To be irritated by the BT advert? (With the budgie)

[OverTheHammer]

Lighthearted to an extent but ...

This advert irritates me! Firstly how irresponsible to have a budgie flying loose around a house with windows open?! Secondly when it escapes and comes back in the garden - wouldn't happen!! Once it escaped chances are you'd never see it again! I hope people don't see this advert and think a budgie would be a great pet to have join you in the garden etc

And lastly when it comes back the girl thanks her grandad - and he gladly accepts the credit - why? What was his part in it? Did he buy her the bird in the first place or is he just taking credit for "finding" it?

Makes me cross. Oh well, on with the day ahead I suppose!

God bless you, OP! I've been scratching my head over this one for weeks. Why the hell does she thank her grandad? I got to the point where I told myself "He must have bought her the iPad so that they can Skype, or FaceTime or whatever it is" because it's an advert for BT who sell internet and phone services rather than budgies.

It's an awful advert and will no doubt be responsible for some poor budgies flying the coop into the wild where they will be bullied by parakeets and ravens.

I thought the grandad bought her the bird? He appears to have lots of them at his own house, I thought it was thank you for the bird/passing down your love of birds to me.

Agree it's not great!

Ha! I get the rage every time this comes on!

I do not think she is ready for a pet

Stupid BT = Stupid ad

Couldn't agree more!

Once upon a time BT adverts had actual scripts. With more than 12 words in them. And occasionally laughs. And Maureen Lipman. That made sense.

That one they must have spent a packet on- with Ryan Reynolds in it- got banned!

It's not as irritating as shouty rotisserie chicken Subway man.

It's not as bad as those awful "I didn't know Oral B made a toothpaste" ones that make me want to throw things the at the TV!

Ron Whenever those come on I like to shout back at the screen "You're the only bloody one, love"

My Dh rants at this advert free ranging budgie and if she put the tablet down for a second she might be able to catch it is part of his rant

Ahhh my people. I agree with all the above.
Next door's cat (also bought by a loving grandparent) would have had that budgie away before the ad was halfway through.

Ron, that one makes me simultaneously press mute and vomit. As does the small space obsessed child who hasn't got the imagination to find an empty water,coke or weed killer container to make its rocket with, the child who forensically examines the dishes in the dishwasher (note to its mother, if you take out the racks you can fit a small irritating child into a dishwasher) and the child who wheedles chocolate by pretending its teddy bear is ill.

We have a free range budgie but our windows are firmly closed. When he chooses to go back to his cage for a snooze, the door is closed and the windows are flung open.

This advert annoys me because it sets our bird off screeching. And because of the irresponsible budgie ownership thing. If they get out, they're gone usually. Our bird thinks he's a human. He'd last approximately 3 minutes in the wild.

It's not as bad as those awful "I didn't know Oral B made a toothpaste" ones that make me want to throw things the at the TV!

Oh God yes. That woman doesn't deserve teeth.

I particularly hate the Amazon one where the dad puts the lion 🦁 headdress on the massive dog to make the baby like it. You won't be so cheerful when it starts chewing on your baby's limbs, matey.

Yes really annoying.
And as for oral b, well what did she think they did?

My particular un-favourite at the moment is the one for a coin to commemorate Ypres. Colonel Bufton-Tufton (very annoying clipped voice) bangs on about the coin with Kipling's words and the Angel of Mons .." said to have protected our soldiers". Didn't do a very good job then.

And all Over 50s death insurance ("Dad, it's June"..."ooh I've seen the advert with Parky"). Gives me the rage. (I'm over 50 and can't relate to these people at all)

I forgot Keeley Hawes yakking on in her Ford sodding Fiesta. Arrggghh!!!

I agree. And the mother does nothing! She's still in the kitchen cooking! I screamed and cried when my budgie got out and we were all out looking for him.

Saw the longer version of that BT ad, it makes slightly more sense, but is still massively stupid and annoying. We eye roll every time it comes on.
The oral B one still gets shouted at in this house.

Annielouise, kitchen shot from the garden is the best part of the advert, what a lovely extension though a bit overlooked with all that glass, but the shot of the staircase seems to belong to another house, fabulous staircase that goes up forever. Very strange.

I'll take another look, viques . You're right, the extension looks lovely but I'm switching off at that point so missed the staircase - will take a closer look.

Snap, viques , I hate that ad! The kid whines to Dad that he wants the empty washing up liquid bottle but it's taking aaaaaaages. Meanwhile, what's going on in the background? Oh yeah Mum's doing the bloody washing up, not Dad. So why is little whiny-britches pestering Dad? Is Dad somehow in charge of all households empty bottles? And could they not have slipped in a quick scene of Dad doing the washing up too?

I really don't like this advert. Why isn't Grandad shouting down the ipad to shut the windows? Mind you, it's not as bad as the hideous Tesco adverts. I have to leave the room when they come on.

The Vanish ad that implies that shaking a bag of powder around will fully declutter your teen son's room. And the one where she's raving about how soft her stair carpet is. I've never sat and stroked my stairs!