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AIBU?

I feel as clean as a spoon in a circus. Oh just do one. Aibu to hate this advert now?

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witchofzog · 09/11/2017 09:38

It might have been a smidge funny the first time but now it's not cute and it's as boring and irritating as fuck. Is it just me who hates the Andrex advert?

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Floralnomad · 09/11/2017 17:57

All the life cover and funeral planning ones are dreadful , I’m over 50 so the target audience and I literally cannot relate to any of the people in those ads .

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musicposy · 09/11/2017 17:57

The Andrex one is utterly stupid. I can't stand it. I used to like the puppies - the real ones, before they used cartoons. The andrex ads have gone way downhill.

I like the sleep deprived one where the bloke fills the cat's bowl with coffee beans. The cat in that is great, very natural.

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Marsali · 09/11/2017 17:58

The new Specsavers one with the museum guard and the light switch is very funny. My mum disapproves of it Grin

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Acopyofacopy · 09/11/2017 18:01

I am loving the shared hate here!

Nicole Scherzinger, the “ain’t nobody” woman, annoying Andrex brats and the oral b woman who never knew that they even did toothpaste can just f* off!

Give me puppies and the cat with no pulse any day. McDonald’s perfume ad pisstake can stay, too.
And I want the sexy Virgin ad back, the one with the Muse song.

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toffee1000 · 09/11/2017 18:05

Nicole whatserface always has to fall over and laugh because she’s just oh so funny.
No. Piss off.

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Jubejube1 · 09/11/2017 18:25

Yes twee & nauseatingly unfunny. Can’t they stuff the Andrex down the toilet & have a laugh instead. Precious middle class brats that think they’re so valid in everything they say.

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ptumbi · 09/11/2017 18:47

Oh talking of cartoons - the Felix one with the sickening cat with stupid eyes...

You know they can make a cartoon cat do anything, right?

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mrsRosaPimento · 09/11/2017 19:10

Oral B. Stupid women not knowing how to clean their teeth, ‘but I didn’t know Oral B made a toothpaste,’ then being shown cleaning her teeth with no toothpaste on the brush! How stupid do the advertisers think women are? Stupid.
I also hate the Andrex adverts. In one of them the child that says the stupid thing looks at the laughing adult with disbelief.

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CPtart · 09/11/2017 19:10

The Andrex one is so unfunny, just as staged as those women sampling Bueno chocolates in the street, "pleeese can I have another one!"
Aaaargh.

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mrsRosaPimento · 09/11/2017 19:19

Yes, the British Seniors one where he’s standing in the conservatory spying on Brenda next door, when she turns up with the post that came through her door by mistake...
I also like the one where the women at the garden centre are suddenly discussing how much Jean loved stargazer lilies and suddenly how expensive her funeral was. They don’t even look a bit upset that she’s dead. So bad taste to talk about the cost of a friend’s funeral.

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kaitlinktm · 09/11/2017 20:18

I am a similar age to what I presume those women are supposed to be and I can't EVER imagine having a conversation like that or being envious of someone else's funeral. FFS she's dead! She didn't get to enjoy it.

I am surprised people haven't complained.

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witchofzog · 09/11/2017 21:07

Haha love the specsavers museum guard one. That is one company who has it right.

And I love dairy milk "Yes sir I can boogie" advert. The man in it is strangely very very attractive to me. Dp thinks I am bonkers Grin

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soupforbrains · 09/11/2017 21:09

Yes witch!! I too find said man strangely attractive despite the fact I normally despise facial hair... I have no idea what it is about him!

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Floralnomad · 09/11/2017 21:31

I also love the dairy milk ‘I can boogie’ ad , that man has some sort of strange appeal , I wish they’d show the longer version of the ad it’s brilliant .

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CoughLaughFart · 09/11/2017 21:48

What about the woman who doesn’t care that her husband sexted her mum and her son’s got a girl up the duff because she’s eating a Pukka fucking pie? ‘Teenage pregnancy and porn don’t bother me - not while I’m eating the cheapest, greasiest microwaved dog-meat pie known to man’.

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underkerstumbled · 09/11/2017 22:00

Give me puppies and the cat with no pulse any day
Grin

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KinkyAfro · 09/11/2017 22:01

The toothpaste one with the gormless woman on the train sock puppeting at that kid....her face really fucks me off

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Seniorcitizen1 · 09/11/2017 22:07

Hate these adverts with pretentious middle class brats

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kaitlinktm · 09/11/2017 22:12

And I love dairy milk "Yes sir I can boogie" advert. The man in it is strangely very very attractive to me. Dp thinks I am bonkers
Isn't it the same actor who played Mr Selfridge? I think he is called Brendan Gibson. Or am I going mad?

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PippaSqueaks · 09/11/2017 22:23

Another Oral B one where the woman asks her dentist if a manual toothbrush or an electric toothbrush is better, and being shocked when she's told that the electric one is better.

My 3 year old could have told her that!

Do Oral B really think we're utter idiots?

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PippaSqueaks · 09/11/2017 22:31

One of my favourites is the Specsavers ad with the shepherd shearing his sheep mistakenly shearing his dog.

I love everything about it. It's beautifully shot in black and white and that (Welsh?) music is so evocative of.....something.

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EvieBlack · 09/11/2017 22:42

Dairy Milk boogie man is indeed Brendan Gibson but he wasn’t mr selfridge.

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CherryChasingDotMuncher · 09/11/2017 22:53

YANBU. Whoever it was in the Andrex marketing department that said “let’s lose the puppies and have a load of obnoxious children talking about the lack of shit on their arses” needs shot

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TheLegendOfBeans · 09/11/2017 22:53

Place marking for shared hate

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dontcallmelen · 09/11/2017 22:53

I hate the one that’s advertising job vacancies on a mobile phone, the chef is sooo fucking pervy, checking out the waitress undressing her with his eyes☹️
Another one that gave me the rage, was the Victoria plumb one with the bratty kids in the bath.
Yy the andrex ‘hilarious’ kids.

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