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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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Oilyoilyoilgob · 25/02/2020 07:00

I’ve found my people! The one that nearly sets me on fire with rage is the always one with lace pants or something and she says ‘so I feel PROTACTED and pretty’ the way she says protEcted makes me want to burn my telly.

The eharmony ones where their voices are so badly dubbed over, and the way the dark hair guy grins at the end 😤

Jojoanna · 25/02/2020 07:02

The one for panties ,, where the woman holding a baby says I’m not going to let a little bit if wee stop me 😡
The little girl with the pound coin makes me smile

cortex10 · 25/02/2020 07:07

I usually record programmes and fast forward through the ads but when I do watch them I usually end up thinking : that person in the ad is stupid/foolish etc therefore only stupid/foolish people buy that product, so it's not for me. I thought the aim of ads was for potential customers to relate to the product?

walkingongreyclouds · 25/02/2020 07:15

Haven't RTFT so might have been said already. This is a radio advert:

Kids: Pancake day is flipping fun, pancake day is stellar. This day will be a yummy one...
Woman: ...'cause pancakes love Nutella!

Sh05 · 25/02/2020 07:18

the febreze one where the woman is spraying just about everything to get rid of odour. I always wonder why she doesn't just run a wash instead. I mean who sprays bedding?

Sooverthemill · 25/02/2020 07:20

Any of the ones that have what I assume are famous people but I dint know who they are. They Don't persuade me to buy perfume/car/ pizza. Also bloody meerkats and any gocompare ad and ads for TV

danmthatonestakentryanotheer · 25/02/2020 07:21

Did somebody say just eat?...No they didn't!!!

coconuttelegraph · 25/02/2020 07:22

The one that's grating on my nerves lately is on the radio. It's for 'Ring Doorbell'

I dont 'recognise the TV ones but I agree on this one, drives me mad and it's on all the time. Ring doorbells will not keep your children safe at night

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 25/02/2020 07:29

Not just because it’s stupid, but the insurance one with the Scandinavian actor when the play some Dick Dale surf guitar out of sync. It makes me feel ill.

ShinyMe · 25/02/2020 07:30

The house-barrassment one is bloody awful. How sodding RUDE are those Australian "friends" who announce they're visiting, and who looks inside their host's kitchen drawers just after getting off a round the world flight? And surely they'd have spotted the garden on the way in?

Teddy1970 · 25/02/2020 07:41

Tesco food loves and the stupid names they give the dishes " mum's angry pasta" or something like that...fuck off.

Rocketinapocket · 25/02/2020 07:56

Professor Green Ecover is the worst I’ve seen in a while.

belay · 25/02/2020 08:05

The horrible one where the woman is farting in a swimming pool. Bingo?

flopsytheflatcat · 25/02/2020 08:05

I agree with all of these but I LOVE Graham from the Rightmove ad!!!

NewYearNewTwatName · 25/02/2020 08:08

I saw one the other day, it might have been for a holiday company.

it was a mum with a preteen daughter and and 8ish year old boy. It showed the boy doing irritating pranks, whilst the mum and daughter smile on indulgently, at the end mum and daughter are playing pool and the boy comes along and knocks all the balls about table so they can't play, At which point mum grabs boys in a big hug laughing with daughter. Oh how they laugh! such fun! Confused

emilybrontescorsett · 25/02/2020 08:08

Vaginal dryness.
You don't put anything into it!
That advert should be banned.

beautifulstranger101 · 25/02/2020 08:12

Adverts for charity and appeals for money fronted by celebrities who are worth literally millions.
How dare they. Why dont THEY fund a well for a village?- they've got the money to be able to do that without even blinking an eye but no- they want a single mum on benefits to give just £2 a month instead. I just cant with their misty eyed hand wringing and camera gurning- when they've probably just arrived to film that ad via private jet.
I bet they even get paid for doing those adverts. Cheeky fckers.

FairNotFair · 25/02/2020 08:13

"Do you pod? Always pod safely"

leckford · 25/02/2020 08:13

That is why we record most programmes, we are quite good at whizzing through the adverts!

FlyingNorth · 25/02/2020 08:15

The BBC Weather ad about the sunbeam that's travelled across the universe especially for you - and the teenage son repeatedly flashes it in his dsd's eyes, while mum obviously disapproves but doesn't say anything.

FlyingNorth · 25/02/2020 08:15

dad's, not dsd's

Cupofteaa · 25/02/2020 08:16

Claudia bastard winkleman for head and shoulders.

ButterbuttSquash · 25/02/2020 08:17

Ugh, the boyfriend that mimics his cat’s stress signals in the Feliway (?) advert. Fucking ridiculous, makes me SO angry.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 25/02/2020 08:18

The painkiller one - Voltarol? - where the irritating woman says to her dog ‘Lets go exercise!’ - and the dog isn’t keen.

Who on earth (at least in the U.K.) says ‘Let’s go exercise?’ to a dog? Never mind the missing ‘and’ - instead of go for a walk, or just ‘walkies’?

As for the dog being reluctant...what sort of dog is that, unless very old or ill?

Ads like this, so obviously dubbed from American English or another language, only put me right off the product.

Greenpolkadot · 25/02/2020 08:18

The Dove one were semi clothed middle aged woman are staring coquetishly at the camera.. Cringing