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...

I agree with most of these but would like to add the ads for carpet cleaner that have the Tour de France coming through someone's living room and a bizarrely aggressive voiceover crapping on about protecting carpets, as if carpets are the crown jewels or something.

That very overwrought ad for cars with the lesbian couple who met as exchange students makes me roll my eyes as well. It's so bloody histrionic.

Lindor, with the woman with big rubbery lips sucking on a chocolate.

I suppose it's meant to be sensual, but her balloon lips give me the shudders.

@sst1234

All the nonsense ones where they are trying to be soppy and sentimental as though it’s a public service. Namely nationwide and Lloyds. We want good service and competitive prices from businesses, not this sentimental bullshit about being by your side.

The Lloyds TSB mental health one pissed me off so much. They hounded me with calls when I was slightly overdrawn years ago, despite the fact I had severe mental health issues at the time and had offered to pay them back the small amount that I could. They are the least understanding bank I've ever dealt with.

nevermorelenore

I’d forgotten about those bastard ones. The minute I see the m of Magnumi switch over until it is done.

I will never buy feckin magnums because of it. So there.

Likewise Pringles. Get it up ye. 😡

That radio advert where some man witters on about how the children's bedrooms were a mess after a burglary and so he got some home security system or other, I hate it disproportionately and intensely.

Any of the adverts with a serious, solemn voiceover about how they have been here for us throughout this crisis (you fucking haven't) and how we will all get through this together. Fuck off.

I hate the small print on ads that says "filmed prior to covid 19" or something similar, as if we are all so fucking thick that we will assume seeing a beer advert in which people are not socially distancing and wearing masks that all restrictions are over and rush outside to start licking one another.

The government's frankly appalling adverts on getting ready for Brexit, which consist of some dickhead spouting a few meaningless positive phrases over a bit of shitty music and then an admonition to get ready. With no fucking information on how probably because they would have had to advise us to stockpile and violently revolt if they wanted to tell us anything of actual use

I need to stop before I spend an hour talking about adverts that make me cross.

The head and shoulders adds with claudi winkleman! Fucking irritating!
Get off ma tv!!!!

Any featuring slimy Phillip Schofield

Oh thank god. I cannot stand the man and whenever I say so I get looks as if I have just murdered a kitten.

@DannyGlickWindowTapping

The Vax advert, where they ask questions and answer themselves immediately. "This uses the Vax Dooberry Thingy" "What's that?" "It's a trademark vacuum cleaner thingy."

I so agree It makes no sense. I keep thinking they've got their scripts mixed up.

Why if you've just said, '"This uses the Vax Dooberry Thingy' you wouldn't immediately say 'What's that?' yourself. Surely the person to say 'What's that?' would be the other person .

I now have to mute it it annoys me so much!

Oh! And the sad donkey one! No. The worst thing you can do isn't break its heart. It's physically abuse it. Clearly.

@Idroppedthescrewinthetuna

Surprised nobody has mentioned the 'Gotta get them up there girls' tampax advert! Just no reason! I get periods should not be a taboo subject. Periods are spoken openly about in my home, but this advert makes us all cringe!

Yep, that was the one I was going to mention. Trying so hard to be open and care free that it makes me cringe every time I see it.

Can't disagree with any of the above, but my favourite at the moment is the just eat one with snoop dog.
Not the shorter one but the 30 seconds one is brilliant I think and I am not even a snoop dog fan.

Gold coins

Like others have said, the Oral B advert that's been around for years now.

"Bum!" (Erm, spinning actually doesn't do a lot for your glutes, you'd be better off doing some squats)

"Hips!"

"Heart!" (Who the hell has a fridge full of peppers and nothing else?!?)

"I know how to keep my body healthy, but how do I keep my MOUTH healthy??" (As if your mouth is somehow a completely separate entity from the rest of your body)

"I didn't even know Oral B made a toothpaste!" (I don't know what else you'd expect one of the most well known brands of oral hygiene products to make).

I hate that ad with every fibre of my being.

No mentions of the over-50s plans, either the awful conversations with the neighbour, between pairs of people with a range of ethnicities and sexes or those between child and ageing parent? All forced and copy written by tin-eared groups.

Oh! And the sad donkey one!

The staggering under the weight of more than he should carry is worse .
A hundred times worse .
We saw awful sights in Egypt and it still bloody goes on

If it’s a miserable day and you just fancy watching a bit of afternoon TV, you’re bombarded with all the misery adverts. As well as those, all the ones that try to tug at your heartstrings so you’ll fork out money to all the charities. You’d be paying a fortune each month if you gave them ‘just’ whatever every week/month.

I wonder if they realise that the advert is having exactly the opposite effect to the one they want.

@lidoshuffle

Lindor, with the woman with big rubbery lips sucking on a chocolate.

I suppose it's meant to be sensual, but her balloon lips give me the shudders.

Oh me too.

The Lloyds bank one where they have completely ruined "we've only just begun" by the carpenters with another irritating ethereal version!

The I can share sunrises with you twats. I haven't read the full thread but I'm sure they've been mentioned already. All of the Nationwide adverts actually with their shit poems they make me cringe.

SlopesOff

The noisy apple eating woman?
That is a denture glue ad, not Oral B.

Would love to shove that apple down her throat, along with the dentures.

You mean the one where she is clinging on inside a giant mouth and in small letters it says "dramatization". Who knew!

Yes, that one, Fixadent. Dramatization doesn't mean it has to be so revolting, and that awful weird voice makes it even worse. If I needed to glue my teeth in I certainly wouldn't buy Fixadent after seeing that.

The awful Nationwide ones with the annoying poetry !

Apple eating denture woman 'so you can keep on enjoying your eevveening' argh !!

Skoda ads, awful grating, and whining 'singing'.

Nationwide ones....just shit.

That one where we are supposed to "concentrate on the model's gums" WTF?

Perf with Surf is weird, what is 'perf' anyway????

Lloyds bloody black horse; nice animal but the weird singing thing sets me on edge.

And yes, there seem to be more and more adverts all the time, in some programmes at night the advert break is longer than the next 5 minutes of programme.

But how do you keep your MOUTH healthy?

Fuck off.