to be irrationally annoyed by current TV ads?

[boschy]

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!

The meerkat ads are getting just as annoying as the go compare ones.

Hate the 'aviver' ones too!

Confused.com I'd that woman was real her massive boobs would result on some serious planking issues!

Oh and the one where the woman fits on about how she really wanted to be a runner but then she became a wife and mother and had to give up on her dreams so she made her daughter do it and look she's at the olympics... Talk about inspiration for young parents!!

I could go on forever!

And Gary Fucking Lineker!!!!
Makes me feel stabby!

I like the Direct Line ones. Especially the 'skipping round the function room in our long johns by now' one. The look on his face at the end with his imaginary sherry.

I also hate the one where the 'girls' are having lunch at a house, a v.minimalistic and white house I will add, when the hostess skulks off to get 'desert' and the girls are all 'she looks great, how does she do it?' And then she appears with a crappy yoghurt and you think'she's anorexic that's how!'

Id be most disappointed if I went for a girly lunch and got hit with a yoghurt as a treat!

I have just seen the (eff) ING Direct one where the bear is trying to find a tree on which to scratch his arse. He is misdirected by a variety of sloths til he finds a wise owl who can answer his question. The bear, sloths and lion at the end are all made out of string or something.

I can sort of live with all of that. But you know what??? the voiceover refers to 'sloth' with a short o, as in hot, when as every fule kno it is a sloWth with a long o, as in slow. If I was that bear I'd have shat on the sloths.

I too hate the cartoony Lloyds TSB

If you are using cartoon characters why make them all white? They made a dog but not anyone who is not white.

And the HSBC with the child walking dogs, mowing lawns ets - he should be in school, I don't want to bank with an organisation that promotes child labour.

And the one that says "if you have had a medical procedure that went wrong or even caused death, contact us"............ er how do you get dead people to contact you?

YY to the annoying breathy girly singers murdering classic songs with their simpering folksy cover versions. Take a Strepsil and sing up, FFS.

Whoever decided CGI Andrex puppies was preferable to real live Labradors wants kneeing somewhere painful.

And that Olympic runner advert...that's supposed to be the athlete's mother? The ad makes it look like she lived through most of the 20th century - I thought it was her granny. Still farking annoying, either way.

However, anyone who dislikes EDF's little orange flame is clearly strange and undiscerning. He's cute and cheerful and has got rhythm!

I'd like to know why advertisers think that most people in the country are younger than 45.

If a grandmother to a young child is shown, she usually looks more like a great-great grandmother. Haven't advertisers looked at people like me Annette Crosbie and realised that she wears clothes and make up, probably has a bath now and again and uses saucepans sometimes? She might like a few new ideas occasionally.

I hate the smug 'Voyage Prive' people. And most of what's already been mentioned above except Direct Line.

Leave the edf blob alone. He's a flame isn't he? And he's got a good tune.
Yes to all the creepy CGI apart from the Argos aliens cos they are funny.
Andrew castle and his ambulance-chasing ilk make me itch. Also the Philadelphia woman who needs to kick her family up the arse. And that bingo one that shows people bowling, having fun with friends, doing loads of stuff except sitting alone in their bedroom playing internet bingo which is what they are selling and a million miles from socialising with real people.

The P&G sponsorship of "mums" makes me v v angry. What century are we in that we need this sort of patronising? The assumption that the poor forgotten mother is doing all the child rearing is so offensive that I am boycotting their products.

I'm not saying the EDF turd isn't cheerful, he's a jolly little poo, but he's not a flame. I've never seen a flame that shape seen some turds that came pretty close though

YASNBU

I have a very irrational hatred of the Dior Addict advert. There was another annoying French perfume ad recently as well with another annoying blonde twat.

Also, I hate that advert for yoghurt where the women are all like "What's her secret"...to which she replies "LADIES" as if she's discovered lesbianism as some sort of magic anti-ageing thing...then she produces yoghurts...and that's even weirder >_

My DD loves the EDF adverts...she starts bopping about like a fool

Pretty much any advert featuring a group of women is annoying as they always come across as vacuous and shallow.

Miss Mogwi I hate those adverts. Especially the 'are you sure he wasn't married' one. Grrrrrr!

Yy to beautiful 'ladies' with over priced yoghurt. If you invite me for lunch I want a proper pudding.

Achicha.com and it's aspirational furniture. I aspire to more than a nice cabinet. 'the answer is to try it' - the answer to what? No-one has asked anything!

The one that really winds me up is one for online bingo (can't remember which one so clearly not a good advert) and features a hoard of ordinary looking but very very happy people having barbecues on the beach, lunch in country pub gardens, going to fairgrounds, etc. They are all laughing and hugging and having a whale of a time. The advert tag line is 'come and join the fun'.

Right. So playing bingo online with a bunch of people you will never meet is the same as having a big crowd of mates who all get together every weekend for fantastic days out, is it? I think not.

Keep imagining poor friendless souls paying for online bingo thinking it will get them a big crowd of jolly mates abs a wonderful social life

I only realised after seeing the 'how does she do it' yoghurt ad a hundred times that the 'amazing' woman is meant to be older than the others and that's why they're so in awe. Have i got that right? I'm not sure cos she looks about 6 months older to me.

I second the Diet Coke ad - i rage too. Love it light. SOD OFF!

And i can't believe noone has mentioned the 'because women are strong' shit. Patronising and They just look stroppy to me.

I like "Fax that, Pam!"is that direct line? Apart from that, agree most others are utter shite.

I get very irritated by crap ads coming on around programmes I actually like. How hard is it to match target audience for the ad to programme type????

GRRRR!

Was just about to mention the 'women are strong' one. Strong full stop. Really annoys me. And didn't they change it to Strong exclamation mark?

Maltesers, who the hell eats one and announces they feel naughty?

Oh yes I forgot women just feel guilty about every calorie that passes their lips?!

I hate the bold advert, with the kid gymnasts, only because they have RUINED the song Gold by turning it into some kind of kids song.
And the 'I'm an estate agent.... can I upgrade?' adverts as well.

I get very irritated by crap ads coming on around programmes I actually like. How hard is it to match target audience for the ad to programme type????

I am an insomniac a nd frequently watch reruns of 'Bones' at 3 am, and then a voice over says 'bones is sponserd by ...........' and anoyingly I cannot remember who it is, some shampoo I think. Because when you are discecting bodies and looking for serial killers you need nice hair.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh and that bloody car advert where the murder the buzzcocks 'ever fallen in love with' AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhgggggggggggg

I thought it was a turd as well. I could not figure out why they were using poo to advertise electricity.

Ditto adverts for Boots, all kinds of yoghurt (it's enough to put me off eating the stuff, give me a lump of cake any day) bank adverts, especially that one with Justin thingy and the boxes and the poor guy with the beard.

Also adverts for baby stuff with dewy eyed parents with clean tidy houses and nice hair.

The bank ones might be for insurance actually.

Adverts for cleaning stuff that show women enjoying cleaning.