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Adverts that you hate!

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EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 03/12/2025 18:09

I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole watching The Dog House on YouTube which I love but nearly every advert is for the Google Pixel 10 which compares iPhones to Ice Cream and it sings Sugar Town by Nancy Sinatra which is lodged in my head now and doing my head in. I’d never get a Google phone now, argh!

Anyone else?

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HatStickBoots · 04/12/2025 00:27

The Indeed “salary dance” where the man gets given a job he hasn’t researched enough to know how much it pays. All that unrealistic and awkward politeness acted out, irritates me.
The train journey and getting to know gran before she was gran and the best man’s speech. Train journeys are too expensive otherwise people might actually use them more!
Just Eat.
Creepy BFG.

Mrssweary · 04/12/2025 02:52

Pepto bismol.

Appenzell · 04/12/2025 03:45

The one with the weird woman with strange hair who says 'I scoot off now'. Think it's a website ad but not sure as I just can't watch it.

Copperoliverbear · 04/12/2025 04:56

I hate the maltezers adverts they’re all disgusting and I now refuse to buy anything from them

mrschocolatte · 04/12/2025 05:25

There’s a pretty low rent advert doing the rounds where a woman is banging on about these storage boxes that you can use anywhere in your home. She uses a particular word that for some unknown reason gave me the rage - foosty.
TBF after googling and discovering it’s a genuine word meaning musty or mouldy, I feel less angry. But for a while there I would shout at her every time that advert came on to stop making words up!

Dontcallmescarface · 04/12/2025 05:26

Apart from the Argos ones, all of them.

MissAnthr0pe · 04/12/2025 05:33

The diarrhoea 🎵 and indigestion 🎵 one

Clafoutie · 04/12/2025 06:01

Appenzell · 04/12/2025 03:45

The one with the weird woman with strange hair who says 'I scoot off now'. Think it's a website ad but not sure as I just can't watch it.

Haha, Aunt Helga ( IONOS) website design. Even worse was when they kept shoehorning in ‘ I own this’ to try to help people understand the name!

PInkyStarfish · 04/12/2025 08:32

Copperoliverbear · 04/12/2025 04:56

I hate the maltezers adverts they’re all disgusting and I now refuse to buy anything from them

I added them to my boycott list. The adverts are awful.

DarkEyedSailor · 04/12/2025 09:06

I haven't seen the Maltesers one.

I've said the funeral ones- but the "Way to Go" one with the people singing on stage is absolutely dire and makes me want to find whoever thought it up and throw a guitar at their head.

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 04/12/2025 09:45

TheFormidableMrsC · 03/12/2025 20:20

The Specsavers ad with blind Bev who needs taking out frankly 🤬

Ah but I do like "That's not your bebby, thats your bebby"
Bil sometimes calls sil Bev as she has form for mistaking him for other older baldy men.

Mrssweary · 04/12/2025 10:34

OSTMusTisNT · 03/12/2025 19:01

That upset stomach advert with the bright pink bottle and everyone grabbing their arse while screaching 'DIARRHOEA' 😱💩.

Reading some of these posts about the pepto bismal advert have had me laughing this morning. It’s a cringy advert.

Purplecatshopaholic · 04/12/2025 10:36

goudacheese · 03/12/2025 18:26

The very creepy Audi advert where they sing ' I like to move it" Just weird.

God, yes, was just talking about this. Puts me right off (and I have an Audi, lol)

elliesmummy19 · 04/12/2025 10:40

I hate adverts but the one that really makes me irrationally angry for no reason is that Pole Star car advert where the woman goes something like “is it a star? I don’t know, but it moves like one”.

It makes me cringe and I’m not really sure why 😂

TigerRag · 04/12/2025 10:51

22 kids and counting on 5star

The ones about pee pants, cream for your vagina, etc. I'm not saying they should be banned but they appear to almost normalise these things

Gettingbysomehow · 04/12/2025 11:09

TigerRag · 04/12/2025 10:51

22 kids and counting on 5star

The ones about pee pants, cream for your vagina, etc. I'm not saying they should be banned but they appear to almost normalise these things

Im pretty damned sure that whenever I go out aged 63 people are thinking I wonder if she wears bulky pee pads and has vaginal dryness. I don't have either thank you very much so these adverts can bugger off.

StrawberryLane · 04/12/2025 11:13

Simon Bird and the creepy doll

Kamek · 04/12/2025 11:30

The viagra one is awful! What is the white stuff on his mouth at the end, and what is he picking out of her hair like some kind of monkey. So many gross questions!

PaulineMush · 04/12/2025 11:36

The Pampers poonami one.

The parents listen to the baby doing a gigantic poo in the night and go back to sleep.

Iknowdino · 04/12/2025 12:47

Currys one on the radio where they call it bloody "giftmas" insights rage in me!!!

Teenagequeenwithaloadedgun · 04/12/2025 13:44

DarkEyedSailor · 03/12/2025 18:56

Also every single funeral plan advert. "Dad always talked about how he hated extravagant funerals."

Did he? Did he really? Get away, you ridiculous woman with your over-emotional facial expressions, trembling voice and stupid kitchen.

I totally agree, I hate funeral adverts. There's one with this whiny woman saying 'we have to talk about it' and another with people having lunch talking about where they want to be buried.

  1. No we don't, fuck off and 2) No group of friends spends lunch dates talking about what happens if they die.
midlifeattheoasis · 04/12/2025 14:40

Peptobismol

poooolikujy · 04/12/2025 14:51

I loathe every.single.f'ing.advert.ever.made.and.known.to.man

they are all a load of feel good shite .. or I've not got a clue what they are advertising ..eg the tesco clothes one where a woman stuck in a lift and climbing her way out of the lift.. . how the hell is that about clothes ?

Molly Mae and the washing advert. CORNY. I am sure she does not use that washing brand.

they are all false and corny.

nope, nope and nope. I mute all adverts.

I feel triggered by adverts and even just writing this about adverts. I never listen to the radio thank goodness

rant over!

TheWorldIsCrushingMe · 04/12/2025 15:07

'What would you do for love?' what a fucking row that advert is.

'Daisy, Daisy, Daisy, Daisy.'

The Tesco Xmas ad is as miserable as fuck.

Oh God, and that Age UK one where the woman in the headset at the end seems to be having some sort of nervous breakdown about how sad she is about old people being lonely.

Fuck off, all of them.

surreygirly · 04/12/2025 15:08

The blind girl who calls her dog poppppyyyy