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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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ohdobuckup · 19/06/2015 16:39

''Do it with a Bing Bang Fucking Bong''......can't even recall what it's advertising but it so grates my gonads.. eurgh

GoringBit · 19/06/2015 18:20

Will do, Miss Smile

bertsdinner · 19/06/2015 21:40

I hate:
The credit card (Barclays?), one with the irratating manchild going on about "making the most of it".
The Trivago drippy girlfriend/bearded boyfriend cleaning their teeth.
The Stork with butter cake ad
The Cortana ad. I get it's voice recignition. I dont get having a conversation with a machine.
The Vanish advert, everything's a stain. Er, no, it's just a dirty mark that will come out in the wash.

CaptainAnkles · 19/06/2015 21:48

Sensodyne - any of them

Secret Escapes whispery woman and her potentially abusive partner from whom she has to hide the fact that she's sharing information with us

Money Supermarket giant lady ass man

Vanish tips

That fuckawful thing with the girl who's having singing lessons and she sings to her dad in the car. I can't remember what it's advertising because her singing is so shit.

Patronising 'this girl can' adverts.

Flisspaps · 19/06/2015 21:50

I'm glad I'm not the only one who dislikes 'This Girl Can'. Too many close ups of boobs. Pisses me off.

Rivercam · 19/06/2015 21:59

I'm sure it's been said before, but I'm fed up of the story adverts and the poem adverts.

Story - eg Barclays, Halifax

Poem - Macdonalds, Barclays (again)

Also hate the patronising Stork advert ( why is a man talking abiut women cooking, and who uses a wooden spoon to get marg out of the tub?!)

Rivercam · 19/06/2015 22:00

Also gate the 'Our Tune ' music being used in an advert. It's sacred.

Binkybix · 19/06/2015 22:08

It's not been on a while but that right move (? Maybe) one that shows amazing houses and says it's your reward for all those late nights etc.

EauPea · 19/06/2015 22:41

Have just seen the fry light ad.

Woman in a tutu is annoying enough, but that kitchen is deadly. The hob that she's frying on is set under wall units Confused

Parrish · 19/06/2015 22:51

Is it Oak Furniture Land or something? They have "gold for the price of silver" and go round tapping things...actors are atrocious.....grrrrrrrrrr......

NewFlipFlops · 19/06/2015 23:46

Definitely I'm gonna make the most of it man. Barclays?

And before that the bloody Hive ad.

All badly rhymed, non-scanning kooky doggerel ads in fact.

I only really like ads with animals and fake animals Grin

Iloveonionchutney · 20/06/2015 00:04

All of them Grin
The Nationwide scarf one made me cry though but I blame pregnancy hormones for that!

Getthewonderwebout · 20/06/2015 00:23

Wonga ad "I do the school run...twice a day". Well come along then love and collect your medal.

RedandYellow24 · 20/06/2015 00:34

Vanish advert- it's so marvellous it gets rid of the stain before your very eyes! Oh then add an extra scoop in your machine.... Why the stains gone? Or are we just using it up twice as fast.

The money comparison site with man on heels and bum wiggling really really?? Is that supposed to be how a hot girlfriend walks??

All constipation ads which only ever show woman, half the male population must suffer in silence with constipation Because they couldn't possible need a woman's medicine.

Saw one the other day for a ladies razor brand.... One fits in your handbag ladies! One has special gentle blade blah blah. I don't know how men cope not being able to pop it in a bag and shave whenever the urge takes them.

People with ulterly perfect teeth being told by their oh so caring dentist they must use x brand of new toothpaste to protect their perfect teeth. They must have been doing something right you would think.

While I'm on a roll how come all those cordisol mouthwash ads can show real blood when they spit in the sink yet always can't!

sprackenzyboiled · 20/06/2015 02:30

Yoghurt adverts, not the Nicole one, the muller ones with the blonde woman who has a very bad case of smugtwatface going on.

The barclays/barclaycard one where the man who appears to have 17 kids, a life partner and a mortgage is getting married and sings today might be the day where "I finally commit" what the fuck is having kids then?! Also the person performing the song does a weird twee effete voice that annoys me a lot and doesn't sound like a man who could ever possibly father children anyway.

sprackenzyboiled · 20/06/2015 02:33

Also, can we get a drone strike on this advert?

I hate it with every fibre of my being. Fuck the woman in it. Fuck her voice. Fuck the person who wrote the song and the lyrics. Fuck the person who put the video in it.

sprackenzyboiled · 20/06/2015 02:33

*put the video together

RavioliOnToast · 20/06/2015 09:09

"Hi, I'm Barry Scott"

I could punch Barry Scott in his funny fucking mouth. Urgh, he makes my skin all crawly.

RavioliOnToast · 20/06/2015 09:11

another nicole sherzinger one where she says 'chocolate covered golden balls' when it is quite obviously the other way around...

Vagndidit · 20/06/2015 09:23

Gala-la-la
Gala-la-la
Hey, hey, hey
Bingo...

Ugh!

BlueThursday · 20/06/2015 09:33

Any ads with groups of women have them either all sitting at a table discussing their digestive tracts or dancing in a gig awful mumsy way (Lorraine Kelly I'm looking at you Angry)

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NoMontagues · 20/06/2015 09:45

notso I think it's for thinning hair.

Mine is the Trivago ads with the idiot couple in Venice and the other ones (oh god, breathe) brushing their teeth in the hotel bathroom.

The music, the voiceover, the "I want, I want, I want"

justmeokay · 20/06/2015 11:48

Another that kills me is the Gumtree rap/poem advert where they randomly crowbar 'vintage clock' into the middle of a section where it makes no sense, just so they can finish with the phrase 'Gumtree Rocks' it makes me want to scream!

albertcamus · 20/06/2015 12:25

On Smooth Radio, these ads give me the rage :

1 Woman with mouth full (sounds like she's crunching crisps), waffling about Weight Watchers & how she can still eat fish & chips

2 Dopey old woman chatting fakely to thick young girl in ? Boots ? Optician shop about the '2 for 1 offer' (do ad agencies actually have actors listed as 'thick-sounding' ?)

3 Woman talking about how 'My Mum & I always wanted to go to Africa on safari ... Then she was diagnosed with dementia ... Then we went to Africa on safari'

I know, it's the price you pay for 'easy listening' !