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...

The “I make lots of little noises when I look after ...whatever the child’s name is”. Literally creeping me out as I write it. Yuck.What “ little noises“, whimpering, simpering ? Grim,.

Yuck.What “ little noises“, whimpering, simpering ?

Let's just say that she gets through a lot of those little washing tabs

I watch stuff like Midsomer Murders when I've nothing better to do in the afternoons and am fed up of being bombarded with funeral plans, equity release, disability aids, walk in baths and meal deliveries. Not all over 50s need this stuff. SO depressing. Fuck the fuck right off whoever decided which adverts are suitable in each slot.

The selfish bastard ones. Yes you Peloton with the selfish woman using her bike at dawn in the bedroom while her partner is still in bed. And the one with the spoilt madam kicking her ball in the garden at 4am. What does the mum do? Tell her towt to bed before she wakes the entire street? No. She puts the garden lights on for her

And don't get me started on those adverts where the voiceover person talks faster and faster as the ad goes on, so much so that you can barely understand what they're saying by the end...........JUST WHY?

The over-50s funeral ones I sort of get (seriously, though: 50?), but there are far more general life insurance ones on in the daytime, when you'd be expecting a large proportion of the viewers to be older, retired and have no financial dependents and their mortgages paid off. Maybe they're hoping to attract SAHPs, but they hardly ever advertise them in the evening when far more people with juvenile children will be at home and watching.

If they can get you to start paying at 50 they get more of your money.

Haribo

If they can get you to start paying at 50 they get more of your money.

Oh, yes, they aren't stupid - they don't want you to only start paying a few years before you're likely to be claiming.

One other thing I've always wondered with those policies is where they say it will become void, with all premiums already paid lost, if you don't keep up with your payments or stop paying. I wonder how many much older folk whose time to claim will be approaching will be in and out of hospital, forgetful, maybe start to suffer from dementia etc. - or even just in the last few weeks before death if you start to go downhill - and miss payments - especially as the most elderly are the least likely to trust direct debits. It may be that they contact you and do everything they can to give you the chance to catch up with missed premiums, unless you deliberately wanted to stop the policy; but it strikes me that they could make an absolute fortune from that clause and refuse thousands of claims at the stroke of a pen on the strength of it, having received decades of premium payments.

I hate the Haribo ones too. Why didn't they just get children to dress up as police officers or office workers and use their own voices, instead of using the kids' voices but having adult actors? That could have worked well, and conveyed the 'kids AND adults love them' slogan instead of just being really creepy.

BBC not ads obviously but endless trailers on TV and radio for their upcoming shows

Including, sometimes, the programme that you've just turned on ready to watch that is about to start, but which is delayed in starting because they're showing an extended trailer for it....

@butterpuffed

ALL the Nationwide ones

this, except the yoga man for some reason i like it (cos its true)

The xmas ads have officially started then. Just saw the Very one which had an annoying woman who keeps looking at the camera like 'look at how hilarious I am!' It's pretty arse clenching.

And the animated carrot one. That was generic. Can't remember if it's for Aldi or Lidl.

Re carrot ad, ny daughter sent me this

@Elderflower14

The part that annoys me in the Go Compare advert is "I absolutely love this bit!" 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔 Nothing like blowing your own trumpet!!!

He's not even a particularly good singer.

All tena adverts but particularly the new one "I've got a secret weapon down my pants"

How mortifying for the woman actors

the best Over 50 Life Plan is the one where they give you the incentive of a staggering 10% of your first year’s payments as a ‘cash back’ reward.

at £7.50 a month that’s a mind-blowing £9. NINE WHOLE POUNDS GET PACKING WE’RE OFF TO THE MALDIVES!!

Anything with awful crappy poetry in it - especially the free slice of cake, the tasteless KFC what the cluck ones and the new Sainsbury’s ad? With the awful Mary Poppins style chanting about food stuffs and cooking . Oh Christ I have to turn that off as soon as it starts.

The Go Compare man is an irritating fuck

The overacting lad for heart foundation or something. Lots of waving around if arms

All the ads to camera Covid styler with twee rhymes. Also lots of overacting

Any over emotional charity ads

And the one with the spoilt madam kicking her ball in the garden at 4am. What does the mum do? Tell her towt to bed before she wakes the entire street? No. She puts the garden lights on for her hmm

Oh this!! I’d be aiming the hose at the selfish moo

Nationwide

Go compare

There's probably a shit ton more of them as well but my brain is fried at the moment

@MrsZola thank you I knew there was another one!!

Squeaky surf bird
Bang on the wall zoopla advert

Dh hates the perfume ad where she jumps off a pier but only because I join in the chorus..loudly!