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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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trappedsincesundaymorn · 18/01/2021 16:31

Just popping in to reassure all those worried about the lizard on the traffic lights. She's fine and had an extra portion of crickets that day....the diva.

Lurleene · 18/01/2021 16:31

AintpageantMaterial George Clooney gets paid 40 million a year for Nespresso ads but you are right, he doesn't need the money. He uses his earnings for good not evil Smile. Says George:

Eg Most of the money I make on the Nespresso commercials I spend keeping a satellite over the border of North and South Sudan to keep an eye on [Sudan President] Omar al-Bashir.

TwoHundredThousandTimes · 18/01/2021 16:32

@trappedsincesundaymorn

Just popping in to reassure all those worried about the lizard on the traffic lights. She's fine and had an extra portion of crickets that day....the diva.
No!!! Really??!! Is it yours? I am very jealous. i adore lizards. :)
TwoHundredThousandTimes · 18/01/2021 16:33

Is SHE yours I should have said!

Hugoslavia · 18/01/2021 16:38

Marketing managers for these products are often men. Remember the 'Have a happy period!" Written inside the packaging of a well known brand if sanitary pads. Well, that of course was devised by a chap!! As for the secret weapon, I'd be tempted to find out who wrote that appalling advert, put a Kalashnikov down my knickers, hunt them down and then, with a glint in your eye, tell them that you have a secret weapon in your pants that, quite frankly, makes their look a little tame, before opening fire.

belinda789 · 18/01/2021 16:38

@ JaneJeffer
She looks a bit like Anne Dawson - from the shopping channels.......

Plussizejumpsuit · 18/01/2021 16:39

We should definitely not make women ashamed of incontinence and producuts should exist to support people to live with it. But what we actually need is for incontinence to not be seen as a normal part of getting older or giving birth. Why are women just expected to live with it?

Hugoslavia · 18/01/2021 16:41

@JaneJeffer

Now it's driving me mad too. She definitely looks familiar.

JaneJeffer · 18/01/2021 16:41

That's it @belinda789! Thank you.

Took · 18/01/2021 16:42

I love "Its June, Dad."

They look like a super saver cut price Karl and Susan Kennedy from Neighbours! Grin

trappedsincesundaymorn · 18/01/2021 16:42

@TwoHundredThousandTimes

Is SHE yours I should have said!
No she's not, she's a resident at a zoo and her day job is a teaching aid at the conservation and education centre there. My DD and her DP happen to work in that zoo and DD has handled her many times.
mortensmike · 18/01/2021 16:43

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

Anything with fucking meercats in it.
What would fucking meerkats be used to advertise ? Grin
Disneyblue · 18/01/2021 16:43

@HectorPlasm

Also - the terrible singing and acting in the 'On the market' adverts makes me want to reach for a rocket launcher
That advert is awful on so many levels. We mock it often by singing it round the house (basly, just like the advert).
Itsnotlikethiswithotherpeople · 18/01/2021 16:44

@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! I hate this idea that being a feminist means you some how have to muscle past the bad pain many women feel on their period. Funnily enough the thing stopping me sailing or running or rock climbing isn’t a less good tampon, it’s that I’m sat under a duvet with a hot water bottle trying to working from home FFS.
Hugoslavia · 18/01/2021 16:44

@Staffy1

What do you mean, Barry Scott doesn't exist???!!!! How could they lie like that?!

trappedsincesundaymorn · 18/01/2021 16:45

By teaching aid I mean people are told about the natural habitat, what they eat etc, to raise awareness of creatures such as lizards, snakes and others

ememem84 · 18/01/2021 16:45

oh god the tena lady ads. so annoying. i mean its not ok to pee and just buy pads. go see a GP or something. stop normalising things. fucking tena lady.

Hugoslavia · 18/01/2021 16:45

As an aside, they really ought to change the lettering on the cillit bang bottles. It looks rather like another word beginning with 'c'.

Goingtothebudgies · 18/01/2021 16:46

There was some crap on Facebook about how of course you must always put yourself first. I was so incensed I wrote to them about it.
I hate "Because you're worth it" too.

cdtaylornats · 18/01/2021 16:47

All the ones that shoe men as dumb.

TwoHundredThousandTimes · 18/01/2021 16:47

@trappedsincesundaymorn

By teaching aid I mean people are told about the natural habitat, what they eat etc, to raise awareness of creatures such as lizards, snakes and others
Oh lovely. :) I'd love to go and see something like this.
ancientgran · 18/01/2021 16:48

@trappedsincesundaymorn

Just popping in to reassure all those worried about the lizard on the traffic lights. She's fine and had an extra portion of crickets that day....the diva.
Thank you, I will be able to relax when that add is on. I should have realised I'd get the answer on here. Although my husband will just say I will find something else to fill the gap. He reckons I've got a waiting list of things to worry about because there are so many I can't cope with them all at once. Maybe I need medication?
MaelyssQ · 18/01/2021 16:49

Philip Schofield advertising Craft Gin Club.
Philip Schofield advertising We Buy Any Car.
Philip Schofield advertising anything.

Does he need the money that badly?

Same with Holly Willoughby and Davina and whatserface with the auburn hair - do they really queue up in Tesco to buy their box dye like real people? They probably do at the moment, to be fair, but I bet they don't usually DIY.

Hugoslavia · 18/01/2021 16:51

Am laughing so much at the Sun Life adverts! Yes you're right. I've never seen such a happy lady purchasing funeral cover.

My favourite annoying advert though has to be 'i want to do a poo at Paul's'!! I mean, who seriously came up with that? It's like the sort of thing that a wazzock on The Apprentice would come up with!

IdGiveAPenaltyTo · 18/01/2021 16:54

Any ad with a celebrity in -

George Clooney (coffee)
Robert de Niro (car)
Etc

Prompts shouting at the tv ‘Hasn’t he got enough money’?