What TV adverts irrationally annoy you at the moment?

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Just a lighthearted thread, but I keep seeing a Simba advert where a guy is stacking an insane amount of biscuits up while in bed, and then his partner just acts like a dick and knocks them over, sending them flying everywhere. And the worst bit is that they’re sat on the bed and don’t have a bedsheet on.

There’s also one for blinds where the most annoying voice in the world says “It’s your home darling” and then promptly get muted by me as I hate his voice so much.

Anyone want to add any more?

My friend likes the Andrex advert where the young kid goes for a poo and leaves the classroom with his classmates fist bumping him. I know lots of people don't like the ad.

She suffers from IBD (her mum had Crohns) and said that anything that shows kids going for a poo in school look perfectly normal and not embarrassing has to be a good thing especially as some kids probably hold it in which is definitely not good for anyone.

Her IBD means she never has a choice to hold it in, when she needs to go, she really needs to go and very quickly too.

Yes. That viagara one makes me cringe. No need to advertise your issues. It’s been around for years anyway.

I want to know why the car park is behind them and they're walking away from it

I hate the Andrex poo in labour one. It’s got precisely fuck all to do with the product as you don’t use toilet paper during labour. It’s literally because they decided they neeed to make a purpose ad and to make everyone go ‘oh look Andrex cares about women.’ They don’t, they care about shifting toilet paper. As they should as a toilet paper brand. Stay in your lane and stop trying to make money out of spurious women’s causes.

Another advert that annoys me is the “find the flower/tv soap/festival/national holiday (basically anything they can think of to fit into a grid of letters) in just 90 seconds and enter for your chance to win £thousands” when the phone call to enter will cost upwards of £15 a time and there’s virtually no chance of the average person who would be desperate enough to spend that much on entering being able to afford the repeated entries or of winning the prize at the end of the weeks and weeks long entry period!!

Oh I have just seen the toblerone just awful

The Neil Diamond mayonnaise one is a direct rip off of Andy Samberg of SNL and Brooklyn 99, Lonely Planet. I get really pissed off on his behalf, although I'm sure he doesn't care!

There's one you've probably missed because it's aimed at Irish viewers ,but it's for a mobile phone and features Roy Keane (famous Irish footballer) buying an ice cream cone. It wouldn't be so bad except they play it over and over again on HBO and I can't skip the ads.

I have seen that one a few times. I just think. "Oh that must be someone famous".

I don't understand why they make adverts with people like that, why would some sports person make me buy anything.

The Robinsons squash advert gives me the rage, the mother laughing at what her kid had got up to at school, she should be bollocking the little shit not laughing with him, I know it's only an advert but it sums up perfectly how some parents view Teachers

This. It makes me feel sick, everything about it.
I wouldn’t touch the stuff in a million years.

I hate that one too.
Gormless bloke - if he doesn’t understand the menu, ask the waiter!

Yes the sure whole body deodorant advert the "work it" song alone is hideous.
*The stairlift advert the "but I can't sleep without Teddy" one. It's up there with the crem adverts.
*The life insurance where the smug man lives in a pristine house. "I'm 32 and I don't smoke." Well good for you bro.
*Flash adverts since forever.
*The Mr Kipling advert with the blink one 182 song is being played by father daughter duo. That advert has been going on for too long.

The verisure adverts
Husbands having a heart attack ill call them and ask them to get an ambulance

Ring it yourself FFS

And them implying the police attend in minutes and capture the robber. Mate the police don't care one iota about that

The endless coins - mostly 'introduced' by Michael Burke - that they sell constantly on Channel 5 in the daytime. They commemorate spurious anniversaries of just about everything to do with the royals or wars - including 15 years (which isn't normally seen as a 'big' anniversary) since William and Kate met at uni (not even when they got married) - and they always make out that they're ultra rare and 'could be' very valuable in years to come.

Martin Kemp in those Sun Life adverts - basically designed so that people can buy a policy so they will leave enough money to bury them. They've obviously thought "Ooh, people do like celebrities - and one like Martin Kemp will resonate with the people of the exact age group that we're most targeting!"

However, it seems to have completely passed them by (but not the viewers) that Martin Kemp is the very, very last kind of person who would ever need to worry about the cost of his own funeral and thus feel the need to buy a Sun Life plan to ensure that Roman and the others won't have to go cap in hand to Break-your-legs Barry the Loan Shark to be able to find a few grand to pay for it.

That Holland and Barrett ad where a woman stands up on stage as if she’s about to sing, then the microphone magically lowers down to her knee and her knees start singing Show Me Love, then people in the audience start joining in with various body parts singing along.

It’s as stupid as it sounds.

Those ones are only just on the right side of technically legal. It doesn't actually cost a huge amount to enter the competition on the telly, but once you do, they put you on their database and bombard you with endless other competitions they urge you to enter - which will cost you a hefty chunk. They do the same with adverts in magazines - typically ones aimed at older and/or less-academic people. They know very well that the vast majority of people who enter will be vulnerable and suggestable and not at all healthily cynical.

The company doing it has changed names several times - they've been known as Churchcastle, Wynnington and others - and they've very narrowly escaped the law on a number of occasions. Look up either of those names online and you'll find loads about them - very little of it positive.

Even the horribly patronising way they speak to the viewers like toddlers, and the ridiculously easy 'puzzle' - the answers are always going forwards, from the first column, and in the exact same place in every grid. They even got one of their obvious 'clues' wrong once, where they said they were looking for a 'teatime quiz show on Channel 4', when the answer they were actually wanting was Countdown, which obviously isn't a quiz show.

That dreadful Pepto Bismol (Dismal) one, and the even more dreadful period/incontinence pad one, with her holding the baby. Totally unnecessary. I really hate the see through lace with a hulking great pad on show for all to see!

The ones for Dusk furniture that end with somebody winking and exclaiming the words "Dusk saying!"

I think you're meant to hear the extreme similarity of the words 'dusk' and 'just' so that it sounds like it's 'just saying'... except those two words don't actually sound very similar at all!

Ooh, and that monstrous "Lisa, where are your shoes" advert for bagels (I think). Just ultra cringe.

This is me too about that Robinsons squash ad. It came on when my dd was home but she didn’t get it at all. Said it’s a lovely moment between son and mum!

To me that ad represents why all the bad behaviour in schools happens.

there’s another ad where 3 girls want the outfits of another group. And use their phones to track the outfits. I can’t tell you what the ad is for but it really annoys me. I don’t know why.

People's postcode lottery.

It doesn't actually say what it is or how it works so I assume it is a scam.

I imagine all my teacher friends being utterly in despair over that ad.

It does depend on what the child has done, you might find the teacher having a laugh about it.

More than once I have found myself trying not to laugh at something a child has said or done.