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to be irrationally annoyed by current TV ads?

94 replies

boschy · 20/07/2012 08:31

specifically, the ones which feature cartoon people with skinny legs and big heads (Lloyds TSB, British Gas) and the ones with girls singing in breathy voices sounding all simpering and wet - Kia Cee'd and others too numerous to mention.
They make me very very cross and want to stab the TV!

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DuffyMoon · 20/07/2012 10:54

the phones 4 u advert (?) where they bang on about upgrades "I'm wearing a gilet - can I have one" NO! fuck off and take your gilet with you

ohChristFENTON · 20/07/2012 11:00

Co-operative

"Gud with Fud"

AAAGGGHHHH!

limitedperiodonly · 20/07/2012 11:03

rulebritannia If it really was an accident I hope she sues their arse off.

I hate that SEcret Escapes one with stupid women pretending to pass on exclusive tips about fucking awful spa weekends before their hubbies hear.

GetOrfMoiiLand · 20/07/2012 11:14

I HATE that Secret Escapes whispering twat advert.

Ditto gud with fud for the co-operative, that man has the most annoyingly simpering voice.

The latest one - the 'here come the girls' ghastly women for Boots contemplating going to a nudist 'plage'. Those 4 women would NOT be friends in real life. I hate them all. And I hate Boots. Please for the love of god can there be an advert that assumes women have a modicum of intelligence.

sugarice · 20/07/2012 11:34

Anything advertising yogurt or mullerice that features Martine Macutcheon or Amanda Holden.

GetOrfMoiiLand · 20/07/2012 11:35

I love the Martine McCutcheon adverts, the stylist evidently hate her. Look at the monstrous clothes they make her wear.

Peeenut · 20/07/2012 11:36

I currently feel stabby about any advert with the word mummy, or mum in it. Some big multi national are now sponsoring mums. Is that any particular group of mums? All Mums? What are they sponsoring mums to do? FFS am I going to get some suit banging on the door at 5 am to partake in a 1000 mile bike ride they've decided I'm doing.

Don't get me started on the mum who cooks for her 3 fussy boys. No, that's 2 boys and an adult. If you're that short of time and he's that fussy get him to feckin cook.

dlady · 20/07/2012 11:37

The Postcode Lottery one. Screeching woman "Norman, we're going to Benidorm".

I do like the meercat one. Poor Sergei.

boschy · 20/07/2012 11:38

oh god I wish I hadnt started this you are all making me even more enraged as I remember other ones. Gud with fud check; Boots nudists check; mums check.

and that woman who cooks with Flora for her adult son. should be hung drawn and quartered.

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Phacelia · 20/07/2012 11:39

I hate with a passion the diet coke one (think it's just diet coke). The women are all simpering idiots, with enormous eyes (they look like those bratz dolls) and huge heads and tiny bodies. My inner feminist roars with fury when I see it.

sugarice · 20/07/2012 11:40

Direct Line insurance ,aaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 20/07/2012 11:45

All of the above make me stabby with rage. I really don't understand why advertisers think that making me stabby with rage is going to make me buy their products.

InMySpareTime · 20/07/2012 11:45

The dulco-ease ad where she's discussing toilet habits over lunch. Please, please tell me nobody actually does this!

boschy · 20/07/2012 11:49

AND that woman who hides her Galaxy in her knicker drawer...

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InMySpareTime · 20/07/2012 11:50

She's clearly bulimic, that's not a normal way to store food.

boschy · 20/07/2012 11:51

You're right, chocolate should be in the fridge.

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Binkyridesagain · 20/07/2012 11:52

BOGOF fuckin double glazing advert, someone needs to wrap one of the windows round his head

MissMogwi · 20/07/2012 11:53

Galaxy hiding woman gets right on my wick.

I'd like to remake it and have her say 'those greedy bitches have stolen my chocolate!' and her sleep with their boyfriends to avenge such a heinous crime.

Also why do the ad people always show the women breaking off a few squares of chocolate. As if. Grin

LentillyFart · 20/07/2012 11:54

Oh for fuck's sake - that Galaxy woman - she wants the Go Compare rocket launcher right up her!
Here come the girls - my big fat spotty arse! I'll never go in Boots till they stop that nonsense!
And Aviva and that oh-so-annoying twat whose name escapes me now - fuck off with your metal detector or go stick it up your arse!
And Michael Parkinson - do you NEED the money that badly? No. So fuck off with all the interesting people you've met

ariadneoliver · 20/07/2012 11:56

I am currently hating all the mawkish Olympic ads, the irritating child eating the Oreo cookies and all the personal injury ones.

sugarice · 20/07/2012 11:57

Isn't that Paul Whitehouse Lentilly Grin I like him.

MorrisZapp · 20/07/2012 11:57

Any advert which suggests that women can't chat/ shop/ socialise without three friends with them. I don't even have three friends, and the two I do have, hate each other.

Ethereal female vocals singing folk music to flog multinational exploitative crap.

LentillyFart · 20/07/2012 11:59

You're right sugar - and up to those adverts I liked him too! Perhaps if he stops it RIGHT NOW we could come to some arrangement whereby I stop hating him...........

ariadneoliver · 20/07/2012 12:00

Well SpareTime when we girls go for a 'girly lunch' we only eat salad and possibly a probiotic yoghurt for dessert as a naughty treat. Quite naturally with a meal like that conversation turns to matters proctological.

What? Your life isn't like that? Grin

Kaluki · 20/07/2012 12:05

I actually shouted at the TV last night.
It was at the Cushelle ad where the cute koalas fall through the fluffy clouds.
YOU WIPE YOUR ARSE ON IT!!!!!
Why does loo roll have to be advertised by cute fluffy animals - they don't wipe their arses, they shit and run away.

And don't even get me started on those creepy Andrex puppies.
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