nationwide adverts..

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they make me cringe, am I the only one?

They’re the worst. Even my kids cringe when they come on.

Apparently not.

There is a thread a WEEK on here banging on about them and how much people LOATHE the 2 girls in it.

Here is just one.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3174831-To-loathe-the-nationwide-adverts

I hated them. Then i saw that fucking diet coke advert and i now have a rosy nostalgic glow for the twee singing....

YY there is a thread every week on here about this. They have had death threats or something.

Its worth paying extra, or threaten to leave your supplier, to get a box that you can pause.

Pause at the start of a program and fast forward through the adverts.

The abuse that the Women have had has been uncalled for, though. I'm glad the Police have got involved.

They are awful and not amusing however everyone is talking about it as the 'nationwide advert' so it has done its job.

Doesn't make me want to rush down to Nationwide and open an account though so not sure it's doing it's job in that sense.

You know you could just not watch the bloody adverts rather than go on and on about how awful they are?
Those women got fucking death threats, fgs! For an advert...wtf is wrong with people?

The adverts are a major mistake by Nationwide. Yes people are talking about them, but that isn't always a good thing. I still refuse to use Money Supermarket because of that hideous woman commenting about some guy called Dave!

Sorry, but the whole "they've received death threats" is just such total bollocks. The bank have called the Police in over comments made on Twitter. These comments were:

"So who’s chipping in to get these two singing sisters from the Nationwide advert brutally murdered?"

And "Can the sisters from the Nationwide adverts please die a horrible death."

I've seen stuff like that on MN over people in the news or other annoying adverts. It's like people having had a row with their partner and saying to their best friend "I could really kill him/her". Or people on AIBU saying "AIBU to stab my DH for this". It's an expression, or people venting. It is NOT an actual death threat and I don't see MN calling in the Police every time someone says that sort of thing on here, do you? What's the difference?

Proper abuse is one thing and absolutely should be tackled properly. This is an expression of annoyance.

Oh right Shatners I only saw a headline. Couldn't read about them as well as watch them.

Sparkling Great publicity for Nationwide. Yet more coverage due to inflammatory headlines in the media and people not actually reading the facts.

Oh, so its only that multiple people stated publicly that they should be brutally murdered? Well thats just fine then.

It's a fucking advert

Maybe so Shatners but are all these people getting straight down to Nationwide and giving them custom or like me seeing the headline, rolling their eyes and moving on to the next news story?
I am not convinced the publicity works.

I was quite surprised to learn they are actually sisters. They seem like a rubbish version of Mel and Sue.

They genuinely make me nostalgic for Halifax Howard

I am shocked that anyone watches adverts! They are either paused/ skipped or muted when folding/ making a drink/ unloading the dishwasher. I consider them my "movement breaks" when being lazy enough to get in a chunk of tele!

kerry So? MN is public and there are people wishing their chating exes or mothers-in-law physical injury or death. I don't see MN rushing to call in the Police, do you? I've seen comedians on TV programmes like Room 101 or doing routines where they go on about someone that really gets on their wick and wishing them dead. Not seen any of those being investigated.

There is a TOTAL difference between a expression of annoyance with someone and a genuine threat to kill.

I think they're cute and funny.

Re death threats, I think it's terrifying how normalised it's become to make statements about how people should be brutally murdered. I know we live in an age of online trolling and that many assume because something is done via the internet it isn't real or threatening, but I think it's pretty essential for a civilised society that we take it seriously when a person threatens to kill or maim another and don't make an exception just because it's done online.

Fugitive Don't get me wrong, I know what you mean, but then a fair proportion of people on MN would need to be investigated for threats of violence and death towards their exes or MILs or managers. If we overhear someone in a pub saying "I could kill them", should they be investigated too?

I like them 🤷‍♀️

I like them. There, I've said it.

And me GayAllen...I like them too

I quite like them; the whole point of advertising is to make you remember the product, so that's a win for Nationwide.

@ShatnersWig I think it's a bit different when it's all anonymous, and I've never seen anyone on MN identify their partner or MIL by name and threaten to kill them. If they did then I would think it should be investigated.

Overhearing someone in a pub requires context - most people can distinguish a genuine threat from a joke among friends. The difficulty with the internet it that it's much harder to do this - in a tweet, who knows if it's a bad joke or a genuine threat? There have been examples in the past where threats have been made online and then carried out. I think that's why, where the subject of the threat is clearly identified, it is worth investigating.

Fugitive A quick glance at someone's Twitter feed usually makes it pretty clear if it's a bad joke or an out and out threat.