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To get the rage with some TV adverts

209 replies

Monty27 · 25/03/2019 22:53

Flash aaahhaa with the man and labradoodle dog or whatever it is
And AA with the toddler girl rocking it in the back of the car
I expect a lot of people love them.
Anyone else?

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DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops · 26/03/2019 09:33

Jennifer Lawrence having a swim has the bonus effect of making me feel shit about myself. Sad

Glad to see we all hate the same ones.

Whatsnewpussyhat · 26/03/2019 09:33

look at me dancing you can't see my piss pad
😂😂😂

The Idris Elba singing one is very creepy

Johnny Depp Sauvage ad. WTF is that about.

Hate the Clooney one where everyone says, "Really George?"

This is why I rarely watch live tv now.

peppersaunt · 26/03/2019 09:37

Also, if I worked airport security I’d definitely pull that idiot in the ridiculous costume over for a “random” search. Hope her incontinence pad is extra-pretty 😁

Still18atheart · 26/03/2019 09:44

Anna Ryder Richardson flogging conservatories and agree Janny eclair using Vagisil sorting out her bothersome vag

ThanksForAllTheFish · 26/03/2019 09:48

sashh he’s quite funny isn’t he. Traumatised by trains and/or drink driving though! Grin

MrsJayy · 26/03/2019 09:51

Adverts aimed at womens personal hygene is really insultng isn't it ? You don't get groups of men in Ads talking about their hard poop or dancing about in their piss pants Angry

MrsJayy · 26/03/2019 09:52

Hygene/health.

MindatWork · 26/03/2019 09:53

There’s a terrible one for low calorie ice cream at the moment - can’t remember the name but it has all the worst cliches around food being ‘naughty’ and women being silly little creatures that men have to put up with 😒.

A man walks in on his wife having dressed up the cat in an hilarious outfit and rolls his eyes - the slogan is something along the lines of ‘you’ll have to find new ways to be naughty’.

🤮

sashh · 26/03/2019 09:53

ThanksForAllTheFish

I want to see his reaction to, 'I am the spirit of dark and lonely water', I mean 'apaches' almost killed him.

MrsJayy · 26/03/2019 09:57

I saw that ice cream one yesterday but she dressed up a boxer dog in that one. My eyes nearly rolled out of my head!

Xenia · 26/03/2019 10:01

I remember when menstruation products could not be shown on TV. It was quite a big change when suddenly they could.

On ads - there are loads that are really irritating. In fact I turn down the sound for a lot of them particularly where anyone says haitch and also if anyone drops a T. So advertisers do note - some of us are put off by certain things.

MindatWork · 26/03/2019 10:02

@mrsjayy aah I think it was a dog actually, you’ve jogged my memory. It was so horrendous I tried to block it out 😪

MrsJayy · 26/03/2019 10:05

Mindatwork it is just that whole naughty food concept gets right on my wick.

MindatWork · 26/03/2019 10:06

Exactly - any company that advertises food as naughty or guilt
free can jog on as far as I’m concerned!

Halloumimuffin · 26/03/2019 10:09

Oh god I agree on so many OP, that dog singing WHEEEERE HAS ALL THE MUD GONE.

Those stupid Nationwide poems (especially the old one with the young people in the photo booth, who I wanted to slap).

The halifax ad on at the moment with the annoyingly twee guy and the Wizard of Oz - TELL ME TO DO THE SHOE CLICKY THING ONE MORE TIME I DARE YOU.

And I love her but my god, those Muller ads with Katerina Johnson Thompson's bad acting.

FATTT FREEEE??? NOO ADDDEDDD SUGGGARRR???

MrsJayy · 26/03/2019 10:13

The nationwide poems are never going to stop are they ?

Madmoggie · 26/03/2019 10:20

So sorry, but I love the Haribo adverts - genius! Sorry, sorry, sorry.....

Nicole whatsername and that bloody yoghurt on her nose aargh!

Meerkats!!!!

Disfordarkchocolate · 26/03/2019 10:23

You would have thought death threats would make Nationwide have a rethink of their advertising strategy. We mute every time and go and make some tea.

thismeansnothing · 26/03/2019 10:23

There's a Vax one ATM. Lady vaxs her (clean) looking cream carpet. Then takes out the full dirty water tank in room she's just cleaned. You just wouldn't it's just asking for leaking dirty water on your clean carpet. Then the perfect family with dog are sat playing on the floor and there are three tall vases on the floor in the background. When you have a dog and probably crawling baby? Really? Like they haven't been knocked over and smashed already.

DemelzaPoldarksshinerrefiner · 26/03/2019 10:24

I thought that a lot of TV ads. were terrible until I went to the cinema at the weekend. ALL unmitigated dross!

MrsJayy · 26/03/2019 10:28

That carpet is spotless isn't it there is no way that mucky water came out of it what a way to make people paranoid aboyt germs and dirt!

Mammatino · 26/03/2019 10:38

The one where the cartoon kid tries to sell his old nappies, by inviting the terrified shop keeper to "smell 'Em". What the actual fuck? Is it advertising peado catchers. The old people in the garden centre talking about what flowers their dead mate had at her funeral and secretly laughing up their sleeves because she hadn't remortgaged for her funeral plan. I bet they didn't send a wreath.

DeathyMcDeathStarFace · 26/03/2019 11:50

I hate most (if not all) adverts. They get muted, even the children do it now, or we record/pause the shows so we can fast forward through the ads.

The 'women are soft and strong' Always advert, shouldn't that be for Andrex and have some cute puppies in?

Even some tongue in cheek, poking fun at cliches adverts are only semi-good for the first watch or two, then lose their impact and become boring.

Bring back some of the old adverts, the Smash ones with the tin aliens, the PG Tips chimps, the "You've had your chips, your chips.", the Accrington Stanly "ain't milk brilliant" adverts. Now they were effective, I can still remember them many years later.

I know someone related to someone who had something to do with Mars bars adverts about 15 to 20 years ago. We'd been talking about the state of adverts then and asked the friend how on earth the ridiculous adverts get authorised for production. They said their relative didn't know and they didn't particularly want to be involved with the advert, but it was a job at the time. Needless to say, they left that job when a better offer came along.

Science9 · 26/03/2019 12:34

Bladder leak underwear that's actually PRETTY Hmm

norrismcwhirtersfridgemagnet · 26/03/2019 13:01

The one for formula where the baby boys grow up to climb mountains and be scientists and the girl grows up to be... a fucking ballerina.