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To think that the Activia Gok Wan ad is the worst advert ever?

92 replies

takemeuptheeiffeltower · 06/04/2015 12:11

As well as being demeaning and making women appear like simpering, gibbering, laughing idiots.
And how come men are never seen eating yoghurt?
Is yoghurt a woman thing?

It makes my blood boil every time I see this shit.

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takemeuptheeiffeltower · 06/04/2015 13:30

You beat me to it, YourMa, that's the one I was thinking of.

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Mrsjayy · 06/04/2015 13:31

That was dulcolax stool softners for those hard to pass poos

YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar · 06/04/2015 13:32

Love that! Men, shave and get drunk. Because you're already brilliant! :o

lostincumbria · 06/04/2015 13:33

YANBU if you think it's stored than the latest Windows phone as.

"Hey Cortana, remind me if I bump into Clean Bandit to smash a chair into their smug little faces."

YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar · 06/04/2015 13:34

Takeme, that ad used to make me feel ill. I felt lighter by the next ad break.

SaucyJack · 06/04/2015 13:39

Speak for yourselves. Nothing brings out my inner Goddess quite like eating so much dairy I shart down the back of my Primark bellywarmers.

takemeuptheeiffeltower · 06/04/2015 13:42

SaucyJack, I'm jealous.

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OrlandoWoolf · 06/04/2015 13:43

I do wonder if someone has done an analysis of adverts.

How things are sold and how they are marketed to different people. Would make an interesting research project.

"We've got this yogurt. Who's our target market and how are we going to make them want it?"

Show a woman eating it and having an orgasm.

"We've got this shampoo. Who's our target market and how are we going to make them want it?"

Show a woman washing her hair with it and having an orgasm"

etc etc

"

Humansatnav · 06/04/2015 13:49

My husband eats yoghurts - should I be worried ?

takemeuptheeiffeltower · 06/04/2015 13:52

Humansatnav
He will crap himself whilst having an orgasm.
Two for the price of one.

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takemeuptheeiffeltower · 06/04/2015 13:53

Orlando
don't forget that eating chocolate also = Orgasm,
along with washing your hair and eating yoghurt.

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FarFromAnyRoad · 06/04/2015 14:11

I've just choked on my banana cake - so hard it's tricky to know if I've shat myself or coughed up a bit of kidney!

This - Speak for yourselves. Nothing brings out my inner Goddess quite like eating so much dairy I shart down the back of my Primark bellywarmers

Grin Grin Grin

Mrsjayy · 06/04/2015 14:24

Far too many orgasims pre watershed for my liking

Frizzcat · 06/04/2015 14:34

You are all being unreasonable. The shit Activia adverts are offering you a digestible alternative to this advert.
The advert and it's star will have you shitting through the eye of a needle in no time, those with indigestion, heartburn or anger management issues should avoid. Oh and just so you know, when you've finished orgasiming over diary and salad, you apparently have to start wearing garish floral patterns and pastels and preferable all together....... Whilst you salsa dance. Have a look!

Frizzcat · 06/04/2015 14:35

Makes me want to drink neat gin in a corner and shout out random swear words

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 06/04/2015 14:42

I asked DW if women actually had different digestive systems, because these ads bang on about constipation so much.

She was very kind, once she stopped laughing, and the ringing in my ears faded in less than a day.

silveroldie2 · 06/04/2015 14:44

Yogurt is inedible crap, ipso facto all yogurt ads are unwatchable crap.

derxa · 06/04/2015 14:48

Frizz cat The same ad came to mind as well. Lorraine Kelly the biggest con job in television history. A gimlet eyed journalist who gives all the rest of us Scottish wimmen (sic) a bad name.

drudgetrudy · 06/04/2015 15:02

Has anyone noticed that the horrible Warburton's thins advert has disappeared since it was discussed on MN.
I alerted them to the thread via their facebook page. Wonder if we had an effect?
Hate these 1970s style stupid ads.
Perhaps someone should let Activia know we are talking about it.
In the meantime I won't buy Activia.

takemeuptheeiffeltower · 06/04/2015 15:15

Never mind yoghurt, why not cut out the middleman and go straight for these

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Frizzcat · 06/04/2015 15:24

derxa wimmen Grin

I would never judge a Scottish person based on Ms Kelly - she doesn't even sound Scottish? Well, no I take that back, she has a TV Scottish accent otherwise known as accent without origin.
I'm from NI originally, we have many of those.

Frizzcat · 06/04/2015 15:28

oops I crapped my pants.

Now, there is an ad that would make me buy the product whether I needed it or not.

loveliesbleeding1 · 06/04/2015 15:35

Hate this advert with a vengence, also I watched gok on this morning one day last week and he styled the women on there really badly.

noodle8000 · 06/04/2015 15:43

Sarah Haskins did a hilarious parody series called "Target women" that is worth watching if this stuff makes you roll your eyes.

Bigoldsupermoon · 06/04/2015 15:45

Nothing is as bad as this. Nothing.