...or do some adverts simply make no sense?!

[WinifredTorrance]

Inspired by watching (another) Sunlife Over 50 Plan advert. Alan Titchmarsh is faffing with his roses then he sits, patronises the camera then pours a coffee. It starts to rain. He grabs his jacket off the back of a chair then heads off camera. He leaves his coffee and cafetière on the table. Who would do that? Does he only have the use of one arm? Don’t leave your coffee, Alan!

What other adverts make you go ?

The ones advertising stair lifts where a really healthy person with no mobility problems is shown using it independently. Stupid. Also, there used to be a really annoying one shown in the afternoon for over 50's life insurance. The couple were twittering away about holidays and their minor health issues and then the woman says"Me? I'm going to Venice with the girls". Ooh, it's so irritating!

All perfume ads.

Who cares what Keira Knightly smells like while she's wafting about being a absolute cow to some bloke? How am I supposed to be able to tell what the perfume smells like? Show me flowers or dark chocolate or the sea or something and let me guess, but don't bother showing me some woman on a motorbike, or walking out of the bath, because then I just assume it smells of motor oil or wet people.

I HATE the postcode lottery adverts. They are toe curlingly cringeworthy.

Haha @Zaphodsotherhead yes you’re so right! Like the Johnny Depp one - maybe we’re supposed to think it’s manly.

“Who’s that knocking at the door? Who’s that ringing the bell...oops we left our friend behind in a coffee shop and only just realised...”

I can't think of any straight away but there have been plenty of adverts I see when watching TV and I think who the F sat in a meeting and came up with this idea lmfao

I agree with all of the above but the one that makes my toes actually curl is the, "I feel as clean as an octopus in a hot air balloon" ones for toilet paper. They are just...I can't even find a word for them. Wrong. They are wrong.

What Zaphod said. Why would anyone buy a fragrance just because someone famous is in the advert. Bonkers.

The ASDA Christmas one that’s out now - lovely advert, lovely sentiment, but has bugger all to do with food shopping and if they’d not put ‘ASDA’ at the end I’d have never made the link between the two!

eharmony: All those super-fit and gorgeous blokes and blokesses and we're supposed to believe,

(i) They're all involuntarily single, and
(ii) We're in with a chance

Oral B, she makes such a fuss about keeping her mouth healthy and that she didn't know they made a toothpaste, but she doesn't use toothpaste when cleaning her teeth!

There's an over 50s where the woman explains that she found love later in life. But he died. Then rather than as you would expect her explaining how sad she was, she spends the rest of the advert complaining that she had to spend thousands on his funeral. Rather callous.

There's a radio one currently for Vauxhall - for a winter check for your car. The spiel to set it up is about going out to your car one morning and it won't start because the battery's flat, and wouldn't it be better if someone had checked it over for you. Then the ad goes on to say that their mechanics will do a 29 point VISUAL check. A visual check will spot a flat battery how, exactly?? Minor in the grand scheme of things, but it gives me the rage

Errh i imagine the Johnny Depp one smells of old dirt and ancient pirates.

Not for my dh... no .

@Zaphodsotherhead Completely agree. I hate perfume adverts that are really dark and dingy because it always makes me think the perfume is really 'heavy' smelling. Similarly, those ones set with people all in evening finery. I just think the whole situation looks like it smells of red wine, canapes, and the intermingling of loads of people's perfume/aftershave/hairspray. Really puts me off

There's a new Issey Miyake perfume advert with loads of bottles of perfume frollicking about in snow and that's much nicer. Makes me think the perfumes are all light and airy and smell of white and blue.

The M&S Christmas ad. All that shrugging - why?!

Please can we take a few seconds to appreciate beauty

I mean the whole situation of lazing around in a silk nightie caressing yoghurt makes no sense but mainly, why the fuck does the pronounce it like that?

Oh yes, the funeral ones! Where they tell you that a funeral costs X amount, and put the list up on the screen and it includes things that most people wouldn't NEED to pay, like accommodation for relatives, and always adds in an enormous sum for catering, when you could just do it yourself with a plate of tuna sandwiches and a packet of Jammie Dodgers.

But they make it look like a fixed cost...

The 'little wall crawler' ad on the radio.

WTF??

@LittleSweet I agree about toothpaste ads, they put their brushes under water and start scrubbing, but they never seem to have toothpaste in their mouths.

The one where Carol Vorderman casually strolls past some old couples house wearing a welders helmet and holding a chainsaw. "Hello Carol" like this is the most normal thing in the world. Then she starts maniacally destroying their garden with the chainsaw.

Most car and perfume adverts adverts baffle me. The pretention of them!
Bring back the Shake 'n' Vac lady.

The antibiotics one. It appears to say don't choose them as you might not need them, you need to listen to your doctor. Surely
Doctors are the ones prescribing them. So you don't chose them. It GIVES ME THE RAGE.

WeBuyAnyCar.com - Philips Schofield says ‘if you were buying a lovely new silk robe, you wouldn’t trade in your scruffy old dressing gown would you, so why trade in when buying a new car?’.

It drives me crazy. I have to reply ‘yes, yes I would trade in my dressing gown if I no longer needed it and someone offered me money for it! The only reason I wouldn't is that nobody would give me anything for it. Unlike when I’m buying a car, where I have this great option of trading in our old model!

Stupid bloody advert makes me rage.

There’s one for insurance for funeral expenses where one silly old sod comes round with about 14lbs of parsnips for his gushing little
And Ian Botham as part of the con trick for the Revivitive machine that’s supposed to improve poor circulation . Just twiddling your feet in circles or moving them up and down or shuffling about would do as much good .

Any advertisement for mobility type stuff, special beds, mobility scooters, stair lifts etc.

No one ever looks like they're in need of such assistance. Without fail they're upright, spritely, young(ish) and, in an more mature way, attractive.

I'm not saying such people don't need these aids, but why do they always have to look as if they could run a half marathon given half a chance.