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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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BonjourMinou · 05/01/2015 21:50

Underdog waking on his broken leg and wagging his broken tail...

All the bingo, online casino, payday loans adverts...

Onlyonamonday · 05/01/2015 22:03

Secret escapes woman whispering ...Angry annoying to say the least

And all of the " better bathrooms" ads ..men getting into showers , winking as they do Confused

sourdrawers · 06/01/2015 12:23

As if any Woman on-the-blob would think, "I know I'm having my period so I'll wear my finest, tightest, Lilly-white linen trousers today. No doubt I'll have to do lots of bending over and ladder climbing".

Listen advert exec's, no matter how good you (or anyone else for that matter), think your jam rags are, no one would take that risk! Stop treating us like idiots!!!

rumbleinthrjungle · 06/01/2015 14:56

I always thought the whispery woman was some high class call girl!

Maybe that's just my filthy mind Grin

I do want her to quit explaining herself to her accompanying male every two seconds as if she isn't allowed to talk (except to her handbag Confused ) and yell back "I'm TALKING TO SOMEONE, just feck off!"

Cleo22 · 06/01/2015 15:02

The Warner Holiday advert - Carol Angry

isitreallynecessary · 06/01/2015 18:31

The Disneyland advert that assumed that their not so cheap prices meant everyone was going and said something like: "When/how will you tell them?" My dd looked at me and said, "Ooooooh Mum! when are we going?" Angry

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MuddhaOfSuburbia · 06/01/2015 18:52

Trivago

Ugh ugh ugh

Especially the way she lisps 'can you show me how?' at the end

I'm just a wittle giwl! I can't book howidays on the interneths! Help me pweathe?

And the one with the horrible beardy man carrying his (possibly shitfaced) lissom girlfriend down hotel corridor. Not to mention the coy toothbrush foreplay

PUUUUUUUUUUKE

kittykat7210 · 06/01/2015 18:57

the cillit bang and other such adverts annoy me, because they are just like the 90's adverts where the voices don't even look/sound like they are coming from the people who are talking!

MuddhaOfSuburbia · 06/01/2015 19:25

Ooh just read thread

So we ALL hate trivago woman

Me and OH reckon her voice is dubbed and really she talks like Sean Bean

birchwoods · 06/01/2015 20:00

The Buster plug hole unblocker one, where the man calls it a "plug 'ole" over and over again. It's plug HOLE you moron!!! I can't watch it. Angry

Gawjushun · 06/01/2015 21:59

The Disney one with the preteens is just so fucking manipulative and cynical it makes me want to hurl. Aww your babies are growing up, let's play on your emotions to get you to buy an overpriced holiday. No, there's no other way to enjoy quality time with them, it HAS to be Disney. They're guaranteed not to be in their usual stroppy state if you spend enough.

StilleNachtCarolling · 06/01/2015 22:23

The Wickes ad annoys me. Really annoys me. It's the way that he (Tommy Walsh possibly?) says "Wickes" at the end. Make me want to throw a brick at the TV.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH...Bodyform! Any any sanitary product advert. When I have my period I want to sit on a sofa in a blanket, watching mind-numbing TV or boxsets with the entire Sainsbury's chocolate aisle at my disposal. I do NOT want to be surfing, roller skating with my dog or any of the other 'fun' things that these perky, clean-limbed and happy period girls are doing.

Scrumbled · 07/01/2015 07:04

THe egg advert where the man calls his partner to say he doesn't mean to whinge but there's nothing in the fridge.

He's in his PJ'S so I assume he's just got up and partner is finishing a night shift, or another good reason for being out of the house before him. I can just imagine the conversation is my Dp called me up with such crap.

If there's a packet of eggs and some peppers in the fridge why don't you cook something with peppers and eggs. Or not, I don't give a fuck. . How? I don't give a fuck.how about you go out and make sure theres some food in the fridge for when I get home.

JustAnotherControlFreak · 08/01/2015 13:08

So many of you have mentioned the whispering (agreed) but OTOH the ones where they have to FUCKING SHOUT everything really rile me. Really.

DidoTheDodo · 08/01/2015 13:21

Shakira and the toothpaste ad. It's just a couple of library shots of Shakira and has nothing to do with the toothpaste. She's not even seen cleaning her wretched teeth.

MuddhaOfSuburbia · 08/01/2015 17:59

plus Shakira in that ad looks about nineteen THE FUCK

how does that even

WitchWay · 08/01/2015 18:36

The awful one with the three women being impressed by their hostess serving Perle de Lait yoghurt or whatever the hell it is for pudding

Any yoghurt/mousse/choc advert where the actress turns the spoon upside down as she puts it in her mouth whatshername McCutcheon or fakes an orgasm Nicole Scherziblahblah

Foxy Bingo - gives me the willies - ugh

MuddhaOfSuburbia · 08/01/2015 18:58

hahaha yogurt

whenever my kids get a pudding in a pot that needs eating with a teaspoon, they all play 'eat it LIKE IN THE ADVERTS'

at least the lingering with spoon in gob and sloooooow removal makes it last longer I suppose

WitchWay · 08/01/2015 22:49
Grin
TheHorseHasBolted · 09/01/2015 15:44

All perfume and aftershave ones, because they never actually tell you what it smells of. How difficult would it be to say something like, "The new fragrance from Cliché Franglais, an alluring blend of rose, vanilla, patchouli and wet nappy"? And then you'd know that because your Auntie Joy always goes for perfumes with rose and wet nappy in them, she'd probably appreciate this new one.

fromparistoberlin73 · 09/01/2015 15:52

Yes to foxy bingo , horrible and not even sure why

Yes to perle au lait

Yes to that tampax pearl one with old and young woman. Why would you promote pearly colour cardboard tampax tubes

Dolmio. Racist stereotypes !!!!

awaynboilyurheid · 09/01/2015 16:31

Yes to bingo ads no idea why Barbara Windsor dresses up as as a Queen , encouraging gambling, she should be ashamed of herself, awful advert .

BuzzardBird · 13/01/2015 11:59

I have to know what the target consumer is supposed to be on Trivago?!
First we had a coy/shy pre-schooler impression by a grown ass women rolling around in a bed with a lickle, wickle baby voice and now we have another grown ass woman being carried along a corridor in the way you carry a toddler that has fallen asleep on the sofa...all accompanied by the cutey, ickle, wickle little girl voice!

WTAF?

RockinHippy · 13/01/2015 12:47

Booking.com

Maybe I'm just getting old, but how the hell do they get away with the blatant play on swearyHmm

RockinHippy · 13/01/2015 12:51

Shockhow the hell did that turn into a hyperlink without my doing the [[ thing Hmm