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the 'secret weapon down my pants'

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warmandtoasty2day · 18/01/2021 13:55

advert in the gym, secret weapon is tena lady pads, ffs just fuck right off with your secret fucking weapon.
makes me feel like through the telly out of the window and smashing it up with a lump hammer !
what ads make you feel stabby ?

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JaneJeffer · 18/01/2021 14:49

Well I'm glad she thinks it's funny...

the 'secret weapon down my pants'
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drudgewithagrudge · 18/01/2021 14:54

I have taken a violent dislike to the guy who is in the Asda ads. So bloody cheerful.

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GabsAlot · 18/01/2021 14:57

lately the asda one im sorry to the actor but hes really annoying

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WhateverJohnnyMcNofriends · 18/01/2021 14:57

The Olay anti aging ones. I don't really need to see a 20 something singing the virtues of an anti wrinkle cream.

And the other one with Lily Singh? I don't know who Lily Singh is (I assume I'm supposed to know? I don't really care who she is) But her, her pot of Olay face cream and her irritating personality can fuck off.

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GabsAlot · 18/01/2021 14:58

cross p-ost but proves it jnot just me!

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GabsAlot · 18/01/2021 14:59

and now its got me thinking of others

did somebody say just eat

no nobody did fuck off

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SmellyPooHead · 18/01/2021 15:00

Philip Schofield 'value your time' We buy any car . Fuck off

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ellalina · 18/01/2021 15:01

The meerkat ones.
The phoney Russian accent drives me crazy.
I want to throttle the bloody meerkats.
Anybody Russian on here, who hates them even more than I do?

We need some new Specsaver ads soon, they are pure gold.

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SmellyPooHead · 18/01/2021 15:01

oooooh lots of fuck off's Grin

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FuckOffBorisYouTwat · 18/01/2021 15:01

I can't remember what it was for therefore wasn't a successful. But the one where she just had a baby and her colleagues came round and got all snooty because her toilet wasn't clean.
I'd just had a baby and hated this so much

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LookToTreblesGoingTreblesGone · 18/01/2021 15:02

Like @LakeGeneva says, the Go Compare bloke.

It's a blatent advert for himself! "Here I am singing at ..... blah blah blah". In other words, "buy my cd's".
It's a rush in our house as to who can switch the TV to mute!

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CarolVordermansBum · 18/01/2021 15:03

I had surgery to correct a bladder prolapse and it changed my life, those tenna pads were the bane of my fucking life, not a secret weapon!!

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unlikelytobe · 18/01/2021 15:04

The boss eyed Asda bloke.....do one.

That chirpy hand gel ad " if you pick it, lick it" etc Jeez!

Lily Singh doesn't have the best skin either.

Sorry, I'm in a bad mood today!

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BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 18/01/2021 15:04

@farandfew

To be fair, most adverts for 'feminine hygiene' products are horrendous. Nobody wants to go roller blading in an all-white outfit when they're on a period. I'd like to see them marketed frankly. [Yorkshire voice] "Look, this week sucks. We know it sucks, you know it sucks. But these tampons are the absolute bomb, you won't even feel them, and they soak up EVERYTHING. And I mean everything. So you can crack on with eating cheesecake and watching Love Actually." [End scene]

Now THAT is an advert! Says it all! Perfect!
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CheeseCakeSunflowers · 18/01/2021 15:05

I saw a packet of Hamlet cigars this week, it made me so nostalgic for the old Hamlet cigar ads, they knew how to make a good ad in the old days.

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Spandang · 18/01/2021 15:05

That "you've gotta get 'em up there, girls!" one.

DP actually quotes this to me when I’m in a bad mood to try and make me smile. It riled me SO much.

Aside from tena lady, tampax (both ‘get them up there girls’ and ‘not all women bleed but not all people who bleed are women’), perfume adverts really gets my goat.

How do we market something you can’t see? Oh I know we’ll put a buff man on the tv with a scantily clad woman draped over him. Hmm

The other advert is the one about ‘vaginal dryness’. Just hearing those words makes my vagina itch.

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EmbarrassingMama · 18/01/2021 15:06

@Cooltalkin

The one for hair thickening shampoo where she whispers to the camera
‘ shhh for women over 40 ‘

Seriously ??? Ageist sexist
Bloody annoying ! Would never buy it out of bloody principle
( hey it’s quite high up here on this high horse lol )

This is because that caffeine shampoo co aren't allowed to make any claims about the product growing your hair back (because, it cant). So they have to make do with bizarre implied bullshit as if we're all total thickos.
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MaelyssQ · 18/01/2021 15:10

That advert for perfume with a zillion people saying 'perfect' in different accents makes me ridiculously annoyed.

I quite like It's June Dad, and the over 50's funeral plan chat. I'm waiting for Derek to decide whether he prefers June next door or Rose from the garden centre. I am easily entertained...

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CleverCatty · 18/01/2021 15:11

@Jellington

Any sort of toothpaste adverts. Crikey they're duller than dishwater.

The one for toothpaste where the annoying model is working out like a demon and then grinning like one too and they expect us to believe that the dentist isn't a model (or works for the advertising agency).

Also - perf with Surf - F off Dani Dyer please!!!
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MichelleofzeResistance · 18/01/2021 15:12

Agree completely OP. So fed up with various shots of women's bottoms. I'd definitely go for the Yorkshire voiced suggested ad above!

The ones I really loathe are the very badly acted funeral ones, "Oh Dad, I was having this totally not normal conversation with x and they suggested I told you all about it in this very silly tone of voice while you pretend you're really interested."

And the ones that end "Always keep away from children." Which make me shout back at the tv, "I try, but they're fast little so and sos."

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NoOneOwnsTheRainbow · 18/01/2021 15:13

When I was in the States, there would be adverts like this:

Do you have tiredness, bloating, depression and nausea?
You could have Ebola!
Ask your doctor for Ebola-b-gone!
Ebola-b-gone can help you manage your symptoms.

"I felt bloated all the time, then I took Ebola-b-gone, and now my Ebola is gone. Thanks Ebola-b-gone."

(then in a lower, faster voice)
Ebola-b-gone may cause constipation, diarrhea, heart arrythmia, Crohn's disease, AIDS, itchy sock syndrome and psychosis. Always read the label. May cause you to sneeze your internal organs out through your nose.

I absolutely hate that these ads encourage people to self-diagnose (based on really common symptoms) with major, really serious diseases to sell pharmaceuticals. I mentioned it to one of my friends over there and she couldn't even see what was wrong with these adverts.

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CaptainMyCaptain · 18/01/2021 15:13

@farandfew

To be fair, most adverts for 'feminine hygiene' products are horrendous. Nobody wants to go roller blading in an all-white outfit when they're on a period. I'd like to see them marketed frankly. [Yorkshire voice] "Look, this week sucks. We know it sucks, you know it sucks. But these tampons are the absolute bomb, you won't even feel them, and they soak up EVERYTHING. And I mean everything. So you can crack on with eating cheesecake and watching Love Actually." [End scene]

Brilliant advert. It would make me want to buy them and I haven't had a period for 20 years.
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CleverCatty · 18/01/2021 15:15

@farandfew

To be fair, most adverts for 'feminine hygiene' products are horrendous. Nobody wants to go roller blading in an all-white outfit when they're on a period. I'd like to see them marketed frankly. [Yorkshire voice] "Look, this week sucks. We know it sucks, you know it sucks. But these tampons are the absolute bomb, you won't even feel them, and they soak up EVERYTHING. And I mean everything. So you can crack on with eating cheesecake and watching Love Actually." [End scene]

Yes, yes and yes! I recall being 14 having first got my period and seeing Tampax or whatever ads where some svelte model roller skated and swam etc whilst she was on her period whereas I was svelte but all I wanted to do was slob in the house eating BBQ flavoured hula hoops, Opal Fruits, Kit Kats and creme caramel whilst watching Neighbours - when I was on my period.

Also I was shy enough as it was and had nightmares about people seeing if I'd leaked etc.

Even the adverts painkillers for period pain which were the only ones that touched my cramps etc I'm sure I hated them too!
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Silenceisgolden20 · 18/01/2021 15:15

@farandfew

That "you've gotta get 'em up there, girls!" one. Envy

I think that ad is awful!!!!

Absoulety awful!

Who on earth thought it was a good idea? And stop calling women girls. On an advert for women!!!!
(Yes I know girls have periods too)
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Purplethrow · 18/01/2021 15:17

What was that film called where the ads were made up by weird crazy people?

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