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To wish Nationwide would piss off with their shitty poetry and patronising messages?

30 replies

SalemSaberhagen · 22/02/2017 22:09

IABU to get so annoyed by them, yet I can't stop myself. This one in particular.

To wish Nationwide would piss off with their shitty poetry and patronising messages?
OP posts:
Paperdolly · 22/02/2017 22:12

I'm loving the poetry on TV but as I don't have a NW account I don't see those patronising messages...thank goodness!

SalemSaberhagen · 22/02/2017 22:13

This one was on the television. It doesn't read properly to me either!

OP posts:
BarbarianMum · 22/02/2017 22:18

Actually I quite like them Smile

Snap8TheCat · 22/02/2017 22:21

I think it's really poor advice. If one partner has poor credit the other could be jeopardising their own credit by getting a JA.

SouthWestmom · 22/02/2017 22:33

Nationwide. On your side.

I really want to throw shoes at the tv

Ginkypig · 22/02/2017 22:59

Oh I know I want to punch the telly every time one of them come on!

DaffodilsAndCrocus · 22/02/2017 23:01

Agreed, terrible.

KatsutheClockworkOctopus · 22/02/2017 23:04

YANBU. I find them even more annoying than the Lloyds funeral and Clearscore ones (and those are really irritating).

littlefrog3 · 22/02/2017 23:14

I hate them too. Irritating as eff!

SherlockPotter · 22/02/2017 23:21

The clear score adverts are the best, especially with Flearoy (who sounds like Consuela from Family Guy). But I agree about Nationwide (who just happen to be my bank account and savings account providers 🙈)

Foslady · 23/02/2017 00:56

After they were out and out nasty tonne when my marriage broke up I hate all of their adverts Angry

Foslady · 23/02/2017 00:56

To me - not tonne!

TheElephantofSurprise · 23/02/2017 00:59

I haven't seen them.
But poets need to earn a crust, so...

ChippyTea16 · 23/02/2017 11:55

YANBU OP - I want to rip my own face off whenever I hear one of the poems on TV. Excruciating!

Bellerophon · 23/02/2017 14:37

YANBU

And that screenshot....just hideous use of language. A dreadful attempt at connecting with social media users by sounding conversational and "chummy". no!

DefinitelyOdd · 23/02/2017 14:59

I hate all bank adverts, particularly the ones that make getting a mortgage seem like a breezy fun way to spend your time. I thought they couldn't get worse after the one with the silly bugger who loses his 'special' scarf and the bank lady finds him and gets it back to him.

But then they did poetry........

fucksakenethuns · 23/02/2017 15:03

Bleurgh!

So if I

Just punctuate differently

then it is

emotional and

a poem

fucksakenethuns · 23/02/2017 15:03

No! Almost as annoying as those adds made up of crappy youtube homemovies, cheap and crap.

TeaCake5 · 23/02/2017 15:06

That one with the annoying women talking about getting out of a flat share really pisses me off.

SailAwayWithMeHoney · 23/02/2017 15:12

That one with the annoying women talking about getting out of a flat share really pisses me off.

Agreed. Going on about tripping over shoes and the like. Makes me want to throw shoes at the telly.

LilacSpatula · 23/02/2017 15:13

Agreed! All this 'we care about you' bollocks is driving me mad. No you don't! It's all about the market share and the profit. Do one!

Eminybob · 23/02/2017 15:29

The strapline is "building society, nationwide" now which irritates the hell out of me. And I work for them.
Not so much on the adverts but in every single communication and piece of training material it is trotted out and it winds me up.

They have a new CEO hence the new branding and advertising.

Davros · 23/02/2017 15:34

Which company was it that wanted to lend money to Top Cat? He lived in a dustbin and doesn't have a job Shock

TeaCake5 · 23/02/2017 15:50

fucksakenethuns oh yeah the santander advert with "genuine" family videos is shite too.

TeaCake5 · 23/02/2017 15:54

This is the video, just hate her smugness.

Are banks stupid? All this, look what genuine customers say/think - they are fucking actors ffs.