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 pot noodlr add with a donkey sat on an old woman's head whilst some maniac bellows SUPER TASTY! Why? In God's name, why?

i also think the ‘numan’ ads are fairly sinister, erectile dysfunction? hair loss? just log on to a website and buy a thing you know nothing about.

it smacks of microchips and mind control to me. what next - another man-problem, i’d put money on it. athlete’s foot? itchy balls? reduce your golf handicap?

sinister. you mark my words.

Haven't read the thread yet but I expect I'll be agreeing with many of the suggestions.

My shit-list has one particular advert... clic-sargent. "Cancer wants to destroy young lives". It's a disease, not a vendetta, it's not personal nor targetting young people. I loathe the premise and it made my daughter cry. Her friend has cancer and that was bad enough but to be asked then if the cancer is something that hunts out children was really maddening. I wrote to clic-sargent about it and they just fobbed me off with 'Got to hit people where it hurts to get the money raised'.

@fucknuckle just make sure you wear your tinfoil hat, you'll be fine.

Have read the thread now, very funny.

Definitely agree about the creepy man on the Dreamies cat treats advert. I don't know why that was thought a good idea.

Definitely the "Bum! Hips! but how do I keep my mouth healthy' advert. So annoying!

I don't like any adverts with Phillip Schofield in them but this latest one where he's sitting on the shoulder of a woman, banging on about how she should be doing this or doing that... at one point it looks as if she'll swat him off onto the floor but doesn't. Sadly. The actress though is the same one who was in the Barclays fraud advert with the "1st and 3rd letters of your pin please madam". She's excellent.

Peppa Pig singing at me to wash my hands. While I’m binge watching ER after I’ve put my 5 year old to bed. Seems to have stopped for now.

Lenovo- I’ve no idea what they’re actually advertising and yes, what’s with the stamp?
“Philip Schofield here...”
The blatant copy but with Rylan.
Perf with Surf.
Asda.
Lloyds.
“I didn’t know Oral B made toothpaste” they’re literally famous for making toothpaste!

Oh and the ‘pretty’ tena pants that are not pretty at all...

The over 50s plan ones make me laugh. They make it sound like 50 is so old. I know lots of people in their 50s who still have kids in primary school.

My favourite one used to be an old lady talking about her friend's funeral and the pretty flowers she had. And how she hoped to have a lovely funeral like that. Hate to break it to you love, but you'll be dead and won't care about keeping up with the joneses.

The Asda new ones definitely.

The hipster beard guy talking about online yoga (Nationwide?)

Any that talk about "we're all going through a difficult time right now "

But I really hate the car one with the young couple going off on their zany night out and jumping into the sea ( off a pier?)at the end 🤬

Oh yeah and there seems to be a thing with ads with men sitting on the loo right now! Probably young advertising creatives thinking it's hilarious to have a man having a crap in an advert!

"I make lots of little noises when I'm caring for Theodore". Try charcoal pants, love - at least the little fella won't have to suffer the accompanying stench as well.

"I hate funerals - that's why I'm not going to mine!!!" How terribly original and witty. Are they going to chuck you in a skip beforehand and just have an empty coffin on the actual day, then?

@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.

Imagine if the poor woman is on Mumsnet and read that? Think before you type about actual people

That Asda ad is excruciatingly patronising and is so clearly aimed at what Asda believe to be 'simpletons'

"It's pocket tap tiiiime"

One that gets my goat every time is the car insurance one with a frantic (of course!) woman at the end of her tether, strapping her kids into the car ... high pitched "car insurance?" "When do I have time for car insurance". Cut to smug old calm man "calm down dear". I absolutely loath that advert.

All of the just eat adverts - I need to mute those.

The dreamiest advert - creepy weirdo.

That Oral B advert where she knows how to keep everything healthy apart from her mouth. The production company must have got a Buy one get a pallet full free on peppers, as that’s all she has in her fridge to keep her heart healthy.

Every advert about an over 50s policy where one person visits their smug friend and told about the plan as it’s not fair for their children to pay for their funeral.

Also the bloody purple bricks advert with the awkward estate agent talking to Olympians (they are the ‘estate agents’ of team GB). I don’t know if they’re supposed to be funny, but they make me cringe

Oh yes the "I make lots of little noises when I'm caring for Theodore" one really bugs me. She's so smug. "be like me, I'm such a good mummy!"

I'm so glad you've done this. The ad with lady gaga. I think it's Valentino perfume. I can't believe how angry and sweary it makes me. With the stupid expression on their faces and that fucking stupid pink feather thing in that blokes head.

"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."

Imagine if the poor woman is on Mumsnet and read that? Think before you type about actual people hmm

Hmm, I don't imagine a beautiful model/actress, chosen because of her looks, gives a toss that old bat on Mumsnet doesn't like the way she sucks the life out of a chocolate.

@lidoshuffle

Every advert about an over 50s policy where one person visits their smug friend and told about the plan as it’s not fair for their children to pay for their funeral.

It’s when they say ‘It could pay for my funeral, or they can decide for themselves how they want to spend it’, smiling with contentment at the thought of imminently pegging it - and apparently not realising the kids could blow it all on a fortnight in Fuengirola and chuck their corpse in a fucking skip.

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?

The irony is that these companies are all trying to show how diverse they are... by doing exactly the same thing a dozen other companies have done. There was one for one of the supermarkets (Sainsbury’s I think?) last Christmas where there were so many different ethnicities around the one table it looked like a UN meeting. Only with a giant turkey and crackers.

@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.

It’s so cliched and 80s, it’s embarrassing

Anything with a song sung in a feeble voice like the singer is about to expire like a victorian invalid in a decline.

We've only just begun is bad but I think the ad with the slow, breathy Born to be Wild is the worst.