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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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Gobbycop · 25/02/2020 10:52

The flash one where the ridiculous bloke overacts his amazement at the product.
Probably his first acting job.
I'd like to punch both him and the dog in the face.

Also the postcode lottery.

The only thing that gets me through that one is changing the words and singing "some c*s knocking on my door, some fu**ers ringing my bell"
Obviously not when anyone but me is present.

TellMeItsNotTrue · 25/02/2020 10:57

Clear score, or as they say it, cleesco - to rhyme with tesco! It does my head in, its not about accent, it's that they run the two words together as well, it wouldn't bother me as much if it was clear sco' because of accent

Also "Did somebody say just eat?" gets us all shouting "no!" at the TV, though it doesn't bug me it's just become a family thing

ButterbuttSquash · 25/02/2020 11:06

And the tena lady one with the new mum who’s back in her pre-preg jeans. I mean, sure, she’s got no pelvic floor muscle left... but urgh.

But that’s just because I’m jealous.

Bleublue · 25/02/2020 11:06

I like the rightmove advert...

🎼Hold on, I’m comin’....

Bleublue · 25/02/2020 11:08

The only thing that gets me through that one is changing the words and singing "some c*s knocking on my door, some fuers ringing my bell"
Obviously not when anyone but me is present.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

QuiteTiredOut · 25/02/2020 11:08

The ones where someone is lying on a beach and the gravelly voice over is taking about all the shit things that have just happened at home but they don’t care because they’re on a beach on holiday.

I cannot stand the voice!! And they play those adverts at least twice in an ad break!

LittleSweet · 25/02/2020 11:12

The denture advert with the woman in the mouth actually has the word 'dramatisation' written in white, just in case we thought the tiny woman was real!
I think June is being stalked by the man. That's what the binoculars were for.
The pee pants really annoy me, go to the doctor!
The trivago advert, the smug woman may be paying more because she has a junior suite and the tivago woman has a double.

FoulMouthedMotherFigure · 25/02/2020 11:18

"You know, I really shouldn't be here. Six months ago I was out jogging and I was attacked by a wolf..."

Except because of the bloody woman's accent, she was attacked by a WOOF.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 25/02/2020 11:23

@Hairwizard - I may be showing my age here, but I think the hippy bloke from the viagra ads looks like the illustrations from the Joy of Sex book! And I always wonder how his wife gets downstairs so quickly - if I remember it right, she's upstairs with him, then he shimmies downstairs and, lo and behold, there she is. Does she have to come down the back stairs?

annamie · 25/02/2020 11:32

The payday loan one where the mum tells her teenage son he’s just going to have to smell today whilst she sorts the boiler. I don’t know why it annoyed me, what she said is perfectly reasonable.

Oliversmumsarmy · 25/02/2020 11:36

I will never do the postcode lottery.

I don’t want a film crew knocking on my door and filming my reaction

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 25/02/2020 11:36

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

@SirTobyBelch - on my iPad, Voltarol autocorrects to Voltaire. Tres cultured.

I do agree with @Bl3ss3dm0m - recording programmes and fast-forwarding through the ads is the way to go - but I do occasionally find myself watching TV in real time - and sadly we can't afford the Sky package that lets you wind time itself forward!

bananamonkey · 25/02/2020 11:40

@QuiteTiredOut pretty sure that’s Iggy Pop’s voice

I might start using those alternative lyrics for the Postcode Lottery 😂

thecatsthecats · 25/02/2020 11:44

Trivago one and the recycled phone one both piss me off in a very specific way.

A wealthy woman who habitually stays in 4* hotels does not brag about the cost to a random bystander.

The snotty girl who gets mad at her mum because the "poor" girl got a cheap second hand phone would not be jealous of a second hand phone.

Both are premised on the idea that spoilt rich people are actively jealous of people with less money who have to look for deals.

(I say that as someone who is typing on a second hand phone!)

IronShame · 25/02/2020 11:46

I don’t want a film crew knocking on my door and filming my reaction

My family won it recently. You don't have to be filmed. Those people already know that they've won. Family member didn't want to be and just got the big cheque in the post, no filming.

BitOfFun · 25/02/2020 11:47

Oh, I've thought of another one- the slender and fully healthy youngish woman who luxuriates in the specially adapted bath/shower for the elderly and infirm. Then she practically skips off, no doubt headed for her extreme peloton class.

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DontCallMeShitley · 25/02/2020 11:59

@Corrag

Take an actor in her 40s and stick her in a pair of beige slacks, that'll fool them.

And some flat beige shoes that only old people with huge bunions would wear.

GabsAlot · 25/02/2020 12:05

Oh yes anna the boiler one you'll jsut have to smell

anyone heard of a wipe down wash or whatever anyone calls it

FizzyGreenWater · 25/02/2020 12:07

'But how do you keep your mouth healthy?'

You brush your teeth, love. That's really it.

Oliversmumsarmy · 25/02/2020 12:09

IronShame

Well done your family member.

My family always laugh at that advert as they know if Mummy won it I would grab the cheque followed by a firm F.Off and a door slammed in their face.

I don’t even like my picture taken

FizzyGreenWater · 25/02/2020 12:09

But, there are also excellent ones of course.

'DAVE! THAT GREASE
IS GOING NOWHERE!

FLASH! A-HAAA
CLEANS UP THE IMPOSSIBLE!

My youngest tends to sing it every now and again but as:

FLASH! A-HAA! THEY LOVED THE IMPOSSIBLE!

which I think is really quite poignant.

Ramalamalama · 25/02/2020 12:12

The QuickQuid one with the creepy man doing terrible over acting - "quick, quick, think!" And then his "aha!" face. I hate it so much.

The plusnet one where the professional yorkshireman is singing true colours in a pub to his girlfriend. CRINGE.

DazedandConcerned · 25/02/2020 12:14

The Celebrity Cruises advert with White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane. I understand the point of the advert, falling into a magical Wonderland-esque world on a Celebrity Cruise. But I get the rage...

IT'S A SONG ABOUT DRUG USE!!!

DH just shakes his head at me. Also pisses me off because the song gets stuck in my damn head. Only upside is it reminds me of the Nixon parody in Futurama.

IronShame · 25/02/2020 12:16

They didn't win a massive amount to be fair so perhaps it's different for those who win hundreds of thousands but they were definitely told they'd won and asked if they could be filmed first.

I'd have said no too! Give me my money and bugger off Grin

ZagZig · 25/02/2020 12:16

I havent rtft but the asda one, where the majority of the ad us unrelated to the product ffs. Stuck in the mud....trying to sell vegan food....what