To think that 99% of TV ads

[MilitaryWag]

...are a pile of shite? Hate hate hate tv ads. Soneone is getting paid 1000's to spew out this absolute crud. My cat could do better. Do they think the general public are completely thick?
My particular 'favourites' in no specific order:
*Household cleaning products -
*Cars - you would not think half those on the road are women (but dont worry, plenty of small ditzy, cutey cars for us)

• Payday loans
• Fragrance - the worst of the worst.

That is all

Those ones where they have someone tearing their hair out over debts, about to lose the house, no car, no food....
A lovely benign and kindly loan company lets them have money because the nasty banks wont lend them any.

The best part is they get to pay off their debts and fix the care AND have enough left over for a holiday.

At 1000% APR of course

Bangs....head...on....wall.....

BUT I really like the adverts where they make something easy look really hard e.g. brushing your hair, washing your feet so they can convince you to buy something that makes it easier to do.

JML are good at these. Always a 30 something woman pushing a strand of hair out of her face as she struggles to mop the floor with an ordinary mop. Mop keeps falling out of the bucket, cat jumps on her head, she sweats and looks a bit scared....THEN WONDER MOP appears and she suddenly has a full face of makeup and a new hair do. Children smile at her and cat purrs in contentment.

The floor is shiney.

All thanks to wonder mop

Oh, and that Safestyle Windows advertisement where the man shouts everything probably so that we can hear when we are putting the kettle on. (Yer buy one, yer get one free. Ah said yer buy one yer get one free). Cillit Bang was the same, too. Shouting at us is a right put off, isn't it? And then they tell us that the volume of advertisements is no higher than normal programmes.

I always either mute them, pick up something to read or go and make a drink... whenever someone says 'have you seen xxxx ad' I always have to say no! Actually if there's a programme I really want to enjoy I even live pause it at the beginning so I can zoom through the ads too...

I think my pet hate is all the online gambling ads. I have seen, first hand, the damage these online sites do to anyone of an even slightly addictive nature... Give those websites, a credit card and a complete twat very unstable person = £25k of debt run up in a very short space of time.
Nearly ruined my family member's life.

Should be bloody illegal! (appreciate it won't stop the problem but they wouldn't be encouraged quite so much)

Actually, scrap the above. Bloody well make online gambling illegal!!!

My Dad has sung with the Go Compare chap, he's a very good singer irl... Shame about the ads though...

I like the meerkat adverts, and the typhoo monkey.
Agree with Rule. Also, why are older people always walking on beaches ?. In cropped trousers and stripy tshirts, cardis wrapped around their necks.
They look like they still have sex, too.

Very funny article on adverts like JML

candytuft63

We do.

Eeeeeuw!

Oh? At what age should we stop then? 25? Anyway, it's not having sex; it's making love where I am concerned!

Yabu - 100% of ads are a pile shite!

I HATE the meercats. Hate them.

There, I feel a lot better now :)

"I record everything I want to watch on the digibox and watch them fifteen minutes after they start so that I can skip through the adverts. Also, the 'before the break' clips and 'coming up' clips. Most 1 hour programmes are actually only about 45 mins. I even fastforward through the loooooong exagerrated pauses before they announce the result ffs. What's that all about?"

Farenough do you live in my house? We do that as well. If there are two programmes we want to watch at the same time we always record the one on the commercial channel so we can skip the adverts. I also find it incredibly irritating that so many programmes waste so much time on the "coming up* and "next" items these days. Why don't they just get on with the programme content instead instead of assuming that the viewer has the attention span of an amoeba?

Far too msany adverts on T.V these days. I have counted them! Fifteen inbetween part one and part two of Coronation Street the one time i bothered too. It got on my nerves that much. Will do a count on Monday and report back! Bet you're all hanging off your seats in excitement

I hate all the really sexist ones. My two most hated are the green giant, where the mum is 10ft tall just because the kids ate sweetcorn. Also weetabix, where all the men in thr family, including the baby have a "big day". Mum just smiles. Same actress in both btw!

The one that bewilders me is the Dove advert where the woman shaves her underarms and makes them sore.

Dove deodorant will heal those sore bits in 7 days!!

But why hasn't the hair re-grown?

Don't mind the Go Compare song now but HATE Confused.com.

I HATE dove.
They bang on about real women and fucking 'curves' and then try and make us feel inadequate about our sodding armpits!

Are your armpits soft and kissable?

If they are not you are a FAILURE.

What about the toothpaste adverts that try and make people feel they have some sort of disablity if they have sensitive teeth?

Some sparky, annoying 24 year old looks all worried because her dentist has told her that her super healthy diet is dangerous to her teeth!

She has sensitive teeth. Its awfully debilitating. She has to use a straw.

I expect she is a member of some sort of support group poor lamby.