Most annoying ads

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Going on from another post about an annoying ad, what do you find the most annoying? I cringe at the German shampoo for women Plantur 39. The bit where she whispers conspiratorially 'especially for women over 40' as if being over 40 is something to be shamed about. Hate hate hate it. Also the Wowcher ads. Also didn't like the one about guide dogs with the guy who said 'puup-eh' instead of puppy. I know he's blind and all but it really was annoying.

The woman on the bus with her weird pocket looks like she’s got a sudden stomach ache and she’s trying not to shit herself.

A PP mentioned the Johnny Depp aftershave ad. It's just so awful that DH and I contribute to it.

1. Shout 'sausage' when the word 'sauvage' appears or is said.
2. curiously ask why is he going into the desert with a shovel. Does he need to take a dump or bury a body?
3. any other plot twists you can think of

Any of the wowcher adverts

The stupid moose dog advert, its trying to be cute but its crap

All Perfume ads, contrived bullshit and demeaning to women
Gambling ads
Silly toffee or chocolate ads that always show a ridiculous stereotype person lovingly creating a fucking toffee...for gawds sake!!

The one with Philip Scholfield and the puppy ... it makes me nauseous

"I think that my time is worth more than getting a bit extra cash from selling my car."

Well, of course you do, Phil. You don't have any more time in your week than anybody else, but what you DO have is way more money than almost everybody else. Not all of us have that luxury of being able to effectively give away much-needed money so that we can waste our time fondling fluffy animals.

It's a bit like a premiership footballer telling a toilet attendant on minimum wage who's grumpy at not being paid extra for bank holidays that "You can't just do your job for the money."

The one with the weird stalker car thief for dreamies

No Still Game* fan who's ever seen the episode where Winston 'amended' Tam's borrowed copy of War & Peace could ever see this advert without smirking

*Don't forget: the last ever series starts on Sunday evening on the launch night of the new BBC Scotland channel (available UK-wide)!

Silly toffee or chocolate ads that always show a ridiculous stereotype person lovingly creating a fucking toffee

Agreed - THIS is how all chocolate should be advertised:

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The "vaginal dryness" one

I hate the three old women going on about one of them having a "Man Friend". I think it's for Nationwide and its so ghastly and patronising I have to mute it.

I came on to say Senakot Max on Classic FM. Also on Classic FM, that awful thing with a whiny-voiced woman singing 'Oh, poorly darling, you've got a cold ...'

I must admit to a sneaky fondness for 'Right said Fred, you wanna help the family, let's talk about releasing equity' .

Aaaaargh the one for incontinence pants where the woman feels "pretty and protected!" No bloke would be seeing me in piss pants even if they do have flowers on them!!

That one with a dog called Moose that speaks in a stupid voice "What doooooimg?!" So weird and pointless to what it's advertising (which I can't remember).

Any of the shit poetry nationwide ads. And the recent coke ads where the prick is asked if he wants diet or regular and doesn’t give a helpful, straight answer. “I don’t care, I just love coke”. Fucking die of thirst then, see if I care.

Any sanitary towel adverts make me cringe

Haven't RTFT but i had to write this out as it has been annoying me for days: that mcdonalds big mac with bacon ad gets on my nerves. Pretending everyone in the world cares whether a big mac with bacon is really a big mac. Noone fucking cares, stop presuming they do. Tossers

That ghastly bint in the incontinence knickers ad, with her ridiculous strangled accent. Forget the “pretty and protected” nonsense - I’d love to see a more honest ad where she says:
“When one pisses oneself in public, one prefers to do so in a massive adult nappy with flowers on, so one can pretend it’s more classy than pissing in plain knickers”.

Bought by many pet insurance creeps me out

Ellie Goulding and her bloody hair and that stupid crouch as she trains her body

Oral B but the one where she asked her dentist which cleans better an electric or a manual toothbrush

I forgot about the one with the machine to stop incontinence, where the first woman didn't pee herself laughing but the third womanhas clearly pissed in the pool.

Can't believe no-one has mentioned the ghastly ad where they spit blood into the sink. That is revolting. Corsodol is it? Vile.

I love the 'free love on the freeway' one!

Also hate the nationwide one with the 3 elderly women chatting shit.

And the one where the girl is burning her food and calls her dad and then slams the lid down on him for having the nerve to ask her new boyfriend's name. Rude cah!

Her fake American accent does my head in. Talking about her mother cooking the same meal 'did she barn-idd?'

STOP!

Obvs hate the oral b one too.

Seriously, you never knew 'oral b' did a toothpaste? What did you think they made? Metal wheelbarrows?!

Also hate the postcode lottery one.

"Vagisil Moist Cream" - who the hell decided that was a good name?

The "Look Dad it's June!" over 50s life insurance - DH and I swear the binoculars he got for signing up are permanently trained on June's bedroom window, dirty old git!

The weird couple on a stroll who happily turn from colour to black & white while hearing old time music. Why aren't they totally freaked out by what's happening?

The woman shouting at people remotely doing her spinning class in their loft conversions.

I watch too much daytime tv.

Yes and betting adverts; especially the bloke going on about his "smarts"

And Martin Freeman being annoyed with people using their phones on a train.

Yes to loads of these! Vagisan/ “bothersome vagina” ☹️

Oak furniture land ads I find embarrassingly terrible. The acting and the “comedic sketches” (&prices) are terrible.

Also the double glazing ads “you buy one, you get one free! I say, you buy one you get the other absolutely free!” mindlessly brayed with no expression in the eyes (& wearing an olde worlde peasant/unusual outfit if I recall?)

Although I have a major soft spot for the long Advanced Hair Studio ads esp the one with Shane Warne and Graham Gooch seriously playing top trumps with a pack of cards with different hairstyles “I’ll see your crewcut and raise you a mullet” type thing 😂😂😂 bizarre and hilarious!

Oh yeah, the 'bothersome vagina' one? WTF is that about? I find it so repulsive and offensive, but I don't know why LOL!.. Maybe because it's so annoying - and like, 'what if some women WANT their vagina to be dry you silly moo?!'

Oooh, and another thing that annoys me, is where they advertise stuff for 'over 55's' (like funeral plans!) and play 'cornet music' from the 1920's, like that's what people in their mid 50's are listening to.

Most people I know around 50-57-ish are listening to Taylor Swift, Little Mix, George Ezra, The 1975, Dua Lipa, Coldplay, Drake, Justin Bieber, Jorja Smith, and even some George Michael and Duran Duran and David Bowie stuff from the 1980's and 1990's (amongst other 1980's and 1990's stuff,) as it's the music they enjoyed when they were in their teens, and 20's. They most certainly NEVER listen to music from the frigging 1920's and 1930's. So rude and condescending.

Who the fuck makes these ads?! Is it 23 y.o. media students or something? The sort who thinks anyone over 40 is 'past it?' Probably the same kind of CF we encountered in PC World who asked my husband several years ago (when he was 43) if he had ever used the internet.

I said, 'the generation before us, INVENTED the internet ! YES we have used the internet!'