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 Asda advert - pocket tap!!

the nationwide ‘poetry’ ones give me the rage. that bloody girl with the giant glasses and the free cake. and the man with the beard and the yoga - he’s clearly had a round-brush blow dry to try and get that bloody quiff. he looks like Barbara Dickson in the eighties (beard aside).

also, TERRIBLE THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO DONKEYS.

this isn't really an ad, but the one currently making me yell at the tv in a mad perimenopausal rage is the QVC Christmas trailer where everyone's stroking their lovely presents, including a young boy with a very tiny puppy. I don't want to think about the number of extra "Christmas puppies" that will be churned out this year. I mean, happy old dog with a Santa hat on, fine! Christmas puppy, not so much.

I’ve remembered another - the Volvo advert with Natalie Taylor doing an awful, breathy, soggy version of Born to be Wild.

The Jane Plan lady looks demented, bless her and her acolytes, apart from a couple of exceptions, have obviously been coached to be "enthusiastically animated" which just comes across as cringe.

Just remembered the bloody kazooooooooooooooooooooooooom advert for the car! Have to mute it!! 😡 😡 😡 😡

also, TERRIBLE THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO DONKEYS. This has made laugh madly. I don't want terrible things happening to donkeys, dogs or cats or indeed those poor girls who are made to marry very young but the voices of the actors in the ads are so twee sounding yet demented at the same time

Victoria plum from years ago. Two very annoying goth fans girls that say “at Victoria plum” in a really screechy voice. I can still hear it in my head right now and it annoys me 😡😡

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Think I know the Always ad you are talking about. It's new. Honestly I prefer the red liquid rather than the fake blue stuff that they use when they think people can't cope with the real image of blood.

I think I'm especially irritated by the broken-hearted donkeys as it tends to be on at the same time as Midsomer Murders, which I have on in the background for noise, and it can derail my thoughts when DCI Barnaby is asking for money for abused animals.

The Lloyds Bank one with horses running across a beach. Watching that really helps when there are no Lloyds branches open nearby

The Zoopla ones. One with the shagging couple and one with the kid bouncing on the bed. Both really annoy me. ARGH!

[quote sophs29]@Yesyoudoknowme hahaha I agree about the perfume ones! they don't explain what the perfume smells like 😂 Johnny depp burying his jewellery in a bloody hole in the dessert? how does that tell us what the aftershave is like 😂😂[/quote]
Our local bus stop had a huge ad for 'Sauvage'. Some funny person graffitied a 's' over the v to spell 'SAUSAGE' above Depps head. 😂 Made me laugh out loud every time I drive past and we had to pronounce it in an french accent

The Phillip Schofield one 😒

Another vote for the Hotter shoes ad. In many many years of TV watching I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more pretentious and pathetic ad, totally unfocused on the product it’s plugging and ridiculously inappropriate for their target audience. I can envisage the achingly uncool creative guys from the advertising agency pitching it to their client with promises of untold success. Oh dear.

Sloth66 never thought about that before. I have no idea where Lloyds have any branches.

The Moonpig one where the annoying woman sings happy birthday to all and sundry.

Meerkats since forever and recently, Asda ads.

There’s a vat advert where they Hoover up tinned spaghetti - makes me gag

How has no one mentioned that car as with Rylan and the vasectomy yet?! Truly awful. I hate adverts so much!

I can't bear any ads that are dubbed (Oral B, Always, the dishwasher engineer etc) and car ads featuring left hand drive models with specifications we can't get in the UK. These just smack of massive companies being tight with their advertising budgets and making just one ad.
I'm sure I'll be adding to my list...

@StillCoughingandLaughing

I also forgot the stupid BT ad with Raheem and Theo - the least likely couple in the world. Why would knackered broadband ‘put their romance on hold’? Can they only get it up if they’re online?

This has reminded me of something I've noticed lately, as it's a case in point: you only ever seem to see mixed-ethnicity couples in adverts now. Has it actually become frowned upon to show two people of similar skin tone in a relationship?

That one that sings someone's knocking at your door. Oh fuck off.
You knock at my door and sing that shite I'll set the cats on you!

The wowcher ads

Especially the gurning red head

I really dislike one of the adverts for cat treats (dreamies?) where he's lured the neighbours cats there to impress a woman, it seems very rapey.

Car adverts that don't advertise cars available in the UK and which are left hand drives.

There's an advert I have seen on one of the catch up services for the morning after pill which I didn't like.

I really dislike the current Asda adverts.

I'm sure I'll think of more!

I do quite like the Nationwide poem ones though (seem to be the only one judging by this thread).