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...to ask for your advert 'hates'???

198 replies

isitreallynecessary · 04/01/2015 14:02

The television ones!

What adverts get you riled and why?

My top 3 are:

1. toilet roll!
Who is NOT buying this stuff, really? I know the bog roll defenders will say the companies are just promoting their own brands, but don't we just buy the best brand on offer?

2. Watch this fab new show...
...on a different channel, that you don't get. I have been caught out on this one sooo many times of an evening Angry

3. The 'I use this and it is sooo great'
I never believe any of the actors/actresses because they always look so wooden, bored, falsely gleeful or just plain crazy. Does anyone believe them?

Now go mn, give me your own hates!!!

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wowfudge · 04/01/2015 18:42

Grammatically incorrect adverts get my goat - We Buy Any Car currently have an ad in which the voiceover asks, 'want to sell your car quick and easy?' Aargh. Also add for beauty products where they make up verbs and talk about 'absorbs easily', etc. No it bloody doesn't: it is absorbed easily.

Barefootgirl · 04/01/2015 18:45

I like the Diet Chef one, but only because I am friends with the actress - the product is shite on a plate.

The worst advert is the one for the automatic soap dispenser - "never touch a germy soap dispenser again"....but immediately after touching ANY bloody soap dispenser you wash your bloody hands!!!! That advert gives me disproportionate rage.

orangefusion · 04/01/2015 18:48

I {hangs head in shame} bought that shampoo that makes your hair go all "hello".

As somene with very fine wispy hair I clutch at straws to find something that makes my hair less thin. It does make it a bit thicker IMO. It probably also makes me thicker too. :(

I dont say hello to my hair though.

Velocirapture · 04/01/2015 18:50

The Mother Nature tampon ones
Formula milk - patronising
Perfume pretty much every one of them

My favourite advert was Limara body spray for what its worth.
Or the Hamlet ones.

hearthwitch · 04/01/2015 19:06

Gala lala drives me round the bend. Any gambling add that glories it. Why don't they just single are going to make your poorer grrr

PfftTheMagicDraco · 04/01/2015 19:06

Fucking yoghurt.

It's just off milk. That's all. It's not a bloody vibrator.

hearthwitch · 04/01/2015 19:07

Ruddy spell check 'ad that glorifies'

hearthwitch · 04/01/2015 19:07

Argh glorifies

lauralouise8 · 04/01/2015 19:10

The Oak Furniture Land adverts make me irrationally incandescent. That bloody awful covet of 'Knock on Wood' and the very unfunny old bloke and youngster side kick. I will NEVER buy anything from OFL as a result. Traumatised.....

UncleT · 04/01/2015 19:11

Chopping a Fry's Turkish Delight in half with a scimitar.

SoleSource · 04/01/2015 19:12

Every single one of them. Too many adverts now on TV, YouTube, Chat rooms. I cannot escape.

davejudgement · 04/01/2015 19:23

as some other poster said over Christmas, the smugo with the beard and his bum sucky mates with cotton wool beards taking a selfie. Whiskey ad.

Made me really cross

lauralouise8 · 04/01/2015 19:30

Sorry: 'cover' not 'covet'. Must preview before posting but got too excited by the kindred ad-hating spirits on this thread.....

pressone · 04/01/2015 19:32

Ads for san-pro where they measure absorbency using blue liquid.

I do not leak blue water every month - or is that just me and I am actually very ill?

windchime · 04/01/2015 19:39

Victoria Plumb adverts especially with the toothless kids
Cathedral City cheese
McDonalds.

windchime · 04/01/2015 19:44

I like the Diet Chef one, but only because I am friends with the actress

do you mean to say she isn't a real person enjoying the benefits of Diet Chef clutches pearls

Married2012 · 04/01/2015 19:57

The one for Always (I think) black & white ad at the start with the girls in the classroom? Getting the lecture on staying close to home during their period? Pisses me off so much!
Secret Escapes ad.
The Asda ads when she patted the change in her pocket at the end. Who does that?!

ithoughtofitfirst · 04/01/2015 20:07

violet you make me laugh. Tired hair. RIDICULOUS.

LilMissVixen · 04/01/2015 20:08

There's a toothpaste advert, I can't remember which brand it's for (possibly Colgate), which features lots of people brushing their teeth - none of whom seem to be using any toothpaste! It makes me irrationally cross, why create an advert where no one is using your product?

Bremusa · 04/01/2015 20:20

The Vanish ad where it is liberally spread over several circular cloths to treat stains and a dramatic timer is set. Cue the soapy cloths being dumped in a see through container of clean water and the water stays clean! No soapy deposits. Blatant lying. I have to point it out with an outraged finger every time the ad comes on. Dp says this is more fucking annoying than the ad Hmm

nocabbageinmyeye · 04/01/2015 20:31

The one for one of the toilet rolls with that guy with the most irritating voice of all time - EMMA, ahhhhh I want to smash his face in!!!!!

notoneforselfies · 04/01/2015 20:35

Any perfume ads ever and any toothpaste/dental ads ever, which are always unspeakably awful. They always use actors pretending to be genuine customers and it's always forced and unnatural. Always.

MrsCosmopifairylight · 04/01/2015 20:36

I hate all ads. Nothing they can say will induce me to buy something I don't want.
My current source of rilement (if there is such a word) is the whatever it is cooker that does your cooking in HD. How is this physically possible?

This is why I watch BBC.

chunkythighs · 04/01/2015 21:41

How the fuck did none of you mention pain to my senses?

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