant women preying on a parents fear of not being able to keep their children safe and that a Verisure alarm could achieve that. The Angela Scanlan one is awful too. I mean why is she worried sick about her mother who only looks about 70 and in perfect health.