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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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crazypenguin · 05/01/2015 14:15

It's a radio ad, but I actually complained to KFC about how shit their street smarts ad is. I have to turn it over. It's not poetry, it's bollocks.

crazypenguin · 05/01/2015 14:17

Oh god theselittlelights! I know the bloody phone number for that one!

sourdrawers · 05/01/2015 14:33

That f*ing whispery woman.. You know the one! I'd like to biff her one with a big over-sized boxing glove.

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crazypenguin · 05/01/2015 14:54

That would be the one! With the emphasis on "Chelm" in Chelmsford... :-) My friend listens to local radio (she lives abroad now) and nothing reminds her of home more than that bloody ad! Grin

grimbletart · 05/01/2015 14:58

Go compare. Could take a gun to that silly man.

The Victor gambling add on Sky Sports - actually all the betting ads.

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HappyHippyChick · 05/01/2015 15:41

There's a car ad where there the landing lights have gone out on a runway so a man in his ford mondeo drive up and down the runway so she can see to land. It really winds me up as if the lights are bright enough to land a plane by, they might possibly blind any other road users...

sallysimpson · 05/01/2015 15:46

the Disney adverts, which always follow with having to explain to my dd that we can't afford it!

Gileswithachainsaw · 05/01/2015 15:47

toys. any toy. They never fuckin do anything. It really is a kid alone in the bedroom with a plastic figure. There's no back drop or multiple friends and voice overs.

tampons. feck off do we wear white and go roller skating.

sma ad. really. The babies are Months old. us mums are actually capable of leaving house organised, clean , on time and with the baby fed.

toddler milk ads. just fuckin feed them.food. no wonder yours don't eat if they have tons of formula at sodding 3.

injury lawyer ads- get a job rather than sue some company because someone dared to clean the floor.

vanish. It's shit.

Iceland. I didn't buy your crap before I certainly won't because an orange dick head tells me to.

ithoughtofitfirst · 05/01/2015 15:52

Yeah toy adverts are evil. My bank account protests.

Iceland. You're only good enough for budget buffets and house parties for guests you don't care about impressing. Like dh's bellend of a boss who left his wife and children for some vacuous bimbo intern. Everyone else gets m&s.

Bean89 · 05/01/2015 17:16

That one with Kelly Brook.

StrangeGlue · 05/01/2015 17:46

The face cream one which claims to contain 'liquid light' Hmm

Electriclaundryland · 05/01/2015 18:02

Gok and his awful Activia one. No it doesn't aid digestion, your stomach acid kills the bacteria.

peppersaunt · 05/01/2015 18:17

Gok! Babs Windsor's screeching and cackling! The Always ad with dancing ladies for pee pads (DH makes a ssss sound when it comes on)!

pharoahinthebath · 05/01/2015 19:21

I hate the trivago adverts with the pathetic flirty girl but I LOVE the whispery lady of secret escapes - how can you all hate her??

The weeing dancing ladies are hilarious. Hated the xmas Lidl ad (and most other xmas ads) - why were all those people being served lidl xmas dinner anyway?

Scrumbled · 05/01/2015 19:52

Any ad that talks about mums. Busy mums, mums knows best, they're all crap. Or any ad that talks about the silly men burning food, or buying shit presents.

Scrumbled · 05/01/2015 19:56

The tena lady adverts piss me off.

Is it one of the trivago ones where the beared manot drugs her, carries her upstairs still unconscious and makes her clean her teeth.

Scrumbled · 05/01/2015 19:57

Bearded man. I don't know what a manot is but my tablet spellchecker seems to.

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AliceLidl · 05/01/2015 20:04

That e-ciggarette one with the couple blowing that stinking flavoured vapour crap everywhere, and the stupid words floating about around them.

They look like arses, and I thought the point was to use them give up smoking, not to tart about pretending it's all a really glamourous thing to do.

Any advert for bingo annoys me as well.

And all the holiday ones at the moment, but especially the ones that keep saying "booking this" and "beaching that". Angry

Postcode lottery adverts.

And the one about cars on Classic FM, that says you don't have to listen to the weather report anymore. They play it about six million times an hour and I still don't know what kind of car they are advertising but it pisses me off nonetheless.

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Gawjushun · 05/01/2015 20:24

I only like whispery secret escapes woman because I imagine she's shagging around with the pool boys and concierge while her spineless husband goes to get more handpicked olives. Plus in the original one he's clearly on the bog when he yells out to her. Grin