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to ask what adverts drive you mad

161 replies

sixtylicious · 19/06/2015 07:27

There are just so many adverts out at the moment which I can't stand. I think my worst, for now, are the seemingly endless series of sexy yoghurt adverts, especially the Nicole Scherzinger ones where she is constantly getting yoghurt on her nose and giggling about it. URGH!

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ApignamedJasper · 19/06/2015 10:31

Pretty much any perfume ad.

There was a car one a while ago I really like though, it went something like this:

Take a car

Add rain

Make it sexy (showed a black panther jumping in and out of said car).

'Twas a great parody of stupid car adverts :D

Mrsjayy · 19/06/2015 10:35

I could listen to Ewan reading the phone book sigh so i like the BT advert. This is dodgy ground but Martin Freeman on the charity advert does me in he is to sincere and is unshaven like he has turned up just to be sincere

purplemunkey · 19/06/2015 10:37

Yes Misslgl88! 'Why would I need to GO PRO with my toothpaste?!' Why indeed.

imonaplane · 19/06/2015 10:38

I hate the one for Barclays where the little girl is doing some computer programming and at the end says in a silly voice "I'm dancing, I'm moonwalking". Also the one for Muller with the bear - I don't get how someone could earn good money for coming up with that!

spillyobeans · 19/06/2015 10:40

Ohhh the wahanda one gives me the rage too!!!

I actually dont mind the haribo one with the adults with kids voices!

Pippidoeswhatshewants · 19/06/2015 10:58

I am pleased that lots of you share my Nicole Scherzinger "aren't I cute and funny, I've got yoagerrt on my nose" hate!

ghostyslovesheep · 19/06/2015 11:22

I dislike that Scherzinger one because, from what I know about her, if she did ever get chocolate pudding on her nose and fall of a chair she'd have a shit fit and fire everyone in the room - twice

not a TV advert but our local scrap men have a recorded shouty voice that cries out for your 'old ians' - drives me mad - am tempted to round up every Ian I know and offer them up

RoyalMaybe · 19/06/2015 11:31

Another vote for Scherzinger here. I hate how they are all laughing and gazing at her adoringly as she lies there with yoghurt on her nose. It's like "oh she's so cute and pretty so it's ok that she's destroyed our party." Rage.

Also: "are you afraid it'll feel like a naaaaaasty glue?" screwed up face I literally have to mute that.

Yokohamajojo · 19/06/2015 11:55

oh the nationwide one with the scarf, it's so cringey HATE IT

BarrowlandBiddy · 19/06/2015 12:08

Hasn't been on for a while but the Secret Escapes one annoys the bejeezus out of me, she's so feckin' smug!
The worst bit is when she whispers "Secret Escapes" breathlessly at the end, which my kids now do just to wind me up! Grrrrrrrr...... wee buggers!

DowntownFunk · 19/06/2015 12:13

I hate most adverts, most of them have been mentioned already.

But, the Chelsea manager one for BT Sport makes me laugh.

sweetgrape · 19/06/2015 12:16

The bus driver gets his hat pinched by Audrey Hepburn, why it that ok? annoys the hell out of me.

TheGreatAndPowerfulTrixie · 19/06/2015 12:48

Yes, the Nationwide scarf one is terrible.

There is a face cream one that starts "not quite ready for surgery". Feck off and stop preying on women's insecurities. Wankers.

I've not seen it for a while but the poo at Paul's one.

RegTheMonkey1 · 19/06/2015 14:00

The Trivago one where the beardy hipster guy carries his girlfriend down the hotel corridor. Is she drunk? Has he slipped her Rohypnol? Why can't she walk?
Another vote here against the 'oh I'm so cute and beautiful with a teeny drop of yoghurt on my cute and teeny nose' Scherzinger ads, awful, awful, awful.
Tena Lady 'Oops moments'. My husband watched one and then said to me 'so is this something you wear that means you can just piss yourself, willy-nilly?'
"Teddy's very not well." Fuck off!
You don't see it so much now but when they had all the fake 'customers' in the Lidl/Aldi (don't know which) ad where they had to pay what they thought the meal was worth, and this women eating lamb bellows: "It's so moist, it's so TENDAAAHHH.' You can fuck off too.
Sorry, sorry, they just get me so annoyed!

TorrAlexandra · 19/06/2015 14:10

Oh GOD the Secret Escapes one... and the new booking.com ad too...

GlitterTwinkleToes · 19/06/2015 14:15

The one that's really pissing me off at the moment is the Mcdonalds 'my dad's a legend'
Dad. Legend. What about poor mum whos body you've destroyed, is living on salads trying to get back to prebaby weight and who knows that eating that bloody burger will.mean 60000 hours in.the gym! Yes I'm projecting here

sixtylicious · 19/06/2015 14:17

Oh my god, has anyone seen the new 'What's my claim worth' ad with that awful woman in rollers complaining about her eyebrow?

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kissmethere · 19/06/2015 14:20

I hate hate hate adverts. All get muted or forward if a recording.
Particularly where people are talking with food in their mouths, there's one on the radio. And that "holiyeeey" one too .
Arse and heels man makese want to vom.

ArcheryAnnie · 19/06/2015 14:49

"Teddy's very not well." Fuck off!

Yes! And does any child of that age actually call a teddy "Teddy"?

Misslgl88 · 19/06/2015 14:53

Anyone seen the new irn bru one when the mum walks in sons room? Don't know if it's on TV yet OH saw it on YouTube last night. Just Thought Id put a lighthearted advert out there Grin

wol1968 · 19/06/2015 15:01

Any advert for toothpaste. The earnest 'dentists' talking 'realistically' to camera (if they're really dentists, then I'm Darcey Bussell). That horrible bleeding one for Corsodyl. I mean, bleeding hair...shudder.

And I know it was a while ago but I was put off Activia yogurts by Martine McCutcheon's 'Tummy Loving Care' strapline some years ago. I don't want a moderately agreeable dessert being associated with farts and IBS and diarrhoea thanks very much.

GoringBit · 19/06/2015 15:12

Rhyming adverts drive me crackers, (McDonalds and Hive are the worst) and the Flora one with the 'fit' mum (who then simpers and preens) is grim. Fucking underdog. The singing compo ad. Oh and Cravendale with the dreadful song. Who approves these things? Angry

GoringBit · 19/06/2015 15:13

Miss I loved the Irn Bru train ad. Crack on, indeed. Grin

Flisspaps · 19/06/2015 15:22

Carole cunting Smillie's 'dishwasher tips' Finish bollocks.

Fuck off Angry

Misslgl88 · 19/06/2015 15:23

goringlook the new one up it may give you a giggle Grin

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