Most hated adverts

[StillCoughingandLaughing]

I know we’ve had this thread before, but there’s a barrel-load of infuriatingly shit advertising out there, so I think it’s time for another one

Your starters for ten:

McDonald’s - boy gets his mum’s old car for his birthday. Looks at it like she iced his birthday cake in shit. Eventually decides free car isn’t so bad, blasts out a bit of Westlife and then presents her with a cold box of nuggets - paid for with the change SHE left in the car. Yeah, thanks mum - here’s some cheap fast food YOU paid for! Not even a bloody McFlurry for afters!

Phillips shavers/depilators etc., where everything is a badly-written little poem. ‘If shaving is boring and you can’t be arsed, Phillips hyperblade precision technology will remove stubble fast’.

The new Asda campaign. I know Walmart is selling Asda off, so it’s not a priority brand, but surely they could have afforded more than 46p on the ad budget? Although I think the agency got change.

Go Compare man has a chat with his real-life self. Why do we need a promo for his opera ‘career’ when they’re trying to flog insurance?

I know I’ll think of more...

Money Supermaaaaaaarket, I have to fast forward it annoys the hell out of me.

The Wickes kitchen one where their Aussie mate wants a virtual tour of the entire house. ‘Ahhh yiiiih, I betcha gotta bonza kitchen, yiiih? Can I see yer gaaaaaarden?’ No, you can fuck off you nosy arse-faced twat!

I thought the Meerkats were brilliant at first but it’s gone on way too long. I actually can’t think off the top of my head which insurance company they’re advertising!

And The Wickes one where the son is online, wanting to see the kitchen his Dad has supposedly put in himself. The son looks about the same age as his Mum for starters! And would he really have such a strong Aussie accent? The whole thing is really irritating!

Jonny Depp for Eau Sauvage. Someone in Manchester changed the V on the billboard to an S. Why is he digging with a Bison stood there. He looks like Cpt Jack Sparrow but in the desert. So much kohl.

Nationwide adverts with weird poems. No, don't get it. Btw, Nationwide have been truly awful locally as well. Only allow one customer per branch so you queue outside in the wet for 45 mins if you have the temerity to have a passbook account. Apparently they are trying to "educate" their customers.

@EternalOptimist7

And The Wickes one where the son is online, wanting to see the kitchen his Dad has supposedly put in himself. The son looks about the same age as his Mum for starters! And would he really have such a strong Aussie accent? The whole thing is really irritating!

I thought it was the wife's brother!

McCain's seem to have gone all woke, sentimental and lifestyle now, telling us how we're all feeling, how we're all struggling in these current times (like we didn't realise) - and how we can all pull together and find common ground by simply buying their chips that cost a lot more than the own-brand ones but don't (IMHO) taste anywhere near as good.

In general, any advert that doesn't respect me and my money enough to give a single reason as to WHY I should buy their product - function, quality, practical applications, how it will make my life better or easier - and just act like the candidates on The Apprentice, making it explicitly clear that the only reason they have to offer me why I should buy it is because they want to sell it - I assume that they've got nothing and treat it that they've spent money on an advert for the specific purpose of admitting to me that I shouldn't waste my money on it; they're actually trying to do me a favour!

@PercyKirke

The Grammarly ones on YouTube. Piss me off something rotten!

Oh they annoy me so much. For starters, Grammarly is a majorly shit product. It corrects stuff that's not even wrong and it messes up my MS Word, reverting it back to US English all the time. Also, why are these people applying for content writing jobs if they can't even put together a simple covering letter? I work as a writer and editor and it gets on my tits.

Hotter shoes adverts are haunting me too now. Behold, this young, hip brand that's for women of all ages.

McCain's seem to have gone all woke, sentimental and lifestyle now, telling us how we're all feeling, how we're all struggling in these current times (like we didn't realise) - and how we can all pull together and find common ground by simply buying their chips that cost a lot more than the own-brand ones but don't (IMHO) taste anywhere near as good.

I also find it weird that they picked Ricky Tomlinson to voice a campaign they was all ‘Love doesn’t care about gender or race’. All I can hear is Jim Royle saying ‘Gender fluidity my arse’.

I don't see many ads as I don't have live tv. Mainly watch Netflix and Prime.
But I'm watching West Wing on All 4 where you're a captive audience for adverts - no way of skipping them. Which I don't mind as they have to get their money somewhere, but do they have to repeat the same batch of adverts in each break? It gets SOOO tedious when you're binge watching box sets.

I also find it weird that they picked Ricky Tomlinson to voice a campaign they was all ‘Love doesn’t care about gender or race’. All I can hear is Jim Royle saying ‘Gender fluidity my arse’.

Yes!!!

Think it's a Bisto ad where a very ginny voiced woman talks about all the family sitting together and every tablet and phone "gerrrs orff"...teeth on edge every time..

Haha. The Wickes advert. Makes you want to smash the Son's porcelain teeth in

@Toomuchtooyoung01

There's an advert I keep seeing for a company called Studio.co.uk and the women's voiceover irritates the shit out of me. She sounds so disingenuous as she pretends to marvel at the inflatable Christmas decorations, I don't know why but it really grates on me

I think that woman narrates Dinner Date aswell and turns it into a load of awful poetry. Sick of the same bloody voices on ads too. Martin Clunes and his fish finger butty

Years ago, there was a Jamie Oliver Christmas advert where he goes up to Scotland to a salmon farm. He wants to try the salmon and the woman says "We'll have some later with a drink" (in a neutral voice). Well, my mum went fucking crackers every time it came on. "Why's she talking to him like that? Jesus! She's so rude! I can't stick her" (and then imitated the voice). It ruined Christmas. And "we'll have some later with a drink" in a Scottish accent became a family catchphrase.

Any over 50s life plan ad. Where they are all DELIGHTED to be considering their impending death but... Leaving a cash gift for loved one.

I think it's one of the bingo ones, where she plays the guitar with her feet, I don't know why but it really creeps me out...
Wowcher ones
Carol vorderman and Philip schofield ones
Ryan bingo ones
Get em up there girls
Didn't realise how many there were and I'm pretty sure there's plenty more

Meant the rylan bingo ones🤦🏻‍♀️

@Mondaymanic

Any over 50s life plan ad. Where they are all DELIGHTED to be considering their impending death but... Leaving a cash gift for loved one.

Stuff that for a game of soldiers. People of 50 have to work for another 18 years before they can retire, and the average age at which women die these days is over 80. I'm not going to start paying into some plan that I'm not even going to benefit from.

And what they don't tell you in the small print is that you have to carry on paying premiums forever until you die, and if you live a long life, then you will pay in far more than the sum assured.

And the other thing they don't always make clear is that if you stop paying the premiums for any reason other than actually dying, then you lose the whole lot.

Like most people I stream so manage to avoid adverts (although More 4 allows me to clean the house in 5 minute bursts). However at the beginning of lockdown there were loads of adds about us all being in it together and these massive companies being there for us bollocks.
Also the NSPCC ones. As a CP social worker of many years, stop spending all your money on adverts. Any call to the NSPCC just gets passed on to the local safeguarding team and to be honest seems to be the 'disgruntled neighbour hotline'.

The crunchy nut cornflakes one with the guy pouring a bowl. A woman, think she’s a colleague marches over, completely invades his personal space and plunges her hand into the bowl, takes a massive handful, eats one right in his face and walks off.

The over 50s ones drives me nuts, it's as if you're finished once you hit 50.

Arghhh - the Phillips one with the atrocious poetry.

Another thing about the over 50s ad is they're trying to lump everyone in with pensioners, Nowhere near to needing a zimmerframe thanks, I still run 4 times a week, fuck off! Can you tell it annoys me?!