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The new Asda ad

90 replies

Athenajm80 · 06/09/2020 23:19

Is it just me or does it sound like the guy says 'Fuck it up' at the end (apparently it's pocket tap)

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letmethinkaboutitfornow · 12/09/2020 21:26

Ok, I really don’t like this advert. Never been an Asda fan, but this ad certainly is not helping! 😔😔

I actually googled the ad as I had no clue what the mumbling was about 🤷🏻‍♀️ Apparently it says ‘Pocket tap’ or something. Terrible ad!

AnneTwackie · 12/09/2020 21:32

Definitely ‘fuck it up’ and a terrible advert.

Lockdownhairdontcare · 12/09/2020 21:58

Also he us wearing ‘pretty green’ branded clothing... hardly George @ Asda!

Allourboys · 15/09/2020 22:45

I hear ‘pocky tap’ and it’s fucking driving me up the wall. Never shopping at Asda. Ever.

BubblyBarbara · 15/09/2020 22:48

Looks like David Schneider as well

bookmum08 · 15/09/2020 22:53

I thought he was saying "botty tap".
It really is a bad advert.

Signifyingnothing · 15/09/2020 22:58

We're trying to figure out what comes after 'pocket tap". It sounded like " five times" after he'd only done it 3. Angry

JM10 · 15/09/2020 23:00

The more you listen to it, the more it sounds like fuck it up.

TheUnquestionedAnswer · 15/09/2020 23:03

I'm currently having to endure this ad several times a night as watching telly via I-player. It drives me crackers. On a par with we buy any car Angry

Alwaysinpain · 15/09/2020 23:06

Omg I hate this! What even is it that he says at the end? For our time? For old time? Of all time?

runningtogetskinny · 15/09/2020 23:07

I'm sure the actor was in an episode of Catastrophe where he's taking drugs with Dave and asks if 'there's another toilet, further away?' And yes, awful advert!

stovetopespresso · 15/09/2020 23:26

I quite like it! like the way he casually reflects a multicultural england? although is it patronising?

nocoolnamesleft · 15/09/2020 23:30

Just seen it. It certainly sounded like fuck it up.

Butterer · 15/09/2020 23:33

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tobee · 16/09/2020 00:34

Can't stand it! His demeanour is the definition of "in yer face!"

(At least it's not the Born to be Wild sung in a simpering breathy voice advert Angry

ChristmasSnowball · 16/09/2020 00:40

This advert drives me insane..... I dont know why but i hate it

Tinacollada · 16/09/2020 00:56

I don't think I've ever been so uncomfortable watching an advert.

They've made him sound exceptionally thick. "Just mekkin and advert!" 😖

It's just bloody wrong

TwoZeroTwoZero · 16/09/2020 01:01

I bloody hate that advert and pause it every time it comes on so that it's finished when I make the tv catch up with itself. I do that for a lot of ads though, especially all those with the shit, far too slow, breathy renditions of what were OK songs.

Mutunus · 16/09/2020 01:13

Like a TheUnquestionedAnswer I'm having to watch it over and over again on All4 whilst bingeing on ER. Add in the Starbucks and Colgate commercials and I'm ready to commit murder by bedtime.

Noti23 · 16/09/2020 01:23

I was actually going to create a post about this advert in a rage!

I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. Shut up you weird man with equally strange child. Stop your repetitive torture.

It’s worse than that Squares advert where the teenage boy dances as a square as high as a kite while the nauseating mother smirks in approval.

Or that hideous “Strings and things” one where everything gets as intense as Willy Wonka’s boat ride.

Noti23 · 16/09/2020 01:26

Or that stupid Oral-B woman who “didn’t even know” they did a toothpaste. Stupid woman.

VanGoghsDog · 16/09/2020 01:29

It's awful but surely nothing is as bad as "perf with Surf"!?

mylittleyumyum · 16/09/2020 01:52

This has got to to be the worst ad on tv. It actually angers me. What were they thinking?

SophieGiroux · 16/09/2020 09:37

When I went on holiday to Turkey once, the men in the shop would shout out "come on in, buy something, lovely jubbly, Asda price!" Grin

DeliciouslyFemale · 16/09/2020 10:10

@VanGoghsDog

It's awful but surely nothing is as bad as "perf with Surf"!?
Oh lord, that’s so shit! It’s as if there’s a bunch of middle classed, middle aged advertisers, sitting around a desk and wondering how to appeal to the ‘thick working classes‘. They’re probably patting each other on the back because they’ve made an advert that ‘connects’ with the common people, especially the silly little women. Their scented stuff is rank, anyway.