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Most hated adverts

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StillCoughingandLaughing · 23/10/2020 12:39

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 Grin

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...

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OrtamLeevz · 26/10/2020 09:24

I'm not a fan of the Mr Kipling cake advert where they boy goes to some sort of party with his parents and is shunned by everyone - he then has to resort to stealing a cake. He gets home, his sister is horrible to him as well, but he gives her the cake anyway.

What in the wide world is that all about?

lollipoprainbow · 26/10/2020 09:28

@OrtamLeevz it's a horrible advert he seems a very unhappy little boy !

ssd · 26/10/2020 09:41

I seen an older advert yesterday guy in tight bright pink shirt explaining to an audience of go getting 30 somethings how vanish makes stains go away

He talks out one side of his mouth and looks like he loves himself

Mmmmdanone · 26/10/2020 10:15

Not television, but a radio one that has a beeping car horn. I only listen to the radio in the car, and I have a panic every time I hear it 😂 I need to work in my driving confidence or listen to BBC radio.

VampireVicki · 26/10/2020 10:23

So many!!

The Oral B one is so awful I have to turn over.

Anything with children singing is utter shite.

All the Maltesers adverts.

All the car adverts

All the perfume adverts

thetemptationofchocolate · 26/10/2020 10:49

Most adverts irritate me once I've seen them a few times but right now the top of my hate list is the one with a man talking to an audience of actors about some laundry product. He's got a bright pink shirt on, and he clicks his fingers. This is after he's poured some coloured liquid over a shirt. In our house he's known as the pinky winky wanker man. And I still don't know what he's advertising!

Acornsgalore · 26/10/2020 11:29

@OrtamLeevz

I'm not a fan of the Mr Kipling cake advert where they boy goes to some sort of party with his parents and is shunned by everyone - he then has to resort to stealing a cake. He gets home, his sister is horrible to him as well, but he gives her the cake anyway.

What in the wide world is that all about?

I actually think that's one of the more interesting and insightful adverts about. How young lads can be misjudged. And how deathly boring and restrictive it can be at a family party as a child. And unfair to be misjuged. His mum is sympathetic. It depicts a very realistic relationship with his sister too; they love one another underneath the superficial animosity.

Still dislike Mr Kipling's cakes though Smile.

Teddy1970 · 26/10/2020 11:54

Oh yes the Malteaser adverts where they ramp up the sound of the people eating Malteasers....yuck.

CounsellorTroi · 26/10/2020 12:00

The Moonpig one on YouTube makes me murderous. Not enough to pay for YouTube premium though. And to be fair I have got personalised cards, with my own photos, from them and they are very good.

MidnightFlit · 26/10/2020 12:24

With DH and DS at home there always seems to be football on the tv. And EVERY ad break seems to feature either Numan Erectile Dysfunction treatments ("Erectile Dysfunction is a condition which mostly affects men...") and now Numan Hair Loss ads.

The hair loss ones are bad enough (Men! Learn how it feels to be made constantly aware of your physical shortcomings!) but it's pretty cringe sitting through the ED ones, while DH smirks to himself and DS attempts to sink his entire body into the sofa.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 26/10/2020 13:30

Latest Volvo ad.. Every morning at half past 4
Song does my head in.

The song is indeed truly irritating, but they also seem to be advertising a new state-of-the-art feature whereby the car will stop if it senses any traffic cutting across where you're about to reverse. In the same spirit of the old fact(oid) where NASA spent millions of dollars and thousands of hours developing a pen that would work in space whilst the Russians just used a pencil, why go to all of that effort and expense when you could just reverse into your drive and then drive back out on to the road forwards? If you start your shift soon after 4:30am, you're hardly likely to be finishing, coming home and having to reverse back on in the middle of rush hour, are you?

BinkyBoinky · 26/10/2020 15:10

I always mute ads. Can't stand them.

I particularly hate the ones that go "to all the quiet ones, and the loud ones, and the this one and the that one.." it seems to be every other advert. Do they think it's poetic or something?

nevermorelenore · 26/10/2020 15:28

I had to check out the Hotter ad as hadn't seen it. Bloody hell that's awful. They're acting like they're some kind of hip brand that has 20 somethings queuing round the block for their shoes. And well, my 85 year old grandma got a Hotter catalogue in the post a while back and complained their shoes were 'too frumpy for me'. I've never seen a brand so misguided about their target demographic.

nosswith · 26/10/2020 15:40

All Go Compare ones.
Any for Ryanair given my views on their service.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 26/10/2020 16:34

The Go Compare ones where they delve deeper into Wynne Evans' backstory and give you his life-story are indeed very irritating. I'm sure he's a lovely chap, and clearly a very talented singer, but it has nothing to do with selling insurance at all. Just sing the jingle and be on your way.

I don't want to know the real behind-the-scenes story behind the actor playing Barry Scott or the Shake 'n' Vac Lady either (although I hope they've had a long, happy marriage in their sparklingly-clean home!)

It reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Bart becomes famous as the 'I Didn't Do It Boy' - he goes on TV and tries to expand his appeal and scope of influence, but all people ever wanted was to hear him say the phrase and then get off the screen.

Elderflower14 · 26/10/2020 17:07

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

Voyager54 · 26/10/2020 17:32

The Vodaphone and Vauxhall car radio adverts. The voiceover person gets on my proverbial. The voice is up and down all over the place.

Then on the same subject of radio adverts at the end of an advert the voiceover person speaks at about treble the speed. I know that they a limited time to get their conditions across but does anyone understand them at that speed!

Pinkflipflop85 · 26/10/2020 17:35

I want to scream every time the hotter shoes advert comes on. I watch a fair bit of sky witness on sky go and that advert is on constantly.

maadlady · 27/10/2020 10:22

Hotter Shoes. Yuck. I had a pair my mum gave me i used for work. The soles literally crumbled away one night at work in a care home. I ended up having to borrow a pair of slippers off one of the residents for the rest of the shift.

FatimaMunchy · 27/10/2020 10:27

I know two people who love Hotter shoes. In their sixties so I guess they are old enough, but I. Not seen the advert but I suspect they think they can fool over 60s their product is hip and trendy and that people like me who think they are not old enough for them yet will be taken in.

Bbq1 · 27/10/2020 10:47

Any advert with Vogue Williams and her ANNOYING voice droning on like she's the only woman ever to have had a child. Cannot BEAR that lesbian couple car one trying to be all earnest and woke.

MrsBonnie · 27/10/2020 12:56

Old but...

The one with the disabled people singing “3 is the magic number”

The wowcher one where she stabs the sushi and I want to stab her Angry

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StillCoughingandLaughing · 27/10/2020 15:33

I’ve just thought of another one I hate - the Kinder chocolate one where the boy goes to the swimming pool in a dinosaur costume and the dad indulgently shakes his head at him. How did he not notice his son had taken a big fuck-off dinosaur costume in his kit bag instead of a pair of trunks?

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FuzzyPuffling · 27/10/2020 17:18

I know two people who love Hotter shoes. In their sixties so I guess they are old enough, but I. Not seen the advert but I suspect they think they can fool over 60s their product is hip and trendy and that people like me who think they are not old enough for them yet will be taken in.

NO! Stop slagging off the over 60's. Most of us are still in our Doc Martens.

FatimaMunchy · 27/10/2020 17:20

Fuzzypuffling I am over 60. I look at Hotter and think I am not old enough yet.