If adverts were truthful and showed what it was really like to use their products, what would they actually be like?

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National Lottery - instead of showing someone winning a £1,000,000, it would show loads and loads of people buying a ticket, checking the numbers and not winning at all.

Booking.Com - it would show someone researching, looking at reviews, endlessly filtering, doing more research and finally booking a place. After checking with the other people to see if they approved

I am sure people can think of some more.

Aldi- dirty trolleys, a packed supermarket with huge gaps on shelves with missing products. A staff member screaming down the isle to ‘Stop those kids in the black tracksuits, they are shoplifting!’
Then Linford Christy on the one manned till throwing all your shopping from the conveyor belt to the end bit, where a bedraggled shopper trys frantically to scoop it all back into their trolley.

I hate those food adverts where they’re selling processed junk but the actors look good. Those actors don’t eat like that to look the way they do

MacDonalds- a huge queue of cars blocking entrances to all nearby shops. A father sat in a dirty car in the drive thru asks for 2 Big Mac meals and 2 happy meals. The young, stressed out cashier asks what drinks with the meals. Milkshakes please replies the dad. Sorry, the machine isn’t working, can I get you anything else? Ok, 4 McFlurrys replies the dad. Sorry it’s the same machine and it’s not working.
Cue, kids crying, dad swearing under his breath, cashier dreaming of the day she graduations and can tell her boss to shove this job up their arse.

TV Ad..Family car with 2 parents and 2 dc with an immaculate car filled with useful outdoorsy things zooming off on a fun filled holiday. Everyone is smiling

Reality..1 parent doing school run while shoving buttered toast over their shoulder at grumpy dc with rumpled uniforms, toast falls on the floor, traffic comes to a standstill and parent starts fizzing when dc says i dont have my gym kit as they have to drop off and get to work on time

Tescos - everyone trying to unleash the 'power' of their Club Card trying to attract the attention of a staff member as the self-service tills flash and beep uselessly,

😁this is outstanding. Best laugh I've had in ages.

Superglue ads. Instead of looking cool with that freshly repaired goblet or artfully decorated picture frame, you'd be sitting in A&E with the thumb and index finger of one hand attached firmly to each other, and the other hand stuck fast to the recently-detached steering wheel of your car.

Toilet roll adverts. Instead of cutesy puppies parading around the bathroom or people lovingly caressing the toilet roll you get yourself with your arm in a bin bag, up to your shoulder in the toilet because the bloody dc have blocked the damn toilet again with the fucking 4 ply luxury softness and it falls to you to unblock it before MIL arrives and has absolute conniptions

Next time I'm buying the smartprice stuff. At least that doesn't block the sodding toilet. Oh, and Merry Christmas to you too, kids

There's a film called crazy people from the 80's (I think) its got Darryl Hannah in where they get people In an institution to write truthful commercials. One of them is something like "Volovo's for men who'd like hand jobs from beautiful women" meaning they don't get them.

Holidays. When countries advertise themselves as a holiday destination. Having wonderful food, dancing on the beach, doing a load of interesting activities.

Don't show the crowded beaches/towels on the lounges from 5 am/queue for the buffet....

There is also a commercial advertising a local designer outlet village. Shows young and good looking couples, fashionably but smartly dressed smiling and having a lovely time and carrying lots of designer bags, obviously filled with many goods they have just bought at this excellent shopping village.

Reality when you go there - very ordinary and people of all ages not looking like models. Not fashionably dressed. Not carrying designer bags, usually an Asda or Tesco bag instead that they've taken with them so they don't have to buy a new one, also lots of people walking dogs, toddlers screaming, children running about the place. Miserable people as well as happy ones!

Cat food pouches...the owner trying to tear it whilst wearing a disgusted face due to the smell and wincing as the juice goes on her fingers

Temu...take a risk on whether the £2 item you bought is legitimate and then spend the next 18 months receiving ominous spam calls.

The one I’d really like to see is for tampons or sanitary towels but I guess that’s too graphic, just sick of little cups of blue water or roller skating models in all white clothes.
Amazon delivery should show exhausted, overworked delivery drivers still trying to deliver items at 10pm, throwing parcels marked breakable over walls, putting parcels in safe spaces wheelie bins while the camera pans out to the refuse wagon driving ominously down the road. With a lovely background montage of FB posts with photos asking if anyone local recognises this front door and has the posters missing parcel.

So true! 🤣🤣🤣

Anything with a label that says "Easy peel" automatically triggers counter intelligence warning of "scissors required" to me.

Nothing to add but some of these are great!

Also, most people don't look at the Clubcard price and think "Wow, what a bargain when compared to the normal price"; rather they look at the supposed 'normal' price and exclaim "Behave yourself!!" in loud tones.

They should also show the porch pirates: the stressed, overworked delivery driver leaves your package on your doorstep and rings your doorbell as he dashes off to the next delivery; then the thieves watching from the road pounce, grab your goods and are halfway to the end of the road with them before you've even had chance to get up from your armchair.

Cat food adverts where the cats eat the food lovingly placed in front of them?

As if.

I keep thinking of this thread every time I see the advert for the Lotto that's on frequently right now.

The woman is sitting in the cinema, looking at her phone (antisocial, to start with), and she shrieks when she gets a message to tell her that she's just won over £10m.

Firstly, do they really just text you, without even trying to call or send you a letter with that kind of sum involved? Secondly - and more pertinently for the purposes of this thread - surely the vast majority of us, on receiving such a message, would instantly sigh and mutter "Yeah, right - scamity-scam!"

Also, Cadbury's: all of the people in their adds take a bite and are then transported to raptures of unearthly delight at how amazing it is.

Not one person ever screws up their nose and says "It's OK, I suppose, but nowhere near as good as it used to be - why have they ruined it?"

Full fat coke. The adverts should be a very hungover person guzzling one down at 8am. See also Crisps/bacon/berrocca.

Thirdly... she's in the cinema and should have her phone switched off.

Absolutely

It's a cinema. Turn your phone off