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Stupid adverts- I'll start...

479 replies

BitOfFun · 24/02/2020 22:42

That Alexa one where the mother lets her teenage daughter repeatedly thump a football against the wall, lit by the thousand suns of her security lamps at 04.40 in the dead of night.

The neighbours must be getting up a petition.

I don't think I am being unreasonable. Which adverts grind your gears?

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GabsAlot · 25/02/2020 00:26

The fucking postcode lottery dont get me started does anyone know anyone whose had them down their street

Papergirl1968 · 25/02/2020 00:28

Can’t believe no one has mentioned the M&S one where three women do a weird dance in a field or on a cliff top or something.

BitOfFun · 25/02/2020 00:29

PickleMyPepper, I said the same thing to DH earlier. Love her Grin.

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SheChoseDown · 25/02/2020 00:33

"I've got my heart got my hair got my freedom got my pear, got my blahhhhhhh". Maybe a yogurt ad or some margarine

SheChoseDown · 25/02/2020 00:39

I'm gonna knock..... On wood.

Bella2020 · 25/02/2020 00:40

Oh gawd, that awful Zoopla ad, where couple have finally bought their own flat so are no longer living with his parents and can have wild, wall shaking and picture disloding sex. Tacky.

salsmum · 25/02/2020 00:47

Go compare! Eeeeekkkk

ALongHardWinter · 25/02/2020 00:52

The one that's grating on my nerves lately is on the radio. It's for 'Ring Doorbell'. The blokes voice just irritates the shit out of me. 'My name's Luke and I live in Dunsable (Dunstable) with my wife and 4 dorherz (daughters). And it goes on for so long! I have to mute the sound on the radio every time it comes on,which is like every bloody ad break.

Mollypolly2610 · 25/02/2020 01:07

I LOVE the wee girls face in the Amazon ad where her dad comes home with his skipping ropes, blends a green drink and offers it to them. Her face is a picture!!

Can’t think of any others I watch though

Rosehip10 · 25/02/2020 01:08

That vulgar women in the deliveroo ad "No carbs before marbs hey!". Fuck off.

ChicChicChicChiclana · 25/02/2020 02:18

The Oral B ones. "But how do I keep my mouth healthy?" FFS!!

Also, sorry to say, but I object to the emotive charity ads on TV.

AngeloMysterioso · 25/02/2020 02:26

The Oral B woman also appears to have stocked her fridge with nothing but peppers

Zebracat · 25/02/2020 02:53

I love the Nationwide poetry. That Alexa though. Kill them!

tobee · 25/02/2020 03:43

"Ok Peloton! How are we today?" - just fuck the fuck off!!!!

Talking lips digitised on babies - no! Creepy af.

The girl with the £1 coin from the trolley is great though!

LadyOfTheCanyon · 25/02/2020 04:19

Professor Green sitting on a washing machine. What the actual...?

Ohtherewearethen · 25/02/2020 04:20

I really, really hate the, "I feel as clean as an octopus on a tightrope" ones for loo roll. I can't believe they think it's a good ad campaign or that they've stuck with it for so long. I can't believe parents let their kids take part in them.
There's another one for some baby product, I forget what it is, maybe formula, and the way she says "bay-biz" annoys me every time.

BelfastNonBlonde · 25/02/2020 04:34

ANY and EVERY perfume advert

WindFlower92 · 25/02/2020 05:03

The subway one where the car crashes into the building. Always used to wake DD no matter what volume the the was! Same for super noodles with that stupid screaming donkey.

Bl3ss3dm0m · 25/02/2020 06:07

Can I just ask (very light heartedly, but still sincerely) why do so many of you still watch live TV, or am I the one who is strange? We have a recording box, which can record 2 channels at once, and watch nearly everything when it suits us, but the best bit is probably being able to whizz through the adverts!
Having said that I did catch that stupid Virgin media ad which has the seal in it, and just cannot understand the relevance of it!

Bl3ss3dm0m · 25/02/2020 06:09

Showing my age here, but I did used to love the "shake and vac" add, it was so awful, but I did used to vacuum singing that blasted song!

yorkshireteaspoonie · 25/02/2020 06:12

@Corrag yes!! The oral B woman gives we actual rage she's so patronising!!!

yorkshireteaspoonie · 25/02/2020 06:14

@HazelBite yes! Bloody sunlife, if I've got the TV on during my mid week day off I am plagued by 'its June dad!' 😩😩

sashh · 25/02/2020 06:30

”The one where the woman comes home at 3am and puts her music on full blast because she doesnt live with her parents anymore. Selfish twat“

Maybe she lives next door to the family with the football playing daughter, who social services should really visit because at 3am or whatever time a child should be in bed no out alone.

One for some eye mist stuff which is 'pacifically made for', gives me the rage. I think they have pulled it.

The ones that annoy me most are the ones on youtube where there might be a product you thin, "I'd like to have a look at that" but it doesn't tell you what it is until 1 millisecond before the end. So not only do you have to watch the entire thing, blink and you are no wiser.

It's Youtube, people don't want to watch the ads, put the name of the product up first so I can see what it is before I press 'skip'.

recrudescence · 25/02/2020 06:41

There is a Ring doorbell one where, thanks to this incredible invention, a woman is able to tell the delivery guy to leave her parcel with a neighbour. Fuck me if that isn’t a game changer.

SirTobyBelch · 25/02/2020 06:47

Can I add the Voltaire one

There are adverts for 18th-century French philosophers? Wow! What channel?

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